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WHY FAROUK HAS NO LOVE FOR BRITAIN
F
ነቢ MAROUK of the casinos Birry Pasha, and that it
in gambling
British troops who entered his ngain. Time time not with Egyp- Palace to force him to do no." This was the story told by tian money, but with Egypt. members of Farouk's entourage And the stakes are the whenever English-speaking
casinos of France.
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the
friendship of this country, people were met during the
Farouk has never loved king's tour_this_year_of Britain. His unhappy boy.
The story always ended with hood memories of life in this sentence: "That is why the Britain crystallised In January 1942 when in
the Interests of the
by Vargas Gardner
Allied war effort a who reported the king's casino holiday serious step had to
hip franker
Ho went to
be taken by British Ambas. British must quit our country."
Farouk, endor Sir Miles Lampson. moments, admits, that his dis- now Lord Killearn.
like of the British began when Here, in the king's own he first arrived in England at words, is what happened: the age of 15.
"I had been told by Sir England to be coached for the Academy at Royal Military Miles to replace my Prime Woolwich, Minister Sirry Pasha with He found that in one more friendly towards where he lived, little Britain. It was obvious was paid to his station in life by those who were not mem- that the only person suit bers of his entourage. able was Nahas Pahas."
Surrey, regard
His coaches treated him, he another complained, as "Just
moreover, pupil; one,
who of wanted a certain amouiat
The request had been con- veyed to the king while British tanks and troops formed a ring round the palace. There was humouring." talk at the time that Egypt's Premier was about to advise the king to throw in his lot with the Germans.
He left....
FEW months after the
A prince arrived in London
and
Farouk
A member of Farouk's on- tourage who was with him in his father died, France this year said of that returned to Calro us king. January day:—
He returned to Londen when "His Majesty received the he was 17, this time with request with considerable in mother Queen Nazli ond dination. He looked out of a four younger sisters. window and saw the tanks and the soldiers, and sent for a few of his close friends.
He never forgot
"FOR
NOR some five hours urgent conversations were held, and finally he decided he would abdicate rather than give in to Britain's demands.
"He sent for paper and be- gan writing. in his own hand, the instrument of his abdication with a pen he had taken from his jacket pocket.
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It was a courtesy visit, and the Foreign Office took a hand In the arrangements.
But one night he left a din- ner party and did not return. A search was organised.
At 7 a.m. the next day he turned up and made it clear that he resented being ques- tioned over this incident. refused to give any explana- tion.
He
Back in Cairo he freely com- pleined he found the British
G "tule over Ambassador bearing."
It never came
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Some surfaces are hard to slaan....
Theightened this
summer
his
with
"He had written three БОП- presents one fiftieth part of the nailonal Income. As an altera-tences when suddenly the pen tive let us assume that Britain
was taken from his hand, and affords half the
HAT investment of a voice said: You cannot ab- this programme and the other dicate. It was the voice of half
who had when he teamed that no offi- to carried by the United close friend, States. That other half will be known him many years.
clal Invitation would be ex- less than $800 million each year.
"The king remained silent tended from BuckinghamI Which amounts to $0 for every for several minutes, and then Palace, for him to end
said: 'Perhaps it would be bat- round-the casinos holiday wage-camer. Such an
ter not to'."
few days in London. the So Nahas Pasta became He had expressed confidence Prime Minister of Egypt, and to his friends that such an the British troops were with- invitation would be forth drawn.
coming. "But," said the member of After all, he reminded them, his entourage, "the king never he had just become a major forgot that it was the British general in the British Army.
sions are in London or Washington-a great many references are being made
the programme is the amount of basic development requirements to the recently announced
Anartee avaliable Inside the arc to be met, it will be Six Year Plan" for the
developing American would be less than 1 country for schemes of this necessary for the economic development of kind. Its Government points nancial institutions to push. South and Southeast Asia, out that in under-developed sound development plans
their co-ordinate "Colombo Plan" is countries there is This
great difficulty
culty Eressively, rate of savings activities, and to expand the ait, maintaining being talked of
anywhere comparable with that volume of their lending opera- panacea, an expedient to in European countries. Pakistan tions. In the nxet few years withstand the possible poli- is a country of eighty million the two banks should seek an tical disintegration of Asia. people yet its total rate of saving annual net flow of Investment cannot be rated higher than funds in the range of 000 to 800
annually. As a million dollars annually." 'The Colombo Plan-as it £20 million
result the programme will called after the capital involve Pakstan in a deficit of city of Ceylon, where inter- about £130 mil in in a period national conferences in of six years,
ugurating the scheme were Skill Lacking
held--is a scheme for cápital
nvestment over a period of
WITH Agures calculated on a
Mr Gordon Gray, it is right to state, was presenting a re- port to President Truman that represents the most enlightened expert opinion in Washington. It is not in the least likely that his recommendation will be ac- cepted entirely. On the figures
half of one percent of national Income of the United States. If this, and other pro- grammes even of a similar scale, are an effective means to withstand Communism in Asia then they can only be counted as cheap at the price.
who compelled him to replace
-London Express Service.)
WINDOW ON THE WORLD
S the Hot War goes
A from crisis to crisis in
x years in India, Pakistan. W or a talsis the needs he gives there are several other the Far East there are aylon, Maluya and British of Indin to carry out the pro- qualifications. Mr Gray had in signs that some of Japan's John
rneo. The total figure gramme are set at £018 million, mind programmes of investment most dangerous anti-West
six years is given as The main limitation foreseen by for the Philippines, Indonesia, $1,860 million. This figure, India is the dificulty in finding Indo-China, Burma, the Middle politicians may be on the which appears large at first men of sufficient technical skill, East, Turkey, and (to some ex-march again.
Com-
The financial approach to the
Great Urgency
from original
were
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however, he believed that the it was a ship in distress. Only available in sufficient numbers, tent) Africa, as well 15
Industry was doomed. The when the bells grew louder and fight, needs explanation Indeed an examination of the countries within the "Colombe Twelve such men ware re- Minister also pointed out that more musical did they realise
List of persons required for Plan." Nevertheless the First it is important to India's programme indicates this tion of 450 million people Occupation purge rates fine the tarbush was not a very that Saint Nicholas was arriv
a world that is mouths dimeulty in ppreciate that the scheme im
and souls within the have lost no time in returning lapsed if caught in the lightest ing, not on a sleigh behind his already
shorl of train- seriously
to politics and are now, trying shower of rain. ain area of the Colombo Plan rc-
reindeer "Rudolph" but s a nationally formulated ea technicians. India will need, presents far more than half the to launch a new Party bearing
gally decorated boat with hun- programme of capital in for instance 339 mechanical en- underdeveloped population" of the ominous title of "The Peo-
The manufacturers then ap- vestment in a total of 569 gincers, a large number of highly the non-Communist world--that ple's Democratic Party,"
pealed to his Excellency to make dreds of pennants flying from clectricians to install is counting China as no longer of trained'
the wearing of the tarbush law the mast-heads. There was B specific projects, 388
hydro-electric plants, and about "our" responsibility.
Three of the lenders
throughout the country. If this Pirate aboard as well and as the com- a which are at their
hundred selentitle experts
well known for their strong na- was done their Industry would Saint clambered onto the quay mencement already. The ranging from geophysicists to
tionalistic views before and be saved.
a fine chestnut horse was there Colombo Plan, in fact, is not surgeons and statisticians.
during the war.. Now they claim
Fashion, however, must move to greet him. "Marshall Aid" pro-
that they are reformed. The
WIN This gramme for British
programme is now under con- WHAT is apparent from every object of their new Party, they on even in Egypt. Hie Excel- monwealth countries and alderation In London and line of the Colombo report say, is merely to maintain world leney said that such a law was British territories in Asia. Washington. The total external is that the schemes fire of the peace and restore Japanese in- out of the question. Dishearten- to their silent factories and the The most suitable parallel dance required in the six years greatest urgency. These Govern-dependence so that the "unselfish co, the manufacturers returned
American taxpayers may be £1,084 million. Of this me 's which, mostly, have taken
relieved of the burdens of oc- prospect of a Western trilby. in Europe figure Great Britain has under- ove control of their own affairs would be with the Monnet taken to contribute about £250 since World War II, are faced cupying our country."
LOCAL RAIN-MAKER million in a form that is
with perilous economic and
situations. Indin, Nayertheless, the leaders of SAVES THE SITUATION (During the war, India, Pakistan Pakistan and Ceylon have each the present Democratic Party and Ceylon amassed sterling begun capital projects
under
(the largest opposition bloc in THE rain-makers, the men the little harbour of Blanken- the Diet) are already wary of whose world is bounded by burghe. credits in London which were the pressure of economic neces- frozen and released under sity that they are certainly in- their now colleagues: "These scientific formulae and likely arrangement year by year. This capable of carrying through with wretched purgees posing as de looking ciznuli, are back again BERLIN BALLOONS £250 million
csants viriv
their own resources. This im-mocrato merely went to sabotage
REACH TURKEY a Onal settlement of these provident over-planning has real democracy' in Japan.” frozen dobts). There remains, been instituted in every then # further 2040 million case, In order to stave nf
DIWANING POPULARITY THE Colombo Plan, however, This figure appears
which is not so for provided, the danger of Communism.
OF FEZ to be of is because he falled to take such is in one senso more precise.
It has
on different proportions If it is grandiose riiks stated for detall projects intended.
in annum (approximately U.S. $500 collapsed. Thus India, for instance, there are million).
with a scheme
Is
Plan in France which pre- the release of sterling ball politieat
Mented, in 1946, the dire
fion of capital investment in France over a period of
tears.
More Precise
capital
the individual estimated as 2140 million per schemes that Chiang Kai-shek A TARBUSH crisis is worry
eight major irrigation
und
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When a shortage of rain-water A CHILDREN'S balloon race, threatened to cut off the electrie one of the first to be held in power of two large textile fac- Germany since before the wor, tories near Lyons recently, a re has just brought happiness to
artificia rain. Desperate, the the local shortage by producing two young Berliners. focal authorities agreed.
tired army officer offered to end
►
Borrowing an acroplane from
The race was one of the at- tractions at the recent German
Industries Fair. Over 90,000
ing manufacturers In Egypt. The tarbush or fez was once the There is no easy way for pride, of every young mun la Britain, Canada, Australia and Egypt. Now, writes correspon- the United Stater to find the komo 49 minor Irrigation
sum of over £1,000 million. As dent Margaret Gilruth, one of a local club, the General loaded balloons were released from the
the gayest of national' head it with home-made bombs filled Brld Pavilion and prizes TN this context it is worth in most schemes of this kind dressen is suffering a steady do- off. Within a few hours he had given by the U.S. Marshall Aid six pa grammes for the reclamation of studying the recently pub- demand for capital will fall Land and five afforestation pro- lished report to President Tru-
out the man made by Mr Gordon Gray equally during the six years, I cline, The tarbuch-in fashion- produced rain-but' a'ways in authorities in Germany-were
of which are already begun, and
chemes.
There are
To carry the number and types of experts that will be needed from abroad are already at
and tho`number of trainees who ill be sent abroad, to return kined to run the projects, are
that mated.
the
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with radioactiva metals and toolc
It is possible to centemplate able quarters at any rate-is the wrong place. Villages wore offered to the child whore bai- concerning the foreign economic that £400 million, will be rew now almost taboo. As a result, drenched for miles around. but toon travelled furthest.
the United States. quired for policies of
Now, Asia in the year Under-developed Countries, Mr looks ominous although it is 13 facing ruin.
the section devoted to 1052-in
the tarbui Industry itself is one fell in the dam supplying 11-year-old Jurgen Alt has been that already a year
the factories with power. Gray
Soon only two days' supply told that his balloon won the reaches the conclusion months away. Nevertheless
thoro
the of electricity remained; Pre- race by being picked up in In an attempt to save raise the is considerable determination, in the only means level of Asian and Africon political
ord rude, prices were recently in paring more bomba the General, Turkey, 930 miles, an the bal quarters countries is by investment in the whole transaction of cuello creused by 30 percent, so that took off again. This time ha loon flies," from Berlin.
capital
lucky. The artificial down- The plans of the Governments productive
สส resources not by to Asia as an essential ex- manufacturers could make big-
Tho runner up was another. these countries which have direct subsidy to consumption, penditure. In order to present ger profite from the few people pour moved over the dam, the
Berlin boy whose balloon-land- seen published in a single do- (This, in itself, is a marked con- the account in a different light at buying cir country's na-Mourvoir was filled,
ument ahow marked dinerenons, trast to the Marshall Plan which I intend, finally, to translate tional hat. The attempt was a general was a hero' agata. ed in Finand 000 miles away. 0,000 people Altogether, övre me from another, in point of was largely concerned in main some of its arithmetic into daily falluru.
FATHER CHRISTMAS.
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Let us assume that the whole turer visited the Minister of games fuera He then discures the part to investment in paid, by Britain. Commerce and Industry. IS, ALREADYX "Father Christmas to each balloon. What happened mjbe played by the International at averages 2180 million each the Minister wore a tarbush and A has been on his rounds into the armaining 84 000 balloons. Pakisfan, for example, finda Bank for Reconstruction and year. Which Is B for each found it dignified and, most row 1 the "Belgian (dahing" village of nobody knows. Some of them Sand; the principal Umitation on the Export-Import Bank. If wage-earner every year, it je poceta
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