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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1951.
For once SEFTON DELMER 50s one of the new key areas in the post-war line-up
I was
glad to find the
STRATEGIC HINGE
OF THE WEST
police shadowing me
T
4
SPAIN
EMEDITERRANI
ALGERIA
FR. MOROCCO.
TUNISIP
LIBY
their new
In 1850 more than six million had just hold with the strategic hinge of West-
tons of goods passed through the American equipment... ern defence.
port as compared with just över From the Moroccan base aree million in 1945.
be sent to Europe, the Mediterranean, the Near and Middle East.
THE olive-skinned I called оп a politica! Throughout my 1,250- supplies can
hotel clerk
I closed leader whom wanted mile tour of French North Western the gates the to see. When the interview
of
Africa, which took me lift. set it in was over I stepped into
across Morocco and Algeria motion, and then turned to private car that had been
We had not to Tunis, the French were me, its only other occu- sent for me. pant.
been on our way for more keeping tabs on me, watch than a minute or two when ing where I went, whom
noticed i
had been and what I saw. picked up by A black
we
Although many of the best troops have recently been sent in Indo-Ching-leaving only a third of the normal effectives in many important garrison's-I was im mensely impressed with the pirit and dash of the youngsters.
And, just as though to complete the picture of French miliary preparations, what did I And in Bizerta, the great French naval port guarding the Mediterranean arrows between the eastern and western ends?
VAST ACTIVITY FOUNDATIONS are being inid at Casablanca fer the con- TWO: The Kremlin plan- struction of a new jetty and an ners are well aware of this extension of the old one. This importance of Morocco and will increase the port surface by North more than 700 acres, and make the rest of French
It possible to accommodate vastly Africa. Through secret agents, the Communist and eater quantities of shipping.
At the same time every possible nationalist move- Arab ments, they are doing their effort is being made for the in- Custrialisation of Morocco and best to build up an organi- North Africa. Great dams are sation capable of denying being built to irrigate the fields mordration to the West the use of this and provide power for hydra- technique.
electric power plants. vital bastion.
I don't think I was an accident Wherever I went in Morocco leat command over these mine- THREE: In taking no chances
Americans. American sweepers was in the hands of travellers like met be with inquisitive
my elf the French make not the children played all day around Captain Kennedy R. N.
the hotel. At the street corner I recently due of the British naval lightest attempt to hamper re-
met earnest G.Is explaining to xper.s attached to the North porters in their fact finding. I
Moroccans how to work a camera. Alantic Treaty Organisation. was able to go where 1 pleased.
American giris paraded talk with whom i pleased,
the vechts and swimpool.
I might
it?
I have something to tell you," he said. "But please don't let it be known I told Citroen. It remained with Am I shocked by this? you The police are follow us until I had safely re- Am I indignant about
the hotel-And Not at all. The more ing you wherever you go. turned to Even here in the hote! an the inspector waiting there, see of this French vigilance inspector is watching you. They have searched your room. Please don't tell any- one I told you."
an
WATCHING
NOW
in North Africa the better pleased I am.
approve of it
OUTSPOKEN
have been Heidelberg If it had
not been for the sun.
Three Briti minesweepers, g:ving French naval meà a de- Of latest British
THEIR FEAR
unli
These Americans belong to the YES, although the French have
strictly and army of 7,000 air force men and cluded Morocco and the rest of expressly ex- com construction engineers sent over North Africa
from the North he Atlantic to build and main-lantic Treaty Organisation and ain seven super air bases.
General Eisenhower's command Three basts are Labour on two more is about lahey are doing all they can to begin.
co-operate with the Americans and ourselves for the Defence of the West.
Ow this happened not
just this one time or in ertise.... A few minutes later this one particular place. It
ONE: The security of went out. A gentleman in began the morning after my
in French North Afrien is to unobtrusive
night arrival maroon late suit arose from the shady Casablanca, and it only day the vital interest not bench under the trees on ended when the French only of France but of the at Tunis Airport whole Western world. the other side of the street. police
THE outspokenners with which Atlantic T When I looked round a few stamped my passport and Morocco, with its
some of the men I met cri- blocks further on he was with a polite bów saw me seaports and easy access to ciced, attacked, and complain- admiring the window of a aboard the plane for Low American supplies both by ed about the French proved to
sea and by air, has become me that nothing had been done y rurio shop.
to prevent them from speaking freely. Among the French in North Africa I found none of the half-heartedness in matters of Western defence that I have so often observed in the French on the European mainland close to their homes.
Everything was being done to speed up construction of big new French bases and ready armies for tasks that may be in
lore.
don.
RECIPE for WEALTH
NEW YORK.
ECAUSE about a mi-
Bion
and
American cooks exactly what they
£1
half
knew wanted
--and were able to buy the things to make it with-- fame has come to a gente silvery-haired grandmother named Mrs Irma Rombauer
AL
Rombauer 73, Mrs has rocketed from happy obscurity in the good- works-and-tea-parties social set of a provincial town to the top of New York's list of national best-selling an thors with a cookery book.
Money
is pouring in.
A cookery book brings fame to Mrs. Rombauer at 73
by Frederick ends.
Cook
MRS. ROMBAUER ... best-vollar.
:
Bhe
1 went for a drive round the write ou all the recipes she
The know. She did-and published big port of Casablanca. them as a small book-le: for her latest dock equipment was being, Μειν had been, installed. Someone suggested u
been pu: up commercial edition. The pub-storehouses had Ushers said yes. "And you see ncreasing the handling capactly what happened," she says. "It's by millions of ions. amazing."
Th
working.
Some
More air force men, construc- ion staff-and their families-- are pouring in every month. By his time next year it is expected that there will be 60,000 Ameri- cans a ationed in Morocco even talk of 100,000.
They will constitute almost a existing non- quarter of the Mcrocean population and a very luugh housing problem for the French.
SPIRIT
IN Algeria I ran into the end of the very successful North African manoeuvres the French
"We are afraid." a high French official said to me, hat the Americans and zome Socialists are likely to fall for the of your
propaganda of the Nationalis s who want to drive the French and all other Europeans but ol North Africa.
"If we are forced by you and the Americans to make conces- sions to these men it will im- nensely strengthen the hand of Moscow In this area
There is much in what he says. How I came to that conclusion I will tell you in my next report.
-(London Express Service)
BERNARD WICKSTEED
WE
Irma Rombauer does not share the view held by some Ameri- cans, that English cooking is something of which one does not peak unless in surrow. The GI bride with her new American kitchen can and her weak-and- kidney pe in Rombauer, along with Yorkshire pudding and pigs'
TROLAK, Malaya. fired at the fleeing police- The heat was like the heat of fee. The French girl who does
a Turkish bath, and we had to not quite know how to make WE'VE been what the man missed.
go on up this blinking, jungle- crepe suzettes can soon find out
boys ca!!
All this happened about covered hill for hall "jungle
an hour, Rombauer. And for the
word and wheut a are recipes for bashing" today. We went 15 miles from the camp at without a Russians here borsch: and sour cream.
out after three bandits who Trolak, where A for Able halt
When we got to the top of had held up a bus.
Company of the Royal West
went down the the hill, we Kents and Wicksteed were other side of a swamp. It wasn't We didn't find them, but standing by.
so thick here, and you could reporter Wicksteed, from No. 1 Platoon, plus Wicksteed, see half a dozen chaps spread the was ordered cut, and in a few out in front and as many more Hampstead, day about 10 lb. lighter minules we were dashing to the behind.
When we gat You could see the permanent, scene in trucks. than he started. Phew! It re, naturally the bandits had half-amused grin and the twink- was hot, hard work.
vanished into the thick jungle ling eyes of Private Don Bags,
the by the roadside;
barrow boy from Camden Town, and the broad back of Private Johnny Stavinski, the acrobat temporarily absent en
Service from National Tevarich Troupe.
goes out bandit-chasing
H are
HER PIE
finished
the
Here is how
Mrs Rombauer makes a steak-and-kidney pia: Six servings. Cut inie 11⁄2 in. cubes Alb. of chuck or round cet. Slice i veal or lamb kidneys, Mel: three tablespoon fuls butter or beet fat, brown in Letters cascade through the Now the new edition is out. The this 1-1/3 cups chopped onion.
The bus was bumping letter-box of the modest fest un brought in £124,950 Add meat. Stir until all sides
'well
Oh, the heat five-room flat in which she and paper is on order for
coated and lightly along a rough jungle track, Add three
cupa taking a load of tin miners lives.
It takes most of her second, of and her 100,000 copies. browned.
bayleaf. to work, when three bandits W tenant Karl Beale, aged 22, WE were lined up by Lieu- No wonder Irma Rombauer le boiling stock, time to answer them in her
slightly bewildered by it all. Quarter cupful of the liquid may stepped out on to the road. whose father grows Cox's Orange wor
I'm not sure the swamp won't painstaking hand writing. Until her late sixties, her life be dry red wine,
Cover the
Bandits love stopping Pippins in Cranbrook, Ken worse than the hill, And more come in by every had lacked anything out-of-the- dish, simmer the stew for about
She never had a profes- two hours,
unil tender. buses. post, as the presses roll out way.
sional cooking lesson-though Thicken the stock with flour. round among the passen- hunter from Borneo, ran up and the time. Then I was into the ever more copies of the hit she liked to cook for her guests Season it with salt and pepper, gers in aid of bandit funds down the roadside like, a derriere undergrowth again, and up
and never employed a cook in Worcestershire sauce: place the and then set the bus on
sew in a baking dish. Cover it while hot with pie crust (for fire. which soparate directions are given). Bake it in hot oven 450 degrees, for about 20 minutės,” ENGLISH WAY
of the year, "The New Joy of Cooking."
THE JOY..
?
They pass the hat Ungat, the platoon's pet head-
We were
up to our knees in water half
thick
another murderous hill. after a rabbit.
At last the whisper to halt Eventually he found what he
came
me back from the front of the was looking for a broken twig column. The tracker had found On this occasion the In or some crushed grass or some- dian bus driver, as
thing, and plunged into the something. It was an ambush bus
jungle with the rest of us after position in which six men had 402 lain nes more than four hours drivers the world over htme.
before. sometimes do, ignored the It was so thick you could only signal to stop and put his see the men shred of you and
the man behind. foot down instead.
It would not have been so bad There happened to be a it we had been going on the she
“WIFTH the memory of the Malay policeman hanging level, but the tracker was taking swamp
her life.
Of German descent, she spent her adolescent years in Germany, where her father was consul at There's no "ake two pounds Bremen. Re urning home to St of butter and three pounds of Louis, she married a struggling raisins" about tiny, meticulously young lawyer when she was 18.
Her grcomed Irma Rombauer.
Edgar was very impecunious recipes are for the small family when I married him," she said. "This," adds the cautious Mrs Ther
numbered Own
two) "Mother-thé was Germun, too Rombauer, " is the traditional Especially they are for the girl had always maintained very English way. I like to add the who never cooked too well, and high standards in our home. A kidneys for the last 30 minutes who cooks worse when her feet, a bride I was very dissatisfied of cooking only and to add at hurt after a hard day at the with the food I served. The the anime time two carrots and a
nured girl's cooking was worst, zlalk of diced celery,” In 1948, when her hook (it was Though my husband never com- Royalties have thrust Mrs right among the bandits. simply "The Joy of Cooking" then) first came out, wi hout undue ballyhoo in the advertise ment pages, it hit the bookshops
office.
Silly place
Phose mur-
on all fours rond, I thought what a cockey- on to the back of the bus, us up the side of a hill so steep derous fills between us and the and the sudden acceleration Above. I could see the boots ed place & was for the bandits to threw him off into the road, and occasionally the whole lay an ambush. It seemed miles
Private John Morgan, a N from anywhere. tional Service boy who used to Then I heard an add noise work in a gypsum mine at and, looking round a bush, I Notherfeld, near Battle, to Sus- saw a bus going past. We had made a complete circle and come
plained, I soon realised that it we Rombauer's income-tax higher were ever, 10 cat
decently I and higher, until today she ir in would have to learn to cool." the top bracket. But she stil Ha
She clipped recipes from the lives simply In the original Str
Et the same moment as Wendell papers and fled them away. In Louis flat where she went as a
"But it
AH fours
Below
frocks pic
got
picked us up, and
me was Lance-Corporal back to the road almost at the ran so fast his shoes 1.. Willie's "One World." 1 time she had a huge collection, bride.
fell off, but he managed Ricky Jackson He is not un sime spot from which we had shot ahead of Willie right away. By the ilme her son and daughter "I may not be super-modern," to get away because the known at the Hammersmt h Into the publishers' coffers since were born she cooked with faste she says 'defensively.
confidence. then a hungry public has poured and
King's we back to camp just in been a Boy Scout, a Twenty-one has a good kilehen, And what's bandits were a bit surprised Palais de Danse, but he has also sʊme £327,000 for a million and years ago, when her husband a home if it hasn't a good at the turn of events them Scout la the Isleworth (Middia time for the weekly flim show,
the book, died, her children urged her to kitchen?"
selves, and the shots they scx) (roop,
boyw, who looked as if they been for no more than en Dald 83 cmle (or Bd.) for a seat, but the Borneo · headhunter boys, got in for nothing." They love films, (and their favourite star is Bing:
a quarter copies of
JOHNNY HAZARD
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