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Foreign Policy Review-No. 2 WHAT NOW IN IRAN?
W
By David Temple Roberts
INSTON CHUR would bring Brits in
into
CHILL, at the end southern Persi i where the Anglo- Iranian Comey has its wells of the European rnd its refinery
War, proposed to Franklin
D. Roosevelt that British And on agreement with the policy in Iran should be to continue into peacetime the partition of that country into spheres of influence fo Britain and Russia. A war-
Ruslans would enable Britain to "deal" with Fersion national troubles in a military way with- at expecting wholesale interven- Tom from the Red Army--as was the acute fear during the recent troups bent landed.
time joint occupation had shad British been necessary to organise efficiently the delivery of essential war supplies, hv the Persian Gulf route, to the Soviet Union.
not
But Winston Churchill. though he is tempted by the prospect of Franklin D. Roosevelt did world through a great settlement changing the balance of, the approve the British with Stalin, can hardly regard Prime Minister's plan. He this policy as practical in thought he could see in it present-day conditions. It would
like
appeasement, to some of those imperial am- look bitions that he, as a liberal Americans. American, most abhorred. So British prilley towards So British policy in Persia Persia takes a different course. Was turned back to carlier pattern.
its In discussing Conservative at- titudes to Chins I stressed that British Foreign Office policy
# than century would not be changed radically
For more Britain has found her policy to
cud was considered to have stood
test of events. But in be the maintenance, around the the Peacock Throne, of a Govern- Persia, and the Middle East, the Government, while still
of past
ment only just strong enough to new keep itself in power, and, in no running on the track event, strong enough to be at- policy, is not satisfied with the ond wants to make a tractive as an ally to neighbour policy ing ambitious states This is the change. policy of the "weak, neutral, buffer state."
The problem is how to encourage sound and friendly political evolution in countries that are seething with anti- Western sentiment, corrupt and good. It is made inore diffleult
Sure the war the dominant by the fact that previous British position of the British Embassy polley was all against political in Teheran has been challenged evolution. Keeping the Govern- twice.
First, by the Russians ment weak meant discouraging. under Ambassador Saditchyev in rather than the reverse, the 1948; second, by the United States growth of soundly based political through the policy of Mr institutions. And the British in public- MacGhee,
was until the past profited by occasionally
LONDON. But to others Britain is houses, cinemas. Canada,
HIS week the nul
lionth emigrant to the Land
leave Britain sine.
the war will climb a
at Kangway of the great ports, bound for
ship's
a new life.
one
of Opportunity
By JOHN HALL
The 851,000 who have wait- So many more are ing to go that most of the come
shipping lines have major surprise. months-long waiting lists:
many are thinking about proximately getting out that the busiest offices in London are those Commonwealth Government boreaux which specialise in advising emigrants.
has of emigration
who lown
of for recently Under-Secretary Tour State for Middle East and South example-and the Ruyal stirred up so much new interest Asia questions. In the Dominion that the au- thorities expect a new emigra-
In
to
The Arst challenge was
Inoce
setting the Palace against the Prime Minister: the new policy wanted seems to call, however. for the development of a solid constitutional monarchy.
And the tion rush in the spring has successfully resisted with the aid Io rely largely on Europeans to of the United Nations
ettle the farmlands
beyend astute Iranian pulities of Gvam os Saltench, the Prime Minister of easy reach of city or town
Even at the moment British The Tate
This year alone 17,000 Dutch the day. The American challenge
WAN British policy
Foreign Office spokesmen still 10 Britain are the slowed slightly since 1949, but folk, family units in the main
as complex.
speak high have enigrated to Canada
revolution is still
of a Palace running Where
Britons figures, and today, now
what that farmers. Look
The British were in the country turning out Mossadegh and re- has have done to Salisbury, the from Europe
A9 oll engineers as well as placing him with Givam ea have they come from? Ap the food
Rhodesia.
But the Embassy in Saltaner, the 195,000 have dwindled to a trickle,
diplomals. depar
who capital of Southern
politician cutrambar arrivals by In 1945 the town had a Euro-Teheran only incidentally con- plays Britain's game.
pean population of 21,290; to-sidered the interests of the healed here from different or parts of the Commonwealth, wo to one.
day the population is 40,510 and
Company at In an ideal world, the revenues Anglo-Iranian including people who emi- An odd fact about this mass most of the new Salisburians Abaden. The British Embassy of the oil company could have grated after the war and migration is that more women
are from the Home Country. was dedicated to the task of been the basis for a better regime
Government weak; in Persia. keeping the
But now the British have been unable to settle than men are on the move. A detailed survey made by tie
but the best interests of the oil Conservative Government cannot Still welcome down in new lands. Changes Bond of Trade shows that
company were to pay large catch back the past. The line in India brought home near- 6.600 more women than men
TH75 change of bear! has royalties to an effective central of thought being evolved ap But the traffe isn't all
ly 45,000. The largest left Britain in 1950. Those ex-
to government that would distribute proximates made Since ihe way.
the war numbers of incomers arriv girls
and left - England
the warm welcome still await the royalty cheque widely in new persuade the United States that people have also been pour- ed from Middle Europe Wales, not Scotland.
ing British emigrants all over investment and social services. Persia must be "underwritten." The American Embassy in Let us use International Bank, or ing into Britain, which
Poles, Germans, Ukrainians
In case girls in Britain feel the world. British quotas are
The United States Teheran was much better aware Internation Reconstruction Or- why, despite the emigration
no fewer than 250,000 that their chances of
inding rever full
ohe country that never gets of the basic need of the oil ganisation. Let us make Pérsia wave. these crowded islands of them.
husbands have been increased
Her queta limits al company than was the British an American political responsi- by the numbers of girls noticeably less
who enough. are
And, since the war, bility, while holding Washing- low for the entry of approxi- Embassy. have emigrated it should be crowded.
that oll Counting heads,
mately 66,000 people from this American policy has concentrat ton its promises added that the migration move-
Over country each year. we have lost on balance the
simply, on making allies development in Persia should not brings a surplus cf females-a Pa
Britons emigrating to the Turkey and Iran, lying on the
15,000 a year.
not
is
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ment into Britain habitually past three years the number of strong, especially allies such fall to American companies.
BRITISH policy in admit- surplus of 7,000 last year. United States has averaged periphery of the Soviet Union. Looking further ahead: the de-
ting such large numbers One problem this traffic pre-
So Washington had no patience fence problem of Persia might be
London's of aliens from Europe is not sents to Britain 19 that on
As a footnote to these mass with
old-fashioned tackled in the form of an agree- universally popular. They balance it
buffer-state ment to set up another Command, is younger people movements of population ex-polley of weak, ure leaving and older pers forecast that large-scale neutrality for Persia.
under Britain, U. S., Persia and came here, the majority of who
emigration from Britain is like- Now that Winston Churchill Pakistan- perhaps with the them, in the two years im- people who are coming in.
ly to go on for several years is Prime Minister, once more the association of Afghanistan. mediately after the war, 23 Another problem is that ayat and that its effect if drain-first thought is that his policy And the Abadan refinery might high percentage of the ing the country of so many would revert to "setting" the reopen 83 a joint enterprise refugees and near-refugees.
emigrants have been, and In places they have created skilled and scint-skilled crafts- easily become more than
are, young and virile people could Iranian question by a partition providing "sterling area"
an of Iran into spheres of Interest under International and Persian "Little Europes," enclaves men engineers,
and building embarrassment,
between Britefa and Russia. This direction,
in Britain where the English trade workers. language is rarely heard. Some of them have prosper-
ed exceedingly.
There are indleations that many of the emigrants who return are people who took considerable capital with them generous; that when they left. Within the has been British policy for sterling area-largely the Com- ycare Too generous, say the monwealth, with the major ex- lties; but what they overlok ception of Canada--there has
Britain Wos
is that such a mass invasion been little restriction on trans-
13480 with it a wealth of new fors of capital.
Ideas, metaphor cally gives
British industry and commerce
a stimulating shot in the ann. Many of the aliens who have prospered have helped to boost Britain's trade.
Little money
PEOPLE emigrating to Cana- da or the United States The droves from Europe are can take out capital, if they no longer arriving here. Only have any, in driblets only, but a limited number of elderly they are entitled to apply for people are being admitted-cld regular remittances of interest,
and from shares folks who are in distress
or cther invest can show that they have close ments, from Britain,
relatives here to care for them, and a limited number of volun- tory workers and genuine im- migrants whose presence held to be beneficial to the no- tion's economy.
Their new homes
PARIS
The
WHITE NEWSLETTER....from SAM
boom in babies
brings joy to the shops
PARIS
oll
highest. And it is this resurgence liqueur. (Twenty-eight grammes
Paris, Dec, 22. ARIS in the week before of family life which explains the to the ounce.)
Christmas makes it present Christmas boom.
Stores report a 30 percent In-
LOOM has reigned in the plain that the French, long crease in the sale of toys. backsliders in the matter of
Notable Christmas rush pre- Camembert district of Nor- Christmas celebrations, now caution: the Printemps store, mandy because it was discovered boasts the largest that a recent falling off in the approach them with novel, which
In Paris, has four standard of the world-famous almost Dickensian fervour, escalator
due
10: Dentelllin "strong men" gathered round it cheese. was The city sparkles with giant
fall.
mandy COWS A problem for the reception Christmas trees set up in public to catch customers who might injections being given to Nor- ngainst certain Restaurants and cabarets are infections. countries, especially those with squares and glows with illumin- Shops isated public buildings.
All is now well. French cheese large undeveloped areas, that the newcomer from.
Brigitter with extravagant decor making special Christmas pre- tain is not the ploncer he was 4ion. Food shops are laden with parations. Cost of a night out at chemists are administering an
night club,
which anti-penicillin drug to penicillin- even 30 years ago.
turkeys and geest, strake and Carreres chops, hams and cheeses, choice Princess Margaret once visited, injected cows, £15 a head. The number of people who wines and champagne, emigrated in the three years This will be
As for Maxims, lot its dignified splurge Christ-
UTHOR" "Ludwig “Bemelmans, following World War I. total-mas in Paris. The atores report head walter Albert provide the
omers never inquire about autoblography under the title
Britons led 400,780, of whom the 40 percent Increase on last quole of the week: "Our cus-who is writing Schiaparelli's WHERE have the
gone, the million who greatest number (287,833) went year'e sait caused this mess price. They are content merely "My Shocking Life," asked her called away? These have been to Canada Immigrants in the What har
for 50 percent of the royalues on the main destinations; in brat same period tolated, 184,478, so conversion to Christmas celebrat to reserve à table.” Iets the numbers who have, the net loss was 200,281, a für ing
the French have when
The age-long problem of the ground the the book would returned or immigrated here larger reduction of population traditionally, preferred to celé post-Christmas liver has been sell on his reputation. The best handled by French dietklan Jean him down to 30 percent because from the same countries.
than has been achieved, in six brate on New Year's EvOT years after World War II.
Sociologists have done up with Eparvier. Here is his "No regrets the claimed that it would well on
hers 料 Interesting answer the Christmas dinner, M
Australia, 219,800 (32,000);C.
Canada, 174,240 (44,000),
Nasscs of the thouauls spectactilar and continuing rise A dozen wysters, 20 grammes of
United States," 135,100 (17 - who left Britain tifler World in the French birtarble, since the fole gr, 100 grizuries of fürked! TTNO NOTE:- Among the 200 3
000).
South Africa ang : Southern go and work out in the articles? France, in the interwar yours 100 Grimunes of, tala100 reporteri accredited to UNO Rhodowly, 100..0030,080). The Latter-day Briton les bad she lowest birthratë Fan. The granames of Chritmas cake, three is one representing the Trendze,
*New Zebakk, 147890+(18,000). away from much montering and i world, now it he one of the gimme of whumpagne, one Annual catalogue of Antique,
War I were Mourette to war Abraham 100% grainmer of auule, potatoes,