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Cairo.
HE heat haze shim-
mers
over Egypt's desert and the Suez Canal that cuts through it, like a highway,
blue from the
Mediter- rancan towards the Red Sea's blaze.
Flanking that mile long Imperial
hundred
By
Nathaniel Gubbins
ON THE MENACE IN A PIXIE HOOD
11
"Pixie hoods
worn by menace." women are Birmingham Accident Pre- vention Committee..
HE committee meant a menace to road safe. ty, but pixie hoods menace in other
can
be a ways.
I wandered down the High
Street, and hand
satu
Fist
every
A plate in a pixie hood, straight
out of Fairyland.
And some of them were young and bold, and some were old and prey,
But all had come from Pixie- land, and all of them were
Day.
the I wandered down
High Street, and on my left and right,
From pixie hoods the plates
mited, with pizle glances brigitt
That knew the tinkling laughter
at the merry gnome sprite;
my
Manger
buy a substantial ment for a That knew the language of the
birds, the murle
the shilling or less, Mol O!
writea spheres;
"Going Into and
favourite restaurant, in those times WIR rather like going into a steam bath. Stenm covered the win- dows completely, and, inside, steam enveloped the customers In a fog to thick that each seat on the wooden benches seem- ed like private room.
That heard the tall trees whis
pering their secreta in night.
1
the
High 10andered down the Street, and there on every hand A prie smiled and seemed to
say, "Oh, come to Fairyland: "To Fairyland, and dance with us in some enchanted wood, "And drive with us winbrosta.
and live on fairy food." I nearly went; unlit I saw, in
every butcher's shop, A pixle smiling archly to beg an
extra chop.
And in their fairy shopping bags were magic steaks galore..... I wandered down the High Street, and wandered home
unce more.
"Waltera loomed suddenly out
like spectrès in shirt sleeves, of the mist, to take your order, and you were often startled to hear the voice of a fellow der you could not see shouting in your car for the condiments."
"In this charming little place, Fmelling of bolled cabbage and hot at, where the motto on Come the wall was 'Cut and
cut off Again, you could get the joint and two veg., a sweet and a cup of coffee for is. 2d.
"There was a generous help- all The over-cooked vegetables you could eat (or wanted to) for Jum 2d. a portion, roly poly pudding for 3d. and a cup of coffee for a penny.
Their plate eyes hat looked up Good Old Days ing of ment for 8d..
strange, immortal
On some things. Their feet
that clopped froul shop to shop had danced in futry rings.
And hid behind each pixie hood
were pixie-pointed cars
HANDS CANAL
VAUGHAN JONES
Upon two issues, not only whom are skilled tradesmen, 10,000 Eust British, but the assisted by the American and other NATO Africans and 5,000 Mauri- generals are agreed: No tians manning these. other Middle East area can
General Naguib, though match the Zone as a base.
occasion to listen to Washington's advice, has ready on til now, at least, turned down suggestions that an
force of British,
lifeline, And the base must be held In strong and friendly
British troops train and tanks and manoeuvre, and armoured cars roll across the sun-scorched Egyptian soil.
streak
hunda.
DISASTROUS
IN LON-
"EATING OUT
DON," by Mal Manger, is a book that will cause a sen- sation when it is published.
in a chapter describing the good old days, when you could
MUST ZONE
tools, He could encourage un- rest. arson and sabotage in the stores, workshops and Iines of communication.
British
and Allied troops, at £150.000.000: helped
by civilian labour from that of the fixed Installations an is estimated
neighbouring friendly
states, additional £500,000,000.
could, of course, try to do the The installations are inter- job themselves. spersed and Implanted in the But if Naguib so decided, would be faced with
desert, linked by road and rall they into A great military system, operating in a hostile country
This'
comprises permanent
airfields, and subjected to guerilla war- dozen t barracks,
fare, workshops, training grounds.
stations. fresh water power reservoirs, signaling apparatus, com- depots containing arms, muni- U.S., tlons, food and fuel, as well as
THI
COURSE OPEN
COURSE open to Britain
the "Some gave
waiter penny lip, though most of us grabbed our change and escaped In the fog before he knew wo had gone.
"Another favourite restaurant of mine was an even steamier little place, where the pint du jour was 'Baby's Head-a |sleak-und-kidney pudding for one person which looked exact- ly like a baby's head and cost you 4d.
"As the vegetables there were only a penny portion. and a slice of treacle täri and a cup of tea 4d. each, you could have quite a blow-out for 7d.
"Fred, the head waiter, who wore shirtsleeves in the win- ter, und, but for an undervest, was almost naked to the waist In the summer, always greeted regular customers with a cheery
Wotcher, cock.'
"A specialty of the house was free extra_gravy, served by Fred out of a metal basin screwell to a drawer under the counter, and 8. slice of bread to mop it up with.
"But nobody was allowed the free gravy un!!! they had first eaten (and pald for) the plat
the
la carto du jour or
and fortified Auld be to cccupy Cairo and lunch,"
THE PIVOT
but none
For Egypt, on the cross- international roads of Europe and Asia, prised provides the key to the French and Turkish troops, railways, docks,
pusts. There are also numerous
re- the Delta and set up a puppet Middle East, an area from in union with the Egyptian soldiers' welfare clubs and
should join in creation grounds-to prevent the regime. But it is unlikely that would ever take this Overhead, British planes
which troops can be easily army,
new defence troops succumbing to monotony Diuin
have disastrous through
step; it would Egypt's
€15- With nationalist and boredom.
international repercussions, steel-blue sky. Away on the deployed in any direction. forming Bused on Alexandria, one of system.
Moslem in-
perially emong the and perhaps British desert horizon.
the few good harbours in pride,
stoics. Moscow's soldiers and technicians
A political agreement with man vital strong points and the Eastern Basin and close fluenced by
to the Canal, NATO sea- warning, he has refused to
fortified store- Naguib, firmly establishing the military installations.
could
THIS great. power
exert its recognise the international
Western force to house stretches 70 miles along rights of a
the the Canal's west bank, from garrison or help garrison Few of the troops still influence in Greek. Turkish character of the area.
Guarding the Carial and the
the Just south of Port Sald in the Zone, is, therefore, regarded as have much interest in the and Levantine waters-pro- liners and warships, tankers-vided-the Egyptian-Govern-Nile Delta, the base is
Westwards. It extends 50 miles Western-military-planning.. tains airfields outclassing any- and-trumpa of all countries ment again puts her great strong point of Egypt, und connorth 10 Suez in the south. a prime essential for any future to Tel-el-Kebir, and includes Possible alternative sites for a thing that the US has con- training areas east of the Canal base have already
been re- over thiriy a day-that port at the West's disposal.
the have structed in North Africa.
viewed. us well. glide through the desert
The Militarily, has two sharp-
permanent bases include. Aecessary requirements-tactical- waterway,
ly defined funellons.
these at Fnyid, Moascar, Tel- !Y, strategically or geographical- Cyprus, 300 miles from North MOREOVER, the force oc- The one is to act as a prolect- ci-Kebir and Suez.
Pivot
is Africa and 1,000 from alto. of the system
all the cupying the Canal Zone ed area and storehouse for all
waterway the implements of war needed Moascar, which adjoins Ismails has 1 Britain's soldiers and air- commands
rapidly transform about half-way between Fort being to equip and men, nearly eighty thou- whose safe passage in peace great bodies of trained men in Sald and Suez It lies across outflanked from
the Asla Minor.
Of its three ports, Famagusta, sand of them, are more and war is vital, not only to to army divisions and air force the east-west road and
whether the British Commonwealth, squadrons ready to be launched railway linking the Della with
Larnaca, only the Palestine, and also on the road Limasol and anxious to know
and rall joining the Mediler- first two have facilities of any they are soon to be with- but to the U.S.-which now for battle in any direction.
real use. At present, the Royal third of
ranean with the Red Sen, drawn from garrisoning the controls almost a
Navy is developing Famagusta. military its traffic-and the whole largest world's
South of Moascar, and along The island's central plain could side The tepid Great Bitter provide good airfields, but there base and guarding the vital Western world.
Fayld, HQ of the would be specially vulnerable
East
A big defence to atom bomb attack. Middle waterway linking West with
from feet and air force would there East.
fore be needed to protect it. It
certainly provide would
advance base, but Incka good
arsenal and stronghold.
buck to the Mediterranean and Atlantic, or out towards Asia and be- youd,
DUAL PURPOSE
This dual purpose it fulfils more than adequately in many respects.
which
ranges
Further south still are two
and Shallufa.
rond
A
On the Phone
never
"I am glad to hear that she uses the telephone. Women are not only inaudible, but use it to talk for hours about nothing" Letter to an editor.
HULLO. Is that you, Mabel?
What?
...I said: “Is that you, Mabel?"
Yes, Who's that?
This is Li).
Who?
Lit.
Who's
?
I didn't say anybody was, ill. said: "This Lil." Oh, hullo, Lil. How are you? I'm all right, How are you? Oh, I'm all right. How's your Mum? and
disadvantages of an island, and can be
Greece
"
NOT ANXIOUS
д
Who?
Your Mum Who's dumb?
100%
say anybody Į sold: "How's your
I didn't dumb. Mtum?"
Oh. Mum's all right. How's your Dad?
Did you say she's bad? Who's bad?
I'm asking if your Mum's bad.
no. Oh, Mum's all right. How's your Dad's cough?
Oh, Dad's cough's all right. Coughs all night?
No, said: "Dad's cough's all right," How's your Mum's head?
Who's dead?
•
said: "Flow's your Mum's
The occupation of the THE other is to guard the Im- Lake, is
perial highway which cuts the whole Zone, and thence Egypt. by London-Bombay sen journey by system
miles. the Marselles Cyprus to East Africa. an enemy, besides splitting 4,500
by 5,000. The TWO ISSUES
the Western world from the Saigon route
Canal.carries an annual inter- East, would have disastrous tional traffic of around eighty important air stations at Gineita the requirements for a great FROM Cairo they have been results. It would provide the million tons, three times that of
On the Catro-Mosscar assured by Egyptian enemy with a springboard Panama. that Anglo- for conquering the African
are Quassasin and Tel-el-Kebir. Ono of the world's greatest
head? spokesmen
single supply dumps, Tel-cl-
On Egyptian talks, leading to continent.
Kebir contains 37 miles of
VENYA was apparently con- How's Daisy" To the West it is essen- their evacuation, will so011
Who? area is great enough for road and 20 miles of railway; sidered by the Labour Gov- that the tial, therefore, begin.
the and is encircled by 17 miles of conditions unknown and Canal Zone remains either the dispersal-discounting"
of barbed wire entanglement, From London
or alomic warfare of barracks tactical Washington has come news under British command
and the that some "solution" to the under the command of an and depois,
powerful citing of strong points and air- Canal Zone problem must be Allied coalition
enough to defend it in time flelds. found.
of emergency pending the arrival of reinforcements.
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
If Mr. Flackenbacker hasn't the detaching finished satellites in five minutes dinner'll be ruined 11
This is the issue which is causing NATO's generals to ponder.
TURNED DOWN
Its
Mum's head's all right.
WAST
crazy. I said: "How's Daisy?" Oh, Dalry? Ok, mustn't grun
ble.
ernment as a possible alte and, Dalsy, Daisy, Daisy.
Who's crazy, crazy, crazy? after the British evacuation of
I didn't my anybody Stored in the various depots India, about £100,000,000 worth at deposited are everything a great fighling of stores were force needs, from a tank to a Mackinnon Rend. In 1950, how- toothbrush, a Bailey Bridge to a ever, the project was abandoned
-temporarily at least. 11 terrain provides for rapid bedsheet, a shell to a screw,
an Independent Libya, now Inter-communication.
Moslem state, may follow Egypt's path in demanding the troops, of British evacuation The Moslem world is likely to
It has a "back door" as well as a front; should the Mediter- rancan be closed by enemy air or seapower, it can be approach-
COMPLICATED
ed from the south through the EVEN if Britain removes all back her if the should press her this equipment, there remains claim." Already Libya is can- Rod Sca.
this Idea among UNO the problem of the fixed in- vassing
Tobruk. harbour, Furthermore, It safeguards stallations, bulit at such expense delegates. the passage of oil from the great with British engineering skill. morcover, is not big enough to a fleet of any Britain submits, simply, that accommodate
size. IF the British were to sub- Iran, Baudi-Arabla and Kuwait.
Israel could provide cerlain to Naguib's Last year alone, 40,000,000 tons Egypt is not yet able to main-
Incities, but ideas of establish-
mit now
felds of the Middle East in Iraq.
demands for evacuation, the were shipped through the Conal tain them.
In tankers. Admittedly, oil is There remains, too, te com- ing a base there were dropped
but the
the Zone's
Who's mumbling?
I sald: "Mustn't grumble. Oh. I see. Well, are you all right?
Yes, I'm all right,
Well, that's all right. Yes, that's all right.
Well, good-bye Then. What?
I said: "Good-byo.
I can't hear you."
I said: "Good-bye.
Financial note
**The Kikuyu people. furve, not
set grasped the monetary sys- tem. They argue that - two, ori three good: sheep or goats will increase to six or more.is year. But one shitting does not From bear another shilling. an article by Jomo Kenyatin,"
Egyptian army by itself piped overland from some fields plicated question of ownership after the British mandate ended
While and be
payment, of to the Mediterranean,
some In 1940. would
incapable
Jordan
though and... Iraq, affording the Zone adequate existing pipelines are vulner Egyptians suggest that part of
and able to sabotage
dcriat
these should be made over to bound to Britain by treaties, do protection. Neither has bombardment.
Egypt as a gift, Britain feels not afford the necessary strate trained
gle requirements. Egypt sufficient
Established under the pro-, under no obligation to do so.
not Britain
certainly 1930 Anglo- But whatever the outcome of officers and men to run the visions of the
If they want to know how Zone's great military instal- Egyptian Treaty, which expires any talks, General Nagulb holds anxious to remain
in three years time, the base the key to the Zone's smooth sale guardian. But it is equally one shilling will bear devaral
Britain needs
shillings the simple creatures lations.
bocame a vast military store running. During the last war, obvious At this moment, in house only after World War II there were 280.000 Egyptian guarantee before she quits: should wille of once to Shark,... addition to the operational when British troops were with employed in the base; even now that its future guardians can Doublecross Bons and Bhark,
there are around 30,000.
care for it against the day when Brokers, of Threadneedle Street, troops in the area, there are drawn from the rest of Egypt.
So, at a word, he can disrupt she and her Allies may want London, EC.2. Valus of the British arms and 16,000 British soldiers and equipment there, which would - ita, functions. Ho could order to return overnight to protect
---(London, Erpresa Service) 5,000 airmen many of take over two years to remove, his fellow countrymen to down the world against aggression,