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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1961.

I WILL MAKE IT MINE

- OR I'LL WRECK IT'

I HAVE just been

standing on

one

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of the few armed frontiers left on British territory. frontier that has often been the sub- ject of bitter contro- versy in the past 257 years.

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THAT IS FRANCO'S AIM

SAY PEOPLE OF GIBRALTAR

by

BRIAN GARDNER

two nations which are meant to be friendly and at peace,

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The Spaulsh Consulate 1 Gibraltar is siili closed. more serious is the fact 11. . Spanish nationals are tut .FT derworl

Inla Gibraltar without permits which are practically

possible to ge!

Normally there would be ves 200.000 coming into Guraktar every year, spending In 1h cheap but excellent shop. hotels.

Obsession

Gualtat ilə, who are possibly 1 prie Bettish of alt

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only other country with which Spain has DON, at seems hal Brilan: † not

thegu any thing like such regulation. There is no route that the reason for it is

prevent Gibraltar from advancing economically

Cough support

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at the B1 -high burland with, strevbes across the

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narrow istherus connecting the Roku Gibrala to Spain Vejen Jack Auttered above the giard

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Only fat away grey-umturors spentsh frontier polive sinos arand their pos and beyond the 152 read sirelched

marshy land to Lones the Spanish hudert, od

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Since 1954, when the Quee vished Gibraltar and time whe an-British riots in Madrid am Barvelona, Spain has imposed restrictions on this wretchedi v unhappy frontier that must be almost unprecedented

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For over the years become clear that Franco hus an obsession about Gibraltar

h cannot get the intends ruin it

Frano realises that the ass of Gibraltar's strategic value are numbered. In future the Colony must rely

Import-export trade, and on tourism especially

on

The only Spaniards who are allowed to come in pre thom who had "work permits" before 1964

They come streaming through every morning. 10,000 of them. They and out again at nigh provide about half of Gibraltar's (The total nlv!- working force

han population is 25,000.)

For the past seven years between Gibraltarlans have had to live

In lear that any day that labour force might be slopped.

Customis contro bas. how ever, cased recently. Whereas not long ago it could tak, three hours 10 pass through, now takes only a few minutes This seems to be a measure mure of the Toral authorities. ban Madrid They got tired of the deliberate slow-down, and ing queues of cars

Their hope

the

For th 15. at have constantly been told here that

Spanish people near by have little or no intersi in France's claims un Gibraltar.

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I drove through the frontier the nearest larg Spanish town of Algecirns to check this myself

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Nobody was anxious to speak against the Franca ne in Al- geciras, was quite plain that they hoped that the sifun- tion at th frontier would Im- prove.

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I knew what lay behind thir wish for the Campo

11. hinterland of Churaltar is call- sa poor land where the gta ard of living eros priably Jew cynapa, qui in Gibraltar.

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The Gibraltarians would feel

a lot more confident if they ICM tliey

full wete getting support from Britain. They are not of Spanish stock themselves, but of mixed Italian. Maltese, and Spanish blood.

The mayor and chief member of the Legislature, Mr Joshua Hassan, C.B.D., M.V.O., has very strong views about Britain's support of Gibraltar. This is the man known as "Mr Gibral- Lar."

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"We have always suggested ihat Britain should exert any pressure possible on Spain La the restrictions on our border cased," he said. "We asked for it, for instance, when Spain wanted 10 Join The OEE.C But it was no: don:

Opportunties are alwars elsang, bas Beitou never seene t lake the chance to get ser relief for Gibraltar

When Mr Lennox-Royd, then Colonial Secretary

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Gibraltar. he Rsked the Governor If there

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marl It' swer "One hundred per cent against."

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When he asker alour 14 extra 10 per cent he was Told: "That would be the Wakris

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The Gibraltar port of View was summed up for DJIP Mayur Hassan-th exami able lawyer and politiean -- who said: "Here is a smal! but boypi community which wants 1 be But we feel nothing but British,

we have a right to be supported

in our desire to maintain present way of life.

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Ev deep attachments.

Britain. should be neglected by Britain.

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It will not do much good for the Wax indignant if a friend "leaks" the real reason. He would do much better to have nothing to hide.

Se [00 in public affairs. Secrecy is a warning gong which indicates that something fishy is going on.

The Common: Market is real secret of the moment. To junge from the Government's behaviour. It is a dirty sersel

fox.

Governments often hide things from their own people. Our Government has done worse

I hides things from the

i our sister the Commonwealth,

_by.

TROUBLE IN

THE FAMILY?

A. J. P. TAYLOR

And

i represents the feelings of or- dinary British people. These feelings have been submerged by economic wranglings and mutual accusations of selfishness.

Its repeal in the nineteenth century

was

of part

the march to democracy. Now we are back at the Act of Bettle- ment for the peoples of the

Commonwealth.

Now our rulers seem ready to behave as though the Common-

We are told nowadays that not wealth did

exist. Their

emotion is a bed guide in politics. pained surprise over the "leak" Not so. Only bad emotions are was not the only symptom. The bad guides,

Hatred, fear, recent Immigration Bill is a suspicion, concealment are evil

on

much graver sign.

we do not go Of course, living in the same house when But if we are in Governments

we grow up. trouble we turn first to our nations in And

we 15 indignant when the sisters and brothers. Governments try to find out. know that they will help us. Yet, to judge from the hullaba- Jo last month over the "cak," you would think that the Canadian Guvernment, net ours, was at fault.

Traditions

1 called the other members of the Commonwealth "sister nations." This, too, has become dirty phrase Apparently we ought to regard them not mere- ly as foreign countries We ought to put them on a lower level.

I have no hostility to any foreign country, though there is one I do not much care for. I recognise that there are many interests and many traditions which we share with the coun- tries of Europe.

But it gives me a turn when the members of the Common- wealth are treated in the same

senti- way, or worse. Call it ment, emalion,

anything else

yani like.

The fact remains that the

nations of the Commonwealth

We are sorry for the only child. Why should we wilfully insist on becoming an child in international affairs?

only

The Commonwealth is not all that it should be. Though it is by far our best export market, I has never become the great Free Trade

as

who are

and bring evil in their train.

Mutual their

This has been attacked

affection, commda applying a colour bar to West devotion and trust bring high Indians and others. There has rewards in private life. This is been a demand that It should just as true in public affairs. This country has always claimed apply to the Irish,

to stand for great ideals: Why technically foreigners.

have we abandoned this stand In these arguments, the really extraordinary and wiefed now? feature of the Immigration Bill has been lost sight of. It is this: the restrictions will apply to all the inhabitants of the

area of Joseph Commonwealth.. Chamberlain's dream.

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But whose fault is this? it all the fault of Common- wealth Governments who have behaved selfishly? No, it is just as much the fault of successive British Governments.

Submerged

If this Bill goes through, our own brothers and sisters from Canada or Australia will have before they

to get permission can come home.

For the last 40 years British Governments have failed to give & lead, have failed to offer any inspiration. They have shrug- ged off the Commonwealth as a which provided one-way traffic. Its members without visible means

We do little port must be sent back to have to help us.

own parish. fer them.

No doubt they will get this permission easily, but it is mon- strous that they should have to apply for permission at all.

We should not tolerate a law which said that an inhabitant of Lancashire needed a permit before he visited Devon, or that a Scotsman needed a permit to move to England.

There once was such a law: the Act of Settlement of 1662,

that

anyone of sup

The people of England.

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Attraction

for

The economic arguments joining the Common Market and for neglecting the Common- wealth, if we could learn them, may be good or bad. I suspect they are bad.

the The only attraction of Common Market is for a few old-fashioned

It economists.

end of will bring the

high wager and full employment.

But whatever the economic arguments, the call of sentiment is all on one side. That call is clear. It is that we should Ido nothing to weaken the ties with our own peoples...

I believe that that call should be heard. If the Government persists in disregarding the call.

I do not understand why this garded this law as an Act of it should be swept from power.

are our brothers and sisters, should be. I cannot believe that slavery.

and that foreign countries are

not.

The fact is true in the most literal sense. Millions of people

in

in Canada, in Australia, and New Zealand are our relations by blood.

When they or their ancestors left this country, they did not ccase to be British. They went to the Colonies or the Dominions:

in order to remain British. They

took with them an allegiance to

AS

THE BAD

-(London Express, Service).

DEBTS PILE UP

our Institutions, to our soil, to QOME of the saddest cases

our common past.

S

from the magistrates

Go to any of the Dominions, courts are those whers' a

as I did to Canada this autumn,

and you can't help saying to housewife

yourself. This

trouble

is Home--with through taking on more hire

all its virtues and no doubt with purchase than her husband's many of its faults but Home ali

the same.

You do not feel the same even at Calais,

wage packet can stond.

tamiliar story new a fridge, a washing furniture, our machine the signs of affluence They have our and, for many harassed house-

wives, each one, a, necessity.

The Dominions have

legal system.

...I say the banks

must share the ___blame

by FREDERICK ELLIS

soared

again clamped on credit restrictions. And the after math was piles of bad debts

with some of the customers. unable to pay

TROUBLE

political institutions, Their For some, buying them even purchase Arms have peoples read our books, think on the "never-never" proves too £388 million to... a near- like us, argue like us.

much. And one of the sins of record £983 million. When I visited Canadian never-never buying is to sell

Even HP compables bac universities. I could detect no the goods before you have paid ed on credit restrictions earlier tutions ran into serious trau

Until the Government clamp by eminent City financial difference between them and

Sentiment?:

the final instalment.

this year, "never-never trading

the

British universities except that they were a bit livelier.

was the easiest way to debt. The latest victim an

controlled by two Ban proach to academic problems EMBARRASSING The big expansion in hire-andro was exactly the same,..

purchase stems from 1958, from £3,000,0903 when

big banks. Anally

When the City It is this that leads so many

traditional into the fire-purchase humble housewives up the em overcame their

•tany/headle - ir ttfe opposition to hire-purchase, barrassing steps to the dock to

One after another, the big shaking Including face the magistrales

Banking 16 Hire-purchase in this country banks bought shares of the

business, country was in was, for years regarded as not

big hire-purchase "firzoş. danger during two great wars,

Before they took a direct chowing respectable. It was the

business, The Intercut bank loans to HP Vital statist loo

Tever renity very poor were forced to buy firms was a mere 291,000,000. But the mover nev In the First World War the their goods on the "knocker," Now the big banks have no lose

than £150 million with the payments

knowledg collected

loan to

roll, proportionale tát

This competition, alded by have been criticised in

When this

who sprang unquestioningly to our side? The peoples of the Dominions.

quite ang".

+

on

to

numbers, us wod. These men knew just how the hit cu ag the Government Ufting of new for entering the AFGEDI CanadIntip had as great the weekly. And a good tallymar them both. Peder MUA dica for an idea: the Iden, of the could afford to gỡ districtions on down-payments

British Commonwealth.,

Now,

except that, and length of time to pay, start trade.

Now we are asked to d

"dise the

tenisa this

bien në more sent you can make your payments ed a pay tomorrow sponding of the the city ment, a childish fooling that we discreetly through the banks. spree ought to grow out of Do we

the Then came the pay birgan ta' banking Sinde January 1909. beliave like this in private lief nation's debts

to the ilre reverse.

Government” ***t London." Express

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