The Bermuda Recorder

              page six the bermuda recorder saturday march 25 1961 new l.s grant aids nigerian projects calling the caribbean tshombe defends foreigners , role reds press drive to win africans notes on programmes in tho bbc's caribbean service for week beginning march 26 1961 lagos nigeria march lo of planting and tie necessity for refinement a n d touches on the produetiini ot beet sugar iu england the weal indies loyalties and vital in terests are in the ( oiuiuon wealth niarkri whieh is regu lated by t he ( ommoiiwealt 1 sugar agieejnenl and th sugar act ot ll'-'iti ( 4 the on - million t mis produced anna ally britain herself buy nearly to these and other aspects of the industry will be jdncussed by expert whom edward scobie ban in terviewed for the programme and there will be musical ill ustrations iu t h e ealvpsos of the eanebreaks — the cnited states gov ernment is lo make a new grant of 7.g.">4,(hk to nigeria to finance development pro jects according to the ameri can embassy here west finds campaign has been stepped up sharply since first of year noniic offers is making its in roads in other ways the chin ese have been concentrating on establishing firm links to africa mainly by encouraging african delegations to visit and by sending missions to africa during a recent eigh teen-month period eighty-fou delegations from africa went to the chinese mainland a.i harbours no illusions about belgians but sees chaos without alien experts pies toward the white man as do some of my congolese col leagues mr tshombe said independences i have known before we went to tanana rive they wanted to drive all the whites out of the congo 1 told them it was madness the funds will be made available through the ijitcrna tional cooperation adminis tratis projects in xigeria receiving united states assist ance are co-operative under takings to which the nigerian government also makes a con tribution of funds services and facilities this woidd be a lilting title for the memoirs of frank l'll grini ihe west indian news united nations n.y march lb — the communist eoiintries arc using radio pro gi amines in swahili soccer t ams and mobile movie units in a steppfd-up campaign to win friends in africa busabethvillr the congo march 21 — mosbs tshombe the fast-rising poli tical star in the congo has one major liability that so far has overshadowed his qual ties he is regarded interna tionally as a belgian puppet ' mr tshombe's mention ol tananarive referred to a re cent meeting of congolese leaders in the malagasy re public at which they agreed to set up ■ confederation of congolese states and drop the idea of a strong central gov papcrman he finds that 1961 has given him a very special contemporary slalus — he ia a connoisseur ol independent celebrations in calling th caribbean ' on monday march 27 he will talk about the ex periences of a reporter who is blown from country o country over thousands of miles iu an exhausting etl'or to cover the political ad vancement of nation after na tion iu what is now being established as africa year guests were feted and in many instances received by mao tsetung and other top leaders according to data collected in a number of western capi tals the campaign has been intensified markedly since the beginning of the year that widely held colicepi has seriously harmed the ka tanga president in the united nations where the belgians have been condemned by a large sector of african and asian opinion of the 7.(i54,000 all but 1,000,000 is to come from the international cooperation ad ministration's special pro gramme for tropical africa and will be used to pay the costs of training buildings and ctpiipment for education and training projects in ni the quality of the political pamphlets and other material shipped from china to africa is regarded by western spe cialists as superior in many ways to the propaganda ma terial offered by moscow some experts feel it is mor2 likely to appeal to the afri cans defending katanga's use of i rnmeiit the story of a strike foreign advisers mr tshombe said : l a jeffrey w h a conies from georgetown british guiana taught at a high school in his native country he is now a shop steward in england his union the amal gamated engineering union the factory produces re frigerators and not very long ago the a.e.u started a strike there which lasted for several weeks it began says mr jeffrey over what seem ed to be a small matter ami although the ending was al most as sudden production came to a standstill and 1.200 men were idle on wednes day march b in calling the caribbean mr leffrev will talk about the strike in the light of his twelve months work as a shop steward and will discuss the way in which attitudes — both among work ers ami management — were seen to change as the strike western experts find thai although the main impetus continues to come from mos cow the soviet union is leav ing it to other communist states to make most of the overtures toward the african this stems apparently fro.-i the idea that the africans might question the motives behind moscow's expanded economic and political in terests in africa but they are less likely to suspect offeis from czechoslovakia poland or east ierinany 1 have the only disciplined army in the congo today and the only effective administra tion why 1 because i have foreign experts without tat t igners katanga would col lapse into the same chaos as you see in kivu or oriental eastern | province mr tshombe has relied ou 100 to 200 belgian south afri can rhodesian aiid french military advisers in his 5,000 man gendarmerie anil about two dozen belgians in policy advisory — not policy-making — jobs in the government of secessionist katanga province subject to letailetl ne\'ot : . at ions between the two gov ernments f'ontcmplatct pro jects under this programme include additional assistance to the university ol nigeria at nsukka assistance in the fields of training t cachet agricultural education geria he attended five celebra tions which he says is aboul all that was humanly possible in the period and each had its own distinctive character he will describe four be ginning with the new came roon republic ami moving from there to togo nigeria ami mauretania it is a talk which will sketch for listen ers the less solemn background of each occasion and present some amusing reflections on accommodation food and drink the under — and over rehearsal of different cere monies the variety and in genuity of official decorations the kind of weather that pre vailed and even — in mau retania — the journalists re eeption of a very unusual kift there was nothing mono tonous says frank pilgrim about his arduous journeys and he is in good condition for his next independence as signim-nt — sierra leone iu april but for him personally the one to end them all will bt the independence of his own islands in the seas the chinese are able to make the most of certain t innies for instance they like the africans are non whites their country is an accepted member of the asia.i and african countries that have hatl to will out against colonial masters they were at the 1955 conference at bandnng indonesia which remains a major landmark in the political development of the african countries mr tshombe has recently deprived union miniere tin ilaut katanga the belgian controlled milling concern of some of its huge mineral-re serve lands that hatl not been exploited he is constantly increasing his province's con trol over the vast minerals suffered discrimination i have known the belgians all my life and i have no illu sions about them mr tshom be said in a lengthy personal interview my father was one of the richest congolese mer chants and we always suffer ed discrimination from the belgian authorities whenever we competed with the whites tension and demonstration ; kelp with public atlministr.-i tion at local government lev x according to v aa tern sources here the current cam paign to win african sympa thies parallels the vigorous economic drive being con ducted in many of the newh independent states by the so viet bloc and communis the other 1,000,000 h been earmarked for training assistance in connection with industrial development a n 1 for demonstration of low-cost housing for low income fami lies empire union miniere still pays ka tanga at least $<;<).( if 0 10 yearly for lining lights al though the exact figures are a closely guarded secret ob servers here say that it is mr these are th lines that run through the printed material flowing into the african countries from communist china ami these are the themes utilized effectively bv when i went into politics i became one of eight congolese chosen in 1951 to serve on the governor general's advisory council he added i saw the administration of the congo from first hand and how even the belgians could not run the congo properly from ix-o poldville i met every congo lese political figure and 1 learned how to fight the bel gians effectively china peiping encourages visits peiping lacking the re sources to match soviet eco tshombe who runs union miniere in katanga — and not council's resolution las month that empowered cnit ed nations troops to use force in the congo to prevent civil war he felt impelled to call fin tananarive summit parley of congolese leaders continued the maiiv chinese - african friendship associations set up in the last two years to establish ties with youth wo men and labour groups in the emerging african countries st sidewell vegetables soon they were raising their own ami clash ing w i t h the africans who regardetl fat dutch cattle as fair game in the eighteenth century dutch settlers spread into the hinterland clashing w i t h bantu tribes men coming down from the vice versa a littlt remembered eng lish martyr from devon is the inspiration of a calling the caribbean programme 01 tuesday march 28 through out the christian world only two churches have been dedi cate to st sub-well one is in exeter the other in bri tish guiana and i h e respec tive iniciimbents recently ex changed parishes the rev i ii goodrich wlui is no-v at the kugksb st siilewell's will be interviewed in tues day's progranuue by douglas brown a bbc staff reporter resents u n programme daring a two-hour talk in his ornate official palace the former home of t h e belgian colonial governor mr tshom be showed bitterness oulv twice about the i'nited xa tions and about the united states increase cliued phenomenal i saw immediate v that it was our last chance either to get together and create a congolese solution to our crisis or be slowly taken over piecemeal by armed i'nited nations tutelage he said adding in the fielt 7 of radio as per haps nowhere else t h e com munist countries are making a strong bit for african fav our west rn sources say the increase in africa _ oriented programmes has been phe nomenal at a brussels round-table meeting in january 1mq mr tshombe recounted it was lie who persuaded the divided and i,uarreling congolese to form a common front and it was he who bluntly told the belgians that the congolese would refuse to discuss an agenda until they first had a pledge of full independent • and a fixed date the terri tory became independent last june 30 north sugar the british did not arrive in the area nihil they took over the cape colony earlv in the nineteenth century the differences between the t w o white settler groups gave rise to the duality that has been a major problem for south africa ever since — xew york times we want united nations technical and financial kelp in the cngo but we will not allow the indians anil egyp tians a n d xkrumah of ihana j and various others to use the united xations as a cover for pursuing their own national policies in the congo he declared vehe mently a programme in calling the caribbean which was originally prepared for gen eral overseas bell ice listeners throughout the world is ed ward scohie's sugar tin author traces the history of this precious commodity throughout the centuries an i particularly the way in whieh it has strengthened the associa tion of britain and the west indies since early colonial times sugar cane was not sur prisingly a natural product of the caribbean islands — if originated iu brazil and t'i • first equipment for its manu facture in barbados was sup plied by the dutch the pro gramme explains the methods i called all my ministers tt meet ami they agreed lo back me i got onto long-dis tance with president jo seph kasavubu and i had to shout and argue and even pound the table and threaten to criticize him openly before he would agree to come he did not want to come but finally he gave in in january the moscow radio initiated ■ new daily seriea in swahili the lan guage of kumio.ooo ea,t africans — as well as another th bbc caribbean ser vice is broadtail daily at 23.15—23.45 gmt continued on page 7 wavelengths 19.91 metres 25.38 metres 31.32 metres 15.07 mc/s 11.s2 mc/s 9m mc no inferiority complex i have no inferiority coni mr tshombe said that when he r e a d the security speedy therm says * mmm waw beside his criticism of the united xations mr tshombe also expressed bitterness over the ulnited states alleged lack of comprehension of the congolese situation he ac cused the leading united states diplomats in the congo of h a v i n g underestimated him personalty and of having failed to spend enough time in katanga to appreciate the situation there local times call 1-6211 hthe best gas lamaica — 1.15 p.m tnni da«l and the eastern carib bean — 7.15 p.m british ou h — 7.30 p.m british hon f.r rollocks agency for court street hamilton ana service — fast duras p.m according to season 5.15 p.m or 5.45 economical — real estate travel insurance licensed auctioneer collections land in every parish we arrange your mortgage and minor repairs taken care of immediately with landlords approval long ties ended in commonwealth low cost gas from phone 1-5802 for eighteen years i was a lay leader of an american methodist mission in my home of katanga and i have a frieiitilly feeling for the unit ed states mr tshombe said b u t american policy until now on the congo has filled me with disgust and unle.n continued from page 5 leader who became first prime for apartheid the xationalist minister of the union of south doctrine ol segregating t he africa cited these words is european-descended ininor having made peace ami union ity from the increasingly possible in south africa powerless majority of afri masters gas dept — 1.6211 in 1909 the two former bri tish colonies cape and xatal and the two formerly indepen dent republics subjugated by british power met freely to form the union of south afri ca with afrikaans the dutch dialed of the boers given etpial standing with english can descent as the south african xa tionalists tightened their ra cial controls in recent years the african majorities i:i european colonies elsewhere iu the continent were de manding self . government ami obtaining it virol america starts to appreciate the true situation in the con it is continued on page 7 job printing integration involves maze in rights builds healthy ten jan christiaan smuts a boer hero who emerged as a statesman of compromise in peace was himself the author of the commonwealth concept of the relationship between britain and her principal self governing elements overseas he offered it at a dinner dur ing the imperial war confer ence in london in 1017 the statute of westmin ster enacted bv i hi british parliament in 1131 gave ■'■- teetive sovereignity to south africa a n d otmer dominions as long as smuts lived he was a personal link between the south africans of boer descent who tended to be iso lationist anil the common wealth countries which held him in high esteem it was only after his death in 1961 that the more extreme xationalists moved toward a britain anil the other coun tries of the commonwealth — the inutiracial multinational successor of the british em pire — fount it increasingly hard to defend south africa's doctrine of white supremacy before world poinion at the united xations the decision at ihe common wealth meeting in london is acknowledgement of a gulf that has become too wide for hope of compromise settlement id the southern tip of the african continent by europeans goes back to 1652 the cape of good hope was a half-way point for bri tish and dutch merchantniea sailing to the east indies in mb the dutch east india company established a per manent supply center in the safe harbour where cape town was to be established we can satisfy you continued from page 5 tion of racial ostracism with all its social economic and political disadvantages they initiated the sit-ins children if you want eemmma these young xegroes want the opportunity to show th • white doubters that members of their race are capable of taking a responsible produc tive position in the national life magazines booklets pamphlets calendars billheads letterheads wedding invitations envelopes tickets posters ledgers etc cnder the present system of segregated education in the south no matter what kind of school building the xegro pupil attends — one - room or modern brick-and-glass — he is taught by a member of his race who more than likely came up under the same se grated system and does not through no fault of hos own posses the qualifications of a teacher in a similar position in the white school growing children need virol because virol has the ingredients that build health and strength and glowing energy just sec what's in virol malt extract refined beef fat glucose fructose egg orange juice mineral salts added vita mins yes the essential food fbotors your children need put mam ou virol today place your order now with the union pr1ntery printers and publishers of the bermuda recorder strieker racialist policy by disfranchising the voters of mixed race in the cape colony this was a triumph at first 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