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THE CHINA - MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1954.

"Reckon she must have opened your letter to the paper about your Ideal Landlady being the one next door.”

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Even the oldest friends begin to falter...

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O the knowledgeable the chief threat to Britain's greatly weakened position in the Middle East no longer comes from Egypt.

It stems from another country with which Britain has long enjoyed a close

Iraq. military alliance

The threat on. August 4.

w

became open For earlier

that day Nuri Said, the 66. year-old Premier of Iraq, formed a new Government - it Wan his fifteenth Premiership. That evening he broadcast to the na- tion.

Parliament was to be dis- solved. New elections were ordered.

And his new policy? "The termination of the Anglo-

Iraq Treaty."

The British would have

to quit their base at Hab-

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R.A.F.'s forgotten strong- points.

This was no repetition of The the Cairo routine. differences were startling. In Egypt every Government for the past 30 years had sought to bring about Bri- tish evacuation. None had been really friendly to the British occupation. And the man who three weeks ago concluded the deal in Cairo never pretended that he wanted anything but to get rid

of the British.

Ex-protector

But Nuri in the rock on which Britain's influence in Iraq-indeed in the whole Arab world - has built.

been

He is the only surviving Arab leader who fought

+

Prime Minister Nuri Said

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RAG

Alap shows the key importance of the R.A.F. airfield at Ifabbaniys in the defence of the Middle East. Dosted aro

indicates 500-mile radius of figliter cover, jaz

by Jon Kimche

with Lawrence; he was in strated by the return of Iraq's entry into the American-

at the kill in Damascus. He Nuri to high office. served

19 commander-in-

sponsored Turkish-Pakistan pact concluded last April,

For Nuri is no lightheaded

the air approaches to the rich oildfields of Persia, Iraq, and Arabia.

the

Without these effective for- word bases in the oil region of Middle East, which also cover the main invasion routes Into Persia and Iraq, the new defence strategy outlined by the Minister in Parliament would be doomed to failure,

War

For unless there are effec- tively defended reception con- tren available for the airborno troops which, in an emergency, to be flown there from Britain, the scheme clearly cun- not work.

are

And the most effective line of is defence against interference that based on Habbanlyn, linked z with Mafrak in Jordan, Buez In-

Egypt, and Cyprus and also with the American air bases ot Izmir in Turkey and on Crete. Without Habbaniya and with- out Sug what would be loft ac- tually in the Middle East? Only

the British contingent in Jordan

at Matrak and in Akaba.

will be the in exect, Tritish force left; last only month they. numbered fewer than 400 troops and an Air Force contingent

So the British withdrawal from Egypt clearly marka not the beginning of a new era of British Influence in the Middlo East but its close.

The price

that

Nurt has demonstrated the price of Arab friendship is to settle quickly in Egypt, get out of Iraq as speedily, as can be managed and meet any fur- ther Arab "aspirations" pre- sumably in Jordan, Palestine, anx? Libya,

The argument is put for ward that the West might then bo stronger, that the British should not worry if the positions they quit are occupied along the lines of the new American con- ception of letting friendly local countries provide the forces with aid and help from the United States,

But what happens when the British leave frag and Nurt miscalculates as he did in 19487 He then negotiated a new treaty with Ernest Bevin. It was actually signed when the Iraqis throw out his Government, and his treaty.

Three years ago, when dealist when it comes to country. chief under Clayton and the Egyptian Government negotiation. He knew what he Cox.

abrogated Its treaty with could offer as his contribution He was the father and Britain, Nurl went out of to the new alliance. And he

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MORNING FOST

A KOWLOON

of

Nari returned to Turkey rather than go back to his own The popular mood In Trag appears to be no different to day. No doubt Nuri will have no dimculty in getting rid of the British. Ho may find it Treaty he now denouncea, tish Government that in Ho dangled before the Pakis much harder going to bring in He was the originator of the Iraq Parliament would be tanis and the Turke and be the Americans.

fare the Americans the twin- All this raises grave ques Arab League.

consulted before any bases of Habbaniya, and Shalba, tions about the practicability: of He stood by Britain in changes wero made in Compared with the Suez the new defence conceptions. A 1941 when the Iraqi Govern- the Iraqi treaty with Bri- base, the twin. Iraqi airfleidsmobile strategic reserve that appear almost to be, insignis cannot be moved to the 241ddle ment and army sided with tun

ficant. Barely 3,000 RAJ. East at will, and case of need the Axis; and he continued

Personnel are stationed there, must produce serious concern.in to stand by haruntil this

compared with the 80,000 men

80,000 men the United Kingdom and in month.

|| Western Europe,

Achilles Heel?

Nuri was thereupon hail. ed (by tho Manchester in Egypt. Guardian) as "Britain's You Habbaniya and Shalba For 24-years-since Iraq became independent - Nuri beat friend in the Arab have become more important, not less so. Between them they world." has been the perfect baro-

provide the king pin for the air. meter of British Influence But by August 4 not delence of the Middle Eart

They

Tho, Middle East has become In Iraq. Three times, when even a lifelong friendship base that's effectively Iraq turned against the could gloss any longer over the Middle East oil reservoir Europe's recond. Ruhr, Te L British connection, he had the strategic consequences almost of half of the world's threatened;;; today, perhaps teen. vasion ju from. the North to flee his country; and each of the Cairo agreement,

Thay........ provide the only effes- ம் time Britain's - re-assertion

Hive/kir numbrella for the Middle and strife from withing

new, defence, Fof influence was demon-

“JÓN:

I had drawn his con

protect

Ceilings Vary With Rank

By LES ARMOUR

London Jarge extent. Differences in diet longer generally

Nights in the Britisk tolerated. celling are no

sense.....

Army's houses vary with And, what with posters all country screaming the rank of the intended over the

tho "You're SOMEBODY in occupant will probably be Regular Army" it may bo passed off: as another doubted whether differences in example of military common prestige, and even authority are being retained at the old levels.

The War Office announces old distinctions would, meet

•Any open return to the pasty that ordinary soldiers are with violent public protests. On entitled to ceilings 7 ft. 6 in. the other hand, the War Office that democracy high, Junior officers to an doubtless feels extra three inches, and should go only so far. majors and above to 8 ft. ceilings.

Since it is generally

under.

In

A six-lach variation celling heights is surely as cun- stood that the amount of hot ning a way of making the point air a man generates Increases as any. with his rank, and it la accepted by scientists that hot air rises. tho scheme seems sensiblo enough.

But it will probably be for- gotten that this, general under- standing does not extend to the War Office, In these august halls, the suggestion that senior officers are producers of hot air would no doubt be met with a look suggesting that one's boots needed polishing.

The explanation, therefore, must lo.somewhat deeper,

Indeed, bearing in mind the recent pronouncements of

Indeed, it might well spread to civilian life.

Thus, Invited to B friend's house, one might surrepitously take out one's tapo-measure and give the wall a hasty run-down.

"Things must be pretty bad with old Smith, ono Imagines saying, remembering oneself one's own 9 ft cellings, "cell- Ings down to 7 ft."

Such a system would involve certain structural problems --- builders would have to install movable cellings to take account of possible promotions...and demotions.

now

And some body (analagous to Covers sociologists to the effect that the one which

heraldry) would have to bo civilian distinctions of rank aro established to mako certain tending to disappear, thereby that citizens didn't claim alatus causing serious problems in to which they were not entitled. society at large, It is possible that the War Ofice is looking to the future.

In event of such happenings,

plain circulars in

envelopes might be dispatched to one's oc- the breach quaintances noting and ensuring ostracismI,

The tendency is probably spreading to the Army.

Differences In uniform four But perhaps it would be sim- everyday wear, for instance, pler just to let democracy take

4 Its course............ have already disappeared to

THE PUFF-PUFF

GIRL IS HERE

By Gordon Makin

New York.

Trying desperately to look as THEY don't know it yet, but if they'd been doing it all their T the pipe-smoking old women lives, glamorous models swayed

of Scotland's lonely islands are in the front rank of fashion.

For the latest thing in the

Puff Girl."

back and forth puffing at short striped pipes to match, striped beach suits.

In

on

world of fashion is "The Puff tentativeling gowns they drow exotic pipes studded with imitation, rhine- stones and rubles. This time, not the big fashion houses, but America's tobacco barons are dictating the new

trend

cancer,

In pink pyjamas a model tripped down the show's run- way wheezing over a foot-long smoking-piece. An announcer

Panicked by scientifle *** told the audience that' she was porta

of an alleged link between smoking mildly aromatic cigarette smoking- andlung mixture to blend with the faint

the tobaccO: MIEN

are odour of boudoir pertume.” making an all-out bid to keep

announcer gushed; "Just the custom of millions of the thing for when a woman American women smokers." wants to be alone." Men in the

And they are doing it by audience looked at each trying But

to win them over to with a "she ain't kidin' pipes, difference.

other Look pipes with P But a lot of America's loveliest tonsils took a dreadful Recently, the tobacco men beating. Watering eyes wreaked

the fashion havoc with mascara got together with

and off- house, chlets and staged a stage the models coughed over mannequin show to demon- the blend of tobacco arid burnt strate that a girl can sull look wood. ilke a lady with a bowlful ̈of;

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