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...major's answer sets the underlying mood of Briton Norman Lewis' knowledgeable novel about one sahib's last stand in the Far East. Framing his reply as "what others are saying," Major Chai says: "The white man by his teaching created a demand for justice, and as soon as the demand was existing, removed this product from the market...
...Nairobi's supreme court, a 17-year-old Briton serving in the colony's emergency police force was found guilty of technical assault for tossing lighted matches at a Mau Mau suspect, and his Kikuyu assistant was convicted of pouring paraffin over the head of the suspect and setting him afire...
Hope & Challenge. Butler also faces-and he never forgets-a Labor Party which still commands the allegiance of half the British electorate. Many a voter is still to be convinced that Toryism has really changed. Many a Briton is more concerned to be secure in what he has than to produce (and risk) more. Many workers, asked to do in four days work that now takes them five, balk for fear they will be laid off on the fifth. Many manufacturers are content to produce for a known limited market rather than risk expansion. It is this attitude that...
Portable Gods. Poor Gadein is the almost-hero of A Time to Laugh, a fine first novel by Briton Laurence Thompson. The nicest thing that can be said about A Time to Laugh is that it is a strong reminder of Joyce Gary's Mister Johnson, just about the finest novel about Africa ever written. Author Thompson is no Gary yet, but his hero, like Mr. Johnson, is that charming innocent, the unspoiled primitive man thrust into and beaten up by a world he never made. Of the two, Johnson had it better; he merely became a clerk...
...good novel is occasionally crossed, and two new yarns get well over the border. In The Long Goodbye, Old Mystery Hand Raymond Chandler brings back his private eye, Philip Marlowe, for his first stint in more than four years. Casino Roy ale introduces a brand-new mystery writer, Briton Ian Fleming, and a hard-shelled British secret-service operative, James Bond, who should be prowling the international underground for some books to come...