THE CHINA 'MAIL,
This is the man
that
Nasser fears
-From-
Our Correspondent
-Dateline: Cairo-
THE man Sir Winston Churchill once called Britain's "deadliest enemy" is ambitiously plotting again in the Middle East to set himself up as head of a “Palestinian Republic" backed by Iraq.
He is 64-year-old Haj Amin el-Husseini, former Grand Mufti (or Moslem "archbishop") of Jerusalem, who worked with the Nazis against Britain in Palestine during the war and fled to Berlin when the British tried to seize him.
Kassem in a grand; Now even President Nas- T Their Arab colleagues bool" ser, who has given him the Egyptians angrily at bid to lure 1,000,000 Arab the old sanctuary for years, has cured the ex-Multi of "con- refugees from had to declare "war" on spiring" with Iraq's Premier Palestine away from Cairol
Abdul Karem Kassem towards Bagdad. Nasser's No. 1 Arab enemy form the so-called "Palestine Republic."
him.
Huj Amin is now in the Lebanon, whence he had to t flee when Nasser'a news papers started thundering: "He is no good,”
A 'plot'
To Nasser and his dis- ciples no crime could be
This. the Egyptians ex-Mufti's charge, is the
OWN plot "for his own ends"--to sellisia mine another Palestinian
JAK
moves house
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1940.
"Put that back whore you found it, you idiot - it's ours”
-(Londan Expren Service).
under Once again--because the China Mail is Hongkong's only newspaper with a resident reporter
worse. Not only has Huj solidarity plan proposed Amin bitten the Egyptian
by Nasser and his backers in Moscow-you can read the enlightening story of life in Russia...TODAY YOU'RE. VIŞİTİNG... Reports now leaking out hund that fed him in in the dissension-torn Arab
League, about recent Foreign Cairo villa for most of the Minister-level Arab League past 15 years. conference give a clue to
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He has also cust in his
his new bid for power. lot with that "Communist
"This gentleman and I took part in a radio show- and guess all we had to do to win $25 cach?"
Four died
With the Arab League's worries is mingled fear. Its members have no more reason to trust the "Evil
Deity"
had.
In
than the British
A 12-month period of 1051-2 one Arub king and Arab Prime Ministers
three who
apposed his designs were
assinated,
One was white-bearded King Abdullah, grandfather of King Hussein of Jordan,
Abdullah was shot dead as he splattered
came from a Jerusalem mosque, King Hussein WILS with blood;
The ex-Mufti was accused of organising the murder. A price still remains on Mus head Jordan.
In
The Red Eton
Moscow.
PIGTAILED girls in
chocolate brown dresses and black gym slips, and shaven-headed boys in grey brass-
by
CHRISTOPHER DOBSON
moment the children enter school
There are no classes in Marxist-Leninism or in dinjec- tleul materialisen. That must wait until the children go to college.
Nearly every child, however, belongs to the Young Pioneers, n
Party, and they have their own room in the school with their
Clever
At 8.30 they begin lessons and Russian children learning to factory-type lathes and machine Junior branch of the Communist button tunics bobbed work until one o'clock. when speak the language under the tools.
supervision of a Chinese school- their curtsies and made they have lunch.
master. their stiff-necked bows to me as I walked through the clean but dowdy hall of their boarding school, set among the pinewoods in the outskirts of Moscow.
There is another point of friction between Haj Amin and Nussur, Nasser has declared his own private war in Egypt and Syria on the Arab Communists.
There is strong suspicion that The school I visited was run the ex-Mufti has been in close by Alexander Petrov, a burly, touch with Communist agenda | pleasant-faced man in his mid- operating from Iraq, Syria, and dle thirties. elsewhere in the Middle East, and that he has boKA. using Communist money to fmaneu his operations.
Theirs is a sort of Red Elon, - one of the many new boarding schools which Russia is develop- ing.
The children vise at seven and slart the day with exercises, have breakfast at eight, and clean out their own rooms.
After lunch there are games until four, when they have tea, They practise their pronuncia- and the there are more lessons tion by wearing earphones and a until six, when they break up microphone, and repeating re- into "circles" for photography. curded words while the teachers woodwork, puppet theatres, art, listen to them, one after the gym, and a multitude of other other, at a master set. activities.
Chinese....
and
is
Petrov says: "They love this lesson. With the microphone and carphone they pretend they are space pilots,"
The point to be noted here. may be noted in almost every aspect of Hussion 1fc. superb equipment is housed in rather tatty buildings.
There is" a photographle-flegs and trumpets-and-Com- laboratory and a scientiae munist exhortations. laboratory. There is a doctor's surgery, with up-to-date electro- cardiograph equipment, and a
It is all done very cleverly. fully furnished dental surgery.
This modernity is housed in a The children are well fed, well building hung with heavy, red taught, well looked after, and velvet curtains and equipped well indoctrinated. with desis of ancient vintage, It is yet another example of Russian preoccupation with technical furniture. Personal comfort comes last.
Honour
Supper is at 7.30 followed by a walk. Then comes bed at nine for the youngs- ters and at 0.30 for the veterans.
house for They sleep in dormitories from This school has a six to 14 in a rooma.
teaching the children to drive, Each of these schools an engine for mechanical train- specialises In onc foreign ing, a complicated set of traffe ment hore. I made Petrov laugh language. This one has adopted lines to teach the rules of the Chinese, and in each class I saw road, a woodwork shop with
Sam White's Paris Newslette
Dorothy Paget, the Russian Princess and
TXTHEN
WH
PARIS.
Miss Dorothy
Pagot died recently
the loft a little known but
vory moving memorial to harsalf in France.
the refugees
hospital wing. Its cemetery has the inmates, and most of them beepine the reating place of the have lived ever since the revolu-
It is a home which the en- najority of the White Russion tion in circumstances of great dowed in the early 20s for aged colony
invaded Paris poverty, which
and impoverished White Rus- after the revolution. Its church stand, in France.
for lo a place of pilgrimage
during
The home
There are now 20 painters
work fetches more than £2,000 a canvas and in Paris whose
of these two thirds were pletely unknown 10 years ago,
com-
000
There is no corporal punish-
by telling him that almost the only schools left in England where a boy is caned are those where a father pays to send his son.
Sald he: "We have no cor- poral punishment. We work on the principle that words hurt then bealings, and the worst punishment we give is to send an offender home."
more
What about lines and extra essays? "No, we do not believe in setting work as a punishment. Work labour to honour, it La not a punishment. If children are punished by work, they will hate work."
Parents are encouraged to take; part in the work of the school. There
are monthly meetings clase with teachers and each has a parents' committee which helps to arrange extra-curricu- lar activities.
Control
Petrov assured me that these schools are extremely popular with parents, "When this one wan first opened," he said, "there. were 080 applications for 100 places."
One of the reasons Is that, without the chlidren, the professional parents can devote themselven
in Paris nearly 500 wholeheartedly to carning their ilving. Many of them live In! work under contract,
cannot surviva the much longer simply because the White Russian colony here
is
fast disappearing. Their children will not have access to it as most
A partner like Vilion who, for misalon today's
years ago could Inflated art prices. example, Ave scarcely And a buyer now selin
on
Krossly
Of the
painters
The Princess Mestchersky died
The home is in a huge chateau While Russians 10 miles outside Paris nt St Russian Easter and New Year, Genevieve-des-Bols. How Miss Paget came to endow it maken a touching story.
Apparently as a young girl she was sent to a finishing school
in Poris run by Runslan
a few years ago and the estab- of them are now French cliizens. lishment is now being run by a ren inte dificulty recently when French daughter-in-law. Sho
emtgres, the Princess Vero she employed an Orthodox priest
who proclaimed his loyalty
to
Art boom
Mestchersky, widow of The the Moscow Patriarch instead of THE boom in art as
for more than £10,000 a picture. Bankruptcies are almost un-
In the majority of cases the cramped, conditions with large Three other pointers have known in this branch of trade relationship” between painter families and it is more whole-; seen their prices quadrupled in and many private banks are now and dealer is reduced to that of some for the children to live at three years..
Bnancing their own gallery.
school. ‚ worker And, bosa, To meet this situation in Many of these galleries Rourish The painter gets a monthly
The Government is working which demand is outstripping entirely on a passing rich tourist wage and receives no account supply new galleries are opening trade composed of visitors all too of the number or prices of his flat out to get every child' into n boarding school. Hundreds of hero at the rate of one a week. ready to be convinced that their pictures sold.
• Thoy now number more search for undiscovered master-
Financial syndicates are often new schools are being built and Tourist ambassador to
the Athens one. As a result his
places is being rewarded. Hogue,
financial Investment in 320. services ware boycotted and be
Among the dealers who run
In general present-day dealers formed around the paintor, and many existing day schools ara There sho war miserably
had to be finally withdrawn.
bas now reached such a them only six or seven sold profer abstract painters both It in common for his work to be being converted — ilke the one put up for sale AL public I visited -- into boarding schools. unhappy and oppressively self-
the paintings before the war. was point in Paris that
because their quality is not so auction in order that members Before the war thero
For the Government, the plan Her fo conscious.
wao mode
The overwhelming majority of easily discernible and their out of the syndicate can bid for it has many advantages: parents tolerable however and included always a long waiting list to gain prices many paintings fotch
Ita are released from household even fastes of happiness admittance to the home. Nowa are now regularly quoted in these are rust dealers in the great put wreater.
Paris tradition-thono people Rapidity of output is a major and thus artificially raise dinys it in half emply.
duties to work in the factories, because of the kindness the
the. Paris financial now with a deep knowledge of hurt asset in a painter Do scen
and complete control is exercised Princess showed her. Ал A Social distinctions are rigidly
other whose relationship to the painter through the eyes of his dealor
over the children to bring them gesture of her gratitude Misa maintained not on the bands of papers along with
won that of a great publisher to speculator.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK Pagel after leaving the school what one was in Paris but on stocks and thorox,
an author.
The temptation for a painter A Paratroop Colously:"Metro- up as good lille Communists endowed this home for Russian what one's social standing was
in Moscow or Petersburg This is one of the surprising They are speculators whose to place his output under con- politan France is like a well from the day they are born.
They are taught to think ng emigrca.
facts to emerge from a review of xreat ambition is to establish a (ract to one dealer is almost made Camembert. We faust wall It is a place of rore beauty under the Tsar.
Princes, princesses, counts and the art market here couducted "Corner”? in some promising irresistible for in this way he unit is is fully ripe in order to Communists, net as Communists, and learn as Communiais, fa- with a Blavenie church net in a
the Parla newspaper Le painter's work or simply to osi- can most quickly emerge from eat it.”
doctrination le bugun from the , loot an assy 15 per cent tu son- "¿poverty to äfluenço and Lamo,,
walle birch tree forest. It also comienzos, generals and gorala by Includes a nunatorium and a widows make up the majority of Monde.
!
price.
-Londen Azpręta Berulce),
The Russian Government can look forward to all the children living in these schools belon healthy, educated, and good little Communists.
The dream meals of
1
a starving prisoner
A
an
SINGAPORE.
10.
BOOK of exotic cipos dreamed up by Englishman while starving in a вралете prison camp is becoming
best-soffor in South East Asia.
The man ta 13-year-old Philip Newington, who had visions of luxury meals when he was living on a bare four ounces of soggy bolled rles a day. Newington, taken prisoner when Singapore fell In 1942, told me: "It is extraordinary wh visions of food you have when you are starving," He decided to jot down the fan-
tastic recipes that reed through his mind.
He said: "When my friends found out what I was doing wo formed a Gourmets' Club. "Six of us, hollow-chocked, un- shaven and naked but för a pair of shorts, used to elt a table broken down at plece of asbestos laid over a couple of crates,
The debate
"We used to roll imaginary moreels of food in our mouths and deboto with academic detachment whether a bayleat would liven up the flavour of the casserole or whether half a dozen cloves' would do a better job." Noten from these meetings are the basis of "Good Food," the book written by Newington, This is me of his ampler recipes Bananas In Wine: Cook some peeled bananas in butter stil ight brown. Make a syrup with half a pint of elprot. Four' over bananas and sim- mer gently until soft. Sprinkle with nutmeg and serve hot.
(London Kxpress hervidej.