{"id":71562,"date":"2021-08-21T05:46:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T05:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=71562"},"modified":"2021-08-21T05:46:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T05:46:58","slug":"we-burghers-by-des-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/we-burghers-by-des-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;WE, BURGHERS&#8221; \u2013 By Des Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0&#8220;WE, BURGHERS&#8221; \u2013 By Des Kelly<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KnC8KaWFMBw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Many, are the stories on the tiny, yet very important element of population of Ceylon (then), Sri Lanka (now), Burgher Buggers, as we are fondly (?)!! referred to, even after about 90% of us, have already migrated to many parts of the Globe.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Once again, thank you to Charles Schokman, and hooray !!, the honorary Author of this most entertaining and interesting &#8220;post&#8221;is a Ceylonese Politician I remember well, as the very first Communist leader of my era in the &#8220;Pearl of the Indian Ocean&#8221;. Peiter Keuneman passed on, in Lanka, in 1997, and regardless of which Political Party he was involved in, will always be remembered by his family and friends, as a highly educated, brilliant Politician, who served , in his Country..<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">May you rest in peace, Pieter, now, let us get on with your views on &#8220;WE, BURGHERS&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29898 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Desmond-Kelly-8.jpg\" alt=\"Desmond Kelly\" width=\"125\" height=\"178\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Desmond Kelly.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">(Editor-in-Chief)\u00a0 e&#8217;Lanka.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">Holland\u2019s Legacy of Dutch Burghers<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">February 8, 2014, 5:59 pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71566 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Pieter-Keuneman-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pieter Keuneman<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">One would have thought that all good Burghers when they die go\u00a0to Holland, but unfortunately that is not the case. Now they prefer to go to\u00a0Australia to live and leaven that vast continent with their traditional\u00a0 contributions, spiced, I am sure, with a little bit of culture of Sri Lanka.\u00a0 Regular globe-trotters tell me that it is not possible these days to walk\u00a0through the streets of Melbourne or Sydney without hearing the<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">crackle of kokis\u00a0 or scenting the delicate <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">aroma of breudher studded with a thousand raisins or\u00a0 listening to the sweet sounds of things like fuggetti and poffertjes struggling\u00a0 to be born.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Though a British Prime Minister, in a moment of pique once said:\u00a0 \u201cIn matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch is giving too little and asking too much,\u201d the descendants of those who came here with the Dutch invaders have\u00a0left behind a legacy of law, literature and lines of communication of which any\u00a0nation could be proud. I was lucky to have been associated in my early life with\u00a0three or four of the most piquant personalities of this generation, and they all\u00a0 happened to be Burghers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Keuneman<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">During that period, once walking along the corridors of Lake\u00a0 House where I worked, I came across, a spruce debonair young man, with his hair\u00a0 neatly brushed and exuding the aroma of an expensive pomade. His clothes were\u00a0cut in the latest style, I do not know whether they were Bond Street or Saville\u00a0Row, because I could not aspire to anything better than the Queen\u2019s House tailor\u00a0at First Cross Street, Pettah, who had a little shop opposite F. X. Pereira\u2019s. I\u00a0asked the omniscient P. C. A. Nelson the secretary who this charming young man\u00a0was, and he said with bated breath that he was Keuneman, the son of the Supreme\u00a0 Court judge. He had just come out from Cambridge where he was President of the\u00a0Union. Not since James Peiris had we had a president of the Cambridge Union\u00a0Society, and it was with a feeling of awe that we approached this thing called\u00a0Keuneman. In hushed whispers my informants added he was a Communist. My idea of\u00a0Communism was a, cross between a man-eater, and woman-hater. Keuneman was\u00a0neither. As a matter of fact he looked not only like a human being but as one\u00a0who had not yet completely shaken off the bourgeois Burgher environment from\u00a0which he had sprung. He liked good food and knew the difference between cheap\u00a0Spanish wine and Napoleon brandy. He could distinguish between the Russian\u00a0delicacy and the rocs that pass off as caviare. Later I learned that he owed his\u00a0good looks not only to his handsome father, but his grandmother, Miss Ernst, a\u00a0woman who was playfully referred to at the time as the Matara diamond. I also\u00a0soon discovered that, despite his academic distinctions, he was inclined to\u00a0tolerate common men gladly and it was not long before all his colleagues started\u00a0addressing him as Pieter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">He was a remarkable phenomenon, a disciple of Lenin eating out\u00a0of the hand of Ceylon\u2019s arch-capitalist. But D. R. Wijewardene was no fool. He\u00a0knew his onions and liked them even though they were red. D. R. W. not only had\u00a0a nose for news but for newsmen and then he sent Pieter in-to bat. His first few\u00a0scoring strokes reached the fence. His epigrammatic and pungent style won for\u00a0the \u201cDaily News\u201d a large number of new readers. His pieces on the topics of the\u00a0day often had to be read between the lines. That was where the fun lay. The\u00a0crimson streak was always there. They were, one might say, \u2018fortiter in re,\u00a0 suaviter in modo.\u201d To those who have forgotten their Latin the old saying can be\u00a0paraphrased to mean, the red hand in the blue velvet glove.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">After occupying for two or three years a ringside seat in the\u00a0capitalist arena or, to put it another way, after being a sentry in what\u00a0Marxists considered the Citadel of Sin, Pieter left Lake House with the\u00a0blessings of the Boss to give to his Party what was meant for man kind. He\u00a0tramped the streets after quitting a luxurious home to disseminate his creed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">At this stage he was assisted by his first wife, Hedi, a\u00a0beautiful, Jewess, the daughter of a rich Austrian banker, whom he had converted\u00a0to his way of thinking in Cambridge. Hedi had forgotten many things, but not a\u00a0dinner party, which her father had given when she was a girl. There were many\u00a0delicious dishes on that particular occasion but the \u201cPiece de resistance\u201d was\u00a0the dessert. It was a slice of fresh pineapple, which had been obtained at great\u00a0expense from the fruiterer in Paris. After all the guests were served, Hedi too,\u00a0was given a small piece of the luscious fruit. But the memory of that taste was\u00a0never erashed. Now this is the sad part of the story. When Hedi came to Ceylon\u00a0it was the pineapple season and a fruit for which her father had probably paid\u00a0 \u00a35 could be bought at the Borella market for 50 cents. So Hedi revived the\u00a0memory of the Vienna dinner in a big way. She indulged in her weakness for her\u00a0favourite fruit without compunction. She had pineapple for breakfast, pineapple\u00a0with lunch, pineapple for tea and pineapple after dinner. But Hedi was allergic\u00a0to the succulent fruit. Big boils broke but and her beautiful face was\u00a0disfigured for a while. The tropical climate too, affected her health badly and\u00a0Hedi bade goodbye to Ceylon leaving behind the memory of a sweet<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">personality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Wendt<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">I had several other Dutch Burgher friends at Lake House. One of\u00a0them was Lionel Wendt, who had been commissioned by the Boss to design and set\u00a0up an up-to-date photographic studio \u2013 Chitra foto. Pianist, camera artist and\u00a0brilliant conversationalist, he was regarded as the brightest spirit among the\u00a0cultural elite of his time. He was like an electro-magnet. Wherever he went, men\u00a0gathered round him like flies round a honey-pot. They stood and listened\u00a0fascinated by the sparkle of his witticisms. A hub-bub of laughter accompanied\u00a0every remark of his. He never missed a classical concert of music or a serious\u00a0play. I still treasure a caustic note he sent me after seeing a poignant drama\u00a0called \u201cThe Cardinal.\u201d He was exceptionally hard on the heroine played by the\u00a0daughter of a famous Colombo physician.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Wendt grew his hair long, like his teacher Mark Hambourg, and in\u00a0the manner of most young men of the present generation. But there the\u00a0resemblance ends. Wendt, however, neglected his health. His only physical\u00a0exercise consisted of running through the musical scales on his grand piano,\u00a0pedalling his way to the glorious climax of a Beethoven sonata or in the\u00a0alternative lifting his beloved Leica camera on and off tripods to catch the\u00a0passing mood of some interesting face no matter where. His early death was a\u00a0tragic loss to art and artists. His name, however, has been immortalised by a\u00a0building erected by his intimate friends. It was a well-meant effort but every\u00a0week thousands of perspiring theatergoers spend their purgatory on earth before\u00a0crossing over to meet their patron saint. Lionel, must be in some corner of the\u00a0celestial regions practising a Bach fugue on a golden harp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">List<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Talking of Dutch Burgher friends, I wish I had the space to\u00a0write something of the incomparable Hilaire Jansz, journalist and gentleman, or\u00a0of the versatile Arthur Van Langenberg, the man with a heart of gold. Each of\u00a0them deserves much fuller treatment from abler hands than mine. Talking of the\u00a0Burghers who have left their mark on the history of our age, one can provide a\u00a0list, which is as long as the Dutch canal that runs between Colombo and Puttalam.\u00a0 I do not wish to repeat the names of celebrities like Lorenz, but there were\u00a0hundreds of others whose names will ring a bell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">I am appending just a few that come readily to mind, in order to\u00a0jog the memory and encourage readers to recall picturesque figures who have\u00a0 passed away. Here are a few: Cox Sproule, R.L.Spittel, James Van Langenberg,\u00a0 Evelyn Jansz, Wace de Neise, Martin Gerreyn, L.E. Blaze, Andreas Nell, Donovan\u00a0 Andree, Durand Altendorf, Arthur Ephraums, Frederick Dornhorst, E. H.Joseph,\u00a0 Percy Cooke, S.P. Foenander and Hector Van Cuylemberg. There were heaps of\u00a0families, too, whose names will not be forgotten too early: The Leembrugens,\u00a0 Ludovicis, Greniers, Van Dorts, Colin-Thomes; Morgans, Van Rooyens, Wrights,\u00a0 Herfts, Princes, Kochs, Spaars, Van der Straatens, Rodes, Nicholases, Modders,\u00a0 Sansonis, Potgers, Beekmeyers, Albrechts, Speldewindes, Schokmans, de Kretsers,\u00a0 Kelaarts, Maartenszes, Ernsts, de Voses, Nelsons, Deutroms, Van Geyzels,\u00a0 Daniels, Vollenhovens, Orrs, Macks, Brohiers, Forbeses, Bulners, Lude-kens\u00a0 Milhuisens, Vanderwalls, Keegals, Driebergs, de Jongs, Christoffelsz, Buultjens,\u00a0 Bevens, Schraders, Loose, Martins, Bartholomeus, La Brooys, Hays, Heyns,\u00a0 Schneiders, Bilsboroughs, Marcuses, Ludowyks, Horans, Woutersz, Ferdinands,\u00a0 Martenstyns, Joachims, Casperszes, Kreltzhelms, Alvises, de la Mottes, de Zilwas\u00a0 and hundreds of others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Ondaatje<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Just one word more and this is from Stanley Suraweera wishes to\u00a0get the Ondaatje record straight. He writes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">As I do not want a hornets\u2019 nest bussing around my ears,\u00a0although I think I richly deserve it, for dropping that brick, I have to say\u00a0that what I meant to say (although I did not) was that Quint Ondaatje was the\u00a0greatest Ceylonese of those who took part in European politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">True, Quint\u2019s grandfather, Dr. Michael Jurgen Ondaatje was an\u00a0Indian from Arcot, the capital of the Carnatic in Southern India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">He came out to Sri Lanka in 1659 to medically treat the wife of\u00a0Adrian vander Meyden, the first Dutch Governor of this country. He not only\u00a0cured the lady but settled down here for good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Quint of the third generation of these fabulous Ondaatjes\u00a0rightly claimed to be a Ceylon national.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Author:Ananda\u2014Sunday Island<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0&#8220;WE, BURGHERS&#8221; \u2013 By Des Kelly &nbsp; Many, are the stories on the tiny, yet very important element of population of Ceylon (then), Sri Lanka (now), Burgher Buggers, as we are fondly (?)!! referred to, even after about 90% of us, have already migrated to many parts of the Globe.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1104],"tags":[1343,739,36595],"class_list":{"0":"post-71562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"category-desmond-kelly","9":"tag-charles-schokman","10":"tag-desmond-kelly","11":"tag-peiter-keuneman","12":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;WE, BURGHERS&quot; 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