THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1956.›
MAYBE IT IS that farm of mine that has got me into..... the habit. But I feel it is a good thing to take stock every now and then and see how things going. The present seems to me an appropriate to check up how Britain has been doing in the field" of foreign affairs in this year of crises. Are better off than we were at the beginning of the year? Or are we worse off? Let us make a balance
sheet. . . .
We
Sefton Delmer
IF OUR PROBLEM IS BAD-KRUSHCHEV'S MUST BE WORSE
Look back now to last January ...
N
Moscow, Bulgunin and Kranchev, just burk
their Trom
for situation we all face new ine
Pombas tre
trial supplies destined Re Chan, encouraged
A tanferan ** its terri- nl claims against 10- Wen Inkisten, und dorsed Mr Nebru's rape uf Kashmir.kewise at
Pakistan's expense.
STRUGGLE
Presiden! Eisenhower is tanding and looks etriala tube-elected - though
But at the time public royith a hostile De- Ben Tato hord the West was
At the
hong
Date
mocrat Congress,
Beyond any doubt the hamstringing Clection 18 question mork urte FranEU Here the U.S. foreign policy.
had lect To 24 ale
Mr Dulles la so mak No
af pirtier of betog group
accuses Secreed engambil then of forming "brink-mongering" Lhu a Govenient with a clearly instead of following out formulated patley on how to his own realistic precepia deal with Lị uriti-white, anti-
21 stickin to The Western Firing in French North
chosen Ling in Ince of Nasser's aggression, he in constantly retreating from
FROM The Bay of Bengal Afte
Al-
intermed
And we selves? Britain's intellig me
the service Mide En 1, 1eputedly the best caught upping twee in streets. the area, was
Mom in the very country where i sin uld by rights know every
on-in hrad h-subsidised Jordan
the Persian Gulf, the Root Sea and right
Acros North Afelen, to the unic. Soviet satellite dipfe mads, Saviet ant satellite engineers were sy estab- lishing new missieme, offer Pong, to 1 1 1 − ( 1 { } factories, offering van 1. #l evory. They sent the bright. where famming and exploit.
Fii{•¢‘— u{tivgP}
"Down with British colonial gangsters" tour of Burn and Judin, determined to step up still further their attack on the Western Powers' soft under-belly in Asia
Int and Africa--and more particu- ing larly in the Middle East.
COUP
J.
Fromm France atso Д question mark has been removed,
NAT
"If I dropped my fig leaves-l my gun-if only I wanted to drop
new
Over the Suez, crisis the French are displaying a
exity and a refreshingly robust determination which
is dominating not Only their formerly vacillating attitude to Nasser but 142 the war in Algeria as well.
Like ourselve Fortiga
Lloyd handicapied by Selwyn was actually dhung with Nurser Allitude i tro, come the sevend sur-
uppcasement. prar coup
est of Krushely's bright in the new
of the coloured "prote- Pri arias against the "capi N
young men, Dimitri Shepi.
Ier
40-t
Ea-torn capitals.
M
1
Talist codogtfalist" white "ex- ploiters."
while
our
To the court of King And in what condition Firs: Nos or organised mob
which stopped was the West to withstand rols
Jurdan Idris of Libyn, Britain's last
Pact the Joining
Bagdad remaining military base in this offensive in January
Nest, by the young North Africa, ttH ་་་
Over #l. 19587
the United
Harrow-duated king He Tilwark of the rocked h
veleron Comrade Nicolai States,
British spatched Generatov, who was last in Western alliance, hung two retainer Glubb Pusia from com- mand of the winy in à vain the news as the boss of ex. big question marks.
attempt to eutbid. Natser in the spy Petrov in Australia:
favour of the moh.
Would President Elsen-
• To dictator Nasser in hower feel well enough to But there were two hopeful Egypt went further sup- run for re-election? Would signs of a new armness.
election plies of MIG
presidential jets, tanks, the
The Jordan coup W06 and guns:
cumpaign paralyse Ameri- answered by the immediate cut foreign policy into com- despatch of parachute troops to plete ineffectiveness during Cypr to be ready for action
the Middle East bu 1956? #t
They arranged for Egyptian navn? men to trained ju submarines Gdynia in Poland, SO they should be
fo handle Soviet submarines sold. to Nasser.
واداة
• A commission of Egypt-
DULLES
ALREADY
State StatClary Jh Foster Dulles in this Januniv (12 '50 WAS reeting
by detering the aggressor.
War"
inn Air Force men flew to under heavy attack, not only in Prague (where I ran into the US it in Britain too for them later in the year look- his "To the brink of
doctrine of keeping the pênee ing very smart, very cocky. in contrast to their phreny Czech hosts). As payment. for all this the Russians and their satellite partners take
mortgage
Egypt's collon for the next tight
fl
years.
•
To India and Burma Krushchev diverted indus-
Q
ure
they the American
Nazi brand of radical Socialism have aroused powerful and in- fluential Arab ́ interests against him throughout the countries of the Middle East.
03
KRUSHCHEV
THE ANTI
COLONIALIST
could reach for, my fig leaves."
TEACHER'S
HIGHLAND CREAM SCOTCH WHISKY
PERFECTION OF OLD SCOTCH WHISKY
TEACHER'S AMIGHLAND CREAM
WHISKY TUN TRACHEN & S
GLASGOW
ESTABLISHED. 1900
POPULAR
Sole Agents:
5. H. LANGSTON & CO., LTD.:: Queen's Bldg., H.K. Tel: 28895
PUBLICATIONS
Chinato Croods & Customs Vol. 1
$18.00
Chinese Creeds & Customs Vol. I
18.00
Enjoyablo Cookery
15.00
Baby Book
25.00
Cummings
This is Hong Kong
8.50
The Hongkong Countryside (Herklots)
25.00
Hongkong Birds (Herklots)
35.00
Coronation Glory
7.50
King George VI
7.50
(I' Fun Finding Out — 2nd series
(Bernard Wicksteed)
5.00
1.00
3.00
1.50
1.50.
30
Asia 5. Asia
.30
3.1
Ciles Annual, 1956 (Booking now accepted)
5.00
On Sale At
African edition of a Hitler, juat we overthrow his German prolotype before him.
*
They are waiting for the first THAT'S how things stand
In the international farm-
chance to topple him.
Indecision und 3 Nesser's main backer, Nikita
Nevertheless it is my con- sidered view that the outlook today is better than it was eight months ago,
H
CREDIT
TEHE are points for a credit side of the balanco sheot,
Mr Henry Byroade has at up the United last given Slates Embassy at Cairo,
He believed to strongly in the scelion of the State Department of backing Nasser and Egypt to win the Arab world if iced On the Persian Gulf British- be to the detriment of Britain officered troops of the British- that when Dulice dropped protected Sultan of Muscat Nasser he tried to soften, tho
swept the country clear of rebel how bibesmen.
And now where are we going?
He urged Naser tu disregard American rebukes no mere words,
He warned him in advance of the intentiod congoliation of
loane the American
for the Aswan Dam. When this bomb went off Nasier was prepared
for I
Krushchev, i by no means yard as I see them. I'l DS FOCU on his throne this
October as he appeared to be check the stock again in in January.
three months' time.....as
the
Rupert Magazines Stamp. Albums
Ten Points About Pearls Points on judging Jade
Outline Relief Map al China
in every good farmer should. SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST,
The Poznan riots, students' demonstrations Prague, and the narrowly sverted sirike of the Budapest steal, works,
all the other tryll-Moscow manifesta- tion among the Soviet Union's
with
East European sofellites, have at icest temporarily weakened colleagues. Krushchev's authority over his
For it is his policy of per- that is being milted Titoim
these rightly, for blamed, developments by the still strong group of Stalinist diehards.
(And don't forget that it was the Berlin rising of June 17, 1963, that was used by the Stalinists to overthrow Berla and ultimately Malenkov after they had tried to follow a policy very similar to Krushchev's de-Stalinkation of today).
4 Red China is proving restive at the diversion to India, Burma, and the Middle East of machinery and factory plants
to originally promised
her. With George Allen in Cairo Moreover the Chinese
resent as his sucCCBBOT, U.B. policy Soviet intrusion into the South. will be fully effective once
cast Asian sphere which they rogurd as their own special
Dulles land down that when faced with UKKITSSİON the Governinis of the free world must tand Bin on their chosen line to the brink of war." TOW what is the pie- more.
Other was? be
they
Both of ture today? would merely encourage further
the question marks A sound, common- Cajon
argument it seems to me have been removed from and particularly apposite to the America.
ACN)
says,
N
COME UP
World Coptright bab
2 Dictator Nasser's popularity area.
with the masses in the Arab countries, is close Hok with not Krushchev, was invited by It is significant that Mikoyan, the Communists, and his own
the Chinese to lend a Soviot de- legation to the Congress of the Chinese Communist Party as the first for 11 years,
For it was Krushchev who visited them two years ago and concluded the Soviet-Chinese trade agreements. which have not been carried out.
TOUGH
KRUSHCHEV krisis would bo
A graver by far than the Beria
| Malenkov upret." It would un- doubtedly have repercussions in the Middle East; and Far East. And they would not be to Nowser's pront
But let us have no illusions, Nasser has many triumphs to come yet, before all there and other factors combine to secure his downfall,
The fast of these tumphs I seo of Nasser is a sweeping victory for his supporters in the
coming Jo
Jordan
This will produce a dangerous eiluation whiloh, we quilt to be anticipating now. For Nassona Món 3nd Jordan will want (10 fotoe through a' union with pra
·Np:er/Syria: and thus dorpen How then bortal ounit stretching from the Libyan/-troutter to Aleppo, all under tile, rule of Moscow's anti-Western", "matrap
Cairo
(COPYRIGHT)
HONGKONG
What this new
self-winding chronometer
Ω
means to you.....
A chronometer is a “super watch"
It has been specially made, specially adjusted, and has passed stringent government tests for accuracy. Every Swiss chronometer is sold with an Official Rating Certificate showing just how it performed in these government tests. Particularly good.chronometers are awarded a distinctive notation: "especially good results** printed on thir certificate.
Before you buy s chronometer, look to see whether it is officially certified with "especially good,results." Every Omega Constellation is 1 Automatic, waterproof, shock-protected, untimagnatie.›
LTD.
KOWLOON
>You'll knam the Omega Constellation by, the okurna Mary ugyani' m the back of the cart -- 2008: purmise of an "especially good chroinntir.
OMEGA Constellation
The watch the world har learned to trust Socidio Suisse
Pour l'Industrie Horloger
Agenter OMTIE UTD, OMEGA
10