1954-01-23 — Page 13

J.S.A.

VICTORY SIGN – 1954

THE CHINA ' MAIL, ''SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, ́1954.

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian.

THREE MEN WIN A "WAR"

T

HE free world tus

been thrilled many times by the daring 1 smull PARZION groups of desperate men and women from behind the Iron Curtain.

By R. H. C. Steed

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to evoog

ul ther toming-guns

Behind the smiles and handshakes" of, these British and American businessmen' there are sharp differences of policy, The Persian oll issue underlines those differences.

FLASH POINT OF RIVALRY

By J. L. Hays

1

Ar

well as American "explana- tions to Arab rulers furious at having their royalty incomes re- duced.

of Persian oll THE top men in the oil introduction

in industry play for high would necessitate cut-backs

Middle East production alse- stakes, and they play where,

Involving British the hard way. Don't im well as American revenue losse agine, therefore, that the and, more important, British representatives

дя of the five big American companies who were recently invited by Anglo-Iranian to "secret. talks" in London, together persia

Thus any British comeback in must be initially con- with representatives of Ened to securing the maximum French and Dutch groups, profits from un Anglo-Persian journeyed all the way across diarupt oil production (and oil the Atlantic just to help politics) generally. their British rivals.

Their duty, as they see it, is to ensure that any sort of rejuvenation of Anglo Iranian's £500,000,000 oll ompire does the least pos¬ sible harm to American oil Interests between

the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.

not settlement guaranteed

It

to

over this relatively limited suu that Secret struggle is raging behind the British and American oil chiefs amiles, handshakes and blank communiques.

Despite the common problema confronting them outside Persia, they remain suspicious of each other's Intentions inside the country. In fact, restarting the Persian off Industry is Apart from Anglo- aspect of Anglo-American

one

po.

be only too happy to act alone, but the Americans are deter mined to keep in close company,

Iranian's former interests in Bey on which the British would the Persian felds and Arabian - American's vast operation in Saudi-Arabia, British sterling and Ameri- can dollars were pretty evenly distributed ankng

More Suspicions

the producing companies in PRITISH oil men suspect that Kuwait, Iraq and the Par. sian Gulf sheikhdoms.

their American rivals,

have Ba- who

always envied British for their Bole fore Mossadegh "dunkirked" the

control of the Persian, fields, Anglo-Iranian, in fact, total aro now trying to get In- "the back sterling and dollar heldings to them through Hoelf an

is height- ened by their the dollar invasion of the Middle East's

fabulous

<ri the

astonishing was in revelation nervousness and its lack of con industry were only narrow- Adence in its police Inves. That ly in Britain's favour.

was a major the effort failed disaster to the regime. One of

regime's in the booming Middle East door." This auspicection that

showed that

----when American But basic competition be

been

I was natural that the Con- its most damaging aspects was tween dollar and sterling oil The pen Best the Love, low-munist authorities, tour of their that ས་

the locul ing the ungured tugitives policemen inving been killed. population, despite all threats of production has never

should make a determined effost prinstument unt offers of re-dissipated, and How old

Czechs Under wards, preferred to help a band rivalries and capture the

have been fugitives rather than co-operate

police with

so-called the

Thuy have reming bullets,

Ten tho

•

ne89

TC-

pro-

serves only dates back to 1027 diplomatic pressure,

resulted in Anglo- Iranian handing over its shore of Iraqi exploration to a a group They have seized aircraft

of American companies. in flight at pistol-point and From that Chef was

grievances On their side, the Americans 107 of foreign auti Communist have flared

unew ля the still harbour bitter memories of landed in Western Germany. iteled buttle between the East nominal conditions, in

German regime,

with all the country. it would They have overpowered

20 alert all

"People's dollar "element" has swol- British treaties with the Persian Gulf sheikhs. Those treaties engine-drivers

frontier posts and Police" and "People's Democratic len during the enforced idle-kept out their impatient and driven er at se dispersal, and four sufficient

Chechs with their stations and Rung ting

a company on two Government. truins at full speed across the pistol, and their score of to have had

of Anglo-Iraulan's spectors for years, and they do of armed police and Troops

of British the

sterling concessions. For in- not relish the iden frontier.

to find and overpower the

stance, "all-dollar" produc- of men slipping back into 3 were called out,

hunting

fortifled sterling position" in Berlin into the Belds

in one country alone, and footpaths

whereabouts had been located. with

Persia. S soon as it became clear Saudi-Arabia, has the Western sectors in bloodhounds

hardly and burring

soared the One can

A Imagine an

There Ls, that the Czechs had escaped, from

perhaps, another police task, to Berlim. Rewards were easter

or a mere

26,000,000 tons in vital reason heavy old pleasure steam- way

this dollar why Zone Government: conspicuous Quarry. boats under a ball of shots in tn the heals of the wanted helpless,

special

sterling clash is develop- bulletin 1950 to 41,000,000 tons in

versus

demand ing: With the world's Communist men, pusters with their pictures Why then did the East German published

it necessary, claiming to have smashed blg 1968. were put up in every town and Government find

explonage and sabolage rings in several parts of the country. A few days later a death sentence Werner end six

German named Lange- against a

sentences of from

crossed the lakes

Soviet sector of

from the

(31)

from the sund y

1928

이

some

WILY

TOW

for

pudice and when their approximate

were threatened

anyone to resort to what amounted al- must to a general mobilisation? helping them or withholding in-

And why was even this gigantic formation about them.

effort unsuccessful?

41

WOUNDED

turmoil

arct

as

if

in spite of the vast AP- tinued during the night, when REVELATION

المادة قد

FACE-SAVING

the Soviet

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At

tion

Small Wonder

that the balance of Middle

"People's Police." They have village, and severe penalties over a large part of the country, even ploughed their through barbed-wire from tier defences in bulklozers.

In all such cases there is

The answers le in the dis to seven years, also against

penal servitude, ranging Tom IT is small wonder, then. the carefully laid plot, the HUNDREDS of square kilo- turbed condition of the country

metres of country were and the complete failure of all Germans, were announced. reliance

much of the efforts by the Communist the same time the head of the East oil power has now audacity La outwit the kept in almost

Herr shifted in favour of dollar a real

and State Security robne

Service, to win prestige Communist authorities, the war

his assistant, producers to a considerable Wollweber. and hatt been in progress. support since the June uprisings short heroic dash that lends Woodland

Lieut-General where the in the Soviet zone.

Mielke, Renewed nounced

an extent, foreing Britain to that many sabotage either to liberty or death. fugitives were thought to be outbursts are prevented only by

pay in dollars for aviation hiding wore surrounded and the utmost exertions, and above groups had been arrested for

obtainable All these incidents prove.

systematically raked with Are all by the presence of Russian frees and for acts which had from Abadan with sterling.

attempts to blow up railway fuel previously if proof were needed, that, for hours at a time. This con- troops and tanks,

caused loss and damage In Communist the fringes of the woods were

industry, mining, trade and food Here is the flash-point of dol- paratus of the

lar versus

rivalry: illuminated by

sterling Stutes for the enslave kept

army POPULAR resistance to the re- distribution.

is now increasingly tak→

Just as the British would ilko ment of body and spirit, the urchlights.

No doubt a part of the activi=" to restore Persian production to During one of these "atura- ing the form of sabotage remains desire for freedom

reduce

tha the defeit, UT) the police les alleged against the arrested tion" attacks one of the young surprise attacks

to officials

men were true. No doubt many Americans are determined unbroken.

Czechs was so badly wounded and Party

by small In He clusive

these cir-

hold on to their gains and to could not move. that he

Broups.

cir- of the victims, including some TWO FELL

the East German in

In the State In- in big positions

protect Middle East oll Invest- told his comrades to save them- cumstances

eks Government was obliged, after dustrial enterprices, were merely ments, currently worth well For nearly three weeks AN escape epic of a dif- selves.

over £1,100,000,000, three struggled the killing of the four police boing made scapegoats for the and of the remaining ferent nature,

on, living on raw potatoes and Czechs at all costs. If it failed munist economic planning. It is

and men, to

capture the remaining muddle and inefficiency of Com- hiding. marching. quite unusual political signi- aplling short distances on the the whole foundation on which qulte certain that these claims ficance, was that carried out Mers of trains, Until at last any police State depends-lear af police successes were made Mossadegh" by three young Czechs,

respect for the most of in a desperate aged between 20 and 22, they crawled under the barbed of the police ond who crossed the frontier wire into West Berlin, one of their efficiency-night be under attempt to restore the prestige of the Communist police after Soviet into the

of wounds Zone

the Czech in the stomach and That such a disproportionate their debacle over Germany on October 3. hands.

cffort was considered necessary fugitives. 1953, arriving in West Berlin on October 31. Two comrades who started with them fell under Com- munist police bullets on the way.

This was no sudden dash

them bleeding

bullet mined. from

$0

But Anglo-Iranian could not restore Persia's annual "one- production of 30,- 000,000 tons, even it given the opportunity of doing so by the Persians, without harming mony British as American pro- ducers. Any such headlong re-

Fatter Pigs From A-Research

to freedom. It was a 28 Iwith

never

struggle,

on foot.

world preoccupied

ex-

By Kay Murray

action by introducing the radio-

By

prove

means

At Michigan University they are playing around with the iden

10 of

lend using radiation days'

"boost" to a diesel engine, and against hunger, cold and better A-bombs it is a wel-

atomic researchers also have exhaustion, and in the face come antidote to hear of

of radioactive for

able energy being used active particles into one of the atoms, scientists were to hopes that by sparking certain of a hue and cry on a scale) atomic

while chemical reactions with radia- unleashed to promote (among other constituents.

that thiouracil, before

Then with a Gelger counter following its lawful occasions in tion such items as plasties may out quicker and against quarry apparently things) bigger and better

they can illerally follow It the pig, was harmless to human be turned so helpless and insignificant. peanuts.

through the

processes ns if belogs who consumed the pork, cheaper. The five young men spoke

One big US, oil company re- America throughout -microscope. Farmera super The atom, in fact, is being through a no German, had practically housebroken and used,

that a programine for Sa can feed a mouse radio- can therefore rejoice.

fuel oils for diesel no food or money, and were perimentally as yet in many watch

food, for instance, and those over Back Porting armed with three old pistols cases, in all kinds of homely it goes into

what happens-whether the Irishman and the German, engines, which would have cost nearly £300,000 and taken, 00 valuable bone- and 52 rounds of ammuni- directions in the United building or is wasted.

Seeds (including peanuts) are years by conventional methods, of radioactive way carried out in four at a cost tion. Their escape was soon

In this way they've discovered getting shots discovered and their descrip-

how to falten pigs and chickens material to improve the variety, of £12,000 by using radioactive tion circulated.

Fatter pigs, bigger pea- in a way that a Strasbourg goose and the cow may shortly and hervele de trop, since atomle research workers are on the RUDE SHOCK nute, synthetic milk, im- might regard with mournfully

track of a way of making ndik without her assistance. ON October 10, 1953, with still proved fertiliser and a new about 100 km. to go to Berlin, type of packaging are some they were trapped near Cottbus of the goals at which scien-

States.

by a platoon of police at a ruil-tists are aiming with the

out,

leutering

major, two

+

envious eyes,

SLOWS THE THYROID

atoms.

BRIGHT IDEA

Ond enterprising Industrial

In industry their use helps to Ona the home front, radio control the thickness of tin active atoms measure how fast being plated on to a can, and A new faltener called Thlou curtain foods absorb water-a of ales plate, manufactured in a way station, but shot their way use of radioactive atoms or racil, which alows down the prelude to a paw quick-cooking rolling mill,

П and a sergeant, and Isotopes, as they are also pigs thyroid gland and makes rice for the housewife,

called.

it fattor on loss food, has been (77 In the same way the moisture scientist even had the Bright losing one of their number.

produced.

absorption of boxes and bags. Idea of making his golf balls It was a rude shock for the

to encounter Radioactive atoms pro pro- People's Police

But before putting it on the can be tosted to as it goods are radioactive so that he could dod

Liam more easilyl correctly desperate young men, armed and duced by an atomic plle, and market one question had to be being packaged determined to sell their lives they in turn give off tiny radio-thiouracil have the same rege cover way of hellstrig food by fracked, down with

Would Experiments aro afoot to dis -But golf balls that could. dearly.

Rather different from active partiolos,

1ob of de-bussy: the tunt

table effect (Lo. slowing down radiation) Radiation kills germe cool was too radiosetive about 50

Jin his pocket, (strozył:

Instead of working it out by the shyroid gland and incbut it also ville human beings, carry: a worker's house, orqating down the square root of minus, bye, ing pounds), so human beings so l 100 the door and droɛɛibe sway an researchers can trace the prosess who tie the baours.

ime pavilislar, problem with come his game and lone v. Gamer Ainarmed. Vielles under the "of a bomplicated, chacalca), xa-) from the plat

batore

for

yearly by 5-7

oll products Increasing by 5-7 percent, produc- tion increases totalling any- thing up to

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