1956-10-03 — Page 4

Could we switch off the Nile?

A HINT FROM LENNOX-BOYD POSES

A HOT QUESTION

T

HE big question Today

the is The White Nile

EGYPT

SUDAN

LOWEN TALES

THE CHINA MAIL;" / WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1956.

RUSSIA TACKLES TEDDY BOY PROBLEM

ETHIOPIA

KENYA

How did Egypt get a ray in

is this: Fan Britain principal source of the flow, the project anyway? awilch off the Nile But for four months, from And thus deprive Nasser of July

he

to October, the Nile is in flood.

Blue

The Lake

When the Uganda Electricity Board was furned in 1948 hat the Nile and distribule <lectricity throughout the Pro- teckrate. Egypt became

10

In-

terested at once.

the life-giving Water

food for hus neels to grow 19,000,000 people?

The hint that The COULD be done came from the Colonial Secretary, Mr Alan Lemox-Boyd, in broadcast.

He said:

il

The White

Nile rises in 'gunda British protected territory We have an agreement with which their Egypt under

engineers, stationed at dam, vai,

いよ

within CITRIN

volume limits, decide the

water which

Egypt through our Falls,

Teacher

Should we turn White Nile tap at Victorin during those four Tulks were held in Cairo, and the dam months, Nasser would still at was agreed that Fet enough water.

tho But for the rest of

Nike flow year the White from Lake Victorin is essen- tial if Egypt's farms are in

by JOHN ATKINSON

Then go on producing the fluffy while rolton which Nasser

"What would happen to

interests Egypt's vital

to tear

11

Trow

We Were

this

npretent grounds that it infringed our sovereignty ***

Source of flow

is now trading to the Iron Curtain lands for guns.

should be built about one metre (30. 3.37 higher than neces- power hydro-electric valy for

aloise

This exum 31. assured Egypt of all the water she was likely the 10 need,

Of course. Egyptian Government was only too plewar to pay for the extra work.

Now water is run ing naugh the lumbines and stułce gules it the rate of 1,3000,000

Question

ations a

E dam is the only source of

To watch over that flow, THE power to develop Uganda's

euring.

sugar

1111 the the Egyptian engineers main industries--cotton, ginning. milling. have beest sitting at Jinja entre for the past five yours while cigarettes, and cement, the water runs from Lake Victoria and pours through The £22,000,000 Owen Falis dan, opened by the Queen

IN other worde: what would in 1954

Jug

Britam de-

cided to treat Naver in the

WHY West?

If The Nite were "switched off

only at The Owen Falls not

Egypt suffer. Uganda wonki would have ne ekeir power,

Is

So the Big Question seems to Britain beut clown to Uels: tye prepared in teave Uganda with- init power in order to put the the water

on Nuser---<3 ↑

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We are at keeping at

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The

The water

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brunches of the Nile

White and the Blue. two

Khartoum.

"A May

But men inte

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ap tet white them The much water is stored and hung al much flowing through the dam to Bayan 1,500 mile away

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A sumple footnote comes from Bakir Chiff Engineer

per- "Withdrawal of Britain's mission for Egyption engineers clura to be stationed

the would be breaking an agreement between the two countries."

at

НЕ РАСТИТЬ БАРЧУКОВ!

Big poster (ubove) now covering Russia has a Teddy Boy problem, too. the hoardings in Moscow, Leningrad and the big Russian cities warns: "Don't grow up to be a playboy."

On a cushion labelled "Certificate of Maturity," reading a book of children's Dad brings him a suit labelled stories, lies the rock 'n' roller (Soviet version). 1,750 roubles and lights the cigarette in his holder. Mum brings another packet (they are the most expensive brand. Kazbeks, smoked by diplomats and bosses).

Round about He pin-ups of film stars, Grandma brings food.

Fashion note: The broad-checked suiting would hardly pass in Edwardian circles,

Noel Coward recalls the day he found himself £19,000 overdrawn

'Churchill told me:

Save what you can'

M

-BY-

Roderick Mann

REPORTING FROM NEW YORK

R Noel Coward

could

The move, I reasoned, freshly arrived from not have been made without a certain amount of heart search-

the Island of Ber- ing. For Coward, despite his muda was sitting urbanity and sophistication, is

He was wear-

character.

The Inland Revenue Depart- ment may have driven him from

Britain's shores but it wil In making him never suceved abandon his British citizenship.

up in bed in an East Side at heart a curiously jingoistic apartment. ing white silk pyjamas and sipping ten.

Scattered about the bed were books, newspapers. and magazines-among them the latest issue of the scandal-sheet Confidential.

'Agonising'

CAID Coward: "Oh, yes, it was 0 difficult decision to make.

On the bedside table was a After all, I'd had my London Why studio and my house in Kent Copy of his latest cong: Crust the show go on?

Inch the exile:

When I arrived he put down his cup and viewed me benevo-

Joy.

'Shocking'

since I was a young man.

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But

He looked gossy, and every I had le choice, and I've celebrated author in that my mind to it now. And, know. Bermuda is really terribly pleasant,"

Fresh Austenance was brought He con- gives you ally, tather like a Mandarin before The Master

considering the newest appll- tinued again:~-

"What many people forget in much more flavourant for the job of rickshaw

for some years have that do some of my best work never spent more than a month much more pleasure the raid, possibly em- or two in Britain. I Jike sun- As things are barrassed at being discovered shine tou much.

have completed now...once 1 there at six in the evening.

Then: "What will you have: this year away can return for three months every year." tea or gin?"

"Give me come idea of the "You tax you pay?" I asked. camed £1,000 a week at the How much of Cafe de Paris. that did you actually get?"

Perhaps 1056, "About £300 I forget, Absurd, isn't it. My talent,

And my brains

my Coward shook his head,

Indu-fry-and the Chancellor of "My dear chap, last year I the Exchequer walks away with

much as I do," accountant. We discovered something rhocking....I **W7/£190,000 overdrawn at the bank." He repeated it, as if still shocked by the enormity of the

sum: £19,000. At 50, ofter a lifetime of earning big money, this is a rather startling ilcovery...."

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Martin

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

A

· FTER _rending'a review supply a detailed report of my of A book, "The experiences though I hope some day to supply data which will American Woman," in be of great value to the medical which it was recalled that a profession.

Mr Wylie described her as In fairness to myself I think "The Great American Mom should be stated that my re- covery would have been ex- juggernaut whose toll

pedited if you had either gone of crippled lives is greater into hospital for observation or than all our wounded in two if you had not dosed me with your own remodles afler Anish- world wars"--

Ing only one bottle of the doc- tor's medicine.

Why did The nuble

night

redskin

To keep the land that was his

right:

To keep his virgin prairies free And throw the paleface in the

sea?

*

I remember one occasion when you sent down three different

in patent remedies

24 hours, Widlo I was dealing with these you went on the water wagon for three days, an unusual ex- Yankee perience for me.

des-

Maybe he had a vision, chom, Of that old

paleface, Mom Forbidding. self-obsessed.

potic, Frustrated. fat, unloved.

neurotic,

Socking to soothe her inhibi-

tlons

With lectures talks und nou

reillions; Always hoping soon to find Fresh food to clug a tiny mind,

Thuis Acquiring

some mental

Twists

Unravelled by psychiatrists.

At the moment when I was becoming accustomed to the new regime you came to the

1 needed conclusion that

"do ine

drink that would good."

a

I shall never forget the night 1 was half-drowned in nourish- Ing stout or the next morning when I was drenched in half n pint

of grapefruit julee. The result of these unusual

to leave has been expersInGeG me in a weakened condition, un- able to necept normal nourish-

No wonder poor old Yankee Popment. Oues out with blondes to dance

bchop,

kee

regret that I am unable to Use significance of the And Joins conventions, slightly statement that our intestines

bals,

are longer than two motor cars, And runs around in funny hats, particularly as you do not ray He'd rather go to Kingdom Com the gure refers to Baby Than spend the night with Yan-

kee Mom.

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Austine or the new long Ameri- con cars.

In any case I think my de- The psychic redskin might have layed recovery was due to the

factors already mentioned.

remain, Sir, faithfully, As though upon

Your Stomach.

scen

screen

Visions that scared

soul.....

modera

hla simple Cricket lover

The Jungle dance of Rock 'n

Roli,

the

E crisis have searched

Suez Canal

the

the

suggest-

Of paler, more disturbing fares EVER since With oily curls like' Liberace's And even glimpsed greater correspondence columns of

newspapers in vain for a letter The Foster Dulles rugged clock. from "Cricket Lover." Small wonder redskins,

shock:

В La

ing that if Nasser learned to fright,

play a straight bat the problem Scalped the palefaces on sight, would be solved.

What has happened 10 this To a stomach

simpic-minded citizen? Is he dead

like "Disgusted," who wrote

the furious letters 10 papers for 40 years? As you were

"Cricket Lover" must

because I re- of our recent indisposition your quite old now, comments on the matter would member he believed that if the be appreciated. Your condition Kaiser played cricitet (despite was diagnosed as probable food his withered arm) there would poisoning, Therefore you have have been no war in 1914. the chance of providing the first personal story of poisoned

My dear Stomach,

the centre

stomach.

Since

your illness I have been reading a lot about stomachs in the fascinating pamphlets issued with patent medicines.

Did you know, for instance,

inlestines that our

ba

of and

He thought Abyssinia would never have been invaded f Mussolini had played cricket. He

iso thought that s game

Hitler erkeket including Neville Chamberlian would have had better results than Munich. Perhaps his faith in a peace- are longer ful, cricket-playing world

has And been shattered by unhappy your

events which occurred when non-British players adopted the game. He must remember with bitterness the bottle throwing In the West Indies and the out batsmen who were never Ibw when the umpire hap-

than two motor cars? would this account for delayed recovery?

Yours faithfully.

DEAR Sir,

N. GUBBINS.

in reply to your undated

letter I have to inform you that pened to be their uncle.

I am not yet well enough

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[World copyright.)

A TINY STRIP

OF PARADISE

By RONALD WHITE

London. Internal self-government, And.

AFTER 38 years, Britain capable politica no shortage of

·

leaving a tiny strip Nor is the general Togoland of paradise in Africa a public unaware of its complicated Nations AB the British

slice of Togoland, 40 miles rights under United

wide and 820 miles long ad. Fruzsient remarks in lis 10-

joining the Gold Coast.

the

over-

port to the U.N., perhaps a trifie

Next March, British Togoland sharply: "The number of peti- tions received from the Territory will becomcby whelming wish of its 400,000 by the U.N. Trusteeship Council inhabitants a part of the new leaves no doubt that the right of

petition is widely known." state of Chang

European civilisation Kwome Nkrumah's govern-

hna

ment will inherit a land where obviously made its mark--and come to stay. But not to the there is no juvenile delinquency exclusion of everything else. (only ave juveriles were

con-

victed last year), where there

is so much land that

it, where there discrimination,:

in

Do

The "but" indicates that the

one local religions are doing fine-a

knows qulle what to do with little better, perhaps, for the no racial competition provided by Chris-

tian missionaries.

Some compromises, too, have been struck, For

Insinace, the practice of medicine by persons

where self- government has come quictly and smoothly,

without

Since

countold

the

All in all, African and Euro- pean

civilisation seem to

to

get

get

Little wonder they that tho the Germans dur ernment to the UN sounds just

tur final report of the British Glov War I, education has

Cocoa is the major agricul- not qualined to placiiscin Britain or meeting equivalent tural crop but, although nearly standarde is illegal. But the the whole of the territory capable of cultivation, only olx administration remarks that the

do not count, og "practising i the crops. grow

And that isn' The other day he saw "High Sea Bubble" and all my other percent of the land is used to activilics of native herbalists" Society in the morning and plays. They will not lok me because the government hasn't medicine." They will not, take

posalbi Private's Progress" in the after seriously.

It's simply because every - ΣΠΟΡΟ DESPITE the criticism, quite Doon. Then after a swift ten any playwright seriously. The bothered to exploit its posel

a few people must have in a Broadway tea shop,, he New York critics cre

They really care one is quite mit enough, Olf along find,,

Bothering supported your, decision to live pronounced himself ready for responsible.

punishment and about the theatre," further.

Britain acquired abroad?”

Had Coward any new produc-

from "I got hundreds of letters," urted off to sly through three

of "War and tons planned for Broadway? cald Coward. "And when I was and a half hours

"Yes, I am going to do "Southing He called for more ten, and on the Riviera earlier this year gener,"

I saw. Churchill. He rumbled: continued:"

You All The privilege.

of spending 'Quite right-save what you

possible entertainment Kay Kendal to star in it, I

She has star from primary schools through to that this is a country where ho then sailed for she's available.

tax starts at sixpence wacher Iraining colleges has income Ave weeks in Britain last year can. That made me fee) rather stockpiled,

France. From there he will ny quality, girl,"

by leaps and in the pound, and you have to cost me £27,000 in tax. I just beller, "a

Coward, who retains a zest to Dublin, to sit in for a week "Aplly you couldn't have sent eculdn't afford to go on like

complaint mais an awful lot of money Vivien Leigh in

The bounds or fint. I am not a business for living rarely found in people at the try-out of his latest play, zeen

pay more than twa shillings the educational uittiorities, res

the pound.... lycoon. If I fall sick tomorrow, half his age, rpent, most of "Nude With Violin," which stars London production, sald.

gister in that parents in many True,"wald Coward. "True.

But what else would you "VODN I have no factory to keep me. his week malding extensive Sir John Gielgud. So I decided to veți tip my mafaris, toto the Mantation Gam fully prepared for the But overy Lime I get, at arcos will don't soo why their homes in Britain and move to jungle, intent on tracking down: London nations!ald Coward all nostalgic, I remind myself girl children should be educated, pect in a territory whoso capita Along with the Gold Coast, is called Ho, and whose princi« Bermuda where I pay no tax ne

intact.

entertainment as bitterly. "The critles will under that for the first time in years

Togolanders have won complete pal city is called Ho-How? #t #21."

ponible,

́at "ity" au "Chay, incaged at "South I have money in the bank

Sta Bubble" hero. And I want! PARAMED

that

space, and a com

of education system

The

A iitto wistful,

Especially, if you remember

to