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HUSSEIN'S

DESPERATE GAMBLE

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By Les Armour

They explain that Jordan is poor because attach- dom of Jordan is a ments to Britain are not inde creation of power

HH Hashemite King- not oil.

pendence.

politics: a tiny plot Over f All the youthful

of rolling arable country Hussein presides with seemingly surrounded by a sprawling been trouble,

it

There

has

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1956.

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MOLLET:

"AN. BIEN, BIEN! BUT A MUCH WIDER

BUNCH OF FLOWERS

NO?"

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Bronchitis makes you worry, and worry makes it worse, especially

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SI came through the sepsis in their teeth and in their door of the bedroom I sinusos and, went to bed as soon noticed the smell of Do they felt the slightest t

dication that they were Hlable to camphor liniment which, no suffer from a cold. doubt, Mrs Sherwood had

"Can't chronic bronchitis re- rubbed on her son's chest. sult from

attsek of seULA And there was A steam bronchitis?** asked LAO, who kettle going also. On the evidently had discovered à new- bedside table there was the found Interest in medicine. bottle of brown medicine I Normally he was as healthy

Tarzan, moro interested had left last time I called. Marilyn Monroe than in Lous It was almost empty.

Pasteur. "Oh, he's much better,

Doctor," Mro

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"Recurrent attacks may lead chronic condition,” I Sherwood to the

answered. "Pneumonias may said. "His cough has al- also. Obesity and spinal curva- most gone."

ture can be other predisposing factors."

Young Leo Sherwood had deglected a bad cold. His cold "Anyway," Mir Sherwood had lowered his resistance, with interrupted, "your father has

the_result, that he had a catar- kopt very well this winter.” thal inflamma

tion of the tuber. Quite a nasty attack of neute bronchi- tis, in fact, and Mrs Sherwood had been Very worried.

Still, she

ALL IN A DOCTOR'S DAY

by

CEDRIC CARNE

need not have been so anxious. That certainly was true After all,

Is the had sent Mr Sherwood to

tory

bronchitis

I

the

THE BAGDAD PACT is an alliance of Britain, Turkey, commonest mness of the respiro- dentist and afterwards I had

Iraq, Persio, and Pakistan. It is designed to close

trnct, and people get recommended he did breathing over it in nine days or 60. exercises to aid the removal of the Middle East to Soviet expansion. The firo member

Truc, in infants and in feebla the tubes catarrh. Codeine had Governments have pledged themselves "to dofond their elderly people

there g the stopped his cough at night, and territories against aggression or subversion and to particularly danger that the the cod liver oil had been use

smaller tubes become blocked, ful in improving his promote the wolfare of the peoples of the rogion." The 1950 doclaration by Britain, Amorica and

resulting in broncho-pneumonia, health. but this can be avoided by Fronco plodges action by them inside or outside the

especial care. United Nations to provent the frontiors of Israel and hor Arab neighbours boing altered by force

The balmon slayed

elsewhere, was poor and timid because sho was a vassal of Britain, and that there would be no progress so long as she remained so.

nt the Jordan Club,

But sometimes you could see them together. That was when they dined together in some quiet restaurant. Hussein was no nutocrat,

Aguin, Sondhurst liked Hussein (his fellow him "Hus") and Hussein liked Sandhurst.

was strong.

Hussein all did not worry. Britain was his ally and Britain Time would show that the rumours were nonsense, enied His government was good, and show that good me would government paid higher The officers said dividends than loud wands,

John Bagat Glubb reassured

cndeis

he would make a fine soldier. They did not know about the

business of king-making at him. Sandhurst, but British ofleurs ******** are taught wise and humane mile as well as deadly aim, and they thought he might make a

king too.

Hussein sald he wanted to

stay on at Sandhurst because he liked the "British way of life.

When he graduated, he went home and he was crowned King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan - Al-Mamlakaḥ Hashimiyah Al Urdiniyah.

His Dreams

Al

Government Sacked

BUT the outside world moved

faster and faster. Czech guna emboldened Nasser; tension mounted on the Israel border. The

asked why refugees Hussein did not move, The again, and again, poor asked, why they could not be rich like the Saudis,

Hussein's democratic parlia- ment was not very experienceck It, too, began to grow uneasy. Then there was the Bagdud went from his tiny room at Pact. Hussein saw it as a buf unramed calm

H Sandhurst to a palace.

hlm between fer

Arab And But when there

nationalism between him and 13 D small arid steppe.

palace (just 15 was trouble there was a certain

was whatever it

that the rooms), and he lived quietly in Rusdans were planning. Glubb Pasha and the Arab because

It with his It exists

collection of jazz Legton. And the Arab Ligion records. It was and is one of The uneasy among his people bisects Arabia. It stands could, at least, bring peace. the world''a best collection of car it as another excuse to use between the oil - swelled

Now there is no Glubb Pacha. jazz records. greed of Saudi Arabia and

And one day there may be no the volatile nationalism of Arab Legion. And then here Syria, between the uneasy must be civil war. nationalism of Israel and Still the young Hussein sits Arab Legion now and then, the wrath of the rest of unruffled, Arabin..

Hussein dream.

un #

world at Harrow Harrow,

He learned to fly jet airplanes, He tolked strategy with John He drilled the Bagot Glubb.

They

Jordan as a tool.

forgot that Jordan could survive principally because she was a vital part in the Western de- fence

scheme, a stronghold in an area on the verge of chong. He listened to John Glubb

The government rebelled. when Glubb told him he must Hussein Backed the government ebove all keep peace on bis and tried again.

border He must not

Saudi-Arabia promised big

betting 13 It is valuable as a van- Put let us begin at the be- Israci

keeping ginning. Hussein first met the provoke trouble, He must not bribes if he would give in end

bo too

to respond to break with tage place for

Britain, Feeling the pence. Together with where he suddenly had to polish provocation.

grew more and more inflamed. almost equally artificial his own boots and make his

And Hussein also dreamed,

At length Hussein had to give He dreamed of irrigation for in--for the moment. Iraq, it forms part of a bod, Harrow where he was just

of the Jordan-of boys, the waters

If he held out, political chaos wedge which bisects Arabia another

deserts, of finding would destroy his dream. He bulld

for the tens of of refugees, his big would have, at least, to smash gest liability, and of raising the the early structures of his new living standards of the rest of democracy in order to make his will stick. And the ensuing his people.

chaos might sink him too.

boy among

from the Israeli borders to Barrow where once

men

were si

Persia,

It has remained in-

trained to empires.

violable because it has had ********

the British Legion.

But the most astute of

politicians may sometimes

go out and

Sandhurst Cadet

Big Question

He dreamed, too, of a de-

A little appeasement, on the mocracy that would work, that other hand, might calm every would be a model for the states one and save the day. forget that a state is not you might have thought that of Arabia. Gradually he trans-

the grandson of the King of ferred moro and more powers ******** just a patch of land. On Jordana boy who, even then, (not formally but factually) to that prich of land there was the heir presumptive to the the elected parliament, and took are a million and 2 half throne of Jordan might have care in his appointments to the people.

under his found life hard at a school Senate, which is

a round, was deter There are Arab refugees from reliance, second their duty to

community, and Laled from his British allies. Iernel-nearly half-a-million of the

It mined not to give in. looked as though his dream That was when Hussein them. There ore wandering Greek, lots of Greek.

was not

on his tribesmen and peasants who

to by all might come true, and he was determined-determined

happy.

own--to fight back. wrest a precarious living from accounts,

The young Hussein took to the soil.

Harrow, and Harrow took to the young Hussein.

Things In Common ·

THEY

THEY have only two things in common-the fact that they aro Arabs and the fact that they recognize a common King, 21- year-old Hussein,

but any way will satisfy them. The rest thirst

where boys are taught first self-direct control..

Ho had support-and moncy Đ wòn

BUT his opposition, having

Brave Too

Could H

He thrived there, and, when he left, he had not had enough. The old King was assassinated and Hussein's Kather

was brave, too, when there were riots in

sacked Glubb and an nounced the "Jordanisation" of hia arany. He proved himself to be the power in the land and to be more nationalist than the nationalists themselves.

not rule. He suffered from a Jerusalem, he went there rid of Glubb,

serique mental lliness,

personally and walked openly

They had intrigued, but they Old had never tried openly to got

Having established his point, Hussein was the her. He through the giroste-the streets he turned round and advised his Wis not yet 18 and ro, by in which his grandfather had poulticlans to Join the Bagdad, They are not concerned much Jordan law, he could not rule. been assassinated.

Pact after all. with power politics. The But, even 60, he was a Field- But there were troubles, The The manoeuvre may have 500,000 refugees spoil to destroy Marabal of the Arab Legion.

It silenced, the "men: în Israel-they know not how,, Yet at the moment he was irrigation schemes were slow in wors.

materialising. The Inrnelis, the cafes who said that Hussein for the good hurst,

Private Hugin at Band- too, had an interest in Jordan was weak not a patch on the

milltary and, if

if you took the Jordan alde, old Amir. It stalled the men things they do not have for academy. He was there because you would have mid more water, houses with furni- he wanted to be there.

agent turo, an extre wite:

Ho was just another cadet.

the ide of Arb but a British ag

But the question to: will They are open to suggestion: He was treated like my other

nationalism was growing. Anyone who can tell them why cadet,

Jordan

was pour compared Britain, smarting under the of Glubb's diarimal, con " they are not as rich al other He went to London on week- with. Baudi-Arabia timid com- tinue to give Humenirs' thoir men, and show a way they can be es rich, as other He lived in a call besos.pared with Nasser Egypt and backing? Will the money still adanall: Its promise of social, revolution, somet Can the Legion stand

Hotel on followed by heaven an earth. only own

gamble-for

in which

ends and

Britain's

Christon unco-operation. Were who said Huacli wes nothing

men, is sure of a hearing.. at tho Dorchester

Men with such des Include those week-ends because he Saudi agent Egyptian

It in a deeper vesh the agents of a certain King Saud liked the view over Hyde Park, nationalists Soviet diplomats Humein SURGE from muzby Ball-Arablas He had a baten with him (* nađ *tende, feiende played on the - He may There men; do not explain that Batman freans Jordan, nos, con poverty, and on the timidity,/110 hopes he doe Jordan le pour bepaalde anod sa provided by the muitas mang ke with stones around, turk Tardia,

A BIT PUFFED

general

During the winter they had kept the house warm even in the night. All this had helped to reduce the inflammatory pro- cess to a minimum, 134 mony bronchial constriction had been Just

I took the thermometer ous relieved by the Ephedring of Leo's mouth and saw that his tablets I had prescribed. temperature had satisfactorily because the condition is called subsided. Indeed, from the "chronie"" doesn't mean chirpy, argumentative questions doctors can't do

great deal, Leo asked me I didn't have to

"You can forget about that steam kettle now," I said 10 Mrs Sherwood, "and he can get up tomorrOW.”

listen with my stethoscope to his cheat to know he was well on the way to recovery,

HY don't want to

become

''chesty' like my Dad," he said, "coughing in the morning and short of breath when he Tuns for a bus,”

"He's good for another 100 years yet," I sald smiling. “Any- way, when you're getting on for 60 you'll be a bit puffed when you sprint for a bus too."

"But you said long ago he had bronchlils and now you diagnose this," he said pointing to his chest, "as bronchitis also"

I

You have

acuto bron- chilla" explained, "your father has chronic bronchitis. It's quite different. Anyway, your father isn't in such bad shape. He just has to take particular care when he gets colds, and he should worry loss, Worry increases the constriction of the tubes."

In

SMOKE LESS

chronic bronchits

ttio

accumulates In catarrh tubes, partially interfering witn the entry of air into the lungs, and more constriction occurri as a result of anxiety can make of breath the patient shorter than he need be.

People who hav chronic bronchitis-and there are many in our damp climate--would be much better if they svaded worrying about their condition, smoked less, made sure they didn't have any lurking arous of

"Can I play football next Saturday?" asked Leo.

of

"Tiddly-winks next Saturday," I sald. "But in a couple wooks or so you can play for England."

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