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erners, 1 was mistaken for a
southern Irish rebel — in the
north." “The car I was in was
surrounded and tommy guns
trained on me."
“I'd never had a gun pointed
at me in earnest before. It’s
something you see in the movies
without getting excited, but
when it actually happens to you,
it sure gives you a funny feeling
in your stomach,” he recalled.
"In France I was riding with
an extremely wild driver, who
was stopped by police at what
amounted to almost a barricade,”
he said. “They let him go
though,” he added. France was
tense during his visit as it wav
ered to and fro on the De Gaulle
issue.
In Turkey, revolt over Cyprus
was about to break out at Is
tanbul when Jeff was there. “Be
cause we were supporting Tur
key, they told me 'America no
good’ in Greece, —“the only
place they ever did so,” he added.
“But the Greek people were still
friendly, he declared.
“I just missed the revolt in
Iraq too," he said. “I had just
decided at the last moment that
I wouldn't go. and after that the
revolt broke out.”
"I was really lucky all the
way,” he repeated.
While in Europe, Jeff joined
tourists from all over the world
at the Brussels Fair.
On the controversial subject of
the American pavilion, he had
this to say: “The American pa
vilion far exceeded the Russian.
It did concentrate heavily on the
cultural side of American life—
it could have had more science
for instance. But on the other
hand the Russian pavilion was
completely dominated by science.”
He also commented on the un
friendliness of the Russian
guides.
Russ guides silent
“I met a lady who spoke seven
or eight languages fluently,” he
said,” and she tried to talk to
them; but they were unwilling.” ;
Discussing his own linguistic
abilities (his only knowledge of
a foreign language was a slight
acquaintance with French), he
remarked that there was always
someone who spoke English no
matter where he went. "And
everyone was always eager to
talk to an American." he added.
“The people were so hospi
table and interested everywhere.
Kids, dogs, and old folks would
follow at my heels as I went
through a town, and someone
would usually beckon me over
for something to eat or drink.”
It was nothing for fifty or sixty
people to gather to see him, he
recalled.
Jeff enjoyed the Orient more
than Europe though. "In Europe
they’re so much like us,” he ex
plained. The East is more inter
esting."
He spent three weeks in In
dia, the country he "would most
like to return to".
“I crossed only the northern
half of India though—was never
in the south at all” he said.
He arrived in New Delhi just
in time for the monsoon. "There
were eight and a half inches of
rain in ten hours," he grinned.
To the Taj Mahal
“From there I went to A^ra to
see the Taj Mahal; then to Ben
ares, the city of the holy river
Ganges, which I went down in a
boat to Calcutta.
"America, even by those who
like her, is called imperialistic
everywhere,” he said. “In India,
though, I really ran into some
Communist fanatics at first. I
thought India was really com
munist until I'd been there a lit
tle while, and then I changed my
mind.”
He said that India seemed to
be playing betw'een the forces of
East and West, giving as exam
ple the Soviet help they have
used to build factories and the
American loan accepted this
year.
The peoples of the world ap
preciate American aid, he felt,
but repeated a wry comment,
which he heard often.
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(jlvi'd us Is nice — liut who
ever appreciated a creditor’
In India the people "were not
fooled by Russia's attempt to
pose as peacemaker during the
Middle East "crisis," Jeff said.
They said that Russia had al
ways been an agressor before;
why would she suddenly change
now.
India was cited by the hiker
as fascinating because of its dif
ferences, but one interesting
similarity cropped up. Asked
where he stayed, he replied, "at
the YMCA.” “Except in Calcut
ta," he added.
"VVhere'd you stay in Calcut
ta?"
"The Salvation Army."
Ily air to Saigon
Up to this time the Sig Ep’s
principal method of transporta
tion was hitchhiking. But from
Calcutta he flew to Saigon, Indo
china because of guerilla activi
ties in those areas he flew over.
Before signing on a Norwegian
freighter in Saigon, Jeff also
visited Cambodia, Laos, and Viet
Nam.
"I went into Viet Nam without
a passport because it's one of the
few countries that takes a long
time to get one. but again I was
lucky," he said.
"They gave me permission to
stay for ten days — then ex
tended the time later." "I stayed
with the Canadian Army for a
week, which meant free room,
chow, etc.," he said.
On the freighter Jeff visited
the Philippines, Hong Kong and
Japan before returning home.
Japan ‘polite’
Japan, his last port of call, Jeff
characterizecf as "a land of bow
ing and smiling".
While there, he journeyed to
Mt. Fujiyama. Climbing the
mountain he was caught by dark
ness near the top and spent the
night alone in a hiker's shelter.
"It wasn’t really too pretty a
mountain,” he recalled,” the snow
was all gone.”
How many countries did he
visit in all ?
"About twenty," he figured.
Total cost? “About $550.”
‘T wouldn’t recommend doing
it the way I did,” he said serious
ly. "Without money or transpor
tation, one is absolutely depen
dent on others, and, of course, a
hitchhiker has to stay pretty
much on the main routes."
But still he characterized the
unconventional tour as "some
thing to take so you know where
not to go next time.”
What especially was he in
terested in on his trip ?
Big interest: "people”
“The people. I wanted to see
how the other people of the world
lived.”
And now?
“Go back of course.”
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their ideology, their disrcgasd for
international law and their ulti
mate plan for world conquest.
■•However," Kuroda added, "the
Communist cease-fire on Quemoy
and Matsu present a hope for ne
gotiation.”
The initial shelling of the Is
lands was believed to have been
made possible by the completion
of a railroad to Amoy, a city on
the coast just opposite Matsu and
Quemoy. That way the Commun
ists could ship shells and artillery
World news
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But he offered to attend a later
East-West conference if that
"seems necessary and desirable.”
In notes delivered in Moscow,
the U S. and British governments
called on the Soviet Union to be
gin diplomatic negotiations on the
test issue Oct. 31, as previously
agreed.
White students register
LITTLE ROCK. Ark After
seven weeks of idleness, white
high school students Monday reg
istered for classes at three diff
erent schools, all of them seg
regated.
About 300 of an expected T>00
registered at the newly created
Little Rock Private High Sshool,
opened with funds donated fiom
people throughout the nation who
support segregation.
Yugoslavia eyes action
UNITED NATIONS NY (UPI)
Yugoslavia Monday called for a
special session of the U.N. Gen
eral Assembly to outlaw nuclear
weapons tests if the forthcoming
Geneva talks fail.
Yugoslavia's ambassador to the
U.N. said he will introduce a for
mal resolution tailing for such
action of the talks bog down.
in sufficient quantities over the
rough terrain separating Hang
chow nrui Canton, according to
Pitts.
Internal pressure
Panelist Kuroda said that the
shelling of the Nationalist-heUl
Islands and the threat of Immi
nent attack was planned to re
lieve internal pressure in Red
China caused by a poor harvest
year.
The threat of war was also a
way to force the U,N. to seat
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mit conferences ns a power di
vorced from Russia.
"We are not only dealing with
Communism but Nationalism in
Southeast Asia."
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