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A MAN FLIES 4,000 MILES HOME WITH THE STORY OF
4
THE BRITISH
who hold
on
in ABADAN
-HAT is it like in
W
Abadan?
I was
there a few days ago.
The older men were ing an extra drink in
last club or snooker.
game
hav- the of
by
An official of the ANGLO-IRANIAN
OIL COMPANY
disaster. We shall be blamed or even accused of sabotage.
When the safety margin de- pends on the Bickering of a gauge needle, there can, soon be catastrophe.
One thing is certain. Few, if any, -Britons will work Persians. They fre for the shocking employers.
MacARTHUR for
PRESIDENT?
By
PROF. D.W. BROGAN
'་་ ༦ སྟོ་་༔ ""
Tis one of the rules, of that eclipsed all other forms of American politics that candkates publicity at the. Dellevue-Stratford Hotel in any man in the public Philadelphia. If one had been oye will appeal to some credulous enough, to; Assess group na n possible Prest weight of Eu
support by prominence MacArthur would dent, whether he has any of Billing,
have secrnéd. a formidable qualifications for the post candidate, But he got less than or, what is more importante une percent of the voted cast, any real appeal for voters. and the spectacle of General So there is nothing surpris Wainwright, when he left to ing in the formation of hold Corregidor, pleading the clubs and societies to push cause of his chief, was touching but not in the voting sense, the candidacy of General winning... MacArthur and thero would
be nothing surprising were as anything changed shee 1948? Well, as has been, said, he a much less prominent MacArthur is four years older figure, less valuable political, and so four years less eligible. material (at the moment) Is he a greater figure? He is at for the Opposition and less the moment, but he is also a more controversial figure, For of a national hero.
if he has added to his laurela, After all, Admiral Dewey he has also suffered a serious defeat. His alleged, knowledge and Henry Ford wore both of the Oriental, mind has been pushed with as much zeal proved less Uman complety, and and with less. fustification, his Juchement of the aution in But neither got nominated Korea may have been proved and there is no reason to of 1952 when the Republican wrong long before July bellove that General Mac Arthur will be...
Decisive Year
▪”་ ་ ་ ་
quite
convention meets in Chicago,
For if the war.is ended, honourably, successfully, on the lines laid down by General Marshall and the Chiefa of There is, first of all, his age. Staff, General MacArthur will He will be seventy-two next be represented ne the general year, the decisive · yehr, nearly
one
four years older than William Aho guessed wrong. In Novem- Henry Harrison was when he be when he pushed on to the was inaugurated in 1841 for his Yalif, wrong again in January Arst term, and General Harrison when he despaired of holding died in a month. It may be Korea, wrong, in April and brutal to put it that way, but the May when be offered presidency is a killing job, and recipe for victory which hla at the Repubilean Convention former superions turned, down next year, should MacArthur be and yet managed to win, the put seriously in nomination, a war. By stext summer, possibly not very well concealed though by this summer, the great new would be the unlikelihood of his military hero may well be serving out his term..
General Matthew Ridgway...
!
Long Exile
That, propability would, of course, make him an attractive, nominee for the supporters af a dark horse who would hope for Then General MacArthur has the vice-presidency but not for retired to a country from the presidency, but General which he had ostentatiously MacArthur is not likely to relish exiled himself. Whatever, his the role of the stalking horse motives, his fourteen years' I remember the evening.
of a dark horse. And that such, absence, has meant that he has calculations would be made, wo eren little of the changes that The men had finished
maybe sure.
have altered, America; changes hard day's work. The young For they knew that Anglo- tary of State sald no American
They were made' at the De- that even the most hide-bound ones were playing cricket Iranian had done a lot for Per would do such a thing. So the
Persia there are 3,000 Americans are out.
I know a man who went to mocratic convention in 1944 conservative living in America or tennis. They had no oc- sla. In
lot must have noticed, even if he work in their Finance Ministry. and Roosevelt Britons supporting directly or
a WAN casion to return to their directly a quarter of a million The Russians? The Persians It was Fix months before: Ire younger than MacArthur. They deplored, but which a man who deserted
bungalows for Persians..
hate them more
they was paid. than
will be made at the Democratie has spent all that time in hate us. And we know that their wives had flown back
In our agreement with the Go- the rich Rumanian oil fields, une docs eight hours a day, In the man is a candidate and he is a spell in Australia) may well We work longer. Every Briton convention of 1952 Mr Tru- "the Orient" (plus a short to Britain.
vernment we had promised to der Russians, are only turning
The work gaffen cokn- give Persians every chance
flest weeks of mitted in the to out just over half their prewar tummer the State employed good deal younger than General more. obtain high positions. We have supplies.
Persinns do only five hours. We MacArthur.
MacArthur's return to America stand the desert heat better. done so. There are departments
An Outsider
wore attributable, no‘doubt, "to In which Persions have English-
ineffable
officer, prest men under them,
Then it must be remembered. General Whitney, but then that the Republican profes- General MacArthur chose Whitney and made stonal politicians
who have General borne the heat of the day and him a general. Whether General have endured the agony of MacArthur knew what follies twenty years of Democratic were being committed in his And there are many obstacles.
rule are not at all anxious to name is not public. But they Take the language. After two
see the prize go to one who;- were' committed and will be or three years we could all speak
however great he is as a party remembered. Every employee, Persian or at least a smattering af Persian. N six months the oil will have asset, is yet an outsider. Twice "Go home you English- British, has only to turn on a The Persians with us
stopped flowing. The hos before, General MacArthur has American, polițion is a game mostly speak English after
apitale will be closed, and there been receptive to a nomination. aemocratic opponents and his and a rough game, and both his fashion.
· We
There He declined it before, will be no more money. the farmers
It was machinery. Each year we im-
wit be riots and the Tudeh not offered in 1944,- and gought - Republican rivals will play it How could Continental
en- Communist Party of Persia will ported thousands, of tons of gineers manage?
it in vain in 1948,
rough. The general, i in blo wheat to subsidise the poor diet
Go Into action.
years as proconsul in the One of our greatest fears is We may be too close to the One of the sad spectacles of Philippines and then in Japan, of the Persians.
fire. There are only three Britons situation to seo straight, but the Republican convention of has "not"; been used to, boing The Persians who worked for in charge of fire precautions at I don't think so.
that year was the vast banner trestad rough......... to. having his me know all that. They knew Abadan but they know their Yet, I wish that I were sul bearing | MacArthur's į portrait
in Alindan...a green and fertile the clubs and the cinemas and
1,000 Needed
In Persia, as a whole, living NUROPEAN free-lances? The Outside the gates. of the conditions are bad. There is Persians would need 1,000 of oil company's area Persian no running water in Teheran. them to turn out twenty per-
But round Abadan the company cent of our present supplies. Army Bentries lounged has extended. Irrigation pipe gracelessly as they watched lines to all the farmers to re- the young Persians wait- claim the land. ing for a chance to. shout
man."
Riots Begin
WHEN I went to Abadan there
were rumours about, Fer sian nationalisation. But the Idea
paid any great attention.
tap.
lent
could
Soon Abadan may be looted]. by fh Persian Government. “Our stores-of-thousands of tons of sugar, ef tea, of Unned fruit will go through corruption to the black market if that bap
pens.
Six Months
seemed so ridiculous that no one about the schools we had built, bus at seconds our brigade con spot we have built in the desert
Not until Prime Minister At Razmara was assassinated in March, and the Persian Govern, ment rushed the nationalisation Bull through Parliament, did it scem-Important, ----
On the afternoon of April 12 a Persian employee of the com- pany phoned me."“Ajimob is af- tacking the shipping" "ofloe," he sald
The shipping office was only a quarter of a mile from my office,
the absence of any form of dis- be, in action. The Persians Just erimination. And they feel, un haven't had the experience. happy.
If they take over our plant there may
soon be a terrifle
Our Home
FTER the riots the company A offered to give free return tickets to any of our wives and domilies who wanted to go home. That was important to us. We' are allowed normally only one free ticket each three years.
take ad-
keeping the plant running and hoping that the Persians will realise their craziness in time.
(London Express Service,).
INSIDE INFORMATION
By · MERCURY
IR charter companies
Mr Morrison is planning a shake-up at the Foreign
A have agreed to move or his proposals have been
50,000 British troops in a sent to Mr. Attlee.
so I telephoned and asked if But on the first day only 80 two-way charter-service be I could help. "No,” said an offl- prople turned up to clai, "but stand by to evacuate, vantage of the offer, your wife."
event to most of us Abadan was
tween United Kingdom and the Suez Canal zone if re-
I stood by for two hours. home. It was hot admittedly, quired.
I planned ways to defend our, in the summer--sometimes · 120 |
The Foreign Secretary/re- commends changes among-top- rank oficials in Whitehall and a tightening of overseas security.
•
An Under-Secretary of State
Bungalow I found two, pick degrees or more in the shade- Truman has asked Bradley has offered his resignation from hafin. I tried. to mmuggle them and in the winter sometimes be- | to continue as Chief of Staf into the home for I had not low freezing point. But we, were til 1953. told my wife of the riots.
But in the afternoon the riot. died down.
Again the phone rang. It was the woman next door to tell my wife about the riot, Biz
happy.
and
the. Foreign Office as a result
of the disappearance of the two missing British diplomats.
Yet each day the altuation Former Luftwaffe grew worse and more families Japanese pilots что flying The offer has not been ac- went boms. Still we couldn't be Russian MIGs in North Korca.cepted by the Foreign Segret
love the Persians meant trouble.
•
to send
They, can't run our oil fields. Brazli has agreed My wife laughed, and said: They may know enough to stop | adequate supplies of nickel to a. "I'd scare any mob, off with a the plant working. They know Commonwealth pool next year, fty-bomb.", A fly-bomb, is a enough, I shoulds estimate, to because. stocks in Canada are breakable container shaped like-pump; verpde, oll Inlimited fast diminishing,
a bomb, containing D.D. T. quantity, que teneatur vapour for killing intactecis s
''But none 'of, then is trained tó Russia has told. Perala. she We didn't know then that run the rhinery and there are is prepared to buy oll not res three Belush, engineers had been not so many countries needing quired by the Week
*great quantities of only · crudo
killed.
What We Did
•
The Russian Embassy staff at from 300 to 500 since January.. Bangkok has been increased
Gorl
..
„Stalin's birthplace), in the Caucasus; is, now "'a 'show- town and tourist centre
Anterica" has" promised arma to Egypt In the Egyptian Government will
tain.
The off would" be conveyed. Boss our wives flew home to by rail and road to the Cargain, political agrooment
borres J?Britain we sat In our clubs and then by tank TN the office the Persians who digued be
Astrakhan;' worked for me (ward angrylt som G with their countryment, “They floare Persians going to didn't have dycapologas. 74. Une7 20 chatkalnes and
Diplomatic relations the U.Band Czecño) Manono, In the Belgian, ar to and. No further
of will be issued to U;8; didn't even mention £43,But id +? để hư kalch that an American Congo, is terbocoma, que
thaitnie. 'respondentă bra-Voluntary. a dozen ways char> showed; hów(czémpany; made an offer, to run the world's largest sick n hest, they wereć
felor, lawy– the US. Beered producing centres,
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