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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1951.
the oilfield crisis heins us to forget the Terror of
Cliveden place....
DOWN WITH ¿FRANCO!
"At any rate I don't have to the hide in Parliament like
Persian Prime Minister.”
"Little boys who shoot badly o that, Abdullah, will never bag anything better than a brace of Under-Secretories."
TEHERAN BANK L
** Sorry-all safe deposita have been scheduled as residences for Cabinet Ministers,”
Cummings
I maintain that a really Socialist Govemment would turn the other cheek and extend the hang of friendship to the just aspirations of the Persian Socialists."
London Express Service
DON IDDON'S HOME DIARY
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greater provinces the best meal I see
Manchester, one have had was in the pub at thriving econo- the back of the Daily Mail's male unit." Manchester oflice. The food
A
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PRESS
of
no
Americans. "Definitely anti - Ameri
feeling care
This time the
dateline
is
Manchester
Don't
judge
looked at me
I Os it were ingane. "Save Save? Who on
dear, Average dresses need better cut, more shape. They lack individuality and imagina- tion. Harsh, ugly print dresses, earth can save mostly buttoning up the front, with these look like uniforms, Sweaters and prices?" I said: skirts have much more style and
What
about they are of better wool thon Manchester? those in America. Coats rather
Any tions?"
much costume sugges shapeless, Not
jewellery.
+ Mrs Tindell
said Manches-
Inferior to
women.
NO OIL GRAB IN BASRA
FIF
(AY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
Basra, Iraq.
NIFTY THOUSAND
apathetic Iraqis
who
live in Basra, Iraq's number one of town and traditional home of Sinbad the Sailor, are watching the attempts of Premier Mossadeq, in neighbouring Ferala, to na- tionalise oil.
But whatever the result of Persia's demands on the Bri- tish the Impression is that no similar move will be made in Iraq-yet.
There are many reasons for this. Iraq is more stable than Persia and economically more sound. Its civil servants are pald up to date, while Persia's are owed at least three months' money.
So there is no political need in Iraq for a dashing national- sation scheme to distract public attention from other is.
ROYALTIES
England on
Talks are going on in Baghdad between the Iraqls and high officials of the Iraq Petroleum Company with a view to П possible. change.......in .existing royalty rates.
The Iraqis admit that they have not the tochnical experi- ence needed for taking over the "The women have wonderful | oilfields, though some are now
trained in skins and lovely hair, but their being ter was a right teeth are
those of two-year courses
Three fine place. And American 60 it is. 1 minutes extra time and a little drove out to mascara on their eyes would Wythenshawe, make them infinitely more at the new town, tractive." the new Man-
That is the other half of this magni cent it you like that? It's got to last us chester.
The Iraqis are keen that their take no team reporting and I estate
good as
should equal those royalties for days. It's the worrying, the housing
or better than, any similar
responsibility for the views ex-
to Persia and other oil- nagging struggle, and the plan- project in the
I Personally, United States. pressed,
think pald
areas, such વ will Sogn it
house ning ahead.
90,000 Lancashire lasses can hold their producing
Kuwait, on the Persian Gulf.
what Olimen refuse to say these royalties are.
It
It's
Don't imagine that the visitor staying at the "best" hotel in town and living on un expense They are very account is eating like a fighting well liked here. cock. Some householders make This is a won
istake. I have been fed derfully friend- thut
town. rabbit, pleces of ly remunts of indigestible pigeon, bits of alleg from snup impressions." 1.d farmyard fowl, some fair
At the suggestion of Vincent lsh, and an array of tired hors
Mulchrone,
the Daily Mall re- d'oeuvres, tasteless potato, and Insipid soup.
purter who has been my guide "And I'm one of the lucky people and the rents vary from own with any in the world..
about 10s. a a week for a one-bed- and escort here, I went to see
I have not heard any whining ones. It's the poor people who
room flat or coltage-type house Mrs Margaret O'Sullivan, д trained nurse and the wife of a
cannot afford even the meat ra, to approximately 2is. a week for or whimpering in Manchester. When I said to Alf Pimblott, tion, the pensioners, the people a four-bedroom house. This is (what a wonderful name)
the doctor.
with fixed Incomes who
Manchester
planning and Lan- mace-bearer of the Lord Mayor, cashire vision and ascill at their most harrowing * Mrs O'Sullivan, young, attrac- having the
that times were hard, he said: Wythenshawe best.
The lime." worked in a nursery
R
prously
"They could be worse. fald I get up from the table feeling tive, has
out, green with swollen, as it a lead anchor were with the children of the poor 1 suid: "Tell me
lawns, shaded by trees, and people are wonderful. Look at in my stomach, because of the and she knows something about your
Immaculate.
late. It makes the in- the way they tum their children disillusionment with starchy foods. Within two hours suffering
dustrial city's heart look old and out in beautiful dresses for the there is a vacuum. I feel empty
shabby. Yet there are improve Whit Week Walks," ments in the old Manchester and hollow, and there are
too. The city has been spruced strange rumblings inside me.
up and tidled up.
I had better meals for 41⁄2d.
and two (220. for fried fish pennyworth of chips) as a lad in Lancashire than I have been able to secure this time for 12s. 6d.
That shortage
and sacrifice. Her cialism." voler is different from the Lord Mayor's.
are
more about
So-
Mrs O'Sullivan said: "I don't want to tell you. I've told you It's all too mechanical. It would deaden everything."
is gen-
A
Another reason against Iraq's Laking over the oilfields is their distance from the por19. Tankers cannot clock at Baara:* owing to the sand bar.
So oll from Iraq is piped to in the Lebanon, and Tripoli Banias, in Syria, It is doubtful these two countries whether would co-operate as closely if Iraq took over the fields.
The Basra Petroleum Com- pany a subsidiary of the Iraq Company has just Petroleum completed 74-mile pipeline a new port, Fao, where tankers will be loaded.
This
is owned in company equal shares by British, French,
Albert's worry ND Albert Storey,
veteran The famed Free Trade Hall is newspaper man here, also to being restored and practically had his own `views, "No one From Mrs O'Sullivan, I went rebuilt. The Central Library is cares a hoot about what's hap- to Mrs, Edith Tindall, born in Yorkshire but fond of Man-
one of the most magnificent in pening in America—that is, no chester. Mrs Tindall's
the world. The shopping dis one among the average people. voice
Mar The big trouble here is enforce- was different from Mrs O'Sull-rict, Oxford-street and van's or the Lord Mayor's.
ket-street and Deansgate, are ment of the licensing laws. Why, bright and bustling.
ad, the police are shutting up the pubs on "It's the prices. Here, take a
time," look at this coat and hat for my shops? Much higher than I had What about the prices in the little girl-what do you think expected. of them?" I said I thought they
She said: "I used to be a So- list, a Keir Hardie Socialist, when I was in the Forces, i A lust I am beginning to get
thought the Labour' Government glimmering of an idea of would do wonders. Now I see Britain's meat shortage. I am this dreadful, dreary, mechanical also beginning to know some Socialism with no life and no thing about prices in the pro- heart. This awful deadening of vinces. The managements' of the State, Lord, it the hotels charge as though they angry. Look at the women. Look makes me were providing the accommoda- at the lines and furrows on their tion and service of New York's foreheads. They are having an Waldorf-Astoria London's agonising time. Don't talk to Savoy.
me bout your hors d'oeuvres at were charming. Mrs Tindall, a There are too many
I'll bleak your hotel. Look,
show vigorous and handsome blonde, corridors redolent of stale fish you."
said: "Yes, it was a charming and harsh disinfectant.
or
700 and
many carpets are stained She dodged out of the living- price, & 103. 6d, for a child's
hat and coat-It's ridiculous!"*
A
Feminine angle
ND what about the women? My wife, the shopping ex- room and rushed back with a
pert, reports: "Clothes and shoes spotted and too often there are
liny piece of red meat which I 7 said: "I suppose it's difficult as expensive as
York. -grime-and-grit-on-the-window presumed was beef. ""How ̈du"lo" save anything." Mrs Tindall Stockings thick, ugly, and 'very
Bttings
Our provincial hotels with t have to do better than this to gainer the dollars. And our Fulway trains-at least, the one I travelled in from Birmingham to Manchester-need the high- pressure Just, the vacuum
cleaner, the scrubbing brush and the mop.
•
Having got this bill of com- plaints off
shrinking my
New
I feel for Albert in this great trouble. Yes, the Lancashire folk are keeping their heads high and their hearts strong. It is good to be one of them.
Footnote: What England says todoy Lancashire did yesterday
at Wythenshawe.
"TOMORROW:"FROM LEEDS,
Sitting on the Fence....by
"They are not allowed anke
or
do
drink. Nor allow them male visitors.** -Mrs Ray Miller, trainer of
Sem
chest, I will report on Manches- ter and its people.
What Lancashire says today needs some strenuous interpret- Ing, and as I am proud to have been born in the county I will make the attempt.
With many voices
MANCHESTER speaks with
the Australian Women's cricket eleven.
OWL the googly. Bwing the bat,
Shout in unison
"Owzzat?"
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
We play the game; the never
pield
"Owzzat?" that screams from On, or off, the cricket field. 1
lovely lips
of
many voices. The Lord From beauty crouching in the Mayor, Colonel S. P. Dawson, Just completing his term office, says: "I am here to ding Down the praises of Manchester."
spin
slips.
the pitch and kill the
I saw him at his snug dat in Played! Fog-lane and he looked like an
girls win.
And muy
the beat
opening batsman for the county
team in his grey-striped, short- Keep the wicket, anptch the sleeved shirt and flannel trou-
sers. Colonel Dawson, a vigo-
rous man
charm, has the booster spirit.
bails,
For posterity
"What would the ordinary man in the year 2291 ke to
• know about the ordinary man of today?" aka Franci WI- Jams, who is Bling a box with articles of everyday 1130 and bricking up fù his new house for the benent of postarity.
looking after himself while
of the idea first he would have
.
happy
country
memories of the old
even if the ash cans over there have nothing in thêm worth picking over but fish bones.
Over here, the chow is as good as ever, with the ash cans full of lamb stoc, lobster nooburg and chicken maryland the choosy and elegant diners on Park Avenop.
A JAR of chicken in aspic, opened but forgotten, and now discarded by going mouldy.
ONE MAN'S egg-and-bucon ration for a week (one egg, two rashers), as he has not felt breakfast-Ume for hungry some days.
at
*
of those
mean
I will Maybe, Honey Cat, take you back on my journey home and
we will go places, A FILE of dirty cups, saucers, though if any plates, lives and forks. (Put- mousers prowling around Noo on that ting them in a box and bricking York park an eye
Ket them up in a wall would be the chassis they will certainly Burest way to hide them from the one-two one-two from a
with great personal We can play as well as males the family is away, had thought not spend a holiday in sunny
the hot uns, hold the filled his box with the following: Yes? No? No."
He said: "Did you know that Manchester is the third port in the country; that it has only percent unemployment; that it is the centre of the most densely populated area in the world?"
Hold
stingers, Hold it, Mr Butterfingers.
The game of cricket is no joke
us who neither drink nor
I mumbled something about London and New York. "In the To world," said the Lord Mayor smoke; Armly. The rents here are es low as anywhere in the United Games Kingdom-take
at a look
made Wythenshawe and that
wil
A PAIR of utility socks full of holes.
IF this ordinary man, who is the P.L. W. when she returns.) cat that still packs a haymaker
In both paws. A NOTE TO HIMSELF: "Why
Meanwhile, I will date you Persia? Funny
paragraph? up for the Festival and show you how to get into the restau- rant kitchens. ANOTHER NOTE TO HIM- SELF: "Wash up today? Yes? But I warn you, I don't want dated A PHOTOGRAPH of his bed, No? No. Make bed today? Yes? to hear you have been unmade for days, the sheets and No? No. Work tomorrow? Yes. up by any British cat as I am mission and on this good-will blankets on the floor and cover- More parties? No."
do not want
any international trouble.
ed with old newspapers and cigarette ends.
A GROCER'S BILL showing are toon and runs are his wild extravagance with the housekeeping money while his the Plucky Little life partner,
hundreds of miles
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and booming and we aren't grumbling too much," *
ade. Moreover, if some wolf in
Hannels
away.
ininds to other
of photographs I said: "Can you suggest any- taken by the South China thing to improve Manchester?"
The Lord Mayor looked Diverts our Morning Post, South China dumbfounded for a moment but channels, Sunday Post-Horald, and recovered. Bald: "You know, China Mall Staff Photo- the stations." The Lord Mayor Then this would-be ladykiller
Paws across
the sea
over
Dutch
A
and American capital, with one of the world's richest men, Calouste Gulbenkian, as a participant. Investments limited to drawing a five pers cent rake-off,
PROSPECTING
are
Drilling, and prospecting for ail are going on all the time at Basra, Kirkük, and Ain Zalah, It is unlikely that these seml- completed stations will be taken over by the Iraqis
in
Add to all this genuine good will towards Britain, and it is easy to see why everyone Iraq is so casual and un- concerned about the goings on at Abadan, where the Anglo- Iranian refinery is situated in Persia, only about 30 miles from Basra.
Although the political tem- perature is cool, Basra is other- wise Hving up to its boast as one of the world's hottest spots,
The shade temperature now 110, and the humidity 90. It would be bearable if there were any shade, but the town' lics on the edge of miles of shadeless desert, baked by the
Bun.
On the banks of the river are forests of date palms, and the workers live in huis of plaited canes and mud. Richer charac- lers put mud walls round them. The women wear all-envelop- ing black hoods and clonks with eye-holes Ku-Klux-Klan style, The men dress like Rudolph Valentino shells with robes and flowing headgear.
can
IN THE DITCHES
а
In roadside ditches house- wives wash clothes, themselves, vegetables, and cooking pots, Further up horses drink and cars are washed.
Only about 2,000 out of population of 50,000 in Basra read or write, and they have four newspapers--one in English
There Is little love for Iraq In Persin.
to tho According English-languago Iraq Times, Dr Shalghan of the Porslan National Front cald in the Persian Parliament that, it ho were governor, he "would send the editor of the Iraq Times to the scaffold."
page.
From a noospaper clipping LETTER from Manhattan *Mouser, ---American
over tough sent.
I hear you have D restaurant called
The editor of the Iraq Times cat, to his English sweetheart, started Lottle.
"Chez Lottle." If so, you can sportingly put this on the front count on me as a customer. A with you in your Hiya Sugar Puss,
quiet meal own garden Is just what the This is to let you know, I doctor ordered. A WINE AND SPIRIT mer- am
the for coming chant's bill showing even, wilder Festival of Britala to take a As the poet. sayr-"A bowl look-sce at the show and an- of milk, a can of fish and thou, extravagance.
other pack at your stream beside me in the wilderness. Bloodsucker, the Income-tax in- into my dreams and is still the
Keen your paws crossed and spector.
cutest little chassis for my phrace. He said: "Yes, there Shapely legs concealed by pads
A GRAMOPHONE record of money anywhere in the world. those hips a-swinging, Sugar are the stations and there is an
Puss. I am on my way, It is also a good-will" trip by not be looked upon by his morning cough after a
party with chuma nao sions- & an American cat who has ‘zorne
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graphers are on view in the murmured an unprintable ⋅ad-‡ Gels the works from MÍTE A SHARP NOTE ITom Mr ned chassis, which still gets And how,"
Morning Post Building..
ORDERS * BOOKED.
jective and suggested that I re- Miller.
port he had used a sanguinary
acute shortage of hotels and we Shall
need - more." centralisation-got.
cuda,
The altitude of most prople In Persia is summed up in a story told in the bur at the British Club by an oilman.
A Persian, protesting. how much he and his colleagues know about all-running, sald Indignantly: "You think wo know damn nothing. Actually, we know damn all.”·
- You could not put it better if you tried for medica,