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"Gad, sir, we can't

negotiate with that feller! He's on the other side?"

BLIMP IN CYPRUS

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1956.

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I'VE BEEN ON SAFARI

AFARI

than

It's the remark, dropped carelessly in the holiday season, that carries the mark of undisputed social distinction. But if you are spending your holidays at home and want to know exactly what it is that you are missing, read on for a candid account of the

1

is

Through African bush

it

BALLYHOO ABOUT

Geoffrey

THE BUSH

By ROBERT GLENTON

Aro

D'Aosta. Sir asparagus, lobster, salmon, hout if they haven't walked bob up and down on the sky-

de chicken soup, cervals, hum- a mile for years and

Tine. Sooner or later one must catch up with a wild Havilland, bugs and honey, cashew the worst shots in the The Hunter stands by corn. brown work. Eventua'y they get Lave his customer

Negley

Far- nuts, Kweel

animal.

..ready

from the

son, and the boot polish. and alt the their bag...and we haven't indignant beast. Duke of drink you have asked for. lost a client yet."

Then come the photographs. Safari folk ne

shockers for Women who fre bad this. Rifle in hand and foot on shots are better than men, the carcase,

Grafton. Not Lo mention

The refrigerator is

An

Nairobi the growing army of rich extra at £15 a mouth.

more Americans led by Mr Rettig. Already The gun bencers, cautions of the Save-a-Nickel Store, skinnera, drivers, cooks, and

the Denver, Colorado.

house boys have been But even

rounded up. a safar is not what it was. There is

of a mud village haggling more squatting in the slust

with mirrors and strings of beads for native bearers.

Sun helmets Sonies people dont's dress for dinner.

is much more than a holi- ก.น. It is The attainment of one of the topmost rungs og The social hudder.

I have traz ! il 1 have followed the Trail of AW Khan, the Duchess Helene

I ask why these

M.P.s help Britain's

enemy

N Cairo Coel Gamed

he

Naser steps out of hi. Revolu tionary Council headquarters with a jaunty smile. The West,"

his fellow-officers gaily, Bluffing. They will never use force."

And off he goes to the pictures What are we to make of his apparent high spirits this weekend?

Well of or one, it would be absurd to judge das mummy on ps face value Nasser's Jauntiness font bele shaan He whistlu song the shurlowe Nobarly realizes, more clearly that he fee that the Suez crisis becomes suddenly and rott, mely sharper.

But if Nasser genuinely feels even the least par che sf Edth that the West may not man br:༢༤༤.

Tuess what could account Ep 11"

So far what has stood stubbornly between bug and an easy, gillering diplomatle triumph has been the manifest determination of Brital

to defend ner stake in Suez-if necessary even by force of arms.

Centebe, Then that ther

is some aspect uf The British politicul sevme from which he 14 now throwing comfort arch encouragement?

Unhappily, there is,

What enheartens him is the stendy propaganda of a bunch of British Socialist politiciares who le

psple have gone soft at the

Testing time.

INDICTMENT

Summerski, Silverman

1wo of the British Nasserites

by DOUGLAS CLARK

towards

caf these Naese

.s nad

Prime Minister's policy and

reputation.

What have

Mr Orbachi and Mr Samuel int Commu besicles A softness towards

expect it becaust, Nusser?

Mr for

All these men subscribe to the Jewish faith. All call themselves Zionists.

One would of course, The Soenbest Fu They have the same thing Left finds it hard to believe that In common

three other They are

ready enough to Britain can ever be in the right. Nosserites - Mr SYDNEY altack South Afrien when that One would expect it because of SILVERMAN, M.P. for

Netson country turns Fascist and

the line the Soviet Union rigo

is and Colne; Mr IAN MIKARDO, its electoral system. Bul they taking in the Suez crisis. One M.P. for Reading: and necept Nasser, who behaves In would expect it because when FRANK ALLAUN, M.P. W WHO are they, these British precisely the same way. That Mr Shepilov turns, They are Salford East,

Nusseriles? Who are these sna

showe a queer discrimination always cheerfully predisposer to folk who huyo rushed in against the while race, doesn't roll over too. aloriously to Nasser's aid?

THEY ARE

Is it therefore not fantastic M.Ps who have been hollering about the British Nasserites is wingers on the Nasserie team that they should be supporting | against the Eden polley In the their composition.

who in this case might at least Nasser? A more re- correspondence columns of

our markable assortment of politi- have been expected to maintain

Is it to be wondered at newspapers.

elans

never huddler together a decent neutrality on the side- tens of thousands of loyal THEY

lines. ARE the Socialist under a single umbrella.

British Jews are bewildered and backbenchers who have issued a Just look at them.

Their presence in this gallery docked by the part this

Little statement declaring that

completely astonishing.

handful of their fellow-Jews Look, for example, Mr are playing in the crisis? MAURICE ORBACH, M.P. for

by

the

Socialist

act

the

But what

still

stranger

THE BUTTRESS

But

there

are

five

Left-

all

YRST. there is. Dr EDITH Willesden East. He tells a Cax- INGLORIOUS

Internationalisation of the Canal

force would be an oggression.

THEY ARE

SUMMERSKILL,

She is a ton Ifall meeting convened by

of the the Suez Emergency Committee THEIR 2001 in that cause is

in

thoroughly understandable. But now they are opposed to

the frightened tall, blunk buttress little Socialist politicos who have Socialist Party's Right Wing that when he saw Nasser

"Sucz organised a

Emergency What does she have to say about Cairo last year he

established Committee and whose simple Sucz?

of giving Britain a gunrantea revipe for dealing with that

with him a rointionship She writes to The Times to friendship and sincerity." And against Egypt. Israel, It seems emergency is to invite the Bri- condemn "the stirring up of he adds: "Nasser was my brother Nasser-but Britain should not

tish people to run like rabbits.

Have these people any serious Importance? Does their prop aganda really amount to any

thing?

The harm they are inflicting on the crucial interests of Britain should on no account be under estimabod.

MISLEADING

Jingoist sentiments" and "inter and I was his." national inwiessness." To what

is she alluding? To Nasser's specchien? To his tearing up of

the 1888 Suez agreement?

TWO WAYS

should be protected against

be.

But, of course, this is not, thợ mein burden of the case against

thers.

The primary indictment that”

must

face is that they is not know just what will follow if

to the prospect that Britain in SAMUEL HO

Certainly not. She is referring THEN consider Mr HOWARD they

the last resort would fight to member of Parliament. But he Nasser's bid to gain control protect her long-established is a director of the Left-wing the Canal succeeds. Canal rights.

Then there are two

mort

periodical Tribune which pleads -

of

He will dominate the Right-wing Socialists who spring No one week by week, Middle East. Hig pride and since he does not resign power will swell immeasurably.

It is even more damaging than to Nasser's side. They are Mr from the board he may be is ambition will burst through

the hostility of Mr

Nehru. DOUGLAS JAY and Mr DENTS

For they are the enemy within HEALEY

views.

Mr Healey is an odd fellow.

a

to share that paper's all restraints. And there is no the dates. They are the Trojan

doubt at all what his over- Horse Inside the walls, spread He is one of the Socialist Party's shor. He lately bought up the

Mr Sarpuct is Also pub whelming purpose will then bo ing alarm and the spirit of morts eloquent champions of firm of Mection

He makes no eceret of It. Ho defentiam,

and! Koc, German rearmament. But while which has now commissioned

hing told the world And while that is bad enough, he is all for aming Germany, Randolph Churchill to write a Zionists have in the past pressed

Somo

these the danger they creato abroad 11 15 would appear that in the Life of Sir"Anthony Ed Mcernibent to guarentoo the futuro. far far worse for their walling present crisis he wants to dia- So on the peso

eloqueníky, for the Brush Gov- mby" mislead Never into an arm Britain. uttarly erroneous asscemment di

to roll of Israel. Against whom would As one would torpect, how money-spinning Britain's will-power, sind pure ever,

biography of such guarantee belrected? the majority of these the Prime Minister poed-and-perkande him to press British Nassarios belong to the production line, And on the hi gemble to the point of fatal Socinilet Party extreme Lott other he subscribe to Tribune's oF THE STATE OF ISRAELA recklessness.

Samuel

off the Against Cypt.

UNTER DESTRUCTION

All you need is a book--a thick one

comes

#

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NOT A HOOT

they use up more

Every mah thinks he filin than communition. knows now to handle a gun.

This is about the time that wife usually falls in love

I is part of his masculine the pride. So he takes a lot of with the Big White Hunter. Ho Teaching.

Women have no contrast to

is such a remarkably handsome her husband, who shume in their ignorance. has poor, tired feet und

Some face.

Husband usually couldn't card kas. He is too busy looking for

TACT & MARTINI

The

the calomine.

liconce costs game £50. The list of animale THE HUNTER takes you you can massacre is impres-

One off to be measured for your sive.

buffalo, in- out. khaki bush jacket and numerable deer, two hippos, even slacks. Gay Mediterranean three warthogs, three zebra. shirts and dresses make him Elephants cost £75 extra, cheque flee.

wince and the fierce lion but you might get your well with

money back in ivory.

+

Mure formal clothes are for the evening packed martini round the camp fire.

WAITING

First

21-hour luxury flight to Nairobi tea in Rome. , supper 11 Cairo. a cool drink under

IN THE BLEAK early the stars at Khartoumi. And

your All The Time the Bunter morning

shooting just after breakfast your is sizing you up.

brake is waiting. Big White Hunter i8 waiting for you at Airport,

Nairobi

FLY-PROOF

HE HAS

as

Behind you the red dust He is not really worried.

bolla He is used

travel the easily-tired

you business

who

African roads. The safari is have spent fortunes at home in on.

Ist

men

THE HUNTER extricates him- tact and the whole thing is solved over one morW traini

In 30 days it is time to leave Afties.complete with skins and trophies...the far-away lock of a traveller in wide open peces and the bland assurance Joland the

of having elect

Foclatite

Only the balance sheet is teft. A 30-y sufuri fer husband and wife costs £1,260

Tips work out vt £20 Hotels are extra. So are re- Jins Se are the cameras.

where the Hunter's growl is so

a

unsuccessful efforts to in- First night in camp in Oh. The prestig of sofari, jure # grouse, He is rather like being a sophle- much worse than the lion's bite bluse about Woinet who ticated Boy Scout, with the and the stars look down on toe- ALREADY shriek at spiders. He has added attraction of a black- frosid drinks. been to work watching a taken septuagenarians on faced servant fussing like a But for peril! That handful lorry being laden with safari, men who have to be mother. He calla you, of mushrooms gathered from your fly-proof dining tent, almost within stroking

feld

containing what looks the sleeping tent

very Heming- with distance of an elephant be-

almtningly like a bull.. that bathroom and verandah at fore they cuti

wriggling lobster gingerly pluck- Ree it-let

ed from a pot...that first wrong- tached, mosquito nets, alone hit it

Safari-ing itself is a mutter side-of-the-road motor-drive medicine chests, radio, My Hunter Bill Ryan told of the hunter finding the animal through Franco... THERE'S

and muttering to himself as the bacon, me: "It doesn't matter

more danger for you. & posteriors of his crawling clients

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