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20th Century Battle Of The Jungle

THE PRIZE: MORE TO

KONGWA, TANGANYIKA.

HERE is the grinding truck in the dust, the whine of the camp generator, warm beer in a Nissen hut, the clack of a typewriter in the heart of Africa,

Boots and bare feet and bulldozers are here, 1947 magazines in a neglected pile, sun and heat and heat and sun, and a man in a tent writing home to Battersea.

Outside the tent there is mile after mile, acre on acre, horizon on horizon, the biggest alint- ment in the world. And some- where there is a man who drags a clover-like plant, from a drill and shakes, the ochre soil from a handful of rubbery pods.

Yet there is reason for it all. Here is the focus of the whole fantastic operation, the reason why men are sweating and

JAMES

Strachey had his executives on the job, un the spot; there were

thousand problems to be fixed and plans to be made and the order was Fix Them!

And here we are, still fixing them. Equipment? Bulldozers to smash down the bush, tractors conquer the contours, heavy equipment to expose the earth before whatever could be done.

IN AND OUT OF PARLIAMENT

By Ernest Thurtle, M. P.

PARLIAMENT was used to intenso Indigna- tion, by the story of this murder of niño British soldiers and policemen in Jerusalem.

The crime brought home show the tragic position of our troops in Palestino,

According to report, our men were murdered-two of them when lying wounded and helpless in hospital- by way of reprisal for the bombing outrage which the British were falsely accused of committing..

LITTLE wonder that sympathy for our men out there

is strong.

Saddled with a hopeless task of trying to keep tho peace between two, bitterly fanatical enemies, and ex- posed in their role, of keepers of the peace to attack from both sides, their situation is indeed horribly fair.

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Many of these men are mere lads, and their rein- tives and friends must long for the day when our forces are finally withdrawn from this inferio of hate,

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FAMOUS words of Sir Edward Grey in 1914, "The lights of Europe are going out." come to mind with the news of the crushing of Czechs under the totali- tarian heel...

One more democracy (and a real one) becomes police State. Very soon. If not already, alt that a democrat understands by freedom will have disappeared In that small republle.

The Nazis bludgeoned the Czechs into submission onco, Now it is the 'urn of the Communist totalitarian9.

The technique employed was dile. ferent, but the result is the same,

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ONE hopes that in Britain

outside our, little band of Com munista will be apologists for this ruthless stamping out of a demo-

cracy.

Even those in the Labour ranks

of equipment-bulldozers that col-who are prone to find no fault with lapse, lumps that do not burn, ploughs the Kremim will surely be shocked that fall; the knowledge that in by this manifestation of the reck- strict fact, the right kind of agricul- tess urge to domination. tural machinery for this super- An honest man may belleve in heavy and difficult work has yet to democracy be manufactured.

or he may believe totalitarianism, He cannot believe in beth at the same time.

This is a testing hour and a testing We should know where, we

One school insists that the town should have been built and amenities Issue. anything planned before the bodies

were stand, brought out.

CAMERON

cables the first eye-witness story

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Another school cries that it is folly to build even what we have til we have research and vital statistics and Mills, Labour M. P. for Fin

AND that goes for Mr. John Platts- experience to tell us what to build.

But I must draw attention to the fact that in Bucharest the other

"If you had a car without much all bury and to spare wheel," one contractor Because he is a political neigh- asked me, "would you suddenly debour of mine, with whom I may be. cide to take it on a 500-mile run over in competition after the redistribu- shops. mud walls, and roada No question of laying orders and rough country?" The answer is, of tion, I am particularly anxious not battered into the earth like red accepting delivery: the stuff wasn't course, that if you were driving to to be unfair to him. lines on n green carpet, a film there, and if it was it cost dollars. the rescue of a starving man, you

They raked the east-offs of the war, would. of dust overhanging everything, they took war disposals, they took The local tribe, the fantastic day, when addressing what in effect Kongwa, the experimental their bull-dozers from the beaches Wagoge, with its tessellated hair and was a Communist-dominated con- and mutilated cars, is notoriously simple gress, he referred contemptuously

and undeveloped. Iden, is founded on one vital

the "so-called leaders of the It has no tradition of handicraft, working class in the West." no music, no art, no particular be- Hef, yet even it, in its way, is finding a sort of place among the coughing tractors and the petrol fumes.

wrangling and jesting and workshop of the Groundnut and docks of the Philippines

Hawnif.

despairing and hoping out here

in Tanganyika on the most und rather haunting premise: exciting and urgent experiment that it must last for ever. that ever went by a glum and pedestrian name: The Ground- 1uut Scheme.

A world problem THE scheme, which is capable

Problems arise everywhere. The Overseas Food Corporation., which is now taking over from Its mounging agents, the United Africa Company, is inheriting one of the most in- teresting and delicate social problems to be found.

- Outside my tent is the plain, and neross it, far away, miles away on the remotest skyline, a ridge of blue mountains. That period, has infinitely bigger It night seem like suburbia in the is roughly the middle of the first implications still when it is nd- wilderness, like the Yukon trail up five units of land to be cleared, mitted that the world's fats the

of reducing Britain's fat

I have had a week in Kongwa, and shortage by a third, anyhow by it in the units, among the bush and the end of the Marshall dole the fields.

Edgware Road," a mechanical

to

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There is the curious possibility for W WAS he intending thus to describe future geperations that one day this suspect that he was.

his own, Labour Party leaders? barrun-minded folk may be the only

traditional craft is the care of the

If so, Buch language, above all savage people in the world whose when hddressed La a foreign diesel engine.

nudience, scems oddly lacking in fairness, not to say common loyal- ty, to those leaders.

In isolation

These days people with one foot in the totalitarian and the other in

asked the modern equivalent of ancient Pistol's question:

sown, and cultivated with the shortage is not a temporary monastery, # brigade full of rather we live out in Kongwa, working ine democratie camp might well be

We

crusty evangelists.

came from

on a project of the closest im- portance to world affairs, yet probably knowing less about them than anyone else.

"Under which king, Bezonian?"

oil-bearing peanut. Each unit emergency. a thing that will

They Those dust itself. but a permanent,

everywhere. is about 30,000 acres.

Radio Is intermittent. Newspapers 150,000 acres are one-third-of-endemic, everlasting condition Many had never seen Africa outside

Ta" travelogue.

if and when they turn up-are apt the monstrous farm scheduled in the existing system.

It is emphatically no fun at all at still to be giving details of Princess FOR a country wishing to remain for this Central Province.

Kongwa. Such complaints as can be Elizabeth's wedding. Worse, there Independent, self-help is better And this is only-here

Since 1938, through a deci- made are being made. After all is a relaxing feeling that whatever than aid of the Marshall, or other, hold our hats one twentieth of mating war, the world's popu- these months most people are living, the emergencies and problems in our variet

sweating, fumbling around in tents. papers, they are bound to have been

Heuce it is that Mr. Gaitskell's the total acreage of the gigantic lation has increased by 130.000,- amenities are primitive, the water is solved weeks ago, anyhow.

news of greater coul stocks and the proposition. Three

And from that comes the lonely, million 000 people, mostly in the East, foul, the travelling cinema is still in

acres are

Isolated, yel rather hopeful reflection possibility of increased exports is to be bashed flat, where they have learned to cat the Hoot Gibson period.

The man from Ealing or Wolver- that, after all, nothing really matters Good. swept, fertilised, developed, and fats and use soups as never be hampton has trouble in adjusting in the world but whether the rains Cool was, is, and will remain for put to work. Nine-tenths of it fore. India, the world's biggest himself to sleeping to the whine of come, whether the nuts grow, whe-years a key factor in our currency is virgin land, a plot of country groundnut exporting country, the hyena and to knocking out his ther there is any, beer in the Kongwa problems. three-quarters the size of York- has become an importing coun- boots from habit in case of scorpions, club, whether those lengths of hose

over all,' among corporation will arrive in time. shire, much of it covered with a try..

meli and contractors, a frustration And, probably, in our way we nre denise impenetrable' under-

and Impatience over the inadequacy not so daft. growth,

Kongwa is born

There are not enough fals left in the world to support this. extravagant congestion unless- and thank goodness, some folks

NOW, unquestionably, peanuts see further than others--some-

But

Miners, therefore,' are front-line troops in the economie battles' of these lines. Treated fairly, they will not let the country down.

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

are growing. Not many, one undertakes vegetable oil MR COLIN VELVETTE finally Forzon's commentary on the Nauck- Ashura,

Helmsoeth defence of the Stasimon cizely, too, if you please." decided that the best place and the Epelsodion.)

not the number forecast, not production on a scale and with enough. The scheme is deeply mechanical processes never be in which to introduce the see- behind schedule. Of the 150,- fore attempted since man first saw was during the very beautt- Not much progress 000 planted acres hoped for cracked the soil and sowed a ful scene in which Iphigenia, this season we may get 70,000. seed.

Passed-to-you

un-

smiling amicably. "Pro-

Warning to farmers' wives

- QUIET

evening landscape, mellow in the sunset. Cows are having been saved by Artemis SAID Mr. Velvette: "The butterfly

episode and the Dance of the browsing beneath ancient yews, and The scheme was heavily over-

from being sacrificed by her Flowers are merely a divertisse the smoke from many a snug farm- sold at home, the White-Papers

father, Agamemnon.

dreams.ment, and the appearance of a see- stead floats into the still air, telling promised too much, there was

saw might set the wrong tone for of content after labour done. Not a disturbs the tranquil scene, too much talk in terms of THAT in brief is what Kongwa is that her mother Orestes is what follows." The Persians bowed, sound

all about. And Kongwa is only end.

bird atira. packets of margarine next year

and Kozbulah said, "When we play, aave where some sir, please not to

the pollarded to promit your daun- easily in its nest in It is clear now the scheme

elms.

Hush! Ilere now to the lond of the

all that

What was that Pop! us, with will take longer, cost more. No elephant and life kudu, the giraffe (See Thumen: Die Iphigeniensage cers to ontifere us,

kicking and jumping

Why does that jovial farmer pausc about. No the buck, and the one need wonder that the men and

resentful in Antiken und Modernem Gewande, douncing hon our plonk, ho yes" on his way to lock up the byre won't here have done so little. The rhino, come the Indent and the the Also Bothe and Kirchoff on Madvig's They

bother you." snid the night? Why does he pull up His passed-to-you, and the

burst astonishing thing is that tlicy memo in triplicate,

theory of the Taurle moon-goddess in Velvette. "Hart for hart's sake," said left trouser? His garter has

again! It could not have happened Fomewhat inconsequently. von Diesen Ashura have done so much.

And, let us face it, there was one Kirchwasser Gehort

had been wearing From the houses on the hill occasion when a Government de- Euripidiamus, quoted in Bomtrac Precisely" replied Velvette, merely if he

to aid the conversation. "Who?" THOROGRIP GARTERETTE.

Rizamughan. "Precisely!

(Threadgold's Thorogrip Carter- can see. the new town of partment got off its mark. Only

mintter of weeks after the original Ger's Analecta Euripidea. Wicked

ette tops the export list.) Kongwa, tented streets, work survey report on the area, Mr lein's edition of 1887; also Monk and repeated Velvette, "Very well," said

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