1956-11-06 — Page 4

1956.

AN ARMY-EYE-VIEW OF TODAY'S BOILING- POINT IN A WORLD OF EXPLODING NATIONALISM AND ERUPTING HATREDS.

ALBANI

ITALY

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THE CHINA-MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER

Battleground!

MALTA

MEDITERRANEAN FLEET

including

frigates, aircraft

carriers,

YUGOSLAVIA

Black Sea

TURKEY

GREECE

PERSIA

SYRIA

› CYPRUS

MALTA

AMMANS

IRAQ

destroyers, and

Mediterranean

ISRAEL

landing craft

TRIPOLI

3rd Ind. Inf. Bde.

TOBRUK

JORDAN

KUWA

DERNA

Persian

Gulf

LIBYA

(mobile)

Regiments of

Centurion tanks.

Royal Horse Artillery

1,000 Infantry (mobile)

K.R.R. Corps

"M.Q.' of 10th Armoured

Division

SUEZ CANAL

LIBYA

Port Said

Cairo

SUEZ CANAL

Suez

BASE vast stores, workshops.

military equipment, ammunition,

vehicles, etc.

AKABA

SAUDI

ARABIA

EGYPT Red

MILES

500

ABOVE:

WHO HAS

WHAT

TROOPS

Naval craft

at North and

South ends?

محة المع

AKKUK

IRAQ

ARAB ISRAEL

281,000 250,000

Sea

YEMENA

British Bases ⚫ Oilfields

DEN PROTECT

ADEN

JOHN BODLE.

CYPRUS

JORDAN

Amman. Venom, fight.

Akaba, 10th Hussars

60 Centurion tanks, 100 Infantry (Middlon

ADEN

fighter bombers

bomb

Battalions

Cars

WHAT REALLY IS AT STAKE: THE MIDDLE EAST OIL-AND THOSE WHO ARE ITS OWNERS

By FREDERICK ELLIS

are

EWLY periled in the Middle East battle-

ground

two-thirds of the world's known oil reserves. From them a fifth of the world's oil suppiles is now being pumped out around the clock

Lose Middle East ul and the world's fac- tortes will suffer fuel starvation,

PERSIA

N

& WHERE

*KIDOLET

RIGHT:

THE STAKE

SAUDI

THE WEST

ARABIA

MUST

GUARD

Middle Eust Dil is not just a European

lomestic tratier (as Mr. John Foster Dulles would have us bellevo).

The Americans are the senior partner in what they call the Middle East oil "play." Before the First World War the U.S. had bo Interest in Middle East oll It has buttied its

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Let us go round the Arab oll basin - gusher by gusher.

Biggest: the tiny Persian Gulf State of KUWAIT, Last year it pumped 55,000,000 tons. It is owned half by British Petroleum (formerly Anglo-Iranian) and half by the Gulf Oil Cor- poration of America. The sheik's rake-off in royalties: £70,000,000.

Next comes an American preserve -- SAUDI ARABIA, bossed by Aramco, a joint American venture. Its output was 47,800,000 tons, fielding

£95,000,000 to King Baud.

Third la IRAQ, whose Iraq Petroleum Com- pany is international, Output last year

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33,700,000 tons, with a royalty pay-off to King Feisal of £75,000,000.

L.P.C. is owned in equal slices by British Petroleum, Royal Dutch-Shell, Standard Oil and Socony (both "American), and the French Slate oll combine. An odd five percent is held by the Gulbenkian interests.

I.P.C. also owns the QATAR field, which ylcided 5,400,000 tons last year.

Then IBAN- once the sole property of British Petroleum. Now it produces 10,000,000 tons half what it did under the British. It la bossed by a consortium with the Americans edging in for the first time. The break down: BP. 40 percent, Royal Dutch-8hell 14 percent,

Americans 40 percent, and French State combine 6 percent, Royalties are £35,000,000 a year.

Baby of the area is BAHREIN, with a yearly oil harvest of 1,800,000 ton. It is American- bossed.

Oll cannot be unwound from the tangle of Middle East polities for two-thirds of the oil goes through the Suez Canal

On Mid-East oli is poised the standard of Ilving in all Weatern Europe and much of the world cast of Suez.

Whatever starts a crisis in the Middle East, oil is the major prize, making the Suez Canal rumpus like a parish council üft in comparison.

NIGHT OF JUDGMENT

FOR THE BEAUTIES

"Docs this change your plans?"

asked the posing beauty.

The smile disappeared. The cameramen curard,

tink "I don' answered seriously.

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By DUGAL SMITH

beautiful of them she hurried

change backstage to lining up for one long, last op

Highland praisal by judges and audience. "Turn around," commandea Ben Lyon,

The long line of legs swung

clicked about. Cameras whirred. Bulbs flashed. spotlight intensifed.

while carce swimsuits

dancers and pipers filled in a tormenting period,

places, in order: Eva Brann, Miss Sweden, sixth; Anne Rye Nielsery, Miss Denmark, fifth; Midoriko Tokura, Miss Japan, fourth; Rina Reiss, Ming Ieract, third, Betty Cherry, Mis's Americs, second; and the most all, Miss World of 1950, Petra Schur- mann, of Germany. Then the girl who was judged

Then on they came again

Miss World was escorted up by a famous

The panel to be the the way the audience wanted

and the dais to the throno. world's supreme example was to see them.

Blood, The abdicating monarch" lost again in, a jumble of

took off her cloak and crown Clicking delicately on pencil- cameras, reporters and officials. thin heels, they swayed back A BBC television man ran and proceeded to transfer them

and forth across the dais, posing agitatedly through the audience to her successor. The next time I saw her, she for the judges, the cameras ar 1 in a truftless bid to make stand

prettily on the the audience.

Then came disaster. perched

ing admirers realize that TV lowes! step of a giant dais,

The One or two of them, perhaps viewers were getting a wonder-

crown slipped. The smiling that radiant smile,

to public roars of ful picture of the backs of their new Biss World made a des-" unused crown askew, the silver in her acclaim, raised their hands self- heads.

pernia grab....the two beauty hair glinting brightly.

consciously

prize-fighter-

about They turned

once queens swayed for a second acknowledgment. On her left was Miss America,

gure" parade inished, more. The cameramen cimbed upon the narrow platform, The grimacing wearity (she was

then called to the down from their chairs, I did, Then it was retrieved, half-way

down the Miss World's back. hidden from the crowds);

by one hy too, her right Miss Israel, looking microphone

Era Loen (former Si

Slowly, in a circle, the girly Later, Miss World was compere most uncertain about life in

director casting

20th walked back to their stand and "dethroned" a second time when general.

Century Fox and discoverer of the giant mechanism churned posing for cameramen in her "Kiss her," urged the milling Marilyn Monror and

Jean sweeping them from

new Triumph TR3, part of tho Harlow), and each was coaxed

On the other side ap- Grst prize. BACK went her into Baying

peared a throne. few hesllant

Iced in a photogenie laugh It was time for the six OFF Blow the crOWTI. Perhaps the climax xcame finalists to be announced.

way

cameramen.

they were

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for

when Miss Greece. wound her

way down to the microphone. Ben Lyon, Miss Denmark."

Miss Would you like to say some

thing

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London Miss America leaned forward

The

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tantrums, no. condemnations sauntered much to the disappointment of Denmark

most; the audience?" asked triumphantly on the stage. to

And they came, one by one,

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Boos), Mis pierce the wall of cameramen

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Sweden tumbled the rehearsed line:

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cheered, we Bag Grinture conferred here was only the darkness of backstage, MIXITA

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choovalrous, cloverr verry handsome.

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