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THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1957.

Arab world watches Aden CRACKING THE MONOLITH

N

|EWSMAP shows the

trouble spots along the Aden-Yemen border.

Aden, the strategic bunker Eng atsilon at the Red Sea's mouth, on the Suex-Colomba sea route, has been a British trading post for 154 years. Till 1937 it was ruled (oddly enough) by the British Indian administration.

The British colony itself consists of only 75 square miles (two-thirds the site of London county), and has only 140,000 people.

Yemen' claim THE Aden Protectorate Is much larger. It is about the same size as the British Isles and is divided into two parts east and west. The wettern part consists of eight sultanates, two amirates, and seven shalkdoms, all loosely associated by treaties with Britain.

Al Imam Ahmed bin Yahia bin Mohammed Hamid ud-Din, King of the Yemen, claims this western part for his Country of five million people (mostly Illiterates).

own

Britain refutes the claim. So do the foyal tribesmen, who have asked continually for more British protection against the Temeni troops and tribes. men who cross the moun- Folnout border and carry out nuisance raids

Reprisal

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1956

YEMENI CONCENTRATION

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POLITICS

they hold the World to

Ransom

FRANK MOORE

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mere

individuals and RAVE

HOW suspicion

The only answer would seem sufferings of Arab to be that they prefer keeping which can hold almost a million attaches to the

present unhappy refugees In their THE biggest recent_strack,

the refugees to attitude Governments' when force of Cameron

plight as a propaganda weapon pieces in a political chess-game.

1racl rather refugees against ambushed,

Than

Aruba Representative Highlanders

the 920,000 Arab

to help the Agency Arab allowing cost two British firms. As

the displaced by

tolerabic them towards

living reprisal, the RA.F.

Israeli war of 1948.

standards.

Was

wiped out the village of Danaba, which had been used buse by the Yameni

bandits.

The Yemen has been backed by Communist um and Egypiles propaganda. If Britain remains firm, Catro and Moscow will try to whip up froling against British "imperialism."

N

E she withdraws from the Protectorate, she will suffer both territorial and moral defest in Arab eyes, and the Arabs will gain access to the oil reserves that are believed to lia untapped under

the

face of the Protectorate.

A United Nations report shows that these Govern- ments, especially the Egypt. lan, Syrian and Jordanian, have severely impered the United Nations' Relief and Works Agency that been trying to help the fortunate people.

This report

has

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only confirms many storica to the same effect which

been cmanaling have from the Middle East,

Why should the Arab Gov- ernments hinder the good work United Nations' Relief of the and Works Agency?

Given the opportunity,

that necusation

the

are

quick to use the sufferings of these people as a "stick" with which to beat israci, the United Nations and almost anybody else. They do so knowing well that the plight of refugees precisely the sort of thing that arouses Western humanitarian-

is

United Nations achieve much in this field. Money and willing helpers are available, and it the kind of thing that the ism.

Nations Organisation

They are now likely to and United does well. In the light of the

that while Western sympathy United Nations' record for work

for the refugees continues, re- the among backward peoples, espect for the piciel Arab al- Syrian

titude towards them will not. secret policy is to exterminate The United Nations'

report the

appallingly

says that the refugees' chief alm former Is to return to their ernical.

But if report provides homes. That is natural.

is ambition grounds for fearing that Syria's this

Impossible, is only part there is still much that could absurd accusution of a more widespread cynicism be done to make their lot more revolves bearable--if the Arab Govern- which cynicism pround 23 contempt for the ments will co-operate.

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SUMMARY: Ten years ago, when Congminism' was confident victorice, from

series o Orwell retold 14 George downfall.

event Recent Eastern Europe have shown us something

this of the way could happen.

S

IX months ago

ic

would have been dif-

J. E. M. ARDEN

is now a university Lecturer in European History. Journalistic and teaching assignments have taken him to several East European countries and enabled him to study at first hand the trends of political thought among the workers and intelligentsia.

"o

possible to force the overthrow of the Polish-Stalinints, in spite of their attempts to seizo power by kidnappings and Russian tanka rumour

the broadcaster.

confirmed by

even more

insurrection: but what will

In Hungary, the revolution started in a different way. Here the original leaders were the Parly Intellectuals of the a state of unnatural Potocn Club, followed, by the ficult to imagine what disappearance of the Com- kept in

The Hungarian and Parties.

Maintaining Their tenaton.

this students. munist

continuous physical Polish revolutions may yet ba la now happening in

regimes have a choice: to meant

ruthlessness and the unending atified by Soviet force but Eastern Europe. As Profce- evolve or perish. And there mental and moral pressure of a they demonstrate two things.

Watson has Bor Seton

are at least some signs that single system of deception and The first, of course is the Tho machine, in moral, political and intellectual pointed out, the October evolution is not impossible, delusion.

of Communism rising in Hungary was the that the Communist Parties, fact, was built by Stalin for bankruptcy

Stalin's use. The corollary was

was The second first occasion on which

or sections of them, might that it needed a Stalin to use striking. It shows in different totalitarian regime has been undergo the vital trans- it. Stalin's Successor# were way how a Communist regime overthrown except in war. formation and become more not men of his calibre indeed can collapse. Soviet troope may

a condition of

of his

bo own The peaceful transfer of

or less acceptable partici- it was a power to the anti-Soviet

pants in democratic life. survival that all men of any brought in to smash on group in Poland is almost Men like Djilas (sentenced thing like his capacity had been happen when such events take executed. Nor were his u place in Russla and there is no of totalitarian tanks equally surprising.

by the Tito regime the other cessars in

outside pool agreement and able exert the necessary single to help? This may be looking for forecasting the to day

Will

Yet

forward a group.

long way. But even In the century since te

Communism)

enormous pressures produced by In

In the USSR there are already Revolutio collapse of "Forty-eight"

started out as a fanatical the system needed either the complaints that the students are the principles of freedom, Stalinist. The case of Imre same

and disaffected single-minded counter-

been on which the early revolu.

Moscow factories, tionaries saw as so simple, Nagy is even more striking, pressure, or the letting off of have

for he took the bulk of his some of the steam. have been complicated by Party with him into an Soviet policies, at least since the struggle for

acceptance of democratic Khrushchev took the leading justice. In the process, not only Communists but quito principles; and he had been post, have been erratic. In Hun- trained for a decade in gary we see how the worst poo-

Ten yearn ឆ៥០. when a lot of other well-meaning

Stalinist sible results of both concession Moscow 30 A

Communism's Wha

confident, and repression have been ob- Socialists, had persuaded

quisling.

tained. And we now know (from united and fresh from a series it themselves that

of victories,

Orwell a speech by a Party secretary foretold Its downfall. He said; worth sacrificing the old

over Gdansk Radio) how the the huge invincible, ever- freedoms in order to secure

anti-Staliniat movement started in Poland. Tho

a lasting slave empire,...will not the putting through of pro-

speaker be established, or, It established, Khrushchev scribed how the

ace will not endure" grammes of nationalisation.

made the workers of cat Zoran Motor Works

social

Was

part

Force & Fraud

41ose

the

of

of the nation's life

па

secret speech had been available

was hands.

And it Was

che-

the workers strike in two

Will not endure

George

some

The Stalinist machine was an

He then admitted that it was It is now perfectly clear

apparatus designed to make

a the great

how the even to the most doctrinaire single will prevail by force and in Warsaw.

As a result they not clear to him

Communist collapse of the Socialista that any democra- fraud over

natural had become the storm troops of Empire would come about. The whole peoples, the Onii-Soviet movement, recent events in Eastern tic social order which pre- aspirations of

Russia, until the Party, Committees in Europe have shown us serves the ordinary political including

Economy, pelley, culture every Warsaw were in Gomulka-ite thing of the way in which it freedoms is preferable to re-

then could happen. gimes, however anti-capi- talist, which suppress them. And it is to be hoped that we shall no longer hear the old argument about it being difficult to make omelettes without breaking eggs. It was always admitted that the eggs in the metaphor represented the unfortunate individuals who suffered, but the omelette was at least supposed to be a tasty dish; it now turns out to be quite uneatable.

Dead Wood

NO TIME TO GET

DRUNK..

Y

New York.

OU have to be very poor in America today to be unhappy.

The secret of contentment is now on sale at the neighbour- hood drugstore in the shape of a little white pill. With ten dollars and an accommodating doctor, you can easily buy enough to last you for a hundred days.

Thirty years of scientific progress seem to have freed the ambitious middle class American from dependence Garibaldi, are shown to on one popular drug only to have the deepest roots in cast him into

In fact, the principles of democracy and of national independence, in the old tradition of Kossuth and

by ALAN BRIEN

REPORT

FROM

NEW

YORK

the hearts of the people; the thraldom So America reaches for

while the great

growths of Marxism are withered and dead wood. And even old Communists can feel this.

of another.

a new kind of bottle.

In the throbbing twenties, it Was the

Life Was too that aspirin. This is not to say Communism does not re- dull and too monotonous main extremely dangerous. to be endured with sobriety. of the It has largely lost its power | It was the era to delude, but it has hot lost hangover, when a jaundiced its armoured divisions.eye was worn like a medal

West Even in the

the and an aspirin healed all Stalinists may still cause wounds. trouble. Parties do not lose alt their strength im-

of

Now America has passed mediately the moment his- from the aspirin age to the Miltown. tory proclaims them ob millennium solete. The Jacobites were Miltown is the trade name. a serious danger, even in of the most popular and Enlgand, decades after they fashionable of all the I- pilla had ceased to mean any-don't-give-a-damn thing. And

must which now net more than probably expect Thorez' £50 million a year, machine, for example, to keep delivering a fair-sized vote for some years by sheer momentum, without changing its nature,

"we

|POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

One per second

MILTON BERLE

Tranquil be. fare the TV cameras,

CAMERON MITCHELL

More than three a day needed.

the language. It provides more jokes for

than

such

must be ready. He has just taken his Miltown."

For children

Milton BericTMTM TV' lop comedian, used to cat them before the camera and gladly adopted the name of Uncle Miltown. And fantasy

casily

Another

passes over into fact, TY 10kker

suggested that tranquillieers would soon bo sold on sticks for nervy children under the namo Mllipops. Within days came the news that the Такста were issuing Miltown covered with candy in adveral different flavours.

ago

many

Anxiety needed

A

months Eight doctors thought that the tran- new quillisers would prove a swift cure for mental Illness. Before a tenate committee on National Hith In May, 1855, TV the director of research at a New York Hospital testified Elvia In 1957 life has become comedians.

"Freud himself said that behind too exciting and too ovent Presley or Liberace, Holly every psychoanalyst standa But the disintegration of ful. There is no time any wood is now known to the man with a ayringe. Communism does not more to get drunk. Miltown readers of the syndicated "Up until the present time wo necessarily mean the formal brings quietness and relaxa- gossip columns us. Miltown, have had no drugs to put into A8 the syringe. With the tran- tion. And a prescription US.A.· Stars for a tranquilliser is issued Cameron Mitchell are not quillisers we are finally reach- every second of the day and ashamed of their addiction. ing such a point," night.

"Sure I use Miltowns all the time," says the curly Was that a twinge of

a twitch. atab of guilt, "When

tough guy with

began Tranquillisers has the man

BOITO of America's change on ache of anxiety?

troubles I'm having, he toughest mental asylums from Then why not reach

needs more than just three snake pits into rest homes. But for the bottle of pill?

the effect of the mass drug addiction on the millions Many of the most famous a day.” actors, cxecutives and One of the favourite Holly mildly neurotic citizens who politicians now admit to wood stories concerns a famous will

mitted to hospital is disturbing munching them like pop- 20th Century Fox producer who may corn. But my investigation had been having trouble with fessor of paychiatr

of ankiety is suggests that the psychla James Mason In their dally certain amount

beneficial to everyone, People trists and scientists who script conference. The producer need to face discessing, eltun- hailed the happy pills in always look Miltown an hour tions in order to mature a 1955 are now studying some before the appointment to get individuals. And the head of

narcotics

hospital has very unhappy facts about himself in the right state of a

One day Mason stressed, the possible danger. - this mass-produced clixir in was late and the producer 1857.

14.

“But, Maudie darling, you matan realian ¦ thas", if fe weren's for the call-up we shouldn't have any, army far; the Americans to stop

WOITY,

EL

TV jokes

a

relaxed enso.

(never need to be

A

tho began to

But atilithe worry that

fad grow tranquillising effect would wear. Cortiers now offer a two- compartment gold tranquilliser box with mapphire and ruby He asked his secretary, 10 knots at 82. Americans aro telephone the Mason home for an optimistic race. It will take the actor was a great deal of medical evidence There is no doubt of their the exact time

due to leave, "It's all right to convince them that ond nation-wide popularity. Thold the producers secretary, swallow cannot make

very name has passed into "Mr Mason's secretary says he summer,