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An immediate question for every M.P.

Is this why we take

a back seat over Berlin?

By

Douglas Clark

THERE is one question to which M.P.'s, now

they have returned to Westminster, should

give their immediate attention.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1961.

I SAIL WITH THE MIGRANTS: PART III

THE VOYAGE begins at Kings- ton, Jamaica. On board the liner Ascania: the latest group of West Indian migrants sailing to Britain. Also on board: Top Woman reporter Anne Sharpley,

wouldn't energy dancin'

prostitute

my

time since 1958 said stowed away to them," elegant young Jamaican known A Pup Squarehead whose father owns a fight club in Kingston,

SHOULDN'T TRY

He was not being unkind. was just one of those things that white folks shouldn't try.

Occasionally, indeed frequent- ly, a quiver would pass through the ship as yet another slow-

way was discovered.

figure Eventually

After two days the bad reached 15.

it was to reach 43!

They

cheerful, were such blatant stowaways. No sneak ong into lifeboats - they con

for their incais to

room and slept in

the dining

the cabins

just like everyone else. wni! when challenged to show tickets, they were discovered.

They were then do work around the ship order to pay jus 2

ill, The passage money,

expreted in In

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a strong.

They were jailed for 28 days contradic- a Southampton on arrival tube heady,

Some- released in England afterward mixture. times it would be the "ve without prssports were un

back to Kingston, of juvenile court. unmistakable smell

une

More than this, on Occasion "ganja" (hemp) being Pwenty-year-old Patrick Jack.

vivid speeches of Lord

Home the Foreign Secretary, surreptitiously

apar less designed to

ed that he was

investigating the immigrant story from its sunny beginning to where it ends on the dockside at Southampton. She continues her report

that he had

Ise not the (thief) mug, Dat not my line. My line slow- away. I see a boat come in and gotta ketch 11,"

And the Caribbean Sca (named after the Carib Indians, the original inhabitants) was su called because i was the sea beyond which our fulk parents were carried beyond.

"The Carried-Beyond Sea," he

Patrick. although from BG explained calmly.

had served

apprenticedir

in the calypso tents of Trinidad -and could cho play the steel drum ("par"}

Three other Klown why were of the sect known as the Rasta- fartre Movement.

It is

By ANNE

SHARPLEY

"Back Lo Africa and

believe they movement Emperor Haile Selassie to be a "living God," and the reincar nation of Christ.

L

They Emperor Ethiops

bave approached to be admitted

'COMMON LAW

Twn the three Rasiafarlans had children by then commen law" wives

One of them: had no fuit his wife that he was coming to England "She must have guess I been wat fur

duy now"

1! e sometimes difficult to understand the West Indian They altitude toward children. love them and care for them. and yet their manner of having them seems

tus. To say the

rast random

Forty-five per cent of babies are born out wedlock

Yet this is because of a very different attitude towards maj riage was to learn Marriage I status to be achieved in maturity and is not merely an institution for

the procreation. and protection of children.

-

•To see

them

playing

with

children

... one

could

never

doubt

that they

love

children

"he fretting," she said. "If She had proved, according to

ald find some bitter vater" Jamaican country tradition that she was not a "mule." Baving ja country remedy for procur- that Ing a miscarriage) "would hatt Iw "Degilonates"

of take even if God be vex." tradition runicer country

would now probably her she have no more until she married at the age of 30.

As the Family Welfare Asso- ciation's

The West report L‹เลย

10 Comes

England, On the whole, the expresses il·

workers tend to West Indian marry late but they commence parenthood early

So when 21-year-old Girlie the told me that, although into ried, she was already the molber of a baby and was expecting yel another, to be born in England

had paid for her "We believe in universal love, by the young man she had been "friending" she was not book- ing for sympathy

smoked man of Brish Guiana explaine

a profes dural no matter what class or creed." ease that struck one (I tested stowaway This was the seventh and 17-year-old Joseph. to give them the the market and found it

cost about two shillings:

The way to talks with the Rus Maths than hon mer.

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What has gone Wrong? Why this strange,

equivocal Why "Piruach"

Mr Macmillan himself in the

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Berlin crisis rule Forward Britain Wkes a back seat

West's or all the

Big Final she is playing the dimnest tule

The

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Wes! Centuary J. Clearcut, They do not want a West to promote negotiations will the Kemin They claim

is Pais playing Kruschey's gaine.

So tame

a reefer).

Sometimes

prayer

Was

it meeting, or a man sat quietly reading his Bible.

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The conclusion scems 10- ewapable. Since his great inter-

almal days Some new faclor Sometimas dancing would must have emerged to put the start up among the bays

tha! Jarak 415) British diplomatic was su forcetic and Riventive That Ivorine. my rubin-mate. placu would took up sally

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at i hon

Across the road to ¿i Berlit: dreadly trum ber crocheting

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a fresh

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Settlement has fallen obstacle: Britain's application to join the Common Market.

To enter

Mackel FLOURÍS The

backg D General

Gaulle

Bud DT Adeuane Everything

depends on mautamung good relations with Prance and West Germany,

1 t these Powers which oppose

The United States leads the mogotation. opposite argument.

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compromise

She

Through

SPPTION Falks

with him. and so, be sure, does

Britain.

it

the

Very Berlin

How, then, casi Mi Macmillan

How move out of the wings" can he resume the end ni pres- SUN for East-West understand-

int say of the Jeeping imyn

Them feel good."

sal we

st,

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Peter Burgoyne's

News

Girlie was got sure how her relations in Birmingham, who passage, would take the news that she was expecting another baby.

from Britain

Form is being studied and preparations begun for the next big classic of the British political scene the General Election Stakes.

Other

times arved in silence.

We were especially unrespon- Five when small dance band

of four Ezed up

Italian crew mribers played, as they every other aught (there WAR The event is not due for an-

But the also a Trinidadian group and a other couple of years. reverd player to which we glad training programme cannot be

danced or stened).

gin toe early The Labour Party their cost in found this out to Fur white mezi of no Inte

1958 when their brilliant nad than usual cumpetéace to play to

burst could not match the years in rhythm WY

+7[ extensive and expensive rather like West Indians sing ground work carried out on be Optra in Italian,

bulf of the Conservative Party.

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these expeETS thinly and lamely ng? He dare not end has two

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Washington.

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Conservative time the machine the first to slip into its well-oiled top gear. In the driver's

Macleod. seat is fain

the former Bright Young Tory whose brightness has increased

with naddie age.

Convert

The Liberals are preparing carefully planned shock tactics. Their idea is to attack key posi- tions (marginal seals) rather than dissipate their energies over a broad front.

So

groups

And the Labour Party? far little more than appeals from the leaders for action. But more action and effort is still being expended by opposing within the party trying to con- vert each other than in the party as a whole trying to convert the nation.

www.

general popularity has increas- d But the stark fact is that of 630 seals

in the House of Commons they hold only seven And two of these are held by rourtesy of Tory-Liberal deals In the particular constituencies

Failure

There pacts have now been broken off by the Conservatives. The middle of its term of office is generally the time for government To Jose favour. Especially this one. with yet another economic crisis, the failure of the defence plan and the dashing of Mr Macmillan's hopes of establishing hiraseli as the international mediator.

In the Conservative Party it- self, morate has seldom been lower. Mr Macmillan "Super- mac" of a couple of years ago, is no longer the "Macwonder" that cures ali ills and washes brightest of all. He has become like the other line of washing, the "before" instead of the

"after"

When he spoke in the House at the beinning of this new session his own backbencheTS

It is natural lo a way to be received him in non-committal more worried

about meinters silence.

of one's own family who have gone astray than be concerned with bringing others into the fold. But this does not make for successful politics.

So to form. With three by- elections in a week

We have had a chance to sec who will make the running. The results have been significant but not in the way it might seem.

Gains

Enthusiasm

The old order

changeth

Britain's modern army has got everything. It has got mattresses, bedside lamps, central heating, decent wages and all the modern comforts of civilion life.

got

strikes.

IL has also Strikes that work.

Well, it was almost a strike, a boycott anyway.

It happened when u Regi- mental Sergeant-Major asked a paratrooper whether he had a vietin to go with "that hair- cut". This remark is straight out of the sergeant-majory' bumper fun book and, issued with the force of countless thousand decibels, is a subtle way of suggesting that the soldier in question should go to the barber's.

All great fun. There is even a bit of mime to go with it. The sergeant-major runs his pace stick across the back of the soldier's neck.

But

RESULTS The commanding officer stopped the sergeant-

MURJOTTY meal times.

advice being given a

A 'YARD BABY'

Her

existing

three-year-old

is known as sur is what "yard" baby-i.e. it is looked after by the father of the child. And yet to see the West Indians playing with and caring for the 60 children aboard, one that they never doubl could love children--and that they are happy children.

On the third day we called on the small West Indian islands of St Kitts, Montserrat and Antigua-to pick up and put down passengers.

We showed a fitting sense of what to do. We threw out fish- ing lines the moment the ship. slopped off-shore, waiting for the tenders to come out.

of

We stuck our heads out the portholes, threw oranges, spat, showered insults, re- cognised our relations("Hey, man, I know you You's my uncle") and merrily helped the crew with hauling

up the gangplank,

VICTORIAN

A: Antigua-all gold bays, and white wind- green hills mills, like something a Victorian governess might have designed He had the to amuse her charges on a wet Not only that.

afternoon, a horse with a man men on the

told square and

on is back galloped along the them: "If you've got a man sand, making us feel inter-

ship-bound-and chaps, come to me and I'll try te settle it,"

They will he stewards, next.

having shop

The Arcadians

I report, modestly, that have found the

answer to international tension.

But credit, Brst, where it is due. I am developing a theme originated by the American

navy.

When 2,400 American sailors

arrived in Britain recently they were given a confidential, three-page guide to the British people.

It described us as "healthy, handsome,

sturdy, people- clean-limbed, clear-skinned with a muscular co-ordination of a land of athletes.

All we have got to do now

is to issue the rose-coloured

自己 minabiy

with his cocker English vicar spaniel was taken ashore

Our last sight of land for ten days.

Bul my fellow migrants from Jamaica were apprais- ing the preity, "small islands" very differently,

By the time we had half- crossed the Atlantic someone from a "small island" abuard the Ascanta was to be in danger of being beaten up.

TOMORROW:

The fight

(London Express Service).

U.S. wants a Briton on first moon trip

spectacles as worn by the man From CHAPMAN PINCHER who drew up the document to the world's top politicians.

They will have hardly, got them settled on their noses be

the sergexat-major in fore Jack Kennedy will be ring- question had the habit of duing ing up Moscow to inquire whe- this in the mess (sorry, dining ther Comrade Kruschev is still in good health to be met with: room).

"Good of you to ring end Where has the sparkle gone?

defender of The tough paratroopers, who greetings to you, the way of his It has gone

do not share the the peace and of the rights of great cause-to lead the way in obviously easing world tension. Mr Mac sergeant-major's sense of hum the working class of the world. millan is a great man for causes our, got fed up and boycotted While you are on the line I can on details of our latest (or gimmicks as his opponents the dining room, and went to pass

rocket discoveries." would say). Without them he the NAAFI for lunch. soems to find it diffouli lo sus-

tain his enthusiasm for day-to- --day-politics..

In each of the by-elections-

a com-

Dissent in the ranks, lack of of policy, East Fife, Mos Side and leadership, tailures Oswestry the government held perhaps the Liberals do stand a the cats, but the Liberals made chance after all? Possibly, if the to be sweeping gains, mostly from the General Mection were Conservatives.

held next week.

A Liberal

In two years' time Not revival? proven. For more Ukely a case of pletely different picture will be Conservatives do disentialed luke-warm. Tories presented.

should wadding a warning finger at the not argue about who government by staying away steer the ship when it is in and of the sull more dimatisied danger of sinking. doading voters registering their disapproval by voting Liberal.

Then it is all hands to the pumps, don't rock the boat atid There is no doubt that under all the other cilches. And an the leadership of grunding election is just the sort of cause Grimmund, the Liberals to rekindle the Macmillan fame.

Jo

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Washington. ERITON may go on the frat Western rocket trip to the moon.

Several R.A.F. pilots have taken tests at the Lovelace Founda- tion. New Mexico, where U.S. astronauts get medical and physiological checks, The R.A.F. names are being kept secret, but I was told they "did extraordinarily well." Scientists who aim to send three-man crew to. the

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Thoon before the Russions want Briton included bécanec:— FIRST, it would give an inter-

national flavour to the enter prise and make it clear they are not trying to claim the moon at U.S. territory, SECOND: The standards for moon crews will be so exact ing that the U.S. may need volunteers from other coun tries for a corps of 300, 008; monauts.

These will have to include sclebtists and the number at scientists who can satiety the medical

physiological 18 expected

and

requirements

be

EMAIL

THURD: The Americans Haw

baller chance the Russian

into a pool.: London

of ovarlaking

if they dis

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