THE CHINA AIE, SATURDAY, JUNE 1957.
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by SEFTON DELMER CONTEST STEPHEN CONSTANT • TOM STACEY
WRIVERS
Intelligence Report
WHERE PEOPLE IN THE KNOW FIND THINGS THEY DIDN'T KNOW
MR FRANCIS NOEL-BAKER, [only thinly, covered with trees, Socialist M.P. for Swindon, is eagerly awaiting the result of an appeal he has made to the State Council in Athens.
He is claiming the exemption of his family estate on the Greek island of Éuboca from expro- priation under the Greek Land Reform Bill of 1952. Under this Bill, large estates in Greece are to be broken up-against com- pensation from the State-and shared out among landless peasants.
The Greeks have conceded that only a fortieth part of Mr Noel-Baker's estate falls under the expropriation law, and that the rest should be exempt. (Reason; although the land is
it can count as being "wooded," which puts it outside the terms of the Land Reform law).
The Noel-Bakers, however, would not accept this expro- priation. Now a verdict cover- ing the whole estate is expect- ed. The confidential tip-off in Athens is that the decision will favour Mr Noel-Baker and give him all he claims.
The land was inherited by the late Mrs Noel-Baker, mother of Mr Francis Noel- Baker.
His fervent advocacy of the Enosis cause in Cyprus found its climax when Francis Noel- Baker kissed the hand of Eoka's returning Archbishop Makarios in Athens.
The Vatican's Swiss Guards get a rocket'!
TROUBLE, baci trouble,
among the six officers, 15 N.CO.'s, and 115 pri- vates of the world's smallest and most peace-loving army -the Vatican Swiss Guards.
The Pope, displeased with the Iack of discipline and military bearing of his soldiers-all of them Swiss has refused appoint t of the guards existing officer corps to the vacant position of Commander- in-Chief. Defying all custom and tradition, he has recruited 。 new C.-in-C. frem outside the Vatican; Colonel Robert Numilst, one the most efficient and accomplished officers uf The Swiss General Staff.
Forty-six-year-old Colonel Nunlist is Switzerland's foremost experi in missile warfare, It was suggested that the Pope had called him in in order to intro- dure missile weapons to army, which siffl wears helmets, breastplates, and halberds designed for it by Michelangelo 400 years ago.
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But Colonel Nualist's true task is, I learn, to stop the husley young Swiss guardsmen scan- dalising the Vatican as they had been doing-by spending too much time with tom's lovely signorinas, drinking and dancing in the taverns,
Saud Looks
For Teachers.
K
"ING SAUD is looking for _
placements for the 350 to
400 Egyptian teachers now
Lory
the
four
over gesture Britons whom he framed and 2
arrested as spies,
Slam out at the formidable Communist organisation tod
by his fellow-conspirator, Major Khaled Mohleddin.
Measures against the Cont- munists would restore his popu- lay with Mr Foster Dulics, relations with the Russians. Partners
without seriously hurting hils
Ucence In
Red Tennispy!
LATEST Soviet spy tech-
nique is to use athletes as agents. They are sent to the Went to attend cham planship meetings. Once there, they use their athletics contacts and popularly as
cover for espionage.
First athlete spy caught
out has beru sentenced to 21 -months* imprisonment at Karlsruhe In West Germany. lle is East German tennis champion Wilfried Pammer-
It is of Soviet design, and is claimed to sink boros from four to
times faster than Western drius.
Len
• PREPARATIONS of the Israell Government for send-
ing a chartered ship through the Suez Canal to
test
Nassor's blockade have reached a new point: Foreign newspaper men are being selected to go on the trip. Cold War In Nylons.
Takra
ino In Industry more affable with Britain, in readiness for the Anglo-Egyptian, "peace SOVIET machinery is now to talks in Rome, from which he be bullt under. hopes to secure on unfreezing ef West Germany. Egypt's sterling and a restorn- First baby of this re- Ilon of Anglo-Egyptian trade, volutionary and significant THE Czechs dumping He may
even make a concllia- marriage: an oilfield, drill,
"ruinously under-priced"
busily preaching Nass-rism and The long dead DREAD NOUGHT finds a
revolt in his schools,
The Americans are going io] try to And then for him-with Eisenhower Doctrine funds,
REASON WHY General All Abu Nawar, leader of the unsuccessful coup against
new place among ships of the Atom Age.
ICE BREAKER
NEW ship is going to crush a way through the
A North-West pass he push button" way. The
Canadian Government has ordered a 3,400-ton ice-breaker, which will be completely electrically controlled, to keep important merchant shipping and defonce routes in the Arctic clear during the long, hard winter.
She will be one of the world's | biggest ice-breakers, but her glaut machinery will be con- trolled by simple push buttons,
She will also
carry three Helicopters which will land on the ship's own "fight deck" and be housed in a speciaj hanger,. Vital need
The ico-breaker willl
The need for Syria's President Kuwatly breaker
be
100-
Jordan's King Hussein, sud-apable of steaming 20.000 miles denly fled to Egypt from at 10 knots without refuelling Syria:
or needing fresh supplies,
a.gdant has become. vital, had revealed to him that because of the new shipping Syria has extradition routes being opened in treaty with Jordan but Canadian Arctic to supply auch installations as the
Egypt has not.
ย
Nasser's
Next Moves
defence
the
Early Warning Trädar System. and to bring out rich cargoes oẼ ore from utandum and Iron mines, now bug developed,
It is uho Intended to uro. tho jee-breaker · An the St Lawrence and it
might be
NASSEN has been spending possible for her to keep
Die wook-und at the rotzeat passage open for ships to use i outside Cairo to which ho goes tho nearly completed :: St when howonls to think, over Lawrence Serway, which will his problems, 1 predict that connect the Atlantic with the when he comes out of his | Grout Lakme katrani ho willin
VinChandon Express. Bervice)
POCKET CARTOON
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*are
ening. The prosecution elaimed that Wilfried-by profession a cook-used to attend West German tourna ments, deliberately lore matches against inferior opponents, then spend the rest of the tournament on espionage.
In flannels, and with his tennis racket under lils arm, fe Is alleged to have photo- graphed American rocket sites in West Germany.
Western rayon, stockings in Europe, and threatening tho nylon market.
The stockings say the Dutch nylon men, are being smuggled in millions of pairs throu Germany and Belgium.
Manager of shoe factory) "Why do they complain
that our shoes have to be resoled so soon? Mine are Hardly worn,**
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PICK THIS from Sofa's Bulgaria-as Red Cartoon of the Week, The grumbles against his managerial privilegentsia
are dwelling a roin. 60
Krushchev tries to safely- valve them with a joke,'
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