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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1953.

Long-Term Aim: A Middle East Federation

By PATRICK MAITLAND, M.P.

HEN two Middle Eastern monarcha as- cended their thrones' carly this month, the occasion passed without extensive comment as a routine event. But there is nothing routine In the Arab world except disturbance; when events passed off peacefully, that fact itself might well have made news.

all

seo the

was no more

London, general acclamation of an as- sembly of 100,000 people, who swept into the skimpy capital, Amman, to

sights. Formerly, the whole population of Transjordan than 300,000; but today, incor- Dorating parts of Palestine and Influx of refugees, the

numbers almost country

11 million citizens. these tirona Hussein's ascent of the did not take place im- mediately

his after

grand- father's death. There was an unhappy Interlude of intrigue and

muddle, in which pro- Egyplan elements were trying to wreck the country's pasöcla- Uon with Britain. That is over Now,

A recent Harrow schoolboy, King Feisal II, stepped on to the throne of Iraq, home of the rich Mosul olißelds, developed by the Iraq Petroleum Com- pany.

Iraq, though fled to Britain by a Treaty of Alliance oblig- ing mutual military help in of attack. has passed times in the through difficult past few years. The allfelds

case

the

le in the heart of territory anet occupied by

proud vigorous Kurdish race, tall men of ine physique who shoot straight but prefer to close in with the sword.

Kept Simmering

These folk, whose life is spare And hardy, have at times Soviet pro- misled by been paganda abou: national bera- tion. They have also been and often goaded by poverty by bad government. It has been Russian object to keep Kurdistan siminering.

A few years ago Iraq sought to revise the alliance with Bri- tain. She sent o delegation to London to negotiate #docu- ment more becoming to cur- rent notions of national pride, and concluded with the then Foreign Secretary. Mr Ernest

Devin, the Treaty

of - Parts-

mouth. But Communists aroused the people and corrupted mony while the Government in Baghdad were asle:p. The treaty was repudiated.

Since then Iraq has seen the steady march back to the stable views of Gen. Nuri Sald Pasha, the

Grand Old-Man of Iraq, campaigns who fought in the

He is

of Lawrence in Arable. the most influential person out- side the royal circle; and he is

a friend of collective

security

In general, as well as the pro- ject for a Middle East Defence

Organisation with Egypt.

Vital Interest Nuri's Influence, and the stubility of Iraq, are critical

factors which are of vital in- Atlantic terest to the whole world.

Abusting Iraq Hes the King

WIT

Great Influence

Taken together, Jordan and Iraq can exort great influence in the Middle East. For the day may well come when, if other animosities have a chance to die down, these

kingdoms. might federate

with Syr a repubile that lies between Iraq and the Mediterranean. Jordan extends to the Red Sea, and Iraq to the Persian Gulf, A close-knit fedcration would create a single polity reaching from the Mediterrancan to both the Red Sea and the Gulf.

For strategic advantages such be close by the land- bridge linking Eurasia

commanding vital raw Africa, materials and linking

1wo

combination could scored

oceans.

and

It is bound to be a long-term object of British policy, within the restraints imposed by a de- sire never to upset the peace, 10 this combination 10 bring

fruition.

Cummings

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MUSIC MASTER

Every song he writes becomes a catchphrase

D

AWN in Mayfair. In the street a late-night reveller whistles a popular tune. Up on the sixth floor of a big hotel a small man in a large suite

lies sleeping,

The whistler hite a wrong note. The sleeper starts awake. He wrote that tune. And a sour note is about the one thing I have seen ruffle Frank Loesser,

dom of the Jordan, which used to be known as Transjordan. That was until

the Palestine the late King when

Maybe the tune was "Wonderful Copen- Abdullah's

Legion. Arab (officered by- घ Scotsman, hagen" from the Hans Andersen film. Or Glubb Pasha), reseded part of "Slow Boat to China." Or "Baby, It's Cold Palestine from the invading

Outside." Or "Spring Will Be a Little Late Transjordan then israelis, crossed the Jordan

this Year." He wrote all those, as well as Into Jerusalem and became Jordan. the hit tunes in "Guys and Dolls," London's

an

Here, 100, there is Intimate alliance with Britain.

Here, too, a new monarch, King Abdullah's grandson, ascended the throne, to

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Profiling FRANK LOESSER

(he has written the hit tunes in Guys and Dolls')

by JOHN BARBER

bed, gets under his He leaps out of

the special shower, ab- sorbs a pint of his special coffee, dresses with extreme care, and is ready for the day. It is 7 a.m.- flanges. Children marvel at his He used lolle awake listening

But coin tricks. He is excellent on

to the p-dink g-dunk of the New rather late for him.

York elevated trains, trying to four hours' sleep is enough, roller-skates.

H "People are meant to do ft words to the beat. At 43 he is famous now

of things," he explains.

At 14 he was thrown out of

writer with intellect.

Like Cole Porter ho

both writes

words

At any vegetable market from Borneo to Nome You mustn't squeeze a melon till you get the melon home,"

Iot

Bay

1

And he did

chaln

Enter A Girl

ALL the time he wrote songs, for the first six years with- out a real success.

The song **Two

Sicopy People" was written by the two men in the next seven hours, while their wives slept. It made The lyric is full of sensation.

as that small exact facts, such

always run out. of lovers cigarettes.

THERE

are usually about 20 song-idens skipping around inside him. He does not believe In inspiration.

How old are

you Mr Wilde said Carson

By

66 Y

MILTON SHULMAN.

wns

OU stated that your was 8d. In the pound, ho could 99. I put on annual fees of £20,- age think you are over

000.

407" That was the first But Mr Hyde is not only i

ducation put by Edward concerned with the urgjeve. ments of Carson the lawye Carson in his famous crosa- book

on unabashed, examination of Oscar Wide, travagant poon of adulation for

10€

Wilde was forced to con- Carson the politicion. fess to a stupid lie. The And here, on the sensitivo jury, which until then had question of Irish HomeRule, been impressed by Wilde's Mr Hyde's critical spectrum is Ilmited to black, and white confident manner in the wit- where most objective observers nosa-box, were no longer au would see sure of his palpable virtue.

Lord

rey,

varying

shades of

the man whose statue in front

Since Mr Hyde la himself tan: Carson, who was defend- Urr Unionist M.P.lt Ape- Ing

Queensberry hapa. not unnatural that he against a charge of criminal should find so few blemishes on libel for accusing the play of Northern Ireland's Firlk- wright of indecent relations ment stands eloquently, symbolle with his son, Lord Alfred of Ulster's fight to remain with Douglas, then proceeded to in the Empire. demonstrate the technique

Ch

* WHATE

that made him the most HYPOCHONDRIAC dangerous barrister at the

career

RT

English Bar.

carock, reply BUT con Carson's

· stand · under the heap of Remorselessly, this tall, ne adjectives that Mr Hyde has lean man with features "as lavished upon it?

n jagged inexpressive us

There is, for example, much hatchet" set about burying evidence in those pages of: Car- Wilde's reputation and ron's kindly charm, Bilt"-very with questions as little is made of his pertinent hypochondria, which must have precise and impersonal as made him a great trial and bore the shovelling of a profes- to his frienda Though bis sional gravedigger.

letters are constantly moaning and fretting about his illnesses, The early, jaunty as it was 81 years beforo:he Onolly

succumbed to one of them. surance of the playwright und when Mr Hyde praises wilted under pummelling carron for his hatred of "'in- Hike this. Carson produced Justice he does not feel com-

inventory a deadly

of pelled to explain that Carson nothing unjust about associations saw

supporting the most foydal Irish landlords, op pozla g divorce reform ridicuung women's

attacking

Wilde's past

and deeds.

BROKEN

TWO days of this merciless

trade unions, and bitterly Penting any increase in of the rich.

taxation

Carson, indeed, devoted. hammering and the great- of his energies to maintaining est wit in the land was re- Ulster's ties with the Limited duced to a broken, stammer. Kingdom, but Mr Hyde, at ing dandy. Not only was with the fervour of a disciple. Iny suggestion that Carson Queensberry acquitted but could ever have been,

en, favourably eventually Wilde was sent disposed to the principle of

Home Rule. to Rending Gaol.

Yet as a young man he hust Edward Carson, who was have impressed some Irishmen a Dublin Protestant with his Nationalist lednings or 1864, had developed would they have asked him to his distinctive method of represent them in Parliament? cross-examination at the -Irish-Bar--where-witnesses

born

in

usually believed that the

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truth was likely to do them THEN there is, too, his clection, more harm than good.

to the National Liberal:Club Instead of allowing them to two months after the Liberals had overwhelm him with a torriat introduced the Home Rule Bill of irrelevant blarney, he con- a measure Carson spent most of syde'a centrated on extracting answers his life trying to kill M to a few pertinent, but irey, explanation at this strange hiep questions and then sitting is not likely to dispel the view of his political enemies that down.

In his blography of Carson Carson's most ardent position (Heinemann, 25s.), Mr H. Mont- to Home Rule dates from this gomery Hyde has deftly shown appointment as a Crown Pidse how effective this method was cutor by the Torles, zin in some of the most important legal cases of the times.

It established the innocence

honesty was to politicians, this

And, like most pediency. of George Archer-Shee, the running as a Coalition candidate,

young naval stealing

Thus in i when

endet accused of he could say of his leader, Lloyd 53. postal order, George:

"I shall never forget the which was the bags of Ratul-

the fore- the energy, courage,

afghan

a

gan's play, "The Winslow Boy":

It sent Goorgo Chapman to the sight, the za kima

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Success brought with it récord nule. Sir-Winston par-

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

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in America as the lowbrow "Keeping down a job is only school for not working. His first At The Ready

the highbrow one of a human's jobs. If there job was Errand boy to a jowalter, is anything that makes me On his second day a street pro- different from most other show cession stopped him from cross-

gallows for the murder of three Who Was

Minister." It is that I am a non-

and convinced the the road. ing

women, He came back

But asked ten years Inter his and.nal.

Chlef

of Scotland Inspector don't

ant Jack view of the same in, Carson song- late and was fired. 'I'm

Yard that Chapman music of his songs. But writer. I say I write songs

"You're not resourceful

"It's a question of keeping the

the Ripper were one and the aald: "Lloyd George mass Porter uses the flip-talk of among other things I do not enough," said the boss. Loesser brain offed and at the ready, A same man; it caused the North of corruption. TAHU.

Nor was he inclined to the smart set. Loesser want to be labelled and class!- never forgot that.

Eʊng comes like an inspired' allff: newspapers to pay nearly everything. shot ot

Suddenly every- colf. (say Lesser) picks up the fed into one group of party.

£220,000 in damages for Ubel- generous about those who dis- You cannot ling the socp arm of Levers, "People run for cover. They Screwed caps on boities in an thing clicks right.

agreed with his attitude to Home tangy slang of the streets.

But Served writs control the inspiration, ask to belong all the time. But insecticide plant.

ibmk W. His art turns it into city I say I do this, not I am this. on debtors at a dcclar-fifty training wit make it happens

fees, and for one caso alone, ticular bete Got fat eating profes more oft poetry, and it goes round I could be a bricklayer tomor time.

often."

Jasting 51 days, Carson received Churchill really dugtades for

af

£12,000. When

tax Income the world.

row, a good one. But I'd do lots sionally

Loesser is not a great engineer

publie to more than anyone of any positionin ·päilties," he restaurants so as to report on the but he can turn a cigarette box. of other things too."

wrote in 1908. In his Jater fe So Loesser makes beautiful service. He was even a walter,

He Js not Bach but he can turn furniture with his hands. He

a beautiful. song.

his favourite word frnthase. A Loesser

who had brought the Arla co alto paints pictures. And (inci-

lyric is as wittily tooled as love

State Into being was cleries. dentally) he writes songs. "And

and Roget's Thesaurus can make I dispense spurious psychiatry at my unfortunate friends.

What he hates is inefficiency.

His music uses counterpoint

advance of .In

any popular He Likes

"I'm arrogant about this. Do

His songs touch and tunesmith. well what you do. I'm rough on Always he thought of himself OESSER is a merry sharp my staff. don't fight with as a writer rather than a com- comfort the heartaches of today. That can be said of others. like anybody, but I irritate almost poser. Then a friend set one of But behind Loesser's songs is d shooter who looks George Raft ought to look on everybody. Things have got to his lyrics to music, and I hit the mind. He has shown that the his birthday. He likes French run smooth."

• joekpot. That was "Moon of songs that come out of a jukebox As an aid to smooth running, Manakoora" paintings, outsize cuminks, long

be aware of Genesis, and words, Bellodala

carries around leather case perfume, with unions, with aspirin, sleeping pills, and Qne night he was singing his car ho, and Freud, pickled herrings

a night club, just for conga in late

the so on. His finther arms himself the dinner. nights, gadgets,

A pretty girl caru political novels of

Arthur with Useful Information, pop-In, and he almed his art at her.

a visitor Koestler, and the sound of his ping questions like

.... She was a singer, Lynn Gar from Mars who has had a tele land, but was heavily escorted uses own voice.

A lot. Ho laughs

He never scope for 2,000 years and by a possessive dude. "Sho never heard of before sils still. He adores people. He knows all the answers. is as popular in a speakeasy as He is cagey about his income, came every night for two weeks ("streptococci," "lickerish"), lo

to hear me,"

saya Loesser can key up drawing-room back- in the Royal Enclosure at Ascot, but says: "Being a fellow who #I think of myself as on makes a good living. I have a proudly, and now we've been chat, or luvers dialogue, so that

married 17

years,

expressos simple truth about equally

terms great deal of everything."" comfortable

Lynn proved his best critic. the eternal nature of man, His songs caught on. He went Thanks to him, the popular song 10 Hollywood. At 4 am, after a is

is growing up. night with composer

To an author, he once said in knowledge of London clubs. 1 HE started with nothing party one hevo heard him startle

except a wonderful father, Hoagy Carmichael and his wife, secret; "We have to teach. You

Mrs. Loesser were' know

that

It's the proper plumber with Inside chat about a music teacher who taught Mr. and

him everything except music, saying goodbye on the doorstep. "function of those who can rend

• With acknowledgments to the which bored the boy.

Look at you," yawned Lynn and write?

their hosts, "Two sloepy copyright owner, Frank Loveset, and

Only, as a child of six, he to the pebilshers, Edwin. II. Koji, already loved words, rhythms, people v.

with a plumber or a duke," he Errand Boy

Brins.

Any duke might envy his

Lid.

Simple Truth

worda crooners have

But he would die rather than have Loesser quoted on that.

As I said to the Mayor, Miss Fanshawe, some of us would rather cat the bread of exile | in Bournemouth than remain In Eastbourne with a Soviet warship moored off the pler.

MR Hyde's suggestion that Car-

son might have become Prino

· Minister-had-ho-wistrecketS not supported by the evidence In this book. Neither dis record as an administrator during the First World War nor, his post- tion wit the Tory Party offered him much, hope, in, that direction.

Carson's contemporaries mired his forenale abilities, but hovor seriously considered him to be a national leader.

Sir Edward Carson was great-lawyer-ned to Mcgreat patriot. Mr Hydelay enthusiquerra. for the Ulster cause has tempt ed him into trying to establish Carson as a great statewin well,mes Janol and hotte

As a resultsidiis obkolmediğins become a well-argued,puitsrye- fully presented, ・ one :-: sided. lawyer's brief. The definitive blography","of¡ Coronisch) re- mains to be written, qpple, to be

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