Who Is Spooning Out The
Soothing Syrup?
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By LORD KILLEARN
(Former British Ambassador to Egypt)
But surely, discretion can be
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¡HE attitude of some ticable during delicate negoll- Concession
eminent
to ulions. people General Naguib wor- ries me. They seem overdone and unduly protracted, ready to delude the British as in this case, both in London publie about the facts re- and in Khartoum. It gave the garding the painful "com impression in many
quarters promise"
over the Sudan, that we were ashamed of come- They are equally ready to thing. gloss over Naguib's real
aim: to force British troops
The British people have solid sense, Why are
common
out of the Canal Zone alto- they not told enore, sooner, and gether.
given a better chance to form opinions on major their own issues such as this?
Icite three instances. If has been revealed in the
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newspapers that the Foreign Surely there can be no doubl Minister, before announcing that in the Middle East, the Sudan agreement
British to unce
influence the House of Commons, supreme, we seem to be addressed a party meeting, presumably to obtain a favourable reaction.
where
was losing
POCKET CARTOON
Bug-
Nevertheless, one Con- servative backbencher ques- tioned him in the House. Mr Ralph Assheton, M.P. for Blackburn West, gested that to talk about self-government for illiter- ate people was, "a mockery and an abandonment of our trust."
It was ned that The Times amitted the stinging words of his question from its puriŝamen- tary report.
It is also well known that General Naguib addressed - n Press conference in Cairo after the signing of the agreement,
Dusty answer
NOME newspapers reported that
Nugulb said he hoped that talks on the Canal Zone would begin as early possible-au the tusis of complete British with- drawal.
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Another significant statement, and this, too, was not fully re- ported_in_the same newspaper. Why?
On December 10 I asked in the House of Lords "whether
by OSDERT LANCASTER
Cheer up, skipper ! It General Negulb still feta un go through the Suez Canal and General Chiang Kai- shek hasn't sunk us off Formosa, one of these days soon we shall be shipping a lovely cargo of shilling shirts-in-Yokohama.-
This is this House will have full oppor- our grip?
a thought tunit for comment before the which must be seriously worry- conclusion of any agreement, ing the Foreign Secretary. And regarding the Sudan."
it is a story we cannot afford to bush up.
There WDS the customary pollte but dusty answer.
One slide after another- All reference to this too was Abadan, the Sudan, the Canal omitted from the same news Zone we are being bustied out, paper, which normally prints Our whole position in the Mid- full reports of important matters dle East is becoming more and in the Upper House,
more shaky, We make nerveless
I realise that completely open concessions all round. Concession diplomacy is not always prae- from
from weakness is
Look at the manner in which the Sudan
were negotiations conducted. What began as A perfectly normal diplomatic in- terchange between the British and Egyptian Governments de- teriorated into an unedifying
of process
canvassing und intrigue.
Mi
Major Salah Salem. Egyptian envoy to the Sudan, imported a new type of light-elnd diplo Mary, was photographed capering In catch the Sudanese,
Ho
vettesy of
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1953.
CYPRUS? WELL-
SAING
What is the value of Cyprus as a military base ↑ British military opinion holds the view that while Cyprus can be used in an emergency its strategic value is limited.
It has only three ports—Famagusta, Limassol, Larnaca, Only the first two of those-and La particular Famagusta, where the Navy is now carrying out considerable developments-vald be of mach military value.
Cyprus has all, the disadvantages of being an Island base. It is nearly 300 miles from the mainland of North Africa and 1,000 miles from Malta. Although the south coast of Turkey is little more than 50 miles away and Aleppo about 150 miles, roads and rallways on the mainland would require years of development at enormous cost before they were adequate.
The immense plain in the centre of the lafand is one of the world's natural airfields, with an expanse of nourly B00 square milca, But the island makes an casy target for atomic attack. Moreover, it could be outflanked easily either by a break through in Asia Minor or lato Greece.
To ensure its protection, an immense fleet and an air force as large as the Desert Air Force of the last war would have to be immediately available at all times.
no
Cairo know
To such a man weakness will can only contempt.
hia underwear to temporary good will of General friends in
the South Nagulb? Is his position so secure?
bounds." I do not believe we can gain Egyptian respect that way. The men round Nagulb regard Bri- lain as an enemy.
Wo could not compete with that kind of propaganda-but we made no attempt to send our own more normally clad envoy to the Sudan to deal fairly with our friends there.
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++++++25 YEARS CHIEF TEST PILOT AT VICKERS-
SO WHAT NEXT?
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IIE paradox of being a test pilot la that-- the test pilot is search- ing for safety.
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Safety is the key to the future in the air. That, of course, means regulations, aki regulations are always a bore. Necessary I grant; but tedious.
Regulations and cost be- tween them have certainly killed private flying, at any rate for the time being.
Ever since we began to fly we have cheerfully fore- cast that the day of every man his own little aeroplane was just around the corner. Today, quite obviously, it is not.
I should like to have my own now. To slip over to Le Touquet for a good Sunday lunch, or over to Dublin for the Horse Show,
But the machine would cost three or four times what it did before the war, when a little Moth Minor cost obout £600, and very few modem planes of the right type are made now.
£400 a year
CONCLUDING THE MEMOIRS
OF CAPT. 'MUTT' SUMMERS
haven't got a radio I cannot be He tells me to wait, I ordered about upstairs, so I must put off lunch until the sky is all blue.
I get out again, take a walic round, notice that my le plane has only one engine, and remember I have always said I need two for safety in case one folds up on me and go home.
what give modern civil alteraft designers their blagest headaches nowadays,
Economics, and of COULEE
safety. Always safely. I love
It, and so, not unnaturally, do the customers.
really will be possible soon to
Safety, cheapers, speed. persuade the most timid maiden dunt to take her summer holl- day with her niece in Canada at little more cost than a week at Bournemouth,
been useless if it has been spent I don't think my life wil have in helping make that just a 1tle more possible. And I do
No, private flying is out. The bellove that test pllofs generally immediate future lies in airline have some such idea at the back trava, In tourist class air travel of their minds,
to
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romantic places, and not It may take two or three or Just luxury flying for the bus!- four years to build a new plane. ness man. And
really do be- It may cost £1,000,000 or more. lieve that is just around corner.
It takes 20. gears to make a The International Air
good pilot, and you cannot put a Transport Association recently value on him. announced that its 67 mem- nies-which include ber companies-
BEA and BOAC are going in for tourist traffle next year, at fores 20 to 23 percent down. I think they will come down even further.
What happens is this present day aircraft can carry a quarter
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There is still plenty of adven- ture for test pliots ahead. Beyond the sound barrier is a new era sphere is space. And for many of discovery. Above the strato-
years yet there will be the moon to aim at
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But I would like to give ono ·
My first
as many passengers again if they word of warning. scrap some of the luxury frills of travel. By shortening the dis- It would cost about £400 a tances they cover in one hop- In my view, the time has come
speak frankly
year to maintain it at and Unally
a sum- lying the Atlantic in two If anyone doubts that they to General Nagub, Abd
ciently high standard to get a three stages for instanco-they yearly certificate of airworthi need to carry less fuel, Less should consider the evidence of Nasser and their friends,
ness rigorous test. Then there fuel, morn seats with passengers And it is currently reported Captain Yeruhom Cohen, He has
I would tell them that unless
ore hangar and airfield charges in them from Khartoum that other in- just written an article in the they accept the British proposals fore you start on the running ducements were offered by Egypt Jewish Observer and Middle for the future defence of the
of the East Review. support
In the describes Canal Zone-such As the pro- secret talks he held during the posed international Middle East Jewish-Arab war with Colonci Command, in which the British would play their full part-they Gamal Abdel Nasser,
will get nothing, Neguib's principal lleulenant.
win to
the politicians there.
Home Rule
ALL that is now a matter of re
cord. The British aim is still unchanged: home rule for the Sudanese at the earliest possible date and under the fairest pos- sible conditions. That has been our consistent polley throughout.
But are the conditions con- lained in the agreement really fair? There are many points an which 4, for one, seek further enlightenment.
I will just give two examples. First, the Sudan is really to have the chance of entering the British Commonwealth, why does the agreement fall to say as much in plain English?
A link with Egypt is expressly mentioned. Why not give the British alternative?
MOW
Britain
This is not an age for nervous Abd el Nasser, he says, "never negativism in foreign affairs. wearied of requesting details of how we had organised
has explicit treaty our un rights in the Canal Zone, an derground movement (against area vital to the defence of tho the British) or of methods cm- Empire and the key to Western ployed to build up mass support control of Middle Eastern among the
His supplies. We should stand fr and their on that just and proper base.
population. hatred of the Brilh
...
Stalin Won't Die With His Boots On
By EDGAR HOLT
Second, there is no mention of THOURTEEN years any provision for safeguarding
the future interests of the British
Russin have given
and other officials who have Louis Fischer, the Ameri- spent a lifetime of loyal and dee can journalist, ample mate- voted work in the Sudan Civil rial for answering Service.
It would be a disgrace to let these men down. Is nothing to be done for them?
The efficial Whitehall line seems to be: "Don't let's be beastly to Naguib." This attitude of soothing appeasement spreads quickly.
ou
in assumes that, whereas a little purge might invite doubt, a colossal purge will be convinc
Throughout Sovjet ite bigger is better.
When the your
present purge is in full swing, there will be the
are usual confessions from the accused, The "doctor-polsoners sold to have confessed already. Mr Fischer
answers our questions about these "con- fessions," too.
questions about Stalin..
Curtain back to the West, When he crossed the Iron
he made a careful study of all the relevant books and documents.
war The British in the Fayid base
already talking as if the #re evacuation of the Canal Zone will take place soon. Many of them are sald to be expecting a move to Cyprus.
Often they are extorted by It gave him the background physical torture-or merely by to the Soviet purges, the cold the fear of it. Prisoners sign In Russin when Stalin is dead.
...and what may happen admissions of treason because
they have
acen "men and wil die. But Fischer is certain There's no telling when Stalin
women come back
from of this one thing: that he will ing magistrates bleeding, limp-
encounters with the Investigat die in bed. He will not be ing. crippled, hysterical, with, assassinated.
at times, blackened eyes, member of smashed lips, broken Intimate entourage the broken spirits,"
Stacept for
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So the rout goes on. What does anyone expect to chances of coming close enough strength is often wisc. win from weakness? The
to kill him are small," mys Fischer.
Cummings
"Of course you're free-free to say when you are or jump fruide backwards!?!
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Moreover he
has
regime with
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ribs,
What about the cold war? Is pletely identified the Soviet there any chance of Stalin
himself that to calling it off! him by killing haba Very little. For a dictator- uld be to reject the regime. chin must have enemies. I
assassin, therefore, Would they
aro at hand it inflates absent it
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have to proceed against the them. If they are regime and kill not only Stalin creates them to have an excuse but all his important political for
the terror, hardship and colleagues. In self-defence, the tension. Foreign foes aro colleagues oppose assassination cited to explain the rigours of
as a political method.
*
it,
con-
the all-powerful despotism."
Will the cold war become 24 hot one? That is always possible, but Me Fischer thinits The question most people will on the whole, unlikely. want to usic Mr Fischer is why "To wreak vengeance on Stalin is off again on his cold- mankind
far
resisting blooded "purge" routine. The version, Stalinian might decide "doctor-poisoners" are coming to perish with the Philistines up for trial, the surviving by pulling out the supports of Russian bourgeois" are threat the temple of freedom A war ched by an intensified class would achieve that result, for war. What is the reason for neither world con
crush the these periodical bloodbaths?
other by force without BUC= The simple reason is that cumbing in the debris. Stalin claims to be infallible.
right
He is "always
Mr Beth of Stalin Life and "Stalin's Infalliblity makes the of purgo a permanent feature Soviet life. Since the dictator Is Infallible, the system he has created is infallible, the more so since it is based on infallible
doctrina.
"But most signs indicate that rather than commit suicido in
uunista estroy the enemy, the Stalinists have a wager on the suicide of the democracies,"
Some readers of this fascinat- ing and informative book may And Mr Fischer a little "cagoy" "Therefore anything that gods in his beasts of what will wrong in the Soviet system happen after Stalin's death." must be due to the will of a le rules out a military coup oubordinate: 4 who
maliciously d'etat. "Bonapartes are not in
perverts the
"Stalinon. And that the Russian tradition. But of
is treason,
human
one thing he is certain.. When ledvctrinal will have the biggest share in for Stalin dies "the secret police fallacies, It recognises only deterraining who shall be the heresy
or hostility Hence the new dictate perpetual pulge. The purge: is.
to fledect Bars from Stalin
So the man to watch in Rusly the head of the shores DAN MEMAL police dlerla":62 11,Beril KURA" The destiny of
The vast stals of the
is simply due to the fact that poot Stalin Russla is in his
Stalin worshipe bigness. He bandes
coste.
to
Headaches
Of course first class travel will go on. With the newer, higher speed aircraft, however, the Important thing is that after a certain point the only real ad- vantage of speed is cheapness.
night by accidant. I had just I made my first, prototype come to Vickers, and I was asked to take out a little open cockpit monoplane fighter called Jockey for taxi-ing tests,
The iden
tha
was simply to run her backwards and forwards the airheld at Brook- across lands, I did so. But across time
the Acid at that ran a rough track. Gup pose I was a bit bored and very young. and foolish. I ma her too hard. Across the track, and she bounced-20 feet up in the
Then I could pay that fot and had my plane comes Ll o'clock Sunday morning ond I decide to hop over for that piece of steak.
At the airfield I must get por- mission
take off. I wait for my orders. I have to be routed.
tine, height, bearing, given a and be cleared by Flying Con- If an extra hundred or two trol. To make sure that I won't miles an hour means that you sir. run up the end of some great land at your destination
4 vie airliner by mistake. That takes In
She wasn't ready to fly; she the morning instead of ot hadn't a certificate; she wasn't about half an hour on a good breakfast time, and after a tuned, .wasn't strapped in, no clear day,
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Of course, by the end of that cept nights sleep no one ex- helmet, goggles, or even brolly.
the professional hustier is seemed easier and safer, half-hour and just as I expect any better off. Unless that however, to keep her up then my clearance, a bit of cloud saving of time means that the Tet her down with a bang, so i drifts over. Someone runs up aeroplane can do two trips did. I took herotice round, and says how about your radio, there and back-In the one and came down what is your wavelength, and I operational day. Obviously, trouble.
to face the mutter furiously that I have no it can, prices will come down. radio because I cannot afford The economies of the thing, everything.
not the physical Imitations, Dre
The famant Kew 'A' Certificate, proof that a movement has passed the world's most stringent tests with flying colours. Although the National Physical Laboratory (background) is now at Teddington, these certificates are..
ult called by the name of the original famous foundation.
An achievement
that startled the most exacting
craftsmen
I don't advise that way of making a start, It isn't safe,
NOWN the world over as the ultimate authority on the testing of timepieces, Kew ΚΑ
Observatory in England recorded in 1950 results that startled the most exacting, the most blase craftsmen' in our industry.
Rolex entered more then 100 of their men's small watches (23.7 mm. in diameter) for chronometer testing-for testing that is usually given only to large chronometers. The movements were to be subjected, in company with large chronometers, to the most stringent tests in the world. The experts were dubious; but Rolex were confident..
For 44 days, in five positions and at three temperatures, those watches were tested. And, when their points were totalled, men connected with the watch industry could. hardly believe their eyes.
The incredible number of 140 Rolex movements had qualified for and was awarded- the precious, coveted Kew 'A' Certificate.
The Quian Dattiastmo fiä peak of Roles gar Inesinau, Profetied by the Qystet cave, powered, with silent weltney by the kolen. Färgemal self-winding "Repok
memadenly med klenchy pocorde
The full force of this achievement becomes clearer when you realize that the smaller the watch movement- the more difficult it is to attain the accuracy necessary to pass auch stringent tests originally designed for chronometers of. far greater diameter.
For watches so small to be so good means only one thing that the best of workmanship and the highest technical skill go into them. And it is this standard that makes Rolex the world's first wrist-chronometer.
The first wrist-watch ever to pass the Kaw Observatory test was a small I ligne Roler. This happened as long ego,10142)
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