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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1956.

HITLER ALWAYS STRUCK ON SATURDAYS!

MAIN

REMEMBER THE RHINELAND ... AUSTRIA

So spare a look at what 'Little Fuehrer' Nasser is grabbing

USERS OF THE

CANAL

FRENCH 9%

LIBERIAN 12%

NORWEGIAN 13%

BRITISH 28%

TYPE

All passague lines ta for lost on through Conal

OF SHIP

-FLUE 206

7,863 OIL TANKERS

3.234 CARGO SHIPS

1.283 PASSENGER SHIPS MANGED.

ETC.

(2 26 LOADED, 1.00 NOLLART!

Middle East

Oil Production

110 million tons

SEFTON DELMER DELMER SAYS-

Oll carried through Canal

65

The present

Dil-ronta

Through Suez

million tons

6,000 miles

WONDER whether they are not beginning to feel a little nervous, that little group of ex-S.S. men who in the technique of have been tutoring Nasser dictatorship?

By tearing up the Suez Canal Company's concession 12 years before its expiration Nasser like Hitler has at last uniter! the He has united all that vast niherto divide West against him.

merchant world heuteri by the S. Britain, and Pranes whose whole way ut fe depends on the sanglity of rastract and the security of shipping routes.

He has mobilised quosd him in Washington the very A who from mistaken jasnent had been supporting him hitvertn In his fight against Britain and France - the powerful pre SMUITO lobby of the all companies,

I have talked with Nasser and listened to him expound his views just as I used to talk with Hitler. In my view the two men have a fundamentally similar make-up which drives them into

the same mistaken.

TGYPT'S ex-colonel like the Austrian ex-corpori, is a simple, E

Like filler he suffers seni-iterate soldier turned politician. from a gift for the spurious over-simplilleation of complex issues Like statestrian, 24 -attractive in demagogue, dangerous in Hitler he bebom in blackmati and violence.

Hitler believed he was assured of victory by his alliance with Stalin and the menace of his Stukas.

Nasser 1 peltes in the Russians But, above all, he believes that the advent of the Evitrogen bomis has made the world safe for No one, he erekons, will, run the risk subversion and illegally

of taking unctions against him for fear of provoking an H-bomb

Wil

seizure of the Suez Canal is so impromptu decision though

as the treats treating occupation of Czechoslowskia was part of Hitler's

With the Car Noser means to hold the Western world to rarem for its eth, make it pay him vast royalties,

from

With these royalties he means to further his dream of a great Egyptian-dominated Arabian Commonwealth stretching

Morocco to Iraq..

And when this commonwealth has been established and free

of all Western influence, he means to push south and blast the whites from the rest of Africa. A typical Hitler power dream.

But the paraliel does not end here.

If Suez is

closed, the

Cape route

would be 11,000 milen

TOTAL SHIPS IN 1955 (all mations)

14,666

AVERAGE (per day) 44

TALK

INTO

HOW TO YOUR WAY

THE TOP JOB

INTRODUCTION

by CHRISTOPHER HALL

by MICHAEL ADAM

MICHAEL ADAM, British the Dale Carnegie director of courses on personality develop- ment, gives the second "How To Be A Success" article in series BAYS Mr Adam:: "Words are the visiting carda of our sæt. No Talk Your Way To Success,"

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That will give you

communicative and

maner.

of

Buk

LESSON 2 IN THE CHINA MAIL SUCCESS COURSE

A

0

SOUTH SEA BUBBLE

BY

GERALD

LD Lupton has hard- ly stirred out of the neighbourhood in which he was born, except on one occasion, when he got into the wrong train and landed up in Marcles- field. But to hear him talk in the Black Lion you'd think he was a regular globe. mostly trotter.

were

ALLEN

fish and on hotted-up chips delivered by mobile car. An avid reader of travel teen, and most of them learn to books.

play guitars by corrospandeno he retails the in- course. formation absorbed as if it The stranger was taking heavy personal experience. punishment but, full of fight, he The more credulous of his peralated.

"Everyone drops flower gar · listeners are convinced that lands on the water whenever a Lupton not Hillary-was ship sails ", he began. really the first man to con- collects them up to use the next *And a chap in a rowbon! he time. quer Everest, and that

Lupton laughed. "No personally organised and sense in throwing away pronta led the Kon-Tikl expedi- soaked from the mugs. Why, the whole performance is given for a fixed rate paid by the tourist agencies."

tiou.

nonsense

After a couple of pints, old Lupton actually believes his himself, and because the regulars are 100 bored to orgue, he invariably holds the Ленуг But the other night stranger challenged him, and ต terrible duel ensued.

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Old Lupton had just concluded A short lecture on the Mysterious Eust. when the stranger re- marked: "The South Sons is the place-but I don't

know that part of the world?" Like the back of my hand.” answered Lupkun. without twitching an eyelid "I was in Hawall with the American Marines in '43. Liaison officer."

"You

*

There cal "a

was

what novelists

Old

un

pregnant eilence". Lupton was clearly leading but over- confidence was nearly the opening rounds,

his downfall.

petite in

"You must admit the girls in Howat are certainty something." said the stranger casually.

PONTAR

serted, Got to Hawaii how, and travelled all round the South Sens, Didn't come back till the war was all over. 1 re- member her telling

evotyoue how she pretended to be native girl and called herself Kikl Locks as if you wei right in saying most things are faked out there, You were taken In properly."

we

The stronger koked aruna. expecting applause. He didn't

get it, because, by then, knew he was a worse bore than his opponent. Anyway, we al- ways support the home team. Old Lupton sut silent, apparently stunned.

"

uttle.

"Can't believe it," he mutter. ed, rousing himself "How d'you know this?"

"I'm a Bristol man and

I remember Kiki — or - telling every- rather Gladys body the story."

myself.

The stranger was juhlient. It looked as though he had Lupton floored,

The situation

WAS FO

tenso

that Lucas absent-mindedly drank my beer as I was watch- ng old Lupton recovering trom

blow. Then

then What's your name?"

the foul

smirked the stranger." Lupton asked abruptly.

Gribble Len Gribble"

You'd have thought he'd wand Len Hutton, the way he present- ed himself.

we

"Gribblet Of course," Lup'on aid. "Gludya often mentioned you

when

were talking about home." The

"But you didn't know her name was Gladys-you thought the was

u native

A faint smirk appeared Ou Lupton's face, and the stranger Icaned forward slightly. The bult way being swauoweⱭ.

"Girls?" soudi old Lupton usingly. "yes, some of girls out there are real pan-ups. I remember one in particular, stranger dark-eyed she was, with black and gkssy hair, and golden-brown skin like satin. Used to sing to mc, down by the lagoon, I can see her aw swaying in

The were?" obviously WIS

surprised playing for time. "Hawaii is

overrated sarki

friendly

好你如 of

very

"Not if

ussumed a casual air.

commer-

ure.

To any man who feels he lucks this ability I offer the following plan of campaign. LEARN TO SPEAK IN

whatever you do, don't called, these days

you know your way PUBLIC: Confidence it appear to be addressing only

broke in old Lupton one member to your boss at

of the autlence around,"

don't speaking

*། smoothly. "confidence- little

suppose work, confidence in giving Keep this

men who thore are six white If it shows know Hawaii is instructions

trick" to yourself.

I do." sub. to

It is death to your listeners. confidence

The stranger, slightly baffled. ordinate.

In

Memorise the first few words the joining in the talk round a

your speech-but not

"I was thinking of the smaller whole of it.

islands dotted about. Quite recited untouched by civilisation, some speech

them. Paradise, they of 1212 dullest

The natives live on the natural thing 01 resources of the islands, and just gullars But most people need to foll

bit by heart us springboard.

Let the st bit of what you each iden link the have to say on

with the first bit of what you Thai next one. say about the

logical "flow"--and will pre- vent you drying up. Obviously the man who speak confidently can, public will have no difficulty in conversation. But it does not follow that because a man is a good talker he is also a good orator.

VERY time you open smart tea table all these earth.

your mouth you are depend on confidence in a trie on trial. In Britain, making a public speech.

other more than in any

That sounds crazy. That country, a man is judged by sounds like putting

cart before the horse. But

his words.

He is on trial not only for and the clues his accent which it gives to his back- ground and upbringing. He is tried also for his ability to speak persuasively and logically.

Therefore, there is no more important weapon in the armoury of success than speech. In ordinary conver-

It is my opinion that Hitler was ready to crumple had heation, or on a public plat- not been appeased at Munich. Nosser will do the same IF WE form--the ability to put

your ideas across is vital,

STAND UP TO HIM NOW.

(COPYRIGHT)

WATCH IRAQ, COUNTRY

WITH A FUTURE

By JOHN MCKENNA

of

Feisal I to the spectacle guna and opulence presented by King Saud Bcross the border

in Saudi-Arabia,

of an

a

it is basic common sense in will give your speech 1. smooth

fact.

PRACTICE

MASTER these rules and put

them into practice. Speak in public and you will find that the effect of your succÉST HELPS down into your everyday con- versaticon. You will be heard on all occasions with greater attention. There will be a new and growing market for your

So get up on your hind lega at every conceivable opportunity and say your plece.

And don't tell me that you have no opportunities for speak ideas. ing in public.

Get up and ask about the annual kiddies' outing at the club you belong to. Ask a question at your office meet- ing. Say something.

BUT

FOR ALL

And never, never, under- estimate the power of words, When my students at the Dele Carnegie courses are tempted to do so,

I remind them of what we owe to words,

and

remind them that in 1940

Bay

vis dar and strumming

"That's just to impress tourists like yourself." (Old Lupton was gelting Into his stride). The natives get a good laugh out of it.

I've spent months pearl. diving

the

the

"

girl the stranger started to bluster.

"Pardon me, but I said no-

the of

kind, 1 thing

merely said she was dark

and had starlight as the breeze whispered golden-brown skin tannert by in the palm trees. Corally knew

tropical aun, of course,

her real Monroe wasn't in it. An absolute was. Broke her up peach, she Property won the knew I was going back trompe,”

"Kiki He sighed theatrically, her name was; a beautiful crea- ture."

The stranger pounced. "Kiki?" he barked. "When did

you say you knew this girl?"

"Nineteen forty - thrée,” swered Lupton, looking blank.

"It all adds up!” The stranger was rubbing his hands and tarry bursting with triumph. ""That

came giri Kiki

from Bristol. Knew her well. She went out an ENSA unit and dew

with them; they live with

from

name was she came Gladys, and where

The things she told me about you my word! Said In you were the biggest joke

it all Bristol. However,

goen 10 prove what I sald about this island-of-paradise business being a phoney. Hold on minute, I've just remembered a ki

or Gladys, told ma shout

stranger had

Important ap-

If you you

But the membered

pointment,

1

-

And he hadn't shown his face again, in the Black Lion,

(COPYRİGHT)

ROBERT WEEDE (middle-aged & bald)

EZI

IS BROADWAY'S NEW HERO

By NICHOLAS PHIPPS

I

New York he has not sung in Europe since. ing six times a week now, ZIO PINZA in South He is best known in Britain for could hardly expect the manage- ment to pay me $1,000 a Ro, Pacific started a fashion his recordings of Verd! ertas.

He has been one of the stand- so by the time the season for the grey-haired roman-

of the bys

"Met" since his over I abella't have made much tic hero the middle-aged Rigoletto reelseted him to fame extra.

In 1941. He is short, bald and

me is the "What interests man on the flying trapeze."

with

of reaching a much Robert Weede (pro- muscular,

very bright light possibility

remarkably wider cross-section of the popula nounced weedy), star of the hairy arms and chest.

1560. Opera-goers are a small much more Broadway musical latest

In his unfamiliar surroundings, hererogeneous audience for must-

glique, There's a

hair on his head at all.

brown

eyes,

the

"Now I've been rediscovered

Britain owed its survival to the "The Most Happy Fella," Weede conducts himself in QUT what hope is there for a man who cannot speak well

verbal inspiration of one man carries it to its logical ex- wary fashion of are old lng who cal comedy. Sir Winston Churchill.

treme. He has virtually no ands ho

on leaving preventive detention

STILL ENJOYABLE in private when he gets up in

has been picked for 1 remind them that for the public? Will he not be tongue-

High Sheriff. successful man his

"Oddly enough, musical speech is led and hesitant? Won't he

TMHF, which is an immense He's a bit dubious shout it ail, comedy audience are much less mako a pitiable

of bis his best advertisement, mess

tolla how bn

I this. aging but has sense enough to sit still demonstrative, Now: can some famous con- success,

weane speech and lose what little self-

versationalists and speakers Italian immigrant who owns a and keep his mouth shut.

Tosca the room would be full of confidence he already possesses?

vineyard in California success. He does, however, venture to enagers with their scores ask- help you? Of recent years, scholars have Baghdad.

That's a sensible argument~~-

fully woes a young waitress in

in kill the grand opera theory. ing mo why I'd sung this bit INCE the earliest dawn dug in the sands and proved

●WOLF MANKOWITZ, the San Francisco by correspondence. "As a chore my part is equal to different. but not a true one. It isn't true

The score has evoked almost 80 percent of operatie baritone because it is very easy to make author: Be controvertial) of pre-history, men int he did not exaggerate.

Alexander the Great added to have lived in the broad, the work, and for hundreds of

you think sa pungently hysterical enthusiasm from A roles harder thon Traviata or as it were. When I go back to A low set aside 70 percent of yourself into an effective public what

concerts,

much speaker.

Incisively .AN possible, few American crities, who claim Tosca, almost as hard as Rigo d Bandy valley of the Tigris years more life went on in the

wider audience will recognise'ing oil royalties for development, valley much as Herodotus had

and provided

Realise, to begin with, that Never try to be objective. Once (the composer does not) that it lette. and the Euphrates.

Development ย

university professor was so is grand opera on the frame-

"But it isn't opéra, It's just name. described ft.

Board to spend it. The Board oratory is not a mysterious art

objective that he used to sleep work of a traditional musical.

musical comedy adharing more "The part is not as boring as Herodotus went to see for

We have reached independent or a gift birth-given to only a

I'd thought. Then, in the year 639 A.D., consists

to the music than the comedy. Dale Carnegie said that through his own lectures,

GOOD TUNES

100 performances, himself the riches of the the incredible happened-floods seven-man executive, including few

the

"Strange to say I'm not making more then Ver "No such as the valleys had

Prime Minister and the Bpchiding in public is simply wrote: valleys and

It undoubtedly has three good a great deal more money from and I still find it enjoyable,

"But I want to take things country

fruitful in seen before swept down from Minister of Finance, with pro- enlarged conversation. is NO

majority of the And your next step

follows the mountains, shattering dams, visions that a

tunes for the milkman to whistle,

"I haven't just sat at the Met cany I don't know if I'd do it Two but otherwise the score is pre- and waited for a few perform change. Jo Sullivan (tho adul

Hellywood even if grain."

have specified from that,"

bad the through roaring

Irrigation Board must wonder, recorded, with

ench season. Except in A TRICK man might reap 200 canals, taking the rich topsolla technical qualifications, times what he sowed; in a good out into the Persian Gulf,

Great Dams year, 300 Umes. The bladen

W whatever the occasion ‘---- The Board has built two WHEN you get up to speak→→

damis great.

Across the imagine to yourself that you gols drove the Arabs back.

to two andaro addressing your words to a Neither Arab nor Mongol re- Euphrates, added

on storted be added, "as

vastly single member of the nudlence. and built the dams or the commis, and scame, I shall not siy to what the land sank back into desert lans for al

across the Tigris, and height they grow, for I am not Poverty was

the lot of the plans, when they

more. The completed, Ignorant that what

must seem in-pica, and they submitted to will probably triple the amount

I have Already written

one Transient conqueror after Wa credible to those who have another. They dwindled to a of land under irrigation, pro- duce at least enough electricity never visited the country."

scattered four inition..

to

six cities, the size of World

Но that a

Arab Invaders followed the of wheat and barley, the Greek floods and, in the thirteenth and often fourteenth centuries, the Mon-

wero

historian noted, four fingers in breadth,"

for millet

Way Back

4

Herodotus WAS

and

third,

pro

War I came and Rome and create three im-

will cad for once

the British armies left behind mense new lakes. the new alata of Iraq. · King Futhermore-and equally im spooking of Feisal I dreamed of restoring por

portant they the Babylonians. Before them some of the land's former and for all the foods and perhaps as far back as 4,000 glory. But, he had no money droughts which have plagued

Christ the. The land produced little enough the country ever since 039, yours before Sumerians had lived in the for the immedite needs of

WHhout floods and thoughts, volley and lived just as well poople, lot alons dama

the country would be rich, by the

They had betalion back the caribia,

Ton

and

pre roat rivers with dems, and Then just six years ago, the standards of the rest of the wirulit hundreds of miles of tide furned Oil, the magic wird, even without the ad-

canals which took wand of the twentieth century, alilon irrigation projects.

•mkach -wider far out into the furnod nod in surprising Over the not; five year, the wendy and The "whole of quantities.

ske government plans to ploughs an Babylonia,” ald Herodotus The young King FOR IT on 2100 million into

dain, was intersected with was still youthful and idealistic irrigation atomo,

enough to prefer the dreamly 'or" (Contauer

DAME SYBIL THORNDIKE: conversationalist To be a good you must be a good listener.

A. E. MATTHEWS: things:

First, you must have charm of manner; spoond, Ind good listener to talk to, (N.B-Don't talk to motora they only want to talk about themselves.) ·.

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MANDRAKE the MAGICIAN

·NARDA DISAPPEARED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, SHE WOULDN'T HAVE GONE WITHOUT LEAVING WORD.

NO--SHE WOULDN'T

WE'VE EXAMINED THE GROUND.THERE ARE FOOT PRINTC AND HOOFPRINTS"- AND SIGNS OFA STRUGGLE/ SHE WAS CARRIED OFF

WHO WOULD DARE HERE

tentious and derivative.

That did not stop the manage, ances

John It's son (her comedy Texan girl ment hiring Mr Woede, a highly- Italy very few people make a lerous waitress) sed Suzan

highly-talented operatie living singing opera alone.

friend) are already talking about paid,

opera, and concerta combined.

fee for a conocrt was when we go to London, TI Weede, who is:58, has been

and, for cpera $1,000 #, I'll enjoy singing professionally since he $1,250,

As I'm

(COPYRIGHT) was 19. Though trained in Italy a performance,

baritone.

MICHAEL-- THIS JOKE HAS GONE FAR ENOUGH.

MY

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

THIS IS NOT A JOKE, NARDA. I'VE GONE TUO FAR TO TURN

BACK NOW.

TUAN

BACK FROM

WHATE

I WANT THE THRONE. I “INTEND TO BE KING--IN. PLACE OF YOUR

BROTHERS

Bing-

TALK

ABOUT

MAGIC!

Have

Admiral