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NEUTRAL NEHRU

ALL NEUTRALISTS ARE NEUTRAL

Cummings

BUT

SOME ARE MORE NEUTRAL THAN OTHERS

London Express Service

A WOMAN'S PLACE

H

IS ON SAFARI

says GEORGE MICHAEL, the big game hunter who has changed his rifle for a

By ANNE SHARPLEY

ERE is a man who says women's place is on safari, even when they're 18 months old.

camera

And The Danger Is Great That The Jovial Pair Will Get Nehru To Serve It

Up

These are days of Big Stakes. In Bagdad Britain leads a con- ference to strengthen the West's defencer in the Middle East. Two thousand miles away in New Delhi two bland, smiling men, Russia's Bulganin and Krushchev, are playing for the biggest stakes of all....to draw India into the anti-Western line-up. The political dynamite that lies behind two men's smiles is analysed here....

H

By Sefton Delmer

OW many times will go out of their way to re- was India's neigh. ussure everyone that the Com- munist Chinese have no expan- bour Pakistan mon onist intentions. tloned by Comrades Bulganin and Krushchev or their host Pandit Nehru in maps which show large slices of Delhi last week-end?

present-day India as belonging Not so much as once in to China and most of their public speeches. But and Slam as part of a Chinese

They will dismiss as irrelevant accidents those new Chinese

Slameese.

I am prepared to wager that mentored when they get down to busi- ness in private and in secret. the talk will be of Pakistan, Pakistan. and

Pakistan

again.

Burma

That on the contrary It will

the

wealth help to bulk up and power of Nehru Indio, sngthen the solidarity Mother Asia against the West und

further tho enlarge still neutrallst buffer zone of peace.

Can they bring it off? should like to feel a fuller con

dince in Mr Nchau's refusal than in fact I do.

Targe

chunk

Union of Freo Nor muid you underrate

arpeal ot this neutral zone iden

I admit it appeals All this is a useful by-product,

to me too most strongly But the real purpose

of the provided that the neutral zone Bulgenin-Krushchev tour in my

u Includes

of view is clearly revealed by the Soviet-dominated territory and last capl'at they have chosen to is not just a means

by which For Moisem Pakistan is put on their visiting list.

the Soviet Government neu- After Delhi and Rangoon they tralises and checkmates in- only the private and public bate of the Brahmin Nehru. It is the are on their way to Kabul, the dividual links In the Western

that chain of capital of Afghanistan. key pivot in defences which the West has ret up in the Middle East along the Soviet Union's southern borders from the Bay of Bengal to the Black Sra.

Objective

smasli

this Mid-Eastern

Tor of our Western defence

iden.

what they

Another one

defence system. Moslem Afghanistan hus But that is just recently made a secret request are doing with the neutral zone to he Soviet Union for arms.

And most successfully. Yes, the seme kind of arms o generously supplied by Moscow and Prague to the Egyp'ians and Syrians at the Mediter- rancon end

of the Western

WHILE Bu'ganin and Krush- Middle East defence axis.

chav were using their charın The Afghans want these arms on Nehru last week-end a new in order to use them against and most important diplomatic Pakistan. For the Afghans are conference was just beginning bjective of the new post-Salin putting

forth

agains: tho

in Moscow. Soviet foreign policy.

Pakistanis the very same claims And believe me, this little trip which in the past forced the It may lead to the "neutralisa- the Eart er the benevolent British to tigh those Afghan tion" of Yugoslavia and Greece Bulgen n and the cheerful Com. wars and keep special force and thereby cause yet another Krushchev is not mere on the North-Wes Frontier of breach in our Western chain of

India 'o quieten

the defences. down ht-seeing tour, however many

Krush- Afghan-Incited Pathan tribes- questions ex-plumber they may ask cbou the Delhi men on the border, drains or be mixture of con- erte in the monuments.

*-iem

de

It Is

trday the No. 1

of the same policy with which the Soviet Union by wing Egypt and Syria against Isra is plo.ting to light a great eandagration of war in the rear If this Western defence der.

Of course, Bulgenin and

Krushchev

Lan

Not sure

u, kyscraper building in Moscow which houses the Russian Foreign Office, Grock Ambassador Kontumas, Yugo- stav Ambassador Vidle, Albanian Amossstuor Frito, and a tum- Tow why do Bulganin and ber of Russion Foreign

Office No

Krushchev hesitate to arm chiefs are sitting down to dis

same Afganistan in the

way cuss a proposal under which the tha they have armed Egyp.? Inte Soviet satellite Stala ot

Because

they are not quite Albania is to be neu raised like how Mr Nehru would Austria.

Yugoslavia return, what benike his and Grocco would also accept a

form

of neutralisation.

might predecessors

delighted if sune will be

to Nehru still react confirm they further in

"neutralia British his art-Western attitude, prestige le munist

cause

of the

Soviet

the very

That

of the

been

1n

This proposal-It was inspired

a Russian incursion use als regard ns further the Com- nto an area of Indian in erest, by a suggestion made by Bul-

From

earliest days ganin during his visit to Tite in over-hurried Belgrade last May--has a great cons:rvation) and compassion (and

Union and China in South-East following

old carve-up

British attraction for both Tito and the to that has swept Africa for the Asia, and exploit his influence

wild-life of the bush-veldt,

In Commonwealth strength, India Nehru's

Government in Grcels. Delhi has secretly finan- He ia

happy man now. "Shooting animals always made

supporting Kabul George Michael is South

me such" he says. Africa's crack big-games-

Shooting with a camera will "She couldn't stand the sight probably be mure lucrative in man--or was until he recent- of me at first," he says happily, the long run than shooting with AGREE that

ly gave up his gun for a

camera.

But he is not the con- ventional idea of the White Hunter, steely-eyed, spare and lonesome-looking.

4

He is

chubby. brown- skinned Lebanese with scnti- mental brown eyes and soft- looking, thick-fingered hands,

His wife, Marjorie, and two dough ers, Carole, aged 12, and June, aged nine, have followed him in o the bush-veldt aver since the little girls were bables. In those days the Michael safari bristled with

"It WD8 her reserve dignity that attracted me he," he explains. They met in 1938 when he was in hospital with snakebite and her brother happened

In the next

bed.

to be

a gun.

"and to this day I don't know

His Arst full-length feature what brought about the sudacn change."

Alm, African Fury, has been sold Marjorie, who has "kept her in America and will soon be reserve and dignity

nl those released in Britain, years' she has Lancashire

The unlethal Michaels have blood in her veins will prob- appeared on BBC television in ably never tell him.

a new series.

No Quarrels

But she is certainly spared one family problem even if her husband is fond of rubbing noses with lions and with only a camera in his hand. Perhaps because the whole family is so busy looking after

animals,

guns, not chasing them with guns and

cameras.

camoras, or reading and writing The

family keep up safari- about them-there are no family Onditions even when in their quarrels. verandaed bungalow-home in Pre'oria, by having the house surrounded and invaded by animals ranging from young

to

Buster the baby

much

have never had as a uff in the 18 years since онт honeymoon" (which in- cidentally was a 4.000-mile trib in a caravan that the bride- groom had made himself), says

of Michael's best Marjorie.

taken camera #hots have been

Giorge Michael is Anding that It pays to keep the family in the picture.

with

Next stop

1.9

спелу,

Balkana.

keeps their traditional the Italians, out of the

A very real con-

cing and

against

Pakistan. operations The intention, of course, was cideration for both of them. to weaken Pakistan and ul. For present NATO plans pro-

ས

the

NATU

Russion

contingents

and

satellita

experts

Also

It is probable mately make it ready for that vide that in the event of war that the Soviet statesinen will forcible reunification and sub- Italian spend a good deal of their time je ton to Nehru India which is should immediately seize

pandit's

the Soviet secret occupy the peace-loving_ urging the necessity for Indla

What Bulganin and Albania. That is an operation to concert a joint plan of action alm.

Chine Communist

to Krushchev must now try to do

do which

too dim- "liberate" the Portuguese pos- La to use their to'e-a-tee meet agree should not be

ings with Nehru in between cult to accomplish, sessions in Asla simultaneously Gou in India and Macio In

to convince him that banquets

Yes, make no mistake about Soviet arms aid for Afghanistan it-this jovial pair of touriste China.

Ir. Burma, 100, as in India, the will not mean Soviet domina- now in Delhi are pretty shrewd Soviet missionaries no doubl ton of that area.

operators.

SECRETS OF THAT NEW CAR

T

Ferguson Drivers Will Never

By BASIL

CARDEW

HIS, in outline, is the The "brake Ferguson car, with pedal," by which British genius opening valves, Arst shuts off. in his own backyard. One "They rather ridicule children heralds a completely new, the fluid drive shows Carole force-feeding her who fight dne another. We exciting era in motoring.

Nor do the little girls quarrel,

15 young pythona_with cubes have never

arguing."

has

heard thean

to the tubines,

It represents the first Then, with pro- This is necessary he- Nothing like the company of complete break with automo- rasive move couse the python in captivity, savage animals for human

bile tradition, for it is ment, it directa a reverse dow The change-over to cameras clutchless, gearless and, in to the turbine-

the sense of drums and blades to

pro- shoes, or discs and pads, vide an emer-

Волсу brakeless.

more smooth and powertui

中

of meat rammed down with

pencil.

phaneh it becomes quite an

harmony, it seems.

affectionate pet, would starve

國

itself otherwise.

Accepted Idea

meant increased danger, Ex-White Hunter Michael.

Michael, two lion cubs troking had his most dangerous moment

JEC

"KOWLOON"

who must have shot 1,000 or so Picture the life of Marjorie dephanis in his shooting days

stop

at her hoels, trying to persuade when the whirring of his I asked a leading motoring tha Buster, the lepoard not to sleep camera caused a cow elephant artist to produce this impression mechani- in the washbasin ог chew, he was stalking to give chase. of the Ferguson, based on in-

ough the telephone cord or to the deep-freeze for a

Happy Man

springbok Impala, a guinea- Normally she would just have fowl, or pheasati which her got shot, for her impertinence.

Or going off on a bevel or By

eight-week safari family...

Ing

Rather

Singing of his

iny

formation about the car which cal brake could

has reached me.

uro

being equal on

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This information leads to the the driving-braking, units, with A horizontally opposed nat Those who have followed the husband has shot for the family. But gunlere Michael had to run conclusion that here is a car no variation of lining or adjust» «d four engine, water-cooled, Ferguson prototypes on bush- Jarder.

for He saved himself only for the world's markets which ment from brake to brake, a which can equally effectively be bush tests in the Midlands, say Jerkin and makes everything American or straight-line sick-proof stop is initallad just forward of the it has reached 90 miles an hour with her

her,rage long enough | Contincial as bid-fashioned as certain.

rear axlo or over the front; and and its fuel consumption is said for him to reach his Jeep, 760 the penny-farthing cycle.

to be better than 80 miles to than shoot animals, yards away.

Mr Front-wheel or rear-wheel the gallon. she prefers to watch them.

Human ympathy not extend of himself with dead elephants miloon offering power trans- "king" maintains close mercy option, with four-wheel drive

· itself to 'fish ·ẩn • the

suspension, same - lald: in' ling, and receding like mission,

wheel concerning his design. So does as it doce to warm-blooded some eternal moun ain range, chction, and braking of an Sir Mics Thomas, chairman of available for cross-country work. it embodies too many revolu

Nonary principles and too much creatures, she catches fish for one realize show, gròst a charge etfelency hitherto regarded as British Overseas, Airways, who, ・ There is independent suspen- super-diss engineering to be

ness his 4 they are camped

his exchange of

of camera for gun |án impossible ideal.

with, Government co-operation, sion for all four wheels by marketed at a “Peoples Cars a.river.

has been loaned to Ferguson hydraulically controlled vertical price. I would expect it to Marjorie 1 is perhaps mor But it requires rester

- greater. The principle, I understand, is Research Ltd. to. advise on springs.

And there are come into the £700–£1,000 courage and confidence in me that the engine is close-coupled manufacture and sale of the hydraulically sprung der Ferguson is now discussing

bracket. from Margo'n ba

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