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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 19. 1956.

A Tale Of Oil In The Green Jungle

Labuan, British Borneo,

HIS is jungle country,

thetaren desert, DON IDDON'S DIARY

partially savage land

remoto even in the jet nge. But the British (and

Dutch)

making are

the

the

desert bloum with the most

FOLLOWS THE FLAG TO BORNEO

precious of all treasures-oll it's going down the drain there. local

authorities

under the

Nol The Japanese are not are liked here.

and the jungle is yielding This plbee is British and is go- supervision of an Austrailan. reluctantly to the persistent ing to remain British" thrusts of he white man,

14711 undergoing a certain hit. Hmota of hardship here

su preted that things had been going a little too smoothly -ine elbile arinngements th Australia, the first-class fights, The luxurious air

conditione

have

idea they

The place in British all The big story, of course, is oil. right the interminable cups of The State of Brunei is one of fe, the beer, the elgarettes, the the largest producers of oli in

ant (surprisingly good, the the Commonwealth.

A F band that makes the Men have been searching for the Northern of in Brunet since 1900, but hot right noisy,

the Soccer. the argu- production was slow, and when verat, nements between the English and the Japanese arrived in 1941 we but now In Singapore:

the Australians,

were turning out only 500,000 in a hot, steaming and

barrels of oil a month. north EsT joinin

I MET 40 a

Nix

Equator and!

fubled Sarawak, which

ence

では

the futton!

well known

enfe society

The

- ז' tal

modern

ligh and telephone

I wish we housed our soldiers brlier

estabilah- The BAF ment is shamed by the nearby Shell On res: haute or transit Prnersses hotel

which has stast, bir conditioning,

efllcient plumbing.

STRUCIQU* Lounges, and un excellent bar em particularly to the Jungle weleuane ist

ramshack fo

I should have stayed theres: hotel when I arrived

ban 111 45 ked me and it 34 Chinese clerk at the registro late now. bon dark sad: Velly emiddel, full up-you share rust.

1J

proudly here

10

The went poured off rap, and

I said: "Shape nothing

gantanderun

your

cable acconimoslation

1 haver

Slight argument AFTER

a

slight

argunni

I was led to a room market Number Tea de Luxe "

is not de luxe The masquitoes buzz, green lizards crawl acros for furn- ceiling. the listlessly

When I first entered 1 rail- conditioning?** AU sir "No conditioning There

Mostly jungle

Wag

Great progress 11/E rcorched the field on the W Japanese

advanced, and then

enemy when the Usivea

Gut they in their turn burned and ravaged the land. Now, after years of tireless work, there is a huge

modern, superbly equipped pilacldnt Serly, and we and the Dutch prxturing 100,000 barrels of oil every day from 225 wells, More 7.000 men-300 THIS Colony has an area of Europeans and the rest Asians

approximately 20,000 quate work at Serla, and the all flows. anies about the sia of Ireland 13,

unfortunately, no1 and

of it is jungle generally as we had hoped. most There are about 100,000 people.

So the British and Dutch are mainly Indigenous tribes and invading the

They are migrant races-Chinese,

the drilling right down into the largest

Indonesians, sea-bed from steel platforms group. Malays. Filipinos, Indians, and mile offshore. only

tunedin of Europeant atud Australais. Queen

ち

£14

photographs wherever I

of

go

the The

The results so far are not known and the oil men are no! extravagantly

But optimistic.

the old planters

insist to me:

Borneo is rich.

There's tim-

British rule Borneo, and they rule wisely and wel

There are no Jupane e und any who cone would not be welcome during the two and

The Japanese were Jiere during the war!

hns been no hot water and thus saine Jorn Towel half

117

ber and one day there will be se much all the sea will be black.

I sat

and Mrs with Mr Johnson

their in

charming house, which looks nut over the "It's Mr Johnson anid: more then il job that the British are

doing here--it's a

set

SO

"And Borneo has its enchant-

days have been here

Mr E Johnson, the Shell A man could get movose in the

hent, but, for- Oll

who with h furnace-bind

here. AF mer

wife has helped chorring tunately, the R..

crove ine to the Aus- cheerful young men from Bead

mah

War Graves Memorial duty. ford and Manchester, and Syd- tralian

who fell Centre in the evening. and Melbourne, "You get used to it after Thirly thousand Australians ment We have come to love a Uline

and Indians The H.A

De here and the

and will be sorry to be beiter, but after all, we're tragic thing is that many of the soldering

tublels bear the word

Unknown

This is hallowed British Soll

beautifully kept ant

by the

foes! could

"They thould make this the real bose. Never mind pouring all the money into Singapore

Borneo leave."

In a strange way, despite the heat, the mosquitoes, the fever, the lizards, the crocodiles, and the menacing jungle, so will 1.

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BULGANIN-THE OTHER “HEAVENLY TWIN”

No One Ever Seems To Disagree With Him

MARSHAL of the army who has

never

commanded a soldier in the field, a banker of international repute who never worked in a bank or studied économics, a skilled diplomat who never worlted in a foreign office, an old- world aristocrat whose

Was

factory father clerk....

nuinters,

Kent

By LES ARMOUR

rank of Colonel-General and be- cume Deputy

of Minister Defence,

It was then that Bulganin- und in 1938 he became char- armed foreca, and Bulganin got

like his colleague Krushchev came to the attention of a certifn Lazar Kagonovitch. Kagonovitch was boes of the Moscow parly, and Stalin's offlefal recruiting agent, charged with finding the men who would bright young

Moscow Mayor

Late

A

He had mastered the art of stili refers to it as which provided enough equip set a happy example of subdued Bulgando

ment to make Russia a major and humanc Nizhne-Novgorod,

rulo while military science along with all the other arts he had acquired. Nikolai wod

to A Industrial nation. Bulgarin Krushchev was rolling heads,

In 1946, Stalin decided to school. secondary - techuleul

fulfilled the plan in three years, From polilies he shifted-

give up personal control of the again-to banking. There he learned something' ef engineering and rudimentary

He was also elected there he got the only formal

man of the board of the national the job.

a member of the politburo. education he has ever had.

banks.

Curiously, although his job He rend

Onlookers gasped. Bulganin, much on his own.

was ometally defence, his big- however,

the and acquired

after all, had proved himself

gest tasks were connected with good administrator.

good Russin's new and the graces of a

and pressing planner, fast-passing world. Surprisingly,

politician. But good

Bulganin The chairman of д national diplomalle problems, Ibsen would

made he joined the Communist Party rule the new Russia. Iraye

went to bank has the nation's economy slovakia,

Poland, to Czecho- the days just before work quick

GI Nikola Alex- in the

Later he went not In his hands, and he must be revolution. The mir- endrovich Bulgarin,

once but many times to China, In 1918 he was attached to

a skilled economist as well. shal would

ntted have

Smiling and urbane, Bulgarin smoothly into any of his plots: Cheka, the original and not

AGONOVITCH saw that Bul- took on the job as he had taken police. very efficient secret who has created a the man

he wandered

all his gania was something the party on

other jobs with dream world of his own, whose For four years

He made him supreme confidence in himselt.

COME visit to satellite coun- from Siberia to needed badly. whole life is pose, who must

the country

Bulganin It worked.

trics of Moscow.

by Soviet leaders disintegrate when reality pierces Turkestan hatching minor plots Mayor

In 1940, when Hitler's Panzers ended with sudden changes in as the civil stepped into the role as though and counter-plots

who Those

rumble and Stalin the governments of the visited he had been born for it. Urbane, would, for once, war

war progressed.

began to well and quietly dressed, knew that time

Bulganin's, instead, was running countries. Bulgonin's knew him then say he affected

and Just slightly out, Bulganin was sent for usually led to amicablo agree- an air of gentle and superior scholarly

brier

to spell

the ments with the existing govern- boss who mysterious, he managed, even omni

and chemical ments. knew all there was to know, the age of 36, to import an air metallurgical

backbone of dignity to the role, which the industries the

of By that time he had grown a who was everyone's confidant.

In iny cuacho was 3

Communists had hitherto always the war machine. Within beard-a pointed allyer goutee—. lacked.

months production Ruccess he was one of the men

up, and had taken to dressing like the Soviets together

morale an Improved, who held

efficiency boosted.

his dream.

Yet Ibsen have been wrong.

dream world has become reality, In the "Looking Glass Land" of Soviet polities, Bulganin's smooth consistent dream has held together when all else fell apari.

Secret Police

omniscience the

ΠΑΠΤΙ

in the years of struggle. His plots helped to reconcile minor and jealous leaders to one an-

police his

work rooled out occasional wavereza.

THE truth is that Nikolai But other and

ganin was never a revolu- Iionary.

bitter When the funalica of the revolution were dreaming of tho worker's paradise, Bulganin

resolving to enter the

Was

of Tolstoy's ying world aristocrats. Paradoxically, the revolution gave him his chance,

Examine the facts:

Nikojal Bulganin was born on

June 11, 1885. His father must have fostered his dream-surely

Alexandrovich Nikolat

is B

Planner

in 1922, he appeared.

Supreme Council of National Economy, the central planning authority.

Tsuddenly, on the start of the

There he appeared to acquire an. entirely new personality-.. quiet, scholarly, assured, his head full of economic facts and

Agures Im

at

For six years, Bulganin stayed at the job. These were the years when the hard-working Krushchev was building the Moscow Underground and Stalin was ruthlessly eliminating his opposition.

Was

Danger Point

WHEN the invasion oème Bul- W

gonin was made a member of At the same time, Bulgarin was moving smoothly upwards, the War Council for the Western He was largely responsible for Front. His experience of war

No Enemies

old fashioned aristocrat: Somehow, in a country where tallors appear to have been trained almost exclusively in the manufacture of horse-blankets, he contrived to have flawlessly tailored suits in quiet tuste

good made from cloths which exuded luxury and good breeding.

His speeches were always

the Ten Year Plan Manched in was hail. Happily, his job was reserved. He appeared to have

and

ever

1993 for the total rebuilding of political. In a dictatorship, the no enemies. His polley was

army is always Moscow. He also won himself,

danger point

order always to instill In 1934, a seat on the powerful in any crisis. The Russian army

He had no re- any amicability. was still, in the main, officered course to executions as a means Central Committee of the Party.

of the clags Then,

in 1997 the year of by the remnants

No one the

purges ho gicat

him. was which had ruled it in Czarist of disposing of those who dis

agreed with elected Prime Minister of the times.

Bulganin was the man seemed to disagree with him, Russian

to win their sympathies, Federated Republic,

In truth, Stalin came to rely When Hil name which might have come

the one man who He co impressed his superiors Krushchev, at almost the same

on him a Hitler was approaching straight out of Tolstoy?

that he was appointed head of time, took over the Party nd- Moscow, Bulganin was brought could always be relied upon to

in the Ukraine. back to

civiilan defence. do the job without violence His father was poor, and the the construction department of ministration

friends of sleepy provincial

town

putting his bright His job was to boost morale to make apparent of Elektrozavod, the Soviet's major Stalin was Nizhne-Novgorod offered

enemies and to ttirn crises into few electrical equipment plant. in young men, into power,

and to see to it if necessary, opportunities. It was, however,

Republic was that every last able man died apparent victories, 1927, he was appointed head of -The Russian part of the original Rusila of the organisation, His job was the part of the Soviet Union where he stood. the Muscovites, arki It was steeped in tradition, The Soviets rentmed it Gork! long ago but

to electrify industrini Russia. least in neel of purge, and The siege over, he went back War Council, and The central planning authority Bulganin with his traditional to the drew up a

A Duty

seven-year plan old world dignity--was able to ultimately emerged with the BULGANIN seemed to have no

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GUBBINS

positive ideological views at all. He believed, and doubtless believes Hill, in at He sees quiet, efficient government.

himself a man with a duty to his people which he discharges.

as efficiently and quietly as possible and meanwhile he

at the fairies who sullenly

Although he does not suggest, ilves the good life he has dream- Us from family WOMAN writing to Is one about

that gangster alms are likely to cd of the civilined man who has albumu. live in Magle Lane;

wtg Their Queen is such a teeny If this

the normal affect old men to the extent of turned the rough house to his thing, no more then inches period of "I love you, I love making them take suddenly to own advantage.

When Stalin died, Bulganin you not" nobody can be sur a life of crime, to is convinced high.

that, be the continued as a top planner, as And when she's lost for days prised that these unhappy men from observation

littlo

deputy prime and nights I cry and cry and had that tightened up look very old often become as

about the mouth and 4 fanatical children again,

ancient Amer one of the

ministers. When Berla was stare in their fiereo, hard eyes, cans get worked up to a state, arrested, ho appeared on the the age of 43 she is still And after conversation, konded, after seven years of of wild'veltement when they scene only to pacify the, army.

popping the que

question

and never see films of violence, which is which had at first let it be getting the right answer, seven ba the pictures best

bad for their hearts.

known that it objected strongly He Boys who say their years of saying good night at

has seen them jumping He convinced the army's leaders of little

door

with mother about in their state and heard that Berla must it the prayers in little pants and the

looking on, seven summers with them yelling for the kill and stranglehold of the secret police vests

a chaperone in the punt, and roaring hoarse encouragement was to be broken. But he ap-

with the to the heroes, of Westerns, Christmases

peared to view the proceeding wit same chaperone hovering near

amused tolerance.

reading them. I have never, met a happier person."

I love to sit in cosy chair beside

the Bre red,

When Mummy's washed the gupper things and dolly's sate

In bed

For then. I've put away my loya

and put away my cares And I can read of golliwogs and

naughty teddy bears.

**

My favourite tales are thosù. a family by the sea, about When Nurtle calls across the

And little girls with goition hair,

and other tiny tots

Who go to bed by candlelight

with Fairies round their, cota,

*

Geven

front

ay road who capitulated

*

scientista · can't

go

whole

He was

A kind the mistletoe, it is doubtful if All of which makes mo of they remained

normal.

resignation, When the temptresses anally wonder why

leave old, people along to enjoy he stepped naturally into the our grandfathers, Though some may

It is the scientists prime minister's chair. themselves dunails and tales of love and who were never given a chance, who have given them longer the one man with the talent crimes,

to know them very well, might life and now it is the scientists for the job, and the absence of have found on closer AC- quaintance they didn't like them who are trying to make their enemica which it demanded..

extra years miserablo,

Surprise If I had my way free seats for much anyway.

No. wonder the poor mixed-up all Westerns would be given to

I like to read the picture books

with funny little rhymes

Of Duszy cats and doggie was

and bears who come to ten,

although I'm 43.

beach, "Come, children, come Op, silly mo, I love them all, kids were terrors in the home every male old-age pensioner.UTSIDE Rusela thero was ·

sanaka

honda,

and beat their. children regularly after prayera.

Liloe going

the

more,

a senso

true,

excited little boya surprise; inside the move to ten," With Jolly uncles building

"Seven" year itch'. Ride him, cowboy!! on a

to a cheap performance unemed transparently obvious. Saturday castles in the

they

It has been said that Bulganin should also things like

ver that no real be "trisked" for "guna" before wields ISCUSSING the report of the And

D'S

RE flume bad for old ment entering the cinema, bremse Kruslichev rules "Dad", mustn't cat his

Roynl Commimion calpe until he's washed this Martiage and Divorce, an elder

on A

this is

part of the. In a

that This ridiculous question would entertainment should like parently, to rule direc

Buiggein does not want, ly correspondent writing' to 'n never have occurred to anybody newspaper suggests there would but a acientist whose natne shall them all to get froe Issue of is more interested in civilising

them and

ordering the process. Its awful thrilling as you read be fewer unhappy marriages if not be mentioned here in ca cowboy uniforms and see

Wink those limits he is prob low all of them behave, girls didn't jump at the first he writes me u turgid fotter

running about in gangs, snap-

to follow 'Cos if they're good and est, offer relying on divores if it froin Americe, where he lives. ping toy pistols at each other,

Krushchev's cruals they'll a proud days she have noticed that Americans wearing therifte badges, and nor

that's the way reasonable to believe that. But want it,

made ... sure': that: TEKO ganin has kept mind

that, and way and Uncio's being Jolly, not, and Joan can take her I am not at all convinced that tain films on children, But there hours

annoyed, the, And the turn from Stalin's pala this easy-wossy method made) are some which are not without de chaps would at India have strely the midst, stralucant our ancestors any happle in the danger to the elderly "ki

attack this absurd 46 revolution.*224.

"el dream: asema la Bulganin'! have altered' the swality &

my

young "days"!

: never; write. for seven Hos

loss than shoutings

While clever Diddy lends the "says, "we kept meh, güessing! 1,000 words 10092i tudás tá "mmont that; and task, an astonished felső ean, become another Stalin.: At #bet neithor: Krushchev," nor ''anyone :

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Another tale I read again, Again, the

fánd yet, abuİNİ

Who?: still glare, and cowboy, nima y