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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1957. ..
AS SYRIA' TOPPLES TO THE REDS....
Beware the other
great oil
RUSSIAN-BUILT
tanko
rumble through the narrow streets of Damascus, oldest inhabited city in the world.
The cloudleau skies above Syrla's ancient capital are criss-crossed with vapour trails from, Russian MIG fighters.
Today you may be worrying About the Soviet's dramatic move into Syrla. It is right that you should For, of course, il' was Russian Influence in neighbour- ing Egypt which put us petrol coupons for five months. BUT REMEMBER THIS. The Russian threat to our oll in the Middle East is not the only one. There is a second threat. That che comes from the Amerleans,
EDGING US OUT
ד־
threat
grimosen by mixi|c7|3663393
BERNARD HARRIS
owner
of that
And though Mr Dulles denies principal
people on the spot have no company? Mr. Andrew Melion, doubt that the Saudis were en- couraged by American interests,
A BLIND
So in the most incredible way we threw away these vast Middle East treasurea which were ours alone to exploit.
WHY?
Simply because succ?ssive by the British Governments lacked the on THE great snatch
Americans started
to more guts
sland
to up
the than 30 years ago, when alinast Americans. all the oil rights in the Middle East were under British control, But still worse was to come. That shameful disaster, that utter humiliation-Abadan,
Then they demanded to come in with us in Iraq. Reluctantly we gave them a 233⁄4%% share in what is now the third largest producer in the Middle East.
This time it was not just an oli concession we threw away- but the world's greatest wit refinery, bullt by British genius} Next they went into Bahrain, and British capital. Because an American company Plus a splendidly organised So far the Russians have would have been unacceptable buitish
succeeded in taking away a to Britain a Canadian company by British enterprise, which was single barrel of our oil,
was formed to exploit the con producing 30,000,000 cession.
dollar-saving oil a year,
But the Americans? They have taken millions and millions of barrels from areas that once were ours, And the efforts to edge us out continue.
For this is the harsh reality. The precious fuel, on which their prosperity depends,
becomes ever harder to find within their own borders. And thus they are intensifying the search for i in other areas.
That is why they show themselves every bit as keen as the Russians to get control of Britain's all interests in ile Middle East. For under the hol sands of that area lle more than two-thirds of the world's known cil rentrves,
Loot what has been happen- ing in Oman. Why did that re- mote corner of the Arabian Peninsula suddenly flare Into the news? Because of vil,
British troops were called in to suppress a tribal revolt which was backed by the Saudi Arabians,
Their
had greed been aroused by news of an oli diceovery in Oman.
But it was only a blind. All the money was put up by Standard Olt of California. And today the oll of Bahrein ៤ owned Jolutly by that company and Texas Oui,
The third grab came in Saudi Arabin, where Britain had tong held the concession. Here again Standard of California moved in
tons
GUILTY MEN
ALL this we abandoned
ΟΙ
And
who were the guilty men of Abadan ut the behest of one! sponsible for us scuttling cut of the weakest nations on the earth?
Cummings
To Syria
by invitation
CALL 6 FLEET
DIAL 449
IKE'S
DOCTRINE AGAINST COMMUNIST AGGRESSION})
“The trouble is no one does call the policeman.”.
BLAME Mr Herbert Morrison, divided between Ove "major" to open up the second richest of who was Foreign Secretary, and companies and eight of the all the Middle East oilfields, Mr (now Earl) Attlee, who was smaller fry, How 100 per cent American head of the Socialist owned.
GREAT GUSHER
ment.
BLAME
Govern-
You might have thought the the Torice would have learned, a
lesson front Abadan.
THE RECKONING
BUT
ALSO Americans.
It was Mr George McGhee, of the U.S. State Department, who lold Mossadeg that America would not back Britain in resisting nationalisation of the DUT no. They were to prove oil industry.
almost as profligate as the
our
THEN there WAS Kuwait, which has proved the most phenomenal gusher of them all, It was an all-British concession And Me Averell Harriman Socialists in letting go until Sir John Simon, then gave equal encouragement to precious oll, Foreign Secretory, was bull- the plundering Persian Premier. dozed by Mr Andrew Mellon, The American pay-off eame
Mr Harold the American Ambassador, into three years later, An inter- Macmillan and the Tary Party felting the United States in on national group Look Over who allowed Trinidad Oll, thất
30/50 basis.
Abadan. with Britain's share splendid Empire asset, to be cut from 100 per cent to 40 per sold to the Americans In 1958. cent. And the Americans got And so we have come to the 40 per cent for themselves reckoning.
The American interest went Is Gulf Ol. And who was the
For It
Today the countries of the state-upwards of £200 million Middle East are gushing oil at a year to the nation, the rate of 170 milion tons year
At a modest estimate 75 per cent of that all would today bu ours if we had pursued a polley of resolution and firmness.
That is equal to all our dollar earnings from selling goods in the American market.
OUR LESSON
o what must be our fired D resolve? What is the lesson 10. we must learn?
But how much, in fact, do we own? Roughly 30 per cent three barrels out of every
· THAT · FROM NOW ON ANY. And the Americana? Once POLITICIAN WHO SURREN- they had nothing at all. Now DERS SO MUCH “AS A DROP they have six barrels out of OF OUR OIL MUST BE every 10. Twice as much as us, DEPRIVED OF OFFICE AND REMOVED FROM. THE Fortunately the politicians COUNCILS OF THE NATION. have not succeeded in squander. We
afford no can ing all our assets in the Middle damage to our oil intercata, East. The all that we have left whether from the Russians or lo us is worth-even in its crude the Americans,
What happens when a girl
THIS is my investigation into the case
Two unusual women and the thing
called fame."
The first woman is right on the edge of fame.
To find her, I went to a small, grey street near Ful- ham. On one Corner was Johnnie's Cafe. On the ather was a newsagent's.
Invizle, jostling the news papers, wore boxes of soap flakes and cotton-reels. But F had come to the right place..
I went through the news- ngent's door and un some atnira. And suddenly I was almost choked by the sweet smell of success.
For this chop was the home of Jure Geskell, one of the yourgest novelists in the world. Jane's Brst novel, Strange Evil, written when she was 14. has just been published to 11 trafere of publicity (Hutchinson,
128. Cd.),
Called her 'Cis
I was shown to Jane's living- TOOM.
Jace's father, phone in hand, was Axing up her appearance en "In Town Tonight." Jane's mother was talking about television interview.
And
Jane-she is now 10-
strikes fame
BOOKS by ROBERT PITMAN
into bright, blinding fame. Yet of Mr Salteeno
("an elderly
her book, I swear, is no brighter man of 42") who wanted to
than lots of become a gentlemer,
Jano Gaskell
other
could
little
written.
clever
cirls As long as English is spoken, will have people
remember Mr Saleena's young friend Ethel Montiene. ("shall put some And all the red ruge on my face fald Ethel time I kept because I am very pale owing thinking to the drains in this house.") abou the
secord woman
They will remember thứ Eårl In my in cf Clincham, who took Mr vestigation, Salteena to "n very superior levic, where they met. the For that Prince of Wales (inter Edward woman ls VII) wearing "a small but
sold helt
somerine who,
("Then the cari at the age of costly crown."
chipped in, and how is the dear nine, wrote a Queen, he sold reverently. Not novel which
up to much said his Highness, million copies
Her name: Daisy Ashford. she feels the heat poor soul."j The rams (f her. book: The Young Visiters.
Little left
ས
Look back for a moment 01 that amazing GUCCCSS. Al the Where is Daisy Ashford now? turn of the century, at her My Investigation brought me father's big house la Lewes, to a litle council house outside where she had her own gover- Norwich. Daisy Ashford Hyes ness, nine-year-old Daisy was a there, a widow of nearly 70, secret reader of all the latest with her married daughter. sentimental novels and all the
Her
women's magazines. Into a litle There is not much left of the 9 red notebook she pencilled fortune which was suddenly grown-up story of her own brought by The Young Visiters.
The years went by.
But its author still rémümbers father died. Then during World the sort of things to which Mr Wer 1 her mother died, And Salteena aspired. In the little cmong her mother's papers back-room of the council house Daisy, by then a woman in her sherry was brought, out before can only order twenties, found the story in the we sat down to lunch. about her lunch red notebook. She showed it to I asked about the house in with Wolf Mankowitz ("He a friend. It was
published Lewes.
was talking about her lunch in Saho with Newey Spain ("We went to a wonderful place where you
showed me lots of famous complete with mis-spellings.
people, Cicely Courtneldge was
there he just called her "Cla""},
I watched Jano chattering on.
"Very pale.....
Within three months
face looking out through
"We had a wonderful' firne thero. But it's been turnod into a pubile library now. I could barely recognise it when I went there there a few years back."
I watched her pretty frocided had been 12 reprintings Sin
4
"Oh, yes, some time la the
I got married. My
WIJK
And the book which followed I was handed the paneliled curtain of Juliatte Greco bair. I James Barrio wrote a preface. The Young Visiters?
notebook. heard for speak of Franic Asquith found it delightful. Swinnerton, the 73-year-old Even today: The Young Visiters 1920's they published a book "A fow yours after it Was novelist whose enthusiastia (published by Chatto und with all the other stories I had published report on Strange Evil made Windus) is always in priot. written as chi But it had husband
market- And it li Hutchinsons decide to publish
oney to understand nothing like the success of The gardener. His speciality
WILS why.
Young Viltera, No. · I've had - growing flowers, ật mìo time Without knowing t Title nothing published since."
Wo. rana: publio' house noas But all the time I kept Daisy bad filled, her notebook After "hunch a cluster drawer here in the country." I said: wondering if Swinnerton wwa with one of the greatest comic was pulled out. I was shown a "Who was renily, behind getting right, Jane is being pushed stories ever written the story wad of yellowing Press-cuttings. The young Viscera into printt"
it.
at
16?
more
"Frank Swinnerton, tre As I left that back-room in novelist. He recommended it Norwich, the author of The Lo strongly to the publishers," Young Visiters shook her groy
And how, almost 40 years head..
later, a similar recommendation
has made Jane Gaskell's lishers print her book.
SHE pub-
SAID: "IT WAS A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE, Will the Swinnerton Intaltion OF COURSE. SUDDENLY be proved right ogain? Or FINDING MYSELF FAMOUS. would It really be a tragedy for BUT I SOMETIMES WONDER IF I'VE EVER GOT OVER IT." Jane if he were wrong?-
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