1955-10-13 — Page 4

WHAT IS BEHIND

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THE UNREST IN NORTH AFRICA

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By STEPHEN COULTER

ON. mon cher never been any real progrESS forwards transition until the monsieur," the recent explosions la North Colonel lifted his Africa. shoulders in a Gallic shrug -"make no mistake. It is not going to be the thing here 14 in China,"

Rame Indo-

was sitting in the office of Colonel Meric, one of France's mast trusted officers in North Africa, The time? Not :0 very long ago,

that

Indeed I should hate to tell you just how short a time ago took places -- conversation and, in all probabllite, vɔ would Curl For Trains. not tely 1, but most peuple da France. % sulting up 32745 startled mannes and exelaridg "Mon Dita. it is Inst-thing af over again!

A Fich Army is trying to

#apple with a jhantom enemy This Time In the curl, bzure hotelains and deserts of Algerta ael Me

Why has thus situaterm come

latt

There is a mystery Seven- millon Moskenes in both those entries want, in varying degrees, be run their own affairs And, on the whole, the men of power in France- which is not by any meWIN the Government o even the Parliament - are re- Juctant to let them do po

Short Fizz

to

With the Moslems now in revolt against the French oblain control of their own rffidrs, rich French settlers and local civil servants are renting with very nearly ferocity to keep what they have. And however much enlightened Ministers in Paris struggle for refroms, they achieve nothing.

"the

Moslem Rebels

Name

In Algeria the million-strong French settlers and civil

вет vants have been thumbing their noses at the French Govern ment and French Parliament for icht yelum, The Paris Partin- ment voted Reform Bill for Algeria in 1947.

French The settlers threw it into the waste paper basket, figurailvely spent- ing, and

have

never applied one single paragraph of it singh, The Immediate result is th I very substantial aren of Eastern Algeria Is

now practi- rally controlled by Moslem rebels who, arma in hand, swear they will win independence.

There are battles every tlay In the mountains, and scores of murders in the town. The amuk- Arabs are natural arms glers too.

un-

and arms manufacturers,

Morocco Though

will doubtedly be given a degree of home rule, in Algeria It is going One

the troubles with to be war to the death. France is not merely that French The French say that Algeria

barely last longpor is part of

of France. governments

No French than the fizz on a glass of chan- Government dare question this But sundry While they do last the for one instant. pagne. Premiers, Cablus Ministers and Frenchunen are beginning to de officials composing the Governo, braving the wrath of their ment have just about an much fellows in the process.

They

reat authority is junker clerks point out that all the claims in is a ginest Corporat

Mostem the world don't make a With the different political Algerian the same sort of per

tuting different ways, son as Britta, too, that parties

Catholle. it 18

They point out, already difficult enough for French Coulition Government Algeria is France, then the Al- to get agreement within itself gerians should have 150 depu- on what to do.

tes sitting in the Paris Parita-

and they have not, ment

When at last it has managed

to agree, the chances are that Its ardets will be greeted with contemptuous

Three Reasons

by the And I am not sure thel permanent officials andd civil Colonel Meri; wasn't even more Irvants who

are supposed to carry them out, and who will either take their own good Ume fintly or will decide

to do 10,

not to so at all.

Add to this the fact that private vested intervals like big business

groups, trade associa fiona, professional bodies, and social eliques are probably adse kleking agadut Bie Govern- ment's orders, ond sill hove clue as to why Prince seems to fumble her affairs 50 often.

wrong. The geographical silun- lica in North Africa, he sold, was vastly different from that of Indo-China. Instead of Res Chino Just across the frontier to supply the rebels with arms, what de the Moslem Nationalist

Africa have? In North

"Th Sahara," the Colonel said with

smile.

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But t were the Colonel should be worried for thre

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1955.

the United Nations

Cummings at

at the

HAVE just boon down to that glass tower in New York 'which is the United Nations building. Russia's Mr. Molotov camo in, looking slightly chorubic, though pale, and as impassive as always.

Mr. Malik arrived in a looso, draped

suit which emphasised the undulations of Mr. Malik insido it.

Britain's Foreign Minister, Harold Macmillan, pottered in unçortainly- perhaps he had mislaid a couple of Foreign Office officials.

The thing I found least like the House

of Commons was the line of dolagatas" friends and relations, sitting-glamorous and axotic—just in front of the Press area. One radiant charmer perfumed the air with a scont like China tea--but with no political significance. She wasn't ovon Chinoso.

Cummings

The Vital Question The Whole World Is Asking:

WHO CAN TAKE OVER

FROM

New York, Tuesday. arduous years

0

EISENHOWER?

In the White At the hospital in Denver she wife Mamic occupies a small bedroom just UT of respect and House, and his

and family were strongly across the corridor from the affection for deep

opposed lo Ike

continuing President. She has slept little Eisen- in President

the Job which

ali ex- Often she has stayed hower and America's President Truman calls "the night. She has seen more of first family

the President than anyone ex there mua-killer."

Not long ago

Mamie told a ecpt his doctors and his Press were, during the first few group of newspaperwomen: Secretary, James Hagerty. days of the President's ill- "Surely the President has done

that there It is remarkable ness, only guarded re- enough."

has been so little confusion in ferences to the fact that he

I have been keeping in touch Denver, or in Washington

that matter, because the dele- might not run again for

gation of Presidential

power

frisone;

now.

This is at the bottom of the French troubles in North Africa Nowhere--in Tunisia,

to

2

IL

Algeria or Morocco have the Frontiers of Spanish French fried

And Franco has his own reason.

"Protector posing as islam.

with very

2 rebel

1 The Egyptian armos

no Russin, for Egypt is for away, French troops are fighting commandos close in the Marucer.

dea,

office.

of

President will not run.

Moslem natives towards self- for

in the way that

povernment, Britain has, for example, has been "jobs for the boys".

boys,

the French

There

3. There is an Arab saying, The Sahara is a place of many has secrets.

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Curiously, on the morning of

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some papers before

an aide mentioned a news item

reporting the sudden death of

an

old army friend of the President's.

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I can make it'

NOO

IDDON'S

DIARY

THE TWO-TIME LOSER

COULD BE A WINNER

Mr

R Eisenhower put down his

Two

newspapermTIDEN,

Frank And

1

Nixon is' also believed to be Jorry Hole Eisenhower's personal choice as

they

suggestions of a physical check- up of candidates before are nominated

tor.

Echoes of an Arabian Nights romance that ended in toars,

Will Rita And Aly Make Up?

By

Patricia Koighran

THE Begum Aga Khan,

rather more of a wit than her

ex-daughter-in-

law, once made a smiling re- ference to the Rita Hayworth-Aly Khan marital affairs. She was naked by a repcerter whether one of the Aga's Derby winners was to be sold for stud.

"Who can tell?" she said evasively. "We have 30 many problems of mating in this family."

It seems the problems may not be over yet, though the couple have been divorced for nearly three yture. Speculation is ngnin rife about à possible re- conciliation.

Rita, moving mysteriously with her hair dyed back to its original black, hts stolen back to Paris unknown to anyone except 100 press reporters and photographers.

She has brought her daughter Yasmin acrOSS the Atlantic to visit Aly, who is settling into his luxurious home near the Bols de Boulogne. And, meanwhile, the Aga Khom has also arrived in Paris with his wife.

nut

The stage is sot, but it is well

to

hovercr

aurrent

Hayms.

forget entirely the in the wings-Rita's husband, singer Dick

the

"Rita is homesick for bright lights of Continental society-she hus nover been really happy since she left Aly there may well be a recon- cillation," buzz the gossips,

Is this true? In his books, "Golden Prince,"

Gordon

Warren, an experienced Re-Young, the Paris correspondent publican and gifted administra of the Daily Mail, who has known both Prince Aly Khan however, make a could.

Ichan and the Aga

for a good candidato,

There is talk of Dr Milton ensiderable time, does not hold

cut much hope. Eisenhower. the President's brother, as a possible candidate, though personally I do not take this too seriously.

Mr

Muton Eisenhower President of Pennsylvania State College and is being praised up and down Washington, but don't think he relishes entering politica.

Shy person

PEAKING of the marriage, he Bays: "Alta, a shy, tense simply

the restless

with Aly and his

person of the screen, could not support pace of life +3

gay friends." us the Re- publican standard-bearer,

My own long-range, fancy Thomas E. Doway

I know that Tom Dewey is what the Americans call a “Alwo- tune loser" because he can for the Presidency twice and we defcated twice, but there is no

one in the Republican Party with anything upproaching Dewey's experience as an ad- ministrator.

Wide open

During the marriage Rita had everything most women dream about.-o £4,000-a-year dress allowance, loads of jewels, her Own thoroughbred racehorse, breathtaking clothes. But no peace of mind.

.Even when baby Yashin was to be born arid they settled down in Lausanne to walt, Aly became restive,

"I

pen, shook his head, and Greene Said: "I saw that. It's a tragic man, who were colonels in the his successor, although this is

um getting tired of this war and who now serve on the not deflalte. It is Nixon, Assis-

EWEY blow for him

is in good health, | hanging ‘about,” he confided to nan DE and his family. All his life

close he worked and New York Daily News, write tant to the President Sherman State

and friends, and while Rita welted from Denver! We here have Adams, Secretary of

how saved so that he could enjoy been much amused about

ad the Eisenhower Administration, miserably at all Dulles, Secretary of the Trea- and his world

hotel, he tour has come began going away ski-ing.

Ila when he retired, but didn't make it."

he wis

this

to Eisenhower

the Democrats,

the woman.

Dowers about delegation of aury Humphrey, and Secretary just at the right time.

the great and growing of Defence Wilson who are For a few seconds the Presl importance

I think a Dowey-Nixon ticket Rita found it impossible to of Nixon, the taking over the running of the might cause apprehension among adapt herself to the semi- dent was silent, then mur scramble for power back in Government.

who, now that Eastern role of mured 19 if to himself: "I Washington.

This is the Government team Eisenhower is being eliminated married to the man regarded by don't want that to happen to "Not a single one of them Nixon and the Big Four. trom the plature, are talking millions as "his Serene High-

from Nixon to Sherman Adams

confidently of victory nest year.

ncse," With calmness

me."

a

.

It is also revealed that one and on down has been able to

attack.

he

tive. He has been the only in-

Administration

colod at the heim, but viously cannot go

In

tho

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much on

It is

Mrs Elsenhower's power.

advice of ids doctors.

Eisenhower's wish, and it is the

Many Critics

The days have been of great emotional stress here.

Eisen-

LO

"Rita did not care for jungle life," writes Gordon Young "Sha was frightened of lions. She was piqued by the fact that even in the wilds Aly went on with his interminable" bridge

four playing with

His Mohammedan friends who went everywhere on the irly."

Dismal failure.

power for Republicans, who foolishly fol- IN the Ismaili

the indispensable-man

of

,communities Rita, scarcely met anyone except the women of the soct. She did her best, but it was a dismal fallure.

There are other possibilities of the first things the President draw public breath without

among the Republicans:

Peace

Probably she still has night- said to Major-General Snyder calling Hagerty: Jim hasn't

Minister Mr Harold Stassen, 40, mares about the "second honey-

moon" after the heart

in Kenya and Mada- aging wonder-boy from was: hoon

been just a Prem representa- DURING the crisis Nixon has "How sick am I?" When

behaved with calmness and Wisconsin,

of the

high gascar. Designed with was told: "Serious, sir, but not dividual connected with the gentility. He has shouldered the Treasury

Humphrey, hopes in 1951, It really put an fatal," the President

assisted by who has been burden well,

his UN. Ambassador Henry Cabot said:

end to the marriage. "Good. I can make it then."

tc. get

Pot. Nixon Instant and per- pretty wife

has Lodge and maybe even able

General in

Commander What the President plans is sonal touch with the President." always gone to great pains to Alfred Gruenther,

of NATO's armies in Europe. of convalescence, then

ob- be friendly with the Press. Now this arrangement

first-namo believes in Ho

The field is wide open, taking things much more easily longer. If the President's re Dick. The other day he open- Stevenson is right out in front.. terms and he likes to be called On the Democratic side Adlai remaining months of his covery dags or he has a relapse

the of his little Before basement Richard Nixon the

President's ness Presidency, and influencing, as Vice-President

considerable Toluc- elder statesman, the choice of and the Cabinet Ministers will house in the capital and made there was

Press

among ambitious Demo-- room tance hla successor. This is the have to assume much of Mr it a temporary

lenders to offer President's wish.

with

them typewriters and desks for crat

selves as certain-to-be-derosted the journalists.

General Elsen-. Many other names of Presi- opponents. to dential candidates of cburg ne bower.

But without Eleonhower the will have

the hower is America's best-loved NIXON is the only member of being mentioned, but Nixon

the Cabinet who was elected to next few months, will bo, con- od President He has never pro

Iko's American ****

advice voked the criticism that the pubilo office by the

are very vulnerabio. people. The other Cabinet mem- lantly in the public eye, and they despite spectacular Franklin Delano

of

could win a large following against it,

Mr.Staverson, who ran imm= Roosevelt did. Everyone literal bers are merely appointees ̧ throughout the country.

the President ly Ulves Ike.

At the moment the Republi- pressively last time, would care

tainly detent a moderate haz

There were Common touch tremendous power and exalted cana ́aro in a stato of unsplen weak Republican 'candidate, and I and fingïly, she went back alone

did disarray,

They

know they might very well win victory | to Europë, v position. He has many critics

could win next year with

(over a strong one. *. bas because so many, older politi-

Eiroshower and Do have hot

Even in an attempt at a'rEN THE American nation

bothered nover been more powerful clans are jealous of himl

conciliation the next your Aly The Liberals don't like Nixon seriously for another Prori- or prosperous than under · the

mismanaged things badly. Rita and

consider him a samear, dential candidate.

came to Paris spocially. loadership of Eisenhower.

hoping all THERE has rarely been A It is not

that she was returning to a new for these reasons artist. And it is true and un-

mor absorbing political and reformed Aly. But when that millions love him so fortunets that some of Nixon's Now they and

in the Congress Chief Justice Earl Warren run Hos sick in Denver

over the place. There is talk of pictura While the great man

she arrived at the Bois do hower typifies all that is best campaigning

Wh wild and all In the Amerloon charm, ebulli: tonal election

ning,

Boulogne house, she was' naboti- dcepita his statement last

circum- Rocklow the buried business of shed to find that who was not en 00, generosity, tremendous avob #qualid

April that under

politics and politicians' goes on the only guest. Aly·liad invited. and not a trace However, in the past. year or stances would he leave the

tho two Nixon has increased

#house party...- Supreme Court and re-enter Fortunately dimett

personalities and would-be cat- pollue

didates have records and con The Arabian Nigħla romance. Warren is only one year victions of driendship for the ended in tears, protests, younger than Eisenhower and United Kingdom. Most of them criminations, and endless legal the feeling in the country and Liberwin nono la am folowrangios in other Rita or Aky Not an elever or as travelled or He has Eisenhower's personal dat a young and vigorous man, florist, and ' many A, MONO -en-likely to want to try again? Mrs Mernor Roosevelt, she, has affection, and Eisenhower has unlikely to be taken ill, should diamond subornan, kosketa, captured the public's hout (trained Nixon for just much on to the next oiupant of the Merlawy, new mot klammernet--but

energy

This

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For Mr Nixon, at 42,

the stature, novo

In

ailty, and begun to look more. been like a statesman then

the most popular First Lady, itician,

a po

common touch,

1. His wife Mamle ha

to

look: around

straying

no

Our friends

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ther in

many quarrels

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