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"WHAT HAPPENED? A COLLISION OR A COLLUSION?"
PETROL PROSPECTS
World Coppeght by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian
THE BLINDED JOURNALIST FIGHTS BACK
VICTOR-REISEL, who lost his sight in a. vicious acid attack by America's new gangsters, says: I carry on with my campaign not because I am a hero hut because I am a newspaperman. This is my beat and I have to work on it.....
"M
By ALAN BREIN
of
New York. middle of a true crime story "EET me in the Plaza while for brutality, drabia, and Hotel lobby," said the ruthlessness cannot be equallech
confidential by any Hollywood pedlar tense volec 01 the tele ghtmaret. phone. "I am a little guy with dark glasses, And I shall have with me two very ble guys. the Make sure you come in by the southern, entrance and sit on the ottoman between the Persian Room and the ladies room. Perhaps you'd better bring som? proof of your identity with you."
REAL LIFE
My date WON with Victor Reisel, who carries a gallon of 100-percent-proof courage In w his pint-size body. America's most famous labour columnist, Relsel has fought for 23 years the unions to expass withke the twin underworlds of crime and Communism, Eventually
back the Kangsters struck their traditional and evtl way. Faily ope mornky,
2 he left Lindy's Restaurant on Broad- lounger he idly noted was way
moochung around, "Hey," said the m
the mun and threw something straight into Reisti's face.
It sounded like the opening paragraph of a Mickey Spillane thriller. But this was real life In New York now. And 1 stepping momentarily into
VERDI MUST SHARE THE BLAME FOR NASSER'S DELUSION
London
was in the Ven. 1924
SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER MP=
I when a messenger jeame debunks the legend of
to my office at the Daily Expers and said that Latts
Drummond Hay was in the
waiting room and wanted t I have recalled that in
see me urgently. Adju-ting my tie I told him to show her in.
news
eldent beenise Egypt is going to be big
for some time, and it might be Just as well if we examined the claims of that country, which are based partly
on romanticism and partly (11) sheer greed.
Verli, must share Her
Sh. was a pretty woman with Eastern eyes and black eyelashe an inch bang. In Fact she Was perfiel example af de femme jatult. Mystry
*
»{1}*3* */
like a clunk.
Some
Egypt's greatness
vivid imagination and no mean intellect.
Bath Shakespeare (Shop immortalised Cleopatra by play
will be numerubefra for over. No wonder her name is held in prie by the modern
that
of The Nile. You wil member that the great Anthony Velos 50 eared of her beauty and her mind that he mended Egypt so that he could come to grips with the ravishing Young queen,
something out of 11, and in due time it was the your 20 BC- a bunch of flomon' tax collectors arned t to ellevi from the conquerai.
Did
ney
ní Nations. The dues Were raiscyl by the Sucz Chou Company to that Egypt would
still further hv
Renlus of a Frenchman.
the
It was a bottle of acid and the columnist sank to his knees, tortured by "the sharpest, most Halaful burning I over feit."
IN AGONY
It is typical of Reisel that, a3 the ghastly fluid etched indeliblo fear stains down his face, ho should shout in agony: "I'm hit won't be able to
That was eight months ago and since thal day Victor fteisel has been blind. But his night goes on. And he remains the closely guarded key witness In the case against Johnny Dio, alleged master-mind, behind the attack.
I followed
his Telephoned Instructions to the last detail. Reiset was If minutes late and his huge companions, in bulging suits with awollen armpits, were obviously armed members of New York's detective bureau.
we
Despite his blindness, 41-year- rld Relsel led my confidently from the busy Plaza lobby
Jusy But the revolutionary move-through the crowded ten-room ment of the Wald was out of along a mirrored corridor and down some steep steps into u and, and when Britain became « beleagured fortress : 1940- deserted basement where
bastion of Western could talk in privacy and safety. the last
de The police stood etvilisation-the Wardists
on guard named expulsion of the British each entrance. Ainbassador and the evacuation of the British after the war.
This was their demand, al- though the Australians anxi New Zealanders had fought a furious war in the Middle East to save then from invasları
the Egyptians welcome them with open arms and an understanding mind? They did not. Instead, they staged a re- Needless to say, the beton, rebellion was crushed cruelly and speedily
But the
Let us agree that Britain was Emperor Augustus was a good fellow at heart, aut fighting to save herself, but it he decided
Egypt was the lives of Australians and develop
Zealanders that saved for the Egyptians. He repaired New
the from
horror of and deepened irrigation canals, Egyp
fertilising thus
the soil and invasion. derelict and much
of The blame. When he wrote the Opera "Aida" to the opening In a deep and attractive commemorate voice she told me what 1 of the Suez Canal, the
of
the
Egypt lost that war, but de- nlready knew that Zagoul trumpets
Grand straight Pasha, the Prime Minister March
to feat is the refrain of Egyptians bringing of Egypt. was in London Egypt's head. From that to over and over again. demanding concessions that the legend of greatness, credit let it be sua that they
Wen!
to
To their wider cultivation,
ways fought, Lut, unhappily, VACUUM
the British Government power and glory in the far
off years was an inevitable they development.
could to make.
"There will be assassin- tions in Egypt when he res Turns," she said, "I am a
good writer and I will go
FAILURE
Leuten
were nearly alway<
Nevertheless,
Britain was exhausted when the Hiller wer ended-exhausted and impoverished.
France was suffering from the degradation America of enemy occupation. and Russia had emerged as the two great powers of the world. The United Nations had come discussion, to being so that wobbling and inaction should meet force with swest argument,
..
WADL
now
are in
at
HE CRINNED Reisel ust down carefully on a tofu. He smoothed back his thin dark hair, straightened his tie, and dusted down his sleeves and He trousers with tidy hands.
"Ask me what you grinned,
I'll answer if i can." And this is what Reisel had to say about American gangsters:
"The
mabatera Industry and regard themselves as businessmen with
guns. They sell Industrial poate at a price, They shift picket lines for percentage of profits. They buy off the law for a dividend. It a racket endemic to America. "Control of a union is worth fortune. They can use the rank and file as a private army and loot the funds to pay their lieutenants. And it is the union, members who are most guilty. They
disciplined only for strikes and not for self-govern- ment."
About union prosperity:
When
HE truth is that the Romans THE Egypt hg
were a highly elvilised race every riglu to be proud of and accepted the responsibility
Ale of the conqueror. Wherever they went and that included Britain -they gave much more than
Le Queen Dike-Cleopatra, whose avastity and! intelligence lit an Undying beacon of romance
illuminated bas centuries.
there for you to enver the AGAIN and again President which
Nasser has been hail ed as a patriot who risked
newa,"
It was a gamble but prob- the auger of the Western ably worth it, so I drew world to bring buck some some money for her from of the glory and splendour the enshier-und off she of his ancient country. went. Those were the days before airplanes hopped if they 215
oceans
were pools.
SKILLED
The
they took. I am sorry to report that the Britons
Were
Now was the time for Egypt Just as to demand the breaking of the tresty which maintained British fortes at Suez to guard the Canal. Under immense pressure from America we evacuated the Zone and transferred our troops to Cyprus, with all the tragedy that it entailed.
ungrateful as the Egyptians al
vilation Yet over and over again, as though the Romans built roads che sludies the Cascinating and gave civilisation to the un- history of this people, we find couth from Land's End to John the recurring verdict: "This
O'Groats. perkuk of Egypt's history is a melancholy story of disintegra- on and defeat, relieved but os
In short spell of tsionally by partial recovery."
It is always a cruel thing to deljunk a legend, but the truth is that Egypt, despite her agcient lineage. was never a truly great nation ALEXANDER at any time in her history. In fact, her story is one
paper correspondents were INVADED sailing painfully to Egypt
Lady Drummond Hay cabled
uf
named after him.
But Egypt's troubles were not over when the Romans decided that they had had cough, The Arabs, realising that nature ab-RUSSIA hors a vacuum, invaded Egypt and, with the collaboration of the native population, beat them up in no time.
PROTECTION
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Jaga,
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than your
top union lender in England."
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THE whole history of Egypt
I had silently taken out proclaims that she was not fitted to play the dominant role cigarette while he talked, But ALEXANDER the Grah lang
With the his ears were now exquisitely And now, it your patience is in the Middle East. spent his whole ufe making
British withdrawal there was a whipped out a lighter and lit attuned to his, blindness and he wa shall comic ABOUT three days after constant failure to achieve
her arrival in Egypt it real eminence, despite pass and then tried to placate his
war, took Egypt in his stride not exhausted,
down to more recent times. vacuum which Russia decided
fo fill not openly or all at my, cigarette exactly on its tip. was announced that the Lon ing periods of glory.
vielim by offering a sacrifice to
He went on to talk about the It was in 1882 that Great once, but with growing strength, advantages of being a journalist don discussions with Zagoul
the Egyptian gods. Still moved It may be that
inherited the because by □ spirit Pasha had broken down.
The rest of the story you without eyes. of generosity he Britain, having Egypt suffered from the held a Greck gymnastic and mantle of authority from Rome,
well.
"On TV I now ad lib all my too
Eden's Personally I know Then came a flash from
rusical festival just to show occupied Egypt.
or misadventure is comments as I never dared do Cairo. Sir Lee Stack, the constant inroads of stronger the Egyptians that he was not prefer the word "occupied" to adventure
am the only not an isolated action but..is..before. T
GOX. the cen- even in powers British Sirdar in Egypt, had turies before Christ she was
as bad a chup as they thought. "conquered,"
part of the Egyptian
mentator on a national network which is almost as old as time who has no script. Blindness been assassinated.
unable to achieve power As a special compliment to
itself.
unfrozen me a little. havnen lure now eat- the people he had ravaged he It was an enormous story, among the nations.
Chinero Creads & Customs. Val. I marched his army down the
It is to the credit of the not so the yawns or the sour and while the London news-
Westem arm of the Nile and ND what did the Britons do? Egyptians that despite defeat faces and I don't give a damn Chinese Creads & Customs Vol. II founded Alexandrie, which was A They did as they always did. and occupation throughout the about what people think of me Baby Book
they talk of the any more.
This is Hong Kong They reformed taxation, scaled centuries
"Without bravado I must Nor did his benevolence stop down the rates of interest which pleadour of ancient times. Yet
He founded two other were unfair, created courts of the truth is that will Britain insist that nothing has really The Hongkang Countryside (Herklots) the Daily Express the whole. HER people were intelli- ther
It I had Hongkong Birds (Herklots) gent enough, for as every Greek cliics on
Egyptian justice, and proceeded to give assumed the protectorate, Egypt changed. I feel story day by day in very schoolboy knows (or ought territory,
self the Egyptiang security from in- was a nation that endured de- always been a blind man, And Coronation Glory
font and occupation through the I carry on with-my campaign King George VI good journalese, In fact, it to know) it was the Egypt government and even passed a vasion.
centuries, not necessarily from not because I am a hero but was one of the biggest fans who invented the solar marry with Egyptiane.
law permitting Romana to
great Lard Kitchener lack of The
courage but because because I am a newspaperman's Fan Finding Out -- 2nd serios scoops for many yours.
went there and stayed from 1911 she lacked the strength and This Is my beat and I have to (Bernard Wicksteed)
Work
Express Annual WORK OF Egyptians to the outbreak of war in 1914. purpose. to defend herself.
A STRANGER Rupert Annual.. Ramsay Macdonald was 45 B.C. In fact the calendar Kmicult They WETO
not. During his time he told the trumpets in "Aida" cao- The four of us, two Journaliste Rupert Magazines ....
Y Emption Prime Minister at the time, was universally accepted, Alexander, ko 1h0 ancient foundation
the modern Parliament, protected the people not alter that truth, no matter and two policemen, trood pur Stamp Albums and we wondered how he with adjustments, through Anthony and
way through the underground Anthony, found that there was from exploitation and money how loudly they bray, would deal with the crisis, out the world.
inkling tea cups and palm Points on Judging fade zi Actually he handled the mat. It is not necessarlly. to lians except by goiting out of tlon in all directions, heck upon the story of Egypt eburg music. I went out into Outline Refiol. Map of China
their country. ter with unusual firmness. their discredit that the
10 the last year of his and realise that British protee the Manhattan, darkness, a salo There had been previous Egyptians have never boon But the Romppi kopt en live governorship, the relpful year ten and British Investment and anonymqul stranger among
Under a beneneent law of 1914 Egypt-war procal develop withote the horror of
gave his country a chance to the mayor attempts of assassination a warlike race. They were gypt was admited, with a British. Buvikoborato, against British officials, and always being invaded and special status, plan
Gorda (until he could take Macdonald demanded
Now let us try re occupied. Yet they did pru of the Roman Empire. Moto
place among the toe nations parations and public duce a great queen in Cleo-than that demonstration of remorse patra, me whose physical
harma were enhance styl
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