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REAL DANGER OF ARAB-JEW CLASH

By Ronald Fredenburgh

THE threat

of serious with the Arab Stater. Her conflict hangs darkly economy is being sapped by her In heavy military expenditure, by over the Middle East.

in the loss of valuable manpower termittent frontier

to the turmed forces, and the cidents between Israel and the

Aral neighbouring States have brought the tension to a crition stage. At any moment, they might touch off an explosion, white the world's attention centred on Southeast Asia,

in

Racial passions, and the bitterness felt since Bri

1948,

from

havo

WILE.

cessation of all trade with her Arah neighbours, Iernel depends r her economie existence on 14ans and granta Irom the American and British Govern- ments, and on a flow of dona-

! THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1954.

KENNETH MACAULAY returns to Persia after three

years

I LEARN TO DRINK TEA - WITH A SOCIAL GRACE

TEHERAN. Just think of it.

This was where a statue of the great

shall

I wonder if I shall get my nid the bus-stop shelters during a back tomorrow and you

seo a sight that will charm you." THE tricklest accom- once the ferille land where the Shah Reza stands with his back room on the second floor which shower of rain.

their to the city, a character I remem- faces north, and never gets the

A walk down Fordowal, So all night workmen tolled powerful ber from the old days as a not hot summer min.

named after a famous Persian sticking the fragments of mirror warrior very efficient down-town clerk

poet, and what do I find? Bath on the wall higgledy-piggledy. recognises me and awishes by, Tui no. 1 am escorted to a

room fittings! Monumental These gave a thousand reflec- waving courteously, in a shiny new wing, an annexe that a examples of American plumbing, tions which delighted the Sheh, now American car.

been bulli

ů carry

ancient Portions bred plishment one has to famous war horses, relearn

on returning enough to

down by The new to Persia after three years weighed

social fangled steel armour. is to drink tea with grace.

a

furniture.

since I was here,

shower cabinets

Now all It can support is

Well, he seems to have done with spacious bed-sitting rooms, massive, shining chromium taps, and so began the cracked mirr

big enough. era which has lasted in fushion The tea is served in small herd or two of tough sheep and

On the left-hand side, all right for himself in the dark bathrooms, and really built-in almost, for a week-end cofloge, until now. six the

gronts.

mountains. glasses holding about

towering ta night of economie penury which was supposed to have selfied On ounces, and mounted In ex- 10,000 feet and more, still have

Persia. quisitely rchase silver their mantles of snow which is completely of her total income is derived holders, work of the hands not likely to melt

of the craftsmen of Isfahan until mid-June. or Tabriz.

tia from Jowe ali over that Western world, Seven-eighths

from theke source.

Extremists

It is served scalding hot and should be drunk almost that tem- immediately at

He only source of power for the new industries she is buikperature. ing up is to reign oti. Her main Export is citrus frult. There

stru Ulust Jewish

- ידן

tain's withdrawal Palestine in gradually bern mmenting. Neither side wantis But the moderates in both camps have seen their in- fluence waning and hopes of a compromise settlement mittancer from abroad have vanishing.

heen falling off [a recent ent months. She is in no position Frontier raids are claim- to wage a costly, and possibly a War. But her (x- ed to be instigated by ex- prolonged,

concerned more In tremists on both siles.

thun witM this may Tasex

Ex true. But most of these raids have arisen, naturally enough, from the Arabя' attitude towards laruel.

sonic

humista

with racial prestige revenue figures,

Moderate, far-sighted people tre to be found on both aides what deplore the present ruincias

A.

To them, the only hope ++f avoiding war, NORT

fer, would be a settlement im- The Refugees pened by the United Nation, or by the len Bog Western Powera. Such a settlement, diry adult, Nearly three-quarters of would be resisted and resentes a million Arab fed from by Jews and Arabs alike. In Palestine when The racht - easy ties fear duit the Powers will hesitate to long to Peasa

prickly '11

" nettle, nuw they

in

BU

A Surprise

FURTHER cast and beyond the F

city is beautiful Damovat, a perfect picture-book peak with a plume of driven snow blowing The difficulty is that there is from it like a lesser Everest.

You do not remova XX and put it on the table, or wave it vaguely about

ne gaucer. the

The taxis, 1 notice, now have their mudguards painted white for better recogniiton et night, Nearly all are British cars, and quite a few are not more than eighteen months old.

Th motorcar is as much the badge of oulence in Persin s the the swimming pool is in

United States, so that it was 1 fille surprising to find, as my Avenue 1 let myself that when I get text continued down

that there

were into the city 1 shall see the re- Shah Reza,

yours that the more American cars than you to emphasise your point. You locusts ate--the three years in eculd shake stick at. drink the ten with the spoon in which that crazed demagogte

My hotel looks exactly tho the glass, und

tus prout some Massadogh brought

The janitor still looks Game. Anesse

to avoid poking your country to political disaster.

but 15 the like Joe Stalin, But as my tox! renchies eye oul or at any rate giving an

Arst metropolitan roundabout, pleasant and obliging. apperance of goucherte,

It

takex

But the danger of an optical disaster has passed now that I have been here Lataight--u fortnight that Fhuus und the quality of a recurrent ureäin, dicam in which one feels All This Hos Happened To Mo Before

It began as I drove from the airport along the great Heayy plain, denuded now almost cum- pletely of top soil th make inillion. gardens for Teheraní alles, and black with the smoke of stone crushers making road ballast.

A candid question for parents

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slate WAM proclaimed in 1948. Most of these unexpecially fortunate refugees stil re deeply einluolled in Ear Eustern main herded together

pestions. camps just over the frontier in Jordan, Egypt, Syria and the Lebunon. They live in conditions of unbelievable hardship and squalor, bure- ly kept alive by a pittance of foul supplied by the United Nations. This re- lief

given JH

through handful of devoted otheials, who have funds to pro- vide only 12 shillings' worth of food pur month to each refugee.

A

The Arab Sules have done practically nothing to help these

Do You Ever Let

Your Child Down?

A

By LADY PAKENHAM

TYPHAL brains trust question runs like this:

sunfortunate kunstołk Tu resettle "If the team could change them outsidÈCT Israel, in won- sexes, what qualities would tended, would mean the tacu re-they choose in a husband or ignition that they are recancil- wift?"!

d to the just af the homes and holding they

ace when

I want to adapt this ques-

they need a Palestine. But tion to parents: "If you ย Atal sist vehemently | couki become children that tine list properties stai again, what qualities would bolig. Jegally and morally, you put first in your par- the refugees, and that sooner orents?" later they will be ngamed

Reprisals

I wonder how many of CON- you would chalk up

SISTENCY near the top

To

It is this passionate conviction literally,

む consistent means,

tu "stand

logether.'

which leads to the frontier Your child "kin)WS where he

troubles, The Arabs Alterslands" when you are consistent

across the frontier W stol a

Locais what you say or do "atands together."

Children

map-makers. fre

"Pressing the right button

few cattle or sheep, or to collect some of the oranges and unions which they regard as their own footed properly. When this bus Every day they plot new land he rightly demanda consistency occurred a number of times, the marks and explore a 14e in his parents. For they are not Israelis retaliate with a well-} further into the country endled just objects on his map like organeed, ruthlessly conducted | "life." Parents are their sign- birds and fish, hens and horses, reprisal ri Ito Arab were poste.

to be ignored or explored at his will.

tories.

The

We adults expect sign-posts to These frontier ralds have

say the same thing always. At Parents are loudspeakers on gone on almost nightly for the my gate sign-post says the route, giving him directions. pust five years.

outside LONDON 48. I don't expect it They train him "in the way he world has heard of them only to change suddenly and say 30 should go" Consistency is the when they have reached an un- at night

08 or

+ Benk

zey to training. usually high point in terms of Holiday. want it to be con-

sistent, whatever the road con-. то ditions.

death and devastation,

The Arabs have nover ro cognised the larachi Stato andį have no intention of doing 80. It will disappear, they are firm- ly convinced, through its inherent economic

Own

£10

CHILD'S MAP

Or

be consistent does not mean you rast be severe. Ä Gloucester reader found that Helen, at three, had learned the lesson of consistency all too well.

hands full Her father, his

carry the trowel "Oh, no. You put it

and put it away.” Helen had been trained, very consistently, to tidy her own toys.

Parents must be like that too. asked her to trality, ac- They must not give heavy indoors. centuated by the Arab blockade. punishments because they them there, and now you pick it up

a headache. Balves havo They bitterly resent the help night ones because they have that Israel has been given by

won on the pools. Ameries and Britain, and tho influenco which they believe

UPS AND DOWNS

The child's map is very simple the Jowish race exerts on the at first. He expects all things foreign policies of the Western to be exactly as he has read or Powers and in the United Na- hoard about them. No variety,

This feeling leads them No deviation. tions.

When

But it is not inconsistent to hia ex- to fear and oppose any further!

ha lend children a hand occasion- contradicted pectation United Nations action in tho

ally in their training. Then foels let down. Arab-Israeli dispute.

they will learn helpfulness, from example, as well as the other viriuos

Self-confidence

A London reader took his six- year-old

。 daughter to see foreign royalty arrive at Wator- koo Station: "But, daddy, that Recently, the Arab

States can't be a king." she protested, have been drawing more close"he isn't wearing a crown." ly together as the threat t

children "treats." In fact, treats It is not inconsistent to give gre only possible against a back- ground of regularity and consis→ tency.

confict has increased, and this Even animals are cœpected to

When life la like the Giant as helped to restore their self-be consistent in their habits. A confidence, shattered by the small boy was taken to see a Racer-violent ups and downs budgeriga by friend's

perching there are no treats. Only the

good (or bad

defeats inflictedī

Israeli forces in the fighing in her finger. Home again, he cynical comment: "Mum's

splashed mont of the goldfish one of her

water on the floor, trying to mako his pas fish do the same,

moods!"

in

them by upon

1948-49.

The

for respect Israel's military power still remalne; but it in doubtful

Some parents are consttent this would be strong enough to

A two-year-old was told hens in their inconsistency. The restrain popular feeling in went to sleep on sticks," Pass-moment a child erics or cajoles, moment of sudden, Intenso ing some horse on thole way they glvo 'way. ► crisis.

ni Galati || home, he asked: “Do horses go

Israel has impelling reasons not only to avoid open war, but to reach full understanding

to bed on sticks too?"

A cblid wrongly mature to be consistent,

How quickly the child fearna to press the right bulionl He txpoole in being trained all right---bui

But only in tactics and, eritiliksena.”

sults

the of

more

By Barter

N evening stroll discovers o flect of fin, new, blue-and- cream buses, more powerful and luxurious than Persia has ever known before. They are Ger- man and have been required by barter. Some say they will not be paid for for another seVEN years,

Who would have believed that

ever

Oh, Yes - OIL!

Some of the other hotels have been spruced up too, and I see that the "cracked mirror" style of interior decoration, favoured

S before, in that other exist in every big house from the palaces to the British Embassy

ance of mine in Perda, there is at least

lu ene word

that I can every conversation residency, has gone out,

The story is that in the old understand. It is Naft (pro- days a German architect was nounce the "a" as "n") which building a new hotel for Shah means "oll." Reza and a crate arrived with Is mirror gloss shattered,

roared

Now the Porslans, realise that If they want to get into the oil

on

"What's the meaning of this?" business again they will have to was call on Occidental know-how. who the Shah, those rugged individualists, the terrible in a tempet, and would And to do that they will have Peralans, could

be per- toss contractors who displeased to deal as one American put it suaded to queue, except under him into gaol at the drop of a with the men with hair

their chests. armed guard?

Forsions genuinely want they But they in.

They say the dis- Meekly

The glass was meant to bo settlement. and

Hulle waii,

pieces, Excellency," pute will be settled. They say only jostling in

"Como ft has GOT to be acttled. occurs when there is a rush for quavered the architect.

the

hot.

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your

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