1955-10-22 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAŸ, OCTOBER 22, 1955.

THE SEA OF HATE

From one end of the Mediterranean to the other the situation is aflame My mission: To get the facts and meanings by SEFTON DELMER

HATRED THREATENS TO CRACK

FRENCH CABINET

CASABLANCA

FRENCH

MOROCCO

Jam Bosni

FRANCE

SPAIN

TALEARIC

HATRED

וויו

never

ask HER again

MILES

OVER CYPRUS BREAKS GREECE-TURKEY NATO ALLIANCE

CISTANBUL TURKEY

SYRIA

GREECE

A

No.

MEDITERRANEAN

RE guests pulling their

today

weight?

The answer must be

Look how they

arrive at

partica. Look how they behave.

SAUDI

ARABIA

ing

carly

CYPRUS

GIBRALTAR

ALGERIA

MALTA

HATRED SHAKES BRITISH B

JORDAN

ISRAE

TUNISIA

EGYPT

Red

Seas

HATRED ITIES DOWN (30,000

FRENCH TROOPS

LIBYA

• To enable readers to understand fully the dangers of

• the most explosive "situation" in the world today, Sefton

• Delmer veteran Foreign Reporter, has begun a most urgent mission along the catastrophe-laden coasts of the Mediter- ranean. This is his first analysis, from

B

11

mme,

peperity

of th

Indeed, I think it may well be part of the new Kremlin plan to call or more obvious cam- paigns of cold war pressure in Erge and replace them with Krishchev wher of smiles and peace concessions in order Lo

11 They JANIC And, belleve Casablanca

it. EFORE the meeting m4:4623

TE either of Western world.

7 28 29 dangerous US the started she looked those two French statesmen Krimtin's cold war at its worst

this and most threatening stage. quite pretty and at- presented himself to

this slim, crowd at this tractive.

moment be larger garl # would need young Frenchwoman in

out neat-and-white-striped frock than those 30 Jorries

to side foarled with police and an elegant hair-do,

defent him. For one thing But

her face is because now

the majority of flushed and distorted. Veins

policemen in Morocco feel exploit all the more successfully stand out in her neck, hot the same way.

thẻ chaos and disruption caused by national rebellion in Africa and angry. "Au potenu,” she

of und Asia. gallows shrieks. To the

That Is why 1 am seting

to Travej with him, to the gallows,"

out

whole of French North Afric

These white settlers Morocco hate and distrust the French of their mother- From all around me in land almost as much as they from

is hate

BETONS

The

Morocca to Tunis. and and Guza. the then on to Cyprus

distrust and

the crowd the same cry being echoed: "To the gal- Moroccan nationalists,

lows, to the gallows."

Who is it that these sedale and prosperous looking eiti. zens of Casablanca want hang?

fo

THE POLICE

THE DANGER

ND, in their aun, the Moror- the white t- cans leathe Buel intruder:

to the land of eir fisthers

Yes, there is no getting away This smiling city of from it.

witl its green- THE leader of that hate and Casablanca.

lawned boulevard, gleaming blood maddened gang white skyscrapers, and mina- to Moroccan tribesmen who retted Moorish alleyways, has placed a captured European fallen one of the worst victims mother on a saw-bench and to the paralysing epidemic of Inter-racial and Inter-cominunal sawed her in two? Or the

Les und hale. Arab terrorist who two days

bomb into ago threw a crowded European store?

No, Tangier

Avly.

Not at this moment.

a

HATRED

HOTS UP ISRAEL EGYPT

ARMS RACE WITH RUSSIAN ARMS ·

bare, windswept, Sun-

Rif uf bleached

pak mountains hard 5163

tho Spanish frontier

Cuplain

10

Taddel, the young French officer in charge of the posit, has all the Information and all the proofs to convince the most burdened scepte.

that

It forms on Isolated French enclavo iri the Spanish zone, and IN connected to French Morocco by only a narrow strip of French road running through Spanish territory.

I was able to make out quite charly The black uniformed Bgure of the rebel commander storming

by

LADY PAKENHAM :

ia The ideal guest

not

de- I'm

Prvyle talk

Page

It's the bitterest phase in a party-" giver's life. But wait a minute..... How do. YOU rate as o guest? Suppose your host's son has just been sent down, from Ox- ford for idleness, You feel it's essential to avoid anything that might remind him of it. Keep off exams, dons, boats dari blue, marmalade, accents, etc., etc. Ureless. You will find that all ronds lead to Oxford, Better be bold and say right away, "A. university carcer 19 nandicap nowadays.

I

Be greedy

such a

AGREE with the sage who wald that "Men of great abilities are genernity of a large and vigorous animal nature. My ideal guest must cot-heartily.. That does not mean ho need scoop

massive bowl of asparagus, leaving four stalks." between the remanining five guests, But. It is better to err on the side of greed than of pecking and choosing.

h

THE PERFECT GUEST IN TILE BASEMENT. If your lives underground you.

hostesa

CxTM

Consider that favourite open- gambil hope I'm not too

How brutally it, pl barred from talking shop.

can score high marks by emptiness points the

of the

claiming: "How gloriously light the unbrokenness of the all for shop.

best and alry, I can seo you get all room. Or. again, the quest whose on the thing that concerns them the morning sunt" Never mind. first words are, "Can I make a most. Which would you rather? If, in fact, no ray over pene-.

Hear 蟲 doctor оп the Salk trates. Cave-dwellers hovo D vaccine Or

telephone edit?"

Not that the hearty, bustling Annigoni? 00 Elwes versus infinite capacity for compliments.

Best shop-talker:

very

Hurst is any more attractive.

THE GUEST IN THE ATTIC. -- Confidently she takes posses

Mrs Mary Sanic technique, varied to suit ston of your hall, dumping her Adams, fier shop: Television.

locality. "What a heavenly view! coat in

far How

a shoull con- in the baby's pram, her

I can never sed enough chimnoy-: Rucst prepare his pots And stairs are the umbrella in the dog's bowl, her cientious

beforehand? No best exercise.

But almost cigarelle end in the aquartum conversation

harm In doing a little "home certainly before with Upstairs, she advances

nerd you

to with work," If your host 35 at all glad, proprietary cries on your

all think up that second one, your drawing-room

distinguished. Find out about hostess will have wallpaper: "Oh

screamed: his achievements. But on no "Mind your head on that what fun to find it here I've

account

come with a set pleet beam!" Lucky competitor in the chosen Just

the

sune ce very pattern-only I'm having it in dragging it in, you can be sure tunity for scoring heavily. "It uf your own, If you succeed in Guest Stakes. Another oppor- the bathroom."

1 Two

THE

Barriers down

acts

HE garrulous guest frightens Her torrent of confidence

me for a different reason.

like sympathetic magic. I feel bound to

By the end respond.

you will have killed all con- didn't hurt a bit

versalion

So. If you fail, you'll go away Quests who will not fall to shed

around you In doing

hating the whole evening,

Indignation

charm. over castle or cottage:

Mr Hugh Gaitskell and Aldon Crawley,

The flop....

TWE

ME

over the white con- of the evening all barriers are guest who arrived with a "good" PERFECT DEPARTURE.

crete walls of the fort. For Bou Zineb in in rebel hands.

He has prisoners, he has cap- and tured Spanish armis

to prove Spanish ammunition

the attackt on his post, like that on the other French

A posts, was led and directed by a party of Moroccan commandos captured

the Karrison trained and equipped for operations on the Spanish side loops headed by

sergeant, of the frontier.

THE REBELS

SPOKE to one of his pri- Seners, a local tribesman named Mohammed Bel Haj.

"Fitty commandos

#rad

came

I plan to report to you fully, across the frontier," said freely, and frankly what Is Muhammed, "and culled 0:1 going

These on in

troubled me

fellow-tribesmen lo

areas.

Join

them in the holy war against the French. They gave us 30 rifles and ammunition.

Well, you ask me, who, for 4 start. Is behind the present rising in the difficult Rift moun- win

The frontier be- arca on tween the French and Spanish zones of Morocco?

HORRIFYING

HE answer is horrifying and chocking. It is Generalissimo Francisco Frinco, dictator of Fascist nai-Communist Spain.

Tho cx-aily of Hitler is the latest recruit to the American- armed and American financed whole Western front in Europe. raging

They kept another 50 rlies for themselves, With them were any men of the Beni Amart tribe who had also come

down, all secrets betrayed.

Not Farrulous, but

un- doubtedly a talker-that is my perfect guest. And for five best talkers I nominate:~

Bir Maurico Bowra, the

mob, of 1,200 Moroccans 1 from the little of French Moroccan

French brilliant: น

Mr Douglas Woodruff, wittiest:

буду

The French have so far not been able to recapture Bou Zineb in. the same

they have either retaken or relieved all other posts seized by the Tubela.

In

Fronco's authorities Morocco havo let the French understand that they would take the greatest umbrage if the French forces violated Spanish territory either on the ground or in the air in a possible attempt to recapture Bou Zineb.

THE THREAT

over the Spanish border." WHA

WHAT causes General Franco

Four thousand of Moroccan rebel

these commandos,

to

follow this amazing

which 15

only

not

踐

policy, hove been trained during the Endangering his own hold on Spanish Morocco bug in clear last two years at three secret camps in Spanish territory-at conflict with the interests of his

American allies? Nador, Xaouen, and Melilla.

these are men who For all the civil disorder in Among

in Morocco clearly constitutes with served

the French

to the safety of the Indo-China, and it is these men threat from Indo-Chino, so the French costly and important American

who have believe,

Introduced naval and air bases hero. Chinese guerilla tactics

The answer is hate, hate, hate, plus a desire for revenge.

The Caudillo has never for given the French for the way, in the early postwar years after 1944, they permitted Spanish anti-Franco guerillas, trained and equipped in and harass him in Spain. France, to cross the Pyrenees

Bellove

It is an epidemic which has

the infected not only

Moiveco but is throughout the whole erea from Franco is leading his benevo- this war in the Riff.

and Tel- lent connivance to the anti- Lo Cyprus

French, anti-Western fanaties The commandes for the last it is two eminent. Frenchmen

sponsored by Cairo's dictator six weeks had been smuggling they have in mind Pre-

It has turned the once gay and Gamal Abdel Nasser in train arms across the frontier and

Mediterranean has just happy mier Faure, who

into ing and arming the Moroccan hiding them in special cashes the mountains ready for rebel forces on Spanish territory amid obtained approval from the surging, stormy a of hate.

to fight against the French.

D-Day. his French Assembly for

And the epidemic of national-

To me the most fascinating Alas, there can be no doubt of Captain Taddei's possessions self-government pact with ist anarchy and insurgence in

economically and state- about it. You have only to WES The powerful pair of Morocco's nationalist lead this

Join a military convoy as I did binoculars. Through these. I cra, and his predecessor Beally vital area is highly dan-

gerous to you and me and to last week-end and také the was able to look right across Mendes-France, who led the everyone else who depends for mountain road up to Boured, a the valley Into the French fort

his bread and butter on, the little French fortress perched of Bou Zineb, 10 miles away, way with Tunis.

PRISON

WAS

TIME

Paris.

THE good times in gaol

THE

ut Pont l'Eveque, little

their

me,

the Mediterra- hean is indeed a dangerous sea of hate.

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IN PARADISE

From ROBIN STAFFORD

اخر

account of this prisoners' "appointed". n notorious Others just went home to town near Deauville, were, of course, too good to last. paradise where the adminis- embezzler, Jean Grainville, their families in Paris. For it was never quite the tration, day passes, releases as prison chief clerk. From on bail and, in certain cases, then on the prison gatca

camo.

they

Anyway, all good things come

to an end. One day the govern- ment decided to close the prison, and when gendarmes care to transfer the prisoners to other gaols there was hardly anyone left.

Admittedly, most intention of the authorities discharges, was arranged by were open most of the time back: if they did not, in Paris that prisoners

in court Snuddo was said to the prisoners themselves to save warders the trouble were officially described as

had Afteen bottles of should go to the Denuville

"discharged

good have ruecs; order food in their apparently to "save Billa the of closing them. They were behaviour" on the prison aperitif delivered to him at the

trouble."

prison in one week.

1

colls from nearby res- taurant; drink anything from aperitifs to liqueurs,'

busy, nhyway, serving breakfast in bed to some of register.

the inmates. The early. risers would stroll through

for

"I gave Chlef Warder Bille glass of wine from time to timb or maybe a log of chicken---but never eny, money," he admitted modestly..

and entertain their wives The inmates-it would town to the cafe for coffee, But strange things were and girl friends in the cells. hardly be fair to call them rolls and butter.

noted by outsiders, too. A lawyer who had seon his But the Judge abruptly turned Last week white-haired, prisoners did, their work

very well, Accountancy, As time went on Grain-cliont sentenced to Boveral to the jovial warder: "You were Jovial Fernand Billa, former

olicials villo's organisation Pont signatures and

git years' guol met him two drunk all the times. The day chief warder of

on inspector came you could Eveque, prison and con deals were child's play to more elaborate. With seven days later at a danco hardly speak. And you dared

men who had been in the years to serve, he decided a full evening dress.

over all, accountangy and result- victed gangster Georges Habit of printing their rota holiday system would

Ing.forgeries to the prisonten," Snudde, tall, dark and

And a well-known Paris Now the ex-chief wander is handsome, were required to money as they needed it, keep the men happler.

Joweller, M. Van, Cicer, was bot quite as comfortable, as bis From the official joint of So some were issued with robbed by gangsters who comes to be clot view things started slipping day passes to the race should have boon safe and three years levi Inmore stekertly. at Pont l'Eveque, prison course. Others went off to sound behind Font l'Evequeal in gol nudde, in extra four

monta curly in 1960 when Bills the Riviera for a week, bars,

explain it all before the local

But first, before a packed court, police gave a detailed

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ORD CHESTERFIELD described the downfall of 3

Dr Johson held that who- story" about a gun. He tried ever went to bed before 12 was all ways to turn the conversa a scoundrel. Without going that tion on guns. In vain, At last, for (I'm a natural "early bed- jumping out of his chair, he ex- der" myself). I do mark down claimed, "I heard a gun fred!" guests who rise to their feet at most "Nonsense!"

his fellow

on obviously pre-ordained hour, sud Jasmine guests,

I can hear them saying to talking "since we are

of each other before they set off: Kuns** His story Was re "What's the carliest wo Can

the he,

most

Lord David Cecell, the generous;

Lady Pamela Berry, the most provocative;

Mrs John Betjeman, the most invigorating.

ceived, reports

reports Lord Chester- leave?-11.30, I

*suppose

IC

feld, with great indignation. they go at precisely 11.30. T A good guest neither tries to know my party is a flop. But drag in particular subjects, nor departure at any odd hour

to keep off them. Drugging in 11.17 or 11.47-gets by. is hard. Keeping off Impossible.

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