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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1950.

RUTH,

wife of Seretse,

ASKS..

When is

this

waiting to end?

R

by GWYN LEWIS

SEROWE. UTH, wife of Seretse Khamis, paced the verandah of their home overlooking the Bechuana- land bush, and said with anger in her volce:~

·

"When is this waiting for my husband to end? It is torture.

"Seretse should have been here days ago. What are they doing to him?

"When he docs arrive I suppose it will be as a pri- soner under escort.

The moves were begun in by the London and direusred committee set up to secure Seret se's restoration to chieftainship.

A cable was sent to Dr S. M, Molema, a relative of Tsheked and a leading Mufekbong phys!- cinn, necking his services us in- termellary.

1 enlled on Ure doctor at his home on the outskirts of Ma- feking.

He said to me: "Tsheker has set up a new town called Marit-

sane.

"He was good enough to come to Mafcking. We discussed the matter.

"Thekedi agreed to settle the "There will be no hand- litigation out of court on condi

tions. These conditions concern the division of the estate.

move

cuffs, but every

he makes will be ment watched."

"I am hopeful that Tshekedt and Seretse will meet at Lobatsi meet court and shake hands. nt plane

the had

Her attempt Seretse's

to

Mahalapye airstrip

failed. The plane was not allowed to land there and Seretse was

Gaberones,

to taken on

the outside

Bamangwato reserve,

From there he went by

Witchcraft

E can then go on to discuss the problems of Secretse's marriage. But Tahekedi 19 A hard, unyielding man.

for Tebcked and Sekgoma Can uncle and chief spokesman for Seretse during his absence) with both men enjoying the status of chief.

direct rule from London will be successful. led, but cannot be driven." The Damangwato tribe are easily

"I do not think

Mr Sillery, the Resident Com- missioner, said of the proposal to set up a dual reserve: "It is fea-. sible, but bristles with constitu- tional dimeulties."

A breakdown

Above Seretse Khama's hungalow home at Serowe

and Ruth.

trees until new homes could be built, This town was bulit by our women.

Who knows

A book which Amarica has bought in the thousands is

now out, horo

contentment?

NEW book captures America. Not

THERE is no such thing as the problem of the atomic bomb; n there is, rather, the problem of thriller, a novel, or the man who makes and usta

an escapist romance, but a if.... serious work on the world's

A MAN is tempted, not because most sought-after, clusive, he is intrinsically evil, but and unbuyable thing-the because he is fallen men. No contentment

comcs individual has a monopoly

templation; everyone is tempted, with peace of soul.

Saints do not find it easy to be

that

On

The author is Blow-saints, and drvila are not happy speaking, silver-tongued being devils....

INDIVIDUALS

who say,

זי1

Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen. America's best-known Ro- will serve God in my way, and

you serve God in your

Way." man Catholic preacher.

It ought to inquire whether And now his book its title is would not be advisable to serve "Pence of Soul"-after being God in His way....

high on the US.A. best-seller list for many months, available here.

Consider these extracts from the philosophy of Fulton Sheen:

THE OLD theslogical division, of those who are in the stale grace

and those who are not, han

10 way

the political of Rightists Leftists. The modern soul has definitely limited It horizons:

negated

the eternal having

even lost a destinies, it has trust in nature, for nature with- out God is traitorous....

UNLESS 501119 ure saved, THEN Ect out for Tshekedi, water, hunted ions and plough- f nothing is saved: there can be

id for crops, the women dug по world Peace desert home, clay and put up huts, completing is soul pence. World wars are which has rarely been visited by one hut and thatching a roof in only projections of the conflicts white men. He has called the one week. Come and look at our waged inside the souls of modern place Maritsane, meaning little so-called mud huts."

men, for nothing happens in the water. It is 20 miles from Lep-

The huts, circular in design,xternal world that has not frst liepe-n mere cluster of huts.

were perfect specimens of bulld-happened within a soul... In craft, dintempered, smooth wall surfaces, inside indisun- guishable from the plaster walls of British haines.

new remote

The native driver of my truck followed a scarcely discernible track, occasionally stopping to examine the ground closely.

The journey, beginning from Molepolele, was one of a hundred miles. The truck broke down half-way for free hours with ignition trouble.

The driver hand:d me a gun, saying: "You watch for lions, master, while I fix the troubly."

This he did with the aid of allver paper from my cigarette "He is curious mixture of packet. Silently, I vowed never

primitive native.

car to Lobatsi, where, he cultured, advanced mind and a to give up smoking." said, he must stay for four' months.

Unobtrusive'

"If you go to see him pou wil and likely as not his desert library contains Hansard parlin- mentary debates, also a wealth of books on history, politics, economics, philosophy, and blo-

graphies of famous men.

"That is one side of him. other Tshekedi till believes in witchcraft.

I TOLD Ruth that the Resident Commissioner, Mr Anthony Sillery, at But the Mafeking, had assured me: "Seretuo will be subject only to the mildest form of supervision."

Latest prefab

TTshekedi's hutted township the latest type of prefab clands Incongruously among the native style rondavel built of clay, as the Tshekedi residence.

"While we men searched for

Tsheked now has 200 families totalling 1,000 men, women, and children of Maritsane.

Restlessness

unless there

Overall

THE MODERN man is no longer a unity, but a confused bundle of complexes and nerves,

There is no single purpose in his life... he may be likened to a radlo that is funed in to several stations; in- stead of getting any one clearly. tt receives only annoying

an static.

fight inside:

THE GRAVEST

error of the nice people in all ages. เย the dinini of sin. . . .

C.V.R. Thompson

A win for Britain

H°

NEW YORK. TOME again, I found Macy's and Gimbel's, traditional rivals for the dollars of New York's shop- pers, engaged in a race to sell British goods.

The race began by accident. eye on the spring With their rusli, salesmen of each big store had been looking over the goods have brought in their buyers from Britain since the £ was devalued.

And the heads of the stores

Harriving every week bring-4 SOUL with a gold come

E "More familles are

ing cattle and sleep."

that

teattering.

to a similar

furnishings,

decision.

as

they

good

would push them.

day.

side itself with others. Once a Men's Elsewhero I received reports man censes to be of service to call them, were of such

stp in fact the Bamarigwato his neighbour, he begins to be a qually and so cheap that they tribe, numbering 100,000, is burden to him; it is only a

ve with others live from refusing to refusing to live for others..

a EVERY person has Members are reported to bel moving to territory of the comer in his heart that he never oflier seven Bechuanaland tribes. wants anyone to venture

Tahekedi has found asylum in even with a candle. That is why

neighbours know territory of the Bakwena tribe by we can deceive ourselves, permission of Chief Kgari why our

belter than we know ourselves.. Sechele.

SOME psychologists, by

into,

and LES

and

the

Then the rivals reached an- other similar decision-to start. on the samo their big push

So there are full-page adver- Lisements in all the papers for Macy's British-made rain- coats, shoes, hals, and light overcoats, and for Gimbel's Brush-made sults and shoes. Announced Macy's: "Mighty The prefab and a water-boring Tribal restlessness, together proper use of their method, have

than merchandise

any other plant were brought 400 miles with ilicit disting of liquor brought mental peace to indivi. Macy importa more fine English from Johannesburg.

from potato peel and pineapple, tuals, but only because they have store in town. How British the Macy low the "His mother died of heart

Tshcked! was holding an even- with subsequent alcoholic anger, found a safety valve from mental quality. How

pressure. They have let off steam, prices." discase, that was unmistakable. But Tshekodi is still convinced ing Indaba, or meeting, with is arousing concern.

but they have not repaired the his mother was bewitched. headmen when I arrived.

The manageress of the hotel boiler. That in the business of OWN in Atlantic City, New

Church.

Down Brighton, they are Ruth retorted: "And the

"He swore to me he would He said, as we drank tea served at Mahalapyo Town said: "The the

AN AGE of carnal licence is

age of political trying to make it illegal for a barmaid. The troops and police filtering never live in the same country as by his wife, a woman of great natives are out of hand without

foundations of woman to bo anarchy. Tha Bechuanaland from Ruth. I am now studying the dignity and charm: "I am inter- a leader. I can do nothing with always an into

the local Bartenders' Union, is Basutolandal aspects of the possiblity of ested in the discussion now being my cook these last weeks," Rhodesia and

my good sharing Bamangwato territory conducted through

Ruth, whose baby will be born ocial life are shaken at the very argument against them, put by

moment when the foundations of

too popular and friend Molema, but this is not in June, says: “Government will also be unobtrusive, I between Tshekedt and Seretse.

that they are are destroyed.... the time to talk.

100 cheap. officials who were friendly now family fo

Said the union: "Nearly 100 suppose. It will all be done

"Family pride could perhaps with exquisite courtesy and be mollined if we had a Bamang-

lost their of "I did not come here without cut me dead. But I live only for

our men have Jobs since the taverns started wato-Khama Reserve and exquisite cruelty."

a long and careful thought. My Reserve wife and I had to sleep under

hiring women." Bamangwato-Sekgoma

She showed me into her spacious, tastefully furnished lounge lit by oil lampa. A native girl came silently into the room with tea.

I then told her of moves that are being made that may

ultimately provide a happy ending

this of story.

Reconciliation?

MUCH of the trouble ori- ginated in the bitter opposition of his uncle, the tribal regeut Tshekedi, to Seretse's marriage.

Seretse."

(Blandford. "Peace of Soul"

London Express Service,

100 68.J.

BECOME OF THE

WHAT WILL

NOW? TORIES

WHA

"We

The barmaids' reply: have as much right as have men to earn a living."

WAITRESS Imogene Wright W

told a Congress committee that it would be wasting its tessex to report their tips for Others see every reason for mass of Tory votes at the insttime ordering waiters and wall- Churchill, with the income tax purposes. Said the: mixed marriages, but no reason election.

at all for the marriages i solo native chief with

white D

it

exception of Oliver "It is foolsdiness, because

involve making · over Lyttelton, seems to be the only would fighting man left on the Tory 3,000,000 tell the truth."" fundamental weak- Front Bench. He and Lyttelton

Tory Party today, are the Fighting Pair.

OFF TO WASHINGTON any

HAT has happened to Others

want to keep the woman. Socialists In office for two the Tories? The

But the years so that Mr Attlee and Socialists should command his colleagues, having

sown ness of the only a bare majority in the the wind, may reap the whirl-weakness that only time cats heal, is the division between Commons, but their position wind. grows stronger every day.

11

inithandling of The Tories

by CHARLES WINTOUR

And

foolish Toric some would like to put him out pasture.

day goes M.J. Lovell, coun- for America's shirt makers, complain about Japaneso competition. What in worrying' ho Americans is a shipment Just in from Tokyo of 1,000 Jozen white shirts. They will for Gs. 3d. in America procrastinations sell

for US, retail price down in the lowest will bring them estimation of the people. They made shirts is 21s.).

with jt will lose stature and

become of the Torles now? All these divisions

What will

difference and

lose their hopes of office.

The Tories Are equally „19336212831AN BEIPFLOUNDER DIRK STAR FIFA One the first vole of censure, divided on the case of Sercise The Liberals wish to the Socialist majority was 14, Khoma.

few days later it had risen to move a vole of censure on the 25, and on the snap division Government's forced by the Tories, the Uls sorry affair.

will not co-operate. majority had jumped to 18. Efforts are now being The trouble with the Tories

Yet they condemn the

WHAT the well-dressed Presi art that they made to bring Tshekedi and to

party

scom and con- the rich and well-born rection Liberala with

So they face a

dent wears on a fishing trip period of They have often Seretse together with the divided.

the Liberals refuse of the party and the new pro-

who have tribulation in the wilderness when he happens to be an ex- spoken of the divisions in the tumely if preliminary object of set-Liberal Party,

to co-operate with them on fessional members but their own

sprung up to challenge them, There they must learn afresh haberdasher named Harry Tru- A bright yellow silk their own votes of censure, Would You Believe/t? tling out of court the law-condition is far worse than

making politics their curcer the basic tenets of their faithman:

with brown check panels other means They must learn, too, the shirt. the Liberals suit concerning the divi-anything which

The Tories do not believe in and enjoying no experienced in this mutual

virtues of unity and the evils down the front of it, tan slack, co-operation.

support. of the have

They of

a white linen cap with a large sion of the estate

Parliament.

As Mr A. J. Cummings of dissension. only believe in unilateral co-

green peak, Inte King Khama, in- Some of them want to march operation..

revealed recently in one of his

Above all, they must learn volving cattle valued at against the Government ότι

penetrating columns of political

these men to bid farewell to fear, A DOSTPONED: Scientist Wal- every possible occasion.

Then some of the Tories are comment, some of

lace Howells's first try at Others do not want to march opposed to the practice of are even ertuelsing Churchill, party that is afraid of its future

the basis will never have more than a artificial rain-making to solve It is hoped that if Seretse at- at

mixed marriages, but they with their old warhorse,

water fortunes, whose past. (World copyright Re-New York's their

shortage. tends these negotiations they Some of them want to put to make a stand for the prin- for all

Too much of the end aggressiveness arrved-London Express Ser- The reason: Empire is oil- prestige may continue with a view to the Government out as soon ciple that the reconciling the two men,

embracing

alone collected the formidable vice).

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