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JAMES WICKENDEN warns of

THE CHINA-MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1955,

THE RED THREAT

R

TO JAPAN

London, Apr. 6. He has adopted three aims: Socialists--too quickly. It would

ARELY do political 1. No violence, more arzu

parties oppose Com- 2. A pro-Asiaa alamt bo`

ment:

the

fail to rally the fellow-travelling business, fringe.

prs-

munist interest only pagan piled-trozt.policy ég technique is being adopted of to find they attract the Red- kiss. But that is the Inte dilemma of Japan's divided divided Socialists.

selves.

The

the

Of

So the usual Communist

Socialists who dressing up the campaign under Among them- 4. cover organisation — the

"Council for Promotion the election Saiga dropped International Trade." Ostensibly For the Socialist-Liberal the idea of pushing a straight this respectable sounding body front opposed Prime Minis- line. More than half the Com- has no connection with violent

candidates were with- Communism. ter Hatoyama's "trade with mi

drawn, and Communist support China" vote-catching cam- was flung behind Socialsts In In fact, it was promoted after

*talics

Moscow in 1952, paign, which has Red sup- hard fought seats.

to the result at least nine according

Security port. And now the Japanese

elected two Investigation Agency. Communists, whose bald extra Socialists

Communists in the Diet; the electioneering put at least age set to make use of nine left-wing candidates in "more trade with China" cam-

in paign. bent on power, are filtrating the Socialists."

In fact Japan's left-wingers and Communists are in a similar

This battle cry of Hatoyama position to their opposite num-

is, of course, almost meaningless bers in India.

The

in present economic and poll- Socialists and Com-

tical circumstances. It was munists in both countries are

admed mainly to attract votes. 100 weak by themselves

appointed oppose a resurgent right wing. As soon as he had

1: his foreign minister, Mr Shige- constant This keeps alive temptation to form a united mits, a delegation was hurried Washington to reassure the Communist Socialist, front.

19 Americans. Socialists in India and Japan

to

Meaningless

know the danger. to themselves. Although, large-scale main in such an unholy alliance. But land trade attrac's all Japanese they have not the firmness to shades of opinion-except the refuse it outright.

Socialist-Liberal front the So far the Communists, facts are that China and Japan although.

the smallest party, have no basis for a big mutual have made best use of the con- trade, not even up to the pre- fused situaffen in Japan. They war scale. number only about 100,000 com- pared to the 500,000 hard core of the right wing organisations backing Hatoyama.

Dead Party

The

For Hateyama, therefore, the question of trade with China is as much a political problem as an economic one.

If he pushes the "trade with China" idea too hard, he drives the Socialists into Communist Shiga's hands. If he plays it too soft, he alienates his own supporters.

But larger issues exist. The ties with America, the need for Free World support generally in promoting Japanese Southeast Asian trade, and the desire of his administration to remain in the Free Asian world-these point to compromise for Hatoyame.

Positive Role

4

the

He may continue to approve the idea of improved mainland relations without going so far at present as to sign а редсе treaty with Petting. A:

in conference Afro-Asian Indonesia this month, he can take his cue from Prime Minis ter Nehru, who also seeks middle road

а

THIS PLANE REPRESE A SUPERSONIC, FIGHTER

Cummings

KEPRESENTS A HYDROGEN BOMBER

A SENCE STATION

CENTY

NESTILE

"My grandson, at least, will fly in what will be the world's strongest Air Force.”

(London Express Service)

KING HEROD and the

MAN FROM GLASGOW

T

Chim's new industrial plans much of the iron and absorb coal formerly sought by Japan. Peking waantis machinery to boost the plans not Japanese

shirts. cameros,

watches and other Consumer goods.

Red Before the election that put Chica is becoming more excre

But Prime Minister Hatoyama in Hotoyama

power, the mically.

Hnked with Russia,

has also a more positive role to Japanese Communists were Finally Japan cannot ex part almost a dead party.

the capital goods China wants perform in the Afro-Asian talks. He can put the view of an Asian leaders were hunted by the because of the ban on export

fundamentally non- country Public Security Investigation of strategic materiale.

Communist and heavily depen- Agency, Japan's secret police. But these facts do not prevent dent on Western help. They had only one member in the Communists taking up the the Diet. Moscow, directing

He may yet emerge, with astute Foreign Minister their affairs, failed to achieve cry of "krade with China, by

which they hope to drive លccess,

between а more Shigemitsu, as the ally of a hard-pressed Indian delegation Recently Peling is believed wedge

and his in face of the Communist Boe Hatoyama to have taken over the dire-cautious

and supporters

wreck

the to be expounded there by tion of Japan's Communists.

Peking enissaries. Undercover agents trurry and Socialists at the same time."

The However, Communist Shiga

this, If he does mainland.

the Sino- Semom the

treaty will be Security Agency admits that it does not make the mistake of Japan peace

trable to stifle this traffe pushing the trade with China pushed further into the future.

his completely. A new leader has line through own party. But Japan will have streng

Sea. anti- thened the Free World, par. prison That would warn the Satered emürged...

China veteran Yoshio Shige.

lobby he woos-the ticularly Free Asia.

is

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"A kandmark in the history of Time measurement

Jerusalem.

WO thousand years" ago Herod the

Great, who ruled

Palestine wher

Frent

*

By MONICA DEHN

Huge Hall

The

findings expedition's proved Schmaryu had been right had und fn thinking he Herod's palace. Said expedition leader Avi"Yeaah: "It had been built in three tiers like wedding cake, and reminded me of Hitler's eyrie.at Berchesgar- tem.”

a

Joséph and Mary were I wanted more than anything hard, which he saw was part of in Nazareth, also to find it 'Ho built a wall a pipe more than three feet wide Emalles, children built himself an enormous of white stone around the whole and 120 feet long.

He added: "Herod must have top of the hill and erected 38 similar pieces of piping had fortified palace on the pre- towers on the wall. He built a been seen near the cisterns, had the same kind of mad

real "It was our first

genius as Hitler to choose this cipitous rock mountain one palace at the western ascent.

said of edifices, and of triumph,"

Schmary fantastic site for a hide-out." thousand feet above the Furniture

"Obviously the Romans had On the top tier, the expedition baths, and, of cloisters was of the plain which overlooks

supplied the cisterns by an found, Herod bad built a thick variety and very costly. salt flats of Sodom and the buildings were supported by aqueduct, Flood water, rushing buttressing wall on, to an earlier

Hebron from

and structure, believed to have been Gomorrah, near the south- monolithic columns on every down ern end of the Dead side. The wall and floors of channelled through these pipes, put up by Jonalban, one of the the buildings were paved with could have filled those cisterns Maccabean leaders, and paved with black and while mosaies in stones of many colours. He also in five hours. Now all we had After Herod's, death, and

to do was to find the palace."

a gecmetric. design which Avi many and great cisternis, 25 cut forty years after the eruci reservoirs for water, out of rock,

Yeaah reported to the press were the oldest mosaics to be fixion of Christ, a band of and he endeavoured to have

found in Israel, 900 Jews made the palace water as if there had been

fountains,

was the finding of the

Here Herod apparently, kept their last

F ditch stand

aqueduct that led Schmary his look-out post, To find the palace - Schmaryu

for the against the Romans, follow as sweated up the steep ascent to the palace. Leading out of expedition found a stone bench ing the destruction of the to the plateau at the top of one of the cisterns he saw a tiny with a drawing of a house

which after he had Temple of Jerusalem in 70 Masada more than two hundred path

dhte palms da surrounded with clambered up 1/

i, brought him

him scratched on the wall behind it. A.D. They held out for times, the Brst time 21 years ago,

out

a flat terrace below "Perhaps," said SchmaryU, three years, and in the end He found a mile-long Roman siege wall surrounding. Masada.

the tip of the plateau and com- one of the guards was lovesick drew lots and killed each From the summit he saw the

pletely

concealed by it. And and one day, when he was other rather than submit. three separate fortifications the Feering down over the ledge of bored, he drew a picture of the the terrace he saw what he had home he hoped to provide for Romans built along the road to been dreaming about for years. bis wife as soon as his tour of A Strongpoint Jericho, and a ple of rubble

Thirty-six feet below him, which formed a 600, foot ramp

duty on top the Romans used to bring the floor of a huge

on the edge of a precipice, was

over." feet hall, siege engines and the battering long. surrounded by magni- ram which finally broke down flcently preserved Corinthian the Jewish defences. But until columns, each 12 feet high. last year né never found a trace of the palace.

thousand years later the A

Crusaders used the rock-its pane, Masada, means fortress in Hebrew as a strongpoint and built a chapel there.

First Triumph

AST year be climbed Masada

onto

of Masudat was

TONY

IN THE CHAIR

From

William Worth

T

London.

HE. tall figure, grey- ing hair, clipped moustache and BBC

make

baritone voice

obligingly impressive. thony Eden..

An

But, looking down from

Com

be

the 'gallery of the mons, his hands show hind his back, white and tightly clasped. He is a shy but determined man. He might have been a good bishop with 1 reputation for the patience of Job. He has indeed built

ย with careful front

his. moustache and his hat "I look such a fool in a bowler' but

he has shown remarkable staying power for what his enemies call a dummy wearing a dicky.

GREAT STRAIN

There is more to Eden than earnestness. Only Eden knows the cost of his fourteen years through the war and after. He Jang taken more strain than almost any, statesmann alive. Ta do it he had to fight his past.

His father had a lot to answer - for. He was a rumbustious man, with a long family tradition of socal authority in northeast hami, who England behind ewiped at knick-knacks with bis stick, and once flung 4 barometer into the rainstorm it failed to predict. All this left an impression of the young Eden

Ever since he has been ke n man constantly dreading some awful explosion, a pessimist at heart who needed to avow re peatedly an optimistic line, then ask as be does after every speech: "Was it all right?”

He has also managed to wrestle with and defeat: the devil he inherited from his father- hot temper once' well know by white and shaking dinteriors when he was at the War Office.

He has done it, as "he has wrestled with international con- filets, by persistent ideallem and the belief that both life and poll- ties ought to be clean. He has at least kept his own life clean and restored arme decency to

the diplomacy of the world.

HOPELESS CREED

he "The one hopeless creed,” said before resigning from the. HIS Chamberlain government.. fatalism and the belief that the struggle for your ideals is not worth while."

He said it after working six- teen hours a day at the Foreign Office to put some stuffing and purpose into the flapping Cham- berlain policy.

Well, Preserved

Jubilant, Schmaryu journeyed

INDER. the bench were the to Jerusalem in tell his story Since then the rock has been

kernels of dates the guards to the, Israel Department of deserted-and might have re-

Antiquities and Israel Explora- must have munched, bits of of salt, even meiped SO for years if the

tion Society, and three weeks bread, grains parents of three-year-old

ngo A -25-man expedition fragments of material and the Schmaryu Gutman had not in the empany of twenty boys including not only, trained thongs of leather sandals-all decided to leave Glasgow 42 years ago and settle in Palestine. and girls from one of Israel's archaeologists but university perfectly preserved by the hot

youth groups. They stayed on students and volunteers from dry air.

The second tier, which was

His vast experience of foreign. · Schmaryu's parents weht to the plateau five days, and when farming settlements set out to farming village, and the

they returned Schmaryu knew make "the first scientific survey sixty feet below the first and affairs is well known. It began in means of 1920. Since then he has moved WBS reached by youngster grew up speaking that Herod's palace was really of the area.” English

without atty

winding steps at wood and steadily from Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary in 1935; stone passing through rock, and memories of his first home. there.

from invisible

the He

outside, out briefly after resigning, and becante a tractor driver.

while ever since, But in his spare tinte he

consisted of a platform which back ogzin

Churchill reigned. Hike cisterns,"" he said, "with O maintain the expedition the peeting Schmaryu had seen

First they found reservoirs.

history and went bad. "They consisted of twelve cave- ' Jewish

Three Tiers

some

extreme-Tories,

his vital decisions are

plastered walls and connected at the summit, supplies and what he guessed to be,Herod's To carried a copy of the works of one to the other by steps. They to be brought up by mule along banqueting hall the Jewish historian Josephus were able to hold 40,000 cubic in ancient track known as "Herod's banqueting hall" on well known. They would Flavius, who had been the sole metres of water, and had been "Serpent's Fath," which had the third level was also reached

caustically dist them survivor of the 900 #zealots" scooped out of sheer sock by been built by Roman legion by a winding interior staircase-

Mossadegh and Naguib that perished on Masada, hand quite a job that, High aires and repaired by Israel nether of these staircases was “cheeking" Britain; "sell-out" in water marks showed. they had "Tommies." An army base discovered until the last day of the Suder "scuttle from Suez; To The Top

once been filled but it puzzled camp was established at the the murvtyant the expedition "erry-building"" 43 bow this had been done since site of one of the Roman found it even more remarkable "muddle" in the Middle East. the maximum annual radodali in camps.

than Schmaryu's excitet descrip-Tony's a flop," they have mut Fer three weeks the TOUD SITTING in the simple room the area is about an inch.

tered in the lobbice for monthst provided for him and his wife To work it out Schmaryu worked from sunrise to sunset,

at a time, by the communal settlement of left his boys and girls one crawling and clambering over Na'an, where he lives with his afternoon and went climbing three-feet deep piles of rubble, three children, he told me that to the nearby wadi which he mostly on foot, sometimes with while still a boy he determined knew ran from the Hebron the help of ladders and ropes,

The Frescoes-

to uncover Herod's palace, Hills of South Jerusalem to the At right, by the light of ALL cound it were fluted sandstone column covered Sipping tea with lemon, he Mediterranean. Suddenly, as lamps, they kept their surveys by plaster, with capitals of pure said: "Joseph" deseription of be scuffed through the sand, up to date, mapped out the next classical Corinthian style. A the palace was so beautiful his foot hit against something day's work

yg bakrstrade surebamding the hall

A MODERN TREASURE SHIP

Cairo,ounts

But is he? Prime Minister?

Geneva;

And now he is

WHAT ELSE?

He might well ask his critics. what else could have; brieni

was painted with frescoes in hemently done in postwar diplo blue, red yellow and green. rather like the walls at Pompeil macy, if the long view and the peace were beld houses. On one of the columns goal a Roman soldier had scratched Ho

his speeches are slow his name: Gabus Astrals. Beneath and lack bite they face facts the tall the rock dropped sheer- and are well reasoned. His in ly away, to a plain 1,000 feet tuition is proverbial and, he quickly "sums up men in "a

"You cooft trust Mussolin!!”-

of the exiled Farouk Showpiece of the Mahroussa's RUSTY old British seadog Colonel Naaser pounced on the hoard will be a diadem once below.

Sir Francis Drake who lot after the fall of the Egyptian worn by Princess Chiveklar

Although Istart's archuscolo phrase ofte King Fuad, whipped the Spanish Armada monarchy and deposited it deep first wife would have smacked his lips down in a vault of Egypt's na Farouk's father. It is set with gists are now convinced they To Drake, who dabbled in tional bank. There the trea- 3,000 diamonds made up into bave found Hero's palace there "Nase is a good fellow you'l piracy occasionally, a ship lee sures He, bursing out of old ave thick spirals peppered with is still much work to be done. Bec' "Chou Enlai is certainly the Mahroussa did not appear suitcases, shoe-boxes and coco tiny pearls and mounted fu The rubble is piled up three impressive, he has said private on the horizon very often.,

For the Mahroussa is the first Instead of asking the world'satinum. And crowning it is a feet deep in eome parts, and ly. As Churchill hurls hunger.

there is still possibility of pear-shaped diamond. real treasure: ship to sail for wealthiest to come to Egipt to There is also the crown, made there being more roome-pos She Is to sail from buy them, Egypt a sailing them entirely of diamonds shaped in bly dungeons directly under- His year, around the to the major ports of the world, roses, which Farouk yave coeath the banqueting Imil. world.

with £500,000 worth of hunting for buyers. And the Queen Farida on their wedding "Assoc es we get the reces. jewels. by board laras, most Important port o of call: day in 1937. diadema

Crowns, necklaces, New York A

And just to make sure no one funds, Avi Yonah, hrubeless, loads glittering Among the treasure cargo are has any Francis Drake Ideas, "we are going back."

And when they do go, siones, and precious

crowns and sceptres-relies of two Egyptian destroyers will And they are all for sale. the brighter side of old Egypt escort the Mahroussa on her Schrary from Glasgow will cha trenine --- CAS once which may go into a state. round-world treasure trip. band over his tractor to some belonged to the Mohamed All museum unless someone wants

one else for a while and go faintly cousins)',

and to buy them.

along too,

DAVID BURK

bolts withma, Eden has flashes of sight within. At least they often keep him a bound chead of pondencius contemporaries fr international politics.

He charm and his palace therefore, hide a bunn EVEN: TEDTÉM tim at times. But now that he feels the song- (awathed reina od power he may gdp them more firmly and purposively than most people