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By R. M. MacCOLL

Buenos Aires, track

and

horse-breeding.

THE loss of the Jockey heavily damaged,

Club, burned down by The wall fell in on it and it FA mob last month, is not yet known what can be marked the end of an erg in saved. the city of Buenos Aires."

.

POCKET CARTOON| by OSBERT LANCASTER

"It certainly is very hard lines on Frau Thyssen getting all those shares back just when the threat of peace is depressing the

market."

Behind A Queen's Brave Smile

Lie Secret Fears

From CONRAD PALLENBERG

Rome.

НАТ is Queen

Soraya, wife of the Shah of Persin, doing in Rome?

Offelally she is here for health reasons, and judging from ap- pcareness, she is leading the life of a carefree soclety lady who

ISLANDS WITH

A FUTURE

".

By DONALD McCORMICK

ONE might almost call West Indian hus,

A

developed

culture that has absurbed French,

federation-they

Jamaica and Trinidad are in

divides her time between The But he knows that the tiny herdresser, the dressmaker and of a final chowdown with Mos-

esten is epproaching. xmari gatherings."

worried woman

3

As Persian polilies are on

But the truth is quite different,'

noi only of parliamentary The beautiful Queen

voles, but alró of enraged ·mops, tense,

who bullets and knives, the Shah hides behind a brave mlle on had begged Queen Soraya to go unrelenting cense of fear.

lo Europe.

He told her he was going to Sho fears that something face the storm alone and that serious might happen to her he would feel more confident husband in Teheran, and she only hopes that he will be able he knew that his wife, was safe and more free in his moves if to join her soon, even it 10

has to lose his icone,

abrond.

Sho hos revealed to close friends in Rome the true and She did not want to. leave dromalle story of her trip to him but anally gave in.. Europe.

Now she is anxiously, waiting For a long time, differences for news

Sho from Persla. between Premier Mossadeg and hopes that elther the Shah the Shoh had been paralysing will win (and then the will ho Persia's political Hfe. Exhaust- able to return to him) or that d by Mossadag's manoeuvres, he will manage to Join her in the Shah, for the good of his exile. country,

0 few

had

given in and So for the has been having decided to quit secretly a rather horsey me in Italy.

days hodox a the February 28 crials arose.

Mossadeg knew of this

The

Shah and his Queen had ob- tained vians for Iraq and Spain. ปี planned

to by car

the proposed Federation culture of his own-- cf the West Indies-pow. Spanish and Indian influences at being discussed in London well as those of his distant and

"Poor Man's Federa- more barbarle

past. tion."

But, while the tiny Windward For this is essentially a and Leeward Islands enthusiasti-

cally support plan to benefit the poorer have most to gain from it--the and more or less forgotten larger colonies are divided on the people who inhabit tiny issue. is Islands, rarely heard of

faveur, As the most advanced from one decide to another. politically of the West Indies

Briefly, the plan is

to colonies,

they both aspire to

of the

drive new federate some three million

to Iraq. people scattered over hun-

They packed drcus of islands in the Carib- and against. But in prosperous, Barbados is divided evenly, for

only

few bean Sea and to place them diamond and bauxite-booming

things as they under a centralised adminis- British Guiana and

their. British

know luggage would Honduras, there is strong op- tration.

be searched at Jatter

the frontier. two

Mossadeg pave the way to the event colonies have sent observers to ual creation of a new self- the London

And

arranged conference.

strict governing dominion within those who support federation

оп most strongly urge that, if it is the British Commonwealth.

nes- to succeed, The two colonies on Trinidad is the proposed the Zalin American mainland Federa- be included. capital of the new

Loft

And Inside, too, was the club's irreplaceable' stud book, Enfe and sound.

The club's. massive

Inside were resisted the Bre. the place 5,000,000 pesos Peron called

(£125,000) In "the headquarters of the notes, ready for the week-end's oligarchs." Many of the racing, members were educnted in more Britain and "were English than the English."

The remnants of the club So I went to sce the

premises are stlit club's president to find out hands of the authorities, which what the Jockey Club sequestrated them the day after meant to the people of the the fire.

When they are fually handed Argentine,

back, an extraordinary general

un-

in

the

meeting of the club's 5.000 members' and associates will be called to decide on the future.

We'll rebuild

"

This, it is hoped, will position to the plan.

But

the even even

Disadvantages

tion, but it is not to the larger and well-known

There are, of course, certain islands that the scheme short

term disadvantages in Horacio Bullrich, scion of

makes its appeal so much as federation for

and the larger

They to the romantic outposts. more prosperous colonies, a great and wealthy family,

have to help would

subsidise is handsonte and fortyish.

But the romance of these their less fortunate brothers in islands of lovely St Kitts, the outposts. But from the long- "That fire still seems

where Nelson was C-in-C at term viewpoint, It is obviously to believable," he said.

of all that on the age of 25, of Dead' the advantage HE Jockey Club members Man's Chest in the Virgin ment they should speak with one

matters of trade and develop ile studied a glossy, illus- Twit

probably rally round. trated magazine entitled In order to put up the old Isles, reputed to be the voice.

of Stevenson's Especially is this true of the Juckey Club,started _only_building, completed in 1897, the original last October, and due to members made themselves res- "Treasure Island's for sugar industry, the backbone of

ponsible for a large loan. Al-the visitor and not for the West Indian economy. come out twice yearly.

though things are not so lush West Indian native. today, there is still immense wealth among the cattlebreeders and others.

Treasures ruined

NOW? Mr Bullrich

And the club is a tenacious Institution.

For the latter, life is a struggle for existence-not against the white settler but against hurricanes, crop fallures and lack of livelihood.

had for

Д

censorship all press sages, and news of

Tho

Shah's depart MATO would have been broken

only

after he had reached Iraq. The Shah's youngest brother, the meck Prince Ghelam, would have headed the Regency

Council.

at Rome's

Queen Soraya arrives

Ciampino Airport.

Το complete preparations, She has been a couple of times 11,000 dollars (approx. 23,028) to watch the International were transferred abroad and horse show. She went riding put at the Shah's disposal. with a master of the Rome

Not even the powerful reli- hunt, Count Ranieri Di Cam- gious leader, Kashani, who has pello, and she watched a polo. spies everywhere, know of this match between an English and secret plan.

an Italian teom.

Federation would encourage. Investment in the outposts, and would enable private enterprise to take over some of the projects for fostering new industries for But when they were about lo the islanders which, hitherto, start on their journey, a terrl- have been left to the Colonini tying snowstorm broke on the Development Corporation.

mountains, and the road 10 The most tremendous problem | Iraq was blocksed. which the West Indies has to The Shah then booked seats tlony and so as not to embar- Until federation was sponsored, cope with is overpopulation. It on Constellation going to rass her, he did not get on.

stand reserved for disunguish- ed personalities.

No hope

Some time back the Peronist shrugged, but his eyes city council tried nuisanco glistened with tears. "We tactics, it suddenly issued per- little thought that this mits to street fish sellers allowing them to set up stalls immediately would become a precious beneath the club's windows. there seemed no hope of raising is

suggested

that federation memento."

Was summer

the the standard of life for these would enable the surplus popula He turned the pages and members could no longer keep people in the outposts, Today tion of Jamaica to emigrate to

After a week the London talks offer such a the windows opent.

British Gulana and British chowed me photographs of of this the members started prospect.

Honduras where devolopment is the club's superb public buying up the entire stock of fish Thus, there is none of the un- Increasing the demand for man-

first !n

thing rooms, now for. the most

the

so that happy racial disputes which for power. morning so that the sellers closed their stalls and so long threatened the chances It may take some few years to part blackened ruins.

went home happy for the day, of federation in Central Africa, overcome the suspicions many He pointed to reproduc- Then, the sellers were ordered The masses of the West Indies of them unjustifled-which the tions of "The Idiot's Wed- to double and treble the quantity feel instinctively that federation large islands have about federnt-

is their salvation.

ing with the smaller groups. But, ding" and "Procession In- of their stocks. Still the club

everything,

The colour bar is non-existent if

if as a result of this London con- terrupted By Rain," two of bought

Then one day the club refused in most areas of the Caribbean, ference, a

start is made by the pictures by the Spanish to

buy any fish at all. The This has been brought about federating the various groups in Goya which were the club's sellers were abruptly left with partly by a more enlightened at the Eastern Caribbean under special pride. They are staggering stocks on their hands. titude on the part of the settlers, leadership from Trinidad, useful

The stalls quietly vanished. but also because the, multi-racial progress will have been made. nškea now.

He turned to a picture of the famous grand staircase, [ ut its top the statue of Diana by the French sculp-

tor Falgulerc.

Diana was toppled from her pedestal by the-mob and

sent crashing to destruc-P

tion.

Club" took irony.

on

Geneva and applied for a Swiss visa.

The secret was no longer secret.

and

The British Ambassador. In Rome, Sir Victor Mallel, was there 100, but owing to the struined Anglo-Persian rela-

Tho

He leaned against a nearby 4 fence to watch the English icon

win.

Queen Soraya is accompanied by her mother, and first week her father, who is the Persian

In Bonn, Ambastador

Como

Kashani heard about it to fool his rival, Mossadeg, ho from Germany to see her. wrote on open letter

the The Chief of Ceremonial,of Shah begging him to stay, ar- the Persian Guard, Garagosiou, ganising in the meantime the and his wife, Sodiks, are also bloody street riots of February with her.

Sadika, beautiful Egyptian The Shah remained In girl who dyes her hair, snow Teheran-a pelsoner of his own white, is the financial brain supporters and of the fanatical of the party and look after Mostem lenders,

her money.

ning 22

20.

GLANCE BACK TO AN OLD ALLIANCE

By Patrick Maitland, M.P.

opinion may bellove, it is the upon the programme of the Party. One Government's manifest duly to Cominform organisation.

see further than the animosities

That is tho example of Foreign Minister

310T

311

ZOOMER

London.

First World War. After it, in

■RINCE

"AKIHITO

the early twenties, it was the of

Joint pressure of the United Japan, the Crown

States and Canada which injuced Prince, is being made wel-

way and another, Britain not to renew the alliance. A passage of an article, in come to London by the

Britain would be anxious to im- The naval armaments race. English on "The social sig-Government and the British of recent years and the tensions be achieved, would make a severe

A peace in Koren, should that prove relations with China and followed, and the Japanese in- nificance of the Jockey Royal Family for reasons of of the present.

enter that market; she would vasion of the Chinese Republic and Chiang Kai-shek a strange the highest policy,

have no objection to Japan doing of the impact

The Japanese upon

Soong dynasty which laten egents It is the second visit in

intensity For the current appraisal in have shown was legs stable, and It read: "The clubhouse recent months which has Administration look constantly in turn, would

country buying and ante, Whitehall does not recogniso much less democratic, thas leftist is a centre of amiable OX constituted a high act of for Inspiration.

stimulate the either Germany or Japan as the enthusiasm in Europe Imagined. pansion and cultivated com-state out of tune to some

already widespread inclination in menace that they both represent-

Nostalgic reminiscences of-this munication

business circles to resumo fulled after the First World War. To among

men extent at least with public There have been intelligence Beato trade with Chino..

the contrary, in a world of kind pose the question whether from all walks of life.

sentiment. (Marshal Tito's reports deriving both from Russia

constantly changing strengths and it was in the best interest of Questions and answers in the vitalities, Sir Winston Churchill Canada, the United States or of alloy the clear Great Britain to

conciliato opposing ideas and activities, ДБ

ngures in Sir Winston Churchill Canning, to which the leading economy; it would reduce Ameri- the same.

can

the

"It is a neutral field to visit was the first). For it the USSR has at no time in House of Commons have been has made it abundantly

and from China to explain why is not easy to reconcile the tervened overtly, with Soviet illuminating in that regard. It that he welcomes German as British Japanese Alliance lo 黥 British public to a simple troops, in the war in Korea, emerges that in the first three soclain with the Atlantic Com- lapse.

of months of this year British trade munity. of former Aside from considerations

ex-lomacy, a

strategle

reason is with Ited China has been more reasons than

ten timas t The mere conquest of

its value in the

Bynthesis, growing vanter

every day, of the spiritual cordialities after the

resumption

peculiarities of

the

country."

Money saved

Inst

Just now the questien presents:

itself in a slightly different form.

Should Japan to encouraged to

perience of many British Koreo by the Asian mainland same period

last year. The Likewise, the welcome given to expand economically into and Commonwealth forces, would achleve nothing In the Secretary for Overseas Trado has the Japanese Crown Prince is hinterland of Chien, as Brillin

·American in- adden

added that, subject

demonstrato to the intended to let alone Americans, in the effort to expel

would wish? Or ahout the be desire for Japanese discouraged from such a course Far East during World War Quence so long as the United embargo on strategic supplies, official

diverted © rather --- towärd States retained a strong foothold Britain would be happy to see friendship against the rising tide and ||II.

in Japan.

the trade grow bigger still; in- of expansionism from China that Southeast Asia, whither sbu thermore, abundant testi- deed, It was only Chinese la thrusting its tentacles down drove in the Second World War, WHAT has been saved from in the extended arena of the

Communist Party.

Party obstruction that prevented this. to Boutheast Asia, just where whither the Chinese arð 1

pressing the wreck? The superb Paclie Ocean, however, issues mony from

where theyilni Such developments may not be the Japanese went before now, and general library, one of the finest are being raised and political sources in different parts of Asia

thoughts, involve a positions of Malaya; Australia the political to the taste of the United States, Such in the Western hemisphere, in 80 forces are at work, which Great suggests percent intact. A second. Library Britain dare not ignore. Indeed, seduction of Japan, long process particularly of the traditional nostalgic glance at the British and New Zealand are indirectly dealing with the history of the whatever a slow-moving public though that must be, les high Chins Lobby of the Republican Japanese Alliance: before the menaced?

that