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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1948.

UNITED STATES

World Copyright. by arrangement bilh' Evening Standard.

JAMES CAMERON continues his report on out-of-tho-way Empira

NASSAU.

A

S usuel, I am spending a troublesome evening with tho flighty young thing who shares my room here in Nassalt.

the

UNITED KINGDOM

MRS OKSANA KASENKINA'S OWN STORY

FINAL INSTALMENT

In her final article, Mra Kasenkina reveals the story of the efforts of Soviet represen

tatives to retain control over her after her leap to freedoni

theac MOUCR and how were frustrated by American. officials at her request. She quotes from letters and dedi- cates her new life to the cause of freedom,

leaped in terror to a stone-hard pavement, but found myself in the warm embraces of the American people.

In the Roosevelt Hospital I at last discovered" the America which had eluded me during more than two years of my quest as a teacher in the Soviet service.

I have discovered that there is no better way to gauge the temper of a country, the standard of its living and ita social progress than by being a patient in one of its hospitals.

Mugs' Island wins when those bucks get bounding

the

Bahamas Government generously allows them to pay in

dollar cash.

Nassau knows its business, and

the and its business is with United States, less than an hour away. And since dollars are the thing today, I do not sce find fault with how one can that.

ex-

A country whose only ports are sunshine, sand, and a warm, iridescent sea can afford to idle gently nine months of She behaves like all

the year for the sake of other 19 million mosquitoes in glorious, grab-worthy harvest town; observes the visitor from from three months of opulent nfar, bears down on him with tourism. But can it?.. a shrill and musical cry, and proceeds to feed hungrily on his substance-an operation in the true tradition of the Bahn

mis.

Very soon, too, it will be possible to do a title soaking of the not-so- rich, with the extraordinary erup- tion of a mighty Builin holiday the Grand Bahama, camp on designed for the American "middle Income bracket."

The stately birds of passage, with their £50,000 Sen View villas, mny wince a bit, but, nevertheless, the authorised the British Treasury has

spending of £2,000,000 on the en-

thousand

bed terprise: the first should be ready in 18 months for the job of easing even more Ameri- cans out of their dollars.

Grand waste

For generations the Bahn-

I flew out to the site on mus,,, that lovely Caribbean cluster ("Island Paradise" is Bahama, a barren, scrubby

Just 60 miles off the Florida coast, the trade name), has contrived soon to be laid out with pools and a fat living from what I will palm courts, movie houses and Rus- air-conditioning, There is competition for the vall it wholly opportunist tic English Pubs, one off-season stranger, adrift economy. Unkind people call and a 12-hour bill of organised hi- forlornly in the millionaires' it the mug market. playground of Nassau in the hot and strictly unfashionable month. My mosquito, accus- tomed to richer and bluer blood,

seems to inquire: Who is the

sucker, you or me?

The Bahamas, on the edge of the season, tooling up for the winter invasion of the master race, will pretty certainly have a good year, since the rest of the world expects a bad one.

FROM PIRACY

N

on

de-ho.

On the tottering Jetty sat a stout old Bahamian lady, in a tattered Mother Hubbard, fishing vaguely in the opalescent sea,

I

prospecting under the blue seas off Bimini.

Oil, now, would turn the trick here. But whether it is here or not no one can yet be sure.

The Inevitable question: What is Britain doing about it-assuming Britain has to do anything about a colony that is solvent, that has not asked for anything from the kitty of the colonial grant? One does not feel that the Hotels Splendides are coming hat in hand.

IMAGINATION

I wonder how many of the hour. sands of distinguished foreigners who have visited Soviet Russin have had such an opportunity observe the true condition of the masses there. From all I know very, very few of them had over seen Soviet life from a hospital cot. If they had. they would have caught a alimpse

lower of the depths in which my people were plunged by the Soviet experiment. IN HOSPITAL WHEN I begged the police in the W courtyard of the Consulate, where I was lying in a heap, to be taken to an American hospital. I feared that my captors would try to dety the American authorities and detain me in a critical condition under their root.

me.

Even before the ambulance took me to the hospital. I had mundo it clear that I did not want to be left In Soviet hands. The Consuls: and their aides could not have mistaken my express wishes in this regard.

Yel no sooner was I installed in the protection of WHAT, then, is the Colonial De-

velopment Corporation, say, doing a room, under about 117 Economically, I do not the police who saved me, than my while gaolers, Lemakin and know, nor does anyone else seem to.

audacity to apart from taking 40 Bahamian Chepurnykh, had the

experts to grow eggs chicken

in appear in the corridor, outside my jurisdiction, over Gambia. I know one thing it is do- dour and claim ing, however: it has made Mr A. F. Adderley its representalive in I Informed the police that I did not want to have anything to do Mr Adderley is a lawyer and a with the Soviet oficials, that they had kept me in the Consulate- Cambridge graduate. He is also a Negro of the fullest and darkest against my will, and that I had

to Jumped blood, a descendant of African Only later did I fearn that Lomakin slaves.

the room sought to have In a colony us full of race preju- the hall from mo set aside for ostensibly to dice, as this one, where the colour Soviet "protectors." bar operated as unquestionably and help me The American authorities rigidly as anywhere know outside respected my wishes and turned South Africa, this seems to show down the request. I doubt i rather exceptional imagination, could have survived a second slege..

NOT WELCOME

Nassau.

品

.to

.

escape

from

them.

across

When Chepurnykh “asked me if desired to be moved to another hospital, I quickly perceived his design, and answered emphatically. "No."

Much imperial sojourning has She said: "They done say folks made me personally sensitive, dissi- GEOGRAPHY is all. A situn-,

comin' out here, abuildin' houses, dent and humiliated in too mony CO anxious were my Soviet masters tion that gave it a firm

folks colour blas situations. Here, ono seca My, my, I sure glad to sce

to Jay their hands on" me glad ste that a Negro working a distinguished Job that they returned the followin business start as a pirate nest comin sure be

Government with his com- morning and were allowed to see for the buccaneers preying on there supply boat come in, too, him for the

mercial vis-a-vis, who happens

me. I beheld Chepurnykh (and one', American shipping in the Florida Pas supposed be bringing flour, and us

shin' for my supper, boss."

from Georgia, of all places. Is there the Consulate women at my beside, and immediately mado it suge, rocks and shoals on which seen one past week. I just be Mr J. Phillips, aut a moral here somewhere?

clear that they were not welcome. prospered the wreckers, whose initiative and enterprise

A SILLY LIFE The old representation system still so many of the Nassau fortunes

survives in the Bahamas; most of the power is still in the hands of a are now built.

THE BAHAMAS, they say, has House of Assembly, representing a Teverything the sun, the sea, the minority.

Asting. the company of onc'a betters. But food and drink, the nothing-since the sponge trade was Manuel into the Blank Hotel (nor killed by disease in 1938-that could I am given to understand, my friend be called a productive economy, no Isidor Greybaum, take it or leave firm basis of security or dignity for it); but Mr Adderley has now be the 700,000 Bahamians, who live a come the first coloured member of silly, superficial life because there the Governor's Executive Council. is no other.

It may bring dignity and Justice le and humanity, a little nearer. That thin soil supports no s peasantry. The process of bui 響 land has driven farmers to Work land further and further from their homes-in one Out Land, an entire

And after the wreckers, the happy arrival of Prohibition in

The show is in rehearsal the batteries of monstrous empty hotels, the glistening, deserted benchen, the gay, fold- ed sunshades, the hibernating America and the chance to be barmen, not quite ready yet rome the bootleg base and rum- with their bonhomic arki running H.Q, and when that

was gone-why, there came bacardi.

world war to encourage air bases and all the concomitant pickings.

business

I cannot lake my block friend

TOO LATE !

hotel

1

To indicate that I did not want him to stay any longer, I shut.

my eyes and declared:

"You held me“ prisoner, and wouldn't let me out. I don't want to see any of your

This is the last I ever saw of the Soviet rulers i under- whom I had lived and suffered for sover thirty

yearn. My.consolence wasc clear. I had served

edil my people. loyally as a teacher through á: Le=- time of agony. · I. had. „discharged" my debt with a vengeance to the

sacrificed my innocent husband' to its Just for power and my only son: to its Inhuman system.

THE EVIDENCE

Nassau knows that whatever hap

fortune ог THE Union Jack floats against to the world,

pens the vivid sky in a casual, failure, it means an honest buck for

Bahamas. When colonial gesture, to suggest the that, in spite of every visibl.. booms so does the tourist trade. village walks 25 miles every Sunday EANWHILE the dollars come in Insatiable Soviet regime," having

night to its farms. spends the week Manda not so much now the When slumps -loom; what better in lean-to's, and trudges back home

dollars slip out. In a double cur- evidence, this is British terri- sanctuary for the Ured business tory.

man than a colony where there is in time for church.

No Indigenous native industry, no rency place like this, a leak is in- evitable. If I meet Joe Dough not; a penny of income tax, where But you will get your hotel death duties are only two percent, crafts but tourist crafts Seasonal from Miami paying his vast bill marked up in dollars, your and discrepancies in company law. hotel labour produces indolence and bill in ten-dollar bills, why can

avarice.

not suggest that it will be all the taximan will charge in dollars, simplify life for the enterprising?

The hotels gleam at the beach's same to him if I pay his bill in ster- slips mo the green- the

Shetland scarves and It is a very well to moralise

backs? Paisley ties in the Olde Eng on somewhat irresponsible edge, the merchants of Bay Street, ing and he lishe Gifte Shoppes will be prosperity; the fact is obvious that, the Wall Street of Nassau, manipu

if carning dollars within the Empire late the financial strings" with rare behind the villas are at shanty towns as squalid and dispirit at all and not left to someore's an essential industry; Nobody,

ing as any in the Colonies. shrewd assessment of how this stage, can really complain of

Bank-the-rich policy, especially

Do not imagine. Nassau complains; So, with a sigh, we say farewell to and much you are able to pay. the rich come from Pittsburg

there is до depression in this beautiful Bahamas, queen of the house (I am talking, of course, of Caribbean, base of the bounding Only at the sound of your the soaking is done so urbanely.

The victims goodness | quaint foreign English accent

knows, the Right Houses American buck. Here it was, at San Salvador, willingly enough. Their room capital has started many enterprises Columbus landed 600 years ago. Ho will the matter be translated, comy, cost then 12 a day, but, by out. her big poultry industry thought he had discovered America, reluctantly, at five to

kalt business" there; und. the and large, they get a sort of value here, a

Is Why, poor man, he had. pound.

for their money, by their standards, right now, an oil company

this

“ WILL IT HAPPEN AGAIN " priced in dollars, when priced is a good thing, then the Bahamas is skill; but

(THE

LOVE LIFE OF ADOLPH HITLER)

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Why not, indeed, except that Joe Dough will not be here until next month and I shall be gone; thus Eaton keeps well behind.

THE NEW WORLD 205 DEFORE God, I felt fully 'onlitied to live my own free life from now on. The new, world which had: opened up before me was, to one- inured. to Soviet existence;"> like another planet. From the police chiefs to the detectives and inter- preters around me, from the chief

Dr Pennover," 10 surgeon. sorten mites tending and from

the hundreds of Inspiring Iciters which have reached me,

there came to me a realleation that America is not only a land of freedom, but also a land of burian

love.

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