1960-11-24 — Page 6

New men we've got to know

by RENE MacCOLL

New York.

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1960.

Will this topple Nasser?

I CAN NOW DISCLOSE

HIS WHOLE REPUTATION WAS STAKED ON THIS DAM -BUT NOBODY IS BUILDING IT!!!

WASSER'S High Dam

NAS

at Aswan is a flop. This clusive dream

which sparked the 1956

by Richard Kilian

Suez crisis and has been Nasser stood high un

Since last January 9, when

ravine

The Russians have stubbornly refused to send engineers to the source---of so much above the sluggish Nile and Aswan who speak anything Middle Eastern bitter- plunged a detonator setting off other than Russian,

50,000 tons of dynamite, abso- ness and conflict is no lutely nothing has been done. closer now to reality

NOW that Senator John Kennedy of Massa- than it was four and a

chusetts has climaxed one of the most extra- ordinary political careers of the century by be- coming, at 43, the youngest man ever to be elected to the presidency of the U.S., what action does he plan?

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Kennedy, due to be inaugurated and to enter the White House on January 20, is deeply com mitted "to moving ahead again"-a favourite elec- tion campaign theme-on all fronts, both at home and abroad.

Out of the

moderate, the

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than the new

even more like window will go who laks

boy take-it-easy college Conservative policies of Elsen- President. hower,

חויות

half years ago.

America at that time brusque- ly withdrew its promise 10 dnance the High Dam. In his fear of being Bnger and his repudiated by power groups In Egypt, Nasser turned on Britain and France and seized

the Suez Canal

Intrigue

Two years ago I visited the Hixt Dam site. Now on the cliffs walls of the precipitous.

the glant one can still see chalkline which indicated where diversion channels had been marked by hopeful engineers.

But all the finely drawn Then he brought 11 the plans for the channels have Russians, who were only to been abandoned by the

promise wildty that eager to

who are running be done with Russians the job could Soviet Binance, Soviet engineers, the show. and Soviet nachines

Chasing down the reason for the failure of the High Dam in, the elusive shadows of Cairn intrigue is not easy.

1 had to fly out of Egypt away fr its stricl consor

ship to send you this dispatch because no one in Cairo dores to tell the truth about the High Dam, But everyone who counis there knows about the flop.

In Egypt, today people would much rather lle about the High Damn then tell the truth because to He to foreigners is to patriotic,

Result; No Haison al all between the Russians and any of the others on the spot.

Heavy

equipment necessary for the Dant, which would bus the world's third largest, is sitting used in the burning sunshine.

Pathetic

But the Aswin Airliet and the cedar roads along with sides of the

Korge above the first entarnet of the Nile are finish- cd. Men and machines reach the site where nothing is being done.

can

The Russian engineers, unlike the Americans or the Germans ex- or the French. have no perience in building the kind of dam needed at Aswan, so had to alter the they have plans.

future to a pathetic population.

And the population pressure on Egypt is rightening. Census

last gures announced

week show that since 1950 almost Deven million more Egyptians are, eking out existences with the some primitive means used by their ancestors.

In a corner

Nasser must keep up the grand illusion of the High Dam for his mushrooming masses.

Nowadays the dreary, anti-Jewish worn-out Blogans have lost their punch with the people.

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They simply don't lieve them. They have been done to death by the Cairo propaganda machine,

And the whole propaganda, point of the High Dam Is to euntrol the river and its waste- ful floodlug so that millions of aeres of desert can be reclaim- ed for the Nile peasants--the poor fellah ealing his onion or his maize, a prisoner of the

arrow Nile.

KHARTOUM

Nasser flourishes his

plans for the Aswan High Dam in front of his people

but nothing

is being done

It is impressive and attrac-

live.

Nasser is in a corner. If the Dam if he chucked the Russians touriste and business men. The target date for Naser's Russians continue te delay be out. But he would have

was be dream dam

1967. But may feel the sting of the back- Junk his whole air force and

of his

Dam own High experts tell me that not even a lash

most of his armaments, which are doled Dui get it propaganda. And unt he lets

to him by But here is fact: Delegation crush programme could

up his pressure on Communiem Moscow. after delegation from Nasser has built before 1972.

Nasser keeps flourishing his fear the Russians will con- gone steaming off to Moscow to demand mure. nction from plans in front of his people, tinue going very slowly indeed the Russians. The protests to the huse

lot has not changed at Aswan.

with Nasser could no doubt get

skyscraper hotels But it has flopped. been growing, follcenbly in several centuries.

build his High peopled by free-spending He promises a milk-and-honey the stronger and stronger.

Unless he decides to run for Elsonhower's Washington will the U.S. Senate, he could have be completely dismantled. There Cabinet post for the asking. will be new faces in high places,

A

announced whose The wind of change will blow

spend on "new intention it is to Kennedy's hard long

additional 15,000 million dollars fronthers.

of America's money in the next clearly requires a good Serretary of the Treasury the rather

Russions have heard have

that suggestion astonishing Eugene Black, chairman of the World Bank (often known

Bank"), may be "Blucic's offered the post.

Mandate

If one can draw a major con- clusion from this astonishing election, it is that America has Eiven Kennedy a ringing man- date to be as good as his word, to push forward. always for word.

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year or SU

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A 82-year-old charmer. lanky and urbane, spooking in Southem drawl, Black has had an impressive record in his big job.

And Lo no! forget that Kennedy, apart from his youth ful exuberance And Superb and zesi self-confidence, his determination and drive, stari with a great advantage which Eisenhower had not enjoyed for several yours: he will have a

work Democratie Congress to with him and an easy passage in prospect for his legislative proposals.

Will any familiar face at all

stay on in Washington

next January?

after

He says that when news of

him Russia's Sputnik reached

reaction was to ask his first

there himself the questio-It turns oul to be intelligent life on the other ninets, will the

De -borrowers people there

investors?"

Defence

or

The High Dam is no more substantial than the shimmering heat mirages that dance before your eyes today in the searing sun- shine of Upper Egypt.

If

up

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West to

you're putting L-plates...

JUST what is there to

learn when you want

to ride a motor-cycle?

I would not let on more than. So much for the team. Hoving.The answer's a lot..

single exception picked his men, Kennedy one, and that

اره

will

a lot more than you

could be our old friend Allen start off with flamboyance and Dulles.

the late dash-intent on achieving some would think. brother Secretary of State John Feeder solid results with the cast Dulles and head of the Central Agency, America's

Intelligence spy organisation.

The key job

Who will be the new boys? 1

1 likely that Kennedy's

possible delay.

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He will find himself confront- ed with a problem which American President of modern times has had to worry about: the wavering dollar.

With every move be makes Kennedy must bear in mind that

head" team, including such Har- it could have a major effect on "brains" as the U.S. currency and its stand- vard University Canadian born Kenneth Gal. ing. in the foreign money braith ("The Affluent Society"); markets. Arthur J. Schlesinger jun, and Professor Arthur Cox, will con- tinue to have an important, any In shaping Kennedy's policies.

Kennedy

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will start spending at least 2.500 million dollars YOUT mote on the American armed services, for he has long Who is for the key job of beam acutely worried that the Secretary of Stale? You hear U.S. has fallen dangerously be- Adlai Stevenson being tipped, hind Russia in this respect. but I consider more likely

of Thousands.

millions uf that Kennedy will make use of Stevenson's great

by dollars will be spent in the next talent

defence against appointing him to be head of four years on the U.S. delegation to UNO, missile attacks. with ambassadoriai rank,

Kennedy has said often that elected he would call on America for "sacrifices,

there's

Then

brother Bod it

task Kennedy, the kireless master of the election campaign,

QUOTE

-by the Vicar of St Laurence's, Catford, the Rev. Charles Pinder-

Tis wrong to blame schools for the bad behaviour of chlidren today. Schools have 10 compete with the adull behaviour which examples of confront younguters all day long. If we do not like the way our children behave, we must look for the cause in ourselves,

He has never specified what those sacriftoes would entail, but nobody believes that he was kidding about this, and the supposition has been that this is bound up by his other whip- snapping remark that "America must go back to work."

with these Lwo

Perhaps threats in mind, Wall Street the other evening was described, us "nervous" and prices tended to fade.

Decision

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Tu Kennedy's proclamation "action, that there must be motion. Identifluation" and "We will work, We will legislate.

We will move on by executive

by Sir James Scott Watson, order. We will consult the former chief scientifle adviser to people. We will experiment. the Ministry Agriculture. We will innovate.

of

We will try opening a new workshop at, the out bold ideas. Above all, we YMCA, farm training centre will act," come shoke their at Egginton, Derbyshires. heads dubiously. rating the

in world and even un-

AGRICULTURE is no longer mind of this as risky

naughty

a career for the man who called for in a country which has nothing to offer bui brats

is so prosperous. sirength and ignoranon. Now. adays it in a carcer for crafty- men, and the V.M.C.A; is help Ing to provide them.

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But others reflect that there

is another side to the drivlig master: the cool-headed, sleely- nerved young man who four long years ago decided that he

by the Arohdepcon of Chester- would become President and set field, the Venerable T. Dilworth-out to plot his every move with Harrison on ećenmercial televi-the withdrawn certality of a

master chess player,

Mon

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treats its audience se

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POSTSCRIPT: And what of they are morona, Ile fare is the forgotten man Richard

one dull routine of cowboys, Milbous Nixon? Almost cer- erine, murders, pop singers and: tainly he will now dsoppatr Anything from púlsiŝo · life and return to half-wii quis games. savouring milture or intelligens his Californian law praction

is rigidly-grabuând.

So

the

by The course ends with some

rigurous road work-200-plus- mile road runs, irst through

JOHN the trickiest town conditions,

then out on the open road. The going is often very fast.

"But

ELLISON the police ale Is Your tour-

the

In this classroom at says Inspectar Edwin Hendon Police College Scottie Scott,

who the man

trains turns out about 90 expert motor- Britain's top molor-cyclists cyclists a year. the traile patrol men of the Metropolitan Police Force.

At 45, Inspector Scot: (Scottie to the pupils) has ridden more miles than he cares to remem

ber and turned out more top- class riders than he can count.

The difference

"My mexi are a match any day for the coffee bar cowboys," he says.

"Not because there are not some good riders among the cowboys there are-but it's all very well to know when to open the throttle. Anyone can du

knowing when that. It's close it that means the differ- ence between life and death.

"That's why our boys can do all the tear-aways can do-and a bit more besides."

"The drst thing we teach a man is how it works," he told me. "The next-slow riding.

the speed you're at." comfortable

saici

ing speed is most Scottie..

The

course

Lessons

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whole police training

on giving is based "Round the pylons in the control. But here

man confidence, discipline, iron rund at slow, speed, teaching a

lessons a layman can learn:- man balance.

BRAKING: Ол a dry road

"Once 4 man has learned

the way balance he's on mastering control."

There follows days

E

are some

to use 75 per cent front broke, 25 per cent rear brake. On a wet of road road roughly 50-50. But don't be work-working to carefully afraid of that front brake-il prepared traking schedule of is the real "stopper," the rear how to use geurs and brakes, a comparative auxillary.

CORNERS: how to control speed and post-

There's an old lon on the road.

saying: Go in Bow and come Go in fast And there is a special lesson out fast.

and you

POCKET CARTOON

BY FRIELL

"Walt for it if we don't get him for parking we'll pet him for buzzing us 1

London Storia Arroion.

on how to turn right-the may not come out at all.

that costs ΠΟΙΟ WET manoeuvre

ROADS and "dicey" down. surfaces: Keep speed motor-cycling lives than any.

thereby to "We teach rearward observa- gear relatively high,

on the back tion, clear signals, proper road reducing torque

front wheel. Keep your position, and, finally, a last look wheel and cutting down on the your

and your mind as eyes the before behind

turn--the danger of skidding. Anid

Never mind ahead as you can. Saver,"

Inspector GOING FAST: 'Life

front of Scott.

what is going on in

--{London Express Service),

far

Aswan was to have been just as glittering, just ́ a9 His glittering Cairo attractive. It was to have riverfront is blossoming been

the all-star show.

-(Landou Rxpress Service)

How often has Royal Family

gone to court?

IT

is rare indeed for the Royal Family to go to Jaw as the Queen Mother did recently when she obtained a High Court injunction against an ex-footman at Clarence House who was proposing to publish his memoirs.

It

has happened only twice before in the last 60 years and the interesting thing is that in each case the action was to stop the dissemination of inform-

tion

or misinformation

about their lives,

The Arst case-a libel action

took place in 1911, the first

By

JOHN CRUESEMANN

year of King George Ve reign to sign this pledge as being

The case was remarkable' and unprecedented.

beneath his dignity.

In Victoria's day people did

dare to

publish intimate Mylus had suppiled information details about the Royal Family, to Edward Holden

That was left to the Queen

"Leaves

A young anti-royalist called not

James,

Her books,

American editor of a scandal herself. sheet in Parle, alleging that from our Journal in the High- King George as a young naval lands," had a brisk sale. officer in Malta had married the

Of course the Royal Family daughter of Admiral Sir Michael has been involved Culme-Seymour 20 years before. actions, quite apart from those

起 court

was

The suggestion published was they brought themselves. that the King (then Prince

when he Edward VII, George) had subsequently put aside his first wife in order to Prince of Wales, was twice in marry Princess May of Teck, court as a witness. later Queen Mary.

Elaborate

Jailed

.Ho was cited tas co respondent in a divorce Сава Charles

he appeared at Epsom races he was hissed,

brought by Sir Mordaunt against his wife.

The Prince successfully and conclusive derided misconduct, but Boelsty ovidence wan brought by the was scandalised and when next Crown to prove that the Prince and the girl had not met for years before the marriage was supposed to have taken place,

Mylus declined 10

CTOFA- examine any of the witnesses called, nor did he try to sub- stantiate the story, but he tried to call King George no his own witness.

This was constitutionally im- poseible so his defenco collapsed. He was found guilty, sentoneed to 12 months in Jail.

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GEE, JUST

MY SPARE TIME--

Baccarat

One other court appearance was concerned with gambling.

He

had presided as banker over a game of baccarot at a -house party.

Bir One of the members, Willfare Cordon Cumming, woe cheated, and Care Number 2 was heard in alleged to have January

made to sign a promise that he last year when the

would not touch a card again, Ailorrey-General was granted a High Court Injunction against cheating was

In return for this promise the have been Mr William Flo, onetime hushed up. Superintendent of Windsor

In spite of all promises the story got out.

Castic,

He was restrained

from

to

Sir Willam sued for 'slander

breaking an undertaking given the five houseparty members

In 1957 when he rollred from

who said they had seen him

royal service not to publish any cheat. The Prince was called Information about to Royal sa witness. Family gained during forvice,

The Queen...

the war when A

hle

The Queen and the newg- papers įgave him a thorough Ucking on for being involved In the scandal.

And this led to MaxBeer- bohm's famDUR cartoon"The This undertaking has bom rare, the rather, awful visila (ot asked for over unes shortly ; Albert. ¦ Edward to Windoor after

Toyal Castle-picturing the Prince governcas published a book standing in the corner while his about the young Princesses. In i mama site: looking „vory blesk more recent instance of aand very royal in the middle of royal rvant

Jule the room. rucniodra: the "man" had "refland

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—(Lotidan Bugrams Heritok),