1957-04-13 — Page 7

OUR (and thenger) DEFENCE PLAN

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1957.

"Mind, young man, no setting one off! You'll wake the baby!*

"SWALLOWING THE BOMB BUT STRAINING AT THE BANG“

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

Daniel Macmillan

in

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the Labour den

R Harold Macmillan

has

one

By Sir Beverley Baxter, MP

cal

Suez

St

Paris.

|UEZ Canal Company chairman, Jacques ¡Georges Picot believes it is more expensive to take oil round the Cape In super tankers than to ship it through

the

Pazë 7.1

The Universal Benefactor

"OIL??

finerice in Britain, and in the scouring, loaching and dyeing process have created an immense of cotton and wool. now petroleum chemicals `,ka-

dustry, Oil and its by-producis Who would recognise of the now enter our offices and homes bathroom tumbler holding the to an extent that is staggering the tumbler lisolf and the toolly toothbrush and toothpaste. Yok

We live with oll and do not brush handle aro probably It polishes our plastic, while the bristles are cyclohexane, a

Tblockartun the Suez Canal meant only one thing in Hoars, waterproots our roots, nylon made from com bl. The

HE of oil supplies to Britain during the recognise it.

the minds of the general public-a shortage of petrol hair. As plasile it curtains our toothpaste tube is almost cer- and diesel oll for public, private and commercial vehicles. windows and supplies fittings to tainly conted Internally and In other words, less motoring.

the kitchen and bathroom. It is externally with a resin produced the bowl wo wash In, the dish from oll. There was a feeling that if the stoppage continued the dog cats from the footh

Tho paper round the razor / for long all private motoring would cease and public the sponge bag, the laxu

the ointment, ihe weed blades is waxed with an oil by- buses and coaches would be severely restricted. Trade küler. It is a most necessary product and the fly sprays wi- would be reduced simply because of the shortage of part of hair cream, hand cream, tain dieldrin, derived frem oll

the throat and deadly to insects. diesel oil or derv for lorries, although there was also a nail varnish and hazy idea that some factories might be affected because spray,

They are so many; and wi- their furnaces were running on oil instead of the old Oil is all around us, playing its expectedly various, these by- part increasingly in our dally products of oll-the naphthenates

fashioned coal,

In time, of course, motor lubricating oils and paraffin

for heating could

become

Белгое. That was the general appreciation- re-

tive

By

GEORGE HOGAN

by-products and uses to which

duction, slight or serious, were really cut off it could lives. Here are some of its 101 in transport, and a partial adversely affect our stand- they are put. Most of them are running down of some busi- ard of living. nesses. But oil today plays

Lod British

in paints, the bitumens for waterproofing and binding, the waxes, the white spirit, aynthetic glycerine for making the

cellulose wrappings

sweets, even gas oil which

the

for

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often used to enrich the coal gua supply to the kitchen stove."

Functions

a far greater part in our Three oil groups, Shell, Eagle Petroleum, have lives than is generally over the last decade spent more realised, and if its supply than £140,000,000 on major re- gramophone records, printing all grades as spirit and lubricant,

TANKER PLANS AND SUEZ

By ROBIN STAFFORD

no longer recognisable as oil. Parafin .wix. for candles, Indoors, outdoors, oil is matches, coloured pencils, Boor gradually playing a bigger and and carpolishes, Carbon black for bigger part in our lives. Once it typewriter ribbons, carbon paper, was merely all. Now it comes in inks and boot poilsh. While oils fine and coarse, thick and thin, for hair cream, threat sprays, rough and smooth. It not only hand cream and as a preservative ensures that tho wheels turn for foods.

smoothly, it makes them turn, and with its

End hydrocarbons cal carbon blacka now makes the wheels. The pastel shades of its brighten every by-products room of the house.

Accione for the basis of photo graphic films, as a drying agent in ali varnish and in the many- facture of rayon and other arti- ficial fibres for dresses. Acclene is also used to make the thin

As oll has taken over many of centre core for safety glass. the functions of coal, so no doubt Cresylic acids

for such bakelito will atomic energy supercede plastics as the telephone, ethylene many of the power properties of for PVC plastics like the apsigoll, but not, surely, its lubricating bag and the curtains and for quality

the diversity of uses or its by-products--and not for polythene plasties like the bucket of and bowls,

many years yet. Oll, therefore, must remain our standby and the more we rely upon it the care carefully must the source and the supply lines be secured. The Company's estimates, based on independent American

Let no one say again merely: Then there is ethylene glycol "No all-no trasport." No ell- statistics, aro a yardstick by for anti-freeze, and detergents a real scarcity-could mean a

Nasser's progress

real reduction ·la, 'our bo for "soapless" shampoos and very Canal canal development can

washing up powders, and for the standard of living. times judged.

more oil trame than in 1955 (335,000,000 tons compared with 09,000,000 tons).

(2) More than twice tho number of ships (90 com pared with 40) would pass through it each day.

The Company has put up achemo to increase the Gaitskell casualties, made the

"To run a super-tanker mora depth of the Canal to take beats mbtake of fercely

cheaply on the Cape route it with a 30-foot draught, to widen attacking Etten

day after day Canal.

would have to have a 200,000 it to cae hundred yards and to Announcing a new £100, ton d.w.--and they have not increase the mileage where while our forces were in action

way of building one ships could pass each other. to the Middle East. Not inten000,000 Canal development

Britain's scheme, “in

which tionally he heartened

we of those yet," said the enemies utsk spread dismay

naturally hope we will be man. (The biggest tankers now

construction under asked

M. to co-operate,"

100,000 tons), When Eden, suntanned, bul Georges-Picot said that in

M. Georges-Picot added: fifteen years the Canal (1) By 1972, the pitifully thin, retumed from his Gafiski respite in Jamalen,

to take would be taking seven welcoming him with a friendly, tankers of between 60,000 tried to recover lost ground by would be able

nou-controversial speech, utand 65,000 tons d.w.

advantage over his immediate

Some of you may real two predecessors—his face does years ago I gave an account of not reveal his thoughts. the 1956 Antiual Dinner of the Eden would flush with anger Saints and Stuners Club where cruel fun of

found a Shaverose inade or his eyes would light up

Nye Bevin who was present, with the joy of battle, and and Bevan in return attacked Churchill's chin often pro- bin for his non-attendance at truded when he was attack the House of Comuncas, "You ed although

of ought to cane and see the old benevolence would appear place some time," sald Beyan,

make might even

EL

look

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*

after he had floored his spech there just for the novelty antagonist. But by con- of it." trast Macmillan enters the

Chamber wih a light step Sir Hartley's

and a languid expression

as if to say

that politics

were much too serious to be

taken seriously.

Therefore relthcт his sup

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among our friends,

it was too late, Galtskell's only The new plan has been sent hope of Gvce being Primo to the Canal Users Association Minister would be if a sudden in London, the Governments of general election

were the chiol users, the United No-

now

Contempt sprung upon the nation and the tions Secretary-General, and

it is fact that none of us

in Parilament have ever seen

his opponurys have one of our numbers treat the

( his thoughts House with such apparent con.. 1.mpt as Sir Hartley has shown. occasions Only on the rarest

A 11. last few weeks 43

one bye-clot ( › u after Lnother

reveals that the tide is rant

did he even turn up to vote.

heavily against the Government. Yet here is the paradox. Many Eden's p.rsonal General shrewd obrorvera of the politi- Election

majority at Warwick cal scene believe that

b

la

Sir

an Leamington was 13,460 but Hartley's retirement from the ye-election caus.d bys law and his new association rerigration the figure fell with Shell Oll are preliminary steps to his return to the Houso and his ultimate leadership of the Socialist Party.

1.) 2.157. The Tory pundits han bried to convince them hermes shut the water at Warwick J' *amington Tesented the sini ottilude that many of

What does it matter if The Shell combing pays him £25,000 lamentary associates or more a year? It will be wards Elen. It was taken from him in taxation. that Exten's hold on The truth

that like most uency was so personal great barristers Shawcross is a Tugtu supporters had no heart superb actor and he Is possessed o her man. But it takes of a personality and a voice that than that to explain a would place him on a level 11,300 crop in the majority. with Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud, Therefore place to mako must be in himself heard

Gaitskell's Smile

On the same day there was a bye-election at Bristol West and what happened there? The Toy majority fell from 22,001 to 14,162.

we

And since

are dealing with a man of paradox I must set down in all sincerity that despite his prodigious success in a capitalist society Shawcross is asineere A

Socialist. Yet his sincerity does not over-ride his To add to the bad news the political Judgment.

His бути Conservatives actually lost East pathy with the under-privileget Lewitham when A Tory sections of society does not blind majority of 3,236 was turned him to the fact that no great into a 1,000 minority.

nation can survive merely

No

wonder Hugh Gaitshell building council housed by cheap rent, supplying a state smiles as he takes place on the health service and taxing they Opposition Front Bench and Cantra of wealth out of

RIZNA

at the over-burdened existence.

Prime Minister, and no wonder Like Macmillon ho believes

Nye Bevan looks out of the corner of his

eye

as if to say: "You still have to deal with me, my boy!”

that there

must be incentive

at Galtskell and reward for the winners and he would openly admit that he himself has done extremely well But the internal problems of out of the Capital system.

Therefore I predict that after the Scelalist hierarchy do not he has settled down with his and there, The debonair Sir oil colleagues he will renew his Hartley Shaweross who was contact with the House of Attorney-General in the Socialist Commons by taking his place Government has just announced on the Opposition Front Bench. he is retiring from the Bar Further than that I predict that where his average yearly ear he will not concentrate merely Ings must have been well over on those debates in which the £50,000. Instead ho has ac cepted an advisory post with legal mind excels but will in

that

***

vade the broach area of trade

the giant Shell Oil Company as well as colonial and foreign

where he will probably be paid affairs.

* paltry £25,000 a year,, He

will, however, still keep his

reat in Parliament,

Why should this announce-

Bevan's Rivalry

mont spread alarm and-des- Tactically His situation. Is pondtney in the breasts of highly favourable because of Galtskell 'and Bovan? The the

open rivalry between anawer is simplu,

Sir Hartley Gaitskell and Bevan, It lo is ambitious and although he has true that Giskel is the elected treated the House of Comme leader of the Socialist Party but with an alry indifference he he locks warmth and glamour sill retains his membership in the very qualities which Nye that august institution. Then is Bavan possesses in abundance, he going to be content to give In fact, it was Bovan who advice, to an oil combine and publicly referred to Galtake as disappear from public view? is a derricated “adding", mushings that superb volco of his to be Also we must remember that heard, only in the confines of it was not only in the Cónsenyar the board room?

tive ranks that there were pólit&

Socialists were viċtoricus.

the principal oli companies.

MOTORING NEWS NOTEBOOK

by Basil Cardew

WOMEN'S CAR JOINS THE PLUSH PAIR

THE zippy car above, the Nash Metropolitan, has joined Britain's big money- making trio of cara in America.

The Metropolitan, made for Nash of America by Austing s third in the list of top-selling imported cars in the U.8.

First and second are Rolls- Royce and Bentley,

The Metropolitan now comes on to the British market with a right-hand drive for the first time.

I have just given this model

a test over 300 miles-and I rate it as the ideal woman's car, for these reasons:--

It looks good; it has a simple design; and oven the spare wheel, hitched on the back, is

eary to get at. And see the coloura

Berkshire Caribbean coral: green; sunburst yellow; Mardi Gras red combined in each case with frost white.

I found the car cornered ke a dream, and had tremendous get-away. It is parked easily because the driving seat has all- round vision.

Economical

The Metropolitan can touch nearly 30 miles an hour, can cruise at 60, and do a very auro 20-33 miles a gallon.

Price in Britain: £713 (with tax) for the hard top: for the convertible, £725 28. (with tax). This includes radio, an efficient heater, and, betraying its breed- ing, a cigar lighter.

NEW STEERING BOOST

THE top-selling Rolls Bentley models come out today with power-assisted steering. MORAIRAA

Invented by. Ratlá, this ́ really? cuta, down, driving", strain. In iny test Kolla Benținy · (above) a300-mile ruts needed no more afort, then {50-mile spine,

Power for the sering comes from an edgins-driven. Aydrwale

To Ralle people have reached,

|'perfect compromise. The

steering is 'noj še ⋅ finger-ka, light as on the big.

modela when - a dick of. the wrist at high speed can put you -qaz. the road. **

The Rolla" poweraastated' steering a safe bit eray RA, VI your - arms when pullin

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