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RICHARD LONG, who recently spent more than a year in the region, discussos the future of the great waterway still vital to Britain's overseas defence and trade.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW TO SUEZ CANAL?

us, in an attempt to force us to a firm footing in Palestine; they Agree to her demands on the would move southwards towards Sudan. This is even mors un- Egypt-and Ute Canal.

A few days ago troops of the Black Watch were watching the low banks of the Suez Canal Commerce_24354 | "lide_past_from_the_deck_of_the_likely,

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They formed part of the last con- tingent of soldiers to return to (four lines)

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daily may make claims to have modernised and Favourable references to Bur- rejuvenated Egypt,, but theysla have appeared recently in the know full well, that beneath the Egypilan Press because the So- glitter of the present regime. In viei" Union supported the Arab At the liner crawled slowly Cairo lies a sorry tale of corrup-cause in the U.N.O. Partition de- olong the hundred miles which tion and inefficiency. Civil ser- bates. But it is well known that separate Suez from Port Said, many men on board must have¦ed to run their own ministries rified of a possible infiltration of been wondering about the future would never be able to control | Communists into the country. of thin watery link between West and East.

Vital

Ever

since the Suez Canal Carson Ho wishes to express his

formed in 1054, Company was sincere thanks to the four

the Conal Itself has been of vital Chinese *gentlemen und two Europeans who came to his help Import to almost every country

In the world. The great meel when he Kot into dimeuities

time Powers have looked upon while swimming at Shek-O) on

it as an essential factor in their Sunday afternoon,

chnin of sea communications, shortening' the voyages of their herchant ships by thousands of milies.

THE ECONOMIC STATE OF BRITAIN

In the absorption of doing the task which must be done

♫

a

To Egypt, the Canal has meant no nguni Income of hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Yesterday lo Nazi Germany and to-day to Soviet Russia, this Harrow waterway through the

the

man

Any European business will tell you that the use of the Canel means a saving to him of

Homes Wanted For

One Million

our

There are believed to be ap- other countries to allow oximately 1,000,000 refugees example by joining the Inter- coming within the mandate of the national Refugeo Organization International Refugee Organisa» and admitting refugees. tion. Nearly two-thirds of these "The following countries have ate maintained in Assembly con-ratifled the constitution of the tres, and although repatriation International Refugee Organisa- is still continuing it is clear that tion and are making contribu- Art overwhelming majority of tions in proportions laid down the refugees are unwilling to re-by the General Assembly of

United Nations: Argentina, Aus

turn home.

The

vants who cannot even be trust-the Egyptian Government is ter-ion and the militaryrganisa- [the I. R. O, to come into being),

authorities

These facts are given in an of-tralia, Belgium, Canada, China, ficial British report published the Dominican Republic, France, recently.

Guatemala, Iceland, the Pointing out that over 7,000,-lands, New Zealand, Nor 000 displaced persons have been the United Kingdom, the U.S.A. repatriated by UNRRA, the Pre- |(in all, 14 ratifications. Fifteen tor aratory Commission for the In- ratifications are necessary ternational Refugee

"The operational budget for from the Western zones of Ger 1948-49 is for some $150,000,000 many and Austrin since the end so complex and highly-organised If Russia moved into Jeru-of the war, the report adds that scribed by the States named

end and the total likely to be rub- salem, Egypt would come down

about $120,000,000 or 75 cent. heavily on the side of the West- "the numbers who made their

per own way home or were repatri- of the whole. The shortfall cor- ern Powers.

nied from other areas are includ-responda So the Suez Canal remains n

to the proportion Nations members cital factor-a sort of Inflameded the total may be as high as United

10,000,000,"

have not ratifled the constitution," appendix in the body of world

Referring to the budget of the

the report ends. the affairs.

Preparatory Commission of The only country which can

1. R. O., the report says, "AI- Britain. "nume" the appendix is Great though it can be assumed that

business as the Suez Canal,

Decay

Within a few years possibly months of the Egyptians taking over, the banks of the Canal would be falling in, the deep. water channels would be siiting up, lighters and cranes would be rusting in idleness while petty Customs officials haggled with ships captaina over "bakhsheesh" tu line their own pockets.

in

amounted

to

In Position

Just over 75 per cent. of the authorised budget of the Pre- paratory Commission for 1048-49 will be subscribed this is likely If the Canal is, to be defended to prove insufelent to enable against attack from outside. Bri- the Organisation to carry out ra- tish troops and aircraft are al-seillement."

011!

no

reudy in position. The same ap- The report further points piles to any attempt at interfer- that tack of funds la by ence by Egypt.

muns the

only obstacle in the If British or American-ships way of an early solution of the need to sicam swiftly to the aldrefugee problem.

recious all-installations east of of Suez, British arms are equally The report continues, "The

of

Ecuadorian Elections

JA

of who

Quito, June 6, Ecuadorana will vote today in a presidential election for the first time since 1940 after a series of revolutiona which gave them five different chief executives. The candidates are:

In a year, tree through the Canut would come to ปี stand- still, and Egypt would lose one of her main sources of revenue. 1047. 5972 ships passed throught the Conal, flying Angs of every nation 11 the world. Every ship paid dues.

Galo Plaza Lasso, 42-year-old. the Company according to

her ready to protect the internation- General Assembly of the United United States educated, former its resolution ot Ambassador to the United States. size. Receipts from the 30,376,-al waterway through which they Nations in

November 17, 1947, appealed to He is supported by the National 000 tons of shipping last year must pass.

And neither of these things all mumber Governments to co- Democratie Civil Movement. £12,800,000 ster-

with the Preparatory General Alberto Enriquez Gal- ling, of which Egypt received a happens, the fact that the land operate

the Canal is in Commission on either side

and to taką a

fair lo, 82. He was the nation's hend a British sphere of influence will share

non-repatriable M- in 1937 and 1938 and is backed large sum as a shureholder. thousands of pounds in freight-

*ugees. British representatives by a coalition of Liberals and So- Egyptians would not readity buve a restraining effect on those вде when he brings home his give that up, even for the pri- who plot to inflame the "appun-abroad have been instructed to cialists.

lake every opportunity to urge goods from the East. Even to-vilege of calling the Suez Canal dix" to bursting-point.

Dr Manuel Elicio Flor Torres, day, when fewer and fewer Bri- | Egyptian.

| 54-year-old-Conservative Demo tish troops

crat. are posted diminishing possessions overseas, Dy the terms of the 1930 the Canol is still of vital import- Treaty, Britain is still entitled ance in preserving our Imperial to keep 10,000 troops and air- lifelines.

craft in the country. There is Tittle likelihood of our yielding up that right, while Palestine re- mains a running sore, while Bugh- dad can erupt into anti-British The population of England and than their ancestors. The statis riots and

Wales has increased from 10,000,- ties also reveal considerable while the Shah Persin plays an

In game 000 to 43,000,000 in the last 100 changes with Russia.

to our

Never Consent

FOR HANOI VIA HAIPHONG it is often too easy to over-heart of the Near East has been

look achievements which the ultimate goal of schemin I have been accomplished. war lords-the gateway to

Tabulous wealth of the East. This appears to be so today in Britain where the em- phasis must necessarily be Jon work still uncompleted. Fortunately, a healthy re- minder of the progress made since the war has been pro- vided in

survey by United Nations body, the Economic Commission for Europe. A calculation of the Commission suggests that in the third quarter of 1947 British industrial production

That is why Great Britain will was nine per cent. above

never consent to loose her hold the 1938, compared with

on the Canal, a hold which she average of опе per cent.

first gained when Disraeli pur- below 1938 for 14 Europeanchased 44 per cent, of the newly- countries, excluding Ger- flouted Company's shares.

but many

including the

It has been

that suggested United Kingdom. The Egypt might try to wrest posses- position today, is very much siun of the Canal from the inter- better than this. The new interim index of British In- dustrial production, which takes the year 1946 as its base gave the average of 110 for the third quarter of last the provisional As gure for February, 1948 is AIRWAYS 124 there was an expansion in the five months of some- thing like 12 per cent.

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The winner will succeed Carles Julio Arosemena, who was elect- ed by the Ecuadoran Congress in September 1847. — Associated . Press.

MacArthur For

President Spectacular Drop

An

for this increase has been the re- Palestine's troubles are not (markable decline in infant mor- only a threat to British oil in tality. A century ago, for every threat 1,000 bables born 153 falled to

Washington, June 6. terests. They are also· a

outstanding example of to Egypt.

MacArthur for President boo- survive the first year. Last year the infant mortality rate reach-what can be achieved when sus-

tained effort is made to eradicate stors said today that "many tons A recent Press cable reported ed the all-time low record

Gen, Mac- of petitions" urging that Russia had asked permission 41. per. 1,000,

a particular disease is refleated Arthur as the Republican Presi in the mortality figures for dential nominco will reach Phila to introduce 25,000 Russian

Another

reason for the visit crease in population has been the the century some 85 out of every National Convention opens

diphtheria. At the beginning of delphia before the Republican that "tourists" to Palestine to been suggested

of Improving rate having seized control, the Holy Places. Once in, it is steadily

100,000 children under 15 were expectation

were Juna 21. will endeavour to use the Canal doubtful if those "tourists" would survival. Today

dying of this scourge, Between as a blackmailing weapon against; ever be got out. Having gained life for men is.59 and for wo-

National MacArthur for Presi men 63 years. One hundred years the two world worn the rate was

Issuert direct dent clubs

A. statement ago it was 40 and 42 respective-still as high as 20. But as

result of the largescale im saying that the petitions will be munisation campaign launched presented to the H use Speaker, There are some of the fects by the Ministry of Health dur- Mr. Joseph Martin, convention which emerge from a study of ing the recent war, the rate was chairman, When MAKArthur-is population trends in Britain. Howtown to four in 1948. Last year nominated.

It hus

Egypt,

PRINCESS ELIZABETH INSPECTS GUARDS

London, June 6.

Tens of thousands of Londoners braved grøy skies and a drizzle today to cheer Princess Elizabeth in what will be one of her last public engage- ments before the birth of her baby, expected in mid-October.

of

of

and

resu

unly two in every 100,000 dfed the from diphtheria,

an

the

the statistics are collected how they can be used to

The statement said that benefit of the community as ล Apart from statistics obtained MacArthur headquarters has been whole are described in "Matters from birth and death registration opened in Philadelphia at Adel-

Life and

small Death," a

are also phia Hotel by the National Co- figures, field surveys the. booklet just published by

and carried out regularly by trained ordinator, Warren Wright, General Register Office.

of workers to obtain systematic in- Wright reported the receipt

on the incidence of 1,101 letters urging the Gênera's

nomination.-United Press. Britain Citizens

and

their doctors willingly co-operate

National System

in

Great efforts in new con- struction and re-equipment have also been made. Building of permanent houses has climbed to over 20,000 dwellings a month. In addition to essential public buildings, such as schools, as

In 1836 a national system of

In provid- many as 700 new factories

registration of births, marriages ing this information which form and deaths

population was introduced and an essential basis for have been completed in Bri-

shortly afterwards the first na surveys. It has added greatly to tain since the war and an-

the value of statistics which have other 1,350 new factorics are

often served as a a necessary start- looked stood on a wooden platform tionwide cursus of the popula Princess Elizabeth

of the iron fence which tion was taken. From that date now being built with a total

as she bowed slightly front

Buckingham Palace, until

until today the General Registering point for many advances in Office. has kep

and medical selence. The value of no less than £140,-from-the rear seat of a black surrounds

record which social and ns~2,000-past-and-present

lave provided a a 'foundation on 000,000. Many of the new Rolls-Royce to the cheering bers of the Guards fled by

give on accurate picture of the

which to build the social services the route

state

Britain's of

population Tactories,

valu are crowds that lined moreover,

of today and represent a Palace to As her huge black car ap-throughout the years. situated in development from Buckingham

the able

by which yardstick Information published In of peared. grey buildings

a surge of excitement areas, those parts of the the grim

General's The Registrar

quarterly incásure progress year by year. throws light an

They show that Britain le ana country which were so woe-Wellington Barracks' Birdcage swept through the crowds.

Princess walked 100 yards from returns

tion advancing steadily towards platform, aspects of the life and health of well balanced, healthy and viril. fully and disastrously short Walk. The

a the imousine to the attended of remembrance for while the crowd pressed against the people. It shows thot

Comrades" A natural question in the the

the the 10-fooi-high from ralling to can expect to live longer, marry later and enjoy better health Guards. She is an watch-United Press. face of these facts is: Why Grenadier

British the

adverse honorary Colonel of the Guards. A slight figure in a trim dove- balance on the overseas re- .count so burdensomely high? One part of the answer is the huge drop in income

of work between the wars.

is

Princess

ceremony

"Old

grey

of

coat, Princess Elizabeth CARNIVAL

from invisible exports such Mustard Cools

as investments, shipping and

other services, and the in- The Ardour

crease in outgoings, such as Government expenditure abroad-serious part of

Palisades, N.Y., June 6. |--Ajar_of_mustard today over-

bas-

the answer is however thecame the political differences be- steady and harmful detween two rival plenic groups. terioration in the terms of

No sooner had 100 members of trade, which makes it neces-

the Draft MacArthur Club spread sary for Britain to export an for lunches than about 200 sup- increasing volume of her porters of Harold Stassen, carry- goods to pay for the same ing banners, arrived with quantity of imports. Where-kets at a nearby piente grove, as in December, 1945, import When the Stassen group ran out and export prices-were-about-of mustard for hot dogs, ther level at just under twice the borrowed a jar from the Mac- 1938. average, by December, Arthur boosters. Within half an 1946, imports were costing hour the groups merged and ale together. Later they stacked their 223 but exports were realis-respective placards and together ind only 210. By March, paired off for a ride on a roller 1948, the gap was even wider coaster.-United Press. with import prices having

risen in the 15 months by 24

are

per cent. to 277 and export other countries. But the prices by only 18 per cent. [fact that her exports to 248.

competitive remains the most Because Britain has had powerful argument against considerable success in con- the rumours which circulato trolling inflation, with its from time to time as to whe-. beneficial effect on the cost ther Britain will devalue of her exports, abe has telt Sterling. It is one of the the deterioration in the terms last things she wants at pro- of trading more than many sent.

CLUB DAFFODIL KEEP WINGS CLEAR

men-

many

they

tommunity.

By Dick Turner]

5-23

"You call yourself a dancer! For three months we give you top billing and we haven't been padlocked even once!""

to

JOB TURNED DOWN

Paris, June 6. The French News Agency re- ports from Indochina that Ngu- hen Huu Tri, named Minister of the Interior by decree of the new French sponsored Central Viet Nam Government" has, "refused to

the post for reasons of bealth

The key Ministry will go to | Lieut-General Xuan, ulready Premier and Minister of National Defence-Associated Press.

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