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Truman sees his hopes of White House buried in Holy War

because Jerusalem affects flew York and Now York can decide who the next President will bo

by R. M. MacCOLL

WASHINGTON, Mar. 30. RESIDENT TRUMAN is like a man who has been haunted during the last two years by a recurrent and particularly nasty nightmare. He laughs it off in the morning, But it returns even more vividly. Then the time arrives when the nightmare, suddenly threatens to become reality.

This nightmare? The send- ing of American troops to Palestine.

Truman instinctively backs -away from trying to impose a solution by force on Palestine, That would be the logical thing for America to do now, but un fortuimtely logic does not enter into the matter.

Truman has had many things

difficult.

Not least is the almost total lack of any continuing American foreign policy. While America was an aloof spectator nation in the early years of the century, this did not greatly matter.

charges of bad faith and Immensely the alrendy dwindling damaging prestige of UNO.

Cheers, Jeers THE only people who were pleased I when America scrapped partition were tho Arabs. They cheered whatever comfort heartily, but Truman may have got from this was surely extinguished" when Amerienn Jewry sent up u roar of protest. the Jewish vote was going to swing

Immediately there were signs that

against Truman.

Professional politicians of the De- mocratic Party are afraid that New York State has ready been irre- trievably fast,

Because it has the largest popu-| Intion of any State in the Union, New York has two Senators-and-45- members of the House of Repre- sentatives. That gives it 47 electoral votes-way ahend of the others. (Next State is Pennsylvania, which musters only 35).

New York; therefore, is the key of keys. But New York's 3,000,000 Jews have a powerful voice, and

Ocean

many of New York's 47 members of this

Jewish, Thus, by allenating the Jews of New York, Truman bas probably driven a giant noll into his political coffin.

next.

ZANZIBAR

PALESTINE

TRUSTEESHIP

ONCE BIT, TWICE SHY

LOVE

(Copyright in All Countries)

The Red Flag

Flies Here

ZANZIBAR, Mar. 29. ANZIBAR, that sweltering

little imperial oddity in

by JAMES CAMERON

farnwayness.

the Indian Ocean, awoke desperation to the European little copra--are practically the morning to find the Red point of view as a lifeline in the only export. Zanzibar, which to make his presidential tenure resent Congress are themselves Flag flying over the Sultan's enormous tepid bath of Colonial smells irresistibly like a guilty

husband returning from a pub,, palace.

Out here things are accepted may have to think of something' It was accepted calmly more languidly, no doubt right- else. enough, since every morning for ly. Politics-Finland, Czecho- There is great talk up and fha nomt niep

the last few generations the slovnkin, that puzzling piece of down the African coast of plans Zanzibaris have been exactly the geography called Benelux-are to make Zanzibar the biggest with came forward PARTITION was dead. So

same thing.

things we hear of too late to non-dollar tourist resort in the But W5 this any trusteeship,

Zanzibar, and that rather worry about. Far more impor- tropics. belter? At his lost Press conter-

dynamic country the tant are, for example, the ence, reporters tried to And out how more

as cloves. Tar America would go to enforce U.S.S.R., have just about that. Would

10 troops she send

little in common as any two back it?

fellow nations in this bewildered world; nevertheless they curi- ously share an identical flag.

Now she is glaring at Russia, #s опе of the world's two "super-Powers," its lack is u cruci handicap.

America's top men of the State Department and Chiefs of Staff do not get a chance to see the world as a whole and plot their course in a broad sweep, Everything has to be done in a hurry, piecemeal and hand-to- mouth.

America is like an energetic

has who

Kot an juggler enormous quantity of miscel laneous objects-flying-about in the air simultaneously. He may drop something at any moment, and all the audience can do is to pray that it will not be too important a piece.

Two aims

So far as American policy exists, it is influenced by two main desires. First is to stay, on good terms with the Arabs, because they control the Middle Eastern oil lands. Second in the desire of all presidential enndidates, both in and out of the White House, to do nothing to alienate "the Jewish vote."

Truman

4

sharply,

but Truman repited evasively: We'll cross that bridge when we come to it," and "UNO will be the trustee.""

But it still looks as if in the long and however reluctantly, run, American soldiers are going to have to go to Palestine.

The Protectorate of Zanzibár, governed by a serene and kindly Sultan under the careful super vision of the British Govern One cannot be asked to know ment, is perhaps completely everything. So to one whose "unspoiled," in that nothing has happened to only touch with current Euro- whatever pean antics is wild rumour, change its character since the por pedantic white men stopped the Britain will probably get a formal filtered through a thick, request to be the Trustee "tem-ridgy mist of remoteness and slave trade.

lackadaisical communication, it porary Trustee."

is quite something suddenly to come upon the Union Jack and the Scarlet Banner floating TS street, just wide enough to take one car threads through nonchalantly together over the outmost of outposts of Empire. a tangle of alleys and laues The paradox will only strike where two donkeys can scarcely us birds of passage in Africa pass. Enormous carven brass- who still cling with a sort of studded Arab doors lead into

dim and towering houses.

Britain will probably turn down the offer, and then America will have to take another dragging step forward on the painful roar of great responsibility that results from ac- quiring great power.

When that day comes, she will cease willing the end only, and will start providing the means.

France Will Share

'Secrets'

Atomic

of the

By Dudley Harmon

Their living

·

It has remarkable beauty and charm. few shortages, abundance of "glamour, and a climate that, with judicious air conditioning, could be than the unsufferable East African made tolerable enough at least better coast.

nyah

The problem

THIS is, perhaps, at this moment the one place in which a white bas set his foot where the hotels are not full, for one very good renson: there are not any hotels. A self-sufficient British Colonial Protectorate on the main

in

trade route, it has not so much as one commercial bed-and-breakfast...

Several big notel interests Africa and Britain are negotiating for a concession to build a splendid place on the Zanzibar coast. aimculty. In Zanzibar, unlike Bri- There is one highly characteristic tish African possessions generally, there is no "segregation." Arabs, Indians, Africans, and Goans

Erect

in

little

away.

Permit to drink Now that is the sort of uncivilised

live The perfume comes in layers jusmine, cardamom, cinnamon, and trade fairly amicably together, and, above all, cloves. They say of them in Government service) re- with the 200 or so Europeans (most you could

identify Zanzibar treating, when need be, to the camp's miles out to sea by the scent English club for sanctuary. of cloves. Only now it is get- zanzibar and it must be open to all.

an Hotel Magnificent ting less.

One can scarcely Imagine the Four-fifths of the world's Sultan condoning a colour bar in cloves come from the Sultan's his own right little tight dominions, and now a puzzling Island. But, open it for all and the Bwanas, above all, those sensitive atomic scientists will policy, even when seeregy was sugand ruinous complaint has come plants the South Africans, will stay PRENCH

share their discoveries with the gested to him by American officials to-the-islanda-the clove trees member, are dying. Right now a scienti- Commission entire world, according to members on the eve of the war.

Anuther French Atomic Energy

Pierre Auger, worked in Canada fic commission from Britain is Commission.

during the war on research for the at work in Zanzibar and Pemba, Commission

officials sald the atomic bomb. With three colleagues,

yet Inescapable impasse that a diagnosis.

makes

in the French Government refuses to main- he has just identified a new particle trying to find a cure, or at least

doing anything In the cosmic rays which fall upon tain any sort of secrecy, except on

So far it has had little suc- Colonial Empire a matter of matters learned by French selentists the earth from outside Its surface. working with Canadians and British Jollot-Cutie described the discovery

The cloves continue to desperate complexliy.

For those who are here it is a As a result, America put for-on atomic energy research during as opening up "tremendous possibili die. And though it may seem life of almost fantastic unevent- ward a partition scheme last the war. Secrecy "does more harm ties in the field of nuclear a trifling enough thing to go fulness. True, Islamic law insista

spokesman said.

Because America is currently buy November quite sincerely be- then good,"

He admitted that to date France's Ing almost all uranium, France is short of a clove for an apple pie that every European who wants his

de-at home, here in Zanzibar a atomic training young scientists and loving it was the best solution.

work on *pplication of It was wishful thinking carried on energy, has been "modest." France is veloping Instruments of detection to quarter of a million people have

material in still in the process of constructing search Teams of experts will their whole economy, their pre- at. the highest levels. It was, as un

her first atomic pile at her "Oak territories. Anterienn pollucal writer put Ridge." located at Fort du Chatillon, our France and her remote pos- sent and future built into that "the ultimate result of ú policy

sessions.

thing. which wills the end but not the car Paris,

France's atomic energy research mcans. This irresponsible habit of

"Bul It is men, materials and is purely non-military and ours is what drove the British into money, in that order, which count stay that way," officials said. tireir present unhelpful frame mind about Palestine."

of

for that

her

"will

cess.

They see the clove groves wilting and dying inexplicably.

tot must carry with him a Drinking Licence, a development that has so far escaped Stafford Cripps at home.

the

attention of Sir

As compensation, one may choose whatever number one likes for one's car, or one can live in a village with the incomparable mame of Bububu, The clocks show Swnhill time, which counts six o'clock as one, making it

in atomic energy" the spokesman Commission headquarters, on one they watch the best scientific saki. France "certainly has the of the most benútiful avenues inbrains in the business failing to madly difficult to know what hour Soon it became apparent that men," he added."

Above all, Zanzibar is perhaps the headquarters of the heavily guarded

Jack partition

force-probably meant

under the Union Frederic Joliot-Curie. American Atomic Energy Commis-realise that if they lose their last place American force, which was bad, or Communist

There are no Be- sion in Washington.

one near-monopoly they have where one can say: "The Western His wife, Irene, la a member.

Union now? No, that's a new one Russian force, which was worse.

fore the war they won a Nobel police, no doors marked secret, That wouldn't do. That night-Prize for their discovery of artificial visitors are shown in as they wound nothing else to replace it with.

A surprising lot of capital is on me."

So we live, the Red Flag behind not be

Joliot-Curio faced. So radio-activity.

hus be in any other government officesunit in cloves. Cloves-with a the treacle curtain. could America withdrew, thus incurring always followed "no secrecy"

Chairman of the Commissionaris, contrast strangely with the pull them.round, and ther it is. As though it mattered!

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