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SINCE SUEZ
JULY 20, 1950-Nasser nationalises Suez Canal.
AUGUST 23.-Eighteen nations agree on proposate for International control of Canni.
SEPTEMBER -Nosser rejects the proposals,
OCTOBER 29. — Jerarl invades Egypt.
NOVEMBER 1—Britain
and France begin operations lo occupy Canal.
NOVEMBER 3-Pori
Said captured.
NOVEMBER 4.-Cease.
Are agreed,
JANUARY
30. 1857-
King Sand visits Elsen- hower.
MARCH -Elsenhower proclaims the Eisenhower Dnetring "to promote pence and stability in the Middle Enst." It offers economis ald to all Middle East countries who freely suli- terlbe to it.
APRIL 3. Jordanian Prime Minister Nabulsi will ablish diplomalle relations with Russia.
APRIL 15. King Hursen of Jordan smashes Communist backed at- icmpt at assassination.
25. General #trike called in Jordan to protest against Elsenhower Doctrine.
APRIL
MAY 29.-Government candidates charge Russin with Riving £40,000 bribes in Lebanese general élections,
AUGUST $-Arms and trade
agreement between
Syria and Russia.
AUGUST 18. Syrian army purged and senior officers replaced by pro- Russíu men.
7.-U.S.
SEPTEMBER announces air-lifts of arms to Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq to meet Communist threats,
SEPTEMBER. 0.First delivery of arms
in Jordan.
arrives
THE CHINA MAIL, · THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1957........
Fine Focus on the Middle East
Object No. 1 is...
chaos in
Lebanon!
HG
BEIRUT.
TIGH, high, on the list of immediate Russian targeta in the Middle East is pocket-sized Lebanon. This is the pro-West country which was the first to embrace the Elsenhower doctrine for the Middle East.
I now have evidence that a build-up of arms smuggled in from Syria is going on-with Russian help. These arms are falling into the kands of the Moslem community. In theory Lebanon is populated by exactly fifty per cent Christians and fifty per cent Moslems. A census dare not be held for fear of showing a Christiap minority.
Lebanon, however, has not many Moslem Communists. But the Mosioms are bitterly op- poord fo The Elsenhower doctrine, which they see us t threat to Arab unity an encouragement expansion.
Prac IndependenCO~
and
By man-on-the-spot |
COLIN LAWSON EDITED BY JOHN S. MATHER
Zionist
LOW
SICK MAN OF THE MIDDLE EAST
All for one reason-lo encour-
Moslemus
BS
LEBANON
Makri (trudes unions), and scale Communist penetration in Mohamed Salibi.
hanistan. This has followed They have strong links with the normal pattern of Soviet underground Rods in Jordan, Iron, and Lebanon.
ters-inflitary and economic agreements, paving the way for Just one pace behind nil this gradual takeover of key civilian the work goes on in the Soviet and military posts.
Cairo, Embassies in Damascus,
In the Yemen, too, I can and Beirut,
reveal, there is a sizable mill- Syrian University staff have lary mission and an even larger bren
to Moscow for civilian pet-up, disguised mainly brain-washing.
us oll and mineral prospecting Mustafa el Sibal, head of the teams.
Brotherhood · fanatic Moslem
fins come back from Russia full
of propaganda about religious freedom. The Moslem Brother-
the
not
RED ADVISED
The Iman of the Yemen is
hood is strongly anti-Communist, being Russian-advised on tho but is now 60 riddled with terms of his almost daily notes tellow travellers that
of protest over non-existent favourite line is: "The Russians bombing attacks by British are our friends first and Com-
planco. munists second. They do
In my travels throughout the interfere with our religious Middle East from the Perelan Gulf of Libya, from northern Iraq to southern Arebin, I have most disturbed [at the insidious positive effect these
having on
bellets."
kent.
19 100
PIPE DREAMS ABOUT HOUSING
AFR Mr Khushches had inaugurated his new regime with concessions to the peasantry, it waa almost inevitable that urban housing should appear on the agenda.
To the Soviet citizen very tile is sù important, as tho possible improvement of his ace commodation.
It is still quite normal in the USSR for a Ght to be shared by three families, each of warm occupier one room only.
In a Central Committee res
olation carly in August, Khrushchev promised to
Mr pus.
an end to the housing shōit- age within the next fạn to twelve years.
Pravda pointed out that the new drive was a "clear mani- festation of great solicitude for the people's
welfare
and happiness."
how
The cominent contrived some- to connect the campaign with the defeat of the vilo "anti-Party" men, Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich, al- Though there was Unintended
It' irony in the reference was Mr Kaganovich in Novem- ber, 1950, in the key speech at the "Revolution Day" celebra- lions, who came forward na, an ** advocate of a vigorous hous- Arab ing drive,
are Private Building
with
IN THOUSANDS been
Cairo students have gone to notes are
the nationalists, Moscow in thousands. In Lebanon clothing and cash have Most of the Russian team in
Church Yemen are Asians. They gone to village schools. lenders are being cent to Tash- thus armed with the key to the and £30,000 a year is Oriental mind, backeri being paid to selected fellow Communist training.
There is no tendency among travelling priests.
officers 10 The June elections viciously
*Thero
the sinister Adcn Intelligence
the dangero of B underploy attached by the
figure of Colonci Mnalskanov, Soviet-trained Yemen army. being rigged, gave the pro-West oge a revolt against the govera-
of President Chamoun, power-house of subversive ideas (3) Building up
10,000- Soviet. military attache in
well: Note this and note it led Fremier Sami Bolh, and the was set up Ar Tashkent, the strong Communist Party Damascus. He is an Armenlon, strong man of Lebanese polities, capital of Uzbekistan.
bean by the
trusts and a product of the Tashkent It could do for more damago to stability in Southern Arabia Foreign Minister Charlen Malik. Previously the main centre above everyone else-KHALED tutors Hl: main job? Sub-
the A note of alarm has just been for furthering Russian Imperial- BIKDASII.
than the recent revolution in large Muscat.. news- lsm in this explosive part of the sounded by one Belrut
Blkdosh is being assisted
minorities in Syria, by Armenian
The conclusion must be paper-"We hope nothing like world was called the "Soviet Tashkent-trained men like the Egypt, and the Lebanon. that which took place between Middle East and Asian Research Faysal brothers (Youth and Western Intelligence also he that the Russian Empire is the two Koreas will arise be-
evidence of large- on the march again.... been Peace Organisations), Ibrahim conclusive tween Syria and her neigh beurs."
partics a large majority,
Since then there have been running gun battles between Moslem fanatics and police and troops in the mountains.
IN A CAR
ment
Ye any serious armed revolt
the in Lebanon-which
Rus-
Bureau. This has now reorganised and enlarged under the nome of the Orientalist
Institute.
Sometimes tanks have to be moved
but always up
the Moslems allp away. Last week Czech arms were found in the sians are trying to engineer munist theoretical expert on the
Syrian door panels of a
could be exploited by Just a passengers to taking innocent Beirut. Dally, tommyguns are handful of secret Communists
Arob sinking behind smuggled Across the border tionalists.
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Note that it would nol be ncccusary to get A clear-cut decision in Lebanon. Indeed, chaos in the country would be preferable to the Russians,
· PARALYSIS-
Note that the Lebanese port Tok Beirut is vital to Iraq and Jordan. Dally from it go on voys of heavy duty lorries with machinery, Louis, supplies, and
It is rected by the top Com-
Middle East, B. G. Gafurov,
The Tashkent Orientalist In- stitute has been turned Into showpiece for visiting Asians and Ambs. It spouts "religious freeflom."
It is a training centre for ugents from Moslem countries, They are given courses in sabotage, political agitation, Sub- version, and penetration of trades unions,
At a conference in the In- stitute on June 4 this year, the leading Communist Asian CX- "We peri, Mukhdinov, said: made scrious mistakes In evaluating the role of the bourgeoisie Imperialist struggle of the East." essentials for the two countries.
that trouble in
So the slogan now is "Pene- Notc
thetration through the bourgeoisie, Lebanon could paralyse the exploitation of Amly nationalism econemle life of the two coun-
and eventus) control from within."
tries.
For, of alternative ports. Aqaba is loo snail, and Basra la a further 3,500 miles away.
And then note this: The Lebanon plan is only part of the long-term Kremlin plan for the whole Middle East.
in the
SO TRUSTED
anti-
For example, when Khalid El Am, the Syrian Defence Minister, went to Moscow to discuss
the arms and aid, Russians showed no advantage about
scruples dealing with a mult!- millionaire.
It is a flexible plan. A plan to take immediate
of any situation created in the came of Arab nationalism and Anti-Imperialism,
And when Azm signed on the dotted line, the Russians were How did it come about? all set to exploit the agreement, Just before Stalin's death the
Thus the first three stagra the new approach to
Middle
of the Russian plon
well arc East entered the early planning under way: stage. Directives, were issued (1) Political, military, and to Communist cells in Syria, economic penetration of first Jordan, and Iraq, ordering Syria then Egypt.
them to penetrate and gain (2) Use of Syria as a spring- control of nationalist elements. boned for other Middle Eart
Then, two years ago, a new countries;
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Moscow
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The End Of The Boom In Busts?
7411
Britain,
are
Hundreds of women in including many professional models, undergoing operations to plane down their bosoms, plastic surgeon Patrick Clarkson has revealed,
arc
The number of women who are having their busts reshaped has doubled in the last 10 years at the London hospital where most of the operations performed,
And despite the popularity of .Gina Marilyn Monroe,
Lollobrigida, Sophia Loren and other well-stacked wanches, most of the operations are for raduction of the bust in order to fit in with present fashions.
Says Mr Clarkson, writing in The Practitioner: "An increasing number of
ARMS
ARMS
·FOR SYRIA
"BUT WE WANTED ALMS, FOR THE LOVE OF ALLAH
women are dissatisfied with what they have got. A bust which is wide of the cur- rently fashionable mark is a serious social, economic and psychological disadvantage to a woman in the professional classes,
Stripped of political signi-
·ficanco, - however, Mr. Khrusia- chev's campaign sela a torget - for 1980 only slightly
above that of the current Five-Year- Plan for State construction.
On the other hand, it is now. proposed steeply step up private building.
10
This is lo
Lo cqual, in terms of
floar
as much as half of " space, as
State construction, and will in- cludo primarily co-operative blocks in which individual flats allotted permanently
arc
tenants.
Опо Wonders
to
what lies be
sense
hind this apparently growing proference for private housing
First, Mr Khrushchev --is apsa
lo
of the pealing ownership, which seems still to be
be strong in the 40 year-old Communist society.
Second, he seems to have been converted to the belief that private inillativo may be more effective than State building under the supervision bureaucrats.
Finally, he wants to kill third bird with the same store |---inflation.
TV
The Soviet Government has recently "done 'away with " the floating of State Ioana by virtually compulsory..deductions frem salaries and wages,
it anys in the new resolution that individual houso-building Is expected to be Bratced from what the people save through the abolition of loan deductions.
Inflation
Apparently not enough con- sumer goods have reached the. market to match the extra money left in the people's pockets, and "A girl's feelings about her bulky the
wants Government
to`. bosom may adversely affect her whole syphon this away by promoting adjustment to life...I consider it entirely private building the size of reasonable and proper medicine that such house-construction, the alloca....... feelings should be offered
tion of sites and the supply of relief by materials in any case depend on... surgery."
the State,
Women are no longer content to put up with special bras and other aids to spiritual uplift when surgery. can give them a figure they can show off in bikini.
*
The important question now is how soon the pledge of a decent dwelling for every family will materialise.
Mr Khrushchev was careful. enough not to be caught out on this score, so he fixed his final Mr Clarkson gives two main forget 10 to 12 years hence a period of nearly half a gatza» reasons why "mora women ilon. are having their figures re- In 1020 the Central Com- modelled; there is a growing mittee of the Soviet Commun "cult of the bosom" among resolution that "one of the most ist Party declared in a special young girls. One girl ask- acuto problems is housing and ed Mr. Clarkson to, stream-
it must be solved If any. Im- line her figure because she provement whatsoever is to, be would otherwise never get mede in the lives of the work married, as "men are SQ bosom-conscious.")
women
Crs.**
In the 30 years, that have fol- lowed housing space has been Many models and other trebled in the ecfties and towns,
depend on
but the urban.... population their
risen at a still-festar rate. figures for their livelihood.
averago Soviet family is worse Surgeon Clarkson reveals off today than it was at the time that his patients include the special resolution was pre-
claimed-30 youw.agol. 2 y "many young models and Those old enough to remember others who have clear and it may be excused. If they view well-informed Idea about the now declaration of the Party what shape and size of bust in any case the mathematies of.
and: Governmunt with cynicism? is most suitable to their the housing plodges are some professional needs.”
what confused.
Assuming that urban popula What Is * husband's lion continues, to increase as in attitude to a wife who wants the past, there will still, bo by rather to undergo this operation? the end of the decade
more than five people, to', every Usually, reports Mr Clarkson, two rooms In the towns of the he is satisfied, with a wife Soviet Union: as she is. He puts up mute In other words, Chres' tiinum, opposition to the project, but many people. por room a
there now proʻin Britain,Keny ha is usually overruled.
But It Soviet families can be Pictured here are four of persuaded to tulge la dreams the bustiest and busiest of of wonderful homes in the international show business future it will no doubt help Me
{Khrushcov "polifically, They are, from left, Italy's Gina Lollobrigida; America's Jarin... Rustel; Amdi Marilyn Monroe; and Bri Ftain's Sabrina).
by
Alfred Zauberman