Get-rich door is shut, but hope lives
in Elath
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1957,
GLOVES
in Sugar Candy
Coloura
I
Fram JOHN WEAVER
Elath.
DROVE 250 miles today
through the Negev Desert to the port of Elath, Israel's back-door and gateway of hope.
I found hope burgeoning. But al present the buck-door port of Elath (pop. 1,400) Is almost Idle for two reasons:
Foreign shipping is not sure for how long it will have free parage to Einth through
Cuf of Aquba, This gulf, leading in from the Red Sen, was dominated by Egyptian stun positions until Israel cap- Now Israel has sured them been pressed by America take her troops out.
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Foreign investors are holding hack Dom Israel's develop- ment plans for Elali until the isstie of free passage is settled
When Vise difficulties
solved, the gateway of hope should swing open and Israel believes that Elath will be the ouliol, ir 70 percent of her exports
Sot bigger business is foreseen, If Premier David Ben-Gurion gels Anaheinl backing from the Nato nations (his main
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be believes Israel will be able to provide the West with an alternative oil outlet to the Suez Canal.
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"If ike_had sant U.S. soldiers to shoot Israelis Mr. Ben Hecht with his song in his heart would have looked a bit of a twerp."
ANDREI ANDREYEVICH GROMYKO
-the Human Gramophone"
TROMYKO is the creation of the Soviet bureaucratic machine--the soul of a gramophone in the body of a
G
MAIL.
He once argued for hours to get three words in nn official conference communique changed from " due course" to "in due time, Moscow had approved the words "in due time”~and that was the way it had to be.
The action is typical. He has obeys them to the letter,
He could announce the Day of Judgment In the same voice borough surveyor would use to
the uprooting of local sewer.
unrounce
This beliet is based on a scheme to build an oil pipeline from
the Misditerranean. } DE Elath 0.1 would be brought to Elath producer
tanker
Trom
by States like K wait,
WORK, WORK
מיירי
-
as an engineer, Later, he studied
Toward It - economics at Moscow University but not, it seem- and. from 1936 to 1939 he lec- ed, to it.
und al Lured there
special Gromyko could schools set up to train admini- execute any 10 the
strators for the state organisa- order
joner, He could
In 1039:
on
he Was Muddenly
even his orders and he called into the foreign service, given a short training coUTAS, and seat to Washington
as u
By LES ARMOUR
ently convited that the letter was part of an extremely subile plot to break him down and senreely spoke to Davies for the rest of the talks.
Moscow has ordained that diplomats shall wear dark suis. plain lies and hats a little 100 1 big for them and Gromyke does. Other diplomats sometimes in- dulge their personal laste dress. Not, apparently, Gromyku.
Some Russian diplomats
can
Occasionally. there are fatni occasionally
forget that all nickers of humanity behind the Western representatives
mask. Once when he was cress- capitalists viciously plotting the
ing the Atlantic, Gromyko was downfall of the Soviet Union introduced to Hector McNell and sometimes
maku
said he who
"hoped" the friends, Gromyke will never go weather would
keep fine. lock forms
of "Hope?" replied Gromyko. "I beyond the politeness and sometimes
weather not thought you had the even that far.
under control."
Six years ago he was in Paris Another time, when he had with Ernest Davies, then Bri- been twitted in the papers about sair's Under-Secretary of State his constant refusal to give a for Foreign Affairs. They were definite answer to anything, he discussing plans for a forthenm- was asked by a reporter whether
gign ministers conference, he had enjoyed The talks drugged
on for 14 le repiled, without a flicker, weeks with Gromyke balking "Perhaps."" every inch of the way,
Towards the end of the talks,
Davies' Mr
five - year - old daughter wrote a letter asking her father to come home soon and odding that she had read in the papers that he wasn't being very nice to Mr Gromyko. She concluded "Tell Mr Gromyko that 1 love him and bring him home with you." green- tinted houses built beside the sea and hemmed by the steel- grey Edom mountains.
So confident are the Israelis that
of
this pipeline scheine will work, they are building three huge oil storage tanks at Elni now-and grinning #zt the thought
Nasser's bunk balance suffering from de- creused Surz shipping dues. I talked to the mayor of Elath, Dutch-born Hoduch Nenner, agod 34. We sat in an open- air, concrete-loored cafe, and the radio blared rock 'n' roll. Three soldier girls tapped their hands on wooden labies in rhythm. Mayor Nenner swept his hand towards
He said: "Elath is our future gateway to the markets of the East. We must work, work,"
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Davies, who thought the letter was a delightful joke, gave it to reporters and it turned up in newspapers around the world. Gromyko, however, was appar-
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
THE FIREBALL --AGAIN!
WHEN THE GLOWING BALL COMES OUT OF THE FOO, BROWN LETS GO-- LOTHAR IS DRAGGED INTO THE LITTLE FOGY
JOHNNY HAZARD
S-SORRY, JOHNNY! SHOULD'VE KEPT MY WOTS ABOUT ME AND GOT THEIR NUMBER! PARNED FOOLS!
مس
IT'S OKAY, KITTY DARLING AT LEAST WE'RE STILL ALIVE, TOGETHER! THE OTHER PILOT'S PROBABLY MORE
SCARED THAN WEI
his breakfast.
But even his recreations re- veul his devotion to the machine. He plays squash to keep his body fit and chess to keep his mind it. That is about the ex- extra-curricular
tent
of
activity.
his
counsellor at bussy,
the Russian
Cm-
he be-
In rapid succession, came Charge d'Affaires and Ambassador. He was the young- est Ambassador in Washington.
He made no friends in Wash- inglun, rarely appeared in public except on official business, never granted Interviews.
The only break in his grim round of business was an In- evitable Saturday afternoon visit to the movies, He went always and only on Saturday after- noon.
Diplomats who were able 40 get an informal word out of him and they were rare-reported that he had a vast fund of in- formation about films.
Kit through gruelling weeks months i_negotiations Ithout The
th C slightest chonce
w
Jm-
1 } a: 1 anyone's argument would make any pression on him. Other diplomais sometimes re- ported to Mos- that the cow ume to make a concession' had eunit, Gromyko apparently never did
Western cx- pers on Soviet tairs reckoned, therefore, that Gromyko would never go quite
to the top.
some-
For where, even in 110
Soviet machine. Бет one has to make policy, It can't coinc from Live texts Marx a Lenin. Soviet
leaders turnetimes try to It sound as if it does. But Marx can
Маке
Now, however, even that neither
nor
Lenin diversion seems to have ended.
have had much In 1945, he led the Russian
in- delegation to Dumbarton Oaks to say. for
stance, about the and went on to be Russia's re- presentative on the UN, Secur. best way of comm
trolling ity
Col He appears to be devoted to Four years later, he was re- Nasser. his wife and his two children; called to Moscow to be Deputy
Gromyko had been! but the demands of the state Foreign Minister. He emerged never come Art and he is
for a year In 1952-53 at con-
as Am- known to make policy. He had siderable pains in pubile not to
bassador to Britain and then not even ever been known to reveal his private affections,
Gromyko was born 40 years ago in Byclorussia and trained
THE BALL SPEEDS BACK, INTO THE POG--
WHILE IN THE OTHER PLANE
YOU ALL RIGHT, MACE: HOPE YOU WERENT SHAKING LIKE THAT WHEN YOU TOOK THE PICS!
元
N-NOPEI J-JUST THE AFTEREFFECT, MAG... | I-I WAS COOL AS A
CUCUMBER WHEN WE WENT INTO ACTION I
returned to the Soviet Foreign Office,
Gromyko's progress has been a headlong rush toward the top.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
THEN-THE FOB VANISHES—AND. WITH IT, MANDRAKE AND LOTHAR!
H-HOPE THEY DIDN'T GET OUR
PLANE NUMBERI
By Frank Robbing
NOT A CHANCE! THEY WERE TOO BUSY AVOIDING US? RELAX, MAD, THEY CAN'T TRACE USC AND WHEN WE SELL THESE
· PHOTOS...WE'RE LOADEDZ
feel his way toward the solution of any problem. He simply, said his picce and reported back to Moscow.
There's More than Magic in
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Delicious
.....this situation calls for a
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considerable
an-
There has been surprise, therefore, at the nouncement of Gromyko's ‚ap-. pointment to the Foreign Ministry.
What sort of Foreign Minister can he make? What iiess nave kurkod all these years behind the endless grambphone record. of orders from Moscow?
The popular theory in that Gromyko Is a Stalinist" and
that his appointinent hearkens a regime of "toughnem."
This must, on the whole, rò- main mere-surmise;
La
of
What is likely, however, that Gromyko the champlon orderliness will insist on a more orderly foreign policy, The complicated, game of hide-and- seek in the Middle East, for instance, has created · an enor- mous confusion. Middle East. politicians no longer know what Russia's long-term aims are, They, therefore, bargain only for short-term. Rains-and this mrst make it difficult for the Kremlin to consolidate its gaina,“
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Again, the confusing policy ENJOYING YOUR EVENING IN AN EUROPEAN ATMOSPHERE
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And
the current baffling policy in Eastern Europo which encourages Poles and trounces Harian cannot fail to create .confusion.
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Gromyko can be relied upon,
In all probability, to demand a complete overhaul and the ca- tablishment of a clearer long- range policy. Mill
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