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NURSES'
CHARTER
EXPERTS IN ARAB
CLOTHING "CUT" FOR
PLANNED ORE PROVE ASSETS CHILDREN
A murses' charter, to make nursing a reason- ably-paid profession, is planned by the Ministry of Health.
Mr. A. W. Green, chairman of King George Hospital, Ilford stat-
the board of management of the
ed at the annual meeting of the board that the charter would be
TO BRITAIN
IN THE PRESENT crisis in the Middle East, Britain has no greater assets than the highly train- ed civil servants who know the leaders of the Arab and Moslem world through long years of service.
Among these
something like the Burnham scale distinguished is Officers one of the most able and
for teachers in the last war.
"What the terms of that char-
ter will be we do not know," he said, "but we do say that hospitals will well-organised
fout the bill at once. "If we foot the bill we must! get the recruits into the profes- sion. Otherwise
Ministry the will say 'we can get the recruits -and we will staff the hospitals. I am not prepared to le: them do
it."
He appealed for supporters of voluntary hospitals to provide the little more which would make the nursing profession worth while.
his
FOUND EXPENSE TOO GREAT
"The
An officer who appeared at a court martial at the Duke of York's Headquarters recently was said to have stated in a letter given to
commanding officer: mode of living in the company has been far too expensive for one who has to rely entirely on his army pay as a lieutenant."
The
William officer, Lieut.
of O'Reilly-Patey,
the London Irish Rifles, was alleged to have applied a cheque for £35 received for the imprest fund to his own
use.
the money
In evidence he said he had no intention of defrauding the fund. He was going to pay back from a legacy, but payment of the legacy had been held up bankrupt because he had gone some years ago.
findings w'll br The court's made known later.
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Kinahan Cornwallis, présent British Ambassador to Iraq, who had had the main burden of meeting the Rashid Ali revolt against Bri- tish influence.
Britain is fortunate in having a group of men like Sir Kinahan to deal with Arabs who value above integrity all the character and that men of this stamp can show. Nothing so commands Arab res- pect and admiration as honesty and courage.
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facture is controlled. the Arabs Palestine and Syria, were seething with nationalism,
"We get about 15 per cent. of Harbla fanned to the explosion point by the materials we want for mak-Dolo President Wilson's philosophy of ing baby clothes," one manufac- of the De-self-determination. It was then
turer told the "Daily Mirror." that I was most impressed by the honesty and the well-balanced judgment of Sir Kinahan, at the time a colonel In the British Mill- tary Intelligence.
As Special Agent partment of State in Egypt, I first came into contact with Sir Kina- hah at Cairo during the autumn of 1917. He was then Director of the Arab Bureau, that branch of the British Political Intelligence Service made famous by Col. T. E. Lawrence in the "Seven Pillars
of Wisdom."
Under the guidance of Sir Kinahan the Arab Bureau gathered secret information about the Arab and Moslem world from the four corners of the earth.
Close Watch On
Arabs
in
Sitting in a musty office Cairo reading the Arab Bulletin, confidential publication of the Arab Bureau, I was amazed to find that Sir Kinahan and his staff were keeping as close watch of the Arabs in South America and the United States as of Arab activities in Egypt, India, and the Arab Lands of Asia.
At that time in 1917 Sir Kina-; han already had spent eight years in the Sudan and three years in Egypt as a member, first of the Sudan Civil Service and then of the Egyptian Civil Service.
He was comparatively youth ful when he became Director of
his by
the Arab Bureau In 1916. He was a tall, large-frame, power- fully bullt young man, hands and face bronzed years of exposure to the sun of the Sudan.
He was an inscrutable looking person who struck me as resem- bling tha type of American In- tiian idealised by Remington in his famous statues. One could not keep from speculating on whether he had Indian blood in his veins.
Convinced by my own investi- gation as Technical Adviser to the King-Crane Commission, that the Arab Government in Damascus was carrying on a widespread propaganda against the French, I put the question up to Sir Kina- han in Damascus. He knew I had no documentary proof of my sus- picions, he could have said they were baseless. Instead he said "Yale, your deductions are abso- lutely correct; but we the British, have had nothing to do with the Arab propaganda against our Al- lies."
I knew he was speaking the truth.
Solution Sought
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In the autumn of 1919 when I went to London with the vain hope of solving the Arab problem by what has been called in "The Enrolment of hundreds Letters of T. E. Lawrence
of of Liverpool boys and girls Reserve Fund Arabia," "The Yale Plan," man whose judgment I most de as voluntary fire-watch- pended upon was
Sir Kinahan.ers
was described to the He, I knew, was conversant with every aspect of the situation. He, "Daily Mirror" as I was convinced, was the man shameful and unauthoris- best fitted to pass judgment upon the solution of the Arab problem.
In 1921 Bir Kinahan accom-
panied Emir Faisal to the Iraq after the flasco in Syria. When
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Sir Kinahan was made Adviser the War Emergency Com- Batavi
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"We recently the suggestion that the Liver- pool cadets should be allowed to firewatch."
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In 1935
retired Sir Kinahan and settled: down on a country Instinctively I knew I had met estate in England, his strenuous man who could be trusted when career seemingly at an end. But
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"No boys or girls at and November. 1919. I dis-enced diplomat was needed covered that
original Baghdad. On February 12, 1941, allowed to volunteer, and even judgment had been correct; he Sir Kinahan was appointed his then they must have their parents
Ambassador Extra- full consent. was a man of integrity, who could Majesty's
ordinary and Plenipotentiary to be trusted.
the Iraq.
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fully of two adults to each pupil." giving any tangible evidence, Sir better known to and so trusted by the Arabs as he.
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Kinahan · remained always "out-. wardly cold, hard, imperturbable. I In his "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" It is also fortunate that, just Lawrence has drawn an unfor at this time, the British Govern- gettable portrait of Sir Kinahan, ment has at last consulted H. St. Lawrence writes of him: A Man John Philby, whose knowledge,
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Philby was able to present before.
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During the tumultuous weeks a Home Office Committee his Acting Squadron. Leader John received at rates which will and months which followed the analysis o the situation in the Cunningham-they call him Cat's British conquest of northern Arab world. As a result, the Bri- Eyes in No. 604 Squadron because Palestine and Syrla in 1918, when tish Government is in a better of his uncanny ability in spotting. rival Arab-groups, fought one position to cope with the crisis German bombers in the night another in Damascus when in the Arab lands and to under-sky-has already won the DF.C. Arab nationalism, first came to stand the problems which con- for his night fighter work. grips with French Imperialism front the Ambassador at Baghdad. Now he has brought his enemy in western Syria and with
bag up to ten
Zionism in Palestine, Sir Kipahan
played an important, but little known; rolo.
His cool, balansed": judgment did much to allay the turbulent passions of those heatle times.
"
On one night last month he
If the British are able to retain the support of the Arab and destroyed two enemy bombers Moslem world, it will be due during a single patrol, and later in largely to the knowledge, ex-three different patrols destroyed perience, and moral integrity of three enemy raiders, such mon as Sir Kinahan Corn-Cunningham, whose home is at
Croydon, is single, nged 28. wallis and H. St. John Philby
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