1960-11-18 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1960.

The bitter facts that must be faced by the Tories who have abandoned the policles of their former leader

EVEN THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HAS TO FACE THIS QUESTION:

What does Eden feel Ike's

4 years after Suez ?

RECENTLY was the fourth anniver-

sary of the landing of British troops on Egyptian soil, when the curtain of the Suez adventure was finally lifted, and the act put in motion that was to end in the resignation of Sir Anthony Eden, and our subsequent withdrawal from the Canal.

From his retirement, Sir Anthony must look with a quizzical eye upon the events that followed.

For although everything that has hap pened in the Middle East and, the world since has fully justified his intervention, he ean now look upon a Conservative Party which has abandoned every tenet of his Foreign Policy.

He can see the whole strength of the party standing silent in the wings watching with a sort of grim despair the brilliant solo act of Mr Mucmillan.

Far

while they know the stage is set for stink tragedy. they also realise they have upon it conjurer whose execution

. such

that

in su briliant, and who plays u universal applause

merly shrug their and

they can

shoulders

private.

Only chance

abl

"you've never had it so good!'

by LORD LAMBTON

Tory M.P. for Berwick-upon-Twood

the

And that, on this assumption, retain East Africa as a sphere of lorent an pro-Western influence is not to we have gambled everything

position in gambled our build up its leaders slowly.

Middle Enst, our position in harve

the Europe, our position in Africa: We

abandoned idea of trying to make them ambled Irresponsibly and be realise that Home Rute wasyond our means.

For in reducing our defence 10 # country's bencût

the is the attitude of unti This now

pupulation had forces to their present level we many who believe that the advanced further to civilisation. have not taken the possiblilly of foreign policy failure into foundations

Conserva- of tho

Instead, we have suddenly recount. And will not have, it tive Foreign Polley must be based upon realism, and that propounded the alien theory that the cards are put upon the table, the only chance this country any country with 5 per cent of the conventional forces to meet had of remaining a great Power its population educated (and the one obligation.

other 95 per cent living in con- was through strength, the unity ditions of savagery) is fit to ruže of Europe and America and the maintenance of our pusitin Africu.

itsett.

:L

It has suddenly become our concy

encourage all

10

come

this "How has alt about?" may be asked.

The answer is that compla-

once

been nas

uroin our encouraged, and again and again, a fase impression of events hos been presented, so that people have come to believe that ull's well with the world, and that at lume they never had it so good,

When Sir Anthony lodes at policy the events which have tolfowed settlers in Afrien to believe that our discarding of realism and the wind of change is going to strength he must think that he blow them out. is back once again in the 1930's when realism was discouraged, and the strength of the Govern ment lay in complacency,

Misjudged?

For look where you will your Government's treat- Government's having

only

a

in the world today and you ment of Sir Roy Welensky, one deteriorating can only conclude that we have 'decided that it no longer matters that reassurances given to the white man should be broken,

xce kituation. in the Far

East you have the growing might of China, the growth of Communism in Japan and Korea, a state of uncertainty in India Sian and Cambodia, and chaos in Laus and Indonesia.

Uncertainly

You have countries

pro-Western

in each of these decline of both of feeling and

the effective rule of respon-

sible governinen1.

The

same

uneriainty

East

hangs over the Middle

upon which

depends

supply, and as

by Russia,

our ull Egypt, armed

prepares for a

further onset on the West,

the

thrones

Persia, and

and

Above ait, Sir Anthony must wonder whether in these last four years we have basically misjudged the forces of Com- munism, and based our whole foreign policy on the belief that a week's conversation in Geneva between an old Scotsman, on old Amerlean, and an old Russian would bring an end to the cold war.

Jordan of

dictatorship the

of Iraq, all hang unsteadily in

The balance.

If you turn from there to Africa, you have murder and bloodshed in the Unlon, and rule

by death in the Congo,

Even Amerios is beginning now to learn the facts of life- what with the Cuban revolu ulon at her doorstep, and the instability of the American republlos.

Bouth

In fact, you have throughou the whole world that deteriorat- ing position which the Right and

Centre wings of the Conser-

vative Parly prophesied would

Inevitably happen if you created vacuum and withdrew

鼈

authority.

Unrealistic

Haw kns the Conservative

Party faced this position?

It has, alas, faced 11 hy baing

uncouraged to swallow, like

*

torne little laydog does cream,

all the unrealistic ideologies of Baclulist Foreign Polley.

drem

Putting on the fancy of the Fabian Society, the Con- servative Party has suddenly decided that the way to go for- word and meet the now age is to give up its basie boller'in realism and the strength of power.

Related to practical politiet, this: bas mant that... wa haya suddenly decided that the way to

Cummings

I hope only that the price will not be our extinction.

I know that this presents a Yet it is al gloomy. prospect. the same time the bitler, old truth; and wrinkled and curiously enough, its presenta- tion to a yet uncomprehending British public could be the very basis of national recovery.

+

dilemma-how

to keep busy when you're out of a job

A

FAMOUS Washing-

ton cartoon shows two teenagers walking home from school. "OK" says one, "So you grow up to be President. And you even get re-elected, that's still only eight years, What do you want with the rest of your life?"

now

This

Elsenhower's dilemma. In January he will be out of job for the first time since he left school. What will he do with the rest of his life?

A problem

It has been a problem for 25 ex-Presidents before him. Only

one of them decided to live in complete ease and idleness and he died an alcoholic at the not- so-ripe old age of 84, -

Ike can certainly afford to

clays in spend his

a rocking chair.

He is the first ex-President in liberal history be given a

which pension by Congress, before did not consider such men 10 be worth spending Rood money on.

His allowance will be about £9,000 a year, plus up to £17,830 for a staff. If he dies before his wife, she gets £3,500 a year for lite.

This book. Crusade in Europe. notted him 500.000 dollars (nore £178,000) and an #gile than New York firm invested. The profits well enough to bring him in £5,000 a year.

For the British people, as at Dunkirk, will always rise to a situation as long as they realise how bad it is and there are now. I believe, in this country a vast number of Conservatives,

the by magazines and publishers with both old and young, who view

absolute dismay apparently intentional discard. 1or the serial rights of his

memoirs, which are not and our authority ing of

written yet. Independence.

The solution

It is my firm belief that a change feeling now exists in this country and that all that I needed is a chance for it to express itself.

This country has yet great assets, but what we have lost for the moment is the will to them in our own

exploit interests,

I can see little excuse for the

encour In the 1930's aged his thought. Mir Baldwin was able to justify his evasions, his weaknesses, by the arguments that he was

is needed is a lend doing all that he could, and All that

I am sure that whoever that if he did more the country and would turn him out and replace presented the truth and express- him by a Pacifist Government. ed a determination to retreat no Today this argument cannot be further would find himself at used, for there is no opposition, the head of a party and a nation, One day the Conservative both doing what they believed Party and the country will in rather than drifting help- have to And the cost which lessly, fatalistically towards the has to be paid for a Govern- status of a dependent little ment that seeka popularity at Britain. any price.

London Express

Service.

Moreover, he is being wooed

My guess

even

And if all this does not keep him in the manner to which he has become accustomed. Con- ress may well offer to restore his pension

by Jeremy Campbell

was

ving

Ike a post at a inrger salary than he earns at the White House £35,790 a year, plug more than £30,000 expenses

Bilt Elshower has made it known that he would be much happier serving his country --- preferably in the way that Nixon has purested, as a sort of roving Ambasador of goodwill for the Government.

No American President in history has had less appetite for party politics than he

Harsh words

His embrace of the Republi- cons in 1852 would not have been banned by any flim censor on the grounds ot baing exe cessively passionate, It was the kiss of cousins, not of lovers:

is just conceivable, in sple of the harsh words he spoke wainst Kennedy ut Philadelpila last week, that the samne post would be offered him by a Kennedy drninistration.

expenses an

1 he accepted, It would be Certainly, he will escape the talonient

1 bor

god_news

The for Britain. unhappy tote of many American finally reduced ex-Presidents, who were allowed from his friends.

Eisenhower Macmillan friend- to drift into scrimping poverty

heavily slip is warm and deep, and goes Jolin Adams lost no

to the early days of the by a grateful nution.

on investments that he found it back

Lako neocaalry to

job sa WDT. surveyor of highways in a small We might be glad to have ari

James town in Massachusetts,

old friend among the Maddison died in debt.

new faces in Washington. Half a dozen mammoth cor- porations would be glad to offer

In debt

The illustrious Thomas Jet- While House ferson tell the owing 20,000 dollars for enter

A

bright

-(London Express Servicej

LAND OF THE SHAR

THE PACE FOR

PROSPERITY

TRAN is in the throes of a peaceful revolution which promises within a

decade to place her in the front rank of Middle East nations.

Far-ranging schemes are under way for agricultural improvement and widely diversified industrial development to supplement the country's oil revenues and create a stronger, more broadly-based economy-and for social reform.

Originator of this "Operation the Transformation" and country's 41-year-old ruler. His driving force behind it--is the .1 five-star Imperial Majesty Mohammed | General, which japsed when he Rezs Shut- Pohlaví, the

decided to run for President in Shahanshah. 1952.

The

constitutional only ព Maklog nervous guess, 1

monarch to give 5 regular should say that the will be

monthly Press conference, he worth an even million dollary has described his powers as being (£357,140) out of office,

than the King of "rather less Sweden and not more than the Queen of England."

He has a part of a castle in Scotland, pressed on him by the people of Scotland after the war. He plans to buy a house in California, where he will spend some of his winters.

Although he will be 70, with three major illnesses behind him. his doctors say he will be able to hunt, shoot and fish for years.

Now is the time for all good parties to come to the aid of the MAN... Now is the time for All good parties to come to the aid of the Man NOW I

But from the air-conditioned study of his white marble palace high above Teheran, he super- vises every aspect of the in- tricute plans for building a new Iran which will be competitive with other nations in the modern world.

Example

A far cry from the post of ald who wrote:

"A Persian's Heaven is eas'ly made. 'Tis but black eyes and

lemonade.

Shah Pahlavi

"Iron has a long and hand road to travel," the Ambassador went on. "She does not claim that she has yet attained her economic and social objectives, but a big stride forward has been taken,"

M. Ghods-Nakhal next turned to his country's defence polley and relations with her neigh-" bours,

Iran is a member with Britain, Turkey and Pakistan of the Central Treaty Organisation, which is also supported by the United States.

This "northern tier" of de- East fence for the Middle Egles Russian aggression was known as the Bagdad Pret until the withdrawal of Iraq,

With her 2,000-mile commen frontier with the Soviet Union, Iran is a key link in the alliance. And she has remained a stead- test ally in the face of threats from her powerful neighbour, Infiltration of agents and sabotewa and internal pressure from the Tudeh Communist

country and improving owner- farmer relationships.

The Ambassador went on to party. explain that three-quarters of Iran's population are workers on the land. But hone

Yet it was another poet who fortieth of the country,ch is outlined to me in London this three times the size of France, marth the magnitude of the task is under cultivation, now being carried out in Iran.

Water shortage

I

The link

The Shah la a firm believer in maintaining personal contact with other countries and is one of the most widely travelled Heads of State.

he problem. For the Iranian Ambassador, and to moel it, a

Am cons-

in hand.. M. Hossein Ghods-Nokhal, is a truction program Duct and novelist as well as a Twoive dams has ready been distinguished diplomat,

completed: three more major works are being constructed. To familiarise farmers the new methods of trigation Last May he said a state visit warda the achievement of ite and to train them in modern to Britain. It is to be returned agricultural methods, specia!

M. Ghach-Nakhai stressed the example se! Immense personal by his rule in leading Iran to

new goal,

The Shah had given away all but a small part of his persons! fortune of some £20 mililon for the benefit of his people.

with

He has visited most of the countries of Western Europe and those of his CENTO partners well as Russia, Japan and Formosa

classes have been arranged at next year-the Brst visit to Iran which people from 3,200 villages, by a Queen of England. have received' Instruction.

Much of the money had gone to set up the Pahlavi Founda tion, which had vs its object the promotion of public health and : education, hein for the poor, aid great

Surplus

fully

4

:

M. Ghods-Nokhai summed up his country's foreign policy "Iran is independent and will defend herself against all eg M. Ghods-Nakhal spoke of the ressors. She is a member of

the United Nations and success that had been supports the decisions of the to charities, the combating of echieved in the six years since Security Council.

most importanti teracy and, in general, the Agricultural reforms had been **Iran i B

сока strategically und "elevation of the general level introduced. By raising agricul

tural production, tran hoped economically for British world of morality and culture,"

The

Silah had also infliated soon to have a surplus of agricul- interests and in the maintenance the land reform movement by turcl products to export,

of peace she is an important Link Parallel to the schemes of between the West and the East." selling alt to farmers on easy terms many of the 3,000 villages industrialisation-involving de- And so Iran mover along her loft to him by ho father. velopments in the production of tong hard road," But in good were ceinent, textiles, metal pipynt heart and with determination. Proceeds

tato of the

cars, radio deposited with a development chemical fertiliner,

As to Shah remmarized, modrý batik catsblished 18 finance the sad television, wide range of after he came to the "Pescoci expansion of productive reseforms in suciul planning Were Throne: la not pleasure

, taking place,

ource

to

Up-to-date Isbour lawn regus to rule over a poor country," The Shah's oxample, designed

creato a new properly- foted conditions of work: ond owning class. and encourage social insurance had been intra- had been political stability was followed dused., Malaria

It had banished from the villages, The by the Government, important glong for remove ling; Aghi against analiper end tabere men

PHILIP MARSHALL