THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1957.
WE COULD STILL WIPE THAT SMILE
AND
DUTT
London
HE British Government
Thas given the go-ahead
to the nation's shipowners to use the Suez Canal.
Let there bo no mistakes about the size of this eur- And the National Union of render to a man who has Journalists expressed its alarm attempted to destroy us in at suggestions that preliminary the Middle East, who has trials in criminal cases should abrogated every principle be heard in private and with, one of law, who has defied reso- trusts, the wholehearted p port of the Newspapers lution after resolution of Proprietom Association, is the United Nations, who has alarin at the fucrease to nows-torn up any respect for any print prices. (It nounds, all
in all, as though journalist-international treaty. management relations are very By surrender we will un-
amicable indeed.)
FAMILIARITY BREEDS.
"The Times", ever ready
to
Iwist the cliche's tall, decided that what familiarity bred was not contempt but content,
The editor had some learned sociologists with him.
And the matter was serious.
reservedly place the world's greatest international water- way in the unfettered con- trol of one hysterical and- bankrupt kleptomaniae,
But is this final humilia-
The sociologists have beention necessary? doing BOMO digging Into London's poster rehousing I believe that it is not. In schemes, Hundreds of thousands the long run we will, of of men, women and chlidren mostly young married couples course, beat Nasser, but
have and their smili children have immediately been moved from the densely porked areas of Central London lo vast housing estates on the fringen of the countryside,
In theory, this can do nothing but good.
Belter houses, cleaner air and more regular jobs are all part of the arrangement.
trump to play.
We
OFF NASSER'S FACE
Even now there is a card to play. Where the soldiers have failed, lawyers could win.
Where military action. has... falted, civil action can still per- hoper triumpir.
in die
There are no Afro-Asian blocs Low courts of the civilised world.
by HUGH FRASER
TORY M.P. FOR STAFFORD AND STONE
曲
REMEMBER how the Persian nationalization of
There are no Russian vetos on by private companies legally forcing a world boycott of judicial decisions.
Able lawyer though he is, Mr Dulles has no ubiquitous inter- national legal standing.
Let there be test cases now and immediately.
of
Even if a whole variety cases fail, there will be no re- Beotion on this country or on France.
There will merely bo the failure of a company in which
to have we happen
a large ก
shareholding --taking perfectly proper steps to safeguard
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Its own intercate in the low courts of the world.
Of course, it would be folly for Britain to boycott the Canal alone while the shipping of our rivals sails through and wils from us markets and customers.
But the sociologists ore con- cerned about the social side effects. One
BUT generation of a family completely cui off from the rest, The old are left in the old slum areas with only the state to take care of them.
The young become rootless. And the process doesn't stop there. When the children of the rehoused families marry they cannot settle on the new estates because all the vacancies
WHAT IF THE WHOLE WORLD COULD BE FORCED INTO A BOY- COTT OF THE CANAL?
I BELIEVE THAT THAT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE.
REMEMBER ABADAN.
I
What has happened once can still go to people being moved || happen again. out from the slums.
No roots can ever be developed It is not for nothing that Bri-
so long as this system continues.teln appoint, directors to the And life, though scemnigly beard of the International Suez
Canal Company in Paris. good on the new estates, has it drawbacks.
Bethnal Green, the old slum par excellence, has one pub for every 400 people and one shop
Greenleigh, for every 44. typ'cal new estale, has one pub for every 5,000 and one shop for every 300..
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We are the main shareholders. Why then does Mr Macmillan not instruct them to slap in a writ against the next ship to use the Canal? Why not sue for damages every shipowner pay- ing Gypgeld to Calro Ameri- can, Italian or Greek. In de offence of the sanctity of inter
national contract, the Carat Company has the duty moral obligation to act.
What Is more, the people in Bethnal Green want to stuy there and no amount prodding from the planners will make the change their minds, As "To Times" would have it, familiarity breeds content,
WALKING BACKWARDS:
In 1894, the crack finer Lucania, making a sprigirlly 21.75 knots, crossed from Queenstown, Ireland, to Sandy Hook, New York, in 5 days 12 hours and 57 minutes.
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Mall posted London delivered in New York exactly seven days later. Over the next three years, as ether liners equalled the Lucania's record, seven days become the standard ume for a jelter from Lordon to New York.
This would be just another mouldy bit of history-but for the curious fact that a reporter on the "Now Statesman, and Nation" decided this work
to
find out what had been happen- ing to the mails since.
He learned that modern mail carriers the Queen Maty, tho Queen Elizabeth and the United States to name three-make 12
to 14 knots belter 4ime than the Lucania.
But it now takes between 19 and 11 days to get a letter from London to New York by eta.
How come?
The Post Omer says it really doesn't know.
A MATTER OF
OIL AND WATER
И
and a little moron shall load
them"
and
the analogous to those of Abadan.
Nor is failure so likely even if circumstances se not
International law may be un certain on the legality of nationalisation. But Oppen- authorities, heimer, and other
prerequisite lay down certain of legality which Nieser has not futfilled. Britain's Lord Chan- cellor has declared Nasser's act os llegat in the opinion, Nasser, 15 in breach of certain inter- national conventions.
More important, the articles
are clearly based not on Egyp- tian but on French low,
Abadan was beaten. Not by the British Government but
Persian all.
REMEMBER the Italian oil ship Rosa Mary carrying the first fow tons of Morkadeq all to Europe.
REMEMBER how the British company brought out Injunction after injunction against her in international and municipal courts throughout the world.
REMEMBER how the world watched. How the legal processes dragged on for month after month and not o 'drop more of oil flowed from Persia.
REMEMBER the refinery rusting and the Roto-Mory distrained in Adon's, harbour.
Then Mossadoq foll and there come a new International arrangement.
1
Nasser in retura for clearing "his" Canal-perhaps the meat manship in record history. unbusinesslike act of unsletes-
But how there is a chance, Not only are all the Middle East oll States turning
the against pirates.
From up the Nile, and even from the Socialist benches, and even from Nye Bevan, come rumblings.
It has nothing more to lose and everything to gain. You ami I through the Government are Hts shareholders,
Let us demand action.
From
ba
Soviet- a bankrupt controlled Egypt there can be To optation, only evasion, uncertainty and then A sudden strike and blockage of the Concl against us in time of peril.
Either the Canel should There is alk of possible returned to internatiorial control of association of the Company, conctions being imposed an or the asset should be gradually Egypt's supply of river water written off with the maximum unless international agreements discomfort to the offender. ETC also observed by Cafro.
The commerce of the Com monwealth should never More important, the begins to ece that after all the lowed to become subject to the Canal is not po essential except unless the company can
whims of one man or people. wis on the West's own terms of
out on Suez, we as 0 ration proper international control un- fettered by any, despot's dictate. must turn our eyes to the giant There are other means of bring ships and the open seas. ing our oil-we have seen This In the last few months.
open
In breach of clear warning and colablished practice, future Canni-using owners have preb- to ably laid themselves claims by a French registered company for damage. By bring- ing action nothing can be lost sad something can be gained.
Indeed, in certain naponat courts legal victory is almost casured.
Action should be taken now for, let there be
West
In the fairly near future huge. 1:0 mistake pipelines, and above all giant about 1, the tide is turning, danlaces can make the Canal a cgainst the Cairo regime in the sing ditchs In Jordan, Hussein Middle East.
hos deffed, and for the time be- *ing defeated, Natser. Now £4 the time for the Canal Company
self to enter the Ulsts.
Hammarskjold may have all ed to get proper terms from
H-PEASHOOTER
TEST
Our bollins are now at work on the problem of How to produce terny weeny nuclear blails
That can be used in little, comparately polite,
„old-type wars,
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*PAY WITHOUT STRINGS"
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World Copyright by arrangement selih the Manchester Guardian
JOHN REDFERN!
Britain has Nasser ON TAP
PLUMP Mohamed Mohsen
M the figures pre not to of the Owen Falls powerhousa from Calro is comfort- Nasser's liking he calls up the to neighbouring Kenyo
Uganda Protectorate Govern-
ably installed as a dictator's dictator at the £22,000,000 Owen Falls dam and power house in Uganda. For his bass Naiser, he tells us Bri- tish when and when not to turn on the tap..
- His trak; To see that the flow into the Nile from Britain's Lake Victoria never exceeds 505 cable, matres per eccond,
His purport: To build up a reserve in the lake to safe guard Nawer's cotton crops during the eight months each year when the Blue Nile from Ethiopia rung low.
ment at Entebbe and word Is
Soon this powerhouse, will
sent to the Owen Falls engineers need the full flow of 030 cuble for the flow to be adjusted, motres per second instead of the 505 "pegged" for friend Nasser. The dictator's dictator has an Without the full flow there will airy four-roomed office at Jinto be a loss of 150 million units of across the Nile. He has a house electricity
and that where ho lives with his wife means Uganda will lose £500,- and two young sons,
000 a year in revenue,
1
-year
There are also houses for Dr Yet, as compensation for out- Bakir, his chief who is now on put loa! in mving in water for leave in Egypt, for another the Egyptian cotton 1,500 miles/ glorified meter render, also on down the Nile, Egypt has mado leave, and two guesthouses for one measly payment of 2000,- vising Egyptians,
000.
All this results from the 1029 In the quiet control room Nile Wales Agreement that any saw Phillip Claverley, an cng!- Prime Minute Macmillan alteration of the river's flow, neer from Bath, controlling the has sald that the question of must be approved by Egypt. sluice gates
The
•Water lila itial reserve of
PROT
TANGANYIK
TERRITORYS
through which arrangement pleases 32- 100ft, jois of feros water are to Egypt, because of her year-old Mr Mohsen and his like crystal bridges. continued "obstruction" over boss but it amazes me, the Buca Cabal, a complex Uganda is opening up with but to say-90 came from against the continuance of
une.
light and power, an
the
Cleverley moved the levers,
untouched Mohamed Mohned,
151929 agreement. -2 Pearce, trom Ho Bhezu "The But Mohamed Mohren's job is area of 18.000 square anilos Mr Harold
Birmingham, in a TOTICE DIN these Egyplans, upest quite simple. Regularly ho goes inside her borders, down to Namasorali, 40 miles. She is also committed to aldent of the Uganda, Chamber "Walaro. „not going to from Owen Falls, and there he supplying between one third of Commerce, whichs la rallying Egypt telling us what to do mosaires the Niles dow," *** and one-half of the full output-other East Africon – chambers with our own lake,
tr
made
ME Macmillan has impression on
a favourable
D. Adenauer
Britain is as good
a European
as Germany
→
Cummings
"It really is about time we apologised for having won the war
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