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CASEBOOK Mossadegh
The G.I. Brides Are Home
THE
HE village might have been plucked from the heart of England and set down on London's doorstep for an exhibition. It has all the charm and some of the inconveniences of place that is truly remote, yet it is within 25 miles of Marble, Arch. Its population is about 150, and its nume is Flaunden.
A
Become A
Nightmare
By Charles Kennedy
Abadan, June 17. Many of the Perslan oil workers in Abadan's giant refinery would like to see the British 'back - because Mossadegh's dream of a thousand moons of prosper- ity has turned into a night-
mare.
discovered this from the I
Abadan moment I landed in and tried to pay for a bottle of sherbet beer is unobtainable lio
Finunden is not easy to reach but two village from London, girls have made it appear not
work, a step away much more than frein a town called McDade, in Texas, and une named Ottumwa
In lowa.
The girls, Freda Wilson (born Richards). and Jean Serltern (nee Wallington), both GI brides, have come back from these town to Flaunden on holiday,
то
the
15
with a 200 Rial (about £2) nolo at the airfield cafe. "No change", sald All son of All, fumbling with the silken "no tassel of his money-bag.
since the no money English went away,"
A year after oil nationalisa tion, once bustling Abadan still a slumbering city of "no work and no money. Even the gleaming steel stacks now look
hedges tarnished.
The lawns are unicut. grown und b
brown. On every corner, the English name the street has been blotted out by black paint."
Tho
O welcome them back
village hung out more flage than they had done since VE clay. The girls were driven in, state down the main street, and that evening most of the popu-workmen are lation sat down to a welcome- home supper (ham, salad, trides) hall.
are over-
street of
The world's largest refinery, with a daily capacity of 340,000 idic, and 74,000 barrels, is
They idle too. loll in the shade of the smoke- less stacks and wonder how long Mossadegh will be able to keep
in the act of the girls and them on the dole,
The
their
brought
children
has
"FIVE PERCENTERS”
Persian
(Freda with her Deborah, яix,
The only active group are the
Percenters" "Five three; Jean, her and Freddie, Michael, ve
Ave), Is considerable.
style. They are looting parts of at perhaps The equivalent, after all, of five installations to sell of overseas visitors on a population only 3 per cent of their original be, for London, a value. Every night after cur- 150 would of
few, lorries and sloops stacked sudden
of surge 250,000.
refrigerators,
motor tents, tyres and spare parts etc. leave Abadon. They say
that even big parts of the refinery have been dismantled and sent to Kuwait for sale 10 a Belgian
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Established 1845
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1952.
RESCUED AFTER DESERT ORDEAL
Court
Will
S.A. High Of Parliament
Meet In Secret
Capetown, June 17.
Dr Daniel Malan's Nationalist Government announced today that the High Court of Parlia ment will sit in secret any time it meets to override the rulings of the South African judiciary.
The President of the High Court to be set up by the to guillotine government has been given wide powers discussion of legal issues before members of the Union
Everyone is pleased to see the with core generators Senate and Assembly who are to be "judges."
girls back except loral jeremiahs who prophesied doom when they now greet them flew off, and
were if they rather as survivors leave from shipwreck,
Τ
•
•
•
on
CALLED on Freda first, at her
parents' four-roomed cottage, where she and her children have somehow been squeezed in. We parlour, tiny talked in. a
a kitchen dominated by a
range and with 11 photographs of Freda hung on the walls. Lying on s welcoming the chair
with village pennants, now, fastidiousness, all washed and Ironed ready to be returned to
were
their owners.
#
Freda, 30, dark, brown-eyed, level-headed, a little plumper when she left home five than years ago, said locking round the cramped, cosy room: "We've back real lurge rooms,
countin' The That's kitchen. An we've a real large back porch where we sit an' talk in the summer.
gaven home.
She talks with an authentle Texas drawl. She worked as a wages clerk in Watford before the war, married an airman who is a wages clerk now in McDade with a salary of roughly £20 a week.
Her American home is in a scattered village (no cinema, no Green ilke Flaunden's pub
she met her Dragon, where busband) in the centre of an area where they grow water- melons, corn, cotton ("in the falt class people, the kinda lower migrants, drive through to work pickin' cotton"), What does McDade? "Space," "and a washin' machine."
JEAN
she
miss
Sertterh, 27, was also missing her washing machine when I saw her. She was clbow deep in a galvanised ashtub in
cottage.
She worked as a cook in a King's Langley nursing home before her marriage. Here, she says, she misses most "the car and all the modern conveniences She haye." Momma doesn't
·
The rules were published as Western-type Democracy that' Witwatersrand police official J. such rules have been drafted.
The President will be assisted government
High of the C. Krlek lashed
and opponents alike during sessions
omeer who car- supporters for what he called the "shocking Court by an and deplorable" clash last night ries no special title; but who will be equivalent presumably as scrap iron. The looting started imme- in Vrededorp.
to the Sergeant-at-Arms la the À num- diately the British left.
British Parliament,
Bayonets, pickheads, flies,
ber of pallten" the Perslon iron bars and stones were used
D
with
-------
The Nationalists set up a High Court after. the ordinary-law courts had. branded the coloured voters measure illegal. As a result the country has been
plunged into a crisis over the constitution,
The President's rulings are
Rescued passcoders. of the BOAC Hermes zirilner strand- since May ed in the Sahara 20, 1,300 miles eff coarne. were landed at Atar, a French milliary airfield on their way to Dakar. After the Hermes
food, force landed
water, medical alds and other sup. plies were regularly parachut- ed to the stranded party. Stewardess Mimi D. Fisheat, (centre) of the BOAC rescue plane, is seen here chatting to MIKS M, Obern, stewardess stranded Hermes of the
:(left) and on the right is birs R. Gurney and her baby son Richard, ared 7 months,
the Hermes. passengers of
London Express.
Sabotage Caused Explosion
YOUR, BEST
DEVERAGE BARGAIN
WATSON'S
TRU-FRUIT CORDIALS
HUSH-HUSH CONFERENCES ON MIDDLE EAST
London, June 17.
Britain's diplomatic chiefs in the Middle East are converging on London for the full-dress secret the conference which they are to hold with Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, later this week on the area's strategic, political and económic aspects..
Defence of the Middle East will be the keynote of the five-day meetings which are scheduled to open at the Foreign Office on June 19 and in which Anglo-Egyptian differences and thé projected four-Power Middle East de- fence pact will figure prominently, daually reliable sources said.
An eight-point agenda rang- ing from defence to economic problems and the loss of oil le bren Abadan to Britain has prepared for the meeting which Mr will be presided over by Eden and directed by the A sistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Reginald James Bowker.
"exchange
NEW TIGER
REPORT
Another tiger is reported to have made its appearance in the: New Territories,
Omcials said that the meeung will be devoted to an overall On Monday, say reports, far- et view" and an mer Chung of Wongchukshan extensive analysis of the stiua-Village, Sal Kung District, left buffaloes to at the several of his woler tlon in the countries
graze on the hillside when al Middle East./
about I p.m. he heard a stam. assessment will be avail-pede. On investigation he found able to the meeting of the "Ble that one of his animals had been
Minisicra In Three Foreign. London: later next week when
Its
the United States Secretary 62 Dean Acheson," ar State, Mr rives here on his way to Berlin
CHIEF ITEMS
to
The agenda, according official quarters, will metude the following chief items:
1-Defence and strategle im- plications Including Anglo-
and Egyptian relations four-Power Middle East Com- mand project.
2-Arab-Ifracli relations.
the
3.-The question of the Sucz Canal and the blockade of ship- ments to Inract.
4. The projected renovat
on
an
killed and half eaten by animal which left behind foot prints.
Farmers In the nearby dis- triets believe that it was the same tiger which made its ap pearance in Laoshishan, Shatin, last week, where another buffalo was reported killed and eaten.
Sai Kung Police, when con- tarted this morning, sold that they had received no report.
Judgment Postponed
Judgment in
of
Living Language
Why we say A 'stic-" kler at trifles,
The old English word "slightle" . meant to rule, and a "stickler" WILS
n second to a duelilat endowed with the power to stop the he (the fight if stickler) deemed that It had gone on long enough to antisfy claims of honour. From this sense a "stickler" became known as one who was more interest- od in the rules than in the spirit of the pro- ceedings, with the re- gult that he is now known as one who is obstinate about small things.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18 By Air
Malaya, Indonésia, Australia, Now Zealand, Burma, 4.30 p.m., C.P.A.
Formosa, 4.30 p.m., H.K, Au Ways.
Siam, Fi India, W. Pakistan.- Middle East, Africa, Great Britain. Europe, 4.30 p.m., 8.0.A.D.
Japan, Korea, 4.30 p.m., 1.0.A.C.
By Surface
stacao, i p.m. p.m., e Les
Philippines, 2 p.m.. m Pres.... Van
THURSDAY, JUNE 19 By Air
the charge Berlin, June 17. -
of the Israeli Foreign Office to corruption against two women
Control Sabotage caused an explo- Jerusalem and its implications. Price
Inspectors, sion last month which shat-
5.-Persia and the effects of which was to have been deliver- Hong/Tak Shing
ed by Mr J. Wicks at Kowloon to be considered final and no tered a Soviet experimental the closing down of the Abadan this morning, has been postponed Burer.
at refinery
general Middle until 10 a.m. on June 30. Legal counsel a vote on question or demand guided missile station will have to be robed when they Pennemuende, on the Baltic appear before either the Com-coast, and set work back for at least three months, an mission or the High Court, →→ Associated Press.
East German refugee work er said here today.
CHINESE CONTINUE : ATTACKS
Eastern polley.
Defendants, Leung Kat-yce, -The economie aspects of alias Monica Leung, 27, and Philippines, Guam, Hawaii.
development Middle Eastern
Chan Pek-ho, alias Rita Chan, San Francisco, Noon, via P.A.A.
Indo-China, Trance, French North projects and what new pro- 24, were charged with accepting
West Africa. 4.30 p.m. Als grammes could be initiated.
a bribe of $200 from the Tah Vietnam.
Philippines, N. Borneo, 4.30 Fah Store, 64 Haiphong Road, -7—Arab refugees.
-The situation in Jordan. Other points may be added to the agenda in the course of the meeting whose order will not be rigidly followed.
Kowloon, on February 20 lest P. PA
Blam, E. & W. Pakistan, Middle
for
By Burfice
extremists ar rived to
and workmen, who technleins
a long series between the member con were thought to have been too under British Influence.
United Democratic Frunt of op- tong
of them soon found positionists and, the Nationalists. many of ther But
At least 32 people were taken out that looting was more profitable business than incul- to hospital. cating the workers political doctrines, -------
their months ago
The worker, whose name was activities were confidentinity re-
as a reward for forbearing to East, Africa, Great Britain, Europe divulged by Inteligence not Sorted by Dr Mossadegh, who
officials in West Berlin, said 13
prosecute the manager, Yeung 4.30 p.m. B.9.4.C. dispatched one of his cousins,
overcharging. Hung-cheong, Germans were killed and 51 General Sheybani, to clean up
in the explosion,
on a bottle of whisky. badly injured dis-
The case was heard on June the situation. Later he
which took place on May 23. missed the
(Tranfast
which INOC
take The High Court will
D and 10, after Soviet security police and East National Oil Company) General decisions by a majority vote of
Representatives who will at
Magistrate' reserved his nlready agents had German
tend the meeting include British cision. Manager in Abadan for inept-members present.
arrested 18 people who worked
Ambassadors.OF
or Ministera in Mr M.A. da Silva op The government should have
at the station.
Egypt, Syria, The Lebanon, The peared for both defendants, and LAST REPORT
difficulty เก mustering
Chemicals stored in the open The
opposition majorities.
Libya, Iraq, the representative of Chinese troops showed outside an underground burker Yemen, Jordan, Turkey, Iran, the Prosecution was conducted sure to pretty groups are
exploded early in the morning
the Middle East supply office in by Sub-Insp. L. Bradley. boycott the High Court as a signs early this morning of May 20 and touched off stores
Fayed Inside the missites "fraud."
compoun
Press, The High Court's preliminary of slackening the counter of rocket
Guarded work will be done by a 10-man attacks that have made a heavily
minutes Within three which is seven-day battle for ม Judicial Commission
had swept through two bunkers. due to meet in Pretoria about Western front hill mass the One of the Soviet scientists July 0.
ness.
But the thet's continued. As a last reson, Mossadegh sent in hiz son-in-law, gruff Senator Bayat, ds Special Government Representative with Ministerial rank.
no
TORCH COMMANDO
Seoul, June 18.
the
in-
Radio Hongkong
and others. United
AUSTRALIA'S PROBLEMS
(Continued from Page 1}
may even have to be in some respeels Increased.
a
"We have reached a clear agreement in principle with the United Kingdom on two vita! matters. The first is that the in- creased Australian food produc tion is to
to be regarded us of high order of priority, both dur ing the 'cold war and in the event of event a hot war
"Immediate studies are being made in London In order work
the
to
out necessary food tar- gets at which the United King- dom should like us to aim.
Bayat, who is now absoluto bose of Abadan and the oil- felds, is trying to stop loating
bloodiest since January, working there was badly in- with a heavy hand. He has in-
An Allied officer reported from Jured and flown back to troduced trial by military tri-
the front around midnight the Soviet Union. bunal and the death penalty for The strong right arm of the Chinese had not started their The refugee reported
the Toren nightly assault against UN troops creasing
security measures by hose found guilty.
Commando For twelve hours a day recent Cpposition groups,
of ex-servicemen, dug in on the big hill, West of East German and Soviet officials have arranged to held a national Chorwon,
on the island of Ruegen, just off 1, he has been closeted with the Departmental Chiefs of
congress in the same city at the
But he stressed this did not the, Mechlenburg coast. He said INOC
the Military Governor,
same time.
also that shipments of uranium crt necessarily mean the Reds the Governor-General, and the
would keep away from three from the East German mines at she said. Chief of Police, drawing up The High Court itself will Allied held knobs during the Aue, in Saxony, had reported
plans.
meet in private, except when morning darkness.
arriving on Ruegen, which is a General Rehnyl, the refinery formally delivering its decision, The Chinese threw a battalion Soviet experimental submarine boss, told me that besides put- but the Judicial Commisalon of about 750 soldiers against and torpedo base. the lootings, will hear the legal argument in Allied defenders for five days a stop to ting
Pennemuende was a German in the last Bayat te preparing a plan to pubile. Provisions are made for after giving us the bottom end V-1 and V-2 base slash INOC expenses by come members of the High Court to of the shaped hill group war. Reuter.
consider
Thursday night. They gave up the main room of her mother's | 35 per cent. This will be done i be excused involved Tuesday morning's assault adler |
by:
themselves personally
in the (1) Using half of the idle or colon. The rules alao Allled troops fecan their trenches.
or committed. in legal
Issue their attacks failed to budg workers who draw a £1,700,- undec
for maintaining order 000 dole each month-fur night- provide for
BIG LOSSES the Judicial Ing locusts, repairing roads, and at meetings of
The Allied oMeer said the and of the Higa
"In the second place, it has working as farm-hands wherever Commission help is required;
is the first dead are still piled up" around Court itself. This
been agreed that the extent to hill "T". The incomplete Red Light Mfuate and. Bong, Vocal:| which our defence material (2) Making badly needed time in the history of any
casualty count is
are more than 1-Binnie Hale: 9.30, Furces Bandstand, requirements
successfully goods at the refinery workshop
000 dead and wounded, he said. Concert Hall) Band of the Int Bat reaching satisfaction should be dix Regiment. By Kind Per-
the defence Communist artery and more mission of Lt. Col. B. W. Gwyn. Incorporated i FAST DWINDLING used in the manufacture of high tar guns continued, pounding oneer Commanding. Bandmaster Mr requirements of the Clavement Bayat is also trying to sell grade pelroj.
away af Allied troops yesterday A. Jackson; 7.50, Lucky Dip of the United Kingdom, so that
resented. morning. The Reds fired more variety Requests
Australia will obtain her rateable some oll through high pressure. As I write, I hear the shouts of
Mens Margherita (studio): 7,50. Weather. salesmanship. Every time a an angry met outside. The as than 18,000 rounds at the Eighth Report: 8.00, Time Almal. World pertion of the things as they
News Talk London become available." France have not changed much and"] ship arrives at Khorramshahr or, demanding food for the fricas Army Sunday night and Mon-News and
Abidan, his who have been inside the nearby a plane landa at
Falksongs and Country Dancer salesmen surround it, and offer Telegraph Ofee, for two weeks. day a probable. Red high In Relay); B.16, Tuale from Holland. Prese
(RNTS) Orchestra, Mixed chair and oil and petrol at ridiculously low Their friends are doctors, nurses, nearly two years of war.
Allied guns fred more H of Radio Nederland con- 8.30. prices. So far they have sold engineers, and municipal worker
340 of them who have taken 1,300 rounds on a angie divi ducted by Feitz De Nabell
Week-Vienna of the 40 tons of fuel to an Italian (sanctuary) inside the slow frost, in some of last year's Orchestra
Philharmonic Orchestra: 9.00, Lon= compr. Another 1,000 tons
The have been bartered' 'against do. Telegraph Office, and vowed that Difces mens answered-Uin on Sluglo Melodies (BDCTS) 'Erle -410 |nobinson and his Orchestra -with they will not leave until the
*****, 031" Futta.. Shelley and Donald Scolt; livery of sugar, to
order sadding them is withdrawn Chinese
barrage that Margaret Italian ship.
Richardson, Sybil Thorndike and Bayat's efforts to seji aviation by Teheran. The crowd shouts Monday night and yesterday 30, World Theatre (DBCT) Ban
"Tomorrow. It will be our turn mowing, with
Leighton in 'A- Hadio" more than neutralised. the Red Adaptation of "Brand" by Henrik spirit from stock have been An old man climbs on a push shelling. UN bombers also flew then-Part 1 19.20, A short Recital:
the and sober "The British never dia The village was delighted to see more successful due to him, but for centuries the world shortage. But supplies such things. There are mulled close support overhead in the by Yehudi Menuhin (Vloun, 10.30, of aviation spirit ore fast dwin-cheers, then grim silence as four action and the Chinese again The Tunetul Twenties; 11.00, Radio (London Relay); 11.D. villages had welcomed soldiers
or self-pro- Novaglit Music: 11.13.Wekiber arg Sherman tanks, manned by Per- breught up tanks home from the war-iments; wel-dding, and the Persians
unable to produce more due:40 | sĩán] Rtray crew, lumber polled guns to blant Allied de Report God Save The Queen, 11.30, comes home for women are still
fenders-Amciated PresEN,
Clase, Down.. a-novelty.
their lack of a lead compound mercingly towards the crowd...
turned to her mother. "Oh, gee, I wish I could take you over just to shop at the supermarket," she zaid. "Not ever all that water," her mother sald firmly,
•
THE Village declares, the girls
they say the same of the village. The day after their return an- other young person returned to Flaunden from Rome
·distance
Oral Bill, Bonnett, .re guler soldier, handsome and on leave bronzed, sitpped in from the Far East; The bunting was down, and
there was no state drive or bumper.
supper.
for sale.
another
around
hill
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