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Eden Should Warn Messrs B And K
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1956.
STOP MEDDLING IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Libya is within enay bomb- Whoever Ing range of Russia.
fan- ceruples her
our in-
then the others. If he succeeds, poverly will be upon tion, with mass unemployment and misery.
We depend upon our Middle East oll. Without it a terrible allonce will come to our fae- torics. The wheels will not tum. Our meads will be empty. That is true also of Western dominates,
Last Európe.
year three- East quarters Middle
of all the oil used Within Western Europe and Britain
came from the Middle East.
There are, of course, simple- minded people who believe the
continue oll will
to flow in abundance even
London. Britain has two ndrields in OFFER friendly ad. the kingdom, two armoured re- giments, and many supply and vleg to Hir Anthony
Frpair capolr: Amerlen, her Eden in his dealings biggest bomber base outside the United States, plus live with the Russian leaders.
As the most skilled diplo firing ranges for the whole of mat alive, with the possible her air force in Europe. exception of Molotov, he should not allow himself to be deceived by the Russian promise to Nupport
Egypt thrown away, with United Nations over Israel.
Sudin down the drain, she is the declaration1, By
the last British bastion on the Kremlia has won Boelf another North African coast.
prize-through perre
thick with technique that Stalinite ft. First, you create a crisis, as Russia has done by pening arms into Egypt. when
wor
you inters'efart
i
whe, the entire
Europe. the and Southom
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The inevitable,
Thus
you be
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tሚያከነጻ paremake
From the beglanhig, of course, Hassia has met waste!
Egypt and tsravi.
it WIL
And
Well that is betrayal of Columel Camal Abdel Naser, the Culro For he does not want
delator.
war tiher.
That is the
for
explanation The almost vulgar haste with whirl, desplie als apesches, he stigma the rease -
With
and
fre pledge few days ugo.
Bell America. Hussia committed to Intervent against aggression, he can tell his fanatical Jew-haters that to march against burned would be Mulride
The war, for the mornerd, is
and no one is more relieved than Garnal, Nikita me Nikolai, They have other plans in the Middle East, offering reber plunder. we tasting power.
And the victims as always, Bry 1 itain and Amerten.
Watch out
The 1 esplore Sh Antliony "Do not be decrived. For while Nikita and Nikolai
The
'
propagavia harvest of pende be- dween Istard and Egypt. Thes two
peace-lovers
mitting yll deals across the North African desect in Libya
Tho
ssf kratsk populated mainly by 1,000,000 dusty Arah nomads,
Labyn.
is of in- enlevitable strategie Importantes to Britain in our struggle to retain supremacy in the Middle East.
And America.
equally
That
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importance. That Is why Britain gives her
By Richard
Strong
yeu
B
$10,000,000
and Anemen $7,000,000, And that is why a chubby, cheerful Russian.
Nikolai Ivance- one
has vich Geuralov,
arrived Ars! the
Soviet there Ambassador, offering the desert toon to the nomads if they will break with the West.
as
Herds, beritals, engineering equipment-. [vano vich places no limit on Russian offers. And lu rase Libya's
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if Nasser gela his way and our oll interests Arabs. are expropriated by the They have forgotten Abadan.
When
Intervened. Mossadegh the oll ceased to flow for two years. Now the former Brilish owned vilekks are controlled by an International consortium. And the rate of production
half what runalne at
atider British management,
mf Sinular mismanagement our other of delds would do fearful damage 10 Beliain. But there is a still greater danger it Wasser's dream is fulfiled, If the Arabs control the off, they
able to will be
exercise Blackmailing influence over the affairs of Britain.
Moscow puppet
was
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That situation we could not
Stace harbours, tolerate,
Nasser is a Moscow puppet, we would be at the Kremlin's mercy. And so, eventually, would America. For 70 percent of the world's of! reserves are in the Middle East.
shrewd
Premier
Ben
Halim will cheque Jeurs the Soviet beaten, once the West has gone, That Is way Eden will serve
long has come Russia's Middle
Britain well, serve her fuith- Eastern agent, Colonel Nasser, fully, by warning Krushchev i pledge Egyptian and Saudi and Bulgauin that to preserve Arabian gold to the equivalent
ent peace Russia must keep out of of Western bounties, so long 35 the Middle East She must slop the West is given notice to
meddling to quit.
There in Libya. Exten is, of
aware of must be an end to Czech arms schemings. the Huntlan
He for Arabs. am sure, advising B and K to stop the attempts to usurp
from the Middle East-If they really want co-existence.
much more in the in- to terests of peace for him press home this point.
For nothing less than our
of life
stake. Is nt standard That is an exaggeration. Naster i sworn to force us out of the Middle East by persuading the Arabs to withdraw
our rights First Lilyn and
014
3-ftul
1/
In thele inneks,
Abidin, Egypt, the Sudan are lost to Britzdn. Nasser seeks to oust us from Libya, the Aden protectorates
Jordan. and North Africa is in bloody revol ngainst the French-again with Soviel-Egyptian backing,
No
trossi le
further
retreat ure That should be plain to us all. If it has been made piain to the Russians their Journey will have proved one of the most momentous history for peace.
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by GILES
London Expresa Berrice
The man who succeeds Gruenther as Allied Supreme Commander in Europe, and
THE PROBLEMS THAT
T
NORSTAD FACES
Lauris Norstad, success has secmed
to come
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as easily walking.
He
exudes it. Slim, dapper, six
ly.
Quiet, soll-spoken, confident but not excksure, the looks, out cf uniform, more like a prosper nys university lecturer than general.
He is obviously a man
By LES ARMOUR
up
of
drink.",
While the
fucd
was
30
He's 49, looks 39 *
West Germany was interrupted while he was addressing A women's club in to be Informed that he had been chosen Gruen- ther's successor. He didn't oven
at its mind the fact the day was Fri-
the 13th of April.
say that about an agreement on the only thing that disturbed unification. The plan him in the announcementTM was all objections and the realisation that he would ໂດ stay away from Washington for a few more
was in charge of the large and competent staff.
Elsenhower spotted the young brigadier and watched him at work. He was so impressed that he wrote long after: "I never thereafter lost sight of him," feet tall, he is 49 and looks put on staff duty before he even In 1943, at 36, he became a
After the war, Norstad, 39. {" seldom
to complete bomber brigadier-general, one appears had lime
Elsenhower's Insistence Was youngest In the air corps. At anywhere without a faint pikot tretning.
uamed War Department Director Planning and strategy turned that moment he was in Tunisia
of Plans and Operations. The trace of a smile which re-
"Alr out to be his metier. So did a
Operations Officer"
biggest feud in U.S. Army-Navy veals instantly that he is a
Intelligence work. He had an under General "Hap" Arnold.
history was in progress a move Not long after he was man enjoying himself huge uncanny ability to ferret out the, moted to brigadier he was out the two older services and can- pro to separate the Air Force from weaknesses in an enemy position, to calculate just how many men on the town in civilian clothes. solidate it into a new, stream it would take to overcome 1. A coloned, in uniform, mistaking lined organisation. and where they should be if the
him
for a young recruit, ordered weakntests
to be taken him to "hustle were {ul! advantage of. He could Blandly, the brigadier complied, height, Norstad conferred quietly day lenda also make B00190 or scanty The colonel didn't even spot the with Admiral Forrest Sherman
and reached who Intelligence likes the world as he finds it and divine the fully then, twinkle in his oye.
picture of an In Europe and in the Pacific service enemy's operations.
(he was shuttled back and forth) awept aside The mind which his teachers he planned some of the U.S.'s Norstad bereme Alt Force Chief have had marked
asaulis. A single of Operations. off for the legal biggest nir
have would profession was equally adept at operation. military thinking. *
enough to make his name,
In 1943, with the invasion of on the drawing boards, one of the Allies' biggest prob respects, a lems was to dispose of Pantel- curious mind. He did not think Jaria, the island in the Sicilian in the cold, certain terms of the Straits which the Italians boast-
hower as Supreme Allied Com- in an 18th mathematician and the engineer, ed was "Impregnable,"
mander in Europe, named him which is the exact otiverse Norstad planned he was not, Indeed his weakness in mathe-
on air as-
his air deputy.
the moderni American gadget- to say the least of it, a specta- matics and
and engineering showed sault.
Norstad's plan was to re-gear ridden home. British troops landed after his graduated up all too clearly at West Pokit.
he didn't Acem Anyway, 130th in the class of 1930. In He thought, instead, in human assault. The battle lasted just NATO's air forces for the atomic Ho master-minded the new
about NATO's prob- thave days, West Point classes torn. Given this position and 22 minutes. Not a single soldier age.
these
what would
radar defence system, planned lems. That, perhaps, is strange. sailor was lost. any weren't very big.
there
are good reasons for chain of airfields, and plotted For do? Norstad He opted for training in the enemy'
usually Characteristically, Norstad lost
believing that Gruenther de Army Air Corps end, was hustled knew the answer.
no time in disclaiming the story atomie strategy. Hawali.
was that by the that this was Thereafter,
The result
all his personal to
He is under no illusion that cided to get out now partly bo- time the U.S. success hit him with a bang.
entered World - work. "It was prepared with any future war could be fought cause he could soo an endless His superiors almost imme- Wor 11, Norstad was assistant particular care by a large and along the lines of any past war. sequence of headaches in front without any sign of diately divined that they were Chief of Staff for Air Intell- competent staff," he said flatly.
perhaps, why he ef him
appropriate antidotes. a to a good thing: Norsted was gener.
The statement did not say who had a smile on his face when he
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It is dimeuit pul your flager
the secret of his Ancċess.
He is the m of a Lutheran minister and the grandson of Norwegian farmer. His .first Interest was in the law but he
Curious Mind
was attracted, curiously, to the It was, In some army and, at the last minute, decided to go to West Point rather then to law school.
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Next Jump
years. His hobby ured to be arguing law with Suprema Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. hobbers-history
His next jump was to Europe, He misses his in command of all 'U.S. Air Stil, he has Forces
witc
in Britain and on the for one. He and his Continent. Then Gruenther, Lechelle and their 18-year-old live, by cholce,
of
who had taken over from Eisen- daughterentury French villa,
That was,
Happy workers from the carIBBEAN .
But Beware Of Music While They Work!
A Realist
Among them are the facts that France has cut her NATO con- tributions to tiny 5,000 men, that Iceland has beelded to clear cut
American
that West Germen Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is planning his own
All the same,
In which they have negotiations with the Rumlans, London caps and vivid yellow shoes
the evidence metropella
that NATO's southern flank and flow of West, Indiana settled.
is wide open because of the T was not necessary, the for the drabber clothes of that the I her day, to be B the self-effacing residents of three years ago,
Into Britain, which began some
As for their good ratury, there British-Greek-Turkish feud bycz hop by sleuth-hound with
the the United Kingdom. astuteness of a Sherlock The batch of newcomers who in some quarters. Holmes in order to reach the, arrived in London the other day from the West Indies had lond-
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means ended is esuring concern ly a story told if a manufacturer Cy of course, doesn't
As
members of
who had to stop the relay of the
radio programme, Music While underrate any of these difficul the British You Work," featured in so many ties. But he is a shrewd pay- the West British factories as a means of chologist as well as a shrewd
conclusion that another ed a little while before at Ply- Commonwealth, large batch of coloured mouth, on the south coast of Indians are free to come and go brightening up the daily routine tactician,
But supposing at bench or machine. people had just added them- England, and they numberedty plecse,
hervy unemployment should selves to London's popula- some 1,200. :
ever strike Great Britain again The Colonial Office told me what then? Such is the dis- tion..
that they represented the biggest said, which la already far, ever to reach Britain. far too vast.
A population, let it be single contingent of West Indians urbing question that is being of the while man's world, the the economic and social worl
of
them
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much of the future "cold war" battle is to bo fought with psychology: and economies, and he is not sure that a more stabúr organi»
The Work came on the air, they present exchange of views
It is rumoured; for instance, that he has some sympathy for Mollet's ylow that Premier NATO is too interested in It In their ignorance of the ways guns and too little interested in carefree West Indians employed envisaged under the My Colonial Office friend tells by this manufacturer could not treaty. me that 40,000 of the former get used to the idea of -con- Other arrivals from
population of the West Indies tinuing with their labours while abroad slip unnoticed into
hávo settica either in: "London, the strains ol popular
music this
About 150 sprawling straight into "huge,
jobs for London or in the Midlands, or in the came over the relay
system. matropolis of the British Transport-and what courteous England county of whenever Musle While You sution will not grow out of
Lancashire. Commonwealth, and are condueiers, ticket-collectors 'and quickly absorbed in the portors there coloured migrants The influx. seems to be con-, automatically felt it woe tine More Immediately, however,
make on the Big City's buses capital's cosmopolitan com- and in the railway stational and, more or less, to England. for relaxation, and as soon as he is a roullet: his warning ays! Only about three percent of the the programme started they tem and hit atomic miržegy are munity,
It was pretty certain, mos migrants have travelled farther downed fople and spent the scared to function with, a cut- But the dusky young men over, that the remainder of the north arch espssed, the seemains of half-hour of its durations in downs, streamlined; organisatiork and maidens from Jamaica 1,200 would not be jobless the ancerit Romas Wall erected singing calypsos dancing congas if masses of men are no longer
Britain
by Hɛdrian to move over the and rumbas, cand, Ingegneral | available, Norstad will no doubt and Trinidad remainry king. Employers in
bave the same order into Beolland., conspicuous until such time dimeullies with workers da
thoroughly enjoying themselves, be grieved, but he lề not the idaya they have obtained Jobs ployers in sundry other count. So far as London is concerned, between the factory benches man to five up, Be, le mari more likely, “la davlation nee and enough cash to change tries, and they are only too glad I can teadly that the coloured
Henry
nry airstory for do without them to take on personnel who are people from the Wort allow their wonderfully-hued fac
betion at laughing ↑ than cat, cause 1116) or no trouble to the kate, koft hate, bright "tles, partant/ling) -
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