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THE CHINA MAIL
MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1958.
As the Bagdad Pact arguments go back and forth, I make this warning about
The Invisible
Battlefield
by TOM STACEY
THE POLITICIANS
OF THE WEST GATHERED THIS WEEK IN THE SHADOW OF AN UGLY DEFEAT BY NASSER AND MOSCOW THE IRAQ REBELLION,
And last night those same men of the Bagdad Pact, buoyant optimists, were packing their bags with a new resolution to fight back in the Middle East.
But I warn them now: they will continue to lose, every hour, every minute, until they appreciate the significance of the fact that the enemy has so far won every victory by means of a single, entirely novel weapon in the history of physical aggression: THE RADIO:
This is the key struggle that the West is disastrously losing, despite its generous aid, despite its honest advice.
radio.
bubble-bubble, sipping thick
the eoffer, listening to There is little else to do.
bave watched them in the
soda-bers of Kuwall, nodding named al-Sabah after the royal family how long will the label
over their Azzy drinks (one is
stay?), nodding to the rhythm of Nasser's propaganda.
'It's a plot'
Side by
side
their
hours
the
What do Nasser and Communist stations left them? Let us tako last week. In that Leriod Nasser's radto drummed into y listeners that
briet
countless
America was planning atom- brob tests in Turkey;
• A British plot was afoot to
restore Farouk in Egypt:
✪ The Sultan of Muscal, "bire:
For
thy radio the "Ahned, of the British," was afraid name whoever has the eart
to leave his palace lest his most of the illiterate man has his Said" after Nasser's
people destroy him; virulent commentator.
mind.
Let me give a few examples of the effect upon simple Arabs, mual of whom have never seen bleycle or tip-opener, nt years of saturation with false- hoods against the established
In the erratic style Eastern life, there are abs who are out of the radio.
of Mid- very few of earshot
Every village has its
order, baseless obure against radio, a dry battery job the Weal, incitements to revolt,
"the day promises thal
iberation will gone."
t
All day...
of
urually, blaring out all day above the house of an elder. And every market place. And every oasis.
The taxis in the towns have them, and the shops. They are To such people the radio s never turned off. Once I sailed They dow the Persian Gulf from almost supernatural.
techolen Kuwait to Muscat in an Arab
which dhow. The radio was
day for a fortnight.
Hot by 25
I
The "Imperialist authorities" are extending their terrorist campalip" in Aden Protec- torale;
Hordes of British troops have "the people" in ben giling
Onzan
and
Ours
the fight we are losing
NASSER
Amble broadcasts
Egypt radio
Hours
* week
Damascus -
Bardad
Bana (Yemen)
148
01
07
14
978
KRUSHCHEV
East Germany
Dalgaria
THE WEST
Hours
Arabic broadcasts
a woek
Moscow Radlo
65
Hours
Bratislava (Ukech)
Arabic broadcasts
A week
Cyprus (British)
67
Yugoslavia (Tito's)
Voice of America - France
79
130
Vatican (religious) - Јарап
Total.... 183
Albania
Cling
Grand Total.... 500
ISRAEL- which America and Britain built to help them invade Arab land".
Listen in to famous Ahmed Said on the American interven- tion in the Lebanon: "The whole world, led by the free Arabs, will resist you, O America, will fight your imperialism, will put an end to your aggression. The truth behind you, O America, has been exposed to the whole world-the lender of the enemies of propies, of freedom, and of humanity.
"Wait America! Wall for defeat such as we Egyptians Inflicted on Britan and France!"
Everything that pours into the
Arab ear today Concerns
ugalast imperialist plots
the people, American lackeys tor- leaders, the people's frring monopolists working on "terrible raspiracies." All the Communist Jargon,
1 quote Nasser's radio on
NATO "the means of of
Call
but name,
phrase means "information crier."
In Label, the thoroughly sub-
Jordan and imposing Aden along all day long in verted sultanate in
the people"; villages, sucking at the Yemen border, they pick- Iragh
I have seen the men
sitting
domination
Clarks
Is this all believed? At first, But After In time, not all. driven into the literate head, day after day, it beloved To prove it I can quote the story told by colleague Donald Sea- man, just back from Jordan,
When the British troops flew Int Amman a fortnight ngo
ut them toid Arab
Some
Nassor puts out 370 hours a week of carefully planned. utierly unscrupulous propa. ganda in Arable, Including special programmer for the Suden, Aden, Somaliland, Muscat, Persian Gulf, · Libyn, and "Maghrib." etc. Besides that he has programines In Kurdish for the Kurds, and
ROUND
UP
Swahill for British Africans In The Great Tido"
Kenya.
One hundred and thirty hours TN
wide search for
of Arable vitriol pours in each I materialer the '700-page
week from Russia and her satel-book she has written for Essex
lites.
Our job
County Council on the 1953 food disaster, Misa Hilda Grleve, a senior member of tho archivist's staff, has interviewed more than 200 people. She bas Against this the West, fighting wall over 900 milea explor
lag the Essex const ana His rearguard action which trusts defences,
13 the facts and spurns Arab-style hundredweights of
mud combed Ave documents. exhortalon and THTSMAN inclements puts across a total book will trace the court of Entitled "The Great Tide," the 103 (including Japan and the Vatican),
"neutral"
the freak
on the ilde, which, night of January 31, 1953,
The are somewhat erratically | swept up creeks and estuaries, supported by a number of leaving trail of devastation Arable stations, like extending from Manningtres to those of Libya and Saudi West Ham. The book has taken Arabia, which iranamil locally Mis Grievu two years to write, and tells how 110 people dled the simple Arabiand ie oil, for
how 12,358 homes squatting under his black tent destroyed br Inundated. invisible Altogether 31,000 people were
324 hours a week.
in the midst of this battlefeld, there is Arable rolse} made homeless by the water on the air each day to keep which covered 84 square mules
Hond five radios going fut out the of
afler making 839 full 24 hours, plus a sixth fur brenches in the sea wall. 12 hours.
There are two ways open to Memoirs Of "Monty"
the West to aten til disaster.
2. TO CHANNEL the finest propaganda brains "We know that into working out * com-
1. TO JAM the lying memoirs of Fleid Marshal Montgomery, announced for radios of the enemy;
publications in November, will consist of 578 pages contaluing 200,000 words. Nearly 50 from photographs
the Field Marshal's own collection will be included. Fourteen maps have
Legicharles who welcomed them believe them. that they had fought at Pori all the British troops Sald, "But that is imposable." wiped out by the Arabs exclaimed, refusing to Army.“
were
the Egyptian Pletely new line of radio | been drawn under his personal
arsault.
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supervision,
My ABC of Snobbery
PART
TWO
begins with B
by NANCY SPAIN
H
which
means...
the subtle grades of naval anoḥ
the
value even if
Pubite aren“,
NOVELISTS
General
Boma novellats are good.
Prancoise Bagan was until she
married Guy Behoeller infant
prodigies are only good for their
first book, bad thereafter
Colin Wilson was unt he was
threatened with horsewhipping
Nancy Mitford in the Top
af Top anob novelists. Romantic novelista are seldom any good onob-wise, except for Daphne du Maurier who is the wife of the Comptroller of the Queen's
-Household.
.
O is for.....
OLD
Things we have got used to
Oxford and Noël Coward.
the shape of are best, like
"EVERYWHEN":
girls,
for
In cherry red.
brown.or.black
cumuloir. soles.
healthy
school shoes
that don't run
through money
To begin with they'ra
pretty reasonable in
price. They go on and
on wearing well, They
give your child a promise
of strong healthy feet for
life.
Available from
SINCERE CO., LTD. SHUI HING CO., LTD. LILY'S CO.
JONES WONG & CO. SANDA SHOE STORES
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HORSES
T
little
snob's world everything
is
to
LEGGE,
Mrs.
Gerald
HE top subject in a that of The Horse. Almost
do with The Horse is snobbish: the language people talk when dealing with it, the clothes people wear when riding it, the money that is paid out in its upkeep.
Quite normal nice motherly women, faced with the prospect of going round a stables on a Sunday after- noon, go raving mad and chew on a straw, saying things like: "I say, I think she stands over a bit In front and dishes a bit behind, don't you?"
Why The Horse is so mportant has always fascin- sted me I think it is mostly "ecause of the Klastly xpense of it nobody is as xpensive to rear as a race. horse), but also. of course. because of the breeding
Etttte world many Horses are far more important than people. That is because they are so very carefully bred When playing Horse Snob with our friends you will be struck the fact that the rutes are exactly like Family Snob.
You will also notice how Icertain horses' names occur
JAZZ
is for...
Atuost better than classical music since taken up by Ocrald Lascelles and Humphrey Lyttel сап. There was a time when Jazz thundered in Bad Houses in New Orleans, when Princess Margaret would not have been allowed anywhere near it.
again and again, as Charles I JOURNALS
does in so many pedigrees. 1 have always thought, that the equine equivalent of Charles II is a famous horse called Botario Another curious thing about horses is that so many, of the Top People look more fiks horses than horses de
HOUNDS
Pronounced "Ilahoda." Some packs are better than others, thus the Pytchley (pronounced Pie-chly) is better than The Old Surrey and Burstow; and John Peel's pack (Beilman, True and all that for were probably as common as anything. waking the dead, and so on. Anything Leicestershire is so good as to lose all contact with reality.
1 is for.....
INK
Dsing a pen and ink is better than ball point, which is no good. ink must be blue or black. and in extreme cases Blue-Black. Violet, Green are bad. floc in only for Bank Managers.
Bome Journals are better than others
Ay are readers of them. Thus people who read The Times and the Manchester Quardian consider themselves superior to those who read the Sunday Times. Top snob marks are given for arieer duiness. Anything exciting. like the Daily Express, sells better.
Kis for...
KINGS
Good but best when they have a kingdom.
is for...
LAND
Pis for..... PALACE, Buckingham
It you were going to tea there. I expect you would eas ao... which makes it good.
Now correctly known as Lady in the fam The Frog bui Princess Margaret production dresses lo frills-no good.
Lewisham. She played lead PALAIS DE DANSE
M is for...
MEDALS
it is bad to dance very well dimcult dances like the slow foxtrot, Bob dancing consists In moving slowly up and down on the spot in a confined space Bad luck on people like Dama Margot Ponteyn, but sho is married to an *K- Ambassador, she is all right anyway
Some medals are better than PARDON
others. To a decoration snob only those awarded for work on the field of battle will quality.
MEN
Mon must be over oft OR millionaires OR be able to get taxis to stop for them OR ba very good at something to
The unmentionable ward, The Earl of St. Germans felt so Atrongly about this that when quoting a poem about " The kias of the sun for pardon. the song of the birds for mirth he used to sayThe kiss of the sun fur excuse me
excuse their other defences POSTCARDS
Thus Bir Gordon Richards would be good because he can stop tails
MUSICIANS
Some musicians (le. Bach, Handel, Beethoven, and Mozart) are better than other hepin
Beng
Σαρ people do not
They send pleture postcards.
hoir own privately engravod cards with their address, and a line under it. It is bad to start a message on a postcard
Dear Bob
and Tahalkoraky are bad bo- PRIVILEGE
cause too easy and have tunes you can recognise
Somo opera a better than others, Anything run at a loss and attended in full evening dress is obviously anobbler than anything that might get on television and no be enjoyed by The People. (This was the real terror behind the move to stop televising of the Coronation.)
IM is for...
NAMES
Bome Christian names and their diminutives are batter than others, Ken and Bran are not as good on Charles, or Henry, Bertio is better than Bert, It is very unkind to
Formerly the property of the Landed Gentry, but now passed into the hands of TV staṁ wao get preferential treatment on Airplanes and best seata in stiestres. which practice therefore incorrock
is for... RISSOLES
No hotted-up or done-over fpod exista for real food anobs so that old snob tale told me by W. Macqueen-Fope about how his unclo would only cat a voi au vent with a silver form is bad. as he shouldn't hava boon eating * voi au vent anyway..
christen girl Marlene and RITZ
Dietrich was not Marlene, but Maria Magdalene, so there),
Bull the possession. So militonaire Raymond Way who started on fairgrounds, inade, his profits dealing in second-hand motor Cars became an underwriter mi Lloyd's, is still proudest of the fact that he owns three farms Ho run them at a In sex. pront though, actually doing a deni on the zile in madure. This reduces his valus szob-wise,
most important NAVY, The
Like Caesar's wife, above mis- picion. But only Naval Gunners (those ones with straight gold rings are absolutely Top. Any colour between stripes (such as Dalo blue for schoolmaster. yellow for dentist," red for doctor) 1 bad
. MIL Bchoolto
Mrs. Toothie, and Mr P99 12e well aware of
Bill the anab hotel. You would mention the Bayap and Claridge's if you were going there, which shows that ther are all right too,
TOMORROW:
S is for
Spain...