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THE CHINA MAIL

MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1958.

As the Bagdad Pact arguments go back and forth, I make this warning about

The Invisible

Battlefield

by TOM STACEY

THE POLITICIANS

OF THE WEST GATHERED THIS WEEK IN THE SHADOW OF AN UGLY DEFEAT BY NASSER AND MOSCOW THE IRAQ REBELLION,

And last night those same men of the Bagdad Pact, buoyant optimists, were packing their bags with a new resolution to fight back in the Middle East.

But I warn them now: they will continue to lose, every hour, every minute, until they appreciate the significance of the fact that the enemy has so far won every victory by means of a single, entirely novel weapon in the history of physical aggression: THE RADIO:

This is the key struggle that the West is disastrously losing, despite its generous aid, despite its honest advice.

radio.

bubble-bubble, sipping thick

the eoffer, listening to There is little else to do.

bave watched them in the

soda-bers of Kuwall, nodding named al-Sabah after the royal family how long will the label

over their Azzy drinks (one is

stay?), nodding to the rhythm of Nasser's propaganda.

'It's a plot'

Side by

side

their

hours

the

What do Nasser and Communist stations left them? Let us tako last week. In that Leriod Nasser's radto drummed into y listeners that

briet

countless

America was planning atom- brob tests in Turkey;

• A British plot was afoot to

restore Farouk in Egypt:

✪ The Sultan of Muscal, "bire:

For

thy radio the "Ahned, of the British," was afraid name whoever has the eart

to leave his palace lest his most of the illiterate man has his Said" after Nasser's

people destroy him; virulent commentator.

mind.

Let me give a few examples of the effect upon simple Arabs, mual of whom have never seen bleycle or tip-opener, nt years of saturation with false- hoods against the established

In the erratic style Eastern life, there are abs who are out of the radio.

of Mid- very few of earshot

Every village has its

order, baseless obure against radio, a dry battery job the Weal, incitements to revolt,

"the day promises thal

iberation will gone."

t

All day...

of

urually, blaring out all day above the house of an elder. And every market place. And every oasis.

The taxis in the towns have them, and the shops. They are To such people the radio s never turned off. Once I sailed They dow the Persian Gulf from almost supernatural.

techolen Kuwait to Muscat in an Arab

which dhow. The radio was

day for a fortnight.

Hot by 25

I

The "Imperialist authorities" are extending their terrorist campalip" in Aden Protec- torale;

Hordes of British troops have "the people" in ben giling

Onzan

and

Ours

the fight we are losing

NASSER

Amble broadcasts

Egypt radio

Hours

* week

Damascus -

Bardad

Bana (Yemen)

148

01

07

14

978

KRUSHCHEV

East Germany

Dalgaria

THE WEST

Hours

Arabic broadcasts

a woek

Moscow Radlo

65

Hours

Bratislava (Ukech)

Arabic broadcasts

A week

Cyprus (British)

67

Yugoslavia (Tito's)

Voice of America - France

79

130

Vatican (religious) - Јарап

Total.... 183

Albania

Cling

Grand Total.... 500

ISRAEL- which America and Britain built to help them invade Arab land".

Listen in to famous Ahmed Said on the American interven- tion in the Lebanon: "The whole world, led by the free Arabs, will resist you, O America, will fight your imperialism, will put an end to your aggression. The truth behind you, O America, has been exposed to the whole world-the lender of the enemies of propies, of freedom, and of humanity.

"Wait America! Wall for defeat such as we Egyptians Inflicted on Britan and France!"

Everything that pours into the

Arab ear today Concerns

ugalast imperialist plots

the people, American lackeys tor- leaders, the people's frring monopolists working on "terrible raspiracies." All the Communist Jargon,

1 quote Nasser's radio on

NATO "the means of of

Call

but name,

phrase means "information crier."

In Label, the thoroughly sub-

Jordan and imposing Aden along all day long in verted sultanate in

the people"; villages, sucking at the Yemen border, they pick- Iragh

I have seen the men

sitting

domination

Clarks

Is this all believed? At first, But After In time, not all. driven into the literate head, day after day, it beloved To prove it I can quote the story told by colleague Donald Sea- man, just back from Jordan,

When the British troops flew Int Amman a fortnight ngo

ut them toid Arab

Some

Nassor puts out 370 hours a week of carefully planned. utierly unscrupulous propa. ganda in Arable, Including special programmer for the Suden, Aden, Somaliland, Muscat, Persian Gulf, · Libyn, and "Maghrib." etc. Besides that he has programines In Kurdish for the Kurds, and

ROUND

UP

Swahill for British Africans In The Great Tido"

Kenya.

One hundred and thirty hours TN

wide search for

of Arable vitriol pours in each I materialer the '700-page

week from Russia and her satel-book she has written for Essex

lites.

Our job

County Council on the 1953 food disaster, Misa Hilda Grleve, a senior member of tho archivist's staff, has interviewed more than 200 people. She bas Against this the West, fighting wall over 900 milea explor

lag the Essex const ana His rearguard action which trusts defences,

13 the facts and spurns Arab-style hundredweights of

mud combed Ave documents. exhortalon and THTSMAN inclements puts across a total book will trace the court of Entitled "The Great Tide," the 103 (including Japan and the Vatican),

"neutral"

the freak

on the ilde, which, night of January 31, 1953,

The are somewhat erratically | swept up creeks and estuaries, supported by a number of leaving trail of devastation Arable stations, like extending from Manningtres to those of Libya and Saudi West Ham. The book has taken Arabia, which iranamil locally Mis Grievu two years to write, and tells how 110 people dled the simple Arabiand ie oil, for

how 12,358 homes squatting under his black tent destroyed br Inundated. invisible Altogether 31,000 people were

324 hours a week.

in the midst of this battlefeld, there is Arable rolse} made homeless by the water on the air each day to keep which covered 84 square mules

Hond five radios going fut out the of

afler making 839 full 24 hours, plus a sixth fur brenches in the sea wall. 12 hours.

There are two ways open to Memoirs Of "Monty"

the West to aten til disaster.

2. TO CHANNEL the finest propaganda brains "We know that into working out * com-

1. TO JAM the lying memoirs of Fleid Marshal Montgomery, announced for radios of the enemy;

publications in November, will consist of 578 pages contaluing 200,000 words. Nearly 50 from photographs

the Field Marshal's own collection will be included. Fourteen maps have

Legicharles who welcomed them believe them. that they had fought at Pori all the British troops Sald, "But that is imposable." wiped out by the Arabs exclaimed, refusing to Army.“

were

the Egyptian Pletely new line of radio | been drawn under his personal

arsault.

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supervision,

My ABC of Snobbery

PART

TWO

begins with B

by NANCY SPAIN

H

which

means...

the subtle grades of naval anoḥ

the

value even if

Pubite aren“,

NOVELISTS

General

Boma novellats are good.

Prancoise Bagan was until she

married Guy Behoeller infant

prodigies are only good for their

first book, bad thereafter

Colin Wilson was unt he was

threatened with horsewhipping

Nancy Mitford in the Top

af Top anob novelists. Romantic novelista are seldom any good onob-wise, except for Daphne du Maurier who is the wife of the Comptroller of the Queen's

-Household.

.

O is for.....

OLD

Things we have got used to

Oxford and Noël Coward.

the shape of are best, like

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girls,

for

In cherry red.

brown.or.black

cumuloir. soles.

healthy

school shoes

that don't run

through money

To begin with they'ra

pretty reasonable in

price. They go on and

on wearing well, They

give your child a promise

of strong healthy feet for

life.

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HORSES

T

little

snob's world everything

is

to

LEGGE,

Mrs.

Gerald

HE top subject in a that of The Horse. Almost

do with The Horse is snobbish: the language people talk when dealing with it, the clothes people wear when riding it, the money that is paid out in its upkeep.

Quite normal nice motherly women, faced with the prospect of going round a stables on a Sunday after- noon, go raving mad and chew on a straw, saying things like: "I say, I think she stands over a bit In front and dishes a bit behind, don't you?"

Why The Horse is so mportant has always fascin- sted me I think it is mostly "ecause of the Klastly xpense of it nobody is as xpensive to rear as a race. horse), but also. of course. because of the breeding

Etttte world many Horses are far more important than people. That is because they are so very carefully bred When playing Horse Snob with our friends you will be struck the fact that the rutes are exactly like Family Snob.

You will also notice how Icertain horses' names occur

JAZZ

is for...

Atuost better than classical music since taken up by Ocrald Lascelles and Humphrey Lyttel сап. There was a time when Jazz thundered in Bad Houses in New Orleans, when Princess Margaret would not have been allowed anywhere near it.

again and again, as Charles I JOURNALS

does in so many pedigrees. 1 have always thought, that the equine equivalent of Charles II is a famous horse called Botario Another curious thing about horses is that so many, of the Top People look more fiks horses than horses de

HOUNDS

Pronounced "Ilahoda." Some packs are better than others, thus the Pytchley (pronounced Pie-chly) is better than The Old Surrey and Burstow; and John Peel's pack (Beilman, True and all that for were probably as common as anything. waking the dead, and so on. Anything Leicestershire is so good as to lose all contact with reality.

1 is for.....

INK

Dsing a pen and ink is better than ball point, which is no good. ink must be blue or black. and in extreme cases Blue-Black. Violet, Green are bad. floc in only for Bank Managers.

Bome Journals are better than others

Ay are readers of them. Thus people who read The Times and the Manchester Quardian consider themselves superior to those who read the Sunday Times. Top snob marks are given for arieer duiness. Anything exciting. like the Daily Express, sells better.

Kis for...

KINGS

Good but best when they have a kingdom.

is for...

LAND

Pis for..... PALACE, Buckingham

It you were going to tea there. I expect you would eas ao... which makes it good.

Now correctly known as Lady in the fam The Frog bui Princess Margaret production dresses lo frills-no good.

Lewisham. She played lead PALAIS DE DANSE

M is for...

MEDALS

it is bad to dance very well dimcult dances like the slow foxtrot, Bob dancing consists In moving slowly up and down on the spot in a confined space Bad luck on people like Dama Margot Ponteyn, but sho is married to an *K- Ambassador, she is all right anyway

Some medals are better than PARDON

others. To a decoration snob only those awarded for work on the field of battle will quality.

MEN

Mon must be over oft OR millionaires OR be able to get taxis to stop for them OR ba very good at something to

The unmentionable ward, The Earl of St. Germans felt so Atrongly about this that when quoting a poem about " The kias of the sun for pardon. the song of the birds for mirth he used to sayThe kiss of the sun fur excuse me

excuse their other defences POSTCARDS

Thus Bir Gordon Richards would be good because he can stop tails

MUSICIANS

Some musicians (le. Bach, Handel, Beethoven, and Mozart) are better than other hepin

Beng

Σαρ people do not

They send pleture postcards.

hoir own privately engravod cards with their address, and a line under it. It is bad to start a message on a postcard

Dear Bob

and Tahalkoraky are bad bo- PRIVILEGE

cause too easy and have tunes you can recognise

Somo opera a better than others, Anything run at a loss and attended in full evening dress is obviously anobbler than anything that might get on television and no be enjoyed by The People. (This was the real terror behind the move to stop televising of the Coronation.)

IM is for...

NAMES

Bome Christian names and their diminutives are batter than others, Ken and Bran are not as good on Charles, or Henry, Bertio is better than Bert, It is very unkind to

Formerly the property of the Landed Gentry, but now passed into the hands of TV staṁ wao get preferential treatment on Airplanes and best seata in stiestres. which practice therefore incorrock

is for... RISSOLES

No hotted-up or done-over fpod exista for real food anobs so that old snob tale told me by W. Macqueen-Fope about how his unclo would only cat a voi au vent with a silver form is bad. as he shouldn't hava boon eating * voi au vent anyway..

christen girl Marlene and RITZ

Dietrich was not Marlene, but Maria Magdalene, so there),

Bull the possession. So militonaire Raymond Way who started on fairgrounds, inade, his profits dealing in second-hand motor Cars became an underwriter mi Lloyd's, is still proudest of the fact that he owns three farms Ho run them at a In sex. pront though, actually doing a deni on the zile in madure. This reduces his valus szob-wise,

most important NAVY, The

Like Caesar's wife, above mis- picion. But only Naval Gunners (those ones with straight gold rings are absolutely Top. Any colour between stripes (such as Dalo blue for schoolmaster. yellow for dentist," red for doctor) 1 bad

. MIL Bchoolto

Mrs. Toothie, and Mr P99 12e well aware of

Bill the anab hotel. You would mention the Bayap and Claridge's if you were going there, which shows that ther are all right too,

TOMORROW:

S is for

Spain...