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THE CHINA MAIE,
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1957.
MIN
"Five new arrivals, Sir. Whole-heartedly endorse Mr Macmillan's economy drive, ask would it help if they resigned?"
The Book in a Drawer
Intelligence
Report
CONDUCTED
BY SEFTon delMER
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS.......STEPHEN CONSTANT.......TOM
W
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Defence are still
HILE the soldiers in the Ministry of debating whether and how they should tell their side of the Suez story, "politicians" version" has now been written and is ready for print.
Its author is William Clark, who threw up his job as Sir Anthony Eden's personal public relations officer the day after the Suez cease-fire. Clark has locked hits 32,000-word typescript
away in a drawer. He
does not want to publish it
for another 10 years, he
tells his friends.
But predict that if the soldiers come out with their plece. Clark will come ont with his.
KARAKA
NEXT STOP but one for China's Chou En-lai: the tiny Himalayan kingdom Nopal. He is going there to stop us recruiting its tough little fighters, the Gorkhas scourge of the Chinese Communists in 'the jungles of Malaya. Chou believes he can win Malaya in Nepal.
ATOM-AGE TASKS FOR DUNCAN SANDYS
I PREDICT that when Mr
Duncan Bandys, the new Mininter of Defence, rettirna from the United States and gets to grips with the triple task of (1) Integrating the Artied Services into one streamlined tom-age unit, (2) cutting our detunce budget by a Nith, and (3) releasing 600,000 Bervicemen for industry, he will take thene measures-inong othem:-
He will appoint a Ollet of Staff of the Armed Forcez, with powers overriding those of the Service chiefs,
The Territoria: Army and other Reserve forces will be drastically out.
The non-fighting services- food, transport. medical pay, welfare, and so forth-will be reorganised to cut down the present horrifying' intio of 12 non-ighting niện and women to every fighting man.
A form of selective service will be introduced to repince the present system of cak-up, But the period of two years' will be maintained.
The Foreign Office and
only his own job as permanent head of the ministry, but that of hu chiel, tho Foreign Minister, in addition to work which in Whitehall would fell to deputies.
It is sign!neant that Birgi is being sent hero rather than to Washington on his first appoint- ment abroad since 1943. It means that Turkey expects the vital decisions concerning the Eatern Mediterranean and the Middle East to be made in London,
Inteligence departments will WHO PAYS FOR
he closely co-ordinated. present watertight system under which the saiño agenta laye been known to draw pay from three different departments for the same job-raci paying unbeknown to the other-wili ко.
The strategio picture will be rethought
completely.
with Afrion und Australla playing an increasingly important role and tite Mediterranean a sively, analler ono.
THE MAN
I ASK YOU TO WATCH
IN Nuri Biggi, who in to be tire new Turkian Altibassador in London, the Turks are sending us not only the key man of their foreign service, but in effect, the Fonolith 'Offico itseiri
Tu Ankara I-round BiHI WOTK- Ing; a 12-hour day, doing y nos
A ST. HELENA EXILE?
THREE AMD subjects of the Sheik of Balirein are on their way to the Brith Colony ol:Bt. Helens, longty Island 1,200 miles of the West Court of Afrion and traditional lock-up for V.IP. prisoners, They are being taken there in a 'Royal Navy frigate to nervo 14 yeara Imprisonment imponed on the by a special tribunal Just manith for plotting the murder of the Shelk of Babrein and his British advisor, Sir Charles Delgrave. How outhe subjects...of foreign ruler, alholt an ally, enn be carted on to a remote British Colony just like that? And whe 1s paying the bul for this 13,000 milo winter, cruise--and for the 14-yenra' upkeep of three hungry young Bahrein nazionalists?
A
the sheik's
portrait...
STACEY
Arabs were sent for, 10 years to. une peut socticnerit an id Island, alongalde Bahrein.
Here they will bo kept chained by 'the waist-although, if you are rich, the prison chain-maker will forge you a light set. gu h whole would prefer St. Helena.
GENERAL SIR CHARLES KEIGHTLEY,
Commander-in-Chief of the Anglo-French forces during the Port Said landings, is to leave shortly for a lecture tour of the United States,
THE PENTAGON AND THE HUNTERS
LEARN that 0.5. defence chiefs in the Pentagon are Balking over the advisabilly of Cancelling further purchases of British Hunter fighters for Nato forces,
~Their reason for wanting to do.so is thiņnt Hunters have been slow in delivery.
Complaints have been 'inade about this by the Germaus, who Twant to change over to inter Ameriena desna,, in pinge pi the Hunters they have ordered.
ALGERIA MILITANTS
WILL MEET 'DE GAULLE (ENERAL CHARLES DE
DAULLE, the inan to whom the French look for leadership when things co with them, la planallg a trip to the Sanhra ...to see how its 'bil and inineral resalirers and bolig developed.
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He will pass through Algiers, home of the most action-enger of France's nationalists: TL, 18 inevitable that he will meet and talk with them.
That desert trip may start: something big.
TIS portrait, the only THE LURE
painting of Hilmar
owned by any Arab in the
whole of Arabia, in being OF THE NEW ROLAND
forwarded by the. Forrigi
Onice to
Shielk Zaid, of uralmi,
WHO CAN TAKE UP
THE GREAT MAN'S BATON?
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-ACANT: the title of savage of human animals-angry World's greatest con- primh dolinas, pulled-up popu- ductor that Arturo agers, wild orchestral players.
lar lenors, smug concert man- AN EXTENSIVE RANGE OF WELL KNOWN PRODUCTS Toscanini held against all comers for half a century. "Macatro," skid п prima donna once, a darling of the Not that this genlas who public, "you must conduct as died ai
89 in New York 1 sing, for I am a elar.” would ever accept the title.
Toscanini 'looked at fer edïály He hated the word great-
and replied: "Signorini, - the "No, no, no!"" he would exclaim, stats are in heaven. Here wo "biot that £11 alt. Just an
Bre all artists-good or bad-! honest musician."
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Tamed
On another occasion Cartiso hold n top mote with stunning effect, but inuch longer than He should, The conductor walled grimly, and when the tenor let go, shouted across the orchestra to cul a públic figure outside pit in £ volce that all the bis own musical sphere. within it he fought continually finished, Caruso?"
But audience could hear: "Have you
EXCEPT when he found
Impossible to remain silent, Toscanini persistently refused
to achieve the best.
A tiny slick his only weapon. he tamed soine Of the
Bath
most
Devotion
"Erat hertet
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this high- powered man who looked, in his younger days, so much ke the Chafe Chaplin of the silent illmskas both kindly pad tolerant.
For Toscanini was really the perfect servant, He served the COMPLECT with งค almost Savage Moyalty, and devotion, le would tolerate nothing do Blackness, no showmanship- that Jihemed the composer and his music.
"Not bnd: we'll try to do
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TAPAN រឹង bath-crazy.
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But for Europeans the first ceremonial bath is something of an ordeni call- ing for courage.
I funked it solo for 10s., an American reporter, showing the fine spirit of renewed Anglo-American re. lations, doubled to make up a 128. session for two.
BACK TO NATURE
The ceremonial bath is a combination of the Turkish and deep tub varieties, with massage by shapely attan- dants in Bikini and they stand on no ceremony.
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To
They have
back you nature in a fost strip without. Lease, nently putting your, cialties on hangers 'as you peel, off.
Leading you by the hand' they pop you inside a red-hot Turkish bath with as much feeling as poulterer, skinning· a. rabuli," "Tids couldn't happen anywhere else in the world.
While burningup in the Turkish bath, the Bikini' girls- there are always 'two-drew a tub bath and ordered iced beer for their stenting custenters. I Was badly ntcalit some Feltinder that this was no dream.
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The whole upproach. elinical; the girls showing
'émotion as tve would buying simps Iha British post omriée. The difference is that these girls are more polite than dur" post office' vářlety:-
much the BedouinENERAL JOSEPH HALLER who won the Polish Corridor for Foltind from Ger many in 1919, and who has lived in Ealing since 1940, is the latest Pole to feel homesick and wishi to go back.
It was painted by állrkaci Healt. whe refused to Areept a fee 'beenuse 'he was no Impressed by the tobility of a nubject. The portrait will be_selii
fa "gestuen, of Britain's good will to the Bhalk who Turned down.a.,230,000,000 bribe to betray, his Urlis milles 'to Saudi Arabia,
request_of_the“alieik. A special Order in Courell was passed to amend the Colonia) Prisoners' Randval not, 1869, (23ut the London Gazette, which custo marily reports all Orders in Council, inakes no mention of 1.)
The sheik, "says "the Poreign Otice. is paying the schole bit. even, protumably, down to the British Ballors' wagga.
At the same trial conduéléd tamail.vilinge... three- The Foren Omee: says it is judges, all Intoft being done at the....... express", añejkap KAY
He has resigned his chair. manship of an émigré opposition party and all in other offers in order th, make the trip,
No doubt about it-Gomulka's now Poland is w ipowerful magnet for all Poles abread,
A NEW miniature cantera for use by Sovlet spies is.... being manufactured in a 'heavily guarded factory, at Hohenschoenhausen, near Berlin, says' refugee scién.. tist from the Russian zone. It is no bigger thân a 2d. " stamps completely "clickless ****, can disguised, saa tiepin, calf *Linki, vor tærutchlidæ,
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After stewing for 10 minutes
I was plunged into the deep tub.
UNKNOWN MUSCLES
Alter the bouking a Bi mildén-site was 27 and did t 10-0u
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Frlien
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