THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1957.
The man
who can
Intelligence Report
talk tough HIGH TIME that the Socialists of
T
HE toughest job that the Anglican Church can offer has just
been given to Rishop Joost de Blank of Stepney.
He has been appointed Archbishop of Cape Town, bellofs in tolerance and love dally under severe
the city where Christian
are
Britain and Germany got together
to straighten out what Socialism really is.
All along, ho great anxiety
King Hussein should not follow
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now shut up a mental home
She herself as wife and queen had to flee from Talal,
of his youthful excesses,
Gaitskell and his British comrades-are pledging their party to a programme of of this frail, niling, but strong- more expropriation, more nationalisation, willed woman has been that more bureaucratic obstruction of private in the disastrous footstepa of enterprise. West Germany's Social Demo- or King Talai, who as crats are taking the exactly opposite tack. In Turkey, Their chief, Dr Öllenhauer, and other loaders have gone on record publicly repudiating debauched and sick as a romuli omee, on behalf of their party "any, intention it did not endear the national- Clayton, of nationalising any branch of the Corman demagogues to her that they be burled "somewhere where economy,'
." He denounces nationalisation advisers. as harmful to a coutry's interests. Over to you, Comrade Gaitskell.
challenge.
Such was the strain on the previous holder of this
the late Dr Geoffrey that he asked for his ashes to
there is no colour bor,"
Outspoken
AT qualifications does the Hishop of Stepney bring to his new post? They are im- pressive.
He of Dutch dexent. He will be able to grapple with hard-headers Dutch farmers in their own langunge.
And he is renowned for his fearless, outspoken speech. in 1955 he visited Huth Ellis in her kath cell. Four months later at public inceling he spoke about his talk with the, condemned
woman,
He said he was "horrified and
aghast beyond words" to find
at Holloway prisoners
could hear hammering going on us scaffold was being built.
He said he rejected the death penalty because of ita absolute nature. Its questionable nature, and its revolting nature,
'Hysteria'
TAVEN the Lord Chier Justice,
Hussein's mother -and the Murder
List.
66HAGHA'AH" —
ally "Street Control -Syria's sinister Left-wing terrorist organisation-has been
given a list of royal targets for liquidation.
order
liter experts belleve, in
10 the unitate King sein In eyes of the Arab world a man who cannot protect his family. Partly in order lo terrorise the king himself, and parily because Nasser and Serra) sce In Queen Zein one vi HEADING THE LIST so the most powerful obstacles to Jordan Intelligence men have their plans and an author of discovered Is QUEEN ZEIN, their present defeat in Jordan. mother of the young King
In which, from all I have Hussein of Jordan. TARGET Jearned myself, they may που No. 2 is the 22-year-old KING be so very far out. HÜSSEIN himself.
Other candidates for assassi- nation, by "Secret Control" net:
Lord Goddard, enme under | KING SAUD OF SAUDI
fire from the
bishop's
when Joost de
flogging In 1953.
CERTAINLY the queen on her lust visit to London was tongue ARABIA—who has incurred the predicting the Imminent fall of Blank criticised | wrathi uf The organisation's All Abu Nuwar, the sliriky, pro- masters in Cairo and Dantecus Egyptian court favourite, whom He sald Lord Goddard and by his desertion of Nasser and the king ba made chler of The magistrates
NURI ES staff of the army after he sacked were infected support of Hussein; with the wild hysteria that | SAID, the unti Communist, Glubb, erimes of violence should be met anti-Nasser Premier of Iraqi by violence.'
PRINCE ABDUI, ILLAH of Iraq and his nephew KING FAISAL; fatri KING IDRIS OF LIBYA.
A hint of his views on racial Intolerance came when he with drew the ban on a Jewish play being performed in a Christian church because: "The Church wanted to make it quite clear that it was not anti-Semitic."
His battle
ISHOP JOOST DE BLANK will take up bis new office at the height of the unrest in South African Angliean Church, threatened with racial segregation under aparthold,
1
The previous archbishop maid he would free gaɔ) rather than segregate his Church.
Blank was an Bishop Joost Eighth Army chaplain during the war and was wounded,,
It looks now as if he la facing the biggest battle of his life, By ROSALIE MACRAE
A
LBERT
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ALL the men and women en A the murder list are either members or top political_sup- porters of that "Kings' Trade Union" from whose power and Influence Nasser and his Syrian ally Colonel Streaj have Awom to "berale" the Middle East.
"The king le beginning to ser through
General Abu Nuwar," she said. "It will not be long now before he threws him out." How right she was. Abu Nuwar, his conspiracy folie, is now in Cairo,
EIN had never liked All Abu Nuwar, and tried hard to prevent Hussein bringing him back from Paris--where All Abu Nuwar was Jordan's military attache to be his ADC. at the palace.
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Why has top priority been "He a bad for the king,” she given to the murder of Queen declared, “bad for his marriage, Zein? Purly, so Middle East and bad for his policles."
SCHWEITZER is overpowering in appearance: six fect and more tall, straight as a ramrod-12 stone of muscio and bono,
At 82 he continues to give his African workmen object lessons in the use of a spade-and this in o climate as close to the steaming and dank jungle beloved of Hollywood as anything on earth,
He has had five careers at once-philosopher, theologician, musicion, doctor, and missionary--and they span so much territory that it is clear no one man is capable of assessing his compotence dotormining his morit.
or
Many people revere Schweitzer as a modern saint as a man inspired. They took his warning about H-Bomb tests as words from the lips of destiny.
Albert
Schweitzer
SCHWEIT-
ZER'S fame rests upon
LES ARMOUR
the simple fact that he gave does rot merely mean
a position of eminence grand gesture,
up
thousand years.
his
must stand, There are those who say that the fate of the world may depend in the long run upon the political develop- ment of Africa. Schweizer has had more than a little to do with shaping the polleles of The area in which he works and ho will have to bear & share of the responsibility for what- ever, good or bad, is the out-
come.
Then, too, his hospital doca not entirely conform to con temporary medical ideas of the ideal. It warms with animals of Dil sorts, Insects are encouraged on the grounds that all life is valuable,
A
which a
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by Sefton Delmer
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STEPHEN CONSTANT TOM STAGRY
WHY AMERICANS NOW WANT TO KILL GATT
ATT (the General Agree-
G ment on Tariffe and
Trado) having served purpose -- in weakening the British Empire's preferential kystera--iha Americans now. grant to scrap it.
For GATT is an obelscle In the way of the increases in fariffs and narrowing of im- port quotas A majority of US Congressmen Аге de- manding.
So unpopulr is GATT that
President Eisenhower - has found great difficulty in 10- cruiting Repubican to do. fend it before Congress,
Oddly, the premure to raise U.S. tariffa stems from American business men's fear of one of iko's own pet pro- Jects the European Con- 2000 Market.
They are afrald of the effeol on US, exports of this now protectionist area—and want to be free to take reprisals.
large for the submarine's own Senate Armed Services Com-
mitice,
deck
It is dragged along under water
Narriman's son and the Throne
TX-KING FAROUK, according M to drain Intelligence sources, is trying to gei General Mahomed Nogulb, now - under house suresi near Cairo, to head anti-Nauer coup which would restore the monarchy, but wilkent Farouk.
An
The Ides fa to put Faronk's eight-year-old son. Fuad (above) on the throne, The Govern- ment would be administered by * regency with Negaib, sa top man.
Farouk, with an eye to publie opinion in Egypt, is now trying to'stim down to a mere 20 stone In his yellow and white vilia near Asilo beach in Italy, No skuns the Umelatıb of night clubs and gambling casinos,
that the U.S. aircraft-carrier ings without number. As for Forrestal has no portholes to as Gibraltar is concerned the protect the crew from radioactive atomle bomb and radiation la a point off-shore from which CHINK IN THE
particles?
might never have been thought of. DEFENCE OF GIB.
Even the Rock's water Our Own Mediterranean mostly rain water caught on the fortress, the Rock of Gibraltar, concreted surfaces of the Rock notice in Richard all has "portholes," or Taser and conducted into reservoirs Killan's cespatch (page 13) vent-holes, and unsealed open- insião-could be contaminated
been
the mad king's
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On tow
THE Russians have developed a
the missile is to be fired. missile-launching "trailer for The development of this plat- Bubmarines. A "traller" is A fort has been disclosed by the platform which permita the American Central Intelligence fring OF gulded misiles too Arency
members the
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By JOHN ATKINSON
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THE dust and the hatreds
settle down a little in Jordan. But now omorges now pattern which pivots on King Hussein's cracking of
the plot
*
against him.
The king and the States friendly to him are trying
to:-
(1) BOX IN and isolato Syria the Arab land that Jooks to Moscow-first and holy Mecca afterwards;
(2) STRENGTHEN ties between the "wedge of kings" that separatos Syria from her partner in the plot against Hussein -Colonel Nasser,
Syria, half as big again as England, posed with Egypt as an ally of Hussein in the Arab world's foud
against Ísrael.
This friendship was not evan skin deep. For Syrio and Nasser backed the conspiracy by Jordan's Communists and Nation- alist wild men to over- throw Hustein.
Syria and Nasser plotted to divide Jordan between them.
But Hussain has rallied his friends. First, Iraq, which has a socret pace to give him armed help if necessary. Then Saudi Arabia, flowing with oil and dollars, has sent him troops.
To the north, little Lebanon accepts the Eisenhower doctrine and wants по dool with Syria.
This new alignment is a shock to Syria. It must ba
a greater shock to Moscow.
learning, and the rest to humanity.
At 30, he was principal of a theological college, renowned as an expert on the philosophy of Kant, as the world's expert on Johann Sebastion Bach and as a great organist.
as he
In
no doctor
of Merit
Ho announced calmly that he proposed to study medicine, so deep spiritual calm-on that he could found a mission in Europe to go out to the His "example" is, first of all, atmosphere quite unlike that of hospital in the Congo, most remote part of the example of an extremely the moderni, ultra-hygienic For seven years he studied
intelligent man Africa and build a hospital his very utmost to become
who has done hospital-surrounds the hospital medicine and. In the eighth
A despite the constant hubbub of
ho left with his bare hands.
civilised
had man. He Is at activity. Other men have built complished in music, in letters, It is a human hospital-a
in selence. Ha mind hospital in
He settled in a wilderness hospitals with their bure and
encompasses the most important entire failly may
pallent's which there was hands. No one else, perhaps, clements in the learning of live with I'm while
come and within a radius of 500 miles. has given up quite so much man over the past two or three treated. It is primarily an net but never for long except when he is He came back several unes, to do it.
of faith rather than an act of the First World War held him Schweitzer 19 revered In that sense he is the relence.
an unwilling captive in Europe. because he has acted upon Aristotle of the twentieth' It
It may very well be that this
And he has changed remark- the urge which, sooner or century and there does seem is an excellent thing. But later, must, by definition, to be very little doubt that he there are those who have their ably little over the years,
Last year, IME came to has encompassed at least as doubts and It may be asked England to receive from Queen prompt every Christian much territory as any man since whether many of the people Elizabeth the Order man and woman-the urge the ancient Greek,
most lavish in Its praise would He and President Eisenhower 'to abandon everything in
that, his hercives like to be treated are the only foreigners to hold more than the name of a suffering "example" is the detail of his there,
dally Üfe in Europe and in the humanity.
However that may be, it is "He stayed in a litle cafo in Belgian Congo, About that still true that Schewitzer, weil
veil Westminster, owned by u That, perhaps, is a dangerous there is less agreement,
into his ninth decade, continues Swiss friend of his who lives basis for enduring fame. And He has sold of the Africans to treat every kind of it from on the premises, yet, his massive contributions to whe work with and und him stomach upsets to leprosy, inat spent his spare time sitting at There hu theology, to philosophy, his and for whom his work is dono: patients flock to Riksplie the table in the darkent corner
of recordings Johann "Savages are always savages, fact that there is now a state talking to anyone who came Sebastion Bach, must surely The African la my brother; but hospital not far away, end, along. make up for whatever seepti he la my younger brother by even more, that many men and Visitors carue all day for clan klitory may bring to bear several centuries,"
women are happy there,
days on end, on his grand gesture.
Ha do* not belleve In And Schweitzer himselt has What is Less certain is political equality. for the no doubts about his past whether, in detall, his own African." Nor does ho bellevo about his future,
that the African should have He will go on, as he always look But ali wero received Ife has cald again and again, the elaborate ord expensive has, until he dropa. that it is by their example that European education which Hia course of lite wis with cach, Schweitzer tried to men must be known and it is produces the "civilised man" deterinined when he was 21. talk about, Bomething he
organ
elalins stand.
But,
by his example that ho wants he himself tries to be,
to be remembered.
And by bis example" he on
No one ever taked who they or were or whether they lasew the doctor, Many came merely to
..with the same courtesy and,
He decided then that he would thought might interest them, Whether he is right or wrong give three years of his life to
these matters, the record muals, seven more to abstract men.
That is one measure of the
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When I asked the Gibraltar officer showing mo around, the fortress what was being done to seal it off from, radioscilvo pir outside, he said: "Nothing. It is all too expensive."
Revolt corner
FOROCCO looks like becom
Mo
ing once more the starting~ point of a rebellion of the Spanish Army-just as It was 21 years ago for the revolt which put Franco in power. Except that this Ume it would be directed against Franco.
Discontented Spanish Army officers stationed in the garri- |sons still remaining in newly in- dependent Morocco are leading figures in a
nationalist anti-Franco undergroundA
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The underground has celia throughout Spain. They are called "Juntas de accion Pattiolicas"
Patriotic Action,
Committees of
Leaflet I have the text of diarbuted by the Juntas. It refers openly to the possibility of an army revalt.
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