THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1954.
A QUESTION OF DRESS
GILES
Arabia Today Is Not So Happy
A
By HAROLD JAMES
FIRST-CLASS row with Britain brews in the Yemen, cae of the colourful states that emerged in Arabia after the first world war. The "Happy Arabla" of the ancients, its barren and inhospitable Red Sea coast, as seen from an ocean liner, hardly supports the title "happy".
when the RAF from Aden took a hand in the game. The Yemenia collapsed and, in 1984, a Treaty of Friend- ship was signed between Britain and the Yemen. By this, Britain recognised the Imam as king and both sides agreed to abstain from interference
with
the
affairs of the people in- habiting the border.
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Trouble is developing for two further reasons. One is that sir Tom Hickinbothara, Governor of Aden, has started a policy of federating the numerous small sheikhdoms in of this, the Yemen take a poor the Western Adon Protectorate. view, feeling that it might pre- Judice their position when the boundary is anally demarcated and that it might set up a barrier against territorial
pansion.
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Oll the lack of it, rather-is the second worry.
The Yemeni envy the Sultana of the Persian Gull to whom oll has brought fantastic wealth. They did not know-or,
if they did not believe-that knew, geologists hold that the old deposits in the Gulf poter, out many hundred miles to the cast of Aden.
Beyond the unattractive fringe, however, lies a coro Following the agreement, of green and fruitful coun- the Yemen began to abandon try. On this central plateau, ite policy of "being. seen six thousand feet above the and not heard." In 1989, it Rea, coffee and grain grow sent representatives to luxuriantly In t climate meeting of the Arab states. blessed with an abundant In 1946 it joined the Arab rainfall.
League. In 1947 it became a member of the United Few Europeans know this Nations. Today, this semi-
They have been infected, ton, stronghold of Islam. Before feudal state sita in coun- by the nationalism which feeds the first world war Turkey cl
with other nations on territorial expansion. They had exercised ♫ nominal of the world and criticises now lay claim to all the country north of Aden town, What sovereignty over the Yemen, the way in which Britain started with petty raids is now but when the Turks were administers her Trust Ter- not for whom of open warfare. beaten, the Imam-religious ritories.
On June 18 an attack was made on British territory by a force leader of the people →→→→ pro-
of B0 regular Yemeni froopa and claimed himself king of an
400 Yemeni tribal regulars. On July 11 the airfield at Mulcheiras was raided.
Independent kingdom. The
now monarch maintained un
'INCIDENTS'
No concrete pillars mark oriental seclusion -- diplo the boundary in these sandy matically. Like its strictly wastes, though velled womenfolk, Yemen existed unseen by the outside world.
NO DESIRE
the live
But, geographically, the Imam showed no desire to keep himself to himself, for по sooner was he in the saddle than he started to encroach on Aden territory on his southern border. The pretext for these excursions was that the hinterland of Aden once belonged to the Imam of San'a and that the tribal chiefs there were the Imam's governors. But that was in the 18th century!
The border forays which, in the absence of football, were the major sport of the tribesmen, lasted until 1928,
those who beside it know the course it takes. The Treaty, however, provides thai by 1974 it should be physically demarcated.
Con
eyes.
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This cannot go on-but, if Pottlemon! diplomatic possible, what action can Britain take?
WITH FORCE?
not
The Yemen's hand is Recently, the Yemen govern- without cards. Yemen, though rent has disputed the inter the oggressor, would get the relation of the word "fron- backing of Egypt and the other contends that the Arab states if the case were to fler." It Arabic
word for this in the Ko to UN. And if the verdict Treaty means "marches"-an went against the Yemen, as it elastic term which
be must on merit, what care the stretched far beyond the narrow border tribes for the decision of come vague authority thousands strip which, in British
of miles away at Lake Success? constitutes the border.
That Britain should abandon Southern Arabians she is pledged Tribal to protect is unthinkable. She the Yemen could meet force with force by flrd across the border
into employing the RAF which gar Aden, while on the Aden sida ripons Aden, or by staging two sub-tribes rebelled against military expedition. Such a step their sultans, who enjoy
British
would provoke an profection. The Yement gov- from enemies of Britain and ernment saw in this a chance of those in Britain to whom Britain But this reviving past feuds without be- is always wrong. coming directly involved, and business carmot be settled at the food, ammunition and money conference table, Britain might were sent to the rebels,
well be forced to retaliate.
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"Is my chicken dressed O.K. to suit the colonel, sergeant ?"
The New Germany
ago
London Express Service
By Sefton Delmer
THEY WERE OUT
TO 'GET'
himself.
DR JOHN
"His organisation is pene- This visit was much the some, patrick, at that time counsellor
in the embassy in Berlin.
"Red
thread"
tho
BONN. "They" had already got T is just eight months Heinz. When he made trated through and through it seems to me.
have Today, I
before me now that I first his warning forecast he had by former S.D. (Himmler the text of a report concerning "In 1938 John took up con- two men called heard A remarkable just been sacked from his Special Intelligence Service), the
running tact with forecast and warning - Intelligence post. Sacked Gestapo men and bitter antl through John's record, subinitted Roessler and Radunsk, members by the Gehlen organisation. of the Communist syp-ring or- about the coming elimina and this is the strange thing intellectuals,"
ganisation Red Chapel.' tion of Dr Otto John from at the instance of John
Gehlen claims that he warned That was three years ago. Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, his job as chief of Western
"After the outbreak of war High Then came a change. For British
Commissioner, John regularly visited Switzer- Germany's M.1.5.
19 Jong as
18- land to look up Roessler Ho For John was working when I broached the subject against John
mado regular visits to Madrid This same Otto John, then in collusion with Geh- of Gehien again at a later months ago.
where he called on the British whose sudden passage from len. And that was a most meeting with John, between He warned him, he said, after Intelligenco chief.” West to East Berlin looks peculiar alliance for a man 1952 and this year, he al- it had been discovered that the like doing even more than with John's record of bitter waya shied away. the Korean war to speed anti-Nazi opposition. the old gang and the old spirit back to power in West Germany.
As Colonel Heinz sald when I recalled that forecast
to him at the week-end :-
'Framed'
chiet in Madrid?
do you think this draft plan for the European And who Defence Community, of which a document names as the British copy had bean in the possession Intelligence of John, had been passed Into Guy Burgess. the Soviet zone.
Details followed of John's EHLEN was all right, he alleged record which, to my per- maintained. He had got rid anal knowledge in one respect
about
The warning forecast to John came from Colonel "Why, oh why, did John of the dangerous men from his at least, are as Imaginative да Friedrich Wilhelm Heinz, not ally himself with me outfit and was now sticking any of the scandalous libels who was head of the small, against Gehlen instead of strictly
foreign published leaving German newspapers hush-hush-and amazingly the other way round?” efficient Intelligence ser- vice of Dr Adenauer's shadow War Ministry.
Well, why didn't he? That is a mystery. When I first talked with John a year after he had taken on the security job he himself was bitterly suspicious of Gehlen and hostile to the whole the
organisation.
The warning AND what was Heinz's
warning? That ruthless Major General Reinhardt Gehlen, head of the American-financed Ger- man spy ring of "loyalist"
He changed
to his own espionage job, even Internal affairs to John.
They were good friends allies now, he said,
are
and
So smooth
says that after fleeing from
Berlin on July 24, 1944, John
John in the made his way to me in London. Here he also got to know Maclean, who later went with Burgess to the East.
"Tho British Journalist Sefton Dolmer," It says right at the beginning, "has known and been- a friend of John since they first met in Berlin in 1034."
Extracts
It is believed, this extra · ordinary document alleges, that John In 1951 personally con- ducted Burgess and Maclean in his own motor-car across Ger- many and emuggled them across the frontier to Thuringia.
I wonder whether he was deliberately deceiving himself?
What Interests me parti- cularly
tho parallels between the way Heinz was put on the rollers and the technique
S for as I am concerned, the John, at the time in question, now being used to blacken the
away in his car for 18 reputation of John and convince rest of the document becomes was
that one state hours. valueless with everyone that he has been a Red agent all along.
ment. For I never seb oyes on There is more of this kind of John or met him until ho ex-officers, S.S. and Gestapo ALMOST using the words alleged Soviet emissary was sent from Hitler In 1944, 1mm years
Heinz was framed when an arrived in England as a refugee stuff, I will spare you the rest. Now this primitive material Heinz, he said: to ask him to cross Into the after this alleged first meeting, would be completely ridiculous men, would torpedo John.
Why? Because,, Baid "Gehlen is out to penetrate Soviet zone and as a result he
if it were not for the fact that Just so that you may see the it is being used to stampede the Heinz, "Gehlen and his the whole of West Germany, was accused of having contact
kind of stuff these people Weat
Governments,
ond Western Nazis are out for a monopoly He is establishing his men with the Russians.
circulate, here are some extracts especially the Americans, Into control over the Gorman in confidential positions And John? Do you remember from the rest of the documenti- bellef that the only reliable anti- "John was blackmailed by the Communists in Germany are Intelligence services. You everywhere-in the Govern- the visit of Baron von Putlitz
a self- British Intelligence Service. In the men who "remained true to way as I was. They will get political parties, in industry, invited John to cross into the to the outbreak of war he had to the last Roman."
in commerce.
Soviet zone and was rebuffed, constantly been
of
are just as much in their ment administrations, in the to him? Putlitz, now
confessed Russian agent, once 1934 into working for them. Ug their country and their Fuehrer
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you,'
Emlyn
BE
Williams And The Sunday
London.
From LES ARMOUR
with
Kirk-
Ban
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The anti-Nazis, on the other hand the campaign is meant to auggest -- are unreliable pinks and Reds. And the present trond in Germany to eliminate them from positiens, of import- ance which they nequired under the Allies is entirely justifled in charmingly-dimpled one of Mr the interests of both German Williams. In fact, on Puritan and Allies, EING an
actor, Mr
cal' grounds, if would seem,' the
Yes, ft. is
very smooth Emlyn Williams must fellows of the London Welsh ever come of choosing a Sun- less desh visible on Sundays,
operation, this one. As smooth be familiar with Shake- Association find themselves, day for their play. For, no the better.
as the whole" manoeuvre for the announced and they Rooner
Sünder speare's crack about en- (a) hoist with their own their plans, when in stepped the Knowing the Men of Harlech, rearming of Germany gineers who get "hoist with petard, and (b) fairly be English law men many of we can't believe that the matter cover of demeracy and "good
Europeanism." their own petard.”
devilled by whole coveya of whom had patently spent chear will be allowed to rest there. pigeons roostwards-bound. lest, beerites Sundays in Wales -and pointed cut that If Emlyn Being a Welshman, he...
bach
planned to be Charles must recall the sin-sniffing. It happened this way. Of Dickens in England on a Bua- avidity, with which his late Mr Williams has found day, then he'd do it minu fellow-Cambrians eschew on that there's money in Dic beard
appropriate Sundaya all the temptations kens. And on both sides of nineteenth-century get-up. of the flesh-half-pints of the Atlantic he's been trick heer, visits to the movies ing himself out in a false and the like and enforce Dickensian beard and giving their prejudices with cramp readings from the master ing bylaws.
"novelist's works.
THE LAW MEN And hailing from mining country ・・・ where pigeon- fancying flourishes, he'll So it was that the mem know all about pireona com- bers of the London Walsh ing homo to roost."
Association decided they should book the
Oh, the irony of it, then, Festival Hall for when, bang in the middle of performance by the font pots of London Welsan town, Mr Williams and hid have know.
and the
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MORE EXPLOSIVE
The plan
Doubtless, Sir David Maxwell VOU want to set up a Gestapo?: Fyfe (Minister of Welsh Affairs) Then you getAllied op- will nenda stiff Note to Bir proval and put in charge of it a David Maxwell Tyle (Home man who is internationally For such is the Sunday ob- Secretary). Ever a demon- known as a stalwart Liberal and rance law in England that, strave race, the Welsh will an opponent of Hitler a man although an actor may perform, most likely send miners march- who has won world me by he must, neither costume him ing on Whitehall, angrily roar risking his loto save his
Ing Land of My Fathers.
country, KAK Then, when he has
self nor uso izreasepaint for the purpose.
200. More explosive, though, is the to establish your. Gertaço, and chance that the English, handy had a kocustomed the b: Allied It seems that Emlyn bach swis with the success of this move Powers to the idea of a new some considerable store by that against Wales, may try the German Gestapo, why, phoney face-fungus, for it has same sort of thing on the Scots set about to remove him from been decided no beard, no who also deny them their "mato- his job... By fair meenaror, fölt,
berisi blessures of a. 5
That · has boar" the late oku
Sand only people
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