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Finding Alternative To Suez

Miss Lucy Edwards. of Drottin. Victoria, Australia, Matron of the British Commonwealth Hospilat in Korea, leaving Buckingham Palace with her father after receiving the Royal

Pr Photo, Red Cross from the queen, →→→ Central

Men Round The Throne Have Important Role

London, Mar. 5.

A small but powerful group of courtiers, almost unknown to the public, is helping Queen Elizabeth to prepare for her Coronation June 2.

on

As men round the throne have done through out British history, they wield great influence, They have the Queen's ear. She is often guided by them.

portant.

Canal Proves

Big Problem

London, Mar. 5. Military experts here, grappling with the problems involved in an evacuation of Britain's large military garrison in Egypt, are more con- cerned with the future of installations than the redeployment of the 70,000 troops reported now to be stationed there.

The Base installations-ammunition dumps, storage depots, workshops and eight airfields capable of taking heavy bombers are the core round which Britain's Middle East land and air commands have been developed during, and be- tween; two World Wars.

Military circles here have already accepted as inevitable the ultimate evacuation of the troops and the closing down of the miles of camps which house them along miles of the desert strip, parallel with the southern reaches of the Suez Canal.

of

They are pinning their hopes--Anglo-Egyptian agreement since but not their plans-on Egypt's the evacuation will probably be agreement during the Anglo-staggered over 11 considerable Egyptian defence talks to the period. bases in the country being Modern military technique maintained. by local Jabour flying troops to trouble spots under expert supervision ready makes the personnel aspert of the for any emergency which might problem relatively simple, always provided that the implements of {crisz.

ar are available to them when they arrive.

It is in this connection that the base installations are so Im- portant:

For the British, the Middle Eust rates nearly as high us Furope, and probably as high as the Far East, as an area of strategie importance. The United States, until a few years nge distinctly cool towards ts significance, has also come 19 regard it as a key oil and

strategle area both in the cold

war

Forced to find an alternative alte for her Middle East ursenul, Britain would be in a serious predicament.

and for defence in possible hot, one against the site for a Communist world.

Iarge

NOT SUITABLE Cyprus, though immensely valuable as a gorrison and us a Headquarters, is not suitable for storing heavy On both sides of the Atlantie.military equipment or

seen as a vllai communica- quantities of smaller supplies, tions Enk between the United As an bland site its use would the Common entail double shipment of every- Kingdons und wealth, between Europe and thing, an extremely hazardous Asia, and as a first-clues centre

operation in war.

tor land and air operations.

Fur this renson, Britain feels

10 jcave

military vacuum in the area.

unable

In uny case Famagusta, the only has Insumcient draught But unlike their counterparts | Corenation year is doubly im-

to accommodate the large verrels

The titular head of the Royal steelf, running from Port Saidsraport tanks and other heavy The 100-mile long Suez Canal which would be required to Household, the man responsible in the North to the port of Suez equipment, to the Queen for its manage-

The "Gaza bordering israel northern- ment and administration, is the the Red Sea, though

immensely important water most territory Lord Chamberlain, This post

that n

In the history books, they do not spend their time in Court intrigues, or fearing sudden whim of the monarch may drop then from favour.

The modern Royal Court is a Its business-like organisation, officials are men who manage to combine sense, of tradition with twentieth-century efficien- They find nothing In ey. congruous about changing back sutin knce forth from breeches into bowler hat and striped trousers,

and

Most Important official in the Royal Househuld is the Queen's 65-year-old private secretary, Sir Alan Lascelles.

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is held by the 50-year-old Eari link between East and West in and Jordan, bas frequently been mentioned in speculation about of Starbrough, the very model Peace time, is regarded as

consideration for an alternative site to the Sucz of a man who has devoted his secondary

wartime operations.

base. But

But here again shipping life to upright public service.

DANGEROUS WATERS. difficulties preclude its use as a Not only is the canal storage and maintenance centre, tremely vulnerable to long range The cost of erecting storage his ancestry air attack, but the

would also Mediter Lacliities there back to King Ethelred II (988-rarean approaches to * are prohibitive. 1010), he is a man of courtly dangerous waters for shipping

UNTHINKABLE manners, always perfectly exposed to dive bombers. based The same applies to Jordan, would groomed. 1s family motto in Southern Europe. For these even assuming that she

the agree to "A sound consciones is a wall reasons it was out of use during be prepared to of brass".

much of World War I.

siting of the base оп her But though the Canal may not territory. A tall, discreet mon with

His post ns Lord Chamberlain

could be used as 10 sardonic sense of humour, he

gives him some

duties rank highly as a communicating queer

link, Egypt herself does in the offshoot depot but could not tink between the All plays produced Is the direct

on the

chlefs hore. serve as the main basc be- his view of military British Queen and her Ministers.

tust pass Known by his friends as covership and he has the power Land routes from the Mediter cause of its distance from the "Tommy" nobody

knows why to ban them if he thinks them ranean to the Red Sea in Egypt Eastern Mediterranean Tobruk,

are good...

for example, is 500 miles_from_COMMENCING.TO-MORROW: “SON OF PALEFACE”. he has a long record of inmural. Royal service. He was private

They also provide excellent Port Sald..

of communication from

An excellent alternative King George recretary to

Queen, he appoints the other 300 the British arsmal to all points would be Halta, Israel's main und for nine for nine years,

or so efflcers of the Royal House radiating North, West or East port, where there are adequate before that

was hold. he years

He

controls Court cere-whe

where land

battles might rage. stocks, railway communications

Stage

VI

in consultation with the Unca

assistant private secretary to monic and dress, presentation No greater example exists than and storage facillies, 03 British the Duke of Windsor, then of debutantes and invitations to the way in which the canal forces found in the last war,

person

Prince of Wales.

Grey-haired and satel to suffer from dyspepsia, he is the only in Buckingham Palace outside the Queen to hold sinail, tubular key which

Cabinet despatch boxes open with their Slate secrets.

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State functions. Even the Royal base fed the victorious British swans which glide with stately anies in the Western desert in grace up and down the river the 1939-45 war. Thames are his responsibility. The dispersal of British troops One of the most powerful men from the Suez Canal Garrison is the throne is Sir Plers not an insurmountable task. And Legh. 61-year-old Master of the it has to be dispersal because no Queen's Hcusehold. He has had other fellities exist, er longer service in the Household built, to

re-house than any other top oflein, and together again. and has the reputation of not being A model of correctness

frst place, military discretion, he insists that he is afraid to speak his mind to the observers here assume that the to was the Queen's adviser sovereign when he thinks duty need to retain previous military the Middle East in manpower in constitutional requires it. on political or

Married to an American, the time of peace will decrease in affairs. But It is well known that he is always listened to former Sarah Polk Bradford. the event of Egypt and Britain

by respect

both daughter of the late Judge Brad-coming to terms with great

over old dis Monarch and Ministers.

ford, of Woodstock, Tennessee, Sir Alan, like most the Sir Plers was the only member of Putes. This would almost cer- tainly lead to a rebuilding of the Royal Household officials whose the Court to accompany King Emergency Reserve Force in the job is full-time, lives with his Edward VIII into exile after his United Kingdom which was des- wife in A "grace-and-favour" abdication in 1930.

Nicknamed variously "Babe" patched abroad, much of it t apartment at historic St James's

Mall, Palace, in the

"Joey" by his Intimate the Middle East in near

friends, he is

square-jawed. 1951. ត Buckinham Palace.

MAY BE STAGGERED- a dry alightly-built man with

Those who remain could be sense of humour.

of

His drst duty each morning is to 40 through the Queen's.cor

discuss with respondence, then

her the plans and engagements made for the day.

to

He also has to keep up date with current affairs, by telephone and personal contact with Government departments, so that he can tell the Queen of home and at developments Overseas,

verscian has been called the Sover- "eyes and ears of the

As such his job in ciga".

and

1050 arid

still

But the tense political at- mosphere between Israel and

neighbours, her Arab technically at war, makes such a course unthinkable at present.

-Reuter

Scottish Fishermen

In Malaya

Four

Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 5.

Scottish shermen, veterans of the British herring feet, are here tenching Malay shermen how to increase their

and catches

provide cheaper

He talks tle. He has the rart spread over other British mill-fish for the peasant and labouring of immobile, expressionless facetary centres in

the area: in classes are carrying out success-

that Americans call a "deadpan". Cyprus, where new camps are To all these Household offi- being built to receive them; in

experiments with the ring-

Captain Jordan, where Edinburgh,

Kingdom

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ins net on board the trawler, equerries in waiting, women

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Their final redisposition muri chated from Scotland by occasion. Reuter,

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