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· THE 'CHINA" MAIL" THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1955..
OF ISMAILIA
‘Automation' Scares
The Union
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New York, Tuesday, N our way back
to New York
0%
The
we Iceland
landed to
€1
in
refuel. Strato-
airliner, cruiser called the Mayflower, rolled smoothly on the snow- covered ground, but Iceland, or, rather, the airfield at Keflavik, was much warmer than I expected.
I walked across the tar- mac 10 the air terminal without a cont. The place, at around 11 at night, re- minded me rather of Kan- Maa City.
DON
IDDON'S
DIARY
Boss
Who would be the head? Why, Walter Reuther,
Reuther says he la'certain to win, but other unions, such phy the Transport Workers, which are a branch of the C.I.O., are fighting the Reuther plan.
Meanwhile, the extraordinary man from West Virginia, who made Detroit his castle, is åring his gun at automation.
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businera, The volco of big through the throat of Benjamin Fairless, chairman of Unitoa
Steel, has
replied tremendous row is going States on here over "automation" Reuther "with vestraint." which means the mechanisation of factories and offlees.
A
Jays:
He says the union leader is indulging in vicious propa ganda and miserable fraud and just plain silly." It should be an interesting battle.
Mr Walter Reuther, the 47- year-old
president of the world's biggest union, the Con-
I have not heard much war Kress เม Industrial Organisa- tions,
"The time la talk since I returned. It blazed with fluoreseen coming when entire plants, Most mrblications are sprout- lights, and there were offices, or departments in much ing with articles enülled "Why crowds lined up at the coun- of
be operated China will not Oght the U.S." Industry will
saying by electronk-controllast ine. and many experts are ters buying presents and
chanisms. Automation would that they were right all along souvenirs or queueing up cause mass unemployment, and about the downfall of Malen-
Administration Ja doing kov and for coffee, hamburgers, and the
about Bulganin and nothing about it,"
Krushchev taking over. hot-dogs.
The average American finds the Kremlin complications hard to grasp, but is not at all happy about British Labour poilti- clans' statements on Red China. Clement 1 estimate that Mr
is the most unpopular Attlee
among Americans Englishman leduy. le has succeeded Bevan, whose recent Aneurin
I bought a little fur purse Big news now and put down £3, but 21
DEUTHER'S name is making said: K American next to me
ile big news in America. "I don't think they take has bern
called "Rampageous
Darling" "Destiny's English money in Iceland." Beather," They do. The shop assist. The late leader with his eys ant was pleased to accept on the White House,"
Reuther
survived #5- my offered sterling.
assination attempts and still has a scarred and stil right arm from a shotgun blast ten years ago. He is an aging young at in a hurry, known as 0 man labour brains trust."
L
Later he handed me a book-
ented *Fueta
about Iceland," by a man called Olafur Hansson, and sold: "We got bit tired here of all the jokes about #iceland. The place t
frozen waste, you know. You should visit the capital, Reykja- vik-it is a magnifcent town."
said I would like to, but I was hurrying back to New York, What I saw of leeland, of merest gimpse,
course, was
The
and I am not saying that It Is Florida,
people
polite, cultured, gentle in man- her, and the service ut The
terminal was excellent.
No alecholle drinks Were served, not even ber There was prohibition in Ireland for a period of years, but the law was annulled in 1935 and the sale of spirits legalisel
I'll be back MHANSSON'S
booklet
When in his teens he said he had three ambitions; One was to become president of the United Automobile
THE TOWN
་
alde, had the hospital erect- packed od to commemorate event,
area
After 70 years, the British are withdrawing from the Suex Canal Zone. Across the Nile, another British evacuation is under way in the Sudan, Harold Guard visits Cairo, Ismailia and Khartoum to report these milestones in the history of Europe's relations with the Middle East. This is the eighth article in the series, "Ferment In The Middle East."
into tids
are Sweet Water Canal have mada at the estimated
o value; of possible a scattering of fresh US$1,750,000,000° - twice the groen lawns., value of the British Petroleum
Another brole in the depart Company's installation at Miles ahead we passed Abu Abadan, which was also a drabness is provided by the nont Scutr, the vast administrative victim of the Middle East's rows of white crosses in nearby centre of the Royal Air Force growing rationalism
cometorica, in memory of men in the Middle East, It will be
who gave their lives building These the lust of the. British installn- In one depot alone which we and guarding the Zone.
there were 140,000 will jomain when other evidence tions handed over to Egypt under examined, the treaty.
tone of stores, This tonnage 'of Britain's sold here has disip- can be multiplied many hundreds poured. Further on is the troop area of times to compute the property at Tel El Kebir, where British involved in operational bases,
in Egypt we found soldiers are gully chalking up administrative installations and everyone ready to accept the the slogen "Out 'by Christmas." transport depots.
results of treaty, it was a dif ferent story in Khartoum, where the change-over from the joint Anglo-Egyptian Condominium to Sudarso aclf-govertiment very much in evidence
OTHER PROBLEMS ON
A
THE
Ismailia. as
ROAD
BACK
By Harold Guard
friends," the Average
9 well as any book. Egyptian will fell you.
the motor road from Cairo
to Ismaili Leaving Cairo at
down,
tells travellers the a motorist might well be Lon- statements have not been pub- full story of Anglo-Egyptian driving through any
time don or New York suburb. Heised much here.
Armies Soon you leave the modern the Suez city behind and enter
OUT
In filmland
UT in Hollywood the aging
Louelin fars00 nistrons and Hedda Hopper, newspaper columnists extraordinary, trave studio Workers, mere power than many the second to become president chiefs and Warhanizton Mr
Congress of Industrial Ovea Culp Hobby is rapidiy of the Organisations, and the third to becoming one of the most in- become U.S. President.
Buential members of the Eisen- Reuther has accomplished his hower Cabinet. first two ambitions Nieves he is well on
towards the
the third,
is tens
atki
and be- his way
intense, highly workers
relations from the
Lord Kitchener's first occupied the Canal Zone.
the
traffic
Bun
under a
Whereas
Many people there, Sudanese as well as British, believe the transition is being carried but much too quickly.
The British agreement with Egypt to cut loose Sudan and its million square miles of territory after a half century of "foreign rule in just beginning to sink in, Word travels slowly enough, and appreciation of the step oven
alowly, among Sudanese vBlagers.
ΠΡΟΓΟ
Must Choose
!hn
Within three years from the time the agreement was signed Last February, the Sudanese must choose between complete Independence
sovereign state, union with Egypt, or membership in the British Com- monwealth,
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At the moment, the betting is on complete independence, But this prediction may not take suf- fciently Inte account the possible effect of Egypt's pro- paganda campaign for union.
Already, Egyptian cfflelais are claiming openly that they re- gard the Sudan as part of Egypt. The Egyptian Vice-Consul at Cyprus told me he was under orders to Issue Egyptian entry visas for travel to Kaartoum.
real Egypt great rolling sand dunes fringed by broad Over its 85 dusty miles, strips of fertile land. The the there
parallel to are historic book road runs marks of British-made his- Sweet Water Canal built by to divert the tory in Egypt, from the the French
to the site of Mahdi to the Nile watera reign of the military coup which deposed the canal. Mr Hobby was another lady
Farouk and put the Revolu-
The rural outskirts are who married the boss, Wilham
headed by
in alive with shadowy figures He is #
plump-faced Hobby. ex-Governor of Texas tionary Council tough.
Abdel Gamal Nasser Bor And owner of the Houston Post.
of the fellaheen going to man who neither drinks
power.
their fields. They are smokes, has carefully manicured She is a handsome, ultra-sell- hands and Indulges in pungent confident woman who has pur-
in drab As yet,
on wrapped
wool when sued success, wealth, and fame language. particularly
An Egyptian aircraft worker studios car relentlessly. negotiating with motor
this road is one-way as far burnouses to keep out the which Today us Secretary of Health. firms for more money
con- chill morning air. The de-
British NCO, (Photos by Charles Dawson). Education, and is often.
Welfare, shes British troops are
Ismailia and Cairo sert mist soon disappears us Talk cascades from him. He controls 37,000 Government cerned.
Only 330,000 of Sudan's coloured copper of bounds" the are "out
One RAF transport depot, for 8,750,000 populátlan Egyptian contractors are already and supervises, the both
can readi and from
every bidding for surplus vehicles and example, has grown in'o one of and write. Tho $4,000,000,000 for them. If and when they rises,
Sudanese aro permitted their week- minaret a Muzzein calls the equipment stored in the Tel El the world's largest
transport pot Egyptian · racially or cul-
many Fryp end leave again, they can faithful to the day's first Kebir eservation.
rriving
centres, handling over 25,000 turally-although Ismailla, we
including ex-President hearty welcome prayers.
the passengers and nearly a million tang Dur Arst glimpse
Mohammed THE Dew
musical expect
Noquiby, hayo- Suez Canal-the world's most tons of freight a month.
Sudanese blood. The people in which say:
"Silk Stockings" is hand from most Egyptians. "The
the north expensive man-amde waterway, gth and appeal of Walter
dark-skinned,. and well acted. He ne tumeful Reuther are no mystery.
The base, viewed in perspec- Arabic-speaking Moslems, while which more
once has leave after the kan The ban on troop
threatened traditional Don Ameche,
to run red with tive, reflects 50 years of defence those in the south are negrol Losege both the railways in feeland. It
great ccane- trade unionists and years, has made a
was imposed by GHQ large-
British and Egyptian blood. planning and the needs of two pagans speaking African tribal and proved niting back
be can qualities
world wars. Nobody in authority dialects. more than invent the telephone. him to champlon Labour's cause
The Old Vi: will four the
either here or in Calro is pre- And: "Rivers in leeland are in the turbulent alomie nge"
U.S. an Canada ext spring innumerable.
pared to say it can be effectively though none ls because the current
It will be ten years since its when a friend blurteet last visit and triumph here when
handed over in 20 months. Olivier and Ralph "Walter, you are a genius," Laurence Reulher replied: "I won't deny Richardson headed the cast,
Debble Reynolds cod steering towards mother will accompany Eddie new union federalion under Fisher to his Palladium erigago- which the mammoth
There is of beer with any rea) alechalle content. Very few hotels and restaurants have the
alcoholic to sell Fight drinks."
informed me:
however, no sale
The booklet was
full of 10- formation such as: There are
BO
seems unlikely now that my rallway will ever be laid down
in Iceland."
navigable
is no fierce"
I hope to spend a Rtle more
time in Iceland in the future,
strung.
soal habits. Row her 19
his spending acathetic in
I madrя.. nat fact, with his fuli approval his hand-mix distribute niles
hues of newer. rare
popular
In opposition
ONCE
"
iL
I have found New York very cold In fact. a greni
He la now deal colder than Iceland. The tem- peraturo has been close to zero; there have been let and snowstorms.
conully
Show talk
Broadway
her
C.1.0. ment this month. Miss Reynolds and glant American Federation and the creeper will be married of Labour would merge, on June 17,
Tiger
THE
GOLD MEDAL Championship
BEER
are
A
ed "incidente" to undermine
Real Egypt
Broken Leg
on
#i
than
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Too Quickly
The northerners
live in
doly because of the Moslem The first landmark
Brotherhood, which foment the
There was ample evidence in highway is pleasure Ismails that the British with
operation was gaining public support of Nassera loving King Farouk's great drin negotiations with the Bri- palace, with the mighty wall momentum, and a flight var
built by fellaheen at a cost the Zone confirmed this. tish. Although the Brother of £80,000.
Apart from the movement of Great
The netherners wear white hood is less
ordnance depots are 80,000 troops, that ovacuation of active as a
being emptied. Huge warehouses the hundreds of thousands of cotton turbans and loose, white The magnificence of the of rubbe: tyrts,
clothing, tons of stores would tie up the flowing robes, The southern'za result of raids on its cells
its palace intensified the and imprisonment of
con- batteries and motor spares are entire British merchant navy for often wear nothing but a white- leaders, the authorities are trast of our first glimpse of being checked to determine just two years or more, some officers toothed smile. taking no chances.
a rural village, a compound and how much will be left with
how much will be carried away say. of crude mud huts lining the the Egyptian army and air force. The treaty provides that the square,. fint-roofed huts built. banks of the Sweet Water
“1 British withdrawal must bo.com- with multi-coloured sunbaited Canal. Hanging in the The various bases themselves ploted by May 19, 1950–20 bricks, The southerners, have morning air is the stench of are being catalogued under three months from the date of the mid fixed homes and live primi-
headings those to be maintain- signing. However, ani annex to tive lives, with felbal wars as. There is little evidence of a new chemical fertiliser, ed temporarily by British forces, the treaty provides that 54 per- an occasional diversion. anti-British feeling in Cairo evidence of Nasser's am- those to be closed and those the cent of the troop strength "wili
Most of the emo- bitious plans
will expand Egyptians
maintain and be withdrawn within one year, These are the ordinary people control,
or by October 10, 1055.
who aro being besieged by tions whipped up in anti- Egypt's agricultural pro-
political propagandists -- the British demonstrations dur- duction.
In the workshops, Egyptian
From the air, the Zone ranks Sudanese independents or the ing the negotiations die- The road rolls past a hos workers are being trained by highres me of the world's last Egyptians preaching "unity of
to prepare glamorous spots. It is an endless the Não valley." appeared in the demonstra- pital at Kassassin, marking British technicians
repetition of khaki tents and tions which followed the the spot where Farouk, on
buildings swallowed up by the At Khartoum airport, the treaty signing on October a mad motor drive in 1944,
The Zone franks the Canal brown sands.
visitor encounters the first cross- 19.
collided with a British army itself for 100 miles between Port There is a little more colour section of a polyglot community
adminiătrative
officials north and Suez in on the ground, particularly tum whose didn't truck. The King sustained Sold in the
the south. Its greatest width gum trees imported from Au Bre trying to take over from occu- a broken leg, and after re-
As about 18 miles, and the tralia to break the desert winds,
British administrations. them celving first aid at the road military end air installations The Nile waters diverted to the
now.
**Colonel Nasser want the British as piers, but he wants
to
them for the takeover.
The system is the same, the
|
uniforms 200 the same, but
routine does not quite work.
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"We are moving too quickly,"
ma.
an elderly Sudaneso official,fold "It's the same. In many government departments.". And we Sudanese foed it as well. We are used to the old efficiency."
War Danger
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The British officiala silii; here, on the other hand, applaud the various effort this wy Sudanoso are making to cope with the situation. They polded,
example, to the commerid able progress being made on the technical side" by: Budan'a civil- aviation department in operati ing one of Africa'awa langortjes, airfields
This airfield underlines the fact that Sudan'a, stanlegio Im-* portance is not being overloo by Wouterra · · detance/?bănes Another indieption using a new |military), rond beinir (bukib. › from?
Khartoum to connect welth |similar; bíchway; from French
Equatorial Atries
of Budun, byť dný
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