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OVERSEA SERVANTS

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1956.

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By Sir Hilary Blood

A distinguishod administrator who has hold many important posts in Commonwealth territories GOVERNMENT prospects in those territortes employment White Paper recently which were heading rapidly to to the wards Independence. In the re- servant. published in London on the Overseas Civil Service unified functional cervices contains a proposal as in teresting as, in the light of recent political changes in the non-self-government ter ritories of the Common- wealth. It is inevitable. The Service is to Include cadres

to a een servant, place in 1934 [VC traded servicc--"Her Majesty's Oversen Civil Service,

We now have the results of a prolonged

without detriment oncoming local civt!

Finally, for the oversea civil

there is now

third choice, As at present, he can stay on in the territory on exist- ing conditions of service, or take "aboltiton examination of the problem in the form of a two- fold development of the Over Ma Civil Servic, rig rist on all In the first sien as cessential. pilar. the Unitect

Kingdom of interchangeable officers, w.k repoust uitably งบลง- $318 Wh will be backed by United Kingdom te funds. Thus a project, long and widely advocatel, is at last accepted, at least in part, by the United King- dom Government

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expertise has not kept pace with years ago a country of the

political development; nor have the dominance of qually and) employ them

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On July 10 Mr Foster Dulles,

of Secretary the Amertenn S&C. told

the Egyptian Ambassador in Washington that the United States had decided to withdraw its offer of dollars

for the Aswan Dam,

of Russian in- HE poor boy from the pilgrimage should change, were

20 scaredi The Kauba should fluener that it offered the provincial vil. Going to

of

never be a passport to heaven money self". Inge

Upper

a lengthy life, after

Neither Egypt-Gamal Ab- should it be a simple effort to

He had It was worth trying.

Surely Allah was del Nasser, now 38-stands buy indulgences after an event- eumes far.

ful life at the height of his power.

The pilgrimage should with him?

And the trick It was tried. #great political Power."

ofT. Eighty million So young, yet the lender

came of what

until a few

does not only want to dollars from the United States. pounds make Exypt great. He wants Twenty-five million under

to make. Egypt the centre of a from Britain And in February Great great world Power-the Power this

Nasser agreed year accept a loan of £200 million

from the World Bank u in his fury, to help build the dun. FOR NASSER it was almost too good

Was

of Islam.

But his desires, his ambitions

are limitless For he is riding (Ft) the crest of u wave

followed World War I brought affs of large industrial, com-revolution that is sweeping the

reial or similar undertakings. Arub World grent r became the presure to citvteusly the most convenient To employ total (on- und the most effleunt source of AS A DEVOUT Moslem he didates in 1) by rehes of the supply is the existing

the pilgrimage to Brisb de İmministrative | Meera As he stood in front of

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His agents have been intrigue sent

throughout

the Arab

kingdoms and republics

of the Middle East.

As a boy he dream-

ed of the past

of the days when the Islam armles WETE storming the Pyrenees

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Because there is a streak of ralism in him he scarcely dared dream of again until last year

But when last autumn Russia gave him arms and the West came and sat at his doors in dlmay, he began to think all his dreams could be realised,

would play He

the against the West.

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But

his

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Britain followed suit,

Nasser could not understand what had happened,

But

when he did, he lashed

He thought of those offers by Shepilov.

But the Russian offers were kept vague.

when

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\(BUT SHE'S IN NO HURRY FOR THE BIG TIME)

So The

Nasser decided to crowds Cairo and Alexandria nailonalise the Suez Canal, screained incir adult-

It was a gesturo of age. Not tion.

rational, but made in the mood with the West made of a child who writes on a woll it has been sent to its the him intrigue all more to undermine the West throughout the Arab countries. Feverishly he tried to break the Baghdad Pact, helped by the King of Saudi-Arabia and the American

from his oilfields.

dollars

And yet, when M. Pineau called on him to discus Egypt's Fast training of Arabs for the revolt in Algeria, Nusser gave his word of honour us an officer that such things should cease.

And then In June Mr

Shepilov, the new Soviet THEY SAY the idea came to Foreign Minister. arrived in hitn оло night *s he was Cairo. He smiled and loughed travelling between Alexandria as Nesser told him of his and Cairo.

dreams of a united Arabia, He promised him aid....not de- He arch bls friends hed finite aid, but aid in a vagus, dreaunch for years of finding brood way. enough money

build the

Since that day, July 26, he has been living in a state of an emotional hangover.

Egypt, the Middle East, the whole works watches the renc- tion of Britain, France, and the United States. But especially that of Briluin.

WINNER

IF NASSER pulls this coup off....he will be acclaimed throughout Arabla.

Nowadays Miss Cilento wasid

do credit to any mannequia,

by THOMAS WISEMAN

Tis 1 am, and 1 am dancing at a club off Park

with Lane Diane Cilento, that who can startling blonde best be described us all- electric and uninsulated.

*stops The band

playing "Laillaby of Broadway" and we rejon Miss Cilento's husband, Andre Volpe, at our table.

He is a handsome young man with formidable amount of

charm

without who ation warning married Miss Cilento a year ago.

a

For nine months he has not was np-

se her whilst she pearing on Broadway as "Helen of Troy." Now he works in the publicity department of London

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melo- Cilento in dramatic gown that is white and studded with diamante. A Cilento who no longer looks as though she has just Films.

Miss Cliento is with the sarna Existen- emerged from an

Arm.

She says: "When Korda tialist cellar. But a Cilento ajad, they sold their stars to

is still generating Rank. who almost as much electricity me.

But they couldn't sel There is some clause in

as Battersea Power Station-my contract which says-that I om not for sale. So I still Also that work for London Films.

Intimates

in

She comatose voice of hers that the I still only get £40 a week," 18 all stiff from ballet lessons. But she wants to keep dancing.

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"I have so much energy," she

breathes throatly as if through

The ballet lessons, I learn,

ed

On the open market she fa a chloroform mask, "I have to now worth nearer £400 a week,

some of it by but Miss Cilento is not interest get rid of

in being 藕 salable dancing.".

commodity.

In Americo every Hollywood company offered her I CO

Sho says: tract.

"I had lovely time one afternoon in New York going round all the She is to appear in the stage offices from MGM to Fox and musical version of Sir Max 30 Beerbohm's "Zulelka Dobson,"

serve another purpose in addi. tion to using up some of Miss Cilento's surplus energy.

down,"

and turning them all

In which she will sing and Nine months on Broadway. dance. She plays Zuleiki, who during which time she collected is so beatiful that all the under- a tkdy pile of awards, nomine- graduates at Oxford commit tions and superlatives-hove suicide for love of her.

changed Miss Cilento.

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If Nassor pulls this off.... Britain will not have a friend left in the Middle East. But whatever happens Shepilov will still smile and speak softly and wurmly in that husky voice of his,

It is a feasible situation with For Russia stands to win Miss Cilento in the t

role, either way

Nasser But suicide seems la un will be a Nasser necessarily replace pounds triumphant

wasteful at subservient to Moscow.

Aswan Dam It would make It was delivered in so charm- the desert bloom It would ing, so friendly, av broad a way. bring immediate work to thou-

But the Impresson was left that Bands

roubles might and dollars,

But it would cosi nearly £500 million.

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A Nasser defeated by Britain coping with the situatio And before Shepilov left he will mean a Middle East wide No such disile step has been øsked Nasser to pay

state open D

to a paign

The glint visit to Russia in August,

.."You are only colonies of the West." AND THEN the bubble burst. No wonder Shepilov smiled West The mirage faded....

in Cairo.

Suppose it were stated some- where, sey in Washington, that Russia might be prepared to help finance the building of the dam? And suppose the

No longer docs she forget or arrive hours appointments late.

have learned to be punctual," she says.

*No longer does, she appear in

hart

restaurants in a state of

felicious dishefelment, which kod le cllcit rebuking memos om her boss, Sir Alexander

'MIN Climito

in

propaganda cam talpdns anyone hat would do credit to

Les Ambassadeurs,

In men's eyes as she undulates around the dance floor is hot gay mahagun. Her nalia are

Incquered. Her face is made exactly suicidat.

tp. Her hairstyle in sophisti dited rather Ahan accidental,

No longer is, she - impatient

big

is time fame "It will came when u comes," she says, "I do not want it cogger, I di mot want the phone

JAMES COOPER_REPORTING THE U.S.A.

SHIRTMAKERS FIGHT JAP GOODS

act.

brokcs the was evidently a little "fired... designed eo 'protect New York, Times,

New York into New York, Mr Avery F. before 7 a.m. and MERICAN shirtmakers McElrath found he was without by-law

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want to be good,HES Materially, too, different now.

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Soon she will bid a final

today launched an all his wallet and his season ticket, sleepers from the clatter of the REPORT NO. *Z: Standing goodbye to. Kensington Tand-*-

bottles.

out campaign to get Did he worry? No, he step

erect as always with ladies (with most of whom she the Government to restrict ped off at the bank, joined the NEW YORK'S Committee for good colour in his face als seems to have lodged at one line already at the cashier's Na Quiet City is experiment haada relaxed and thous time or another) and the import of Japanese window, cashed a cheque and ing with plastic dustbins after tremer, and the valec resonant he has taken a smart 12- goods.

still managed to catch the next a survey showed that the clang and vigorous New York Daily week) place in Bayswater Road which she is now in the They called for help from train six minutes later. .: of metal ones is the noise that Nowa......

process of furnishing, irka New Yorkere most. the heads of all textile Mr McElrath was taking

Har motor scooter is no longer PHOTOGRAPHS, paintings, associations and unions in advantage of the revolution that SURVEY shows that 75 out statuettes, and books Im her only means of transport, forcing the Government to is making "bankery hours" a A of every hundred girls ported from Europe and the She has a fast spo

ast sports car and is thing of the past in the US.. applying for secretarial work in Orient for Dr. Alfred Kinsey's about to acquire an even 1

faster

If the office is air-conditioned." New York will take a job only Institute of Sex Research Love Alfa Romeo:

been seized by US. Customs, į. "But we can't got an Officials are suing to establish Insurance she says, because OIL WELL owners in Texas that the collection L obecere I am an actres and Andre is

and Louisiana are jubilant and must be destroycel

Dr no Italian

which is a double over Nasser's Suez grab,

saya that it la ocholarly risk Insurance companies wer

not prepared to take; And how does Me {Slezak] about his

an hour" he

he raldi ser

min "The First: Gentlérnah! TAILPIECE: In the cotton the hours of the customer, not profits Now they do their when the London dccces growing States of Alabama and the bankers," "buy work being done for the

dons for them, brought to- New York,/And South Carolina, stores handling LRMAN Robert Thompson DEPORT NO. 1 on President in Japanese goods must post signs, Mwas fined one dollar,

Japanese, goods sold here.'!

Michael Lovell, director: of' the shirimakers association, sadd that Japan sent only 0,000 dozen shirts to the US, in 1983. In

In Nassau County, the Long Island dormitory 20 out of 33, banka open before 8 am and 81 have everding' hours. the Arg

six months of this your trade she sent da4,000 'dozen,

Japanese workers carning 14- Says conta (11d) an hour had thrown president of the Bank of Rock- have been clamouring for a out of work some 10,000 Amelville Centre: "Banks over here Government clampdown on have found that If they want to Middle East of Imports, boonuse

cost william Kniffin, vico For months-UB. producers ACH HRH CANADA

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