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THE CHINA' MAIL, - TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1956,
ISRAEL
ARAB'S FAREWELL TO HIS STEED
NEUTRALISM
World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian.
The Extraordinary Background To Glubb's Dismissal
A BABY GIRL CAUSES
A POLITICAL DRAMA
Amman
By ȘEFTON DELMER
the powerful and the of Glubb
Fall the coups and
pulsches
have 1 covered, the one by which 21-year-old, jet-flying King Hussein of Justifiably-that
presence Jordan has sacked his legend about him made it im- British adviser, possible for them to represent veteran General Richard Bagehot any decision of the Jordan Ixce decision Glubb, is far and away the Government, a
prompted only by motives of most extraordinary.
Jordan self-interest,
A particularly influential ad- vocate of this argument whe Hazza el Majali the Jordan Premier, who wanted Jordan to enter the Baghdad Pact and had to resign defercace to the storm of protest.
And, who knows, it may im- prove to be the most portant too.
I say extraordinary for: 1. Behind It is a baby girl not yet a month nje;
gence service
How does the
once more
Final Straws
The final
03
ruler
and
by
the
BRITAIN TODAY:
The Army Gets Rid Of Bull
THE
By Yorke Henderson
4
London It's not that Bevan wants a
HE very barrack-room place on the party's National Executivo. That he could get Was easily enough if he were pre- the pered to have himself elected by Inst the constituency labour parties
word “bull” bandied around
House of Commons
slang needed no definition.
#hero.
of the
CAM-
week. To anyone who hall with whom he is still much of over done a spell with Her
What Bevan obviously wants Majesty's armed forces this
to demonstrite is that his pdr- inelegant bit of military sonal standing is such that no
has the backing stitucncles more powerful trade unions share of the electing by block vote.
With constituencies and unions behind him, Bevan's chances of
As nearly as it can be defined
and the mych
in black and white it means who do Heir
excessive spit and Dollsh
the mental attitude with it.
and that дос
What was concerning the taking over ultimately com-
honourable members
on both maha
sides of tho House was
that
of the Labour party
there appeared to be lust a bit would be, to say the least, good. too much "bull" In Britain's
nuclear age army.
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They heard of examples such
as the blocking of the soles of
TWO-EDGED WEAPON:
boots, too frequent
kits
inspections and other traditional
rulo" is WORKING to
fairly recent phenomenon wüs produced
A
customs which "did not make in Britain. It
sense, caused irritation and dis- with a flourish by certain trade couraged national servicemen."
have
unions is the weapon to bo
used when the strike as such was not justißed.
Like
Old army hands could told them that there examples beer indeed. were very small
the hydrogen bomb it What about the units, for In was regarded as an unanswer- stance, where you
not only able weapon. After all, it was
railways
would
black the soles of your boots, reasoned, no one can legitimate- but polish the metal studs as ly complain if a worker doca well and burnish and bootlace precisely what he is pald to do eyelets with brass polish? Or and not ono jut more.
If, let's say transport ticket where you polish yes, poilsh-
collectors on the your bed springs?
The general Impression given "worked to rule they in the House was that "bull" make a great show of carefully Was bad thing. And Secretary Inspecting each proferred ticket of State for War Antony Hend and then stamp or punch it with triumphantly
happy great show of care on pre
laid 'down by spo! that an Army House
Counci cisely the
down on bull."
told
order had gone out saying "cut rules and regulations.
No employment, you RCC,
symptoms of anti-British anti-Western demonstration the crowds, I all think coup may turn into a disaster for Moscow and their neutralist anti-British benchmen in Calro They compromised on seven and Riyadb. For the king was, and still is a bellever in the the following morning.
No reason was given for the Anglo-Jordan alliance.
Glubb He is also still a believer in order, no explanation.
And he is an audience with the the Baghelad Pact. requested
King whose father not afraid to say so now that King--the und grandfather he had served he has demonstrated faithfully for so many years. pindence by this startlingy rude
audience The
retused. Was
gesture against his family's Then the rest of the measures trusted adviser, Before a secre ordered by the King and pre- session of the Jordan Parliament pared with his young officers of a fortnight ago, he testifled his
went into action, belief that Jordan should jointlon of "bull." the palace
of alliance The new Jordanian commander the Baghdad Pact
anathema to the took over Glubb's post.
Brigadier Hution and Sir Egyptians, Saudis and Russians.
Richard Coghill were relieved
of their posts but naked to stay
was
over
ro
15 which
his inde-
Secret Speech
.
and short-cuta That this will cause gloom of the sidi
1 Job experience of and despondency in sergeants' which
throughout the army breeds. And the resultant slow- messes
at rush
hours would bo But what up goes without saying. no one in Parliament seemed to chaotic.
"working to discern
that the ordinary Experience of was
rule" up to now has justified the soldier takes a perverse pride In the amount of "bull" em- enthusiasm of its advocates.
But last week the London ployed in his particular unit In company with men from Typographical Society and the other regiments or services he Association of Correctors of the boasts of his own unit's tradi- Press discovered that "working If he is sum- to rule" is not so unassailable as ciently eloquent he inspires in was fondly thought.
Thoy tried it against printera".** his audience not pity, but envy.
But what is much more dc employera over a wage claim vartating ta that, with a stroke And the employers, instead of of the pen, the Secretary of surrendering, dismissed the rule- State for War has deprived the workers until they agreed to do a contractual day's work again. They also had to give notice
WANTED Jordan to join the private soldier of something to
grouse about. Pact," the King said, "be- cause it would give us arms and
money.
up
Jordan
Ancurin
who
to quit to other printing workers because
of the disruption of smooth and economical working. however, The "rule-workers,”
The people who are ac claiming the coup wildly as a great victory for their cause
thai anti-British trlu mean Dictulor Nasser of Egypt,
S Clubb myth," he told on and help with the handover. THIS Saudi-Arabia's bribe master
the King, is widely Eight British officers command-
were transferred " Yusuf Yasin,
Moscow's believed among our own people ing the units and
that to office jobs. Nikita Krushchevare likely to and cur Arab neighbours
Jordanian officers took Glubb's presence is, in fact, rob- discover shortly it is really a
Also, I wanted it be- TRY AGAIN, NYE: de- command of the units. Only une bing us of our freedom of defeat for them; and
commander
cause it was going to help me be British unit Something should
mains, General Cook, who com- speed The replacement Dí 3. The British Foreign Ofee, cision. whose Middle
British
And officers in the Legion PRITAIN'S most controvermat were adamant, Eastern intelll done."
the result: Between figure, straws were two mands a division.
officers. Un- hos
And by
political Tubby, cx-Sandhurst
and torty thousand been taken completely by sur- British magazine articles prats- si
"College Major Emil fortunately. the time chosen
"Nye Bevan, fa making another thirty
workera in London printing nation's fons the
bid for power in the prise, thay wake up to and that ing Glubb
Djamal, who used to help Bri- for General Templer's visit was
offices out of jobs because of a The young King made tish
Also our allies of Labour Party. Major Friend with public inopportunə.
disputo this shattering setback is quite Jordan.
to which they were not up his mind to set. good thing in disguise.
The work,
fiery Welshmjan, relations
retired the Arch League failed us on On February from the Army-possibly for this occasion."
commands the loyalty of the left even parties.
Meanwhile, the makeshifts to 29 Glubb Pasha his share in publicising the Just "falled us"-he did not wing of the party, once' more which publishers resorted to drove
Glubb
has his eye on the coveted party get out affected periodicals were up To greatness
and the put it any worse than that.
startling often palace in devotion and loyalty to him of
But the MPs tow the point, treasurership. the
the Legion.
And these men, who only At present the past is held by
The normally magazine-style hia elegant
leader of the party, Hugh Galt- couple
ago turned white
goes into Chrys
twice beaten Radio Times, which down the Baghdad Pact as skeli, who has
most British homes where there ler for a гоц-
Bevan to it. But he wil not cheered
continue to hold line call and a
Is a radio, was printed in France reason, wildly
It after the is O were two other officers who King in his advocacy of it. chat with the
Incurred the me had
hostility That speech was secret. But next party conference. And the and issued with apologies by the BBC - looking like an King. It was
pundits are already forecasting different of the palace officers and their for the public the King and the
friends. And, no doubt, as Government have come out with that Bevan's chances of taking ordinary full-page nowspaper.
But 100 other magazines and any of always
on these a strong happens
reaffirmation of the over the job will be vastly im
periodicals had
Buspend other occasions, there will be further Anglo-Jordan Alllance and their proved without Gaitskell's com
publication' altogether. friendly con-
as the revolution gets belief in 1, changes
petition. ersations going.
Nor аго they
Why is Bevan so set on the ****************................................. For the time being, the re- British officers, just
Treasurership? It's not a part- INSULT AND INJURY: with the King volution is under the command them over to be rdvisers and in-cularly important post; not oven since that day of the young King. And that is structors.
baby girl comu
into this poll-
tical
drama?
POCKET CARTOON
ramu? by OSBERT LANCASTER Through the bazaars
mosques refugee camps, where what goes for Arb pub..e opinion is made. When Hussein's Queen Dian gave birth to n princess instead of a prince-on
jubila
12
February polite lion quickly gave way to a wave
and
whispers Jeers. Tho
Was com-
King
pared
and
the
"If Allah is merelful he may put into the heads of the British to send the M.C.C.to Bagdad-then Iraq is ours!”!
Shah of when
Hussein
from
the
Glubb had had
In 1953 when I
saw him kiss hin young master, with all the deference trusted family retainer, arrived post-
of
✡
place of his sick father,
Persia, who have also only hoste from Britain 10 take the had girls from their wives and mate child as the primitive tribesmen
expect from their chiefs.
no
for British officers,
H
Wounded Ego
I
am
Baghdad Pact
why despite all the threatening
of months
(COPYRIGHT)
the
dismissing changing
an acknowledged springboard to greater things.
THE PSYCHIATRIST
OVER
LOOKS
THE JAZZ CLUBS
IN the murky haze of a
about
to
THE British are great lovers of old things. Old houses, old customs and old motor cars.
The drivers of other nations might like to change their cars frequently, might prefer tha drawing-room comfort of the latest models,
tu
Britons, however, have tendency remain faithful to the elderly automobile which There is no truth whatayer,
has probably been serving them assured on the best
By W. T. FOSTER
and their families for years. authority, in the rumours which
These old cars are more than The bazoar comment, sedut- talk of the veriminations of the
London. year-old Maureen Cope, from wash't. A tail, dark youth in just Inanimate transporters. ously relayed to the young King over Jordan's allegedly
Teddy Boy rig yanked her out They acquire domestic Sidcup, Kent.
status. A sad little thing in a tight- on the floor.
As often as not are referred to King, ferilised the ground in precarious lack of munitions, of young King's mind for a far face-stapping and the like.
basement jazz club we ning man's sweater, a gally There was no can-i-have-the-by somo pet name. Borsa campaign-the Both
The fact there's enthusiasts are even known the King and Glubb sipped fizzy drinks, the coloured man's kerchief knotted pleasure. scriqus more
against Glubb.
were stilling campaign
She blinked very little pleasure and the best of
the talk to their automobiles as they nt mo through smudges of teenage vera. Don't believe might to a faithful horse. most in waging were young, friendte when the "Pasha" left, famous psychiatrist' and I. round her throat. Arab Legion officers who serve
thoso stories of orgies and tie- mascara.
Veteran and vintage car cinity But, on Thursday, the King Wo watched the teenagers Like many ordered two Anson Dove the King na ADC's,
air- dancing, trance-like. Wo
Maureen is a shop assistant bauchery,
fcurish it Britain, and high From Ume to time I caught a prices are till pald olher ambitious young legion- craft to stand by on Amman air talked with them between with cheap digs in the Cromwell
for anti- aries, they
Road, Kensington. Sometimes glimpse of Maureen. Her part quated vehicles that in other were resentful of held from 12 o'clock. At noon dances. We even danced. the slowness
she goes home for the week- ner hold her at arm's length countries would have been junk of promotion, precisely he called in person on
on His staro was riveted which they attributed to Glubb's the Premier
the by this time. and laid on his And when it was all over, and end. More often she doesn't. anxiety to keep the plum jobs desk a piece of paper with the from Piccadilly, London,
twirled throw
For
Maureen It was "Studio 51,"s sione's
11' on Saturday and bandstand.
Now the British GovernMODE oblivious, has struck at the hearts of a the order signed
was Sunday night that the "cats" go round on her own,
the almost lonely
large percentage of the nation's King's own hand, commanding packing up for the night, the to town. In other words,
I talked to shorthand typist car-owners. psychiatrist gave his verdict: Premier to dismiss Glubb
jam sessions are even fanmier. SALE! and send him out of the country. "Absolutely harmless.
It was announced that, sub- Every week Maureen spends Brenda Scott, aged 17. Like 50 These Before carrying out the King's teenagers are much better off between 30s, and £2 on dancing percent of the teenage live Ject to Parliamentary approval
Bends, sho
had come for the and there seemed to ba little HIEF among these young order, the Premier summoned here than siting passively at sprogs.
o watching
music only. officer advisors
Jalen of this being ... withheld ---- T the the British 'Ambassador, Charles homo Was
"I can't explain what I like cars more than ten years King's senior ADC, young Lieut-Duke. Arid telling the asked him why they were "I used to live at home," she shout jazz," she told me.. "But would have to be subjected to Colonel All Abu Nawar; who Ambulsandor of "Glubb's dis- there.
Why thousands of girls told me. "It didn't work out." 11's sort of warm and comfort safety tests, as a result of the coup, has been miegal, the Premier gave every Just out of school, boys not old
Why? "Because Mum and ing. You know,"
It was not that anyone felt upped to command a brigaqu impression
I didn't know. But I guessed, that safety checks were not di of being quite as enough to be called up, spend Dad didn't like jazz records." (in place. of tho British surprised and taken aback as all their nights and most of She could watch TV. But it 100, that there was precious airable. What caused, the hurt Brigadier Geintly), despite the the Ambastador filmselt,
their money in Jazz clubs all bored her. She could go to the little warmth in the life of was the implication that – thowe inct he has so far not evITI Glubb himself was utterly over Britain.
pictures. But they lacked some-. 'L§0-a-work typist, alone in faitiful old machines wore any- too, when told of the
neurosis," he explained, thing. What Mass
wan the word? London.
thirst. other than ↑ebecititaty I looked into the plush Savoy trustworthy. at home. They probably suffer
like 'sniffing "at","the They come here eng for a 16-year-old with the dance noor well-groomed breath of a trusted famliy mas from strain.
it is a poor form of social on indinite zest for living, but couile starod blankly at the cog vant to see if sho had been at
without the „know-how to of faces just as the Jivers had the port bollie.
They moved just as And adding insult to injury"
came the formast tant owners, dance?
Funny, that, of old cars would have to pay
beloved vehicles probede kun
CHIE
commanded a battalion.
astounded,
Abu Nawar, and others playet order by the Premier an hour "These teenagers are not happy · EXCIust weren't exciting Hotel on my way horhe, - On
and tho
ola
on the King's wounded ego and later. pointed out 10 him how.. "You Bro-to love immediate brought of the world, too, Premier told him. "Within two
the Arab worldly, His Majesty, says," the to work it off. for that--Glubb Pisha, was hold hours. Planow are standing contact. But it is the only one grality it.
they have. They should be en- to be the real ruler of Fordan by
Bo she took to jazz. And she stared. and the King his slooga, * Polliciana added ibole bit,” Chubb, "I must have time to I thought back to the drüt girl. One moment I was talicien toy They called it the olde fushioned for the magnity of devirim listin pointing out and I hold quite pack.
THE ARKE MISCHENDE I WRIEL, I'd talked to that nietstes de MatarØRE.
Last,
But that is impossible sa couraged
The