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When Egypt Goes To The Polls Good Morning

frontage of

Although no firm date had which wrecked the been fixed for Egypt's goneral his manelon and which threw me elections, the country's turbu-out of bed about 800 yards down lent and outspoken political the street). parties are already engaged in a bitter battle of words.

seem very not walk

to

car

Life On The Suez

exorbitant

and

now

any-

"Mr. Shinwell trades on the fact that we will put up with thing to be with our husbands,

show him ay we would love to around," she adds.

Committee and passed a Bill ex- approaches the mansion at night.} tendered by Major Tufton Beamish Bays a Fayld wife. "And I must

Six Ministers Progue by air

have just left to for Moscow

the Politburo. meet Stalin and Just sort of creching in, as it

were.

+

a one-eyed gen- He may be eral but he looks like Cyclops to around Nationalists

1

up

Dunkirk dockers are running a from go-slow strike on ships London. Once they loaded them

time. there in record tin

Vold Of Interest

Nahas always turned these at tacks to great political advantage announcing that

·By MARGARET GILRUTH Egyptians will go to the polls by immediately at the end of August, during God saved his life, that Allah in-

The Canal Zone desert wives are the beginning of tended him to live for the better- October,, at

nats are ment of Екур

Since the 1948 bombing Nahas felt somewhat heartened one blaz-difficult to discover. November or at any other data:

They read in The airlift of wives and families | fixed by the Palace, or by Premier Abdel Hadi Pasha, chosen by the has assisted Allah by employing ing hot morning.

little troop of mercenaries, fine their "Egyptian Mail" that the to Fayid and Mouscar is Palace for this high office after stalwarts from Upper Egypt who question of an improvement in discontinued, although we are told

the Fayind living quarters was there are still some on the War the the murder of Nokrashy Pasha

trigger-happy. One does the

These waiting list.

will Kanchow. in December last. HK$72.00

the Nahas house at matter which the War Secretary. Office pant When glancing at Egypt's in-night carrying a parcel one-pise attention "almost avers day" available.

Mr. Shinwall, found engaging his travel as soon as ship cabins are All news contributions to be

ternal affairs, it is well to recall

IL. Other-wise Addressed to

dently by-passes Editor-in-Chief

that during a necrot three-hour

open it according to a statement he made Advertisements and Business Dom-

Ma 9 the Senate while another holds you at the in the Commons on May 17. munications should-be-add med debate.on to the Company CHINA MAIL rejected the advice of its Legal point of his gun. Whenever

Mr. Shinwell took the advice LTD.

Lending Martial Law for another, it is stopped

stopped, the lights are order- 12 months.

ed on, and it is inspected for in the House-that is, if he flew The elections will be held under anything suspicionaly bomb-like. off to the Canal Zone to study the

situation this ediet-although the Govern Nahas is a tall, erect old man ment tells

the people that candi- with a wall eye which makes him

Buildings are known dates will be given absolute liberty

target for the fino #

more cruel

standard, their walls made, of make propaganda for their of the anti-Ward cartoonists.

-style mud-and-straw bricks His lleutenant, Serag el Din, principles and political views. At amples of ordinary indivi- the same time the Government's in not so uncompromising an old plastered, on the inside and out- duals who, have been vic-Public Security Department will Nahas. Ite is a man of the world, ride, the covering or roof

sisting of EP.I.P. double-fy tent- age. These give the appearance timised by the accommoda-upervise matters with the aim he is rich, he is eager to be a tion rackets. One was able of protecting the safety of the friend of all.

state, according to a recent official A heavyweight, he enjoys great of a nice modern block of flats, cool, sturdily built, with the degree popularity although Whatever the political issue my real wisdom; he was sought out of privacy the average British. in Egypt, the situation by the Wafd party in 1937 when family unit expects from modern neons to be dominated by it was looking for personalities times. Painee, and the Wafd, the power to replace those lost to the newly ful nationalist party formed dur- formed Sandist party and when p ing the 1914-1918. war to fight it needed a wealthy, ambitious man to contribute generously to for Egyptian independenes. From 1927 its leader has been the for party funds. midable Nahas Pasha, a pourant

In the course of our nor- mal activities this week, we have come across three ax-

to raise the exorbitant sum asked before he could take possession of a far from db- sirable flat. and the others are still frantically looking for somewhere to live even semi-decently.

We were

to

handout.

be here

who rose to power and riches.

Boycott in 1945

the

he has ΠΟ

To show is gratitude for ser- vices rendered, Nahas when Prime Minister gove Serag el Din the successive portfolios of agricul- lure, social affairs and interior.

Chief In 1934

The Wald beretted the elections uf 1943; in 1948 it refused to participates the Egyptian dele-

Aly Maher, another prominent with which negotiated kation Britain for the revision of the in the political picture, is head of Anglo-Egyptian Treaty which the Egypt Front Party, a body sted in Nahas himself signed

In 1936), which

atates it is interested in

for

himself-this As

roughly what he would find. Foreign

Biblical

No Privacy

as "ub-

con.

But in point of fact privacy scarcely exists. An officer and wife with no children occupy one small room, with walls that might wall be deaf-hearing alus.

According to one wife, every slight altercation, every hint of an argument reaches the couple, in the adjacent room.

was

Policy Attacked

Washington, July 20.

Rocket to the knoon is expen- sive dream, says Rocket Society President, But they can still sit and planet.

had

The people of Britain rather mixed feelings when they said "Goodbye, Mr. Cripps."

We only hope he doesn't 'start

preaching austerity, to the Swiss.

•

•

It's no good our correspondents

bunch.

Senator Glen Taylor who trying to take a rice out of that

Henry Mr.

Wallace's

1 "run- Progressive Party

On one door of a flat contain- ning mate" in the Presid-

ing five other familles, hangs a ential election last year, attack-1 placard which reads:-

We've no money. foreign ed the United States' Policy today as "secretive and envious to such an extent as to dishon- border on downright esty."

Opposing the Atlantic Pret in the Senate debate on its ratinca- lion. Senator Taylor called for "a halt here and now to the prac- tice of bringing grave and tm- portant matters here in the "no- ture of a fait accompll."

In huge isolated garrisons, rum- our travels fast. Women are apt to chatter about other men and women. for they have little to

Substantial trade with Russia occupy the hot days and evenings.

So the most trifling disagree would go a long way towards ment between

man and wife is improving East-West relations, he Backing the Pact, Senator Ray- to the Ward that the Sidky Bevin in 1934, and he managed to hold is magnified by acquaintances,

the country together until young and, said my major's wife inform- mond Baldwin (Republican- King Farouk arrived from his ant, "in a jiffy you hear they are Connecticut) said that it could be

England. school in

and Khashaba-Campbell plans for the revision of the Treaty were defeated.

• Woes when King Fouad died, recounted, is discussed by athers, said.

tho

We possess nothing. We're not married. We mind our own business. We're skunks. Hope everybody's happy now."

After meeting one of the Aber- deen socialites, Mrs. Stewart o' "Her the Braes remarked Indignantly to her friend Lizzie Moir: and her eight servants, an' her mither was born in ane of cor

Sic trash!" cottar hooges.

"The Lecturer in economics: working class needs more vision." Not to mention supervision.

A headline

informs us

that

He never shrank

•

An in- buy sardines. He then became Prime Minister about to part, that she is neking expanded later into a world alli- Mr. Strachey has contracted to

force was from snoek. The Wafd now states: "We have

for 100 days, began a new Minis-o go back home to start divorce ance to guard the peace.

ternational police proceedings." those decided to take part in

try (that of Social Affairs) and

The averagu Canal Zone desert within the range of possibility" elections with general

all our his is said to be the best Cabinet

wife has been separated from her under the treaty, he sald, He was has ever had. weapons, under any circumstances,

husband for country

a long and lonely whatever the price we will have to interned from 1941 to 1946 be- period. First it was the war, then failing to join the Alliance the Senator Baldwin said that by pay for victory."

cause of alleged pro-Axis sym- ho

United States would run the risk then he has Palaco Caus

pathies, and since

Treat young, often has young children of "standing alone in the world." the great time is no never really regained pre-war, she has been filled with the most

sant overseas.

She is

That there has been a Wald rift for some secret. But that today the party's popularity he Secretary General (if not its more Now he wante peace to reign urgent desire to see him, to gat

advice and

companionship reactionary leader. Nahan) is between all the parties; he is a hin rondy to make overtures to the middle man politically and here and comfort. Palace, is happy to forget the old

In Egypt people, don't think much of middlo men. feud, seams to emerge from Wat- dist statements, or hints to bo

the Wafdint press. foun

nay

extreme

of

Better In England You must be of the

Communal garrison living is right, or the extreme left.

bad in England, where The country's truly great old not so mean that the coalition

a countryside to roam cabinet formed after the elections man, lamail Sidky Pasha, in un- there in

Prime become the next

in search of around when you are nominee, likely to will show

the Palace Abdel Hadi Pasha, still holding Minister - not because he is privacy, where there are village or because any of Premier, with the spent the role

of his pubs when you want a whiff Wardist Fouad Serax el Din as courage has ebbed away, but be- cosy comradeship and smoke-inden Minister of Interior or Defence. cause nowadays, rather than seek air, where there in the odd non- or both. Under martial law these Cabinet office, he seems to prefer Army cinema and are obviously the key positions in the role of being as outspoken as Army entertainment. A Cabinet, and the mosta sought he likes in newspaper articles and But at Fayid, husband and wife by any ambitious politician with in public speeches.

and children exist entirely within is more than 70, the perimeter. They Although he

super- a powerful parte backing.

about 30 company mu

on sand and they are Colourful Personalities he sits

sand. rounded by boards (he is a financial wizard)

During the the

the country town he owns long summer

aun shines in- Whatever shape that Cabinet ho visits takes, in this as in most other colourful personalities

to form a

potter

the odd non-

All For The Huk Of It

Luis Taruc, who was, it was

hoped a dead weasel

Is now reported returned to

the rampage in Rizal... Unquestionably

be out of luck

Quirino

will

If he doesn't soon put a stop

to

this Luis Taruc.

•

Questioned by Senator Forrest on the (Republican) Donnell

the possibility of signatories of Pact becoming Communist States,

A new planet in a hotter spot Senator Baldwin said: "Some of

break these nations, may

this even than "Mercury" has been that

They should call it LA evan discovered. treaty. Perhaps probable, but that is no reason "Post." why we should not go into it."-- Reŭtar,

European Movement's Progress

The Hague, July 21.

British Mr. Duncan Sandys,

International Chairman of the

are ment, said today that he is re- markably satisfied at last year's

Outlining the work and aims of unoficial

the

תם

also in conversation with a man likely to be evicted by a landlord who may certain- ly live on the premises him- self for a month or two, for the sake of appearances, and then obtain even higher key money from a new tenant.

The current army requisi. tioning programme, though no doubt unavoidable, is giv- except on its own terms. According raising the standard of the country fresh impetus to the to statement made last month socially, economically and politi

e chiar He was ing a

of the Royal its by Secretary-General, Found housing and allied merry-go-

Serag el Din Pasha, It is thanks been rounds, which have

down, nervously slowing though only imperceptibly, since the cessation of wealthy arrivals from Shang- hat. The market, however, was obviously sound, and there was in fact no need for perturbation. The

per- centage of flats etc. Jikely to be requested by the military Is small, although of course it is demoralising to think that for these they will pre- sumably pay only a fair rent, without considering such es- sentials as key money, trans- fer fees and the rest. We find it interesting to hear well-to-do individuals warn- ing that any attempt at fur- ther controls or requisition- ing will stop people from building at all. This is rather a bold flaunting of the fact that under-cover profits are what still matter today. Government's token com- of a few pro- mandeering perties for deserving and needy families a scheme Egyptian general elections a fow and which is called 'Sidky': and| cessantly, the temperature Boars, Executive of the European Move-I he is writing his memoirs. He

Ha good humour and tolerance

good dominate belongs to no political party but pt to wither away. publicised for a time and

he has been invited by two re- There are no little kitchens to progress of the Movement. then discreetly put aside is the scene.

The 73-year-old The

Mustapha

igning mo

monarcha

around and Ali up typical of its attempts to still

Nahas Pashn, seven times Prime Government Of Turkish origin, time they food communally et the Movement, a general outcry by making Minister of Egypt, may be relue he is

is small and spry and Indo- feeding centres In "sitting","body, at a press conference here, the ghost of a gesture, with-tantly forced to play the role of fatigable. In 1947 he attacked afterwards thoy gather and chat Mr. Sandys, who is a son-in-law out at all tackling the pro- elder statesmen through ill health with a terrible persistency the ter in communal

lounges.

of Mr. Winston Churchill, Bald; to take the decision

At Fayid there is nothing to do "We are encouraged and stimu- blem, and then dropping the and the ambitions of his lieutenant, Cat

Nahas, a Fouad Serag el Din.

dispute

the Anglo-Sudan

that is not organised by the lated." · matter when critics have devout Blosiem, has survived five Security Council.

And attended by the been apparently quietened.

most garrison detemined attacks on his life by In 1948 he launched a

Leading Jurists, he said, have campaign gainst garrison; there is nothing to talk We feel, too, that threats young fanatics during the years outspoken

been working on a treaty which about except "Army shop."

concluded Egypt's decision to go to war in 1937-1948. (The last was a bomb about "we won't build at al}

Ismailin and the Bitter Lakes it is hoped will be Palestine. Peaple hore now are

States which algfied if...." are insufficient ex-

Statute, quarter hours by bus. As a sun- the Council of Europe cuse for dealing firmly with on the dollar; that is, if the recognising his wisdom in both are 30 miles away or one-and-a- between

these vital issues.

maintain de- noted in

mer jaunt, this is fins for a single pledging thern to the profiteering in new transactions are

Present Premier officer. But a married officer with mocratie freedom and individual

wife and young family human rights, apartments, an aspect of the books at all.

Transfer fees are another Egypt's present Premier, 52- community's life which is having serious inflationary exceedingly lucrative racket, year-old Abdel Hadi Farha, may finds it too much to consider dur- dip in the sea would be such o Cabinet. A tall, well-built man, effects. With certain notable landlords and principal ten-well assume this office in the nexting the long hot months when a exceptions, owners of these ants making 20 to 30 per Abdel Hadi was brought up in lovely thing. premises are using every cent of lease values on each modest surroundings, was educat

Just For A Flat This period in the provinces before com possible device to squeeze new occupant.

Most of the officers and their] the last dollar out of help-haps is the most vicious of ing to Cairo to attend the Univer

ht up in the wives would give the world some. less seekers after a place to all the key money rackets. sity there.

He soon got caught

for his times to take a flat outside the live. Typical is the case of Tenants are also likely to turmoil of politics

Revolt in garrison in

Stuez

but there "construction fees," brought lose the right to transfer part in the National

prejudice unless 1919 he received a sentence of 10 modern apartments in rightly to reimburse the without

he joined the Waid, which be left

com- owner of war-damaged pro- they have their original re- years' hard labour. Subsequently are at a premium. To discover

cheap in that of whom would require the luck one_1630- This and thus lose the chance of Ahmad Maher (both on rehabilitating it.

Prime Minis- cistes with a sweepstake winner. has, of course, been gleeful-getting their money back if were murdered as

Seadist The Moascar garrison is much ters) to join the new

more fortunate than its new ly adopted by builders of they have to leave.

Party.

All these parties confuse those neighbour, Fayid At Moascar new dwellings, mounting as It is our opinion that, late high as 50 per cent of their though it is, the public not immersed in Egyptian affairs, some of the officers' wives have

fashionable all bungalows with

a: patch off! investments. If this prac- should begin moves to force But nowadays the

They can employ a ser- garden. tiée is to be permitted, it government to take action slogans are all the

Financial and political inde vant and live as a family, "Though should at least be laid down about this grave menace to

pendence social

don's think for a minute we have The With these criss in that the fee must be return community welfare.

money at the end of it," said Egypt will go to the of E ed when the tenant leaves. situation is complex, but we the

people We can mention four and know, several persons who polls. Or rather, some of them one nightmare is that we shall be five roomed flats now being have carefully thought out will. The wealthy and more sop- transferred to the apartments at

histically educated saldom vots un-Favid.'! but less they

prominent politically. Bre offered at $000 a month and plans for remedying it. Ad- $40,000 construction How can this be Justified? needed, and skilled, incor- and peasants are

scarce the polls if they have a Further, we would be interruptible, men are

In their village, " Otherwisät ested to know if such sums everywhere. If the Colonial minded 'onidur (mayor are taxed. This is pure in- Office were fully informed treat the matter with indifference the use of this beach to all Moss

‚' however,'" „Voters are those who attend come, pure profit. The of our difficulties,

Nick CHE Officers and their familias); At Falles or read with a

*There are the Imallia Cluby initial outlay of capital is we do not think it improb -still there-in-the form of the able that they could' arrange

and political wrangleu viess Chibwand the spacious Canal press, they are most-

tall and appreciate in value as time sent here on loan for a short ly students or professional men Company gardens with that rarity,

shady trees goes on, as conditions are at period. It would take only working in

Exorbitant RentsTM are the

the Egyptians who will a Fin •kets to bé

the next Parliament during are, on

Cabinet's

to

and houses

perty who had spent money celpt endorsed to that effect, with his friends Nokrashy and thing appropriate and

BRIZIO.

town

rolastair Care Mosscar major's wife. “But our |

the

fees. mittedly extra staff would be the provinceded along to the garrison and see other! pontically-the French beach, operated by

of

Mosscar it is possible to

faces and hear other talk. There the Bues Canal Company (which despatched in open invitation for

building, and may..... In fact for-trained -personnel to columns devol Greek Club, and the United Ber-

in the

the

the moment. Such leen-are ju!few months for the malor the provincesty anbürbe or in

in skeet a; simple.

rent, but we

The treaty will be submitted to the Arst meeting of the Euro- Assembly in pean Consultative Strasbourg in August-Reuter.

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