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SOMALILAND

A SECRET

FEAR

HAUNTS NASSER

~8 Gamol Abdel Nasser, staggered by the free world's reaction to his Suez grab, anxious for a compromise in the dispute he has stirred up?

Certainly, the signs are pointing that way.

For now Egypt's dictator the talks soft, Gone fighting speeches. Gone are the bluster and the brag- gadocio.

He lays on a Press conference in Cairo. And appears so com- pletely out of character that few of his audience, fall to comment on it.

No longer do they BCC + rabble-rousing champion Egypt's "rights." But instead? A hesitant, subdued, bewildered

man.

Brush-off

AND consider Nasser's reaction

when he learns that Egypt's rotorious Britain-hater-Salah Salem-has packed his bags to attend the London talks.

Immediately he repudiates the Dancing Major. He will have And rothing to do with him. when Salem seeks to hold conference in the Egyptian Em- bassy in London the ambassador --clearly acting under Instruc- Tons--refuses him permission.

Having given the brush-off to Salah Salem, Nasser makes an- other surprise move.

CANAL AND ITS NEIGHBOURS

SEFTON DELMER gives a 10-point commentary on Britain's friends and foes

years to pay for armaments water as the present British- Sudan than Nasser is willing to

Czechoslovakia and built Aswan damn. from

Nasser's Egypt Population as 23,740.- The Soviet Union. 000. of whom The new Aswan dam, to 16,618,000 are illiterate,

Anance which Nasser seized

Canal Company, is cotton, the Suez Chief export of which 80 percent is will take 10 years to build,

Iron pledgeil to

Curtain cost at least £400 million, countries for the next eight and hold 20 times as much

THE

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concede,

SUDAN, Nasser failed

in his al- (3 tempt to buy contro

Sudan's Parliament

of

at Khartoum and therewith the control of Sudanese Nile waters

Sudan wants a larger share of Nile waters for irrigating the

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THESE BRUTE FACTS ARE MAKING EGYPT'S DICTATOR SOFT-PEDAL

He orders his closest political 1 The Western Powers draw- Arst available Viscount to Lon- plies by a route he is powerless advisor, All Sabry, to take the

ing more of their oll sup-

to close-round the Cape.

don-not, of course, to join the conference, but to lobby the delegates.

2 More pipelines being built from the Middle East all-

10 suggest that fields direct

the Mediter

All these signs Nasser is experiencing a cold trickle of second thoughts about the Canal grab.

Clearly he is a desperately worried mun. And if you put yourself in his position you can see why.

For now he fears he has Britain's groszy overestimated long-term dependence Canal.

Crumbling

on

ranean,

phy

3 Europe supplementing

temporary fall-off in all by returning to its traditional source of supply-the Caribbean,

And, of course, Nasser is right to be frightened,

Britain and the other big

his European oil-consuming coun- tries would never sit idly by and see their life-blood risked In a Nasser-controlled waterway.

S that sinks into his troubled brain he sees all his hopes, all his plans and calculations beginning to crumble,

He told howling, hysterical mob on nationalisation day that £35,000,000 Egypt would draw

of the a year from ownership Canal On that basis enough money would flow into the kitty to build the Aswan High Dum

over the Nile in 10 years.

from the almost

They would turn first to the For the mammoth bist ships. tunters of 45,000 tons and up- wards can bring oil Persian Gulf to Britain as cheaply round the Cape through the Suez Canal.

They have a cr?w of about 60-mly a handful more than tankers half their size.

of Hemy, J. Kaiser during the war.

D

That production wizard mass- produced one freighter a week for the Allies and though super-tanker is a vastly differ- ent proposition from a Liberty

It gives ship

a la to what American engineering gemitta can do when it is pressed.

There is another source from which aid could come. A koy

nire shipowner, Aristotle Onassis. gure in the super-tanker busi- ness is the Greek-born milion-

His fleet of more than 100 ships includes several of the the world. biggest tankers in And he hus u 100,000-tonner anıd another of 46,000

tona building in the U.S. Plus a. 08,000-ton tanker in Germany.

Since the Saudi Arabian con- troversy two years ago British

oil companies have largely boy- colted Onassis.

But now I can report he has been having hush-hush talks with the Government controlled British Petroleum Company. And there no doubt that his big ships would be made available to us in an emergency.

Pipelines

WHAT about 118

W Plans are

the

pipelines? already bluem printed to increase the capacity of the "spagheti" which carries Arabian oil to the Mediterran-

Con

They have to steam an addi- And what about alternative Donal 4,800 miles. Involving sources of oil while the shipping more fuel und extra wages for and pipeline plans were being Nasser overflated the earn- the crew. But this is offset by put into operation? ings of the Canal more than having no Suez dues to pay and of this three times, But the fontastic the fact that tankers figure he quoted gives the clue size cannot go through the Canal to the problem which now as fully laden. sails him.

un

If he refuses to accept the Western proposals (or international board to manage the Conal he must KOL every possible penny out of it in the next 10 years,

Far al the end of that time his "big ditch" could be out of

QATAR, with 25,000 in 7 habitants and £13.

000,000-a-year LIBYA. Brilan has

venue, has the highest 7,000 troops of the 10th per capita income in the world, Armoured Division As in neighbouring Bahrein (o date. stationed here. To build revenue £4,000,000 a year for

It might be a backwater up this division-as we wish to 120,000 pop.) and Kuwait ( £100

far as the transport of oll require the per- million a year for

200,000)~ mission of the aged King Idris both British - protected and which now produces two-thirds under the treaty which runs British-advised like Qatar oil of is revemic-is concerned.

Income is spent on public works, hospitals, schools, and

health.

die now-we

1973.

LEBANON,

Its Gover- public ment threatens to follow Nuster's example and

and

SAUDI ARABIA.

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Gloomy

King OF

course Britain and France have not the slightest

Saud, Nasser's No. 1 alty and Anancial backer tention of losing the use of the (capital Riyadh), spende Cortal. his £135-million-a-year oll re- venue on ostentation, pleasure,

nationalse pipelines (8) passing through Lebanon unless the U.S.-owned

and Aramco Internationally owned British-run Iraq Petroleum Company agree to meet Lebanon's extortionate new royalty clairns.

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JORDAN'S army,

TOW

The money

many of these super- tankers are available?

At present not more than 10. But 30 are nearing completion in the world's shipyards or are on order.

Could

be more

provided quickly? Certainly they could.

10 be

There is plenty of oil had in Venezuela. And the U.S. Itself is producing below capa- cily. Many wells are copped in.

Already The American ofl Middle Industry bas set up a

committee East emergency

to pool resources and 90 ensure that Europe would not go short If there were any interruption in the flow of oil from the Middle

East,

What does it all boll down to --for Nasser and for us?

On the short view the Canal is absolutely vital to US for Have no doubt the Americans strategic as well as commercial would go ahead with u "crash reasons. programme" lo build super- lanicers faster than they have ever been built before.

But as the years go by the commercial value of the could steadily decline,

of

Canal

alter-

LOT

Money to build the necessary

The development in- tonnage, estimated to cost about

£300 million, would be made natives to it would clearly cost us a great deal of money. But it available by the World Bank.

would be far more costly On a "war production" baals Nasser. It is estimated that the tanker fleet could be buik in two years. We could Bland the strain. Nasser could nol. That is why If you think that optimistic, you see a frightened dictator in recall the fantastic achievement Cairo today.

But even if Nasser cherished and the subversion of his neigh the faintest hope that they will bours.

not insist by every means ơn

this

remains

to

Moln targets are

Irag and their right to stay there, Jordan, with whose Hashemite gloomy prospect rulers King Saud has a long- shatter his confidence:-

to standing family foud,

which British officers King Saud's ambition is to 1 are attached 19 in bring the whole Arabian penin- structors under the new sulu under his sway

Το

agreement, numbers 25,000. It achieve this he must get rid of

13 the best-trained and best disciplined Arab army.

King Hussein has refused to exchange his £13,000,000-a- year subsidy from Britain for Une from Egypt and Saudt Arabin, He does not wish to come under control of Nasstr.

the British so that they cannot defend their Arab ajties,

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THE CANAL (hifer). Nasser 8017 120,000 Egyptians died digging

In fact, not more than 600 persons died In the whole six years of construction. The gure 120,000 is presum- ably drawn from the Greek IRAQ allied to Britain, historian Herodotus, who lived Turkey, Pakistan, and in 484-424 B.C. Herodotus re- Persta

In the Bagdad ports that 120,000 persons died Pactis spending 2303 while trying to big a canal here million over the next four years in 600 B.C.

out of its £80,000,000-a-year oll revenue on a vast development programme.

Dams, power stations, roads, Irrigation ochemes are bringing new fertility to Iraq's land, new prosperity to 0.350,000 inhabitants.

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POUTING PANTHER?

NOT MISS COLLINS

By Logan Gourlay

London to direct the film, but he walked OAN COLLINS looked out before starting.)

"I hope to get mesried again. But next time it must be right. Perfect. Is the perfect marriage, the possible?"

at me half-earnestly "Yos, i suppose It'

said: "I don't toughest acting job. I've bed v and

PERSIA, a Bagdad Pact think I look like a pouting far. 10) ally, is vitally interested panther, do you? Or a torrid

in keeping the Conal baggage?" open Her oil exports

She was talking of the much reduced as a result of the ill-fated nationalisation of labels

which have been

the Anglo-Iranian O Company stuck on her during her

from Abadan its

reach Europe

(pinpointed) through the Canal, short see-sawing career in

the film world.

CHEAPER BEER

-BY A-POWER

́ ́By CHAPMAN' PINCHER

now

" said No, I didn't think afte looked like a pouting panther or ' torrid baggage. Nothing quite so lethal and dangerous, More kitlanishi and playful.

"I don't think so. Have you anyone in mind as a perfect partner?"

Locv

"Most of the time

I We3T

"No," nothing but a sort of shift. It

"What about Arthur doesn't show any of my figure. junk?" (Sc of a movie magnate, She contemplated her he has been her constant cacort leavage, and ward cu—

"I don't wear any make-up either.

"Imagine what I book tice." I said I'd try.

In America.)

'NOT IN LOVE

"I'm vary fond of Arthur, but I'm not in love with him.

"I don't like going out with a series of men. You have

Too exhausting.

"Don't thinde," she added, "I'm not enjoying the part. It's de kind of challenge I needed, reries of fights in the taxi I've really bera werking

I

Sinca fioliywood 12ok her at it."

over, of coUTSTM, two years and three Aims ago, she in slrck, well groomed, red not (as be- fore she left home) carefully unkempt...

NO CUESSES

off-screen Stro and

with

hard the way now go out Was it true, I asked, that che de Chaplin, any more. Just

the

Arthur..

Very sweet.. Ho had even read boots on lives of the saints and obeyed ave me this mink stole..

"But I bought my own mink "Get thee Hamlet's command

·COTAL

And the beaver. And the to a nunnery.".

other mink stole. The cont coo about £3.000

"Well, I didn't live in a nun- reny. Anywer they probably wouldn't have had me. To not & Catholic.

SWEET, HELPFUL

-

"Did you buy that rhag your- self?"

mo, "No, Arthur gave it to

Sapphires

And there earnings and dicercado.”

"What about that braccial?” "Eldacy gave me that. Topaz."" "What's your salmry now??? "I don't like... talking abous sound like you salary, Makes Diana Does

A "Your was reported recently. er £150 a WUNG DYNA

"Well, it's more, now. It's. $1,750

agwenk, : . What's that in

HE giant atomic power income, which could cut the THE

stations

being price of beer.

It must also be recorded that designed in Britain may "It might be worthwhile to alter nearly 10 works playing produce an unexpected put in equipment to liquefy the the part of a mun in her latest

film

"Stawife," the bonus, scientists forecast as if the price offered by the

demurely this week. It is: CHEAPER power stations is high enough, Ms Collins is unaffected.

said a spokesman for the bre does not book

"But I've met and talked to a BEER.

gewery industry, jak

chastely nun-like.

arrived to meet me wear lot of nuns. They've been very

binck sweet and helpful, The power stations will

a figure caressin Work on the design of the flies k

iink stole. Not cold and remote, need huge quantities of commercial power station, to use gown and, silver carbon dioxide gas to cool the gas is for advanced at the She had chosen to meet in the thought they might be.

Charidge's of

Hotel

"I told them I'd been divorced, Electric General

Company's lounAZAS the uranium fuel.

laboratorice at Erith, Kent, where the atmosphere is oer but they didn't alan mo."

.. Intruciolatored and hushed,

She said sho, would like an pounds?" And carbon dioxide is the which were opened for inspec but not drugal or spiritual. The other vodka and teale and took

tion this week: stuff which puts the froth 4. Am : ingeniou

electronic string quartet in the commes up the subjec of her ex- you asying on beer and gives it its "bralty which forecasts exactly played sedate muste but not 'In busted, the beefy Maxwell Alto. I'm going to buy

La Monastery Garden,"

Reed

myself some diamonds, In 23 now.Iva sparkle. It is produced in what will happens if anything in Ansive sipped a vodks and

worked acone 'don't feel embittered

him. Though I warn't hard. I think 'e about time “ huge amounts et breweries, spek wrong in the atom"powienie (st the moment Holly jumpin2 with joy about the treated, myself, toʻj, dilemondaj

plant, so that mately

wood's favourite drink because, as a by-product which

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"down"; shy If the brewers could sell urbium will compete with codi show playing aroun

to podialectricity that ferler war pay him $5,000. That's a lot of sur it to the power stations spending 2500,000) they would have an extra mour work

esponding it. I. qUONG

me for the part.” - (He was due

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