Pago 4
ROUND-UP
"COUGH-BOX” ALIAS "SIN-BIN" AT
NEW CITY TEMPLE
THE new City Temple in Holborn Viaduct, London, "Cathedral" of the Free Churches, which just opened for services for the first time since it was bombed in 1941, in equipped with a "cough ixx." An ante-room has been provided at the back of the bulld- ing for members of the congregation suffering from cough or accompanied by children who chatter during services. Other names for the "cough box" includo "cry box", the "chatter box," and "sin-bin." "We think it an excellent Idea," Miss Alice M. Head, Hon. Secretary of Rebuilding Committee says. "People who have troublesome coughs anxious not to disturb others can retire to this little unte-room and see and hear everything that goes on in the church through a wide window and a system of loud- 'speakers."
AIR PROBLEMS
CENIOR R.A.F. and American Air Force ofibers are to meet Inter this year at the R.A.F. Staff College, Bracknell, to iron out technical problems which affect both air forces. The Ameri- cans will send 20 field officers to the liaison week which starts on October 5. Some will give lectures to R.A.F, officers. Later in the year a group of it.A.F. officers will lecture at the U.S.A.F. Air University at Maxwell, Alabama.
ROCKET CHIEF
BECAUSE, when in France, he noticed French people were cor Dreeting his grammar, Dr William Hilton, one of Britain's lead- ing rocket seientias, who holds every science degree bestowed by the University of London, has been attending evening classes ot Coverhtry to brush up hii French, Now he has been notified that he has passed the General Cerüiflente of Education examination In the language. His marks were. ..10 for oral French and 80 per cent for his French written paper. Dr Hilton is chief aerodynamicist nt the Coventry factory of Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Led. "I'M SORRY"
ON'T say "I'm sorry" to a policeman motorists are being advised by the Automobile Association' on being stopped for an alleged minor traffic offence. The Association has carried out an analysis of hundreds of cases handled by their solleltors since the introduc- tion of the Magistrates' Courts Act nearly a year ago, and although il estimated that one driver in every six says "I'm sorry" when stepped by a policemen he usually gets a sumunions. More important is the fact that pollerman quotes "I'm sorry in his statement of facts it may sound to the magistrates that the words imply an ad- miss.on of guilt.
TRIUMPHS
FEN years, old "Gokien Boy" who pulls
mlikeart most of his
fe in the New Town of Haeld, Herts is going to an Alder-
the end of this month. There is little doubt) shot jumping show
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1958. \
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The Richest Man In The World
SHEIKH Sir Abdullah Al-Salim Al Subah, ruler
He
of Kuwait, is the richest man in the world.
Every year, the oli beneath grey, close-clipped beard. he will then gain his 100th award. In 09 appearances in the shows Uny kingdom earns him as the far-away gaze of n de- -more-than-5-100-million, Thai-sert-rider,end-the-san-ling Ting he has only twice failed to Anish in the first three. On Bathr
crow's foot round the Desions he was fourth. He has won 59 first prizes and been works out at nearly £300,000 a ekod plored second 33 times in light trade turnouts, Windsor, Rich-day.
black depths of his eyes. mend and the White City are just a few of the places af which
Lin- His potential wealth in
be
he has triomphed. His quest for honours has in four years taken tapped oil is reckoned to him nearly 10,000 miles.
"ONE-MAN” ANTI-TANK MISSILE
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PORTABLE guided weapon with which one soldier, It Is claim- ed, could cripple u tank, has been developed for the first me by a private company after two-and-a-half years of plancering rk. Flying tests have shown the the problein of how to steer the missile mid-air has been solved. "It is much the same in size 17-pounder, the difference being that it can be steered all the way to the target," said Mr J. W. Dalgleish, an executive director of Pye Lit, the Cambridge radio and radar makers which planned and built the missile. The missile is five feet long, hos a spon of two feet. The launching and control equiptment
qually light and compact.
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about £8,500 million.
He owns a £1,500,000 palace. And he has four wives.
But the romantle Westerner would be disappointed with the But Sheikh Al Subah is any other side of this Arabian Nights thing but carefree.
figure.
Much of his staggering wealth could disappear my day Into the coffers of Nasser's rapidly- expanding United Arab Repub- lic. }
Kuwait, 4,000 square miles of Issand on the Persian Gulf, tccters on the brink of a nationalist volcano. Next door in Iroq, re- bels have seized control,
JOBBY of Mr Albert Hagen, of Thornton Hough, Wirral, Cheshire is throwing bullies containing messages into the Mersey estuary. He has just had his mest spectacular success to dole-u letter from un Italian woman who got the message from his battle after it was picked up in the sea off Salerno, Italy. He threw the bottle into the Mersey in February. It was found by a
couple who were fishing of Salerno.
AL
In Kuwait #self, Sheikh Sulal's 1.000-strong army (sup- plemented by n para-military police force of 1,600) keeps one wolchful eye on the Iraqi fron- Her, the other on 200,000 restless
NEW DRESS FASHIONS FOR POLICEMEN |Kuwaitis N
For 03-year-old Sheikh Al Subah suffers from gout. Some times the pain drives him into ts of temper; but mostly he is withdrawn, even shy-especially with foreigners.
Unlike other Arab rulers, he spurns flash American cars, hos discarded a custom-built Rolls- Royce given to him by the Kuwait Oil Company, and lives in the modest style of a man who caras £1,000 a year.
The rest of his vast income goes to Kuwait's treasury. It has been said that he spends no East more than £10 a week on per-
sunal comforts.
NA olher Middle
comes neRTANT
than Sheikh AI Subah to the Westcraer's romantle Idea of wha: an Arab ruler should be
TBW dress fashions for British policemen which have been up-
proved by the Home Secretary, Mr R. A. Butler, Include potentate shirt-sleeve order in hot weather, open-neck Jackets, shirts with pockets, lightweight frousers of the sell-supporting type for summertime wear. Other recommendations the Home Secretary lus accepted include a crash helmet goggles, ferbee --gloves, knee-length boots or leggings and a waterproof suit for men un
torcycling dulles.
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Je is tall, powerfully built, with stern features. He hus
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In fact, the Sheikh is ssrutally a Muslern, devout, with simple tastes and 1 ference for quiet living.
While the richer his coun- trymen hool their way round Ai Kuwait in big American cars, Al Subah quietly confers with his advisers in his palace or at a lonely, island retreat near his home.
Je smokes Atty American elgarettes in a week-the time it takes 12,000,000 to flow Into Kuwait's reserves.
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Quiet, impassive AL Subah brings the same frugality to his official life, too. Again unlike other Arab rulers, his palace is unpretentious, True, he ploys a bodyguard, but it is lit tle more than a token display.
He invariably travels In- cognito, shuns the limelight, and never talks about oil or money.
Once he mapped at a reporter; "Why should newspapers in- quire how I spend my money? i have too great a sense of de- ficacy to ask how newspaper owners spend theirs.”
Contrary to gusslp, Al Subah is a careful, almost penny- pinching spender abroad.
One day in a Paris shop he admired an expensive cigar box, fold the expectant salesman he would "think about it,” and left.
It was on that, same visit to Paris that French officialdom tried hard to manoenvrG him Into oll negotlations. It was the wrong time. Ills out was troubling him. Angrily, he re- fused to negotiate, palating out that it was "strictly an unofficial visit,” that his only language was his native Arabio, and thei he was suffering terribly from hls affliction.
Al Subah dresseg simply. Sometimes he wears a black, camel-hair turban and brown
cloak over his white robes; other limes, a plain white cotton head- siness.
The only evidence of wealth on his
person is a glittering
must be sold diamond ring on his loft hand.
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Kuwait has no absoluto rule of succession. When the ruler dies, the now one is chosen from among his relatives.
That is why, when Salim ni Mubarek Al Subah, ruler, of Kuwalt, died after the First World War, his eldest son, Ab- dullah did not Immediately suc- ceed to the throne, but · gove way to his cousin, Sir Ahmed ni Jabir Al Subah.
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SHEIKH SIR ABDULLAH
and large-scale production be- (for fresh water supply and gan, with Britain's Anglo hydro-electricity), and recrea❤ Iranian Oil Company operating tion grounds. Jointly with Amerien's Gutt Oli Bui, despite all this, he has in the venture.
shown no sign of moving to Sheikh Al Subah succeeded to wards Western political ideas. -the-throne-in-1050.-The-next-in-his-frequent-daily meetings yeur, he signed a 30-50 agree with his Ministers and subjects, ment with the Kuwait Oll Cam- he keeps abreast of Kuwaiti pany. In 1952, under this agrec affairs. But all decisions are ment, he received £22 million. his to make, and they are law.
In 1953, I was £50 million. In 1950 his share was £75 milion. Last year, it was over £100 millon. And production Is creasing all the time.
In-
is
Was
Al Subah's skill as an act- ministrator and negotiator entirely self-taught. He educated in Kuwait, a country which had no schools until 1938. This has probably influenced his method of rule, and helps to explain his subjects' regard for hini, For Al Subah is first and foremost a Kuwalt.
Hits sense of brotherhood with his people is stronger than pro- tocol. Orice, while Al Subah was opening a new refinery, a cripple emerged from, the throng of -spectators and began to hobble towards the Shelih.
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Helplag him
oil-rich Kuwait
are AI Subah's numerous relations. To them aro entrusted the twenly or so gov- crnment departments. Before he succeeded the throng, AI Subah himself was head of the Financial Food and Health de-
partments.
These days,, no one helps AI though he is younger than Al Subah more than his ungla
Abdullah as · Subph) Sheikh Mubarek, hend of Public Security,
security force with armoured Mubarek has equipped his
ears, 25-pounder guns and mor- that tors. These were the arm9 quelled disturbances at the time of the Suer crisis.
Curiously, although Al Subah is aware of the dangers of Al Subab's bodyguard
up- spreading nationalism, he him half-way. The cripple gave parently does nothing about it. them a paper. It was a pelition.
To further his education policy. Then the cripple returned to his he had to turn to the only source place in the crowds and the of Arab, teachers-Egypt. Ho bodyguard
dals,
The
retired behind
mel
the
Sheikh never paused in his speech.
must know these Egyptians tre openly teaching the doctrines of
Gomal Abdul Nasser
He must know, too, that there is always a possibility of Iraqi
Al Subah is given all the tredit for Kuwalt's large-scale aggression, for Iraq has long development programme.
lald claim to Kuwait.
It is his avowed intention to Backed by an unbending make Al Kuwalt the "beat and feudal system Al Subah perhaps hopplest" town In the Middle thinks his powers are
unchal East, to provide every Kuwaiti tengeable.
with free, up-to-date" education and medical services, as well
In any other period of history,
as full employment with high he would have been right.
salaries.
Ahmed ruled until 1950-and bery meant the loss first of the in the style to which his inte culprit's hands, then his life. uncle had been accustomed.
Until 1940, Kuwait was poorer He has given his kingdom 36 Rough mediaeval justice pre- than a church mouse. Its only state schools, three stale hos- valled. Robbers had their hands income was from dates and pitals, numerous clinics, a mas- amputated; murder with rob- pearls. Then oll was discovered sive sen-water distillation plant
SUMMIT
(SOME TEST TALK
--Simon
Kavanaugh
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