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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER 17, 1949.
CYRENAICA NOW WAITS FOR HOME RULE
Grandmama:
Goes Cycling
By CHRISTOPHER
PHILLIPS
Returning completely hoarse
By ALAN M'GREGOR
From what the average, important strategie soldier saw of Cyrenaica during along the Mediterranean the North African campaign of North Africa. the country's 250,000 inhabit-
ty of raggedly dressed nomads,
ruling family, are opposed to the principle of a hereditary emirate" But national unity alone will situation, not solve the problems facing litteral] Cyrenaics when Independence is
secured. For the past seven year the British Administration, with a grant-in-aid (to date 22,646, 159), from his Majesty's Govern MONT, 203 followed a mesratikeri
policy, as stipulated by interna
ants appeared to consist large Waiting On UN always pitifully eager to barter Emir Mohammed Idris
Now leaving for Senussi. under-sized eggs for tea or a
Sonal law. They did not talks in London, is the head of the tin of "bully."
Fascist economy, aiming at the impress as members of one of newly-formed Cyrenaican Govern the Arab world's closest-knit ment with responsibility over in-demographic settlement", of thor ternal affairs. The next 9ove | sands of Italian peasants, gave to religious and political groupings:
awaits a N decision than poor, still largely undeveloped, -the 'Senussi.
Inture of Massolini's former Afri country a totally unreal economy When the colonists were - with- can empire.
Ascetic-looking,
CO
od Mos
Australia and New want a Pacific Pact. Anzacross the sea
Zealand
Some observers think that Western Germany is now Heuss- ed on her own petard.
pres called a "let the dust settle"
Amerfum tactics-in China have`
policy. Yes ashes and..."
Out on a limi
Indeed
"ashes
"Six crew members who aban- doped the stricken hug Afognak were sighted on a branch at Palm
sanussi had given the British Few knew then of the help the
despectacled, drawn before the final British o Point, Alaska" from a glorious week-end spent Army, how they had formed four Emir Idris, is the 61 year old cupation in 19; the farms were
strenuous but vain attempts battalions of auxiliary troeps an at yodeling from a mountain der British officers, how other grandson of the founder of the left derelict and the lavish sub-I Dr Arthur W. Woo, Mrs. Samuel top, I have locked myself in bad guided patrols far behind the Senussi sect, Sayyed Mohammed sidies ceased.
S.. Young and Miss F. Cathe-my room waiting for the pangs rize-Woo and Mrs. Jock K. of shame to subside-and-my
heartfelt ↑ voïce to return.
express thanks to all friends and re- latives for their kind mes- sages of condolence, atten- dance at the funeral and for floral. tributes and donations on the occasion of their sad bereavement.
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Axis lives to blow up ammunition and fuel dumps, or how the tribes men had aided Allied airmen shot down over enainy-held territory.
It was in return for this assis- tarice that in 1942 the Señussi re ceived Britain's promise that she would not allow them to be sed jected again to Italian rule.
Beyond the window pane the flowy of Bavarian man and womanhood 'spin past on bicycles is endless procession.
F Aglow with the joys of summer and adorned with small bunches of flowers which can only just hold their own against the bright colours of the cyclists' attire, they speed homeward
The lads, hiding little of their sun-tanned legs in ย
traditional leather breeches or white shorts and wearing coloured shirts, are far from exhausted by their outwards ing.
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Their voices are loud and coorse add their hair much too long, bat the girls seem to like it that way for they are losing no ground to them on the home stretch.
The lasses cannot, of coase, be described sammarily. First i must give them credit for stealing the fashion crown from Paris in the New Look for cyclists-the skirt is worn outside the saddle and the age-old struggle against the unravelling tendencies of the wind is abandoned.
Ibn Ali, an Algerian by birth, who in 1943 established his first a la (religious college) in Lib 52. Preaching a return to the austerity of primitive Islam, with a ban on alcohol and tobacco, the Sayyed; a man of forceful per acclaimed by the sonality, was (till then) oper-warring Bedouin chieftains as both their temporal and religious leader........
And, today, the British Govern-
The present Emir spent almost ment, through the existing Brit- ish Administration in Cyrenaica, 30 Fears in exile in Egypt, return- is pledged to take all steps, coming finally to his homeland in patible with international obliga 1945. The country is solidly loyal tions, to further the progress to to him personally, though some of Italian-educated self-rule of this former.the younger,
dis- Italian colony of 200,000 square townsmen, regarding with miles, which occupies a highly-favour certain members of the
The Legend Who Lived In A Cave
put round again, the current idea being that something should be done with or with- out Soviet approval. Ameri- can policy has for some time been on the line that it is un- necessary to have a formal treaty in order to make the first steps. SCAP has gradu- ally handed over power to the Japanese, and given them autonomy not only in some internal affairs, but also in external matters.
Many of the Far Eastern
Traditional sommer wear for nations do not share Gen the Fair Sex is the "Dirndl,” an eral MacArthur's enthusiasm, abridged version of the national however. Australia's Premier costume with a few concessions When he was a young diplomat Chifley has declared that for comfort Any colour scheme in Russia before the war he was is permissible to suit the 3- not content with a stool in the Japan was-wasting time in any efforts to obtain consular charred brunette, the crimson Moscow Embassy. He wanted to
The see Samarkand and Bokhara and to call him Tite. blond, or powdered black. representation in the Do-rich folds of the skirt effectively other fabled cities. minion before peace was offi- disguise the more utilitarian
They were
in the Central cially recognised. Many peo- trends in the design of the
Asian territories of the Soviet. ple in this part of the world Bavarienne.
which were "closed to foreigner.“, But he saw them. cannot forget 1941-45.
This attitude-comes-as-a-re-. buff to large sections of American opinion, which has been conditioned by Mac- Arthur's frequent statements about Japanese progress to
into wards re-entry
the family of nations, the over- whelming new sense of de- mocracy achieved under his aegis, and their saddened acknowledgement of guilt so sincere that never again will they contemplate aggression.
Age Claims A Privilege
Pleasure cycling is in no way the privilege of any particular age group. Grandpapa, in richly embroidered leather shorts and bracts," and grandmans are well represented in this home-bound food of wheeled humanity.
For the sake of sccuracy it must be said that not every parti- cipant in this gay cavalcade necessarily e pare-bred Bavarian Since Bismarck joined reluctant Bavaria to the German Reich in tamination has taken place.
around. *
Strategic Value ·-·
As long as the world situation remains uneasy, Cyrenaica's best internationally. is the asset strestegic value of its coastline in Tahruk it passes the nest us. tural harboar between Alexandria and Bizerta.-
The Emir is fully alive to the material benefits of a treaty for the security of his country.
But Cyrenaica is not all sand and strategy after the vast solitude of desert, the green Jebel is a land of charta. From Tobruk,
storms abound, the coast road where debris of war and sand- elimbs gradually through barren
hills.
Then, suddenly, at the-fout of the escarpment is Derna ("the pearl of Cyrenaica," the Italians called it set between the light brown cf.the desert and the azure sea. It is a town of compact, white-washed houses amid shady gardens of bananas and Vines, By GEORGE MÛURRY
A pomegranates and oranges. Brigadier. Fitzroy Maclean, new appointments, allotted new faint scent of spices clings to the MP, is a man who likes to get tasks and established a new dis tiny shops of the narrow, cover-
cipline. He would send for peo-ed-in suks. ple and tell them what to do.
After Derna begins the plateau You,' he said to them, will do of the Jebel Akhdar, parts hot
Serbo- like Scottish moorland this; and you, that, in
At Cyrene are the ruins of a Croat, Ti, to, ti, to. He did this so often that his friends began once-famous city, founded by The name Greeks in 641 BC. Timeless, grey. stuck. It grew to be more than Doric columns and moss-grown a nickname. It became a call to
fragments of walls stand wind swept on the crest of the plateau ection, a rallying point"
By the massive walls of the an- cient theatre, the escarpment drops sharply for more than";a: thousand feet towards the
The war came, and he wante
Communist Aim
As the talk went on Macle
ranean.
Farther on
on is the wild grandeur
to join in. As a diplomat, how-tecame more and more impress-quoise "sheen of the Meciter ever, he could not get into the ed with the quality of Tito, They Army, and Regulations forbade spoke of Communism, and Tito him to resign from the Foreign sald his ultimate aim was to es- tablish a Communist State in Service for that purpose,
Yugoslavia, though it might have to be a gradual process.
So he tock up politics in order to join the Army and became MP for Lancaster. That is how, as G. K Chesterton might have sald, he went to Africa by way
of Parliament Square,
Special Service
In North Africa he joined the
It is slowly becoming, 1671 & certsin Prussian con- Special Air Service, that remark
parent that not everybody regards the... General's pro- nouncements as gospel.
A few Austrians have occasionable organisation whose members ally drifted in from the mountsing landed behind the enemy's lines by parachute and blew up In America there has been and no doubt the odd Italian has the natural desire to be rid strayed across the Alps, and don things Then he kidnapped
general of the Persian Army in hat with of the economic and moral net the Bavarian
istabazz burden of the occupation, chamois brush before he could be
By these devious routes he ap- and an equally natural wilpotted and knifed by the natives.
When not actively engaged in proached the work which made lingness to believe in the renifing and crushing skulls with his name, well known in the last birth of Japanese thought, beer-mugs the Bavarian is every war, and which led to the writ together with the co-opera- bit the kind and tolerant characing of his book, Eastern Ap tion they have shown to ter we associate with flower-pick-proaches. SCAP. These feelings com- ing and sunbathing.
Foreigners Get The Obsession
bined with the habitual re action of "let's forget all
For acceptance into his fold
about the recent trouble" and get back to
2
****And will your new Yugoslavia be an independent State or part of the Soviet Union? I asked.
You must remember,' he said, the sacrifices which we are make ing in this struggle for our in dependence. You need not sup pose that we shall lightly cast side a prize which has been won at such a cost"
“It might mean something, on the other hand, I reflected, it might not
of the Wadi Kut, a huge gorge in the hills, where slender, expresses, pines, evergreen, oaks and oles- ters shoot out from crevices in the
rocky walls. Honeysuckle entwines bushes, ty the roadside. Next come the farms of the former Italian colonists mile after mile of them doted ever the plain in rigidly geometrical lines.
Arabs occupy a few, but most are empty, though bombastic Fas- est inscriptions credere, ob bedire, combattere" or "Viva l Dace" in ugly black letters still short from the white walls.
Village communal centres, stand abandoned, pigions futtering in Tito clearly possessed energy, the dusty silence of empty char
ches, intelligence. determination, and
There is a certain melancholy in Also; he seemed, to my relief, to
observing these relics of Italian Initiative. In the Barce plain have a sense of humour.
alone it was planned to settle 49 000 colonists; the ultimate deve- lopment of Cyrenaica's agricul tare can be but conjecture:
Town Of Desolation A target for the air and sea
"In short, here at last was a Communist who did not need to refer everything to the competent He was made head of the mis-authorities, to look up the party on which was ordered to make line at every step. contact with a mysterious man named Tito in Yogoslavia: Up to the British aid and supplies
Chetniks."
a completely asks no more of the foreigner ↑ had gone to Mihallovitch and hi; älist, less of a Communist? Mig attacks of thres successive cair peacetime mentality."
·
For Whom the Toli Bin
The new Sueż Canal charges are costing America $8,000,000
year, This thinking in rolllions seems to be spreading to other people, 100,
"I have read in some old
mysterious tale,
A
Some legend wild and vague, How midnight host of
spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of
Prague..."
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Today they would have been readily identified as the poor pallid ghosts of freedoms lost.
Waiting for the Bang
•
This "growing comfdence", of the Nationalists' reminds one of the bullfrog who blew himself bigger and bigger, and as he did So, became braver and braver.. and all on hot air.
TS. Congressman Huber says we should stop fearing Commun». ism and start ridiculing it
Make their faces red, ent
Dr.Shekel and Comrade Tito, * Speaking frem Split, the Yugo slavs announce that they will re- pel attacks from either Stalin or Churchill Correspondent sug- gests they might be speaking". from sheer schizophrenia.
Truce-utent Tactics.
The
Indonesians claim the Dutch are over-executing cease-fire business...
Leafiets fall in Tito's autuma.
Those pamphlets in Belgrad might be the shape of things
form came the camin
WARR
crised."
literacy in Asia to be Dis
But can it be excused?
"I haven't seen you at church - lacly, Mr. Smim, said the minister.. "What's the matter?"
My daughter's learning to play the harp,” replied the parishioner. "But what's that got to "de with it?"
"Well, I'm not so keen now on
*
going to Heaven as I was."
Three Scouts reported to their Scoutmaster that they had done a good deed that day. "We help ed an old lady across the street," they told him,
"That is a good deed," the
Scoutmaster beamed. But why did it take three of you to help her across the street?? didn't want to go
"Because," one explained, she
ments uncleared heaps of rubble, odd strands of barbed wire. Rasty and twisted, the upper. works of sunken ships protrude
forlornly from the waters of thế
spacious barbour.
"Might he, as time went on, evolve become more of a nation-
The Senast dag-a, crescent his allegiance to Moscow weaken?
ob black-dies Would he ever be able to throw aigns. the capital, Benghazi, is, and single star off a mental habit, painfully and even today, s town of desolation over the former Graziani Palace, rigorously built up over 20 years? any buildings have only
Entire quarters were wiped out arenovated, as the official residence:
the of the Fair. Now adopted as the It seemed unlikely: And yet there was that unexpected inde- lower half restored, the upper Libyan national emblem, the same of mind, that odd lack storeys gaping into space. Ang tady Butters from mosque The streets, by night anlit, minarets in neighbouring Tripoli- or
to abound in pitfalls for the stran tania. Fitzroy
A“ pointer to the future? decide whether British cupplies, rer: open manholes in, paves should be withdrawn from Mihai- levitch and diverted, in greater abundance, to Tito
All those qualities are easily much more effective force, and pendeaclean's job was
generations
to
Germans.
than that he should speak his This may be magnanimous, patois, have hairy knees and a but it should not lead the beer drinking capacity of not lesa Tito Rumours U.S. into assuming that than 10 pints per session and, of
But news had seeped through everyone else automatically course, be able to yodel from a that Tito's Partisans were
mountain. zgrees The Japanese are
that the Chetniks were fighting said to recognise that there
attainable in three is little hope of a quick when you become eligible for the Partisans more enthusiastical restoration of normal rela-membership of the Bavarian ly then they were fighting the tions and good feelings with Party and will devote your life It was Fitzroy Maclean's job to the Philippines, Korea, In- fighting the Prussians at all times
discover the truth. He was para donesia and China And theexcept in war.
chuted one night into a secluded A curious tact about Bavaria is valley in Bor which had been road to this restoration may that every foreigner who travels temporarily cleared of the Ger of his reports: "Much wall de be much longer than some there at once becomes obsessed mans. He met the legendary rend upon Tito, and whether he would wish.
with the urge to imitate the Tito who, today, is very much the sees himself in his former role America must already have natives both in dress and condest Man in the evilla leader who potential ruler of an independent News. Then he was of Comintern agent or as the appreciated the significance Tais makes the task of the me
merely a student of Bavarians and their lived where he could, usually in Yugoslav Statea remarkable habits a little difficult at least a cave, until he has evolved some fool-
example of intelligent analysis “As we entered, Tito came for and prevision: proof method of telling the ward to meet us writes the au
thor about their first meeting. thoroughbred from the trand.
"He was of medium height, clean--
ما
of the stand by the Philip pines and China regarding America's suggestion an Japanese reparations. That opposition represents an hon est point of view and a good case has been made out for it: Such viewpoints must necessarily, be taken into ac count by the US in for- mulating policies and reach- ing decisions in respect of Japan
A simple method is to stage slight acrident with the beer la belonging to the specimen under observation and nots his reae
tions.
regular
Remembering Tito's indepen ence of mind, he wrote in one
Soviet Lines.
shaver, with tanned,
This aspect of his mission can- features and iron-grey hair. He tinued to fill his mind, and he had a very firm mouth and alert spd to Mr Churchill about t blue eyes.
conversation at the Cairo Conference, to which The cautious
be was flown. He emphasised with each man feeling his that whether Britain helped the began, The Outburst
way. The author gives some Partisans or not, they would be Freezes You
thing of Tito's background is the decisive political factor in real name is Josip Broz and he
the son of a Croat peasant Yugoslavia after the war; arid
ft is essential that the If he is genuing you will be peace, treaty should not be treated to the richest bit, of prose negotiated by the Council of the human ear can ever be pri Foreign Ministers nor, dic-vileged to heat. The outwurst
tated by America It must will freeze you spell-hound on ti army in World War I was made yapar,” I replied.".
Your
that their system would inevit- ably be on Soviet lines, Russian Captive "Do you intend asked Mr. He fought in the Austrian Churchill, to make Yugoslavia
e home after the war?? prisoner on the Russian front De multilateral from the You will order
Soother was released, and rough with the Neither do Life kald outset, with the views of all beer and your mantelshelf will Red Army during the civil war that being so, the less you and I' interested parties carefully never agam be without coloured He returned to Yugoslavia a worry about the form of govern- considered. Any other course postcards front "Bavaria, K, on convinced Communist, and spent meat they set up, the better. That would sow the seeds of the the other hand, your object leaps the next 20 years in and out of is for them to decide. What in graves discontent in an area upon your and antice pleases your fall as a political prisoner Interests us is which of them is do- which cannot safely absorb heart with a shlette then he's 1937 he was muide secretary: Ing most harm to the Germans? any more of that particular Fake, probably a politicni refugee general of the Yugoslav Co the answer. It was writo" and
from Yugoslavia. You won't buy munist Party commodity without the most im-another beer and it serves He was a good organiser. In Tits, therefore, owes a great deal serious consequences,
Aim right
his underground army he made to Fitzzoy Madeg
The author had no doubt about
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