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HAVE THE BRITISH THEIR GUTS?

LOST

HAVE just returned from a visit to the most important area of our Colonial Empire, that area known officially ns : Enst Africa, and comprising the three territories of Kenya, Tanganyika, and Uganda, plus the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba.

WE LET OTHERS 'PUSH US AROUND'

The

question all is asking

Africa

BY DON

hotels and cinemas, making all the money.

who men

an

hnd left the

Not only at Kongwa, but down at the new port of Mtwara, on the new

railway construction schemes, there has been an astonishing turnover of British

TAYLOR

fighter

me around 80

the

,

Many thousands more of our men will be going out to join them--and they would do well to learn these hard lessons from the plancers. Chief among them are these:-

week mentality.

THE NOT SO BIG FOUR

By DAVID TEMPLE ROBERTS

Wand

London, June 10, -particularly of the strategic- THILE Bovin, Acheson ally important strip, of North Africa that includes Tobruk. Schumann aro The Arab countiesTM and the

American wrangling with M. Vyshin-

South

countries sky in Parls wo have an decided to volo with the Soviet opportunity to reflect on Unlo

Union agninst a schemo put

what is happening to the forward by Bovin with Ameri- can approval. The "Big Power' "Big Four."

scheme was defeated by amalf Powers that Britain and America usually count as. friends.""

DE

When thỏ war ended the proposition that the world would be ruled by the Big

PROVED FALSE Powers, having absolute con-

THER great countries, trol, was accepted every OTHER where. The meetings of well as the Big Four, are Churchill, Roosevelt and taking a leading part in world Stalin were presumed to be affairs. India, Pakistan and Aus tralia have highly. Influential the pattern of futuro con- and quite distinct points of ferences that would be a view that the diplomats of the real "world government" Big Powers must now reckon or at least its "Executive with. The whole idea, so pre- valent in 1945, that the Big Committee."

Powers would dominato every- The first blow to this one has proved entirely false.

theory was the disunity of By grasping this change in the Big Powers. Cold War the pattern of the world, the took the place of Big Power slatesmen have more chance of Agreement. But even then dealing with the current prob- it was assumed that the Big lem. Two of the defeated coun- Germany and Japan, aro Powers would still dominate again developing to occupy the world. Two years ago highly. significant places In we argued, in Britain, the Europe and the Pacific. At the world would divide into two end of the war the idea that Big Powers would dominato gigantle alliances. Washing meant that regional pacts be-

tween smaller powers to ton and Moscow, would face

interests in one another, each backed by gulate their own

arca were frowned allies and satellites that particular

With

Inovilable would all be more or less upon.

change in the pattern of power, subject to the will of one or regional pacts are now the only other "Big Power."

possible solutions.

LESS IMPORTANT

the

tho

TC-

Meanwhile the Big Four-ben Biz now the not so Four"-continue to argue tha

come

He la "pro-T

by

not

good counts. mu suspected of

course, mean would That wo instant dismissal. Mr Rajk has committed Rome other crime. Apparently he objected to the

THIS has not happened. derman problem. Would it be You cannot beat the desert The "Big Four" meet- better to allow the Berlin Rail- and the bush with a 40-hourings of Foreign Ministers, way strike dispute, the currency

which are the direct descen- dispute, and the future of trade-

between

the two halves of Ger- A strong sense of personal dants of

Stalin- the

much : In the Machakos, in Kenya, responsibility and pridno sad-Roosevelt Churchill "Club," many to be settled san

lower lovel than a grand meet. where an overwhelming number is weakened in these days by have become less and less ing of Foreign Ministers? On Here are

the some 680,000

of Africans and their stunted overdoses social security" square miles of territory. Here Britain is investing

"But who else will work cattle exist on a totally Snade is the one sure armour against important. Four years ago whole, the three Western Fore

quate area of land, an Agricul- failure.

the meeting at Potsdam ign Ministers would like to sco scores of millions of pounds, the hours they work? Will tural Offeer-ex-D.F.C.

seemed to be shaping the these problems dealt with

Bpecialists. Now, It to only the an Englishman go up coun- pilot-rushed and staking her future.

Faith In the whole conception destiny of mankind; few Russians who want to keep in of Empire development musi From the borders of try and build a big business miles of primitive roads.

That man talked grass, lived burn so brightly in Britain that would suggest that the pre- being the "Big Power idea" that no fallure, no disaster, can put sent Paris Conference can started with Stalin, Roosevelt, THE MOST UP-TO-DATE THEATRE ON THE MAINLAND Portuguese Mozambique, in from a little dula in

African village?"

grass, dreamed grass. He was it out. the south of Tanganyika, to

have such grandiose re- and Churchlit during the war. the complete enthusiast burning

It seems to me a tragic para-sults.

NEW CRIME the lovely blue waters of In Kongwa they spoke out his days to make grass grow dox that the very mentality Lake Victoria at Kisumu, in with some feeling of the where none grew before.

Socialism' has

What has happened to the

S on example of the way the Kenya, I kept hearing

In Uganda young en- in the last 40 years could be pattern of world power? Frin- A pattern of the world hus "What's wrong with Britain groundnuts scheme to seek gineering experts of the Owen the rock on which the Govern- cipally,

"middle sized"

changed, nothing. could be more today? Why are you send easier posts in the Northern which will be able to generate schemes could founder. But I portant.

Falls hydro-electric scheme ment's Empire development powers have become more im dramatic than the dissension and And countries that distrust within Eastern Europe. ing out so many people who Rhodesian mines.

clectricity over an area eight do not think they will founder, Russla

regarded 23 "safe" presumed until a year ago, to be can't take it?"

times the size of Britain-fred

satellites are not so willing to solidly under Russian control. you with their overwhelming The old pride of achievement, toe the linc. Similarly, Britain The latest news from the arca

toe enthusiasm for a project they the old response to the challenge and the U.S. cannot be so sure is that Mr Rajk, the Foreign called "the greatest thing that of the impossible, is growing of always having various groups Minister of Hungary, has dis has ever happened to Africa," out there in Africa. We must of countries behind them. A appeared into oblivion. Mr Rajk

begin to make it grow again......at

good example

a recent was In Kongwa-derided Hongwa, home.

vole in the United Nations on IN Southern Tanganyika labour.

buit of so many fil-conceived teams

-(London Express Service) the future of Italy's old colonies (ironically, in the very

Jities the agricultural In Kenya they talked of the worked through the long day town of Mikindani, from which the indomitable Scot other type of Briton, the man and through the night by head, Livingstone, set out on his who thinks his money can take lights to plant the first export crop of groundnuts end sun- last heroic journey) n the place of hard work.

flowers-only to see their hopes out by the Scottish engineer, said to For the better part of a week tragically burned me: "We can't get men I was in Ugenda with an Aus most withering drought for 25 with the pioneering spirit tralian who had been travelling years. What's hap- all over the Union these days.

and East

TO CONQUER THE

He is another Communist in ENSUS FIGURES show that pening back in the old coun- Africa.

WILDERNESS AREAS

10 every American woman has a satellite country who is more Interested in Communism in try 7 Haven't we got the "Everybody works hard in

BEFORE long wo man 90-100ths of a chance of getting Empire-builder type any Australia. Even in the tropical

asking for "an Ameri-

a husband...

UNO's One-his own country than in Com- URING my stay at Kangwa,

munlem dictated in the Interests more?"

Worlders are getting ready for regions," he said to me.

met Liverpool can and soda.". And he added, bitterly:

frenzied campaign to force all of Moscow. America's distillers have nations to adopt a world calendar "But most Britons only half- machino-shop foreman George

Moscow has found a now "Britain now lets any coun-

Wellings, quietly and effectively

1050. It would make

erlme of which to accuse try push her around. That's work in East Africa. And there guiding his primitive Africans thought up a new way to fight in

Christmas Day fall always on a

Radio has the growing competition Scotch whisky, nt the root of it all-and it are too many idle women."

is trying to Monday and New Year's Eve Yugoslavia. Moscow

world declared that Tito would be a permanent the It was hard to escape

Chinese Communists has spread down into the

They will not try any more to

holiday.

Meat prices have claim the feeling people."

that we are losing the

form" Communiste. Certainly normal, 191 At Jinja, where the Nile greatness of our race-unless you battle for our future is being do it by winning the right to all suddenly begun Jumping, as Far Eastem "anti-Comin-

Nor will they starts its long.journey to the looked for the other side of the fought out in the groundnuts call their own products Scotch..even though supplies are usua

their

there have been strange signs press campaign to force distillers of

the sen, and where the great

Scotch to put a recipe label in 0 OPINION: After an eight-year lately. At recent Farty Junket-

tings in Moscow, such as That other side took some

fight, America's radio May. Day celebrations, the Chin- hydro-electric project, which

long as eight doubles on the stations have won the right to Communists were not mea- will transform the face of finding. But you can find it to

sides on public issues.

estioned they were given no East Africa, is getting under the place you would expect to

back of the bottle. find it-in the bush, in the

Their new plan is to under- From now on, owners of com-ovation. In Yugoslavia, way, another chief engineer lonely places.

cut Scotch, which is selling in mercial stations will be able to Bulgaria, by contrast, Mao Tse- pointed at the Italians work-

America now for roughly 255. express their own opinions, Tung often has his photograph

long as they ing on the new roadway to Kampala..

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MEN WORK A 60-HOUR WEEK

He said: "You've got to hand it to them. They'll

WHILE Inland from Mtwara, here heat, work out

I stayed with a construction malaria; loneliness, or any gang working on the new rall thing else. But the average way.

..

D too,

I

in the ways of twentieth century Industrialisation.

More than anywhere else, the

arca.

Here will be decided whether we can still turn out the men needed to conquer the wilder ness areas of the Empire.

is a close-fought battle, It The crop failure has been the severest blow yet to morale.

But it was my firm impression that we are here beginning to forge the new type of Empire buildor.

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C. V. R. THOMPSON REPORTS The American Scene

a bottle.

English artisan coming out Jack Lucas, of Bolton, with his doubtedly, there is a hard core can."

is above manual work after a few weeks."

FRANK

NEW YORK.

of

take

allow the other.

pace at which the Soviet Union

Waa

changes

forcing

revolutionary In Hungary He was moved from Ute key position of Minister of the Interior to the

less

Important Foreign Ministry

last

year.

and

alist Government has broken

từ Chung

as prominently at Party meetings as that of Stalin They will do this by using side to present its argument in displayed

grado spirit, aged in rebuttal.

or the local boss. secondhand instead vi new cocks.

[OME: There are now plenty

IN CHINA And if they get Government Ho

maids available to failures. Too many came out permission for their plan they America, and they will even NOW that the Chinese, Nalion- who were unsuitable. But, un will call the whisky "Ameri- work in the evening for ös, an

hour. But a labour exchange up one part joining Chiang of grand men who know, now,

report said that domestics who Kai-shek in Formosa, the other air of solid northern competence, that they can win back land

going America's will live in aro still "as scarce

up country LLOYD, Jock and Billy, the brothers from the wild..

king--will the Soviet Govern- most controversial architect, as ben's teeth." from the Clyde, old Jock, the

ment withdraw its recognition started a new controversy by who had

oficial old-timer in Africa,

urging the US. Government to almost forgotten what England

diplomatic repesentatives to the Washligion. He looked like.

move out of

is experimenting with bill- Communist authorities in North American buildings set some board television. Screens would China? Why the Russians have of the be erected along America's main thought it necessary to close, so midst

rozde a heat, the excavator drivers in THERE have been many bitter where in the

and. TV transmitters pointedly, their... Consulates, in to pirsonal lessons learned, prairies, Washington, which he would flash up-to-the-minute the area captured by the Com- Government official said that gang were working up

him has not one to me: "Certainly, the In- co hours a week: For the good, not ly at Kongwa, but all cording to

ovog Eant Africa by the noble building, "mella too much advertisements on them of that munists has been a mystery MONTGOMERY in "FORBIDDEN" dians are capturing all the material reason of the overtime overheat Brition who have of the English country gentle day's sales at such-and-such a puzzling experts all over, the

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