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We need Tankers Now...

and in the Future

THE PROBLEM OF THE TAX-FREE TANKERS

By John Leonards

་

New York TESTERN Europe's oil problem of to-

doubled. day the closure of years has

The in- Horios. Under their flags, the Suez Canalis but in- dustrial and economie effects of nominally, soll come of the cidontal to the world's oil

as widespread largos and anost modern tanker As the distribution oll itself. fleet in the world. problem of tomorrow.

This growth has been tha source from which new fleets of been created. large modern landers have

World crude oil produc tion, which last year was seven hundred and fifty million tons, may be well over one thousand million tons within the next ten years.

And by far the greater part of it has to be carried thou- sands of miles to reïncries and consuming centres.

The oil industry will not be able to find the money for this projected expansion-and for the

tankers to carry it. The world's largest tanker owners of the future may be the men with the money.

The growth of the oil indus- try has been phenomenal. Crude oil production in the past ten

this have been

It has helped to make Japan and Germany two of the lead- ing shipbuilding nations. It has meant that

this year British shipyards will create A post- war output record.

of these

for example, has been for the

·Greeks and others,

Are these plonders to be the forerunners of an exodus?

It

anal

I know where I'm going-No 3

IMAGINATION

F

ENERGY

TALENT

by Peter Brook

EW people have from Shakespeare I had learned made as deep an far more about him than in the impression on me as worked on his plays.

time

when I had conciously the hitch-hiker I picked

up last year while driving down to Stratford.

He was about 18,

а

Now I try all the time to allermate what I do, balancing modern plays with clawedca, musical with the cinema, opěra with television-and the second there is enough money, stopping

depends on whether shipping is to receive tax concessions be allowed to plough more at shabbily dressed and so work and travelling.

Into ships ordinary that I find I've iis

profits back difeult, controversial issue, for qu

completely it shipping be given specie por face, ference, ther why not the motor industries? industry and other

hard-preused will The clamour for concessions.

all

It would seem that the oil In- dustry and its marine transport have grown faster than govern- ments and banking organizations have visualised.

Some of the finest chips have been built in Ger- many, France, Britain, Japan, Italy-in foot, any country with shipbuilding berths to offer. In short, the mushroom growth of the tax-free fleets being aided by countries which will them- selves suffer from the increasing competition of these fleets.

Some owners in Britain are not waiting for government po» But for some countries lley on this potential competi- Britain among them-high taxa- tion from the Lax-free fleets, tion sete a problem. In auch They are contemplating sailing countries the shipping industry west to the more accommodating The closure of the Suez Canal

shores of Bermuda, Is up against tax-free com-

has thrust the longer term petions who 'plough' back hand-

A few ore already moving in. problem aside, But if govern- Ame profits into And new There are complications, but they ment and financial Institutions tonnage,

are hoping that Bermuda will do not move faster, It could re- these arc

tax-free prove to be for them-in some coll when the Suez Canal issue Panama, Liberia, incastre at least-what Panama, is just a memory,

Where

"eldorados?"

The ABC of buying a Slave Girl..

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Financial institutions can find the money for the atomic age. but they still keep a wary eye on money for tankers.

AN ADVENTURE STORY WITH A MODERN MESSAGE -PART, FOUR

ASHID, the Arab

slave trader

whu

has been forced by

local British in-

fluence to turn to the culti

by TOM STACEY

the across

men work, Soud tried to buy the freedom of all the slaves.

But, Saud does not always have his way with a recalcitrant sitelk who might wish to deny his slaves their freedom.

FACT FIVE: One spot whero

vation of root vegetables a year ago. A trader brings a pro-British Sheik Zald of Abu and peppers, leans forward few fair-skinned Baluchi giria Dhabi with' an eight-year-old the bone trade flourishen eagerly in his desert hut. mountainous area around where How does the slave trada the Persian, work nowadays?

It is clearly his subject. Between us we assemble the facts.

FACT ONE: The slavo popu- lation of Arabla l no big maybe as much as a million that slavery can keep going for ever wilbout bringing in any fresh "bone" (slaves) from out wide.

Remember, saya Rashid, by Moslem low a master must find a wife for his slave, and look after all the slave offspring.

To

JUSTICE

TO show how it still persists Rashid tells me of a little incident involving himself which I promise not to repeat. And I tell him one-which can repeat-showing the same thing.

WIT

مداعه

daguhter

AS

Gulf from the local girl last winter.

briskly as ever is YEMEN-the Rashid himself was in the Red Sea country which is being business then,

kidnapping fervently courted by Russia. Bedouin children who strayed

Pakistan Afghanistan borders meets,

and

The girls come across, veiled too far from their tents, buying as children from the poor Negro-

stock families. In the salt-marsh huts near the coastal Ashing

uke all women out here, ordinary passengers од passenger dhow,

No ropes от nonsense like that. After all, they know perfectly well they have been sold by their fathers, so there is mal encouragement back home.

By

to

g

BEHEADED

forgotten

his

Each year I try to add some- thing now, to stretch out in different direction: a

a couple of усота

it ago was designing scenary, and more recently. He told me he was a brick- experimenting with music. layer, that he only worked from Of course, the price is Nigh; time to time to raise 20 or 30 ir one experiments one odd pounds which he would always In

danger and to eke out over months, thumbing balance the things that succeed

his way across Europe. He had just return- ed, he Baid, from Istanbul and was on his

way to High Wycombe for another atretch of bricklaying --his target now was £100, because his next trip was round world.

the

The boy impressed me, because in theory

he had nothing, he had no advantage at

there

are many disambers. I know this is risky for those who employ me -yet I still serve them better than if I became reliqble and stale.

When a young de aigner comes to apo me to ask how to learn. theatre methods i say, "Go

to Italy, Ilve on

an orange a day and paint! When you re- tura you will be streats ahead of the

all; the social dice was loaded wretched foghound designer who against him and none-the-less has only learned about

he was doing precisely what he and cubic feet.”

wanted.

WAY OUT

To the person who asks how to slant to become a director reply "Directi--even if it be five amateur children at a street QXTTCT. You will be getting AILY I run into people with living expendence of the thing a money who are obsessed that you want to do and you with their poverty; people who, will raver get that by watch- hate cold, but stay in it; people ing someone else at work." who hate their wives, but slay with them.

There is always a way out-

Above all, I want to be different at 95 from what I was

whatever the circumstances at 25, and different still at 60 one has decided clearly what

one wants.

When. I was 10 my wants were largo and simple: I wanted

and 70, I have a homron of people who never grow old. I Imito Peter Paris;

imow octresses in their to travel, to absorb greedily as seventies whose efforts to loos much as I could of everything, young turn them into sinister, everywhere, to be a vampire of crumbling meringues, and not the outside world and at inter- one of them has the real beauty vals to give back the blood I of Sybil Thorndike, who looks had drawn In some creative her age but sill fushes acroen form.

live world for the thrill of see- ing the. sun riso on the Himalayas.

Above all I wanted to change and develop. I dreaded the thought of standing still. wanted to direct--fo direct actors, cameras, musicians.

I want to do different things at different ages and enjoy their special favours-as one enjoys snow in winter and the August When I was 18 I had mado sun. I would hate always to G1) amateur Aim

and badly live under an unchanging blue wanted to direct one profession- sky, ally. I went to a very impor-

tart film producer (Italian and

towns liko Dubai and Sham. A noble rumen like Kald Hadi flamboyant) who (pot any hand

There 1s now no practical route by which

got into slaves can be Arabia.

IN ADDITION

and suld, "You must be care- fully nursed." He invited me to work in his studios as an as NOW, having passed the are sistant for 10 years, at the end of 30, I know that to the of which he promised he would various rings let me make a film of my own.

Taiz

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trying to juggle with I must add the I suppose his offer was fair most dificult

ring of all, and generous, but I refused it know I must now begin to take

into account the I had found a little club religious questions that day our theatre, tucked away at the footsteps and are yet so easy to bottom of a Kensington mews, ignore, which was prepared to let me direct a play all by myself.

1

am

Awesome

.

T Wadi Mor, in Yemen,

some 2,000 black other Haly has

Gulf slaves working his rice fields on American plantation Saudi the old

style.

Here, non-domestic slaves get The fast-operating, keen-as- treated rough. This is pretty Trucial Scouts and rare in the rest of Arabia, where the time a girl reaches mustard the Saudi Arabian perimeter, Muscat Field Force have cut all slaves are domestic.

Late in 1954, 20 enterprising she will have changed hand local kidnapping to a minimum. around six times, and be a few the R.A.F, arrived at the village snitched the private cha maks

Then a couple of years

Yemeni slaves

from months older. A preity will be worth about 2,000 rupees of Sharja and bingo! along that the Imam (ruler) which marks

strip of const everyone started the granting of freedom to (104) at this stage.

getting a bit of money and slave and

for hopped it

the driving about in calon Land- Saudi border. But an interfer- Rovers. They lost the inclination Ing Sauvil sheik stopped them at

Mor Wassem.. to pop their offspring on the bone market.

He handed them back to the Imam. They were beheaded DOES this REALLY happen stil? It is tried on spas.

FACT FOUR: The ahelke and standing up, according to modically by one or two sheika Arab rulers have recently come Yement custom in the main who feel themselves too big w ane

down wimp against slavery in square,

another. Right Can you still buy a slave be touched by the British or the along the count and even in an open market local ruler. At a guess, perhaps Saudi Aralida-slave trading has cities of Mecca

dozen girls 1

got year through

way. But the

SLUMP

this

because of- business has slumped badly

Way or

been officially banned.

BANNED

B disallowed.

In the holy Medinat and Well,

explains Rashid, the French Embassy in Jeddah has become a bit too alert in the past two years for there to be a 10% of stealing of French

In the fret mad rush of living it does not seem to matter, but It seemed to me that I had to there comes a time when one develop a technique of my own must find a reason for what one and I could only achieve this by does or else be firmly doing the job self-in

aroundings and then by

any vinced there is no reason at all.

Job

could,

I

con-

getting as far away from the Obviously, one's most serious as possible whenever ideas must change and develop along with the rest of one's And I came to the conclusion working life, and one hopes that one must vary what one they will fuse together in a ripe as though planting old age. But, alas, does and, crops in rotation, let one field knows how long one is going always lle fallow.

to live. When

I first left producing Shakespeare

one never

A few weeks ago a Bedoula sergeant-major of the Trucial Scouts marched himself in to Lieut-Colonel Eric Johnson, the commanding ofleer, to ask per

the mission to steal

young

to work int the I think the ideal is to squilát daughter of the cousin of the

FACT THREE: Since October

opern, for swo years my life was at the future and prepare for a had sloten the

nothing but angry tenors and tranquil fulfilment of encreif as 1985 two British oflcers and TN spots, even the ownership Negro pilgrims. his own cousin.

But (Arab justice).

Permission re couple of squadrons of Arab of slaves

Scouts have been docupying the Qatar, for example, where in the Some Negro plgrims sell sterical conductors When I a centenarians, but at the same children as slaves at returned to Stratfont I found I time be prepared, if one sud- fused. March out.

FACT TWO: Slaves are mit Buraimi area, By making 1952 the ruler actually bought Mecca to pay for the trip back

The normal way to knew the answer to problems denly drops dead, to arrive in that had baffled me before--in the next world -with- noither coming into Arabla bat auralmi their base, there chaps the freedom of every slave from home.

of obtain a clave in Mecca nowa-

the time that I had been away surprise nor too much regret. trickle, Very few are coming in have cut the customary save his own personal national

revenue. (The slaves all stuck days is to get one on the "old direct from

Guizide the Arabian roule completely.

to their jobs, however.)

boy net." peninsula. Which means that

Before then, when the Brilisti In Tracial Oman tho soven the slave traffle in the oht sense and Saudia were in joint contra! ruling shelks have co-operated how toads, caravans, Open of Burnimi, the Saudia used to with the British in stopping markets is dead,

smuggle the girls out to Riyadh, the business.

to you the sultan has Now the Arabs. It is a People who capital of Saudi Arabia on the decreed against slave

In Muscat, monthly maintenance plane,

trading. Arablar Kinr. Saud cortainly well-known fact, which Stacey Buraimi was used as a dis knows what a bad name it gives learned, the hard way, that OW do they trickle in7 Only posal point for slayers working his country. For example, in Arabs have an incomparablo on amateur would do it in the whole Gulf aroa-Saudis, 1054 in Dhahran, Dammam, and talent for the elaborate lie, the now, says Rashid-but hOTO mainly, like Mohammed bin al Khober, the three towns arest confidence which flatters an example of a method popular Jimah, caught red-handed by whore, most of the foreign oll by its frankness but just omila

HO

ROUTE

IF WE CAN GRAB HER--THE BRAINS OF THE MOB-AND PELIVER THE PACKAGE --WE'LL REALLY ENDE THIS SECRET MISSIONY

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

THERE THEY GO! GET

YOUR GUN READY, THIS

IS OUR STCHANCE

TO GET THOSE

PLANSY

There's More than Magic in

FRY'S

They

FAVOURITES

are Delicious

TRUTH?

the Item of importance.

So why did I trust what

| Ruhid had to say?

Because It tallied well with what I had picked up from so many alaves and ox-slaves and British

and Political polico Agents and tradera und Bedouin all down the Gulf, -

Good luck to Rashid with his roots and peppers.

Touching Tailpicos's on the whole gruesome business. In thu palace of the ruler of Qatar Tow years ago a lowly slave girl developed an obscure stomach aliment. What does her master do?.... Pog hor on the plane first clans for Paris for the very latest treatment.

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