Lord, the people is hungry. Give the people a loaf. I will Lord, the people is cold. Give the people a house. I will.
Lord, the people is weary. Give the people a hope. I will.
Lord, the people is scared. Give the people a God. I will.
Lord, the people is restless. Give the people an enemy. I will.
Lord, the people is angry. Give the people police. I will.
Lord, the people is Revolutionary. Give the people the sword. Gladly. Richard Neville The lesson of Daniel Cohn-Bendit's disruptive internationalism has not been lost on the world's immigration authorities. They are making it more difficult for young people to cross borders. The Human Family, a roving theatrical troupe, have been expelled from Holland. The French police, in what are known to the press as "operations anti-beatnik", have been arresting and deporting foreigners persistently since May.
In parts of Spain, longhairs are rounded up once a week, their passports confiscated and sent to the nearest border.
In Yugoslavia and Argentina, local heavies have formed "barber gangs" which forcibly shear hapless hirsuite foreigners. (The official Argentinian explanation is: "Hippies have given up their parents, home and food in order to harden themselves for leading a Communist Revolution").
And according to Robert Pontin, a British inmate of a Turkish gaol, the Turkish Government 3 weeks ago passed a new passport law forbidding hippies or beatniks from entering the country. Forty beatniks (or "louseniks" as the Turkish police affectionately call them) were deported on the day the bill became law.
This will effectively reduce overland travel to the Middle East and Asia. (The international pot trail begins at Istanbul). Hippies are also being harrassed in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Morroco.
Hair, the musical, travelled in rapid comfort all the way from Greenwich Village to the Eamon Andrews show; but hair, the human fibre, can stop you crossing your nearest border.
Robert Pontin, who has written desperate letters to International Times and OZ, also warns against getting busted in Turkey. He is serving an eight year, four month sentence for carrying cannabis. Others are serving 30 years. "And we don't receive amnesties" says Pontin, "although murderers do".
I doubt if the British Consul is unduly ruffled over Pontin's plight. Consular officials are usually more concerned with manipulating juicy business deals and hosting the perfect cocktail party, than sending metaphorical gunboats up the Bosphorus to rescue "beastly junkies".
Although W. H. Smith & Sons Ltd. are generally more renowned for what they don't sell than for what they do, they are currently marketing an interesting sociological document called: "Routledge's Complete Letter Writer' - entirely new and revised edition. It is a seriou guide for contemporary correspondents. Its sample letters include: A Letter of Proposal from a Young Gentleman to a Young Lady, with Favourable and Unfavourable replies ("T do love you, but it is in the way a sister loves a brother"). There is a Letter of Request for the Character of a Cook ("Is she honest, clean, and economical?"); a Letter of Complaint to a Butcher and an Invitation to a Funeral from the Family Solicitor.
The most enlightening epistle, for Black Dwarf, is how to answer an Invitation to Subscribe to a Charitu:
Dear Mr. Manders, I have read your letter with great pain. It is indeed a terrible state of affairs. But it is my firm conviction that indiscriminate giving is the worst possible thing for the cause of the poor. The only real cure is to make certain of the continuitu of emploument. I would aladly subscribe to any scheme to bring that about. But in the present condition of the labour market 1 feel sure that it is really uscless to do anything that will merely temporarily alleviate, and not definitely eradicate, poverty.
Yours very truly, M. Beecher.
Remember that for Oxfam.
DWARF VIVA MICHELE! Private Eye or its Editor, your nephew or the razor Richard Ingrams (Shrewsbury blades you were thinking of On August 26 armed guer- and University College, Ox- using to shave with, send them rillas of the revolutionary ford). The stuff he writes is down in advance under plain Guatemalian FAR movement vintage public school humour wrapper. THE COACHES assassinated the yankee am- and on occasion is extremely MUST GET THROUGH. bassador John Gordan-Mein funny, in much the same way WE WILL NOT BE PRO.
Guatemala This is as the public schools them- VOKED, SCARED OR the first time in history that a selves. The fact is, however, FRAMED BY ANY POLICE yankee ambassador has been that the "political columns' of METHODS. eliminated by revolutionary the paper are edited by Paul forces. Foot (Shrewsbury and University College, Oxford) who is a OBI EGBUNA It has now emerged that one member of a revolutionarv While the Federal Nigerians old French of the assassins was a 31 year- student Michele socialist political organisation. Some of the material is there- have destroyed the village where Obi Egbuna was Biafran away driver for the guerrillas Firk who had acted as a get- fore taken seriously by social- ists and it is for this reason born, and while his mother is reported missing, Obi Egbuna on previous occasions. Michele had rented a small house in a that Comrade Foot has a re- languishes in a British jail.
poor quarter of the City, and after police closed in. On Septem- ber 7 police knocked on her door, but before they could capture suicide. the assassination her she committed sponsibility to wrongly Either he should insist that the CIA section organisation. Cuba story as a reflection of Comrade Foot's many will take the of Private Eve his own Rightly political views. or and a television playwright. He has been in prison for ten weeks and bail has been re fused on the total lack of any response from Obi is a Black Power leader police, been interesting has been th naturally. advice of the What has is signed by its contributors spring she said "I shall not Talking to her sister last (e.g. chould dissociate himself from Richard West) or he either Babuna's fellow play. wrights or any publicity fron hesitate. If I must be captured the BBC which puts his plays the vile crap which his magaby the police I shall kill my- zine occasionally puts out. on the box. Would the reself. I do not want to run the sponse have been the same if risk of talking under torture white playwright (David And in a letter she wrote Mercer or Denis Potter, for "What I want to be is a re- NATO MOVES example had been arrested volutionary fighter". TO KINGS COLLEGE and refused hail for ten weeks? We think not. Either Michele Firk fought and General Sir John Winthrop Revolution. of Gordon-Mien has fired the imagination of the revolution- died arv Latin America movement for the The elimination Guatemalan throughout Hackett, former Commander- in-Chief of the Rhine Army and commander of NATO's Northern Army Group, been appointed King's College, London. principal of has have probably home and killed his Obi's case should commence at the relevant court should be given bail. the fact that British bombs should be enough to appease destroyed his mother or he Surely Ambassador Bunker watch Our military Correspondent even the most racialist magis.
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