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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1955.
GLUBB IS NOT
SECOND
London.
ECENTLY a London newspaper columnist
observed of General
R
John
had
Glubl.
who Bel- that "as usual he arrived in secret." And that sentence
the essence of contained
just come
tain from Jordan,
completely
inaccurate
putation which
Deck
M-
ive
A
LAWRENCE
By John McKenna
What is the role of Glubb Pasha in the turmoil of Middle East politics? Is he another Lawrence of Arabia? This profile examines the history of this colourful character and essays an answer.
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The men.
Di
destructive raiding. When wo showed them tho patk of honour their Arab spirit won quick to respond. Having pro- fited from us when times were easy, they were too honour- able to descrt us when they saw us alone and at bay."
Under
Glubb Pasha Legion struck successfully rigainst the Vichy French armies in Syria, relieved Baghdad and thwarted a pro-German revolt in Iraq:
Death Threat
the
GLUBB PASHA
Is This The Most Powerful Man Outside
The
Cabinet?
By CHAPMAN
PINCHER
UT of the new de being stored in separate depart- Brundrett has
fenco shake-up a menis
man
where its
now
соде
that
significance vinced the Staff chiefs
continuous scientific Invection who is almost might be missed,
be is now essential to prevent wars bo the When cuts have to unknown
made in the vast sums spent on as well as to fight them, public emerges as the most devising now weapons it lä It was fils foresight which powerful figure outside the Brundrett, who co-ordinates the ensured that the Services will
views of the experts Cabinet.
on the have big ecough stocks of atomle "Defence Research Polley Com- explosive to deter aggression f Sir mittee which he controls,
the politicians should be lulled the mistake in this advice can be to false security by a seeming-
suitled peace,
disastrous and the chaice La rarely clear-cut,
Convinced
ly
Throughout the six days of the week in which be dedicates
has been
At the same time Glubb be-
He is 60-year-old This brought for Glubb Pasha came to many Jews the symbol
Brundrett, built up around John Bagot
a deserved Distinguished Ser- of Arab conspiracy to destroy Frederick Huntik, "Father of the Little life the Legion offered to feur- vico Order
who briefs the Glubb.
and possibly one of their long-oought homeland. And scientist eye-catching the In un
is largely Chia." age which
Minister and most unusual citations from that side, too, come threats Defence Military service gave him 11
oppeal of the right sort becoming materialiste
ever. It used the words of Alan of death.
hence the Cabinet-on the taste for the Middle East when uniform did not escape Glubb. Brock,
almost all his waking hours to the Jacobite soldier of rapidly more uniform, there la
defensivo Iraq was seat
His tendency to
CONSIDER, for instance, the the nation's safety Brundrett Legionaries wore un understandable
long fortune in Stevenson's "Kid- That Glubb Pasha is con- way the nation's [outenant in the [ow
Royal robes with a scarlet
current case of a cathedral- looks
the civil servant im- sash, most make the
of the
Engineers in 1920. Six years red revolver lanyard, bandoller "a bonny Bechter."
Glubb as vinced of the rightness of the effort should be planned and napped," to describe who.
lice building which dominates a peccably dressed ready to attend individualists romantic
Arab cause in the dispute with run. Slater he resigned als commission full of ammunition and a silver
ridge on Sullsbury Plain. This a Cabinet meeting if called, from time to time, emerge.
the Jews is in no doubt. He and becem 201 administraties
Mr
On Sundays he is to be seen when you have a character why
Selwyn Lloyd, the De- is the huge laboratory built at once said: "The Western world inspertor with the trag Govern dagger tucked into their belts. who has
his farm called tubb Praha,
time ment.
near Emsworth, tough all
Minister, now takes over a cost of more than £5,000,000 en is familiar with the idea of the fence Bedouin tribesmen were com- been known to sport a monnele
So far there was nothing ix-
peraccution of the Jews.
boots and attack and develop gena bombs big while wearing Arab dress, and
battered traordinary about the career listing under Clubb Pasha, of desert
for possible use in retaliation. panama. Like so many men who who leads an array
Juhin
deep was his attachment to persecuting Jews it is just what Nothi Bagot Glubb.
Early in the second World his Arabs when he quit Britain's they expect to hear. To be that is, but one thing to Glubb,
Wer, when Britain stood alone, Colonini Service and elected to told that the Jews were per- unlike so many of his con-em-
way tiny Transjordan joined her in remain in the employment
Arabs worl 1
of recuting the
would porarins, the Army not
Irren a ho
purgatory the light galist Fascism, and the Transjordan Government as strike an unexpected note. Yet, soldier or where a ma
civil the
volunteered milltary Aral Legion
adviser
King on the balance, I believe it to Mryant, swonted out his g
to fight alongside Britain.
Abdullah,
be nearer the truth." But This gesture was due largely
trouble and yearned for Englanl.
bolled over
13
Jes, he would seem to be*
a
y-made
anodyne for tho mone any of everyday existence. To mJUions of people Glubl Push is a symbol of Hartanian clan and Intrigue; something of John straight from the pages Buchan, a grey eminence who its through the trouble-rivan Middle East and who "as usual arrives in secret."
he does
When Glubb Palu Aurivew "scoretly" in Engla not, as one might hope, slight unobtrusively from an aircraft
rome steret, midnight
aur-
feld, then dush by high-powered saloon to confer with highly placed ofcials.
His Career
INSTEAD
he
arrives
車
El Farik
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230
peng for the privilege of en- TN 1848 Olubb demonstrated how they are told that When | active direction of the entire to deviso defenços, against gera Hampshire, in baggy corduroys,
Like Glutez and Prake. his state of Israel, Glubb Pasha's
Legion
Araba
ard
weapons policy kostead of mere- ly co-ordinating it.
Nor can there be any doubt that to Clubb Pasha the Arab Legion is primarily a defensive force and his own role that of a protective champion and not an Arab crusader.
No.
to the untiring efforts of men between the Arabs and the new
predecessor Later Glubb sald: love for his adopted people was The Bill:h Army did not sorely tested. Many Arabs tett
the Arub expect
to that he was being too lentent to night At fast it was viewed the Jewn, that he should lead Wits with no small suspicion. But his men as he had during the
had
with worked
and war, and smash. the "intruders." the men. We
had Because he refused to yield to "Father of the Little Chin," is way of this pressure he was repectedly
no second Lawrence of Arabla. shown then a better service than their old multially threatened with ussassination.
THERE was something specta} about Glubb which endeared
to the Arabs. him genuinely and deeply interested we
them in their welfare, their loved lives, their inner thoughts and
their ambitions.
Glubb Jeandert 1 speak Jb Aruble, not to diffeult a
mastered for a man who hod Welsh and in 1930 he wb3 Transjordan transferred
1
INSTeduled light at Londors where within two years, he
Airport, ng often as not with his wife and adopted Arat, children, and he has probably come to s how his son is making out at public school in Englund.
Thai is het to say, however, that John Bag Glubb is not a colourful
character. decidedly But bo is not another Lawrener of Arabia, an is too often popu- iarly supposed.
Tho career of John Bagot Glubb, until by decree of the Emir of TransJordan he be como Glubb Pasha, could have
paralleled by betn
so many other regular army offer.
Born in 1897, the son of
THIS
Jzz
Jolin
Bagot
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Glubb,
Nathaniel Gubbins
W holiday in Cornwall butter, 229, bacon, liver, sal-
And
live with sistence
great per- |
HILE I was taking a evening, says: "Eat plenty of
mon, cheese, and milk products On National Assistance, I ignored the news, to avold winter colds." I neither read it nor heard the Arnbit.
be Officer Commanding to Dr Ares (Colonial Service).
he Frum
until 1039 then worked diligently and made Then, just as in no headlines. 1914 he har graduatest from Woolwich in time for the start of the First World War,
1939.
broke as another war out, he took command of `descri warriors of Legion in Transjordian.
In fact, I was so happily The Emir
created him out of touch with the world's Farik
gave (commander) and
the title lunatics that when some- coronary thrombosis though you him the right to use Pashu
name. And body told me that Peron had will probably get a winter cold. after his
By If you take the advice of the kicked out from that monzy John Bagel been
of the second
muy not Hve answered, through the winter anyway.
the
Glubb, the man from the quiet Argentine I File Kentish village of Pem-"Peron? Peron?" like some-
softler, (Major-General Sir M. Glubb). he was educated at Cheltenham College and from there to the Royal Military
at Woolwich
Acted from there
bury. begun 10 bury.
went legend.
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the face
male renders. Middle-aged you can have your choice,
first
If you take the advice of the you mo'y nol die
of
I
you
body being shaken out of a Strictly protein
R become
of it was dream. the Amb been
had almost
This on
For remarkable just
Legion had. In fact, distin- operating since 1922 and had existence
been commanded by another man, Englishman called Peuko was wound Pasha,
World War I began.
During that war he guished himself by whining the Milltary Cross and
ed three times. One of
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forgotten the of the silly little
Now I am back all the mad newe ly in front of me. theNo What Glubb Pasha did
In the
Alice-in-Wonderland wounds. caused by bursting
up the Legion.
world of trade and finance shell, shattered his lower jaw, to build
he went to meet seems there is a crisis because leaving scars which in later camel-back
and con- desert loaders tho
we are too prosperous. If this years were to win him the af fectionate Arab nielmamu Abu vinced them of the wonderful true I can only assume that we might have been better off if we were ruined,
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There is the same old squawk about inflation. And If
you ask me what inflation la 1 can
only reply (apart from
the usual
explanation of too much money chasing too few goods} that if a millionaire throws party costing £2,000 it is not Inflation, but if an old-age pen- sloner buys himself a new pair of socks it is.
VET another of the Keep Fit Gang his revived the 30- year-old Hay diet based on the principic that you must never mix sturch with protein at the same meal.
This means that if you want to live long and look younger can't eat meat very day you with poiators, stenk-and-kidney ples, or even bread and cheese.
All I can say about this that many enormous, healthy Cornish working man, who cats ment pasties a foot long for his lunch, could eat any of the food experts alive for breakfast,
Is
E
It would be
strictly protein of course, unless nical,
mon Cornish working foolish enough to eat him fried potatoes.
the
Was
with
The wicked old man is jeo- pardising our prosperity, which
is apparently doing us no good, The white settlers
and possibly eating into
Fold
our
and dollar reserves by ding his
money on some- that might be exported.
IT is believed by the natives of Cornwall that many of
Another bit of newa that the arty invaders from other have been written by Lewis Carroll is that although the parts of the country, known as the white settlers, are an im- Electricity Authority has made moral lot who write books that a profit of £10,000,000 the charges for electricity are going
up.
The excuse is that they are suving money to build atornic power stations to produce cheaper electricity in the future when many of us will be dead,
Keep-fit corner
As
S the week goes on the news gets madger and madder. Although people have been grumbling about the wet
weather in England ever since I can remember, scientists from the Air Ministry have making artificial rain
on Salisbury
silver
Plain.
fodide
been with
ense of
There was also the the St. Pancras Borough Coun- cil issuing a summons against the British Transport Com-
because mission
four locor motives were allowed to emit uncontrolled smoke at Camden
*x-
It wia just OTLO public authority having a go at another at your expense. And mine.
these reports were not 'to dopresa á man. Drom ↑ carefree hollday there is the newspaper Koop Fit Crazy Gang celling themselves with advice on how to live Longer with warnings of sudden death you don't take their advice.
While one morning nowe paper mys that if middle-aged. men eat too much fat, mich at butter and bacon, they might expire suddenly with coronary thindenbenda, ^^ another, the arde
are never published and paint pictures that are never Ex- hibited.
The natives think it is an excuse for living in sin.
The following verse in the late Mr Clerihew style of the has been written In their de- fence:
I do not belleve that they
live in sin
In Penryn
·
*
iz
The curses of the notives
also ring For those who
never do thing Except pretending to be what
they ain't
of canvas buying a bit
Smearing their de nims with daubs of paint.
rich
1
control
the
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overwork in
the wook Brun- drott's idea
ok
u week - cut rest is to work harder still- though
A
different way,
He breeds Redpell cows, pigs, and poul- try.
governs n
big egg-distri- bution organi sation-with- out pay and Aights the far- mers' union on behalf of the Aricultural Co
operative As- sociation of which chairman.
ho
farming Interest, which have made him independent of his salary, are indirectly Bervice to
of
the
nation. For they
Brundrett
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to
oppose
He wlil
A superb staff of experts has cable
trained there. Now the powerful interests without anan- grammes to produce hydrogen been bombs, guided missiles; and new emergence of the H-bomb has clat thought for his carcer. radar devices,
convinced defence chiefs that It is hard to imagine that this be so Arm germ wantaro would be of no krble man valite to any side in the fore in the secret committees where of the sevable future.
the opposing interests three Services are hammered out into a national polley.
The way the Services work.
Above all, he is charged with getting the aircraft drudustry out of the mess it is in through attempting to do far too much with a
limited number of top- clase designers.
But what about the unfore seeable future? Should genn research be kept going because
Modern weapons are so intel- soome weapon of overwhelming together with such tile friction places like cate that politicians now have advantage may one day emerge compared with other countries to rely almost entirely on ad- Or should the irreplaceable team is largely due to the Brundrett disbanded now to save mixture of diplomacy and de- vice given by highly specialised be
And
the
scientists,
settlers
Even in little
Bodinnick You
rkways can Comish cynic
thinks Who
white living across the river at Fowey (pronounced Foy) Are indulging in illicit joy. And he says, "Oh, boy! On,
boy!"
And something worse when
he's the presider Over a round of rough eider.
money?
termination.
15
Succeeded The brilliant brain on which This is the kind of question Mr Lloyd will mainly depend which Brundrett has to decide, PRUNDRETT'S carcer belongs to Brundrett, the shy, for the unforeseeable future in sportsman-ho captoned Hampshire st hockey for unprepossessing man who sits in defence is his responsibility.
Fortunately, like Sir Henry 12 the dull-looking Defence Minis-
years and regularly Tizard
tomous pre- achieved 500 mins with try facing St. James's Park.
decessor, Brundrett has the 50 wickets in club cricket-now knack Obscured
of backing the right helps him in his job. hunches
the shunning
Most of his games were played in the Portsmouth area with old
lives T
He talks of the wicked They live in St. Ives, οι
irregular romance an In Penzance,
Par And the goings-on at Even if he has never been
so far. He thinks they
Crazy
In St. Blazcy,
are all sex
And that the
respectable
Bloomsbury girls
who
sell itsy-bitsy trinkets in
places like Folperro
All have * fellow.
And when he mentions Looc
He just says, "Hoo, Hoo," And plcks up his hat And leaves it at that,
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his
and
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the
wrong ones.
THOUGH Brundret
highest paid scientist in the Thus it Wis largely on Admiralty team-mates who are £80 Brunirett's advice that Britain now highly placed officials in
Government service with
cause
weapon
a week, he is little known be- did not
copy the defence departments. altempt to
How did this man reach such his achievements
are gigantic U.S. gun bullt to fire
Ho obscured by security, Yet. atomic shells. The Americans a commanding position?
...it was largely his inalat- have
this is a scientifle civil servant with now abandoned ence which induced the Govern-
37 years' experience of defence ment to develop the hydrogen
Tizard was rated a man of research-a scientist with real bomb without which Britain
enormous influence but with interest in the fascinating, if would have only a second-rate recent developments culminat distasteful, field of weapons. say in world offairs.
the DefecicD Ha, want ing in the new shake-up, Bruns ....It is a committee headed dreit's power is
years ago to help Infinitely Ministry five by him which works out the greater.
Tizard and succeeded to the top nation's policy for air defence, Tizard developed a new un- job fast year,
Three Defence Ministers havo
to
whose derstanding between the scien man It is this tilles covÉT 60 Many accret tists and the fighting men, since agreed that no better man duties who recently reorganised Before his day soldiers regarded could have been chosen for the the Intelligence system so that cientista as cronka who pro- job in which the wrong man information is now funnelled to duced ideas which
were I would be calamitous.
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a central agency Instead of genious but would not work,
"I Was Not An Ambitious, Scheming Woman”
THE DUCHESS
"T
THE Third Man" has
just given me the
full story of why the
And certainly not in dreary Duchess of Windsor's two
They
and respectable Bodinin,
AND HER MEMOIRS
By Sylvia Lamond
"Tiring sure it's firng," he she raks impatiently. I never all look so unhappy ghost writers* walked out on sald testly, "when a woman talk about a car roaring. Say it and harried
her one after the other, be all out,
like the Duchess works she goes my way." That anyone can see they are fore her memoirs were com-
married.
Except for thoso who are too young to have left it too late To find a mate. Even in the arty places like
+
•
Mullion and Mevagissey
of England and never even con- sidered that this was a remote possibility-until rush of events brought the crisia to a head.
"She refutes the idea that she was an ambitious scheming.
woman.
"This nigeling over details i5 wearing," said Rawson. "But the
I had been,' she said, 'I "A man would stop for
woman is probably the most un- would have cultivated friends breather and a leisurely lunch. relenting. perfectionist in the in Brush political and Court The Duchess has sandwiches world. You must understand circles. Then I'd have walled et up on a tray, and you that before you can work with until the King was actually work right through."
her.
pleted.
He is the New York pub lisher Kenneth Rawson, who
crowned, when his position produced the Duke's book,
Rawson and the Duchess "A King's Story." I spoke
"Why has, she stuck to the would have been stronger. I Any arty girl living with an to him just before he flew would it at a card table in the same hair-style all these years? did neither of these things." -
"boudoir silk-draped room Because she knows that for her arty chap is almost cer- back to New York from between her bedroom and the it is perfection-and nothing tain to be a. Mra and not Paris, where he has been Duke'a."
less will do. helping the Duchess TB. White nettlers are often seen write and 'reviso.
And
a Missy.
although in Bude
In the semi-nude They have no
Intention of
And his, story is one of "hard being immoral · or even work, arguing, niggling....and rudo.
moro hard work.”
in
But the natives cock a snook At anybody engaged
writing a book
Which, among white settlers
In Cornwall,
Is done by one and all.
Other foreigners who get the
natives gout,
Are those who do nothing all day but paint a water-colour
of a boat
'WORKS FAST.
DUKE'S WORK "The one thing she regrets la that her husband has no job in which he can use his consider able talents and unique txain-
.:
In this book she is trying very, hard to get things perfect "Sho has great. managerial y accurate. talent," said Rawson enthusia- "She refers to the Duke on ing. tically." "Able to switch her points of British Court aliquette mind shrewdly and fast. A which confuso her.
"When I worked with him.on. A King's Story," said Mr "He worked the inpe recorder Every dayRawson has been Writer may not work that way working at the house in the Bols but a businesman does, which was used la some of the Rawson, he used to walk from de Boutagne, with the Duchess "Sho works, that, pacing up chapters But apart from that his hotel to my office.
"HU wouldn't hear of, me is my wild's book till efter seven at night. Every
going to him-said it felt finte and I'm keeping out of it". day foolding a little more weary.
Rawson belleves the Duchess going to work every morning, And he always dead on memoirs will create even more
1kmo, interest than the Duke's because
position would allow a woman's story is always that him to go out and sell roʻrigera much more human,
#nd down when thero ·áre ho dimetalt
patches
"Her constant phrate I revising the book is "No woman The Art, Charles Murphy, work ever folt that way. It doesn't Led for, 18 months on the memoirs, express what I mean?.
then "quit, after a row with the "She los bo what we call Amaru Left
ourn and ellches, Why does the "She makes it clear that she fore had be tayiño! car have to keep rouring dat zavar wanted to become Queui
Duchrana The second,
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