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"Shameful the way the British are handling this Palestine business."

AFGHANS AREN'T OVER-KEEN ON COMMUNISM

An interview with

Prince Pètor of Greece FGHANISTAN, keystone nation wedged between Iran, Russia and Asla has a pro- Soviet government ruling people only mildly interested In Communism, Prince Peter of Greece who recently returned from a tour of that coun- try, said in London.

The Afghan-government, however, will re- fuse to grant oil concessions to any foreign power in the rich field prospected by American capital, the Greck prince said in an exclusive 'interview with the United Press.

The 38-year-old prince-first cousin of both King Paul. and Philip Mountbatten, whose name is linked romantically with that of ́Britain's Princess Elizabeth--said that as he went along the Soviet-Afghan border area of the Oxus river, he found little pro-Soviet feeling among the popu- lation. Nor was there any desire among border tribes to join the Central, Asia republics of the Soviet Union with which they are blood relations, he added.

However, he said, Afghanistan's aged Pre- mier, Mahmoud Shah Khan, had such great interest in Russia that he recently bogan to learn' the Russian language. He already has mastered Persian. Hindustani, English and French.

LYNCH TOWN

RALEIGH (North Carolina). HAVE been studying the profile of an American lynch town. Its name is Rich Square, and why not even its oldest inhabitant could tell me.

Certainly not because it is rich, for there are some people in town who make half a crown a day, which is just about enough to buy two And chocolate sundaes without whipped cream. certainly not because it is square, for it is trian- gular

Most of its people live off peanuts. Growing them and selling them, I mean. There are a few nice, freshly painted wooden homes in Rich Square. They are owned by the whites.

There are some nice, freshly painted chicken houses in Rich Square. Thizy are a great deal better than some of the shocks the Negroes live in.

where seven men await

trial. ... and the Mayor says,

"These boys aren't criminals

—why, suh, they're our

highest types of family!'

by C. V. R.

THOMPSON

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опе of them are Rich Square has black and white. All exopt

And yet they got out segregated even on its honour roll family men.

guns, put on masks and went out to was listing those, who gave their ser There is n cinema, which

hang: a man without even walting for a jury to find them guilly. had playing something

never vices, and perhaps their lives, heard of called "Snoops.". There their country.

And the trouble is that even now, sult are no pubs because there is

when they face possible life ini- There

prisonment on Prohibition in Rich Square.

Is a general store or two where you can buy everything from dungarees

to turalp greens, a local delicacy.

There arc numerous petrol stations. And there is clammy heat and red dust. That is Rich Square for you on the surface,

But the most Important fact about Rich Square is its popula- tion make-up. A thousand people live in Rich Square and nearly 700 of them are black. And that's why It is a lynch town,

It is fear....

IN America's South, wherever you And the whites outnumbered you will see a lynching if you sii around long enough.

That is because the whites are afraid of the blacks and think the to keep the cure for their fear is blacks perpetually more straid of them.

Serfs still

Prince Peter said the Soviet Union had the largest diplomatic mission in the capital city of Kabul.. But ho added that of 200 persons in the mission only three-the Ambassador, First Counsellor tinct Military Attache-were Russians proper and the remainder were Uzbeks, Tadjiks and other central Asiatic Russlan citizens.

It is strangers, they tell themselves ta restore their faith in the South Only in Kabul, he said, was there nchonce that Russian propaganda who have enused all this trouble.

rould be successful. But even there, "Outride interferince." by which said the Prince, who will lecture in they incan the North, is what has Britain on Afghanistan, educated and stopped a hero being a here, in the hall-educated people were not at- South. So strongly do they fec: tracted so much by Communism us. by the new industrialisation of So- tovlot Central Asia,

this that an official warned.me get out of town before dark.

"If you don't," he suld, Aḥ Reckor: you might find yourself in river."

It

I left lynch fawn willingly. was an ugly place, and I didn't mecan his architecture,

1

In northern Afghanistan, the Un- belts. Turliks and Turkmenians were tou backward in their development the to respond readily to Russian pro- paganda, What influence Soviet pro- pastanda might have in thai arcu is counteracted" by the presence of come who 40,000 refugees fled from Sovic! Central

after the Russian cyli Asiz Other Asiatic tribesmen had rossed the border recently because Russia would not allow them to con- thus their nomadic way of life.

Relations between the British and Aussione in Kabul nen “very friend. ly," Prince Peter said.

On the outskirts 1 passed through what is locally known as Nigger Town. I did what I had not dared to do in the town itself and talked to some logroto.

war.

•

It was not quite as pleturesque as It is in the Alins. Coal blacid mam- mies, yes, but they had a worried look in their big, binck eyes when their man was late home from the change of kidnap peanut fields which are not nearly eliznestic Research in the Orient",

ping, they do not regret what they did. But yes they do. They regret their man got away from them.

local

the films:

The Prince said he hopes to or- anise an "International Institute of

ns glamorous as the cotton fields into investigate the influence of classi- cal Greek civilisation on Egypt and the Arab countries of Asia, Turkey. BUT there are other ways in which

India

and Rich Square quietens its fears

Afghanistan, Uncle Toms, yes, but they were Iran, They do not believe the by keeping Negroes down. Econo-

to many The Prince appealed newspapers when they tell them that staying in their cabins to make sure ultimately even Russian central Asia, the angry white man did not pick North Carolina intends to preserve

and said mically, for instance.

them to make an example of them.governments for support its good record as a non-lynching

that only the French had responded He And State. They believe them only.

with it all these scared an offering 4,000,000 francs.

his when those newspapers refer to people clung to the whimsical philo hoped to enlist British aid during

women sophy that has been theirs since the slay in London, and sald Judge Jas- Negroes who attack white as "two-legged beasts, who walk. old slave days. Keynote of that per Brinton of the mixed court in like men."

philosophy nigger has it just Egypt had promised to try to get two chances, in the South-slim, funds from Washington on his visit and none at all.

to the United States,

Its Negroes are still little more than serfs, encouraged to pile-up debts so they can never regain their Independence.

And, politically, they are frightened into keeping out of elec- tions, which are solely the white man's business.

I

And, educationally, I found that the servant in one of Rich Square's largest houses had never bren shown how to use the telephone.

This, then, is the normai of mind of Rich Square.

state

A

Suddenly something happens. tall, gangling Negro, on his way to white meet his girl, bumps into a girl on the povement, '

The police chief is summoned from his cabinet

the maker's shap to tumbledown, untidy office he shares with the mayor and a fire engine,

arrest He makes a quick

They think they should be halled as heroes by all the South as they have been by the other people of Rich Square.

Did he squeal?

FOR Rich Square would do any

thing for them all except one,

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

was caught More breakages smuggling nine small mice

that is. The cinema under-manager MAN who

a rumour he "squealed." If he had stayed, there might have been white man's lynching in Rich Square.

did the

Sir,

Wo

in the lining of his hat ended DEAR Sprong the other day letth thus: "Their mother and Gut such a plereing yell over

the father lived there, and I knew radio that my wife and 1, who were!: this would happen."

listening 327 miles away, were blown backwards off our chairs.. "Yes," said the Custom man noticed, when we had picked our You see,

the Americans, some-

The mayor went bail for them, sz "but couldn't you have left the whole selves up, thut a brass scuttle had times a ttle quiek--and a little

superintendent of schools, lot at home?" "Outside that, burst. This seems to suggest that n sharp-In criticising the

British

And the police chief who arrested sald the smuggler, "they would be sustained high note of great impurity have way with coloured peoples,

and them by telephone and charged them Inst. It's the only world they know, might break even irou objects. My not yet learned our secret of living takes his prisoner to the nearest jail, at a party in his home would have Human beings can't get hoses. niece, who is having singing lessons,

criminal don charge-altempted them--encouraging them up

likewise except for his post they could live in hats, they would thrust her face into a small teacup, Would you stop them?" "Look by way of experiment, und sang a Instead of holding them down.

here," said the Customs mm- ar or two of "Soft, soft, the fork!" "Those boys could have raised patiently, "you can't bring these The cup did not break, but she got £1,000,000 they needed it," he mice in." *Then l'à go back." sald

not the man, "by the next boat. And her face stuck in it, which was for. told

TRO proudly. "They're

more fun for us. criminals. Why, suh, they're our he put his hatful of mice on, knd sat

Yrs. faithfully, highest types of family,"

down in the shed to wall for the return boat. What an extraoždinury

with

The

1

assault.

been For example, had Jamulca

That is It, say the white men of South, part of America's

Buna- Rich Square. They tell themselves, Jamaica's now

"Prime or at least they told me, that this is munte, Minister," would have been lynched "the damn nigger's way of getting

above hisself." ten years ago,

There's unly one way to show. them-ynch ng

Family men

tion.

And a housewife stopped hocing story! her delphiniums to ask: "Isn't there

poor boys?"

lf

Ping-pong T

“MUSICUS."

And so you see, Rich Square goes party. a little further than most Southern towns and cities in keeping Its

anything we can do to help those In passing

TURE colour bar is to be abolished Negroes down. There is the usual

in ping-pong it a resolution, to DALSANGUIENNE! Cram n with that effect is carried by the delegates segregation, of course. At the

HAVE seen the seven members

The answer to her question is, cels Carry me out in a little of twenty, ping-pong playing nations cinema the whites sil downstairs and enter from the front, and

basket! Here is a of that fynching the

party. They Nothing,

man, two in Faris. This will clear the way: When their trial begins in Jely footed man with an immortal soul for the visit of the Gold Coast tearf blacks enter from the back and sit are not rumans, not even hooligans.

Carolina will do its Except that they speak with a drawl North

best saying that "we must inst upstairs.

the In Muy, Mixed ping-pong is still a you might not understand you would to make an example of them. politicians."

They in the turn, controversdal matter. The close accept them in tny English village, think Rich Square realises that, and poor frightened creatures, say they proximity of the players is said to

The truth distract attention A barber, two carpenters, a petrol no they are worried as well as ungry must trust the people

from the game. station attendant, a coffee stall pro- They will not talk to strangere any being that nobody trusts abybody, As-n prominent ping-pong authority prletor, a factory worker and an more about "the incident," as they the best thing to do is to ab down put it, "All this whispering and

and make little wedges for things. ogling does the game infinite harm. under-inanager of the cinemas. call it, or anything else..

It is the same in church. And washrooms instead of having just plain "Men" on their dose have two doors, one "White Men," the other "Coloured Men.",

NANCY A Confident Miss

I'M GOING TO

START AN AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION

I'LL GET FAMOUS

PEOPLE. TO AUTOGRAPH MY BOOK

I WONDER WHO. MY FIRST

CELEBRITY.

WILL BE

OH, NANCY--TH' TEACHER SAID YOU'RE GONNA BE IN TH' SCHOOL. PLAY NEXT

WEEK

By Ernie Bushmiller

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