1957-04-27 — Page 7

Intelligence Report

DYNAMITE

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1957.

This fight by the arms men to ship guns to people itching

to use them

Sefton Delmer

in

people, no people readier their weakness to betray their nearest and dearest for their own safety."

And further: "The Russians despise compromise."

It is

which all Western salesmen might well

A

ARMS dealers and their secret agents and sub-agents in Geneva, Paris,

Bilbao, and Copenhagen are fighting out a furious war of intrigue wear by hea over which of them is to land a contract for $3,000,000-worth of machine guns, automatics, mortars, and ammunition.

The arms are destined for the Algerian rebels who are

fighting the French. But in the first place they will be shipped to Spain ---- which makes their export perfectly legal.

ENIZ

In Spain offers of Proteo'x War Ministry who are in the plot will sign for them and then re-export them 19 Morocco, From there smugglers run them over the Algerian border.

ม

In previ us Intelige re Hejrt 1 give you the low-down on The Fixers, The big-money <perators

these who arrange arms deals, Now 1 cun showe you detail.

Do you want to know what kind of prices these machine" foteh Anything from Kuns

55 dollars each (£20) for a consignment of 9,000 automaties F.V. Mark 4 to 100 dollars "per uml" (£36) for used model 1930 and 19442 Madsen machine guns.

Un the right you can take a look yourself at extracts from a typical correspondence from the Tikes of one the sub-agents

of trying to bring off a deal.

"EXTRACT FROM DOSSIER...ONE

Re: MADSEN Sianourd Machine dun csi 02

With ference to our converation of today w have pleasure in giving you herewith the following quotations)

580 unt of used MADDEN Standard machine gun

cal. 30)) dah siades compriming:

330 MADSEN @tandard machine guna mode) 1930 130 spare clinnland with op barrel 13.200 gmine each for rounde

EXTRACT FROM

DOSSIER TWO

Just received your letter end phoned Bilgart et one, 1 will go over Monday morning and meó him. It So how aver clear that our client for the 100 pane and his - in the I rid him this we not right against us and we sur- ily nnte Boutething on the business or do the busineIA, PA

#hn had stërend with the clienti Wo -111 dicum This further on wandry and give you a Denge soonest. Begarding the price of the munition, he had not yet re- orivad aine,

Arms dealers in action -letters from their files show the wheels turning

people." So said Nikita Krush- chev, Rusin's Purty bost,

Well, I know one "capitalist" who stars. He Sir Rober Bruce Lockhart, one of the few day who were eye-witnesses of men living outside Russia

the Bolshevik revolution Int 1917.

to-

Sir Robert hos Just written a Jucid account of these days that "The Two Flock the world: Revolutions"

House. (Phoenix 10s.

Gd.).

contains IL

this monetrating analysis of the Russlan character:

.

lesson

the Frerich settlers have - wells on their farma and ample, re- serves of fodder,

A clash of this kind would almost certainly tring the French Army-gill in Morocco

10 the aid of the settlers. Anything could happen then. TREASURES

MAY GO BACK

Page

Canal Is Ours,

Says "Panama

PRESIDENT ERNESTO DE LA GUARDIA

spoke to me with

remarkable frankness about the Panama Canal when I interviewed him at the Palace of the Herons in hot and hectic Panama City today.

He said: "The Republic of Panama means to resume complete sovereignty over the Panama Canal and over the land known as the Canal Zone,

"There is deep feeling in our

country over the question of

sovereignty.

no

Our

"Many respected United States legal authorities agree that there La

about question sovereignty in this matter."

He is a

bright-eyed charmer, this ruler of un extraordinary country which crouches ther

one of the most vital water links

In

THE Vatican, I leans, i que

backstafis pressure on Que bee's vehemently anti-Commun- ist Premier Duplessis to return

£2,000,000-worth of Polish art treasures to Poland.

res-including the The treasĪTES—. coronation sword of the Polish kings were smuggled out of Poland in 1940 to save trem art-loving Marshal Goer-

in the world. Since then they have been Ing

the Provincial Museum in Quebec.

Premier Duplessis has so far REPRESENTATIVE John turned down all appeals from Govern- McCormack, referring to Poland's Communist the zest with which Con- ments that the treasures should

be sent home. gress is cutting President Now, with better relations Eisenhower's budget: "The between the Roman Catholle boys are in such a mood Church and the Pulish Govern- Ine towards Moscow,

Duplessis should yield,

across

The United States regards the Panama Canal as one of her vital interests, ая supremely much

be protected and secured ស San

Francisco's "Golden Gate"

to

Before he became President, de la Guardia was the manager ot a glant brewery. He ran it

that if someone Introduced ment and Poland's more inde- well. He is accepted as an the Ten Commandments, pendent

Vatican is suggesting

they'd cut them to eight,” WANTED:

TANK COUNTRY

of

NINETY-SEVEN out 100 Frenchmen questioned knew who had won the last Tour de France cycle ruce. or buy from her neighbour Only 15 were able to name Prurco a ecunterpart to Salis- the French Prime Minister. bury Pain on which the Swiss Army can practise

COWITZERLAND wanl; to rest

SWI

fare,

fark

war- REDS AMONG

The Swiss recently bought 100 THE REFUGEES

Centurion tanks from

They have slood idle Swiss farmers ecluse

Britels.

because

to allow

the army to hold tank exercises on their land.

MOROCCO-

RAIN OR RIOT?

RAI

at

NOW much

of a watch

Is

Сот-

Hm keeping for

munks! agitators umong interpreters werking with Hungarian refugees here?

the The

country,

From RENE MacCOLL: Panama

U.S.A.

OUTH

AMERICA

ΡΑΝΑΜΑ

¿COLON

40 MILES]

■ CANAL

in

"Racial discrimination strongly resented by my people, but we have promises that die.

man throughout the

ting about 121⁄2 per cent of the He is aware that everything profits (about £700,000) a year, that Nasser has done in Egypt "Perhaps things will change, has bulli up sometimes over Sometimes it is not a maller crimination will be done away, whelming pressures for similar only of money. There are other with"

ways in which one can gain, measures here,

"We firmly claim sovereignty over the capal-on that point we will not yield.

for

Anti-American The nationalists cry out action. Anti - Americanism numbjes dangerously. Even the most level-headed Panamanians

are asking themselves: "Why foreign control of a broad strip of our own land?"

at as

by

Anu Panamanians grow angry

at being feered

satellites" "United States other Latin Americans.

Said President de la Guardia; would say that the

1

"The phrase in perpetuity" as regards the Amerleun ¡case of the canol has now become quite academic. The Canal Zone, 100, is ours."

I walked out of the palace Into the heat of Pana in City It is a tense sort of place.

In the air

There is a feeling in the warm nic like violin strings. The strings may stand up for another fano or two - óc mind,

The President added carnestly; Back In 1903 the United "While we talk in the way i States signed a treaty with the want to make it clear that wo then insignificant line Repubile are not hostile to America.

of Panama by which America "We

ourselves as regard

was to enjoy rights in për partners in a common enterprise peluity" over the canal ---- thên

feel that wo and I

tho can argue uncompleted and over the

stretching for Americans without "Canal Zone,"

five miles on each side of the favour of a take-over by Panuma. upsetting anyone."

•ineralsht public sentiment is in with

romantle

"But you must not get too I asked the President whether canal. Not a very close one, to Judge

about these

fact things. Panamanians resent the

In 1914 the '60-mile canal by what I hear in the camps. You have got to weigh all the that while 20,000 of them work linking the Caribbean with the

One interpreter tells me that factors. The Communists, of on the canal, compared with Pacing

completed and the herself has only just been

3,500 Americans, yet the Pana- opened to the world's shipping, vetted and given an interpreter's

manians

In the last war the United hold only poorly-paid she has been

menial jobs, pane although

States and a garrison of 100,000 the nefugees

"The He answered;

Amori- men stationed in the ́zona, working- among since last November.

cans should remember two Today there are jet planes, £gitators among Communist

things: (1) Poople in general do big guna, elaborate radar strictly

(2) Ameri- Installations, plenty of troops... refugees lake bread-and-bulter, non-ideologic- | Arabia.

eans with money are apt to all the trappings of a vast and when alert: United States milltary. He pulled on his cigarette and behave too boisterously replied: "At present wo are get- they go abroad.

base,

DAIN, rain. and more rain s

what

independent newly

hove-and Marccco mit91 once if it is not to be plunged of a suicidel new Wave into

Hardly anti-French riota. drep

of rain has fallen there the stree last September.

Famished

kill their thirsting and

youths, not entitled to full sheep,

Moorish adult pay the

rates, they say: and tribesmen will "Don't let them cheat you. incke an easy target for Com- Don't accept a penny less than munist and nationalist agitators £18 a week. That is what the

to lead them into men get. You cannot live anxious new assault on the French. For icts."

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NEHRU SEEMS to be cooling towards his former lal, Nasser. He has refused to extend India's emergency credits to Egypt, granted so

There is no kinder, gentler." enthusiastically last year.

starving superstitiously religious people than the Russian people; And he has rejected the

no people readier

their cotton Nusser is offering Trotsky. He was imprisoned in

strength 10 sacrifice their lives Indin's textile mills us too the Kremlin by

There is also no the Reds, for an ideal. expensive.

apcused of "counter-revolution." more savage and brutally cruel

SILT MAY

CLOSE CANAL

CAND, wind, and Egyptians)

indolence may shortly close

the newly reopened Suez Canal. Desert sand is being blown by the wind into the Canal, which is rapidly silting up.

special

Suez

Canal

The drodgers used by the old Canal]

il He knew Lenin,

know

more

persaris

forced al by drought,

NUWAR, THE SCHEMER,

J

UST over

HAS LOST

a year ago, when young King Hussein of Jordan made his favourite, the ambitious Major-General Aly Abu Nuwar, company to keep the channel Chief of Staff of the Jordan Army in succession far the Egyptians have shown to Glubb Pasha, I warned that the king was set-

clear were nearly all sunk. Sol

no signs of trying to Bad subting up a traitor in command of his forces.

atilute dredgers.

may prove

In any case this difficult. Experts tell

HIS GAMBLE

An aircraft of this kind-a

Lockheed U.2 capable of climb-

ing

to

60,000ft, recently

at

crashed in Nevada. Police once put a security net around the debris to protect its secrets.

It is a daring prediction accused of having betrayed Jews COMMON.

Israeli new a

INFORMERS

me for me to make. But I be- to the Nazis, has limelighted the earned just over £1,000,000 cf existence ordinary dredgers are not suit-lieve that with his flight to terrorist group modelled on the able and it will take time before Communist

Syria Abu old Stern gang.

the shipyards, already over Nuwar has lost his gamble burdened with orders for to:kera,

can get around

· building a new fleet of dredgers.

IKE'S AID

to

for power.

My reasons:-

1

American dollars

DISAPPOINTMENT

The organisation is called the

3

Kingdom of Israel and has membership mainly of young- the to emulate eters anxious and deeds of the old terrorist groups.

in reward money during the past five years by tipping off U.S. income-tax collectora on tax dodgers. The tax men collected more than £28,000,- 000 in unpaid taxes as a result.

Eisen- programmes of

Its aim is the re-establishment ******** are more im- of

the Biblical hower ald

kingdom's

West compass all of Palestine,

portant than Nasser's vague borders, which are held to en- FRANCO TIPPED

PREDICT that President promises to the moneymen Jordan, and Sinal, as well 09 Eisenhower will shortly who more and more run parts of Syria and Lebanon. announce an offer of 70,000,000 Jordan. dollars (£28,000,000) in aid to

Poland together with a promise

of more to come.

2

The Bedouin army men trained by Glubb trust small to be of real valud in the king.

The Poles think the sum 100

But what a smack in the

TO JOIN NATO

the in

These ideas ure, of course, vehemently condemned in om-

a THE

announcement, cial quarters. But the idea of

has meist information bulletin reborn Kingdom of Israel

with cought, on undoubtedly Jarge sections of Ismell youth, of the Bonn Government, that support AUSTRIA'S GOVERN. Germany is ready to

sirengthening Gomulka's break- away regime against Moscow's pressure campaign. They wanted eye for the little king to MENT has refused to give 300 million dollars-part In find that the devoted flat American financed Radio surplus wheat, colton, olls, and terer Nuwar, who, as Paris Free Europe the list of fats, part in dollar credits for

Hungarian Secret mining and agricultural machin military attache, led him 30,000

round the night-spots of Police Agents which it has Europe, and whose advice compiled because it is Soviet Union In agreeing to ald he took in sacking Glubb, afraid the

hos has now proved to be exact would consider publication

егу.

The Poles, however, have one satisfaction.

Poland at all Eisenhowers

overruled the strong section of ly what Glubb always said. of the list a breach of

his own Cabinet which

was he was.

opposed to any kind of ald to Foland.

મ

THE CANADIAN and U.S.

Chiefs of Staff now plan to

Austrian neutrality.

Said Sir John Glubb him- AIR SEARCH self, tulking to me by tele-

phone from his home in FOR ATOM DUST Surroy: "I'm amazed that

extend their screen of anti- Abu Nuwar has been chuck-

PLANES

with

по

Soviet radar stations to the od so suddenly, but I can't U.S. Identification marks or North Pole itself.

Bay I didn't think it 'might International registration rum- come."

bers are shortly to be sent up from airfield in Britain and

to Germany - according German source,

WHAT MAKES

RUSSIANS TICK?` ́ISRAEL'S NEW

00, the

"JUST as a pig can never

look at the sky, capitalist can never understand the paychology of the Soviet

TERROR GROUP

?

THE open assassination in Tel Aviv of Dr Israel Kastner,

a

They will carry a set of lop- secret instruments capable of: discoverings and measuring par- Sioles of atoma • dusting tho atmosphere and unvaringt where they come from.

оп

now

Franco Spain's candidature for mxmbership of Nato Fig

as "pre- officially described mature."

All the same, I predict

that

at the fortheeming meeting of the Nato Council in May, Spain --non-telligerent enemy of Britain during the war-will become a full Nato member.

VANISHING

CIVIL SERVANT

PALLING MIS: When are

to we going

have some more RCWS about Captain Frederick

Air Shannon, an Ministry employee who vanished mysteriously a fortnight ago?

His disappearance is being talked of abroad as a sinister affale involving secreis, Reporte from London received abroad Inalet that he was in charge of the destruction of discarded in a hush-hush secret papers department of the Air

officials

that his most secret job Was the compilation of Air Ministry tefo- phone directories,

Polloo and se- curity officers are trying

find

to

aut

what hap pened to the captain after he lett his home in Kingston-with a completely new outfit of clothes- on April 2. LATEST TYPE Soviet land mints are being placed along the Austro- Hungarian frontier. They "are" constructed

to explode three feet above the ground.

course, are doing their bit.”

I said many Panamanians had told me that It was time for the Americans to split the canal profits 60-50 with Panama, since the canal is just as much “natural asset" as is the oil of not like the rich,

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