THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1958.
Can Hussein last
when we
OFF-SHORE at Akaba
move out?
An Important Survey Of The Weeks Ahead In The World's Most Precarious Kingdom
The
Is he doomed like his cousin from the vengeance of the
1rained agents and arms aro young king twice last filering into Jordan from Syria,
those who
It is not only the propa-
Μοτε than half of Hussein's my is thought to be
the 10,000-ton tank- Futsal Will he be next for people. At the same time, landing ship Empire the slaughter? Gull, her huge ramp year confounded down, lies empty and had given bim up as waiting. Soon she will cause; and he did it again in ganda aces that Nasser holds,
foxt
July. But the olds are now
be loaded with every piling up against him. tank, every gun, and every shell which the British troops brought with them when they moved into Jordan 11 weeks ago.
of
They are to leave nothing military value behind when they begin to move out
October 20. other than liquid fuel,
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Odds pile up
It could hurdly be said Any equip- more bluntly. inent left behind in Jordan is more likely to be of use to Hussein's enemies than to the king, in the opinion of the Government's mil; tary advisera.
by
JON KIMCHE
we were
There is none of the smooth umeßable. Nasser can rouse pofitient climate
led the 450,000 Palestine refugees to expect after all the Arab gainst Hussein, and most States at UNO had pledged the half-million PalestiniansS themselves
among Hussein's, subjects,
not to interfere
with each other's affairs and to work together,
The backgrond. noise u! the packing British troops Amman D
eveling than the pulite noires
D the UNO Assembly.
note
The broadensts of the so- called Jordanlan People's Radiu from
Syria have already switched from prepaganda to subversion and threats.
They have told Hussein that What will happen to Hussein nothing Dow will nvall him, the conpire Gull has that "neither remorse for bittet When louded and departed?
proof cars" would save him
of
On paper it would seem that Hussein has no chance against this Nasser combination-even with the
help of the 8,000 Bedouin who are presumed to bu loyal to him,
Playing safe
Dut this is the Middle East,
not paper. Nusser hesitates to net. And he may be even more cautious when the British have gone.
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For Nassor 5 no fool, Don't underrate him. 210 understands this game, and he likes to play anfo. He is changing his tactics. Why?
The first reason is last week's recond Allent revolution A iraq. In Bagdad Gen- eral Kassem, the revolutionary Premier, has been waging a sileni And successful war against the pro-Nasserists in his Administration.
He hos purged the most powerful from the Cabinet and exiled their leader, Brigadier Aref, to u diplomatie post in Europe..
Ho us also made 11 clear that he will fight any attempl by Naiser to gain direct Indirect inluence over Iraq.
or
He has let it be known in Damascus and in Cairo (and
Western also in the
capitals) that if Nasser makes a bid for Amman, the Iraqis will step in and take over themselves.
It may be, of course, that General Kassem's own regime
will not last for long. It is cer- tainly for from secure,
Except for the all industry business and administration in are at a standstill. Conti- Tra munist Influence is increasing rapidly.
The land reform, announced
recently,
Came
after
HAVE YOU ENVIED A LIFE WHERE YOU COULD
NOT USE MONEY FAST ENOUGH? IT HAPPENED
-TO ONE MAN. HERE IS HIS REPORT
Maian
I've tried to be
a wild spender
"I THINK," I said, "we had better be moving on." We were sitting on the terrace of the Excelsior Hotel on the Lido at Venice. A cup of coffee and a milkless tea had cost about 12s. 6d.
My wife and I had been swept up in the High Life, where daily parties meant buying little Venetian dresses-often ruined by a brisk wave on the Grand Canal-
and a sudden reluctance tó walk home frequently set us back a couple of pounds to extortionate part-time gondoliers.
the
The time had come for cheaper part of our holiday to begin. theWe'll go to Yugoslavia,"
said, "and get my money,"
"Do you think they'll give to you?"
peasants had started taking over the land of the rich sheiks. A state of near anarchy reigns in some of the Iraqi provinces.
Yet even it. Kassem should fall, that does not in itself mean the end of Hussein.
For Nasser's hesitation about intervening in Jordan is not only due to Iraqi opposition. There is a second factor.
sl
in
the Mediterrancan only 35 minutes' flying time still from Amman, cruises the formidable rump of the US. Sixth Fleet. It has intervened It could do so before. once again.
Memories
One further thing makes Nasser hesitate, Fear of Israel.
The Isruells have Informed their friends that they bave made all preparations on the Nasser will assumption that Ittempt
to
Azminan be within six months if not be fore.
al
"I can't see why not?
by
JOHN MORTIMER
lawyer and writer whate "What Shall We Tell Carolina 7" had the critics half- Ing him as a brilliant now playwright,
* Am sorry for you," the
I said. "Zagreb is 300 miles away and there is no place on the airplane to Zatch this month.* "How about the train?". 1 asked.
it
I tried to sound confident, Two years before, in the mists of London, had written #
"Out of the question," DOUBTFUL LOOK
The shops were all there. only thing that was The totally missing, we decided as we stared at them, was any thing we wanted to buy. We
We window-shopped. could have bought geometry
sets by the dozen. Big pairs of strong. cardboard shoes. Enormous macintoshes.
of
"But what can I do? I'm
There were also quite a lot short play for which I had depending on that money," I
of fezzes, those small, pipe-like already from various parts sufd. Her reply was to the clgarette-holders favoured by of the world, been somewhat point: "no like the Germans. Marshal Tilo, some Aurlive, over-rewarded,
Sell your clothes."
contraband-looking packets This piece had been done in Sho looked doubtfully at my
British dentifrice, and a Slav Yugoslavia, and
When I translation of trousers. of Kaberdine payment
James Joyce's about
in Shaftes Fhmegan's Wake. £100, my agent had had bought them hinted, awaited me in Zagreb. bury Avenue I had thought they We looked at the shop, looked
But thero were two snags gave me a dushing, Humphrey
and began to I had to collect it in person. Lytletion, jazz-club appearance, at each other And I would have to spend it Now they hou д
crumpled, Fanic. all during my stort stay in Devil's Island look to them. Yugoslavia,
That night we cut down on wine and ordered one shaslik between two.
GIMLET-EYED
Hope came to us in the shaps et middle aged woman in
Whe
"I
You cannot pay more than a shilling for a packet of the best cigarettes. The brands in the State cafe is far too cheap. At the National night club, known deviously as the La- borynth, they "did" us by for- geting to charge us admlasion.
In despair we bought small, blo nic-bed smuggled In from Germany, for £7 102. We thought to float on it happily over the clear, deep, shark-infested water. But wo began to feel guilty just font- ing around: it wasn't costing ua A dinar.
a
So we abandoned the air-bed and hired bant. We kept it a very long time, but the boot- men forgot to charge us extra.
On our last night an Ameri- can who know Dubrovnik well Auggested wo had dinner with a friend of his, a Yugoslavien wriler who was poor and out of favour with the regime,
tho
Gratefully we chose the most expensive restaurant and order- ed the costliest food we could Imagine. The fat deep lobsters were abelled, shasilk sixsied on the skewers, the Yugoslavian Tolaling Bowed. OUT OF LUCK
The writer, blg, and spaniel of a man, talked to us, in per- fect English, of the mutual friends in England and Italy he hadn't seen since the war.
At the end I beckoned to the walter for a satisfactorily ex- pensive bili.
Looking up 1 saw the spaniel eyes unexpretedly Atled with wounded sorrow. "You can't do that to him," the American Whispered. "You are tus guests in his country. If you paid ho would never forget it."
Going back to Italy in the boat there was a minute swim- ring pool - unfortunutely free <f charge round which I elreied like a guldish. Whisky in the bar was only 60 dinara. Four-course meals could be had for less than the price of A Venetian sandwich.
the
As we got nearer to frontier I paced the decks ner- vously, fingering the roll of
notes in my pockets,
Often I stood temptingly near the more wily-looking
Moslem passengers who got on ut Split. I had no sort of luck; not a pickpocket among them.
by
DISHEVELLED
At about two o'clock in the morning the air-conditioning in the cabin falled. We awoke, choking and bright blue.
I dashed out on to the deck, withi pyjamas bursting dinars, in search of someone whom I could pay to mend it. The shilp vas deserted, steam- apparently unattended, across the Adriatic.
ing..
At last I heard ravelry from
TOO CHEAP How, short of throwing the a distant saloon, and made u entrance Into it, money away, could we get value dramatie for it?
dishevelled, gasping for air, and It is not only legal to get waving dinars, We arrived in Dubrovnik and cardigan in the National Bank.
Yugoslavia, it is. The officers, their uniforms drove grandly to clearly "If they ever really bought that dinars Into
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criminal to take them out. We unbuttoned, had been enjoying. Ove-star State hotel. There they play," she teased us gully,
of a few cor- monty from had only a few days in which in the company promised to move a West Ger shall get
to spend, apart from the hotel pulent blondes, n feast of man Industrialist out of our Zagreb. Call on Monday."
We spent the week-end walt bill. the quivalent of £100. Slivovitz and potato chips. They at me and hurriedly a comfortable bed, a window ing feverishly. When we called Nervously we bought round looked vivid memories
after round of Slivovitz. After downed another drink. that stayed broken during our again at the bank she waved a
Clearly I was the best joke bjt of blue paper,
half an hour's desperate drink- stay,
ing we had spent only about rince Kruslichev's last speech. 15. 11d.
Doubled up with laughter, they' flocked out and mended the alr plant,
Nasser has
srmies suffered how his ignominious defeat at the hands of the Jews in the Sinal battles, whatever propaganda gloss he
has managed to give them.
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reaching
Ife has also heard about the new equipment
which Israell the Army, not only from France but also from Britain and the U.S.
Finally, Nasser's own domes. 1te situation is none too happy. The country Is under a state of emergency; one of the vice- Presidents has been accused of conspiracy with Iraq: a second vice-President is reported to be under arrest.
A chance
Another foreign triumph may be tempting to Nasser or Intal. And Nasser understands this.
So Hussein's fall is not so cer- lala ns it looku, The com- plexities of the Middle East, the new turn in Iraq, the presence of the U.S. Flect, and tho Israeils in the Judovan hills, nli add up to another chance for Hussein. An outside chance, but still a chance,"
ZANIES
ABLIR LA Cură
WAIST DRIVE
rooms an encient bathroom,
PANIC STIRS
"It has arrived," she Siricked.
We slowed our luggage in the lavatory,
the walling for
When I tried to tip the walter German exodus, and I Aaunted
100 dinars he waved it away my wealth before the mann-
with a fine Croatian pride.
My desperate attempts to pay guress. Aller all, I didn't want "I can you pay."
then how it felt t I knew
About the social system of them for their trouble, or even thrown out when the to be
Yugoslavia I wish to make no buy another round of chips, "I happen the relet of Mafcking. next boot arrived.
We walked out of the bank ermplaint. The people appear only added to the heetle comedy, to have some moory In
bulging with wealth, Into the happy, the children heultry, the In the end I was able to lay Zegreb," I said.
street an exquisite social services sufficient
Iny hands on quantity of ex- with laughter, main
But there is absolutely no pensive Greek cigarettes. They She was gimlet-eyed, hand- avenue of identical, seventeenth-
in the country's bave filter tips, which I dislike, some woman who had skilfully entury houses with two rows provision,
for getting rid of and are generally rather nasty. survived both the German and of shops in archways, Neither nor the Rue de
100,000 dinars in a very short I shall smoke them, coughing, Russian occupations to achieve Bond Street
time. Rivoli is so elegantly planned. the best job in Dubrovnik,
far into the London winter.
She Toared
economy,
JAK AT THE BRUSSELS FAIR
11.3.8.R
FRANCH U.P.A
"Will you stop asking where the Britannia Inn is—can't you do without your bear for, one day ?”
Londen Exgraag. Mereka