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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1949.
THE
DEMARENGOMATIC
CHAPMAN PINCHER IRAN WALKS ON A
My
COLUMN
Side of Life
To find out what makes Ho recently reported seeing, a
TIGHTROPE
the thoroughbred.tlckwheaten robin-nized Euro-red-hot. and perhaps make it tick a Hotel
pean visitor-near, the blt faster-science has nosed into Newmarket,"
being
turned into labs and operating X-ray machlues and
Bichtres.
RAZ
PERFUME NOTE.
to
In
It would take very little cause an outright rupture the relations between Iran and the Soviet Union.
When World War II... broks.
over
tu
By
JOHN RODERICK
Thwarted In
began
La first move,
playing
for
TEHERAN. military advice and a 'ten mil- TRAN is walking-n-wobbly-on-dollar-arrus-ald-programme, cut. the Germans had a secure
tightrope between Rusia tuming this country into
Husain says, the United States foothold here. They were per- sin and the West which base for aggression against, her. gineering,
a zonally popular. Their en- may snap at any moment.
educational and The war of nerves here is charge. Russia, they reply
economic missions were thr The Iranians holly deny this ing. Trade with Germany was In brisk. effect, is becoming panicky if it sees a threat in the persons of The Allies needed Iran as a Russia 30 American military advisers. land bridge
which fran at this moment is the cupply Russia with Instruments higher stakes. It sought to get Inost important · link 1n
a foothold in Iran proper. the of war from the Persian Gulf. defences of the West against 50, in 1941, Russia struck from accomplish this it came to the future Soviet expansion. Un- the north and Britain attacked "upport of the Democraile Party less she is strengthened, there from the south and west, In two
of Azerbaijan. can be little opposition to the days the Iraulan Army, at the
vance of the Red Army into command of the old Shinh, lald Azerbaijan asked for autonomy. The Democratic Party of. Teheran, whenever it chooses to down its arms. Cou.
By mutual consent, the Rust 1948 an independent govern- slans took the north, the British ent-sympathetic to its neigh the south. For the next four
bour, Soviet Russia. Allies. years Persia was safe for the
In MI66 G. M. XULE'S old TESTS have shown that racing stable, tulla ro
the sensitivity. of
By the terinn the human
of. treaties Increases
signed more than 20 years ngo, round about:
Tussla hus the right to move meal-times troops into this country in the
and staya super-acute event it is turned into a base until hunger
for military action against the Sovjet Union.
heart-beat recorders are replac- ing bay-racks and mangers.
The saddlernom's salty talk
has given way lu the
precise Jargon
of
more scientists. everything
whose business
that hazards horse-health from the foaling-box to the grave,
PROFESSOR. MILLER. Scottish
WILLIAM velerinary
surgeon, heads this Equine Re- search Station. His Infectious buoyancy, na lie showed me round, explained why so many foreigners are clamouring work under him.
fully appeased.
So it you want
your cat.
man
DISMISS
....
More
and
10.
To
To emphasise its point it set up
When Iran dispatched troops to put down this revolt, the Soviet Army, which was stil occupying Iran long after the deadline set for its departure, politely but firmly
Interposed.
Moscow has already accused Turkey's Flank Iran-It is better known to the to make the most outside world 115 Persia of WITH the loss of Iran, the of your perfumes, violating these treatles,
Truman doctrine of watch- ladies, don't let The situation has become so fut waiting In Turkey und During the war
over-strained that the Russians on Greece collapses.
years, IranN Iran Is on suffered March 19 delivered a secret Turkey's left flank,
poverty, famine and demoralisation. note to the Foreign Ministry
linportant, the great that she was withdrawing
When the then prime minin all oli concessions which the her consulates because of the mocracies hold in Iran
de ter was approached by Ameri. It said it could not permit the. HEAR that the Socialist Party "hostile attitude" of Persia. She Arabia would be cut off.
can oil interests for rights
Iranians to proceed to Azerbai hnn qulolly dissolved 11 demanded that Iranian consu- In a word, the whole of Cen- Irun, they were listened to with fighting on its borders.
the rich oll fields of northern Jan because it did not to Science
want Polley Committee, lates in Russla similarly be iral Asin would fall into Rus sympathy. In the midst of the graced by such highlevel pundita recalled.
Great Britain's troops already 'sla's hands. Money for the
research to 5 PROFESSOR г. M. S. BLAC-
One
of the big reasons
discussions, however, Russia put had quit the country. for Iran's army is adequate. tor in its claim for the coring from the many
the lension between Who KETT
Moscow internal defence.
northern But it could oil. speak of racing as "the indus.
Could the reason be that the and Teheran is the United not long stand the hammering iry," and the more for whom it Pro-Russian course taken by States, The Soviets say
Iran discreetly backed down, that of a modern, fully is just fun The punter has Blackett In his recent book on the United States is interfering military machine.
equipped stopped its talks with the malo his substantial contribu- the atom bomb makes too wide in the Internal affalis of Iran.
Americans and refused to open The story of Iran for the past discussions with Russla on the flon through the £50,000 given an angle with the party line? Through economic assistance, decade has been one of turmoil. cubject. by the racecourses, the bookies, belief that the Americans atom- and the tolc,
Surprise support for Blackett's
bambed Hiroshima, on August 0, Staking their claim to any new 1843, not to end the war but to knowledge, even the peso-wise stop the Russians ending it has Argentinos have sent £1,000:
come from U.S. PROFESSOR
I can assure horse lovers there PHILIP MORRISON, will be no cruelty In "Equine's" experiments. tessor Miller
the He writes: Pro- August 10 was
"A
14
C
near
date mysterious
so tender: anal date which we who had the
hearted he will not let his men
Kas the rabbits which plague Job of readying the bomb, had
their paddocks.
SNOBS
to meet at whatever cost in risk. money, or development policy.
"The 10th was about the date on which the Russians had
SEEMS that the guils of Lon- agreed to enter the war."
don's high-toned West End parks are social anobs. They will
not mix with the
kulls, which pick
up their crumbs ori the hobo- haunted Thames Embankment.
This has been proved by offieinl bird watchers. who
caught 300
kulls, marked them, and did a spy-glass snoop on their movements
for many months.
boss
SOLDIER-ANTS
WHAT SENBE governs the life W
of the fantastic Army Ant of South America is still mystery. But on-the-spot reports from myrmecologists as ant- experts call themselves--show the creature to be aptly named.
д
WHEN I WAS IN JAIL
At this time five years ogo Nehru was
a rebel against British rule--and 'a captive in Ahmadnagar Fort Prison.
During his captivity Nehru wrote a book colled Tho Discovery of India in which he described, with clarity and without bitterness, his. feelings as a prisoner. It is a remarkable description, by a remarkable man." Here it is:
4
Ever since then ench coming of the new moon has been a reminder to me that another month
of my imprisonment
ir over. So it was with my Inst term, of imprisonment, which began with the new inoon. The moon, ever a companion to me in prison, Das grown friendly with closer
more.
acquain-
BY JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
Time seems
Prime Minister Of India
Moscow's Hint TRAN asked the Russians-who in Persian
werd palpably interfering internal affairs-to leave., Moscow hinted that it could not talk over the matter unless the. Liberal Ahmed. Qavam, were Iran's: delegate. Parliament, anxious to settle the question, hamed him prime minister,
What Russia did not know was that Onvam was o Persian tirat, a leftist afterwards. Ho went instantly to Moscow; after a month of talking consented to put Russla's claims for northern oll before
parliament. In re- turn, Russia promised to pull out of the country.
The implication, of
Qavem's promise was that parliament would readily
grant the oil concessions. Actually, the prime minister had outwitted both Stolin and Molotov.
His first move was to send. Iranian troops to rebellious Azerbaijan to "police" the com ing parliamentary elections.
The next step was to elect a parliament whose interests. would be Iran's. This was not difficult.
Demand Denied
the the parliamen- remains to us that cannot be Allen, Washington's Ambassa- to change its taken away; to act with courage dor, made a speech to the Iran-
:
should
Dulside
The discipline of the ants ma they force-march in columns up to 300 yards long is unbreakable, They always move for 17 con- secutive nights, then rest for 20, clinging together to form
dome-shaped bivouac protecting the queert and her brood.
TT I is more than 20 months tance, a reminder of the love. There is only one thing that Oiary vote for Venable- Leader of the London Parks
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SURNE-SECOND QUIZ: What is GYRIL-HURCOMD, Who -- the better known-home for of my ninth term of immature in prison The present and dignity and to stick to the American Relations Society. In ways keeps an eye cocked for bilateral perorbital haematoma? prisonment. The new moon, hardly exists, for there is an ideals that have given nieaning it he spoke some pointed truth. Interesting migrants 03 ho Answer: Two lovely black a shimmering crescent in absence of feeling and sensation to life: but that is not the He said - that Iran walks to his Berkeley square eyes.
which might separate it from politician's way. the darkening sky, greeted the dead past.
knuckle down to no office.
---London Express Beroes.us on our arrival here.
Someone sald the other day, power. We live, us Auguste Comte death 1s the birthright
This was all that parliament. sald, dead men's lives, encased every person
of needed After a long speech by born-aturlous Qavam, who outlined the pres-k in our pasts, but this is, spe thing. It is a birthright which sures to which he had beeSI Y way of putting an obvious cially so in prison, where we nobody has denied or can deny. sian promise, parliament voted. subjected before giving the Rus locked-up and which all of us seek to By 102 to 1 it denied Ruisin's emotions in memory of the past forget and escape so long as we demand for off. or fancies of the future.
may. And yet there was some- thing novel and attractive about with-Russia-have-been-under-
Since then, Iran's relations. combined expedition-There-is-a stülness-and-ever-the-phrase rom the Zoo institute and Instingnets about the past; It
standably delicate. Taking. the Yakutsk bare of the Soviet changes not, and has a touch of Academy of Selence is prepar eternity, like a painted picture
courage from positive American... ing to leave to
support, she has defied Moscow body of the mammoth,
theor n'statue in bronze or marble
more than ONCE. which There is will then be sent to Leningrad, security and one may even sensely about life have always a one of the
Should the United States let there peace
THOSE who complain so bitter. her down, another country... The Zoological Museum a spiritual quality.
way out of it, if they so choose. I security of the West-may well
most vital to the 25 Leningrad has a large collection But It not life unless wo That is always in our power to be added to the satellites, off¿¿. of extinct prehistoric animals can find the vital links between achieve.
If we cannot master loscow.Associated Press.. unearthed by scientific expedit and the present-It-is-n-life we
can at least master tions during the past 20 or 30 kind of art for art's sake with death,
out the passion and the urge to Jessening Detion which are the very stuff lessness.
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„CRAELIT KELELER • REXIT YLIVERE-ŽINDY CLm
EXPERT palaeontologists and
zoologisis-are- preparing to: dig up and transport to Lenin- grad or Moscow the
of three giant mammoths, be lieved to have lived militons of years ago, which have recently been discovered in three dif- ferent parts of Russia.
By DON DALLAS
skeletons means by which it adjusted itself to the severe climatic con- ditions the glacier period. It will also, it hoped. help to explain questions about tho evolution of tronk animals, in- cluding the extinct and the elephant.
mastodon
excavate
In
try to find some sustenance for our 'starved and
and
A pleasing thought the feeling of help.
Two of the mammoths were found beyond the Arctic circle in the Frent tundra region A special committee of ex- which forms an icy girdle perts of the Soviet Academy of years. across the North of Europe and Sciences has been formed to Asia. One was in the bleak study: the Taimyr mammoth. Its Taimyr peninsula far to the President is Mr E. N. Pavlovsky, mammoth
Fossilised remains-of-the-of-life
in the Dnieprope- We become prisoners of the The twenty-first month of North of China, and the other Director of the Zoological trovsk area was all further. East in Yaku- Institute of the Academy.
were found by past and some Dart of its my imprisonment is well on its workmen from a nearby factory immobility sticks to us. This Way: 50on two years will have, tlo.
who werd busy digging FROZEN DEEP
a passage of the mind is all the been completed." trench,
caster in prison, where action is denied, and we become slaves
The third mammoth was dis covered by workmen In the Dniepropetrovsk area, several thousand miles away in Russia's extreme South.
·t、'
The two mammoths found in the Arctic are reported to
bo
of
to
THE Taimyr mammoth was First, there was a layer THE
found by a group of scientists hard rock, which tuned out from one of the Polar observa- be fosallised tree trunks. Under- tion stations who were
out neath, were several splinters
and
་
to the routine of Jail life
suppose
*
now
have spent in prison, and many My last four birthdays 7 others in the course of my previous terms of imprisonment. I have lost count of their number.
Jim Phelan in his "Jail Jour-
turk sticking out of the earth. ribs and an immense turk, hunting and came across a large of a-glant skullbone, several
I have changed a They
good deal. In an excellent state of preser
dug and came across parts
I have grown vation withinuch of MAR
of the mammoth
The workmen frumediately more contemplative. I am not ne tells us of the effect After marking the spot, they
overcome reported their discovery. original flesh; muscles and halt
to the same full on human character, and extent as I used to bo by everyone who has spent a long their base Intaet. Their conditions attri returned to
Experts from the Dniepro-ragedy or what I conceived to timp in prison knows how true buted to the fact that in the indioed the newn to the head petrovsky State University and be tragedy.
This 'slatement is: "The jail,. tundra region only two or three quarters of the Northern Sea the Institute of Biology arrived
Is this, I have wondered, the human character.
acts as a magnifying glass on Administration feet of earth thaw out in the Route
(under and discovered that still further growth of a spirit of resignation short summer. The remainder the U.S.S.R. Council of Minis, down were other parts of the or is it a toughening of the weakness is brought out, em
Every tiny of the sell is permanently tera) and to the Soviet Academy skeleton of the giant prehistorie texture? In It just age and a phasised, wakened, until pre- frozen,7
of Sciences.
beast.
sently there is no more of the N. Schol hunter, Mr GN
lessening of vitality and of the The mammoth had thus been kanov found the mammoth in finis-suggesting that this moy long periods in
Near the site, they also found passion of life? Or is it due to convict with the weakness but kept in natural refrigerator the tundra region of Yakutia, have been the alte of an en-slowly ebbing away?
only prison and life
weakness wearing con- vict, clothes." for hundreds of thousands of Ila head and tusks were on the campment of ancient man years.
surface and body was buried Their investigations convinc-mechanism of escape, the senses on national character by foreign
The tortured mind seeks some
"Bomo such effect is produced deep in the frozen earth, Large cd the experts that the mam get dulled from repeated shocks rule. That is not the only effect; Scientists believe that an tufts of hair lay nearby. moth must be millions of years and a feeling comes over and for noble qualities also develop Intensive study of the Ho Delivered the fuske, old. Taimyr mammoth
that so much evil and misfort and strength is gradually bullt will help weighing 180 kilograms (280 them to re-create the picture of Jba) to a fur trading point. in extricate intact the
Work is now proceeding to tune shadow the world that up through resistance, 'an extinct animal and the the village of Chekurdy...
remainder litiks more or less does not 'make' of the skeleton-Reuter,
much difference.
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