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AN ARMY-EYE-VIEW OF TODAY'S BOILING- POINT IN A WORLD OF EXPLODING NATIONALISM AND ERUPTING HATREDS.
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THE CHINA-MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER
Battleground!
MALTA
MEDITERRANEAN FLEET
including
frigates, aircraft
carriers,
YUGOSLAVIA
Black Sea
TURKEY
GREECE
PERSIA
SYRIA
› CYPRUS
MALTA
AMMANS
IRAQ
destroyers, and
Mediterranean
ISRAEL
landing craft
TRIPOLI
3rd Ind. Inf. Bde.
TOBRUK
JORDAN
KUWA
DERNA
Persian
Gulf
LIBYA
(mobile)
Regiments of
Centurion tanks.
Royal Horse Artillery
1,000 Infantry (mobile)
K.R.R. Corps
"M.Q.' of 10th Armoured
Division
SUEZ CANAL
LIBYA
Port Said
Cairo
SUEZ CANAL
Suez
BASE vast stores, workshops.
military equipment, ammunition,
vehicles, etc.
AKABA
SAUDI
ARABIA
EGYPT Red
MILES
500
ABOVE:
WHO HAS
WHAT
TROOPS
Naval craft
at North and
South ends?
محة المع
AKKUK
IRAQ
ARAB ISRAEL
281,000 250,000
Sea
YEMENA
British Bases ⚫ Oilfields
DEN PROTECT
ADEN
JOHN BODLE.
CYPRUS
JORDAN
Amman. Venom, fight.
Akaba, 10th Hussars
60 Centurion tanks, 100 Infantry (Middlon
ADEN
fighter bombers
bomb
Battalions
Cars
WHAT REALLY IS AT STAKE: THE MIDDLE EAST OIL-AND THOSE WHO ARE ITS OWNERS
By FREDERICK ELLIS
are
EWLY periled in the Middle East battle-
ground
two-thirds of the world's known oil reserves. From them a fifth of the world's oil suppiles is now being pumped out around the clock
Lose Middle East ul and the world's fac- tortes will suffer fuel starvation,
PERSIA
N
& WHERE
*KIDOLET
RIGHT:
THE STAKE
SAUDI
THE WEST
ARABIA
MUST
GUARD
Middle Eust Dil is not just a European
lomestic tratier (as Mr. John Foster Dulles would have us bellevo).
The Americans are the senior partner in what they call the Middle East oil "play." Before the First World War the U.S. had bo Interest in Middle East oll It has buttied its
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Let us go round the Arab oll basin - gusher by gusher.
Biggest: the tiny Persian Gulf State of KUWAIT, Last year it pumped 55,000,000 tons. It is owned half by British Petroleum (formerly Anglo-Iranian) and half by the Gulf Oil Cor- poration of America. The sheik's rake-off in royalties: £70,000,000.
Next comes an American preserve -- SAUDI ARABIA, bossed by Aramco, a joint American venture. Its output was 47,800,000 tons, fielding
£95,000,000 to King Baud.
Third la IRAQ, whose Iraq Petroleum Com- pany is international, Output last year
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33,700,000 tons, with a royalty pay-off to King Feisal of £75,000,000.
L.P.C. is owned in equal slices by British Petroleum, Royal Dutch-Shell, Standard Oil and Socony (both "American), and the French Slate oll combine. An odd five percent is held by the Gulbenkian interests.
I.P.C. also owns the QATAR field, which ylcided 5,400,000 tons last year.
Then IBAN- once the sole property of British Petroleum. Now it produces 10,000,000 tons half what it did under the British. It la bossed by a consortium with the Americans edging in for the first time. The break down: BP. 40 percent, Royal Dutch-8hell 14 percent,
Americans 40 percent, and French State combine 6 percent, Royalties are £35,000,000 a year.
Baby of the area is BAHREIN, with a yearly oil harvest of 1,800,000 ton. It is American- bossed.
Oll cannot be unwound from the tangle of Middle East polities for two-thirds of the oil goes through the Suez Canal
On Mid-East oli is poised the standard of Ilving in all Weatern Europe and much of the world cast of Suez.
Whatever starts a crisis in the Middle East, oil is the major prize, making the Suez Canal rumpus like a parish council üft in comparison.
NIGHT OF JUDGMENT
FOR THE BEAUTIES
"Docs this change your plans?"
asked the posing beauty.
The smile disappeared. The cameramen curard,
tink "I don' answered seriously.
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By DUGAL SMITH
beautiful of them she hurried
change backstage to lining up for one long, last op
Highland praisal by judges and audience. "Turn around," commandea Ben Lyon,
The long line of legs swung
clicked about. Cameras whirred. Bulbs flashed. spotlight intensifed.
while carce swimsuits
dancers and pipers filled in a tormenting period,
places, in order: Eva Brann, Miss Sweden, sixth; Anne Rye Nielsery, Miss Denmark, fifth; Midoriko Tokura, Miss Japan, fourth; Rina Reiss, Ming Ieract, third, Betty Cherry, Mis's Americs, second; and the most all, Miss World of 1950, Petra Schur- mann, of Germany. Then the girl who was judged
Then on they came again
Miss World was escorted up by a famous
The panel to be the the way the audience wanted
and the dais to the throno. world's supreme example was to see them.
Blood, The abdicating monarch" lost again in, a jumble of
took off her cloak and crown Clicking delicately on pencil- cameras, reporters and officials. thin heels, they swayed back A BBC television man ran and proceeded to transfer them
and forth across the dais, posing agitatedly through the audience to her successor. The next time I saw her, she for the judges, the cameras ar 1 in a truftless bid to make stand
prettily on the the audience.
Then came disaster. perched
ing admirers realize that TV lowes! step of a giant dais,
The One or two of them, perhaps viewers were getting a wonder-
crown slipped. The smiling that radiant smile,
to public roars of ful picture of the backs of their new Biss World made a des-" unused crown askew, the silver in her acclaim, raised their hands self- heads.
pernia grab....the two beauty hair glinting brightly.
consciously
prize-fighter-
about They turned
once queens swayed for a second acknowledgment. On her left was Miss America,
gure" parade inished, more. The cameramen cimbed upon the narrow platform, The grimacing wearity (she was
then called to the down from their chairs, I did, Then it was retrieved, half-way
down the Miss World's back. hidden from the crowds);
by one hy too, her right Miss Israel, looking microphone
Era Loen (former Si
Slowly, in a circle, the girly Later, Miss World was compere most uncertain about life in
director casting
20th walked back to their stand and "dethroned" a second time when general.
Century Fox and discoverer of the giant mechanism churned posing for cameramen in her "Kiss her," urged the milling Marilyn Monror and
Jean sweeping them from
new Triumph TR3, part of tho Harlow), and each was coaxed
On the other side ap- Grst prize. BACK went her into Baying
peared a throne. few hesllant
Iced in a photogenie laugh It was time for the six OFF Blow the crOWTI. Perhaps the climax xcame finalists to be announced.
way
cameramen.
they were
In
sus
for
when Miss Greece. wound her
way down to the microphone. Ben Lyon, Miss Denmark."
Miss Would you like to say some
thing
Why the spectators guffawed at words the "Miss World” contest.....why the “crowning" of Petra Schurmann (above) ended in disaster... why there were angry voices backstage
T
London Miss America leaned forward
The
"First of the six, shouted There were hotears, no
tantrums, no. condemnations sauntered much to the disappointment of Denmark
most; the audience?" asked triumphantly on the stage. to
And they came, one by one,
Bend Lyon, cous Creature look in this order Misa Germany But there was niger back- moment: Then, in a rush, out Japan (delirious
Wat); Miss Usable for several minutes to
Boos), Mis pierce the wall of cameramen
ed worried. But only for a (loud cheers), Miss Teruel, Misa stup
Sweden tumbled the rehearsed line:
Oh AmericaN very much. you all
wo guffawed The GOT COUL
This was the crucial moment round Miss World I entered they
Sumer of The music stopped, the judges Away from the spotlights, away Disappointment, was
from the cameras. Into, the
cheered, we Bag Grinture conferred here was only the darkness of backstage, MIXITA
tho audience HE World's Most and placed a check against the giggled shyly. Then she huffed hushed.
Girl car of the World's Most Beout in her waist, und towards use Judy whirring of cameras
Andia Ekberg). Judge Beautiful
looked Miss Franca brushed past the ful Girl. Miss Israel bent to her hips, turned the
ing Moss Hill on the surrowstoda – slepi, smiled shyly."
Lady "'Emus'
-Minister - Sir - Anthony French at komo apologetic- : an" "Not" Kiss her!"? demandeditur pik vor lettle Englah," Eden's, wife his sister-in-law) looking man:
confidently
choovalrous, cloverr verry handsome.
forward dubiously," her face a judges and swayed up the steps cont, Surling, Ann (not, shouling back angully in voluble
be clear foot away
"The Rock Hudson type?" asked an urgent volce in my
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of the
Down wafted the re
"she whi? En wat smiling
to the pathe or Miss © Egypt - looked soulnit
would you like
the tre
the camerzen,' Miss Iraol Inched her lavishly painted-
200Well, profile closer, Miss America complied with a long-lasting Her alle smacker.RAKE RENTA
Tho contest for Alias World go f "Oh, yeah!" said Miss had ended in a blars of heraldic World uncomprehendingly.train
Sho, allowed herself; LỚN shuttled over to part: of that. first prize for winning the 1950), (world's beauty to contest W {Trumph TR3, sporta car" Camera
bulby fathedra Konce more phaza Crinkled her face in gura wide
miawor not
up, #Voluptuous air,...). Tha batile, of the forward and shouted
had begun.
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wizzled
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