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By EILEEN TRAVIS

110

country,

Most of the million pounds a week he is getting in royalles is going, to improve- ments on his own country, which has known nothing but hard-! ships for centuries,

The average number of tankets which call daily' at Mina Port is The Sheikh has British financó twenty-five-though as many as and development experts advising eventy-five a day have loaded the heads of his own development

in the

-board, and about forty British up at this best port

technicians are already in Kuwait Persian Gulf.

heading new building schemes.

|VERYTHING about Kuwait la big except its size. The ruler. df Kuwait, HIB Abdullah Ilighness Sheikh

hotels, no restaurants, no which had feat come into berth

One of his pet schemes is now As-Sabah, has the biggest cinemas, no trees, no grass, no No. 1 when I visited the jetty. income of any man on liquor, no water. But there are In other berths were French, under way. It is a water die- earth, one million pounds a hospitals and schools now and Greek, Italian, Scandinavian and tillation plant where salt water are going up as fust as American tankers leading up from the Gulf will be turned

to with all. In the Gulf, waiting

The dusty bricks end material can work. The biggest oil pool morg yet found in the world is in brought in.

their turn to come, in, I counted into fresh water. The Kuwalt oll company is the ninu other oil tankers from ah streets are being paved, and a £50,000,000 housing develop- Kuwait. The largest oll loading jetty in the world is only one which is owned solely over the world,

ment is planned. in Kuwait.

The biggest the

by the British and Americeny, Anglo - American locusta in the world fly in

Corporation. Oil was first struck black clouds over the desert in February 1938. When the war sands of Kuwait.

started the wells were jammed. The country is booming. The In 1948, 600,000 tons of crude boom is profiting Kuwaitians, oil was moved. Since then the British

Oll production in Kuwait is and Americans. If Agures have more than doubled Britain never got another drop and trebled, and the biggest pro- booming and the potential figures of all out of Persia, it is the duction came in time to coincide are dazzling. But it is not in- Persians who would suffer more with the less of cfl frem Pira. tended over in build a refinery. than the British. Britain could

here. In future the refining of write off the Abadan afl refinery

oil is going to be spilt up as much IE only thing I did not see in Kuwait was the face of a as possible. 238, but she would

Plans are under

The Sheikh capital 1035, $111 have ail in plenty coming THE Agure for 1930 was over way for refineries to be built in Kuwalitan woman,

tolerate any of his from the sterling

17,000,000 tons; for 1951; Aden, Pakistan, Bombay and will not Ever since Persia nationalised 28,500,000 tons, and the target India. And it is the American female cubjects exposing her her oll, the Middle East has for this year is 40,000,000 tons. Shell Oll Group who will build face. From the age of ten an- ore draped in stepped up production of crude Last year the ruler received the new refineries Oil experts wards women

Until oll and Kuwait is producing oll £4,000,000 in royalties. The who worked at Abadan in Persia black from head to foot.

ago no woman was at the fastest pace of any field in next fifty-fifty agreement signed are arriving in Kuwait at the four years the Middle East with the sole with him last December will net rate of 507 a week. A tour of ever seen on the streets of the Men did the shopping. Arabia. him now approximately £82, the Ahmadi oll centre of Kuwait But Kuwait has undergone a few excuption of Saltdi

000,300 this year, is impressively easing Kuwalt

showed me a new Abadan in the changes and women walk about Britain's dollar shortage and Drillers

making. from Texas work in

the town now, their full shopping bringing new wealth to America the Burgan olideld

where the and herself undergoing revolu- other day I watched the 12513

baskets balanced on top of their voluminously black draped tionary social and economic well being drilled. British work

figures, with Americans, side by side though they far outnumber them. Altogether

700 either in the

1.9

changes.

arca,

No Income Tax TOBODY' in Kuwait pays in-

Side By Side

town.

Head To Foot

A Difference

Sheikhdom in special Treaty UWAIT is an independent

Neliher will the ruler, who in with the British work relations

British deeply religious Moslem, tolerate flelds or In Government, Nothing galls the any of his subjects drinking than to have his alcohol. Punishment is swift administrative offices at Ahmadi, ruler more, Ave miles from the fteld, Fitty country called a British Protec- for any Kuwaitian 'caught with

alcohol-a-whipping. is no duty on cars imported into American drillers and torate. the country and only four per technicians are here.

NOBO

come tax, neither British, Americans nor nationals. There

There is subtle difference.

cent duty on anything else Company expenses are shared Kuwait is not a protectorate, but to bring liquor into the country,

brought 1. In the hops of Kuwait town you can luxury goods from America, India and France.

ד-

loading

It

Political

Europeans must obtain licences

Seem Contented

buy nifty-fity by the British and the state protected by Britain who and soldiers are stationed on the Britain, Americana, and the oll produc- is responsible for its defence and road that leads into the oil town The the foreign affairs of the country: 22 miles in the desert from tion is divided Afty-fifty. There are nu controls on money-British and Americans each sell The Sheikh has absolute control Kuwait Town, who search cars, either, and In the bazaars you their share independently in the over the affairs of his own other than the Oil Company ones,

The British country, of solid gold, world markets.

for smuggled liquor. can buy bricks With the exception of

jurisdiction over all dates, sand The oll

jeity, which Agent has and locusts, everything has to is the largest ever bulit, was foreigners in Kuwalt, whether be Americans, Indians or be brought into the country. Ono opened in November 1949. hundred thousand people live in is T-shaped jatty extending a next-door neighbours from Ireq,

ruler of Kuwait is giving le lively mile into the Persian Gulf where Saudi Arabia or anywhere else. This people new hospitals, fresh the town--which is

The ruler of Kuwait has never town in the country-and every the largest oll tankers in the

"gweet water" world. call.

There are teaspoonful of

nine been outside the confines of the water, electricity, housing and berths, loading

seven on the Persian Gulf. He will listen to education for women as well as has to be brought in ships from Iraq.

Jetty and two sea berths. "British and take advice from the British men. He has been trying to give Food, fruit and vegetables have Freedom" was the name painted end.Americans, but he hasn't the them Western. progress, but he to be imported.

observe the morality of the East. There are no on the spick and span of tankerelightest desire to visit olther, is determined that they shall His rule is accepted un- questioningly. Everyone 4cems contented about the way he is spending his new riches-with the exception of some of the tror ikhs in the country, who feel they are not getting e big enough out of the oil royalties paid to the ruler,

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who was Mussolini's slon or prejudice.

The 1:allons he regarded with son-in-law and contempt. He wanted to make These, and many other a'de-

race. lights a dcminant

ucon Italian politics learn," he de- make entertaining reading, but from 1936 to 1943 can hard-

mont Important ly fail to be interesting: all dered, "to be less sympathetic perhaps the

in order to become hard, re- part of the diary concerns the

mas Italian relations with England. more so when the tentless, hateful-in feet

English policy hiss often been writer combines in so strik ters."

condemiked, but, as Mr Mal-- ing a fashion the observa-

colm Muggeridge points out. in tion of a gossip columnist,

his introduction, Neville Cham- ond again

berlain's the cunning of an intriguer, PUT again

object to detach let the Dace Mussolini from Hitler was per- and the servility of a toady. D Italians

The trouble down. What could one do when feetly legitimate.

was that the means employed Many people will have read the head of the anti-Jewish or- em- and enjoyed the already pub- ganisation was found to bo

concllation -appeasement and secretary.

Mussolini lehed portion of Clano's diary ploying a Jewish

merely convinced 1036 T:16 1 the kind of thing." that he could get more by covering the years from

than by Co- to 1943. They will enjoy just says Clano, "which foreigners blackmailing

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translated, and

admirably dealing with the earlier perlod from August 1937 to the end of 1038.

THE two

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the

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By Robert BLAKE

operating with the English.

suert

Eden,

The one Minister who pur-

a firmer policy

was Mr and the diary is ample evidence of the dislike

with which he was regarded and the rejoc

o'cing at his

fall

Perhaps by this tim

time nothing would have moved the Duce from his pro-German orienta- lon. He hatred and contempt of England appear genuine enough, and he was convinced that a conflict was "nevitable what- on a historical plane," ever that may mican. Clano of course agreed,

Then there was the regret lable episode at Munich when In some WDYB the new

scme peasants from Bari, sent volumo brings out Its author in

cn a goodwill mission, proceed- an' even worse Ught than the ed to relieve themselves on earlier book. There we Naw the stairs of the Brown House h'm when Fascism was on the disgusting incident likely decline and Ciano's comments to lower us to an unbelievable OREOVER, the

Duce con- both on Mussolini and the re extent in the opinion of the Aldered that England was gime were agreeably critical. -

Germans."

irrevocably decadent and inter- But here Ciano appears in

how And

was llallan nationalist, and therefore a hope the

his prosperity heyday of

to be maintained less plly. "In a country where and in his true colours, vain, prestige

to parrots unscrupulous, lying and double abroad f the army, Insisted on legacles aro. left

head of the you can be crossing and all the while an appointing as obsequious creature of

the Military Mission in Bolivia "a cadence

and as sides, It is the rosnit of the Colonel five feet high

the English round as a ball"

Four million surplus Like most men who have no

There were othor

obalscles, poaltion of prine'ples he worshipped suc- cess, and as long as Mussolint to Mussoy'ni's plans. For exam women. Four million sexually

ple, the monarchy aroused his unsatded women, seemed successful his devotion special wrath and he is con- able to embrace one man, they was unbounded. "Mussollal ia stantly, talking to Ciano about embrace humanity."

did always right," deelarca Ciano,

Upon such considerations getting

the rld

House of and there is no doubt that he Savoy!

foreign policy of Ilaly de

during those critical meant #t.

Indeed, from his own point pend Despite Clano's praise Mus of view he would have been years... solini,

Duco.

'thờ

..

has

Bure that

de

Be.

Not being

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