The Bermuda Recorder

              wednesday february so ibs ' - page fottf the bermuda records soviet-egyptian south africa jolted scottish yard states try to hold color line *_ nigerian launch dixie legislatures act to gaps propaganda violence flares in flagship bus boycott plug segregation a scottish shipbuilding firm who have built more than 500 shallow draught vessels for rivers all over the world were launching the 325-ton tunnel steamer valiant this month for the nigerian government by james thomson atlanta — the legisla tures of the deep south are either in session now or will be by spring nearly all in some measure are preoccupied again with the segregation issue for the most part the agenda involves plugging any holes in the legal dikes against integrated schools or curbing operations of the natidnal association for the advance ment of colored people or both as is the case in several deep south states virginia's massive resistance program involves also a pupil assign ment act whieh a federal dis trict judge recently termed unconstitutional on its face the assignment act delegates authority to a three-man board appointed by the gov ernor rather than to local school boards the outstanding feature of the speech mr shepilov made to the supreme soviet on tuesday february 12th was not that it contained anything new — apart perhaps from the proposal that the four powers should ban all arms deliveries to the middle east — but that it followed a familiar pattern not merely of soviet but also of egyptian propaganda in fact a comparison of cairo broadcasts over the past few weeks and of the soviet foreign minister's speech shows a similarity in tone and in substance which is so re markable that it could nut possibly be accidental and to a considerable extent the damascus press and radio have also become virtual mouth pieces of communist propa an area stripped of all bases except of course the sovi.t bases along the northern fringe — and wide open to so viet political and economic penetration cairo and damas cus continue to give mr shepilov full support by vici ous attacks on those countries principally irak and turkey which are foolish enough not to believe the rus sians one wonders however whether the same treatment will be meted out to king sand for renewing the lease of the american air base at da h ran by john hughes cape town a mass boy cott of buses by 60,000 afri cans erupted in violence re cently when police in pretoria opened fire on a meeting of boycotters and charged them with batons twenty africans received medical treatment after this action which fol lowed announcement of the south african government's determination to smash the boycott times absent even this rela tively insignificant drop in efficiency and numbers of the unskilled labor pool has how ever wrought considerable dis ruption in indiistry and com merce she will be the flagship of the governor of nigeria and was being christened by mrs mhu wife of the nigerian commissioner to the united kingdom when the firm yarrow and company of seotstoun glas gow built a stern-wheeler for burma long ago the king was so delighted that he used to take the safety valve and steering wheel away with him to prevent unofficial use by his court about the same time they built and dismantled the ala in britain and re-assem bled her on lake nyasa to ful fil the wishes of david living stone and help put down the slave trade their vessels have sailed in africa south america burma china india australia and new zealand while their other ships — fast destroyers or tugs — are in use with the royal navy the consequent concern on the part of employers has driven home to africans the utter dependency of whites upon african labor and the possibilities to whieh this fac tor might be employed meanwhile the tennessee legislature late in january approved a no compulsion or voluntary program of gov frank g clement which in substance leaves entirely up to local communities what they do in respect to desegre gation the tennessee supreme court recently held all the state's segregation laws on constitutional since the supreme court decision may 17 1954 these states have adopted more than a hundred laws intended to hold the color line or to delay amy dent for as long as possi ble the end of the legal patching seems not yet in sightj once more policemen con founded observers by ignoring such orthodox crowd-dispersal measures as tear gas in favofr of firearms including auto matic sten guns the display of which is considered highly provocative in this tense situa africans under south afri can laws are prohited from striking but the boycott is one avenue of protest as yet unre stricted by law there is already african talk of exert ing further pressure upon whites by boycotting railways and so forth even in egypt and syria in fact the same sort of double standard is apparent as in the verdict passed by many countries on the soviet oppression in hungary and the israeli resistance to colonel nasser this double standard is strikingly clear in two in terviews which the egyptian president gave last december in the first with the italian paper ii tempo colonel nasser was at great pains to uuderline that egypt's posi tion between east and west is that of a neutral country but in his second interview with a group of soviet jour nalists the stress was not on found gratitude to the soviet people tor tlie help given to the people of egypt . . in their struggle tion jrh^nu-_-tv^re-tsta_rce^o the legal front by the bloc of a half dozen unyielding states poses the prospect of literally thousands of indivi dual suits and a situation which some southern officials say can be litigated inde finitely i ganda until the recent police action the boycott had remained non violent in character in in land where gandhi tested and developed passive resistance key to the whole clement package is that it auhtorized local school boards to assign students permit transfer ont of school districts and operate schools jointly with other school districts take for example the main themes raised time and again by moscow these were com bined for the first tim by mr shepilov in one comprehensive statement of policy f***_st there was the attack o n the eisen hower doctrine as an attempt by american imperialists to fill the gap that has allegedly been left by britain and france that famous egyp tian publicist anwar sadat took up the same theme in an open letter to mr dulles re cently in which he said all your dollars mr dulles your planes your tanks and your fleets will not affect gamal abdul nasser in the least — if you insist on knocking your head against this rock abdul nasser you will gain nothing but hatred frustration an_d bitterness and i n damascus the daily al goumhouriya dis cussed the eisenhower plan as another link in the chain of im perialist conspiracies the government charges that the african national congress is deliberately exploiting tlie boycott for political ends and intimidating some africans who would use the buses if left to themselves accordingly transport minister ben schoe man has issued a virtual dec laration of war against the boycotters and declared he will smash the boycott the stubborn and persistent boycott by africans of buses in johannesburg and pretoria has brought the bus system in volved to a virtual standstill propelled by twin screws working in tunnels a system which solves many problems connected with using large pro pellers i n shallow water thc valiant will be powered by triple expansion steam engines and will have a speed of nine knots oddly enough naacp op posed the package as seeking to evade desegregation where as prosegregation organisa tions opposed it as permitting integration among these states it ap pears the first direct challenge or test will come in virginia which formulated its resist ance strategy only last fall this is due to the fact that ths fourth circuit court of ap peals has upheld unanimously district court decisions order ing desegregation of schools in arlington and charlottes ville political overtones an unfortunate aspect of the affair is that a boycott move ment which owed its origin to economic factors — an increase in fares which africans con sidered beyond their restricted means — is now assuming po litical overtones and is becom ing a symbol of the clash be tween african citizens and the white government in this country he is clamping down pirate transporters carrying the workers to and from work urging white sympathizers to desist giving lifts to africans and pressuring commerce and industry to slice wages of ab sentees and latecomers school fundi involved she is 135 feet 41 m long is designed to carry 56 tons at a draught of only 4 ft 3 inches 1.2 m and has a large amount of aluminium alloy in her fittings and structure to save weight in this respect she resembles the itu built by yarrows for elder demp ster and well-known in ni gerian waters pupil assignment laws in north carolina and florida vest authority in local boards these states have avoided fund-withholding laws al though north carolina's so called local option program permits state tuition grants for students to attend private schools in communities which vote to abolish public schools the clearest exposure of coloniel nasser's dual per sonality was given by a leb anese paper al aiual which asked to which language the arabs were to listen ... to the voice of the cairo broad easts which clothe the hated chauvinism with the attire of courage or to the voice of a responsible minister who em ploys the diplomatic tone another lebanese journalist pointed to the extreme dau ger of such a policy does abdul nasser sufficiently realise the consequences of his activities in the arab states does he know where the vari ous national fronts estab lished on instructions from places far away from the arab countries are leading him a stay has been granted for an appeal to the supreme court but in any event it would seem that these cases will have been disposed of by next september or the start of another school year summoned from johannes burgh to capt town for dis cussions with mr schoeman an emergency committee repre senting commerce industry and the johannesburg city council has called upon boy cotters to desist from their in itself the boycott is alone remarkable rather than ride the buses thousands of afri cans some tattered and bare footed are walking nine dusty miles to work and nine miles home again in the heat of south africa's midsummer sun accommodation for the gov ernor and staff is on the upper deck special attention has been given to the requirements of the service and scheme of decoration the governor's suite is at the forward end of deck and comprises a lounge double bedroom dressing room and bathroom alabama voters last year approved a freedom of choice amendment to tim state constitution and en abling legislation is being drafted for a session of the legislature convening may 7 the amendment permits abolition of the school sys tem in any county where ten sion and strife should become acute and authorizes the legislature to set np a system of all-white all-negro or racially mixed schools only about 7 per cent of tyrlington county's population is negro and school officials appeared ready ot start de segregation last fail then came the legislative package which among other things withholds state funds from any district or county permit ting integration in char lottesville seat of the univer sity of virginia there are about 23,000 whites and 5,000 negroes action these have been by no means isolated voices in egypt and syria but they are certainly typical of the campaign of abuse that was lauched even before details of the eisen hower plan could possibly have been known arising out of this comes the second theme to whieh both mr shepilov and the propagandists of cairo and damascus devote a great deal of impassioned attention the allegation that the united states like britain and france before her plans to establish enough military bases in the middle east to dominate the arab world this particular theme reached its ludicrous climax of course during the anglo - french intervention when according to an egyp tian contributor to izvestia egypt was only saved by the soviet to send volun teers then says this egyp tian author our thoughts were filled with beloved names — voroshilov khrushchev bulganin but boycott leaders appear to be digging in determined to extend their activity an indi cation of how costly this can be is the more than 2,000 weekly loss whieh the bus company involved public utility transport corporation is experiencing through loss of trade but in its implications the boycott is fajr more significant for from it africans have learned of a powerful new weapon they have found by the simple expedient of with " drawing their own productive labor power they can exert considerable pressure upon the country's white - controlled economy new vigor i ml min and unable to enjoy tbe physical pleasures of life aa frequently as in your prime if so just go to your chemist today and ask for vi-tabs this new medical discovery works fast to stimulate your glands and body so that you feel younger stronger and eager for physical ac tivity at all times don't give up and be old before your time jet vi tabs at your chemist today peel younger tomorrow complete satisfaction or money back guaranteed the increase against which africans are protesting amounts only to two pennies a day on the round trip from the african townships of alex andra moroka and sophia town though this may appear insignificant to americans or britons it represents a goodly sum to some africans earning wretchedly low wages vital role noted clement plan backed the answer is probably not but there are increasing signs that elsewhere through out the arab world the dan gers of colonel nasser's con tinued drift towards moscow are being appreciated this partial shutoff of labor which is now taking place has come about through the bus boycott — apparently uninten tionally after the long walk to work african laborersr are often tired and late and somc by contract negroes out number whites in prince edward county where origin ated one of the five cases de cided by the supreme court in its historic 1954 decision only recently taking local conditions into consideration district judge sterling hutch eson rejected a motion by naacp to set a time for start of desegregation there special grants slated legislation also is being readied by senator ibert bountwell a prosegregation leader requiring students seeking entrance to state uni versities in alabama to present recommendations from gradu ates plus affidavits as to character this is patterned after similar laws in a few ct 1 advertise in the bermuda recordec-it pays stop backache and rheumatism egypt soviet plot in africa charged the deep south states which thus far have kept state-sup ported white universities closed to negroes wrong foods and drinks worry over work frequent colds and germs often put a strain on tbe kidneys and bladde and cause strong cloudy acid urine getting up nights burning passages leg pains nervousnsss dizziness swollen ankles rheumatism pufff eyelids and feeling old before youi time help your kidneys purify youi blood with cystex the very first dosl tarts helping your kidneys clean oui acids and germs quickly you feel uki new under the money back guaran te cystex must satisfy completely ol cost nothing get cystex from youi '• _#>_ _, chemist to •% cystex *" ■ i kl-aayt elite lie a continued from page 1 " south carolina rather early in the resistance movement amended its constitution to permit closing its public schools as a last resort to maintain segregation new proposed legislation would provide tuition grants for students of schools closed dur ing the litigation that moscow cairo and damascus should now be pur suing the same line towards the eisenhower doctrine is not surprising mr shepilov threatened that soviet atomic weapons might have to be used in the middleeast he made it abundantly clear what kind of middleeast he had in mind weapons are distributed to moslems in libya for local use or transfer across the borders to tunisia and algeria to rebel that is one reason why emperor haile selassie re cently turned dow n an invita tion to visit col nasser if it is j . . .- :■ '_■'■;.-—« t ». a in somalia an italian trus teeship under the u.n and in the british and french somali land areas the cairo radio is reported to have been making an effective campaign for the last eighteen months to whip up the moslems moreover 250 young agitprops have been brought to egypt to study and undergo indoctrination at egyptian expense the league of somali youth is said to be financed mainly by egypt its object is to create a united free somaliland haile selassie is also upset because it was understood egypt is propagandizing eri trea the former italian colony which under a u.n vote in 1950 was to be federated with ethiophia the separatist line pushed by cairo would if suc cessful cut off ethiopia from the red sea and hurt its economy in eritrea the egyptans are known to be operating a re ligious mission and eritrean students are sent up to cairo for favored treatment at the university printing job wc can satisfy you as under present law the proposed legislation would cilose integrated schools imme diately the governor could reopen a school upon de _ termining it would not jeopar *■ dize the peace or be objec tionable to parents and stof dents and if he should find s — —- ."*".«.-■ ■£&$ if you want science reports special tablet magazines booklets pamphlets relieves hot rashes irritability from change-of-life calendars billheads letterheads school could not be re-opened train kenya students wedding invitations envelopes he would have the power to for most women tested encourage revolt in zanzibar reorganize it in kenya 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lawsuits in which they have no direct the union printer y in florida the administration of gov leroy collins is try ing to hold the line against new segregation legislation indications ate this also will be the objective of gov luther h hodges in north carolina interest the pattern is similar in ni geria where thefre are 15,000 000 moslems out of 31,000,000 inhabitants and in independ ent liberia a rubber-rich gountry of 2,700,000 people printers and publishers of the bermuda recorder court street hamilton