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This is why Nasser wants to stir up new trouble
CHOOTING has flared on the world's most
sensitive frontier-between Israel and her Arab neighbours. From the commanding slopes where the Gadarene Swine plunged to their death, Syrian forces marched west into disputed territory. From Cairo trumpeted reports that the Egyption Army and Air Force were on the move.
How near Is big trouble ngain in the Middle East Ant. If I comes, who will be to blame?
Ever since the cease-fire between Israel and the Arub States 311 1948, the so-called derslitarized zone which lings the southern shore of the Sez of Galilee has been in disgade,
Now, IN ISRAEL, the formers whan 1 the trend along that bullet-starred frontier lange gane on strike.
For 13 pure, the better in have unbent their back in fer elds, they have seen the giler of the AI in the barrels of Jordani and Syrian
by KENNETH
AMES
and Israelt troops firmly separ"- ated on the Gaza Strip since Terember 1956.
The israelis, claiming a minor reeori as Jetter writers, ay they have protested 750 lines to the United Nations over troubles in the demilitarised zones.
Bul nellber the Iraciis that nor the SELT.
Arabs rileve
br UNO
morn will
21113 Again and agato, they have had
efretive in sorting aut their to drop their toes as shouting
dispute in the future than it broke out.
has been in the past,
and
Hitr
Today these hard-pressed Jewish
The Israelis-angered at the 1amities are reluctant to, tuil failure of the UNO Secretary- any longer under fire from the General, Dag Hammarskjold, to eastern loput
HIS AIM
Su 1
me
rueli authorities sent out. under cover of night, ta digiteh.
the
That. Dy Irisist,
settle the problem of Suez Canal navigation rights when be me Nasser recently are! triing for tremble,
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Cummings
ROYAL
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ORY CENTRAL OFFICE
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"But suppose we did make the railways work properly-Bang goes Toryism's best propaganda against Socialist nationalisation!"
NEW YORK NEWSLETTE
New York.
N this city, where it is eccentric to have last year's model of anything, there is a curious cruze at the moment for Mr antiques. Their hope Was that
Wit guing lo Hanmarskjold insist that free passage through
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Suddenly, the newest look is the The Canal be given to the Danish interior decorating
And, while it Ship ge Tof. She was carry old-fashioned.
was may be quixtle to have a braIKE last Warming pan in a centrally heat- ed bedroom, New Yorkers are pursuing the past with expensive
represents ing so ferall cargo, but new international fronter heir p by Nasser from So far and no farther" fur NTRY. The Syrians.
But nothing has come of that. enthusiniem. They declare that their setin Mr Hammarskjold has been to was taken under pressure of Cairo and left-and the constant petly provocation.
The modern
American turns to Old England...
prisingly because New York is Her, appearance of having had "I the home of the fast-talking some
is quite infurlating to complain," she says. "After all, bother with the garden think that some sly "hard sell" and the doughty fete is deceptive, however Miss ordered a woman to buy delicious would jolly well pack up and go man has if I were, not making money I
Who is The master-mind forced to offload her cargo br-estimate of the financial turnover English scorn that sort of thing. Millic is an assured authority, on pink porcelain-because It fits in home,"
hind this continual intimidation
of the Istatus?
It is
President Nagar IN CAIRO, From there he con. duels the Arab world's war
His
of nerves. clear...
A Sheraton bookense is # inke good buy at 1600, a snuffbox is
A conservative Tofi 15 being ignominiously a soip at £GU.
from antique trading in America Past six months puts over the fore she can sail tn."
Defeat in une sphere means the figure at 15 million.
she must now feel red will show fresh initiative in another,
The search The world forgetting -- step
aim 14
pincers.
Torrita the Israelis by repetition of minor, mast siguineant, incidents
So any valm that reis
Tr
Over-
in understandable.
once
London Express Servics,
by JOHN LAMBERT
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associated with The situation conjures to sec diamond collecting. As she told delightful visions of droway but an admirer she was fascinated amiable drill sergeants, "On one occasion un crâulsite by a trife box with the motto:
But when I suggested this the crusted procelain dish bacte with jam on
came "A Trifle Shews Respects."
"A drill ser- spokesman said: geant would be given sedatives only to have a good night's sleep to Increase his dri square cMciency."
Behind the Georgian pine door she sells. And the mink-swathed
the porcelain and pottery that with a colour scheme."
I doubt that Miss Me, and as number 143. Mr John Elliot Park Avenue matrons she serves enamels and bodkin cases as if need to complain for a long lime. "Mies Millle surveys her Bilston the other antique dealers, will Treleayan details the beauties of soon get her deferential, but they were threatened by bar The antique cruze becomes more 18th Century English furniture, distinct message.
barians. "My dear, interior de- and more encompassing. His leisurely debating line of
tonalons, treatment of nervous sales talk drops to a whisper
corators rule the women here," "I welcome the customer who she laments "And the customers was a Copacabana showgirl, the
Among the customers I saw enses and for similar. reasons." her plight between the Arub
who pices aru nicntioned, does not know much about In Manbalian the search for
Considering that chaws here antiques but is interested i will even ask for the most deli- kind
cate pieces on approval she says over mellowness centres on East 67th are sometimes sold for £1,000 finding out."
in her if they it in. "But I a the Israeli-Aruh borders at this Street Sandwiched between the each his confidential approach fluted English voice,
seda
deplore the person who regards Ionlains, and it is frighteningly uneasy,
an exquisite piece of craftsman shadowed by the skyscrapers, the
full-scale showdown preshops displaying Chippendale
ship as a pretty trinket to blend hope that they will be goudert
Dresden shop-
in with a colour scheme."
Then she perks up-perhaps into taking drastic corrective comnes, it could men a Gadarene furniture.
at the recollection that orie smalt action which
then be gating of the twentieth century herdesses dimple with the bloom
Being a successful business rifle box can bring £50. "One For there is nothing to sugn their cheeks bathed in pink labelled as aggression before the
woman Miss Milic does not must remember that there is a gest that, Nasser's 100,000-strong neon lighting.
Onc of the more intriguing world.
usually speak her sentiments so genuine, regular driny today stands any Nowhere, in this arcady in the
But perhaps the most redouble strongly. "One must realise that antiques
growing interest In aspects of the American Defence here," against Israel's asphalt, is there a price tab to uble of the 30 English dealers is this is business," she says, "and "Net
she concedes. Diperiment estimates better
for 1000 IN GREENWICH VILLAGE Miss Mallic Manheim.
the majority the sum of one million dollars they speak She It is not always the most sensi-
admiringly of properly belongs to that pecu- tive who can afford to spend the you, but a growing number... the armed forces.
of buyers are concerned, mind to be spent on tranquillisers for the Beatnik who stopped farly English species of genteet most money.
That is most satisfactory."
A spokesman told me; "The being a drug addict simply She beams Yadiantly, as military uses tranquilisers for becaurs he
bored got keltle for tea hisses in the back the same purposes on civilian with hôroin, roonl "Personally I cannot doctors to help in the relief of
-London Express Service),
an
Masser's purpose two-fold
Fot only to have He is out Israel branded as an aggressor.
chance
can
Finding out
Infuriating
250,000 emergency force than be seen. Wisely, because com- did in 1948 or 1950,
pared with the Portobello Road Years or oven Piccadilly the prices are He also seeds the wave of For 12 nerve-racked
ploneers. She came here 12 years and prodigionS anti-Israeli Incidents to be the dispute between Israel
Even the dealers admit that age to build up the New York maintained to sitare un
his the. As has dragged on English antiques are sold here side of her family's London busi- in reputation the ruuning There is no sign of it bein at live times the buying price in ness, yet still regards her stay, as
leadership of selted. Unl It Is there fight for total
only temporary." East London. the Arab States with General de 190 hope of Middle
"One must realise that often. They blame the agents, Kassem of Iraq.
She is a talk angular woman in this country, one is dealing and decorators who demand
in a tweed skirt, sensible shoes with the nouveau richt,
Often Nasser's fear that if for a Years of reporting the Middle huge discounts, for the mar- and a twin set of indefinite blue, too one senses that there is an inoment he loses the initiative East scene have convinced
nol gin.
She has a Bloomsbury fringe to interior decorutor in the back- In rallying the Arab States that the Arab world does
English dealers are the most her straight, black hair and a ground piping the !úno for round him he will be deposed even want that peace until
Izrael is crased from the map.
successful here despite
the bold nose, that looks cold, desplie which the customer is #ling to as their chlef by Kassem.
razor-sharp London Express Servic?!.
Compeition. Sur- the central heating.
Nasser has his troubles, too,
IN SYRIA.
There, the capital city of Damascus, are rumbling discontent.
ادی
Since the Socialists were holly squeezed out of Syrian political life recently the coun- try her lod it Nasser-lype single-party system imposed on
il.
Three hundred Syrians in key posts have been replaced by Civil Egyptian army officers. servants from Cairo have come! in to oust Syrians who had; always held to a proud belief:
Arabs, that, os
they weru superior to the Egyptians,
GRIEVANCE
All this, say Intelligence re- porta, has brought a growing sense of grievance in Syria.
So Nasser und hin nides find
it imperative to channel th
animosity against larael for fear that, otherwise,
larn on themselves.
might
This perennial fostering ol external crises, to distract
tention from internal pressures,
technique Is a
learned from
at-
Nässer ba autocratie ruters before him from Napolcon to Mussolini, Hitler and the Com. munist leaders,
What is the UNITED
NA-
TIONS doing lo resolve The crisis?
Today
unqulet along the frontiers, range officers of UNO
patrol. They
ore impeccably
uniformed; they aide in white,
radio-cquipped trucks,
are
But they are quite powerless to keep the peace, They Uittle more than a post-box for complaints.
Further south their collesques of the armed United Nations Emergency Force have had better results, keeping Egyptian
peace.
THE
FUTUBE
DAY.
THE PAST.
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far as
Intriguing
ASK a woman's age- She'll err less than any man
WOMEN are notorious for yang ditut, says Br WOMEN are notorious for lying about their age.
Nathan Masor, an American specialist in illnesses of old age.
Ho
carried out Ras just
*the world-10 times mora
The World
of Science By Peter Fairley
found something which looks like proving a big boon te medl- cine. It is a drug which, in navy words, "shows greater patency
certain bacteria against
thon
survey of 15 men and women than a household bulb, and any other antibiolle, currently of all ages. Each time they visited their doctor, they wert a major
asked how old they were.
Under-25 wern truthful al
the lime;
fluorescont
improvement on types. Like sodium vapour, it gives off a yellow light.
Trials on a stretch of road at In the 30-50 group, 14 por Leicester have shown that it
cent of the men and 10 per cent would be ideal for M1, Drivers
used."
The sailors noticed that the stomachs of local birds contained far fewer germs which damage the intestines than usual.
Sholl fish
The birds favourite food was.
at the women liest at least once. would not need headlights. The trili ny shrimp-like shellfish, Two men and one woman started lamp could be mounted
10. as soon
widowed;
Over-50
ravy looked into the
as they werd 15 feet higher than usual, and fummies of the krill, and found:
STOUP, one ma
but no women lied. Most seemed to be proud to have reached
their age.
10 of The
wel well back, frog, the verges.
£4,000 a mile
drug.
The Arm believes it could At
special type of seaweed. They toented the sawend, analysed it, and isolated
*
the
Kenneth"
of Ap
Syd-
All the lars claimed to be up MI at a cost of £4,000 ver
younger.
mile.
*
"The present mesh anti- QUOTE from Dr Masor concludes: "Though, dazzle screening is being instal Bullon, Professor
in general, matce ted more ed at £3,500 a mile. frequently than females, the lies
of
the females Were
inore
The Ministry of Transport plied Mathematics af incredible" and labile, Though says: "At present it is not our noy University: the females tied less frequently policy to light motorways. But the matter is under constant review,"
they were the bigger liars."
Which is some small consola- tion,→
Lights for M1?
DRITAIN'S highway, tho
And I understand that the new lamp is very much under Ministry review.
Cure in the cold
BMI. MAY BE LIT TT is often pikad: "What AFTER ALLA British firm I good do these Antarc has_dovaloped a new kind :tic expeditions do?”......"
which of lamp
mord Well, a U.S. navy team, after efficient than any other in four years in the ley waster, has
"In an average year, there are 10 carthquakes whieli are national disastery. Another 100 are classed as destruc- tive, whilst 1,000 do at least Rome, danapé.
'Ten thou- sand others are *atronize enough to cause alarm, and 100,000 are felt by hundnu, In addition, many earth- quaker not felt, are re- corded on séhmographa," So there is quite a lot to be sald for going to tie monti in for
bli of peace.
London Express Bervice),