WITH WICKSTEED IN THE PROMISED LAND
"I'm not here,” says Bornard Wickstood,."to talk politics- but to tell you a story which I don't think has boon told before in the language you and I understand."
TEL-AVIV.. OR two weeks now I have wandered through the State of Israel
-
there last week. I dropped oft to investigate. I was immediate ly currounded by 0 crowd uf swarthy North At, con women, all shouting at me in French.
from Dan to Beersheba, and of Inspector, and were com
from Jaffa to Jerusalem, a Jone Gentile among thum a million Jews.
more
I hitch-hiked mostly. That
is the national sport here, so I joined in, too.
They thought me some kind
ing about plaining
their Uccom modation, and having to on all stoves.
to make
When I managed
cook
myself heard, and explain that I was a stranger here myself, they wil ronred with laughter and did not seem at nil un-
It is also the best way of happy. meeting people, and what people there are to meet! In THE POLYGAMISTS
the whole history of the human race there has never been anything like thia homecoming of the Jews.
At the mil town where 1 lunched the waller told me there was a dentist who claim- ed
to be Kit of he ought
He comes from Swit Israel, zerland, says he drcent from
his
shop.
can prove his David, and has
behint surgery
cycle
THE most surprising Children I of feet pro the Yemenite Jews from Arabia, About G0,- 000 have turned up since rorl become a Stale two years ago, Inin of them with several wives,
European Jews gave up poly- gamy in the 13th century, but the news never reached Yemen.
They have now been told they can keep the wives they've got They take such minor restrie-
but mustn't do it again.
THE HỒNGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JULY 1,
"Y'all know what I'm a-fixin' to do, Miss Honey, I'm a-fixin' for kiss you, that's
ma'am
THE
wha...
THEY'RE SCARED OF A
T
HE main problem of all-governments nowa- daya (so fast do events crowd upon us) is to keep one jump ahead of trouble. For the great colonial empires the pace has be
como particularly hot.
VITA ELLIOT, MP,
who
fust returned from West Africa, reports on the cocoa colony, where prosperity might mean peril
In the Gold Const the anyway, why should anyone of "swollen shoot" hangs Government is one jump be afraid of it?!"
over the Gold Coast like "a
ahead. It is only one jump, Chocolate is what is going cloud.
but it is ahead. Nowadays, to boom; Every second Eradication is in pro- chocolate in the world 18 gress. But it will cost not
less
that means a lot.
BOOM
ATLANIC
OCEAN
than £9 milliona how,the chief goods to rise.
The immediate problem grown on the Gold Coast. in the Gold Coast is of a The world is eating it all sterling. Nor can you And the non-cucon producera very. unusual character, and asking for more... readily accelerate, produc- and they ar three-quarters This country is threatened But chocolatajdan only be tion. Atree takes five of the people are getting Into with a boom. Not with a grown in a few places in the years to bring into bear the upper and the aether will
In good ceniat position betweezi slump. With a boom. world. Even to those few ing.
clones. You will ask, "In the places discaso may como- Here is the problem in a' Particularly the towna Parija name of heaven, what is it has come, in South America nutshell--or if you will in cularly the white-collared sep- that is going to boom? And for instance. The dicaso a cocos pod. Last year and tion in the towns. And these the year before the pro-, are always the detonators of ducers receipts averaged high explosive. some £27 millions'a year.
Those events, moredivné, đo They put to reserve,
net lake place in mome hole and corner. They are right in the the Cocoa Marketing Board, mid-stage of the world. millions of pounds more- There are plenty of spectators £10 to £15 millions at the
--not all of them friendly. You minimum. That was three in exhortations to what 39
ran rend In Pravda any mor times as much na they were called the liberation
move- getting in a good year be- ments" in any part of the world-except, of course, in to fore the war.
Soviet Union.
Turbulent Duchess
sleeps in silk again
CHARLES FOLEY
the
given
*
-flies to Madrid to tell the story which Spain can find peace The duraes, invited to address much higher?
of another Front
MADRID.
they tize in her Madrid, flut.
Page Woman
A jackdaw dew in from the next room and perched upon her is
the gentleman."
houlder. "Say buenos dias' to The jackdaw curtly acknowledged me.
luxuriously because she not back in her narrow gaol bird'a bed.
hope that some
has
Perhaps to avoid any demo stration, turned
the
audience was
in
will go yet.
versation the evening before
I was going through a schobi of domestic science in Accra BUT this year the world when I suddenly taw a now
price of cocon is double and elaborate.eyirle cooker what it was last year, and not yet connected up. Outside, "Go on? Of course I tary of State. It asked him to
girl was baking most appetis- Ing mall cakes in a littls in shall go on.
Until the lung withhold the dullarald which hard as iron at that.
Franco so desperately needs. Naturally the producer in oven with wood timbers below is once more on the throne.
looking for a higher return and wood embers above, Seven That is the only way in
minutes, wBS
An undue amount of produk- But how tive power in rping into the prosecution's speech, correspondingly.
enormously, remunerative cocoa and truth."
the court. murmured that she Man does not live by crop. As the price; risks, more really had nothing to say. There chocolate alone; and man
neither examination ΠΟΥ
on the Gold Coast is no ex- was cross-examination.
ception to this rule. There: are all the other economic MY mind went. blick to a cons out into the blazing activities of a.big country with a big engineer, out to ro penance: C
declalons were to key in with this sudden port upon the proposed Volla pronounced: CASE DISMISSED heavy new pull of the cocoa- "Oh, yes, it can be done,"
River hydro-electric schema.
cald. "Italf h million, throw Jarnes Drake, scion
There are also the political quarters of a millon, horst- Anglo-Spanish sherry forally, dengers-the torry of the State power, It may be a long time nccused with her, was gaoled suddenly accelerating
the Volta River" heats might before fur six months, and Bernardosild on the red mud that makes the cooking pots of acer But Bernaldez, a 60-year-old ́'econo- (the cocos,
here 100 the Government must ist, was guoled for 18 months.
This is to imaginary peril. it keep one Jump ahead, Diesel happened, only two years ago, engines can be bought and are And now? when there were riots, blood being bought for Accm now. But shed and looting. Nationallem they require Inbour to erect and alone in forinidable force, skilled men to end. All there Nationalism and high prices, people are squeezed-possibly nationalism and juftation are squeezed oul—if prices rise,
"It will require a great effort high explosive.
of organisation, a a great effort of mutual understanding between
Na cream silk shirt and red slacks, her Titian gold hair vivid in the
She will read late-poetry low of lustres, the Duchess or economics--and she will comes when I call. I will not "I have also, a tortoise which of Valencia, Franco's public
fell you is naine. It would he enemy number one, received the gendarme at the corner
time when courteous to the regime,"
Thic Maria Luisa laughed. A few hours earlier she men will serenade her.
moved along, young Joke, as usual, was on Franco.
Now 1 can understand why Don Juan, had faced eight years' Im-
whose portrait "To celebrate my release.”
in displayed When the Temple was rebuilt prisonment for
the duchess's "They al- magnificent apartment, declared
to his, all exiled Jews were bidden to
And then, I to exiled court: "There's
woman for you. II we'd a of her need a holiday. I shall go z men in Spaln to any palace at Avila to calibre 1 shoud be back in fatten up.
Madrid tomorrow." "Look," she extended д slim white
"This
11013 chcerfully because 11: reported that he has believe their return to Israel
in of 25 centuries; offered to renounce his claim if wipes out the Government will make his age, Ten-year-old on prime Kent.
re-
treason.
11 Jerusalem, about 500 B.C.Her case had been tossed she said gaily.
When I knocked at the door retara.
The Yemenites inor-out by a military tribunal ways do it. It was opened by the prince in ed the appeal and they believe of three generals. But the
Ile said the king was person.
all their saba quent troubles turbulent duchess had spent and when out.
he learned I are retribution for this. wanted an interview and not a
When the State of Israel was 49 days of harsh Imprison- crown-Olling he Fald
they ment before the trial. proclamen two years ago bye and shut the door,
sting to be left out is time.
ROUND WORLD
(VERYWHERE there
EVERYW
it.
and an
thence to
there
eirht
I
and
profond, weh-
granized 20!1
11
on across
airprise them a
and attendants ¦
son."
arm.
I put the About the future?" smiled.
was a sur-
Her disdain
Before me 15 #
"The trial prise." she said. "After all-room. that preparation they had to let me go. I'll tell you why they're afraid of inc.
"When I was
arrested
THE PRÚSECUTOR com plained of the ulter contempl hawn by her excellency for the nevolence of the regime to wards her grace's mumy
for lack of evidence.
ཟླུམ
growers.
of ori
TN the gilded anlons of Madrid they are discussing what the sluchers will do next.
"Frankly," I was told, "che
make us feel uncomfortable, She
ofcial
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Kovernment."
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he
Harerved--
1 is a great challenge.
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were determined they were not Would she, I wondered, bracelet. I used to wear on With one secord they left their cry quits in her seven-year my wrist; and now it goes THE duchess scons subterfuge, villages and mud-walled towns battle against the man who above the elbow..
20-page is become the keeper of our WHAT started the trouble? administrators and peasant far- mera, between government I lost, analysis of Franco's fallure contelence. Maria Lusa carries You will turn a rueful smile eflents and the Intelligent 17 trekked weg end
the has, in her opinion, usurped 251, in that wretched pri, on every page, in purple ink, is straight through the aristocrate when I tell you. What touched, these troubles are to be averted. people with a story to fell desert.
power in Spain? Would she
strawled tic Ligature La principle of doing what you off was quite simply a hours; it will also require, vigèrous and most of them glad to tell Hundreds died on that march, give up her long fight, al-
Duquesa de Valencia." question,
think right regardless of the wives' strike. but lady they pressed on. most single-handed, to bring
Of coure in Spain a string of rete. Now, all ure nobility want What and started that? Again In this
the people will re- She properties and tiles still come the king back, but really, don't the old story-high prices, There Was the Young man bil when they reached Aden back her hero, Dua Juan, as
to take a most active mand respect. The trial might with his hat on the side of his
you know.......
There are more goods today. part. The now constitution head
found brother Jews had King of Spain?
conducted in a draw- been
But the houswives reaction arising out of the all-African I asked Franco air-lift for them, trimmed beard, who stood with teens they always knew they
remains Slim beauty
the saing. The goods Coursey Report, throws almost THE PROSECUTOR reproach- whether the duchess would be me on the rad waiting for a wond retura to
are too dear. If double the the whole responsibility for In Iract un the
ed the hitch-hike to uita.
the duchess for "damaging allowed now to travel abroad.
into is poured
Die managing Gold Coast affairs on back of an raple.
HALF expected to meet a
the prestige of the authorities." He thought not.
"Unless, of money
legislature. These Eleven years ago he was a I visited one of their camps tedious fanatic, one who
THE PRISONER, elegent in a course," he said wistfully, she ackets of the cocoa producers, an elected
goods will get still dester. boy at the rabtanical college in near Tel-Aviv,
are some of the problems it will setting suit of palest grey, undertook to give up political
Previously, of course, it was Poland.
have to face. When the Russians to me that when they arrived rejoicés hi persecution, the
Toukend disdainful.
netivity for ever and never to
imporlett goods which were too came he escaped to Lithuania, they
did not
know ordinary more public the better. Don Juan protested.. the
return to. Spain".
dear, But home-produced goods thenes shipped 10 Curcio, ways of washing, or how
That would explain the Vatican protested, The
foodstuffs in particular-are Shanghai, and from ven on beds. They er 17
11 to Japan.
It took him stand under the shower in all duchess's campaign to drive Council of Grandees-the years, and
Journey their clothes and then sit
the in
entrenched dictator great noblemen of Spain reach the sum to dry.
from his capital with leaflet are with me now. They fractions"
their and sent Count Guuqui, raids
teashops cinemas, with student secretary-general, to watch agreement. immigrants' camp on
strikes, and "Down with the trial" wire. The refugee boy had the const
Franco" posters. I was shown into a man, was hed ut occupied hy a family Af But Maria Luisa, Sb- held high and chest out.
DŽIA dworks from Hungary, year-old Duchess of Valen- MARIA LUISA has spent Hot They used to make a vint
Nein, Marquisa de Cartago, much of the £1,000,000 fars. Now
shut Countess of Canada Afta, left in her mother's will on hurry, they themselves up and so on, is a slim, grace- fighting to bring Don Juan at his watch-or
holding in impatient reproof to in their hatful beauty, a woman who back from Estoril.
The "p
rouzet he .prosecutor pro- enjoys the pleasant things party she has formed and tested that the duchess hat leads is the spearhead of all "sought the tupport of people look at of life. then without And in satin pyjamas bo. monarchist groups in Spain. outside pain."
This, soms to have referred paying.
tween coroneted sheets, Others work and plan. She to a letter from 175 monarchists landed they Maria Luisa will wrigglo acts.
to Dean Acheson, U.S. Secre- musicians from Yugoslavia. wanted the camp doctors to a pay for medically examining them. As paying customers of one camp run out they apply for transfer to another.
As most Immigrants
round the
Teraet.
worki
There was now no need ไป NINE DWARFS
speak across borders, plead for
vians, or pine belund barbed
• Crown.
le hud
heard of them since that night
His family?
he said gond-bye.
and cros
the border with his teacher and classmates,
PIANO VILLAGE
STOPPED
village
at an ex-Arab
near Jerusalem that
Tan
naw propted entirely by When
Every one of them brought grand plano with him.
are making alving raising chickens and tending
They
alive trees.
they
Anl would 7012 Ict any- Jone
are
When I called they were be- encouraged to work on the land ing given a Government issue they will probably be given
of
Fosts-one goat
tamily.
The musi-
cians lined one
of the tlic
Eldo road and
Koats the other and As their names
were
dicked off they
were
handed
A
farm somewhere.
OLDEST TAXI-MAN
each teeny-weeny' to
O there
011
She acts
PRISONER
cilled
Oficially the duchess W113 accused this time-she has been twice
fice in prison, once in a labour
where she
won Com Camp of anti-France propaganda. munit converts to Don Juan-
The court was h & tearing With the president look-
The islands of the
white goddesses
SYDNEY. OCTORS and scientists
D will shortly tell
of a
race of unusually beautiful,
by ... HAROLD DALE
the road to Beersheba
1s co-operativel
2 farin run almost entirely by Indian Jews.
The day I called the man injalmost white, women who classic
Indian from the
Civli Ser
their goat on the end of a rope. vice, and the elderly Indian
adininistration
re-
white
features
of sarong
but
this
it
WHO
WAS
MY
MOTHER? Think hard before
you let a child grow up to ask this question
"Mino Lan't directly a marriage problem, though in the long run what I do.now about it may make or mar a future marriage i admit I have been very wrong. for I now have a baby a few weeks old. I have gol to decide whether to keep him, or let him be adopted. Is adoption my wort
mate.
The slur that such a child so
-Says
CANON HUGH
WARNER
*
measure duo
*
*
he knows
there is one, there must be thousands of young mothers
ilke you facing the kind of loneliness which you describe. The very fact that you are liv- Ing in a "sprung-up" district probably means that there is little community life which you can join,
or
with
brothers or sisters? Isn't it just possible that I might meet one I am surprised at the num- and fall in love, und never ber of people I come across who have never heard of the WOU are right to feel know?
He may
feel hedged round mothers' and babies' cluba uneasy about the adop with uncertainties which leave young wives groups which are tion of your child, for there him feeling very insecure. being run in connection is no ideal solution to a
the churches, problem like this. The child
Wherever you live, you are If you decide to keep your in He Aled
equatorial is always the one to be the
some parish OF church paradise at the outbreak of the innocent sufferer if illegiti- child, he will ut least have, on district. There you will find is
ono sido uncles, aunts, and rule, a very happy community 1014-18 war.
Grandparents whom His large, two-storeyed, Vic-
life. Why not get hold of th torian mansion stands in lavish
belong to him.
And lo will
aren? of Egyptians. centre of a blue lagoon sur life, for something which by no him so much as to keep him.
gardens on a small Island in the unjustly had upon him all hin always feel that he "hel Getails of such clubs in your
He will know his mother. charge was a young stenographer live on tiny Pacific islands The girls wear only a short rounded by a coral reef. It stretch of imagination could be
They meet once a week as a While it is true that some of rule. where their days are spent
There will be someone homespun shows no signs of decay outside, considered to be his fault,
in the very finest people started who will be standing by to look Inside is a crumbling rain. reldom met with in these more life with the handicap of illegitis after the babies and toddlerz I followed one man to his helping him said, proudly, that being waited on hand and cloth.
They are believed to be su The islanders, superstillous, enlightened days. It is not thi where he tied the goat he was the oldest taxi-driver in foot by men.
vivors of a pure Micronesian shun t
which is the cause of his suffer-y, yet the very excellence of Tea and biscuits will bo on the place as haunted, untainted It is a race of human beings strala,
by contact One of the islands once sup-ing today,
their character was in no small From time to time and the with other native races.
to the fact, that have
talks about that faces extinction,
children's Nobody ported 60 inhabitants. They live lives
of extrema ves on it now. Austrailen
If you keep him, he will be they refused to let the circupi ailments, catering for the family. sponsible for the islands sent a languor. Industry and art are
And the population of three brought up without the very stances of their birth get thêm how to answer children's ques mission to discover the reasons non-existent.
other Islands has dropped from important influence that a father down.
tions, keep fit, clases, leaching
for tho
aro exceptional children their prayers, travels population dwindling. But there is death In this 2,000, to approximately 800 since brings to bear on his emotional Nrcumstances which make adop- taiks, the drt of the cinema, and SK any of the men working
The most amazing
Scaa islands belong to the South
century. development. If, of course, you on the right coume in general so on. paradise, where the beginning of the on the roads or laying i aight in the Promised Land is Hermit group of atolls 300 miles tuberculosis, malaria, inbreed- Largest of the Hermit Isles is eventually decide to marry his lon rigation pipes what they were the weekly spontaneous Sabbath north-west of the Admiralty ing, and dilet deletency are Lut, which is only four miles in father, and if you and his father the child's own future happiness
would point
now friends, the other way. You will mako doing before and they will tell parade on Tel Aviv seafront. Isles off New Guinea.
gradually wiping out the length.
were free to marry at the time you that 18 months ago they Thousands of young Jews turn They are far from shipping population.
In only the respect is the in-of his birth, then he becomes And I am sure you Want to As you come to know them, you make your decision with his can arrange your own situng-` Measures to check this de fuence of shoe-makers, boructs, out in their Saturday best and tracks; even the last war left
women not pre legitimate.
(not merely
each other. Indeed and tailors
you happiness in. with in Turkey, Tripoll, march up and down in a stp them unmolested in the Japanese cine will be proposed by the dominant and that
The day has gone when a giri ls willpre
there is no end to what these in view. or Bucharest,
There invasion.
such circum.. under spiritual exaltation,
most the Salander's
treasured married
groups could do. They are one There are enough barbers 10 they
the walk-black, yellow,
to "give
I'm bored The
What they eat mission. comprising Teraci
of the possession la concerned. That stances merely
most significant things. to cut
everyone's hair brown, ginger, and blond
a name." child
All marriage doctor, a
is his canoe. pathologist,
happening in the country today, twice daily and enough tallors
genuine Exploitation of the islands or Women are not allowed to must be founded on
for they set out to help the to make everyone a new suit A young Jew who came from anthropologist and an agricul-
tural
mysterious inhabitants: enter expert, discovered that the their
the enclosure where a respect and love.
young mother. every week.
Bagdad only a few days before
If, on the other hand, ho is of these istonds aro Now they
will be rigidly prevented, off- cance is being bullt. They may arc navvies and at beside me on a bench look-women
cials say.
not board a canoe at the parade
as goddesses.
making its adopted, he may well have to trented Dni said: But
say that all those "In't it all wonderful?
Boys spend hours brushing These
The Islanders live on fish and Arst trip. They are excluded face for deeper dimeuities:-
Where did 7 come from? waist-long the roots of a type of lily plant altogether from the large What sort of person was my and combing their people I spoke to seemed con- are the days of the Messiah."
known as swamp. tare. hale, which is not crinkly as in tent It is their wives' who.
They going types of canoe, little rice and But in all elso the other Pacific islands, but wavy, nisa cultivate a
men of mother? Why did, who want to tmble.
reports the mission.
introduced at the these uitle-known lelands idolize geld of me? Who am I? coconuts,
The Shall I perhaps meet, my mother These women have the superb turn of the century by a Ger the women.
und nevar know.It?,'. Have I any; (London Express (Hervida) figures of Balinese and the man tæder named Wählen..
heuse, to a lag of the piano and look- Bombay. <d it over
as if wondering In a Jerusalem cafe I met a whether to milk it or eat a Chinese Jewess. Her father fled from Russia during the revolu- tion, sctiled in Shanghat. und married a Chinese girl.
I think
OH, THE WOMEN
WCTO
fartners.
Seeing yillage of brand-new prefabs, Which the driver. glv- ing me a Uft said- was not
of
the
NEXT WEEK;
I call in on a kibbutz
~LAMION. ZIENČNI.SEVULDA)
mission
д
?
While there
* At inat too de pat a'pre-job. ti semen prona to, begin, with, as th had been a real job_to_Reep the baby, quiet` · while we were, living in my
Then as your children grow "parents" hobia, Bryusband a
And the ready- up, they will out all day, and after I clean
made Church community, Cin up the home and the : babatu z sleeping soundry of the afternoon whose life father, mother, boys Land Furngering, to do and I dej. and girls will all be able to borst, ali And, I'm afraid I share. take 16 of of: mariusbank, Can. vou help? a gay squ
-(London Express. Bervice)
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