No Stirrups On A Camel
By CHARLES ANDERSON
Damascus. rocket 2 រវាងក two hundred N this country which I yards. And now the benst wps
um uncomfortably dis- rendy and walling.
I approached the shaggy
covering is three parts desert, the principal form of transport is (not unnatural-
mountain with the temerity uf one unexpectedly called upon to demolish a mine.
Unfortunately, camels, with
ly) the camel. Zoologically that inherent sense of suppleton speaking, the animal is a found in most animals, can be dromedary (one hump), but seen reading your thoughts na
"Sultan' to all and sundry in Arabia you approach.
exespilon.
was no
As
ncared "he at me with his rheuny aid eyes, and slowly raised his
His 11 "eanel" or (in cered Arabic) a "jamal,”
Walfaiza hotars of arriving in the bleat city I discovered that of one wishes to travel any dash; nee at wit in any direction ne bumps into a sizable clunk tlust the safest way of crossing any desert, in- respective of size, is by camel
The ancient Homati vellement I wished to visit, lav
150 mik from DamTINGUEN, LE
lay, for rene regem be known to the items istry put absoluko
with dewrt,
vinly water holts
non every 50 of 80 miles 11 w mild, I was told, take me at last two el dova, get there With ths in mid and knowing hittle of camels, i derided it would be bed for both myself and the Tok some driving
19.
Ali Baba
Me
left hand lug bent husty relevat, A this my ancient in- structor
advised
to walk down the road and come straight back thenelly, SLURRY lumped monstrosity, Lowering tra feet high, with 2211 alt
To
nepchaknes.
Most Agonising
tolice.f
As I returned from my bitle promemade
14 dozen intl Arab boys crutching in the drch. !) chuckling
a lagetrien) Doublies, "this
WS BOOK O
be
a good as
When I was about ten yartis from Sultan, Al Shauled some
eal gibberish, and the wall of Tautly-stretched brown slowly
رها.
etasonable
-
One doesn't use stirrups on a came:
In dead, the best in sug- pose to get down on its kives
Miv Brillah driving? Heen
Jurtes "all forms of frmsport but this carried no weight with d thes
toothless old Arab (aged
801 who wa allotted
the chief of the local !!!. Camel Corps } would toothed, have beginning
T
mount.
THE
CHINA MAIL," MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1955.
TWO MEN KNOW
CHURCHILL'S
SECRETS
DAVID PITBLADO - BAL Lignos in a 4 ministra3- tion la pro- bably with out "parație) among civil servants of Ate gener. Blon
Y
OU may see him to- night or tomorrow as he hurries away from 10, Downing Street, a small, dark man, neat and sharp-eyed, going home to a very late dinner.
I shall be surprised if you know his face. There are not
who do, even
in many Whitehall. And his name is
| | 1Z1 | 12 || ÆÆÐI hardly more familiar.
Why Some People
Don't Feel Cold
BY CHAPMAN PINCHER
for hours
withoul
Pufertunately, from the begin-COME people cannot get cold bath duck's pant of view, the
never stays down long
Warm1. Others walk showing any drop in body tem
wary
hugh, and stops praying just about in light clothing with thin-skinned,
perature When Dr. Pugh, whe
To start at the
as you have one leg round ite
mck, and both hands graiding feeling the cold,
ughly at the small tufled cars.
Accompiere by AIL Baba fan that was has real name ton') we walked down the king line at chained camels until we caine in what appeared a shaggy h
The next row seconds in my
Plump people have run in-
have experienced. To
Ir were the most ogonising sulating layer of fat under
the nc-
the skin but many people companiment of routing laughter who do not feel the cold look trenu the Arab Boys, servaina Tem Ab uni deep-throated lean. Why? Bunits igoan Sukan, 1 curunenord
mountain of old rugs. Thus, All fold me, was my ear for the Journey
"Plenty goost pamat," said Alt, Fu all thirty years. never kick At this the armal" marter robed his head from the feeding frough, forord ius neck slowly and regarded me with withering
$ls Phay Content
yes blinked, marcl saltva
dropped from the heavy folds
of his fro moth as he munched glaust
mass of sodden grass,
All took hold of the chain which was attached to the king
ป
FIRC
ad down the slef th The answer to this riddle
up has been accidentally begin to
dis hemu nie knives.
jcovered by Medical Research Landong with resounding Council scientists: Even lear hud on my back, I looked up af
He was gerrily sewing people who can stand the "Sultan" Big hus be thind) leg to and frold have a thickish layer of
fat under the skin.
Alternative
On returning to my hotel, 1
plane was leaving for Palmyre in two days time.
A
shaggy neck, and led my sleed discovered alternative transport out on to the desert road. At after all, A Syrian Airways the
same time he gave a wicked sinile, before turning to his charge and muttering away In
cowardly subslution-- Arabic. At this, my mind
only hope for the sake ended
the stories hat of future orensions when there hearl about the Antony of isn't a plane, that camels 19 runels who take # dislike to distinct from elephmits, forget. their rider. One kick from the Having met a "Jana" at close spindly hind leg of a camel enn quarters I doubt 11.
BATH TEST
the got inte bath he became paralysed with roki in 40 minutes
Teats of men and women In-
mediately after they had swum the Channel last year showed that their body temperatures has barely fullen otic degree. This was frue whether they had covered their bodies with grease or not.
Ur Pugh is satisfied that be could tell whether you can stand the cold just by pluching the skin over your ribs to gauge the Thickness of the fut
If It is more than half an inch thick you are well insulated.
Most women Call inlo Chis
by
George Hutchinson
JOHN RUPERT COLVILLE
very day he helps to shape your life
because
to the Foreign Office, until the beyond measurement Queen-dili Princess Elizabeth Churchill, the most copious dont for him, and Colville, writer anong modern statesmen. recruited once again into the is also the most voluble. Royal service, set private secretary.
up as lier
Half-way through his term Princess he Is with the Yet John Rupert Colville
married onc of the most influential her lady-in-waiting. Lady Mar-
In the country. people
Every garet Egerton, a pleason, 1~ day. working In
unreported assuming girl, who is seldom in ways, he is helping to shape my the limelight nowadays, They ife and yours.
have one child
Colville IA joint Principal
From Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, with a partner called Colville David Pitblado.
Embassy third
From them Sir Winston hos no secrets. To both, the (lov- ernment's gravest bostness is an open book. It must be so. They would be of little use Churchill,
knowledge, by their
Or
to
the
was
SULAA
A former Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet, Or Thomas Jones, has described the role of men like Colville and Pitblado.
"The
material
I
In background the two men differ greatly. The worldly Colville, grandson of
marquese, friend of the Queedi,
claim and enn
cherishes- certain grandeur. But no such element has touched Pitt:lado.
Good humour
Ho
Private Secretaries arrange their master's daily Umetable, form a barricade
18 42. a calm, quizzival, against unwanted bores, invent
good-humoured fellow with a atmusements for his recreation,
great dome of a forehead, less Princess's vice, assemble
his hair than he would like, and posted to our speeches, guard his reputalion, gentle voice. I he looks a Hitle at Lisbon. But this bumour his foibles, tell stories, tired at times, no one need diplomatic spell Was no and talk nonsense as required. wonder at that, Downing Street- more enduring than the frat or
Chequers Chartwell, hurried no settled hours breakfasts, belated dinners. second. Churchill called-and Colville returned to No. 19.
or holidays and they neglect the round goes unbroken, their families. The relations of What are his gifts, thot the Prime Minister with Prime Ministers set such value secretaries are hardly less im- vul on his service?
"They have
But more than that, Colville and Pitblado, by their advice to The Prime Minister, by their
ป Ministers. When chosen he is self-effacing to a fault. Intelligence, quickness of minci grasp of
these we can take for granted they are already marked out for of their
And his wift-she in Colville's job. Add method, high promotion."
Welsh, and used to be a school- mistress in Cheltenham—llvo modestly in Chelsea. They married 13 years ago, and have two children.
portant than his
Pitblade's brilliance Li ad- his ministration is probably with-
parallel
among relations with Servants of his generation,
Civil
Yet
19
events, exert a force own in the making of public policy.
And so I feel that we should know them bolter, thes pro- digious young officials. look at them together. Colville is 40, an who Its balt
the foxiations of Cambridge ond Palace.
Let us
aristocrat CareOT
Harrow, Buckingham
on
good
TWO man-unknown to the people of Britain--share the world's gravest secrets with Sir Winston Churchill; they are his living library of facts, his human barricade; they are the people he is always glad to see; they are the joint private secretarius to the Prime Minister of Britain.
memory and Stamina: Old Tom Jones goes on: "If a together they keep him going quotation from Burke
a
Pibindo has come up the hard Way, As the saying goes: from grammar school to Cambridge, thea
desk +21 the old Dominions Office,
Soon he WAN working as assistant private secretary to the
Malcolm
Mac- the Income-tax. CT the Donald.
That sort of appoint- polities of the Baltimore Sun, or ment is always a sign of excep- the name of a foreign ambassa- tional capacity-only the best dor's brand of cigar, the answer Civil Service calls them, are let men, **the real fillers," is the must be promptly forthcoming.
loose in the Minister's office.
ky re-
Page of Honour office for perhaps her und quired or the yield of sixpence Minister, Mr
thick-skinned category. Even grandfather their legs have a substantially already
mother. Lady Cynthia, WER
DR GRIFFITH
LIC PUGH. medical scientist, why took part in the conquest of Everest, found this out while studying why Channel swimmers can stay an in cold water for 20 hours or more while most people cannot Burvive five hours it i1.
Fle round that Chatte! swimmers can be reading in
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a
I began when he was 12, with his appointment as Page of Honour
to the Queen's Goorge V. Hls
Woman of the thicker layer of protective fal Bedchamber
Queen Mary. is why and In one capacity A man's which
or another they can weather biling cold la
Colvilles have been attached to sheer stockings.
the Royal Family ever since
John Colville went into the Foreign Service when he left Cambridge. But in no time he was off to
10 Downing Street 15 Prime Minister Chamber- Lain's
assistant private secre tary. And from thui day to be bus moved-assured. anonymous - In the privileged world
high ΟΣ politics, great affairs,
MY TEST
occasional WHAT about the
fat people who complain of be- feeling the cold? Dr Pugh Heves that most of them are
Deurotic. AJI sensitivity tends this to be exaggerated In eurotic alert.
people,
After telling me all this Dr He Pugh gave me a firm pinch and pronouncedi that I could stand
up to cold In spite of Ieanness,
my
stayed on in Downing Street to work for Churchill during the war, and then Mr Attlee. But after a few months with Mr Attlee he went back
al a stretch not just now again but nearly every day.
Then, as one of his friends has put it, "He knows about almost anything, and holds opinions on all subjects."
On
Influence.
"The Principal Privato Secre Opinions, moreover, that he
tary should be the antithesis of nover itres of expressing, for in his own circle Colville is a great whom the
a robot. He la the one person talker.
Prime Minister JA A witty CTLC, 100, glad to
see enter his room; he only erster At the right I 1942 Pitblado was assigned moment Bri от the right to the War Cabinel, then he business.
went to the Treasury. And to
although he is inclined to be
will doganale and shows a touch of arrogance.
the Treasury
he still
belongs.
"The Prime Minister has no One day, I predict, he will rise
You will find him and David Pitblado on the ground floor of No. 10, a few steps from the sexTets from his Private Secre to be Its head-the topmost civil long, white Cabinet room. They try any more than from his servant of them all. have a suite of offices at the wife. To him, as to her, he la back of the house, looldag over not ashamed to confess ignor- But. ....to go back to Tom the garden.
once, error, fear, or resentment; Jones: The Private Secretary to censure rivals and opponents; does not seek public power; he There, with a band of assist- to admlt disillusion with nurDES instead a onts, they shovel away inces- ungrateful supporters."
passion for suntly at the avalanche of paper
anonymity and secret influence," that every Premier brings down For this, Pitblado receives Secret Influence.....To some, the letters, the minutes, the £2,500 a year. Colville's salary it is a more alluring thing than memoranda, all multiplied is much the same.
fame or money.
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the Iraqi-Turkish pact Her relations with Britain are be, perhaps, 1955's good. A revised loan догов
will greatest constructive diplo ment has rectly been signed matic move.
DEFENCE HINGES
STRIP
By JAMES
OF
LAND
Kabul, they should have an In 1st Chiriese have advanced by dependent state-"Pathanistan." this way since Mao Tse-tung's In the Yenan base,. They yourp There is no sign that the practise it now from Tibet to Pathans are dissatisfied with North Korea. their higher living standards
in Whitehall. British polley is WICKENDEN brought through Pakistand 26- Significantly the Ruasions
to pay full regard to Jordan's
It will fill the vacuum of independent views and refrain power created by Britain's firm pressure. It is realised promised evacuation of Suez, that Jordan will take advice But, more important, a fresh from Britain but not directions. spirit of unity against the Jordan will remain outside the
it seems unlikely
that Communist danger will surge pact when her greatest ally through the Middle East. Britain has joined.
The first step will be Eden's
visit to Ankara,
After Britain comes Iran. It
But
Lees Certain
1 Jarner's future altitude is less Growing British
is expected in London that sho will join the pact within about certain. six months. Towards the end sympathy for her isolation has of the year the United States been will probably come in.
go
must
to Pakistan. The comings and goings of her
nee emissaries in the Middle East
Arab defence idens,
war has broadened
the
forms. But Moscow backs have already dressed up the Afghan claima It, encourages "autonomous regions" next to the Palhanistan campaign by Afghanistan in the Turkmen,
Joana
Tajik and Uzbek Republics,. giving
and technical assistance to the Kubul govern-
whose races aprend conveniently, ment.
Pinto Afghanistan.
The Sovic policy.
of They have also begun buliding rands southwards towards the "autonomous "regions" has two Afgion frontier, Yet Pakistan has the biggest arms. It softens the way into youtes large, supply bases are Along Eire problem to solve in Middle East Pakistan. It forms a future going up to case troops move- defence - her relations with
Afghanistan, whooe frontiers excubo for Russia, to create menta. And just north of the nbut on
window display states is the Iran, Russia and "zuidnomous "region""" out of Kazakhstan region. This Pakistan.
north Afghanistan itself.
to
The map shows that the weak temporarily checked by spot of Middle East defence is the recent Gaza shooting.
the tongue of Afghan territory running between Russia and The pact is open to all Midzi. East States. Late comers may United States are also strained.
Israeli reintione with the Pakistan-held North Kashmir to be Lebanon, Jordan and Israel. American Jewish organisations
Chinese Sinklang. The Egyptian bloc, including recently denounced forthcoming Saudi-Arabla and not join at all.”
Lebanon is the least reluctant. She has refused to lirik with the anti-West Egyptian bloc. So
That buffer
strip
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Three Stages
This would be in line with familiar Communist technique... the advance into now 'territory
Whore Krushchey plans to build his third Communist urporal sunde out of virgin lands.
Fortunately, Afghanistan, shows
signs of realising is danger and
the med to align with Pakistan and the West.
Syria, mar American aid to Arab countries originally created under by the "frontier creep. The pa paat with Turkey.
Afghan Foreign Minister, Sardar Naim Khan
Kabul bos. welcomed the as a "denial of Israel. This secting British statesmanship in "creep" goes in three stages: Recently the probably reflecta oficial formuli 1895 to keep Rusia from India.
Its value depends on good fringe of Communist, territory to talks..
1. Window dressing the stopped at Karachi for secret relations between Karachi am attract adjacent peasarita... Kabel.
2
!
the quiet but energetle Turkish To reasure Israel, there have Foreign Ministry has decided boen Washington hints that the
2. A campaign for the "in- tan host to be solved.
But the problem of Pathaniae that Lebenog is the next state United States may reaffin, in The key to good relations is dependence" of racially related to...) be woood. 'A series
the 1950 agreement on the status of the peoples across the "propaganda of stronger Lebanese-Turkish
are declaration guaranteeing Midas 20,000 square miles of tribal frontier.
If it remains, Afghanistan will talks 24
become the chile danger point scheduled for April,-
East frontiers. The State lands betwem Pakistan and
for the Middle East Department has already slated Afghanistan. They are the 8. The sparking of a guerilla»:?) Jordan is hesitant. Shots through, spokesmen its desire to homelands of the Pathans and propaganda movement, if neces- close to Egypt and niyo tears include Istock in a Mickle East form
'the bla "Northwest sary. Israel, Gift of Egyptian airs pact, man
Frontier" of British India,
craft add to Egypt's propaganda
halust Turkey. But Jordan, Much of the credit Crambid By Britain after this, improved
That tongue of land-wytiero Pallasso Maxfan, - Chinese, Pakistani and
Indian interesa i converge It was this method which the troublesome. Kashmireykil bei Pathans are radially, re- Reds used to gain territory from the wienic. bingo between HUM dont lactea to nighantar. According to Finland in 1948, The Commune Middle EL MAL FRONTARES
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