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THIS
MAN NASSER
LIKE HITLER HE TOO HAS WRITTEN HIS 'MEIN KAMPF'
This time it's the son of a clerk miserable follahin
in the Post Office climbing to power
on the old programme of HATE.........
By DONALD EDGAR
E will have read the He had won his spurs in
English newspapers the alleys of Cairo.
does -he always
And then, whether it was read the English a result of his street work papers as soon as they ar- is not known, he was given rive.
a place in the academy.
comments,
to pubile life. Prosperity to the Work to the elles Education to the mUSERS. And independence to Egypt.
And in the back of the minds of Nassor and his friends, they remembered schoolboy dreams of an Arab renaissance; of an Artb world stretching from Persia to the Atlantic.
and
mouse
with
During 1953 and 1954 Nasser played cat Naguib. The general thought he could master Nusser and his friends, The old gang thought against they could induce the general to to throw out these young up- prove start officers,
And then the Israel Have them a chance fight, lo
to conquer. themselves.
The Israeils broke
war
their
and
ranks, crushed their lines, made the Egypilan Army ridiculous in the eyes of world.
the
Ho will have read the There was a time there
"Nasser.
rear- Nasser fought a brave the when young Nasser he
earned The tin-pot Hitler"...."Nasser, was 19-almost loved the guard action and the phoney Pharaoh"
rather flamboyant fille of "The British. The academy WIN
Lion of Falluja." lines. There were British officers as lecturers.
"Nasser threatens the oil run on Sandhurst for the West"....
And as he reads them in to his on
his study built
And Nasser, the
1
modeat bungalow, there will who dreamed of power, used be pride in his soul.
to sit and admire the easy sense of mastery, the
assumption
He will not mind the in- sulting references. "Nasser" is mentioned. "Nasser" has the headlines. captured "Nasser" has caused crisis
calm
superiority of the British.
THE WAR
meetings in Downing Street BUT then "Nasser" is important.
of
THE FAULT
AT THE TOP
was thus
that the Gurman High Command had thought it would use and then master the one-time Corporal Hitler.
But Hitler wom. And so dich Nasser.
in Apr 1954 the bay from Bunl Mur new 30, became Prime Minister of Egypt ind Governor Military
of the
was then to a spirit <% humiliation, that the officers country. who had talked formed
cm- By now, hate lanch bccama part of his being, provided the inotive force of his life.
selves round Nasser as a secret society The Free Officers.
They comforted their injured all of pride with the belief that
their defeats had been the fault * corrupt politicians, of a worthless
sunk in sloth king and luxury.
hatred For a time Nasser's burned fiercest against Farouk and the regime.
the
cadets would talk among them- selves....would repeat the And Nasser, the son
said the post office clerk of Bant term by which they
the they were known to British... "Wogs." And the old hatred burned the fiercer.....all the flercer because it Was mingled with respect.
Mur, the poor
village in Upper Egypt, will feel satisfied for the moment.
The sense of inferiority that has haunted him all his life will be eased. The vanity assuaged.
LAW SHOOL BANI MUR was far from
Cairo and
Alexandrin.
Far from the exciting life
he grew up into
some young man.
A
He would then remember what he had shouted at the skies as
a boy, "Oh, God Almighty. May a calamity betake the English!"
As #1 young officer he
Was to
see more of
the
They made General Naguib, a
and senler
respected their figurehead.
officer,
They drove out Farouk. They drove out of othe the politicians,
The "Liberation Rally**
honesty bring Durity and
to
WELS
revolutionaries, And, like all he dared not stay still,
But there
still. was Britain The Canal occupying
Zone. There were the foreign financial And there, also, was Interests. the Suez Canal.
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MONDAY:
THE FLIRTATION WITH THE KREMLIN
HITLER'S
SWASTIKA COMPLETA WITH EAGLE
NASTER'S EMBLEM COMPLETE WITH EAGLE
It is called **THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE REVOLUTION ** .. Nasser's own story of bls struggle for power. As philosophy it is not to be taken too seriously. But it is a valuable source of clues to the way this man thinks... to how his power, once grabbed, is to be used. Extracts follow.
• Wo ACC fighting
Our greatest battle for the libera- tton of our country from all fetters and abackles
1
realty ballove 12146 imperialism is playing a one- card game only in order to threaten. if over it knew that there were Egyptians ready to shed their blood and to meet force by force it would withdraw and recoil like a hariot. This, of course, is the state and habit of imperialism everywhere.
Fate has so willed that we should be on the crossroads of the world.
The truth that is talent in our depths is this: Whatever we imagine to be the truth is, in fact, the truth plus the contents of our souls. Our Bouls
avo but the vessels wherein Ilves everything in us, and the shape of thin vessel gives form to whatever la Introduced Into it, oven facts.
• Positive action is the only уду.
⚫ it was cast then, and I still And i easy now, to shed the blood of 10, 20, or 30 per- sons in order to strike lear and pante lo the bearis of
and thus hesitants, many force them to swallow their pasklous, their batred, and their whima.
• We live in a society that has not yet crystallised. It is still boiling over and rest- Icon.
• An 1 sep it i am facing a world that has no boundaries.
A few months ago I read some articles about me by a Jewish officer named Xerdan Cohen,
the lewish Observer, in them be related how he met me during the discussions of the Armistice.
The subject that Nasser
with discussed
be me." stated, “was israel's struggle sgainst the English, how we #noceeded in mobilising world opinion against them.”
• Petroleum 19 the vital nerve of civilisation, without which none of its means can exist.
• We cannot, even if we wish to, la ang why stand aside from the sanguinary and dreadful struggle now suging in the heart of Africa between 5,000,000 whites and 200 million Africani.
William
am Hickey
Louis Wain: Tragedy Of The Cat Man
T
By LESLIE AYRE
T was a little black slatera: in Brondesbury, where kitten that began it, he did much of his drawing.
And all the time he 'wpe pour. The small creature, ing out pictures of om He frolicking on the mat thought eats and dremped, catag before the fire in a London they wero" with Hirs always, home, was much like other The Lou Wain Cat appeared
calendars.
of
kittens stalking imaginary everywhere, as all
magazines, prey, crouching, pouncing, books clawing, rolling, enjoying the und so did teir parents. itself.
The first of a long sories of
But because it was perform- Louls Win Annuals came out ing under the eye of a creative" in 100110 N40 Artist, the ordinary black ki Old associates recati him to |ron," all unknowing. was sim- day' as a tall, dark man with a posting the way for a long line allow complexion und “doggy" -cata that were for from eyes with drooping Ikis. Ho ordinary.
Tcok himself very seriously, was
The watcher of the young not inclined to crack jokes, and, animal et play was a London in the course of conversation, His his musician turned artist.
mind
would
sometimes wander name was Louis Wain.
away into its own As he watched he knew as private world, returning only Httle as dki the black kitten reluctantly to the busintes af that cats were to be the major hand.
préoccupation of his life.
Indeed, they were to become When he call- an obrasion, following him, că at the old even into the darkness of # Mcorfelda pre- shadowwed mind.
mkes of Messrs.
Raphael Tuck, who he Like many other professional for comics, Wain was a serious man did many hun-. clown who wanted to dreds of draw-
He
ideas play Hamlet.
hankered s efter fame as an artist on the would be sug- to him but comical cats be gested big livelihood and even
and he would
Д 1-ke
came
later
Louis Wain
beat of paper first An Oval
his life.
He was born in London in drawing August, 1800, Pursionately fond shape and then sketching in it round which would of music, he began studying a nose, with the
idea of taking it up grow the figure of a comic cot, Not only did Woin long to be as his profession, But in his
serious artist but teens the attrcclions of known as drawing and painting breame he also had a misguided idea and when that he was a business man and gradually stronger,
on the Stock he was 17 he went to the West would dabble
Exchange, almost always back-
1} ing losers.
Indeed, while working for a period in New York, he en- countered a man who had in- vented a new form of all lamp calculated to sweep the market. He put his savings into the pro- ject, which collapsed, and he found himself faced with. tho prospect of starting all over again-from nothing.
The Louis Wals, catfrom one of the only two "blitz" Marvivors of a vasi collar- (lon of his original drawings.
London School of Art, studying there for three years and then joining the staff for a while.
Though a studious young man, he did not neglect sport and was a competent boxer, fencer and swimmer.
his
The only way was to keep up the huge output of cat draw- ings, but eventually he began to ovorwork
For market,
HO pubile taste' was changing"
on through Word War I and did come work for Alms, but his finances reached a law level.
The last Louis Wain Ann appeared in 1921-and soon his, mind was becoming clouded. A fall from a bus accentuated the trouble and the darkness closed. round him. His brain become seriously disturbett and he was certified as frisse in 1928,
It was two years later that Mr Dan
Rider, a publicist visit- It was in about 1882 that he ing a public mental hospital as found himself studying with a member of the board of
there.
Wain
special interoat the play of the governor, found work quickly
little black kittre, a gift to him. Mr. Rider got to
He had always been fond of and interested 4 number of cate he later became president people in Wal's plight, of the National Cat Club-but Ccell
how
this
also
The
saw them as models for pral Issued an 9P
committees was formed as a result of which on enger young artist had exhibition of Wain's paintings found time to fall in love and drawings was staged at the and in 1884 he married Emily Twenty-One Gallery In London. Marie Richardson.
Weln was transferred to the where
House, Suffolk. She has written solingly: "The dish didn't break for Louis Wain, for he coori materials, for his work.
London. Michael Hastings-now stirring Cranbrook's guest at Gleraham
in- up wide controversy. THITEHALL is
to her husband in Singaporo; troducing new and They are malcing us wonder
in the Welfare "I had always thought English fascinating whether. Be
State is all it's cracked up to be, blue-bloods as rather too sophis- sun-tanned-just floated and haughty. Now 1
PLES,
Said the Queen Mother con
anyway."
of the great cities. Gamal British. He served in the Abdel Nasser was clever: Sudan. In the' Second War he knew his own capacity; he was attached to the
hand- British Army in
arrangements George the furnishing Western Desert. In ap after long and not very back from a holiday at Selsey, know they are modest, con- Beat four egg yolks with two into the craving and pointing
handsome harmonious discussions with Sussex. He is tail, good-looking, siderate and humble. pearance, now a
charming, polite, hesitant
"My 6 ft. man in his twenties, the staffs.
Not, I confess freely, the stuff patches he could have passed nå‹a
From now ub Ministers' I thought to make a rebel. I trousers!" fine, upstanding British
deputy secretaries and the like, was wrong. officer.
Sald Lord Cranbrook of his Marsala getting £3,500
rate a year.
some teacher: "She's very tolerant." George hos punctured mahogany furniture suites, bluc
dixli, Wilton carpets, curtains, hat- thick skins. He is and-coat stands, framed mirrora, belongs to the future-
But als MEETINGS happy Royal Bethlem Hospital, though it was, brought the first. he could have his ow
own room and provided sign of the darkening of the b
with
all the And that his wife was des- there for “years he worked in parately lit and he watched her his dwa, world-but a change suffering until her death just came over the pictures : de under two
years after their produced. Zabaglione? For two or three? marriage.
Hp how himself vigorously
That longing to be a more tablespoonful of sugar, unkl" de his cute, Comical cats but spacious artist
realised Thicke and lemon coloured, Put pupli carl even has in bowl and set over hot from usually taking part in some during those years in which he
human activity.
was shut away from his fellows, his boiling) water. Heat constantly There were onts playing wit That was th more attention adding two tablespoonfuls of or cricket, "cats at tea-parties, to landscape and other detalle little by llifle. Serve cats and cats hilarious, cats in his pictures but into almost immediately--and don't drop the worlding and playing, cats in every one of them a cat found
the
country and cale about if you died in 1838, ahartiy
But all chances of career suited to his
own opinion of hin talents seemed closed to him.
4
CLIMBER ...
He wanted to enter the military academy cadet. But he with little influence. The BUT haunting him always various tables and chairs,
Was poor.
pashas and their friends, the cosmopolitan society world of Alexandria and Cairo, had never heard of Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Was the sense of in- Tho £2,700 men-under- feriority. Clever, hand. secretaries-rate green or brown
and £2,225' men---. nama, brave he might be,sistant secretaries-twitch
just but wasn't he
Axminsters and "Wag"7
mirrors.
He knew how the British
So he went into the law dizirusted and despised the school and spent his time
talking politics....listening Plan Army.
Tramples
PATCHED EARL
30.
He
E-year-old Earl of Cranbrook plans. to spend the autumn in Borneo on
At £1,700 oak replaces scientific research, and has en- mahogany if the rooms are aged a Malayan woman to teach
Him the language. shared with junior officers. Hair cord corpèts' appear.
-Tha Mensher, 26-year-old Mrs Aisah Gani, is staying as Lord At £1,350 hat stands and mirrors » diasppear. Furniture carpets will be supplied"until funds bre
Ard in Cairo and Alexandria
British to stories of the Arabs' the hand of the
Was uncovered the great past, lletening to heavy as they stories of corruption, pro-Axis leanings of Court and turns to light oak, and
listening to stories about the arrogance of the British overlords, learning to hate,
RIOTING
politietan.
27
The war ended. Nasser was climbing in rank, and
his knowledge and ex officer le down to one table, Ay £900 a year the executive parience beginning to bo ac- chate, and a paper tray. knowledged as loader by juures onces, of al centron Said en amelal of the Institute of Professional: "Civil Servants:: STUDENTS in Egypt did he were the years when "We have disagreed with neatit
not have-rags. They had the British began to depart. all of its political riots. And the When Faruk's Court brought
- galoly, "extedvkganco, and high British were there as usual gambling to people to riot against..
When parans ruled And young Nesor joined and through corrup the screaming samobs and style, and mov
fought
poiled, He
bude vara, and
THE NEW REBEL
5.30
on the
scat
of
I SYMPATHISE WITH..
4 HEAR THAT..
MRS
mag
Coy
WES
town, black cats, cats, cats, cats.
Wain was ambidextrous but War II. He was 70 usually drew with his left hand. But even when his own and in full production worked trugic
life was ended disaster.
'behind
cate, torto bofore the outbreak of Work
Buckminster his drawings brought great joy hired upon hundreds of
RS Vera Calderoll, Italian
cook at an international A TOURIST said to a polleet extraordinary meed,
the works he had left In Trafalgar Square out something the 600 pursued the cookery demonstration at King's
"I'm an American, Could you growing Lynn, Norfolk, V...
your. drawings a
But, though direkt meto
drawings were stored in She Was ladling rome Castle?"
to people of all ages, the arust Raphael Tucic's Moorfields pre himself became after his miste when liey were shottered abaglione, that delicious dessert, into a dish for the Queen Mother The policeman": ·ZAVO him: barenyairierit. a solemni, and by bombing in 1040 Out of to sample when the dish slipped. directions-
Buckingham | melanonply man, dan
that huge collection only two The yellow, froth splattered the Palace, & Westminster" Abiky,||For in,while he lived alono originals; remainde cook's trock
and Windsor Castle,
and then went to stay with his
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