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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1951.
Tudch
IN A PERSIAN GARDEN
Well, Chretike. Po prarpinet with Doty Marata
NOW WHAT'S SO
IMPORTANT ABOUT BECOMING
The Scrapbook edited by
JAMES
BARTLETT
21
T wasn't Cesar-because he reckoned that a person had to be 25
to be fully grown up. And it wasn't Henry VIII.
But some time between the two the lawmakers decided that people grew up overnight as soon as they were 21.
And the custom-that a boy or girl goes to bed one night as an infant and gets up in the morning as an adult-sticks.... It sticks so hard that even today legal infants under 21— CAN marry and bring up children of their own-only if they get parents' con- sent (or a magistrate). But they-
CANNOT be sued for breach of promise, nor can they adopt children.
CAN drive tanks in the army, but they-
CANNOT get a licence to drive a heavy lorry in Clvvy Street. CAN open business and appoint a manager, but they--
Even a Persian donkey could see what's going
to happen here
P
by KENNETH MACAULAY
TEHERAN..
ULL up the carpet to
sit on, have a glass of Caspian tea and let ua tell a Perslan funny story at least the Persians think ft funny.
Once upon a time there was a donkey that quarrelled with its master. The don- key was very bitter about it and walked purposefully to the edge of a high cliff. As it jumped off the beast look- ed round to its master and said: "This may küll me, but that is nothing to the inconvenience I am going to cause you.'
On the edge of the cliff at this moment stands the Persian donkey, with all the will and helf. the courage to jump off
into ruin.
Remember how
it began
MARCH 7: Rezina, sup-- porter of a now agreement wilh Angio: Iranian, is namasinated.
MARCH 15: Perris Totes for nationalisation,” Britain- protests 210 Xilegal". APRIL 28 : Hüsseln ́ ́Ala, Premier, resigns. Bossadeg
HAY. 24: Britain accepts "some forms of nationalĪGA- tion."
MAX 27 2 Eritain siks Hague Court to intervene. JUNE 20.: Cruiser Mauritius arrives of Abadan. AUGUST JE Mr. Stokes. Lord Privy Seal, leaves; for Tehera. AUGUST "Talks' break
down.
AUGUST, 23: Stokes fles
home!
still through lack of lubricating oil, tyres, and spares.
What phải đi thì guns of the Moslem extremisis play in keep- Ing Mossades from arriving at a state of common sense? Stokes was overheard, when here, to Spy, cryptically: "The most we Sociallets can expest if walbo come unpopular, as politiciany is * couple of rotten, eggs Bin Downing Street. It is different here.
Is it possible then to come to
Jum compromiso agreement with the Ferglans with any hopë, of a reasonably affable partner- ship? The Anglo-Iranian OIL Company does not think so, It' lost its boyish laughter at · Per- sian fun and games decades ago.
Its first agreement lasted 28 years, and was then denounced by the Persians. Its second dew lasted 18 years, and was nounced this year.
Stokes proposed a third agrees, ment in which the rompany, Would
be involved, if under another name, which was to he for 25 years.' It would not be surprising If the company folt, there was insufficient security in Forsid to warrant looking for- word as far as that.
All things considered,' would If Mohammed Mossadeg, who Nearly everything, except any business man be prepared. queaks and gibbers at the very the heavlest machinery, 19 to bet that the Persians would: mention of the word oil, does not carried by road in Persis. And, not find a new excuse to des get a happy ending to this prob-
the greatest of the services was nounce the agreement'in six lem soon, the donkey will cer
or seven years' time even if tainly take a header over the the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's the Communists did not gain. power? But six or seven years cliff, and there is no doubt who tanker, fleet.
would give the company
tima will be at the bottom to bury the corpse. Funeral arrange-
to make other arrangements in ments by the Communist Party.
more reliable places than Perais.
POSSIBILITY
TN the five months since the Assassination of Premier Razmara the Tudeh Party, which
Eight tyres are used by every road, tanker for the trip from Abadan to Teheran and back.
Great workshops, maintained by the company an the route la deal with breakdowns, have been closed and their spares looted.
the
connot
'LET 'EM STEW
VET another factor must be
weighing with the oil com pany. In the first place, Without these tankers, pelrol Chiefs of Staff are reported to is technically illegal, has waxed and diesel oil cannot be brought have said that Abadan
the Abadan storage, be defended in a third world in power and now goes openly up from
The party tanks. There is no perafin for war. Persian oil might be use- about its business.
cooking In the less to the Russians, but they Mossadeg's lighting and heartily supports national front, because it knows towns. And there are tank could deny it to us in a matter of full well that if he can be goaded ers to carry lubricating all, hours, to hold to his present course, which has to be imported. None then revolution is possible,
Was ever Abadan,
erg
Was
CANNOT bring an action in the courts under their own name to protect their would suit the Tudeh Party- business, nor be forced to go bankrupt.
THE DOCUMENTS IN THE CASE side with Superstition—and The Law
5. Persons under the age of twen
be disposed of by Will.
WANT TO MAKE A WILL?
~There ̄tt-tr,~the ban^on" the back" of "the" will-form.~~-
that answer: NONE upon the
OVER
WANT A DRIVING LICENCE?
Over-21's have a 'you needn't give your`age' privilege,
WANT TO RISK 60. ON THE POOLS T
They won't take your money if you are under 21.
all the parzová Mábrá neme Khand will be ste
over
WANT TO REGISTER FOE A VOTE ?· Your. 21st birthday provides the clue,
WANT TO GO TO LAW?
Then you are still an infant-at 20.
21 HAS ITS RIVALS
Whitehall is favouring 18
by VINCENT EVANS
WHAT ́ should be the
grows up..
And girls stop
growing at 17
BY CHAPMAN. PINCHER...
THERE is no truth in the
་
manufactured at
What a gleam there is in the Tudeh eye when it contemplates a beautiful coup d'etat in a
paralysed 'city.
4
24 Anglo-Iranian Oll Company alone will hávo a 10,000,000-ton refining capacity in Britain: very soon. That is a third of the out- put of Abadan. Those refineries may be vulnerable, but they are still caster, to defend than Abadan.
If the oilfields remain closed for long, 77,000 Persian labour- will be without pay-they are already without work.
Destitution in the area that bo found last April to magnificantly-organleed for riot-
right down to the ground.
" There are not, he said, a suffi- paraffin. Even if that were not enough clent rumber of Persians who there is more than the possibi- understand to the full the dim- age of 21 that Uity, unless something is done culties facing them and he was THE nagle
brings the key for the front quickly, of the country's trans- not referring to the difficulties door also brings the key to all port system grinding to a stand- of refiring o those things that have pre-- viously been kept back by a lawyer's or a guardian's "No."
Much of Averell Harriman's
In addition to all this, the day time was spent pointing these. things out to Mossadeg. Harri- of the super-refinery is passing. to convince him This is a jef âge. Jets run on man failed
Tho extraction
One day
There is the football pool coupon... the hire-purchase contract... and, of course, the ballot paper.
The erstwhile infant can eveni make a will it he fancies, a little solemnity, and he can do at a day early, for there is a strange thing about this law.
WORLD AIRLINE
PARLIAMENT
By JAMES STUART MANY big names in world founder 175 delegates who are going flying are among the
paraffin from crude is compara- tively a simple and cheap pro- css compared with the plant ceded for costly high-grade- aviation petrol for piston en- gines.
-But somehow, if Persia is ta survive, some way will have to be found to get the oil flowing again."The advice that has been given to Whitehall tram bere is that the only way to convince the Persians of their_ folly to let them stew in their own juice for a bit,
'CASH, PLEASE'
and president, Dr Sa final testimony to the Albert Plesman.
difficulties of the ailing doctor I quote Harriman, who Heading BRITAIN'S delegates before he left for London call.
It gets too quickly off the murk. An infant grows up on first moment of the day before the 21st birthday. to London for the annual are Bir Miles Thomas and Lorded on Mossadeg to say good-
Say your birthday is today. conference of the Interna Douglas of Kirtleside chair bye. The law recognises that full age tional Air Transport A880 min of BOAC and BEA, both
World War I Royal Flying, clation-the "airline parlia- Corps pilots. ment."
was reached yesterday.
No account is taken in com-
mon law of parts of days. ·
197...
were
Harriman asked the Prime Minister if he had any messaga for Mr Attlee.
i
;
As Captain. W., Sholto
Mossadeg considered for
|
moment, and then muttered: "Tell him to send us money."
Old wives will tell you tales
And many pioneers, too; men Douglas, Lord Douglas was one among tira first of this country's earliest' airline of the magic of the Agure 7 who which
occurs trice-multiplied commercial pilots after World pilots, In 21, and crops up again as War I and who now hold the,
top executive jobs life's span closes at three score
in ..the
years and ten."
world's airlines.
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And old husbands will tell! The conference, at which of the magle of 21 in about 60 airlines will be re- pontoon and how it seems less presented, is being held in the clusive to the charmed "seventh Great
Hall of Westminster
son of a seventh con" But School from these ARE. Just tales.
WERE
Wise?
tho old
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wise in fixing the dividing Fysh,
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hood 'at 217 The idea, was to Bir Keith Smith comes to the protect the child, until he was conference as a delegate of old enough to handle his own) British Commonwealth "Pacifie .affairs.
Airlines, But there has been a great of juggling with' the boun-
Mr Hudson Fysh comes as
dary line. The world of a child chairman
is speckled with protective Aleways,
1922.
don'ts which fade away long porsenger
before the child is 21.
DON'T smoke-not until you
are 16.oke
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CANADA come wo delegationsTrans-Canada Air-
Mr. Grant
*
DON'T drink-not until you Hines, headed by Mr Gordon. K. REAL magle age? Well, White deep-rooted Idea that the ato NT go to "Horror" Bim McGregor, president, and Cana- hall appears to favouring 10 as human body becomes set in not unil you are IS: DON'T dlan Pacific Airlines, led by the age when a youth or a girl mature, adult form at the age!
of Fl
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McGregor, one of the young-. BANANAS until recently
you are 10.
est airline bosses in the world, At 18 a boy couldd be hanged was a Battle of Britain pilot. were earmarked in Britalts for stopped growing at 17.
■ THEIR Intelligencothe for
his
crimes. The thold under 18. And when ability to reason also reaches cloak to be east off on his 21st infant
Ho destroyed, fiva" Cermines" ́nfr= | orange juice, cod liver, oil, and the peak of its development birthday is no protection of allege
craft. extra milik were scarce they the intellect the combination portant after all of counes and was an elementary schoo
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