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√ THE CHINA - MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, -1954.
What Is The Secret
Of Eden's Strength?
I
By JAMES WICKENDEN
London.
Nan age of dictatorini
bluster and threats of atomic liquidation, Sir Anthony Eden has carried
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at each succeeding internn- women voters. When he ungan he displayed to show skill as well, his proslige onal conference
was accured.
an undeviating skill in negolia Hon. Typical of his insight was when he relieved a tense But many, feared he would session of the League of Nations never be fit enough to rucesed through a calm, increasingly walking out to play golf. last, offer months,
Britain's case Churchill. At the end of March by presenting
of day and successful revolution in in
night "cold war" battles, he ternational diplomacy. He In 1935 he became Foreign broke down with chronic in- There came une flammation of the gall bladder has revived the belief that Secretary nations ean settle differences ar In the wilderness following and jaundice,
bis dramatic resignation from by reasonable negotiation. the Chamberlain Government In 1932 With Churchill at the The charm he cumbines helm. Eilen went back to his with surress has always rightful job in the Foreign Offer, irritated men of vintence.
During the war yours he re-
Mussolini banned the bat gantred The method of named after him. Eden pre- sents such a finished front to the world that some fail
I see his real strength.
In fact he has much in com mon with Sa Winston Churchili nastiruinely an unfailing judg
2 tanan nature and belef that most mens desire to live tips to notable standards
abroad
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I negotiation debate in the House of Commons 54-year-old Edem ahi-༣, སྐ beling Be calls in rient toties upon a praments perser of justice to see the probier n't a tair and prudent light There is a hint of appeal in his XBO at times, but never of weakness. and he can be angry.
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His Timing
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Eden's judgment is mainly one ef timing 1e does not believe in trying to do something when the time I met ripe. In his only
Ilitical Personal
wtem The Government intended to begin the Angio-Halian conver sulicens +21 1938 he resigned because he believed the mosteni anappropriate
The ability to keep a balanced mind amidst the oru ush of con- partly temporary eventis ray
Mer recruitment Foreign
were raised so that Saluries
private in- abilly rather than time became the 1:st of entry
His Realism
Eden's appse of realism in the postwar chaon was revealed in a powerful speech in 1931 The
Cardinal issue, he made clear,
the one on which
he in- tended to concentrate
his persuasive force, was the "for- bidding ehasan" separating East
Wes! from
1 has worked hard to close the gap
Was recovery
slow but complete. Indeed, today ho ap- peora to be Atter than he has ever been.
His Future
Next to Churchill, Eden is undoubtedly the most vigorous and popular of
In Britain.
statesmen
Order
His latest honour of lavest- ment
Queen by the
with the Crown's highest order of chivalry -- thro
of the Garter's approved everywhere, Britain believes that Eden's Kreatest years have yet to come.
NOTE: The Order
the of conferred Garter
by the Crown purely at the Sovereign's picamurca and without minta- terial advice. The Order tasted 10 24 Knights who have stalin and medievel banners in the Chapel of Wind- for Castle, seat of British royalty for more than 1,000 years. The Order was founded in the 14th rentury and superseded the older order of the Round Table, famed in the legendary tales of ANA been steady and high. King Arthur and his Knights. His eebenar alfitude, unusual It is an honour rarely accorded among politeians,
to euromoners. The last recipient attractan nat Teast with the wax Churchill himself.
come from his study of Oriental languages He took a First Class degree in the subject at Uxford have inay and through that,
arl of discovered the Enstera
rational But his composttre
to appronch
problems
European.
เ
Key events, before his recent successes, have been his chair manship of DEEC, the first meetings of NATO, the invila 11on to London of Tit. the Korean truce, the PersianT settlement and the Suez agree. Trint
Eden's
in Britain has
has la
The English Are So
Cold At Courting!
H member
an older genera- en extinct
By ANNE SHARPLEY
TOW much do you re- "Many of Eden becomes more successful
about
tion are convinced that the art your every year. The latest achieve-
of courting has been ments
towards
peace- the courtship? Do you remem-
Uxc90 Geneva
last 50 ycurs. settlement
Indo- for
ber where you proposed to nothing. they say, ексере веж China, the Landon Agreement
what the your wife,
she was talk and
furtive casunt
in- defence and for Western
No but the wearing, what Triente settlement are
sai, timacies.
can turn Ono you
compliment any more. career, of what she said? elimax 40 his long steady work at the world's big- gest conferences.
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鳳面
"WHAT'S THE BETTING BROWN IS BUYING A BUS INSTEAD OF A CAR THIS YEAR?”
London Expresa Bervice
At Last: The Truth About the Peoples of Soviet Central Asia
COMMUNISTS WIPING OUT THE MUSLIMS
M
OST people in the
West think of "Russia" us a vast, sprawling territory
by
By SAYED EL-HASHIMI
of three articlos which he is
nationalism to the basic search
continued to oppose atheis- 1922-1930,
for food, Sixteen million Western Russians, were imported and planted on thus land of Muslim Asta during the period of farm land and rolling in agriculture, Soviet Asla
forming effective steppes, Inhabited
is now the most important
tic propaganda, the con- wedges in Istamle solidarity, and people who are little under part of the entire country. Of Hashemite descent, Sayed fiscation of farmers' land, providing ametwork of agents In these Muslim lands are El-Hashimi is a woll-known forced labour and the in- and informers at every level of stood, and who seem to understand others still less, concentrated the bulk of the writer on islamic affairs. He sidious destruction
of society.
Even Soviet statistics them- The average Middle East USSR's oil, vast tracts of is a regular contributor to national life.
bear witness selves
to the food-producing
territory, Arabic journals, as well as erner knows a little more;
During the 1920's, it
systematic destruction of Mus- he remembers the glories of hundreds of vital factories feading magazines in West- seemed at first that Com- tm peoples in the USSR. Ac- Islamic Bokhara and Samar-
and 16,000,000 Muslims ern Europe. This is the first munism would make a com- cording to Russian figures, be
tween 1920 and 1939 the Kazakh at least. kand, and wonders some-
writing for the China Mail. mon front with Islam. The population was reduced by, over times how the Muslims
hopes of the Central Asians one afth, when its normal rato RaHin Wis ruled under Soviet rule are faring.
were high, and they were of increase ahould have been Muslims of the I have just been reading Horde for nearly three hun- Golden
reinforced by exile from the ever one-sixth. Therefore,
these 13
years alone, οπο article by a British
and we The Bolshevik Revolution Indian political struggle. A Kazach in three died dred years. Since the third just love-making a shade too easy," authority in an important century of the Herjira, un- at first gave the Muslims Moscow in those days put it not die from natural causes,
Communist declaration from may be assured that they did Western journal. In it he censing war has been the hope of national and reli: thus: "All you toiling Mua-
Among the Muslim, Block- have makes point which seems rule between
independence; Islam and glous
but their to be of the greatest im- Muscovy, though Islam held when
lima whose mosques were three and three animals in four Communism's real portance to all thinking Mushms,
out for close on a thousand motives of conquest and destroyed, build up your says, is hated in the Islamic years. The taking of Kazan tyranny became clear, the faith and customs, and enter world, and regarded na the Terrible some 400 years ago raised in war, and some of
and Astrakhan by Ivan the Muslim banner was again freely into national life." monopoly of nations with in his crusade against Islam the worst battles of the SLAUGHTER
You probably do not, ne-
He has unrivalled experience ding to a book called
in global diplomacy. It began History
in 1920 when he was made a
Parlamentary Private Secretary
to the Foreign Secretory. From rise was meteoric, then on his
published.
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of Courting."
The
By Turner (Michael Joseph,
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"Possibly the telephone,
the
an
car and the cinema have made
explains the author,
Englishmen,
it seems, little
to boast of in methods of courting.
"On the Continent the repu-
tation of Englishmen as lovers was far from high," he writes
talking of the 18th century.
"They were regarded as stiff and gnuche,
Sir Isaac Newton was said to have plugged his pipe absent-mindedly with his lady's finger.”
THE TABOOS
overseas
Imperialism, he
empires. What. however, about the million was the turning point.
of Muslims under Soviot rule? Do the Muslims not
care about their fate?
that two generations of us
STRUGGLE
by
raising population, one man
in
to take over the herds --- and this during the period of the Second Five-Year Plan alone.
died as a result of forced at- tempts by the Communists
whole
forced labour,
I have been quoting only actual facts and Ogures. People Revolution were fought on
who regularly escape across the Muslim soil. By 1921 the OMING
out of hiding, frontiers into free Muslim lands Bokharan Emir Alam Khan
three hundred Muslim tell the most harrowing tales of had fled to Afghanistan, resisters were feasted and for failing to reach production communities wiped out Enver Pasha's pan-Islamic feted by the Bokharan Com- targets set by the Russians; of The answer. I think, la INTRIGUE, aggression and movement had been crushed, munists. Promised by the mass deportations to Siberia; of continued and only the Bazmachi traitor Ibrahimov that Islam if you are inte for work at the
starvation and have grown up without throughout the Tzarist era guerilla fighters were left would have its rightful place collective farin for example, adequate knowledge of what against the Central Asians to carry on the struggle in Central Asia, they were this is classed as "mbotage." Inging phase of English love- has happened, and what is and the Turks, bringing into against their religious and collected in the forecourt of and is punishable by imprison-
actually taking place, in the prominence such lenders as national enemies. complained at
Central Asian republics of the great Shamil, who held
the Friday Mosque of Bok- ment for life. For over 30 years the hara, where Ibrahimov's Russia. Yet, industrially and the Caucasus for Islam. Bazmachi movement
machine-guns mowed them down.
There was, however, an in-
by
making when the young women of Nottingham being serenaded
50 much "riptous lovers Infesting the streets with violins
and base viols, from midnight to four in the morning." It was later un- happily agreed that this พนง an Italian prerogative and the serenading stopped
Although Carly in history Englishmen showed signs of the stagnation in courtship which was to overtake them in the 20th century, the Prince Regent set a good example to the 19th century by stabbing himself (albeit cautiously) to persuade Mrs Fitzherbert to marry him.
penetration
has
THE ART OF PASSING OUT
FASCINATES THE DOCTORS
THE art
By LES ARMOUR
SUSPICION
After this final experi. NINETY-TWO percent of the yield of any field goes to ence, Islam in Central Asia the Government; the remaining knew where it stood.
eight percent may be used by of the collective The methods used to break the people
Tho ration of the the urity and spirit of the farm.
worker, according
to the official Muslim Turkle peoples by the wort Soviets were ingenious in the scale, is 20 kilogrammes of rico A skilled worker may Actions by the Com- per ye45 or more. extreme.
carn
a month. munista experta called in to
Good pay? Perhaps not, when control the five Central Asian this is exactly the price of a republics were made to
to appear logical from the Communist or pair of shore.
The people of Central Asia of becoming latively small amount of The Frenchman, ever not Islamic viewpoints or both. The today go about their work in
following, are classical examples for If a father canned, plastered, alcohol consumed quickly.. caring a bit, playfully top-of how cunning man can be,
teaches his Undoubtedly the heyday of stewed, blotto, crapulous, And Dr Henri Ducherne, ples governments, acquires a
son to pray. he lives for years The first step was the harness afterwards in the fear that the time. A girl, protected by the squiffed, potto, pickled and a Paris expert, says that sex life, and builds pave-ing of Islam to Stato require child may Innocently reveal this taboos of the time and provided plain dead blind drunk is getting blind swizzled is so ment cafes.
ments. If you cannot crush fact, casting suspicion and worse she Was not pushed In one of immenac fascination uncommon in France that
Islam, sald the Reds, penetrate upon the entire family. marriage by her parents, could to mankind.
On proper occasion the its racks and divert its activi- sit back and be wooed with such
his countrymen don't even spirit drinker dynamites ties to your own ends. sentiments ps: "If I can meet
have a word for it. Appropriately, therefore,
himself out of the horrid by a love chaste and the World Health Organisa- the wine-swigging French- quantities of strong drink.
But he does concede that world for n while with large STARVATION Illmitable na ever made the tion has lately been turning man eventually gets to the The wine drinker, on the DELICIOUS, teachers were en-` reads, and writes only in Arabic breast of man ita ienement, you its attention to the matter...point where he is "quito un other hand, has a chance to couraged to promote pan- serish fri- the 1020 this was
courtship was the late Victorian
you
me mine already."
MOST UNROMANTIC
In a matter of 30 years or so "proposals of marriage reduced themselves to phrases like Woll, what about it?" or "Why don't
And its conclusions, if not able to stop drinking.” illuminating, are, at least fascinating.
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NO BLACKOUTS
Here, then, we have two delightful pictures:
world is. find out just how horrid the
GOLDEN MEAN
The Englishman and the Swede, feet on the bar rail, staring glumly at the wall,
J
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Of the three gentrations which exist side by side today in Muslim Central Asia, each one has been most claverly, cut off from Intellectual contact with the other. The oldest generation
4.4
itsa as device 15 sifon, the Turloestán páuple merely
Islamia propaganda in surround abolished, and the Latin alphabet ing countries, inviting the Turks, made" compulsory. Since the Afghans and Perlans to rise 1930s, Riian letters alone trave stad Jain the Central Asian been used, Muslimas
What we the hopes for Islam in a new life. When was found that Muslims still in Central Asiat, it, is hard to The one broods Progress, placed their own community's on them. With the press They note, for instance, tossing back whisky and other Contentedness.
interests before.. thoes of the radió and army all controlled by we get marad, anywaymate that the alcoholic blackouts schnapps until they even. The answer is plain. The pod stil the cutbreak of the shouting hangings and deponde often in the most unromantic
Russians, this policy was drop- Moscow, with the lessons of surroundings, and at most in-commón In Britain and tually slip quietly to the World Health Organisation opportune times."
Nordic countries are almost floor in a state of blind should communicate
World War, when it was tontill fresh in their minds, unknown in predominantly oblivion and the French findings immediately, So much so that, at the end wine and beer drinking man, gaily sipping himself Unesco, which can
own counerei. · ani Muslim troops of the Soviet keep to
Army. of the book, the author make
Whit for.
what? Their only real the
question: **What'
countries...
into a permanent state of gin to spread hang vital system of fierigation, canals Muslim armpathy
The carefully evolved and hope. Test in the wirength of Wrong with courting? and he quotes the view
Mr Leslie Mcleod, who is vinous contentment, welovera in France and rose in Central Asia was destroyed Islas de hombre "Courting needs
itive to A new code of manners, a new employed at the Burden The Englishman "and the coloured glows in England by the simple ́expedient; § Of - ORide? Imots fastidioureas, Bociat inter Neurological Institute, Brit Swede, fired by their terrible achieving what Aristotle ignoring the maintenance work, low people were
which course between the sexes needs tol, ka says, that habitual hangovers, go forth and Ind called the Golden Mean, to be enlivend, as it once wa by armor courting, carted consumers of hard stuff" - vent dynamite, build empires i As for us pass the wine meent starvation and the divery
often go blotto liter in red and organisé Bonfallam.
that
enabled the faida notion