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SEFTON DELMER MEETS NEGUIB

Anace foreign affairs reporter cables a penetrating

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report on his talk with Egypt's ruling general-Neguib. It was the first time any British journalist has been able to conduct a personal across- the-table probe into the new question-mark power over the Nile:-

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HAT should-

one think of the crinkly faced, leather-

skinned little man in the British-style uniform 'of

on

.major.

Egyptian general who is running. Egypt today?

What, I wonder, did Sir James Robertson, Civil Secretary of the Sudan Government, who spent two hours with him in Cairo last month, make of him?

Sir James has had long experience in sum- ming up the Sudanese and the Egyptians.

I have no difficulty in telling you some of the * questions Sir James .must have asked him- self as he looked into those sharp; twinkling eyes under a low fore- 'head and crew-cut crop

of wiry, iron-grey hair.

CHARMER

-which is America's

view of this 'soldier, patriot, practical man'

general

wecks negotiating and mal- ing condition before they finally agreed.

"Wo have asked them to deliver 15 Jet Aghiera we had ordered and paid for. Delivery

of these aghters,

you recall, was stopped when Naha's Government. repudiated the alliance treaty last year.

"Now the British have sent me

me a mile-long ques- tionnaire.

"They

want

10

know

whether our air force has pitols to fly these fighters, whether we want British instructors to train our men, whether we are ready to use

these fighters £11 Joint manoeuvres with the RAF in Egypt. And lots more questions,

"Frankly,

as

it is just though someone was trying to

sobotage the whole or TYRANT thing. The people are be

-which is how friends

of Farouk would wish

the British to see him

ginning to my, 'Look st General Negulb. He's fall- ing for the old British trickery. They are string- ing him on with their end- 1c3 negotiations."

WHAT NOW ?

and majors whose coup put It is my belief, after listen- For I had had a long talk him in power.

ing to Brigadier Gamal Abdel with

Nüsser, the the general myself Certainly the

general's right YES, he probably does feel hand man, and other members that, and for that. And only the day before. And, looked as sweetly reasonable of the military committee the certainly it is the opinion of ilke any other Briton meet as Old Joe Stalin himself. Militburo Stalin would call it the brigadiers behind him, the ing Egypt's new strong And, with a pipe in his that once we are out they will men who are already plotting man, Premier General mouth-he had filled it with never let us in again, even as the next

coup, part of an International defence Or them, and what they Mohamed Neguib, today, I a broken-up Italian cheroot

mean to you and me, tomor- had put those questions he was uncannily like one- This means that it wo go, row. Tomorrow, together with to myself.

of those

benevolent the defence of the Middle East more facts to help you solve

force i

"Is the man, as our portraits of the Kremlin will collapse. For it rests en- the riddle of Negulb, London American allies claim, just a uncle.

tirely on the British, the only Express Service. major Power actively commit-

simple Egyptian soldier, But from the word go it patriot, and practical man was "Take it or leave it," ready to judge practical and "I don't believe in long Issues with practical com- negotiations.”

mon sense free of fana- Of the Sudan, Negulb ticism and prejudice? Can said: "The proposals I have he be trusted? Or is he, as made in my last Note to the the Farouk men would have British Government are my us believe, just another final word. They are not would-be Machiavellian just the starting point for double-talk specialist, whose negotiations. They have pledge is no more reliable been agreed by me with the than those of his politico major political parties in predecessors?

the Sudan, and I intend to "Above all, is this strong stick by them. man strong enough to im- pose his will on the turbu- lent followers he has brought to

power with him ?"

'LAST HOPE'

COMMITTED

ted.

"Alilanco' with the West?"

dis said Negull to me, after

both neutrality and an missing alliance with the Russians as

impracticable attituties for Egypt in the cold war. "Well, British talk about this in prin when the Americans and the ciple, they always sound help- fai and friendly.

"But when it comes down to business, they squeeze us, hem us in with conditions and te-

mands.'

But Negulb did, in fact, have one thing to say in favour of the West. "With American help the general said, "Tur-top key is building up a

strong army and air force. What I ask

is that you should make the same kind of arrangement for

NEGUIB emphasised his Egypt."

MOTIVES-

"Surely the British Press doesn't mind a tiny toe like this getting in its door."

CLIMB WITH

THE

London Express Servics

UP TO

WITH ME UP DIZZY HOOTCHIE

By BERNARD WICKSTEED

Korea.

HAVE been to see how the British hold a hili- in the front-line area. I saw a

human rabbit-

warren which the men have called Dizzy Heights.

Rain is more of a muisance said it had already happened- than shells, and rats are twice. worse than either.

The major's hootehle is

Near by is the hootchie of Lance-Corporal Joe Miles, of Bute Street, Liverpool. undoubtedly the best in the He's very hootchie-proud, is block. You can actually Corporal Miles, He had built- stand up in it without in furniture all round the cracking your head on the walls, polished candlesticks. celling, and he has a cock made from the tall units of tall cabinet made out of a mortar bombs, and the soup box let into the earth

standard hootchie stove, wall.

"I shall have to get the chimney seen to," the major

told me. "The rats get into

It was occupied by D, or view that if the

Dog, Company of the King's Sudan is to have self.

Regiment, and was like a determination, "It is essen-

little piece of Liverpool in that all

is the most positive, the middle of Korea. British st IT is most vital to find tial

• most helpful, and most en- the correct answer to influence which could have couraging remark the general From the front-that is these questions. Not only an effect on the elections made. Even though it is to say the side facing the for Britain and the British should be eliminated so that dominated by his desires:

ONE.

This stove. is made from Commonwealth but for the these elections may be truly To please the Ameri-enemy-there is nothing to cans and divide them from the show these hills are any whole Western world. free and independent.

different from the tens of it for warmth, and when I a metal ammunition-box with petrol-soaked TWO. the

stoke up the stove they fall filler To get money and thousands of others, but down cooked. It is not funny Band, and a chimney of 25- arms with which to support his from the back they are

to have a roasted rat drop simply put a match to the pounder shell cases. You regime.

What did the general have to busy as ant-hills.

on your head." .. of his relations with tho

petrol and, if it docan't blow power? British since he took

This sounds like a shaggy the whole place up, you soon you ask. Nothing very flatter-

Dog Company story, but he have the stave red hot. Ing, believe me. He was criti- go cal.

"I'll be frank with you,” he

For Britain is being

That is the object of pressed to accept General emendations to the self-govern Neguib as Allah's great, ment statute which have been never-to-be-repeated, It's agreed by me with the Sudan- your-last-chance gift to the e parties, and I am not gǝ-

ing back on them." West.

In return, she is to give up control of the Suez Canal base, which with its stores, harbours, airfielda, and ports is essential to the Western world's defence against a possible Soviet in- vasion of the Middle East.

This Soviet invasion, if successful, would not only cut off vital oil areas but open Afrlek to the Soviet armies and turn the flank of the NATO armies de fending Europe.

British.

say

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a

As an afterthought, he added

Dizzy Heights is like block of cliff-dwellers' flats. significarly: "I could not beck on them if I wihad 10."

said. "I have taken a consider. You climb to it by 139 steps Neguib grinned charmingly able political risk in proffering made of ammunition cases the wedged in the soft red soil. and puffed at his pipe most en my hond in friendship to gagingly, but he dismissed all British. I am most disappointed It is hard going, and at the suggestions that a British with their response. Instead of 100th step some joker has Governor-General would be on returning confidence with

notice saying cffleleat and practical official. fidence, they have met me with put up

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CLEAR OUT!

the Suez Canal,

suspicion.

con-

"I asked them to help us out

"Nearly there.".

.Paths branch out at of our financial difficulties by] releasing at once the £5,000,000 different levels and lead to General of Egyptian sterling balances the human burrows of Dog Neguib said to me: "The due to us in January next Company. In the First British must withdraw all their year. But instead of granting World War they would have forces from Egypt and hand this request at once and giving over the installations to Egyptian Army.”

the my people an exemple of Bri-been called dugouts, in the tain's good will, they spent last war foxholes, but in this

one they are known as. ootchies or "hootchies- according to whether or not Įyou aspirate.

"But," day Neguib's powerful advocates, "with-

Delightful suggestion when out Egyptian_good will and co-operation, Suez is value- you consider that these instal- Lattone have cost taxpayers less as a base anyhow. So several hundreds of ma- take this chance. Bolster lens of pounds and that the Neguib by giving him what Egyptions are completely in- he wants. That will win not capable of looking after them. "Only when the last British only Egypt to your side but the whole Middle East. soldier has left Egypt, and we elions, shall we be prepared to Turn him down and the last are completely free in our de- opportunity of gaining consider the question whether Egypt's good will has gone, or not we join the Middle East Besides, Neguib is the most defence system." reasonable man. He is quito ready to accept a bit less than he has asked for..

NO EASING WELL, let me inform you evacuate the Suez bases. For t at once, I-did not find will not be possible to

in face of Negulb at all ready to tan population." PROOF! modify any demands. If you think it is à foregone Equally intransigent were conclusion that once we are members of Negulb's top out of the Suez Canal, Negulb (will 'Einster, to' calf us back in secret military committee again you've got to guens young brigadiers, - colonels, again.

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Not a very attractive bird on the bush, is it, for which wo are asked to exchange our Buez bird in the band?

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But Negulb realises that. So he added: "After all, it is real- ly in the British interest to

them

hold 'hostile Egypt-

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The major of Dog Com- pany has his hootchie on the top storey of Dizzy Heights. Above him there is only the gunnery..observation post on the roof garden.

The principles of hootchie architecture are simple. You dig a large hole in the side of the hill, shore up the roof and sides with timber, buildi afront wall of sandbags, and make the ceiling as waterproof shellproof and ratproof as you -DAN.'

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