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'THE CHINA MAÍI WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER ~ 13, 1957:

I see the refugees in the

THE life of Solomon

Grundy was short and. eventful. Up to a few months ago the life of King Hussein was comparable. Seldom had a young man done so much in a short time. By the age of 23 he had become King. He had married, he had separated, ho had dismissed General Glubb, and such was the situation in Jordan that it was, the opinion of

many

that

his Sunday

was not far

f.

Then came

the crisis of

Jordan camps

-and I say there can be no Middle East poses till their

by LORD LAMBTON.

M.P. who returned from the Middle East yesterday

this April and a new man number of Jordanians and appeared. He acted with Palestinians--no easy lot in speed, with ruthlessness his kingdom-are 900,000. and with eurprising of In addition there are 600,000 ciency that disintegrated, refugees, at any rate for the moment, the Communist opposition. and places him and his Government in a stronger

position than ever before.

I saw him in his palace neor to in Amman, built the site where his grand- father Abdullah onee set his tents. Our talk was off the record, but I can say he is confident that, at any rate for the moment, he is

master of the situation.

HIS ROLE

problem in settled

hotaes

and with somo -Yes. At the end of last onvad £40. *This difficulty I found a house winter

summer I paid back £33, Now It that would receive me.

1-only owe 26. belonged to a young Arab and a wife and young baby in swaddling clothes.

FURNISHINGS

The room which was the house was perhaps 8ft. square.

THE room was absolutely air-

less, the door being blocked from top to bottom with ex- pressionless faces gazing intent, ly at me. Yet the young man did not attempt to show off, spoke with the simple and dignity of despair.

It had a door and His lot is sad and must appear Yet he is two wooden shutters for 10 him hopeless. windows. The furniture among the most fortunate of the refugees, many of whom have In other words, over one- comprised a mattress piled no employment whatsoever and third of the population are up in a corner, an oil lamp, live in tents. displaced persons living in an oil stove, a table, a wire. misery whom the country less, three large paper can never hope to absorb. flowers and some old news

paper cuttings stuck on the wall.

MUD TOWN'

To get a first-hand view of their plight I drove down 1200ft. below sea level to

Karemal on the banks of the Jordan in sight of the

Dend Sea.

I was asked by my host

on to sit

the mattress,

which was unrolled on the floor, while his wife boiled a pot of sweet tea and I had with him, a builder by The camp there contains trade, the following con- About 23,000 refugees versation by ald of an in- divided into 7,000 families, "terpreter. His personality is of un- living in 4,000 houses of usual strength, and if his one or two rooms each. The genius

maturity town is built of mud, reaches and overcomes his problems the moment fewer than a summer he could well become the thousand men are working. bridge between the old and Earlier on in the summer,

more work, later on less. new Arab worlds.

Q-Are you working now?

At A--No. I worked this

but now I will

not

There is an air of hope

and be lessness

upathy, I

The task that he has to face can perhaps best

described by figuros. The asked to go into one of the

"My watch is my constant

companion" says

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At a job again for months.

to

Q-D you save enough keep you in the winter?

A-No. 1 have comply little money saved. It is, he said. pointing to the child, more expensive now.

Q-Then, how will you live? A-I will owe to the shops.

how Q-Is that

you go! through last winter?

has

The number of these unfor- tunates increases all the time. Ironically UNRRA, which built schools and hospitals, trained

rseg and started rekablitation schemes, is denied many Western support by powers, and is having to economise under the threat of the withdrawal ok American support.

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ESSENTIAL MOVE

One thing is abundantly clear; without the settlement of the refugen problem and the Israel frontier, there will be no peace in the Middle East. For, at the moment, it is the tall of extremism which woER the whole foreign policy of every country in the area and offera to Russia a Ifruitless field for propaganda against the West, on blame the whole whom they thing.

Curiously enough the only solution which might solve the problem-an offer by Israel to allow the return of the refugees would result in comparatively few returning..

~(London Express Service),

"Be funny if the Moon Men thought she was an Earth Man and made her their ruler."'

When the bloodhounds

yes," he

PARIS.

used to hurt.us

"children over the countryside

with bloodhunds. Two of us had to run ahead liko foxes. Then he followed the hounds on horseback waving his whip."

Near her Paris home, beneath a icture of Clemenceau on the wall of a little Paris restaurant, a British peer's daughter was telling me about life with father.

The name of this remarkable peer: Lord Redesdale. His even more re- markable daughter: Miss Nancy Mit- ford, the novelist.

Near us, while we ate in

the Paris restaurant, nine

French politicians talked unceasingly.

chased

Miss Mitford

BOOKS by ROBERT PITMAN

round their bloodhounds. But we real non-U to the nation, Lord Alcon- British girl who, when Nancy lunch table. Outaide the ly rather loved it." gendarmes stood ready for Communist demonstrators.

leigh grumbles about the sort at Milford had hardly been heard people who sny notepaper of, stunned Adolf Hitler with frstond of writing-paper and her charm and her cristocratic

pole. perfume instead of scent.

Miss Milford told me:

Miss Mitford has had good reason to love it. In But I could hear only the 1945 she put her amazing baying of bloodhounds father, cloaked under the father was just like that. across these English fields, name of Lord Alconleigh, often used to tease him say

did I said: "How

other into

a novel called The ing notepaper and he would Pursuit of Love. It tas gold roar, 'Don't use that dreadful people react to your

word, and grind his teeth." father's hunt ?"

a quarter of a million copies, It deserved to.

Deserved

Consider just one 'Alcon- leigh incident.

The Link

leaders of

She

"

We talked about the charaC- ters in the Milford novels, about Davey the wonderful hypochondriac who has, to have a special chest built to carry his pils when he moves abroad. Sald Miss Mitford: "Oh, Davey is really Eddie Sackville-West. He actually asked me to put him in the novel,"

This week Miss Milford vielle Britain to Inunch her now book.

Its title; Voltaire in Lovė, Miss Mitford told me: "I've dried up as'n novelist, I can't think of plots. In fact it was Alexander Korda who told me the iden for my novel The BlCKSIDE.

But I love writing these historical books. Hurdly anyone with a sense of humour, has ever written about Voltaire In English before. Alfred Noyes has written a book, But-Noyes is so innocent that the poor ́dnar obviously can't understand what Voltaire's love Affairs were really about."

Absorbing

VOLTAIRE IN LOVE

be (Hamish Hamilton, -218.) It would

ni cheap offence against the code of the book- world for me' to, review it in.nd- varico.

"My

She was stunned too. She We wore the swastik which fond

'But I will say this.. I had just Adolf gave her. She posed for..

the Jew bolter got my copy when I canjo "to" pictures with Stretcher. And in 1939 when.. Faris, The streets were gripped the two nations she loved camo by strikes, to war she tried to kill herself! with a gun in Munich.

Lord

the 10

We talked about the other Mitford girls ("They are all in about my novels,, of course"): Deborah, who Is Row. tho Duchess of Devonshire (Tave you met my brother-in-law Devonshire? He is an absolute

| POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

In the shops candles. flokered. Electricity was cut off. But I This week in Paris I asked hardly noticed. I was absorbed Unity's sister: "Wasn't it a pily In the love affairs of Paris Ins 1 had another question about for Unly that your father's the eighteenth century.

โท the real Lord Redesdale. Today attitude.

Germans reading the new book by the Miss Mitford cald: One of his children men he is best known as Miss Mit- softened?" Nancy Milford most fascinating Mitford "Well, they thought it tions Oscar Wilde. Saya ford's father. In the 1930's no siniled sadly. "I don't know, them all. rather odd to see two little Lord Alconleigh: "If you became notorious as one of the Poor dear Unity was always girls being chased by great mention that newer's name mavement called The Link 1

A

British pro-Hitler rather wild," again in this house I'll said: "In your novel thrash you, do you hear, Alconleigh is always wearing about the Huns, How could he damn you?"

have been in favour of Hiller?" While I scooped at my Miss Milford is 63 this month, melon in the Paris restau. But she has the face of a clever, rant I asked Miss Mitford: pretty girl. The face frowned. dear, A sweat, good man"):

said: "I'm the eldest of "Did your father really call

my father's six daughters. When anyone a sewer?”.

I was a girl he was so against "It was his favourite the Huns that he wouldn't even allow me to fearn German. But word. Mind you, he prob. Inter he softened, and after iny ably picked it up in the In- poor Fascist sisters met Hitler, dian Army. After my my father met him too, and I of novel people wrote to me suppose he fell under the spell." saying that it had nothing I glanced at my list of the him, poor thing, in Amarlon,” to do with drains. It seems Milford girls which I had copied

Among them - We talked about Nancy that it is Hindustani for from Burke's

ware; Diana, married firstly Mitford's own politics. rascal But I am quito cer- 1929 Hion, Bryan Guinness, Milford supports the British tain that my father meant secondly 1936 Str Chosid Ernest Socialists. Sho told me: "But It both ways.

Mosley 4 Unity Valkyrie, died my temperament is really

·unmarried, " 1948. against Boolalism. Hice lying In the Mitford novela,, long Tampoc comfortably. And In Briladi. beform: Miss Milford herself: Do you remember the tragedy, the Bocialists are really rather, introduced the idea of U and of Unity Mitford? "She was the.. grim”.

People thought it rather odd... but we really rather loved it.

Jessica, who in 1037 about married Winston Churchill' Communist nephew, Esmond Romilly.

Miss Milford sald:. "Jessien married an American after him

course. And now, she's

turned him into a. Communlet ton. Torribly embarrassing for

Miss