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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1953.

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NEW DEAL

FOR JAMAICA

Ochorios, Tuesday, friends, etc., have departed. All into a Federation with a 3,000,- done to put Jamaica on a sound

CHURCHILL'S is peace, All is quiet.

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London Express Service

DON IDDON'S

DIARY

BANS BEER

By J. L. HAYS

#OFTLY out of the desert

como whispers of a drama beforo which even Hollywood script writers might well stand humbly bure-headed.

Star of this story of the burn- Ing sands of Saudi Arabia 77-year-old King Ibn Saud, the £50,000,000-a-year King of the Nejd end-Hedjaz, Imam of the. Wabubbles, Guardian of the Holy Cilles and Lord of Arabis, Extra ro scores of toughs, hard-living, aun-burnt American olimen, employees of

011 Com- Arablan-American

the

pany, masters of the world's blagest oil concession (440,000 square miles) and the biggest single all-producing (850,000, barrels a day) organisation on the face of the earth.

And the plot?.... Ibn Saud, like the granite-faced old Mon- jam'autocrat he is, has banned the importation of all alcoholic drink into Saudi Arabia, 'and cast a chill over the oilmen's

air conditioned, chromlum plated bungalows and caravana equing above: 15,000,000,000 barrels of known oil reserves -- ar just about half of the world reserves under American con- trot.

BURNING FAITH

For Saudi Arabia is a Moslen country, and Ibn Saud is a Mosicom king to whom all drink- ing dancing, singing, or smok- ing is abhorrent. And neither pleas nor pressure from the oil company from which he draws most of his fabulous wealth in "royalties are likely to deter this stern old warrior.

Intam is fiercely burning faith in the heart of Ibn Saud, who prays five times daily in vast white-washed, coral- walled air-conditioned palace at

still de- Yet

his

000 population. He said grand financial basis, and perhaps ly: "I will not have it unless Federation is the answer.

illegitimacy is the headquarters of the Federa-

high.

these pressingly tion is established in one of the .The splendid hotels, the people are religious. Sometimes small Islands, Jamaica

and dazzling constellation of silver their religion takes the form of too big. That is my condition not solva Jamaica's economic The native Jamaican needs moral Federation, and I expect the problems. The sugar industry, and religious help. Federation to come about in ap- proximately three years."

the banana Industry, and agriculture cannot. There has to be a new deal for Jamaica.

small island to head the

arrival here for his Jamalen, despite the surface holiday coincided glitter, is still a desperately poor with 11 Jamaican country The average wege in jaunt of 300 American busi. the island is not more than 1 Trinidad have too much and are seas and glittering beaches can- extremes, but the faith is there.

a week-less than the tip the ness men and their wives, business men casually tossed on The Americans were not to the table for a few rounds of drinks. The average dict is four, merely big business men, bananas, rice, breadfruit, bits of they were mammoth - mugnates. tycoons, presi- dents, and chairmen of huge United States enter- prises..

fish, but little meat.

The taxi driver or the waiter, who makes big money during the two-month season, is doing no- thing at all for the remaining ten months of the year. There is enfeebling unemployment.

Then he said: "Call me Busia and remember I'm proud to be a Britisher, although I wel them too. As for Mr Churchill, come the Americans and love

all of us love him and are very happy he is spending his holiday here."

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Capital needed

+

T the moment what is needed

Thousands of Jammicans want work desperately. Thou- santis

to want

the go to United States to ge! work: There is. great resentment against the McCarran Act, 'which blocks the flow of Jamalean

most is capital, and if the labourers into the Unlied States. British won't or cannot supply

From

the beginning the Americans and their families have had to toe the Moslem Uno In Saudi Arabia,

Their first aurveyors and en- gineers were ordered to grow: beards and to wear Arab dress. Even today they are not allowed to keep dogs as pets, or to ar range Christian marriages. Their. chaplains are Instructed to hold Christian services in private.

Many times Ibn Saud (him- reputed to have been. married 200 times, to have us many as 150 sons) has darkly hinted that ho might one day Insist that the

American women go velled outside company's compounds.

self

NOT PLEASANT

They came in the char- tered 8.8. Ocean Monarch to

I asked the Hon. William attend the dedication of the Alexander Bustamante, leader of

it the Americans will. Already At least there is strenLLOUS Labour Party

Busta then strede away Reynolds bauxite works at the majority

they are pouring in millions of effort here to solve the harsh (which is really Conservative), shake Belmont, just near Ochorlos,

a few more hands and dollars and are ready to pour problems of the Jamaicans. The and he embrace a few more ladies. I in more.

Governor, Sir Hugh Foot, is tire- unemployment, After the ceremonies

the about

said: "It's impossible to give ex- saw him at Tower Isle among

less, imaginative, and extremely business men, their wives, act figures one week it may be the cavorting business men, a In Jamaica far more children popular, their friends," and their girl 50,000 and the next 100,000-but--tall, proud@gure. The feeling are born out of wedlock than in..

Jamaican and British of- I do say this-that during the among others less spectacular Lady Huggins, wife of the ex-

But theso than Bustamante is that there Governor, put energy and drive cials, in particular those, of past eight years there has been a vast

should Improvement in

be a preliminary con into the task of trying to build British Overseas Airways and economic condition.

ference in the British Caribbean There

up family life. She pubilelsed British West Indies Airways, are less misery, want, and suffer- before the delegates depart for the mass marriage under which striving to attract tourists and

the London conference

which 20 couples at a time would be trade. The holiday visit of Mr ing.""

efforts will open on April 13. It is ob- wed. Her

had a fair Churchill is helping them Im- vious that something must be amount of success, but the rate measurably,

BUSTAMANTE ·

I

· Imposing figure

our

is

HAD heard that Mr. Busta-

mante was a remarkable man,

but I was hardly prepared for such a flamboyant figure. He is tall, bush topped, imposing, affects a white tie, goes in for .much gesticulating, and hardly

ever stops talking.'

'I said to him: "Is it true that you carry a gun?" He turned back his jacket to show me the gun in its leather holster and said: "Certainly. I carry it for my own protection always, al- though I have a bodyguard as well." Bustamante even had a gun on his hip when he met Mr Churchill.

senso."

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3 PLANES IN A ROYAL

IN A ROYAL HUSTLE

?

New York.

T least three airliners

A with fly Trom London

to New York on a Corona- tion Day mission.

Their alm: to got flims of the Coronation on American TV before midnight.

AMERICA COLUMN from

NEWELL ROGERS

Flond-Scotch, £2 4s. a bottle; Bourbon, £2 6s, 10d..

BRIGHTER PROSPECTS for Britian was the subject of the Now York Herald-Tribuno's leader recently. It mys:-

"For the first time in thres ears Great

Britain seems to years this widespread

year. have more reasons for optimism There are 13 new stations plus than pessimism. Most promising The planes will have a good 03 which were on the air last augury is that she will have the chance, becALISE New York is year. Ove hours behind London time. And given reasonable weather

more

help of the Commonwealth la developing usable and saleable Despite the

I asked Mr Bustamante if he

propeller-driver airliner can NEW YORKERS will be with- cconomic resources. liked champagne and haj

By the Atlantic in under 12

out, 400 doctors and dentists existence of disturbing factors the prospecta aro, on balance, purple Cadillac. He said: "Cer-hours,

for 12 days. They have gone friends relaxed at Tower fainly I like champagne, I some-

a sunshine cruise to the quile bright." Tho films taken

in West- on

Caribbean, Between

docic- Isle, a

$2,000,000 super mes drink so much champagne

minster Abbey will be sent by hotel on the Miami Beach that I come out in a rash, but motorcyclist to darkrooms nor games they will have lectures EDGAR HOOVER, chist of

the

purple Cadline-that's non-

on professional subjects and the G-men and a well-off model.

by for processing,

watch medical films. Bald ong bachelor 01 20,000 dollars Then a hoverplane will carry will return with a suntan (£7,142) a year, has politely. them to the airliners at London and a good education." I had the impression that he

turned down a million-dollar purple Airport, and they will be edited

offer to head the International would like to have a

on the Bigkt.

Boxing Club. Cadillac. But behind the show.

One TV company plans

TILAG MAKERS are unhappy, The plan was to pay him manip and buffoonery

Fthey have 200 million star 100,000 dollars (£35,714) Кест

"brain, Bustamante has upend £23,000 'on this

power and enjoyed against time,

spangled banners in stock. Each year for ten years. Fors for

ang time, and he n lang

flag hab 43 stars, one for catli /. Bands blared so loudly obviously likes both. There are

the 40th Siste, which may A year-okt film czar, broko happen soon, all the flags will that the din probably pene signs, however, that his in- ADOLPH ZUKOR, the 80- State. If Hawall is admitted as

fluence is waning under the re- trated the fastnesses of lentis attack of his cousin

down and cried at a lunch be out of data. which Hollywood gave in his Prospect, the house where Norman Manley, leader of the

honour. Mr Churchill is established. Opposition, and under the threat of the recently formed Farmers'

This relaxation took the form of staying up half the night dancing, drinking, and generally whooping-up the resort.

Came

I thought I had wandered Federation.

one 05

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Federation hope

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into another Presidential con- veation. It was Chicago all over ogoln-a' boisterous bed- Jam and razzle-dozzle revelry.

Oxford-educated The clamour was insistent and MANLEY,

12. pind Queer's Counsel, non-stop. As goon

charged the other, day that band had stopped playing on Bustamante

had

surcrder- other took over. There were d to the Governor wandering groups of calypso

the players and singers, the thud of role of Chief Minister under a drums."

the pop of champagne the Goyemor power to appoint proposed plan which will give and a lot of screaming and the Chief Minister. Bustamante shrill laughter. I thought that purely Mr Churchill had chosen pooh-poohs the charge.

the wrong place for rest, and He talked to mo about the case. Fortunately, the relaxing, much-discussed, plan', to wold business man, their wives and Britain's West Indian colonies

to

raco

a

NE Hollywood - producer › not cured by TV competition la Doryl Zanuck.

Ho has his answer" all, ready -botter pictures. This year he to spend 20,000,000 Fifty years ago he started his AVOURITE BOOK of Mr Intenda career by opening va penny 1 John Foster Dulles, who is dollars (£7,140,000) on #even Breado in New York. Forty President Elsenhower's Secre- „"super, specials.” years ago ho established one of tary of State, was written by Hollywood's first studios. The Joseph Stalin. He reads and THOMAS HUNTER, an Iri lunch was held in a ballroom rereads "Problems of Leninism"Immigrant who made tire site of that studio. because, ho says it gives me millions out of tea, spent half Among the' gueste was one of more insight Into Communist the early. Zukor 'stere; Mary strategy," Pickford.

on

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million dollar building his Mr Dulles owns at least four dream house in Philadelphia ta

look like

Warwick copies of this book.

Castle. BIVATE":"TV

STATIONS

That was in 1909. Hunter continue to rates rates to COTCH IS SELLING about died some years ago and the advertisers who want to "plug" even with its chief Ameri- house was owned by another beer, tabacon, man, and other can rival, Bourbon. Until re millionaire, who didn't live in products on programmes. The contly the meat popular. Scotch It.

price is now about £30,000 for underpriced, the most popular It has been sold, for a more a one-hour evening programme. Bembou. by about Now 95,000 dollars. (£33,928) to which cost 10,400 last your. diftists, have reduced Bourton become a group of Government Advertising | by TV will be priesa. New York prices now offices.

pricks

lopping-off of

the

pin:

are minor compared with the drink supplies, for teetotallers are rare indood among allmen, fond of their

ice-cold linned beer and their evening highballs.

ofclaig

Anxious company doing their diplomatie best to get the ban relaxed, are not optimistic.

They know as the whole of the Middle East knows-that the old man signed the pro- hibition decree' to defend semi- thing dearer to him than wealth or power-the religious up- bringing of Saudi Arabians in general and of his own sons in particular.

Like all good Moslems, Saudi Arabians should not drink. But the rich clons of the desert nobility, mixing with Americans,, visiting their homes cars, wearing American sults, and clubs, driving American inevitably experimented with Western ways.

The results have not always been pleasant. Not long ago a Briton was shot dead by one of Ibn Sault's younger sons after a party. The king pold the widow £25,000 damages and ordered the young prince to be imprisoned indefinitely and to receive 20 lachos a month.

Now Ibn Saud, Inclined to blame foreigners and their ways for the misbehaviour of his country's youth, has acted.

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

"Don't forget, darling, that this perfectly magnificent display, comes from the. fardin de la tance of the "manwha slips us our oeuftër

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