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THE CHINA MAIL,

THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1961.

KASSEM AND THE OIL-

This is what he is really up to

WHY has General Kassem suddenly advanced a claim to territorial

sovereignty over Kuwait?

The obvious reason-that he aspires to add Kuwait's annual £120 million of oll royalties to the Iraq exchequer is not, I think, the real

one.

Kashem knows that claim for The outright possession 121 Kuwait wook not stand up in any International, court, Ku- wall wis an independent state

Jeng before trar etme 111 existence.

Interval, a Helf is a purely afiker) creation, curved om of tha Turkish empire as the ulti- result of a SUCTEL deal between Britain and France made during the 1914-10 war-

Moreover, Iraq hús no chunee of pushing such clai Ly force, Britain has already moved Inger in to motevi ter ally

und. for once, with the approval. of international oninfo.

By PAUL JOHNSON

qantily--and at pixes,

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companies, to limit their dependence on the whims Aruti sheik and dictators, are opening ap new Helds.

cut-rate voluntary front of Arab all pro- ducers have failed dismally. Reyonul prezing sonorous resolu- tons, the oil states have never heen able to create ever thi illusion of common ellon; in- derd, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have even sueretly defled the Aral embargo un selling où to Israel.

Gail from the Sahara, and the more volt reserves in the Surlan and Libya, luere severely ut the orgabing power of the Maddle Band produrers.

Hene, Kassena has never been alde to browbeat the frag Petro- Exvi In tin Arph world, en Company. Despite the Kassem could count

little clestrnelion the pro-British support for whille Matser is still Nuri Said regime, IPC is now in Vilterly ceanened to Britain's a stronger position when nege- trenting with the Persian Gulf

tiating with the Iraqi guvern- states, he is gilli more anxious. Fent than when Nurl was alive. to prevent Kuwait sloping into

the hands of

Kassem-his one

real rival for the lealership of Arab opinion.

ษ!

fuel, Karem's objectives

are mach more imited and

Dislocation

Discontent

FIERSUTES.

Nuw

Kassem has thus decided that the the has

sterner come for

that Britain as relaxing her grip on Kuwat, The roler and his family increasingly exposed to subver- sion.

DESPITE

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dangerous. The Iraq announce IF Kassen shut down produc- the territory, expecially amon

ment is the first move in a cam- priga to hold up a united front of Arab oil producers, and thus restore to the Arabs their capa- rity to blackmail Western consumers,

Until 1967, the Middle Eastern all producers hal ng red for such a partri. World rea

for oil was rising in spectacular

feshium: the world's

oil, and The largest

were

cheapest

reserves,

to be found above and

around the Gulf.

Humiliating

The threat to nationalise oit- Belds and refineries

was thus

n patent one. The international

and the oil comparing

maju Western

were governments obliged to treat the Arab rulers with humiliating deference.

Now the picture has changed, Industrial recession in the West has alowed up the

rise denunci. Russian oil is pouring Into the

tion

Kuwall's wealth, there is rising discontent in

e would enuse the hares of inmigrants—many einbarrassment anc alstoen of them Trigls-who have dock- than but Iraqi supplies coull soon ed in from the north and west. Tramite up by increasing the There is profligate waste and output fron Persia, Kuwati, fantastic farquality of wealth.

Venezuela and elsewhere.

Moreover, the ruling family is

The ruler himself is If, however. Kasarm were divided," also to shut down the Kuwait ld and the succession to the

taone uncertain, fields, his bargaining power would

Immensely

be

strengthened.

Turve.

Recognition

Dont BEWARE OF THE LIONL Certified harmless by Nasser & DC Mansalay

..

"Ouch-he's still got one tooth left!"

Before the

founder.

BECAUSE France is member of the Common Market oxis and Europe's greatest agricul- fural country, a top Foreign Corres- pondent gives his appraisal of the revolt which has shaken the country. Here is his report... and a grave warning.

Cummings

Suez

Abadan

London Express Service.

the peasants'

pitchforks flash again in France

BRITTANY is where it all started, the wave of revolutionary unrest that has sent the small farmers of France pouring on to the highways and railway lines as saboteurs and rioters, with the out-thrust pitchfork as their badge and sym- bol of defiance.

Tear Kas at St Brieuc, tele- phone piles cut down in Vannes, piles of manure in the main

KASSES may well have made street of Quimper, and massed a private deal with one or tractor blockades all over the more of the aspirants: Ingi sup-place-this is scarcely the holi- port, in return for recognition of day paradise British

This is the expect in Brittany. Iraqi sovereignty.

tourists

Kuwait is an oileman's part- dise. It is the largest producer In the arta, with the biggest

Its oil is cheap to pro-, deer and of high quality. can boust production faster than any other state In the Gulf.

Indeed. it was the existence of Kuwait. then a comparatively background to his aling a formal Now the unruliness of the

mali producer-which allowed claim. the West to

when Mossadeq shut down the Abadan refinery, and eventually to bring

It is The Persians to heel. vital elemutt in the equation or Middle East oil politics-and Kassen knows it.

Carry

on

elear,

to create

A

Anelles, then, are market in Krowing Previous attempts

But It would be wise to treat it, at this stage, as the first step In

farmers

see the rost of their fellow-countrymen living it- creasingly higher off the hug while they still seem condemned to jog along in largely nine- teenth century conditions.

by

RENE MacCOLL

nrę."

thousands

uf

holidaymakers from Eritain and elsewhere. So

people are nervously wondering If the holiday rush will bo checked.

Prime Minister Debre hos repeatedly appealed for **an white almorphere of serenity"

the with;

farmers go Something on in Paris today.

talks

Not for them the new-found

"Onco we ret the nige a heatwave, but many form tells me that the serenity may wealth with cars and TV sets across, We believe that has descended so goldenly will be as angry and as resent-

the pubile steads are squalid and out of well be shattered again and

date. Bretons has touched off copy-

Their equipment is those pitchforks will flush once on everyone else, Left behind cat "manifestations." as the

as we painfully obvolete. The "farmers more it the farmers don't get for the good life, ful with the middlemen them, everywhere in the race French call

und their labourers live in what they want, a careful and cross this broad and beautiful they are furious.

Iltic better than This is an uprising

by the

condition: which would land,

tural clums. and other jo- Bear in mind two things as young.

The men and the for there have

Now the farmers tev realising women. appraise this Intest dustrial powers once more at

that people in other professions Europe's trouble all-feminine demonstrations- Gil-Western the mercy of the Arab

are dressing belter, living better, spols:-- rulers.

The problem is not imagin-

cutting more telsure, ary or frivolous French Impatience

Log eul plan,

place Britain

---(London Express Servico),.

TOU

'PAPER DART' MAY LIFT

SPACESHIP 'EMPTIES'

A schoolboy's paper dart has given American scientists an idea for a way to recover the mammoth boosters that will be needed to lift manned spaceships of the future.

Each of these rockets could cest an inuch as £350,000 DTKI contain several thousand iz- tricate parts. It the exch€quer is not to run dry, recovery... after the fuel inside hos burned up and the "ship" is safely on its way- highly desirable.

Problem: how to halt these 50 ton pieces of metal moving at between 2,000 ml 8,000 feet a second and bring them back

space?

frum

own

THE WORLD OF SCIENCE

reports Peter Fairley from America

and its "akin" from

IL

(se

An artist's impression of the "paper dart" in use.

...

After much penell-sucking, mesh of steel coated with silicon the rocket men decided that for it must withstand 1,000 Four hundredweight of hard. On fetal hero is a coln-to-the

can be mado from one paper dart-shaped canopy offers degrees Fahrenhelt heat as it foam the beat chance of success, it returns through the atmosphere. drum which one GI can easily enrry. This represents 30 cuble auxiliary will need

The "dor!" plus cargo la feet for every foot of liquid motor, will have to be bly

designed to return precisely to plastle-u good gain especially enough to support the miny

when transport is scarce. But tons of empty booster yet light is launching site. enough not to add much to the alternative plan is being con- precious take-off weight. sidered which would allow it to ROBOT BARMAN

Folds in two One "paper dart" system nowy

being modelled

measures 100 feet long, will weigh about eight fons and have a motor develop-

en

be plucked from the air by a waliing plano and' taken in tow.

HUTS IN BARRELS

are protected from weather and thloves by a plastle cover and metal cage. A coin un- locks its ato. The paper alides forward,

RITN AS U SPEK

been

Is

Why was It In Brittany that the wave of unger started? The Breton farmer

more con- cerned than anyone else bi,uuse are mainly in their twentles and he is usually a smallholder, He

about it all, a de- now he has had enough. termination to get quick results.

thirties. There is youthful has felt put upon for years and

મ

APPEASEMENT

Two

LIKE WELSH

He thinks it high Lime Industry was modernised,

Mahe Phillppencats, president at the Regional Com- As road-blocks

So the manifestations" grow, and muss de- ring-leader farmers, mille for Economic Expansion, monstrations spread Jast and

drawbacks who were failed at nearby says the Morlaix and then trimphantly Isolation of many forms, the acquitted in what is freely inggering surplus of formi described as "a verdict of up- labour-stimated at 300,00 peasciment," are both young men and old-fashioned, scanty

equipment,

J.

are:

the

ኔኑ ርኜ ነ. .

Louaprc. So, too, is M.

You would be shocked to see secretary-general of the Young ecme of the farms in Brittany. Farmers Organisation. This is The countryside smiles richly in what M. Louapre has to say:-

"Until now the gravity of the situation has been badly under- extimated in Paris. It is basi- cally a question of being able to sell our produce at a fair price, and now we And our- selves

in a completely impos. sible situation.

"The economie working of this country has caused unarchy in agriculture and brought about the near ruin of the amalt for- mer. It threatens to ruin our agriculture as a whole."

What are the remedies? M. Louapre says:--

"We must devote ourselves to

particularly among young men, We must rid ourselves of the

LONGING...

I wish some of the Whitehall buyn who have Been toying with the idea of Joining the Common Market could come to Brittany and see thlogs for themselves.

With huge surpluses of both manpower and tum produc as much as 15 to 20 per cent more barley and wheat than it south. Reme Bretons Are

needs

with nene

too happy.

every year, and They are large surpluses of meat, milk, strongly independent and tough, and poultry, not to mention all like the Welsh, and were out to

those surplus labourers-France better their lot in their own will be casting longing glances way. They would rather have

across the Channel and waiting kent it a local flight.

for the day when the dumping Brittany, too, is wide awaite can legally start. about its role

as centre for

London Express Service).

Man bites vet

at dog show

TEETH snapped as

veterinary surgeon He suddenly

middlemen who are hattening Aelwyn Morgan

on others."

1

cxa-

binck-and-tan snapped as

M. Luapre says the aims of mined the young Breton farmers are: Welsh terrier about to To get new laws passed quickly,

his terrier was being examined

Do tu!

to pay

fed £1 and ordered

Es. easte for malleihaly wounding the vet.

Now

a decision about the Incident is to be made by the Kennel Club, the controlling body of the dog-chow world.

Said Mr William Davies, the Carmarthen show

secrotary: "We were all astounded when it happened.

"Wo couldn't Ulieve it. 1 haya been connected with deg

stat newspaper land. Papers Oxing generous price levels and enter a show ring.

supports; fujrer working of He matched back lila hand, the

adelpping blood. produce market; and streamlined distribution system. But the terrier stood there He says "The formers Insiat lamb-like-for this was a classle on being consulted about all case of man bitch vet. decisions that concern them. The teeth that sank into Mr

shows for more than 20 years This has not yet happened, so Morgan's hand at Carmarthen

and this is the first time--and I now they are employing a fan og show belonged to 22-year- wground was 1000

hope the last-that a man has that a man bilten another man, quage ensy for anyone to under-old Peter Green, the tcrrier's new went ounst

of rod-handler. tand-the language

bad bitch the vet. blocks and mass, demonstra{lone.

"The Incident ha already He had words "But don't get me wrong. We Morgan

Just why Green snapped at been discussed by Kennel Club Bs the vet examined Mr Morgan was not explained calcials. It has set them a bit are not seeking civil war just

of a pater for the hell of it. We simply the serier. "I object to the way to the cotirt

because I do not want our just rights-guaran-you're handling my dog," said But Mr Coll Jones, who think they have ever had 10 teed prices

Groen.

appeared for him, said: "He is deal with such an unusual case for our potatoes, ink, pork and positry, and we Mr Morgan, 28 yeom offetul deeply sorry for the incidunt before. mean to get them.

vet at the slow, retorted that and apologizes unreservedly to

"They have been awaiting the There

tas bren too much lo well knew how to handle Mr Morgan,"

result of the court case and I middlemen have grown fat on Biggery-pokery going on, the dogs.

Green, professional dog can only guess that wellon they.

Primrose land, will take now," their finagling.

Glarneren, was

-London Express fervice).

AMEST Belentille side to the phonello typewriter which

easy way of 11le-the push-

respond to dictation over button cuckfall mixer. Barman a microphone la trow being triod presses a button once, twice or out by the Radio Corporation thrice, to get a Martini sweet, of America. N infantryman's slooping hut dry or a Manhattatt. ing about 300 horse power. I may soon be carried into

Its spelling is poor. But the The liquor flows from will fold into two and roll up camp-in barrels. The American turned botiles through a central exemplo: "The

up senso in intelligible. Hole is an inside the climbing rocket-then army is trying out a liquid plase pipe. Measures are pro-ect.

rocl purpua ov eject italf, taking the weight the which sets rapidly into a fands in an feed mixing-glam, Bolen

It ilik mesheen in too take down of the booster on alcol haweers, rigid fuam. It can be poured into Is shaken for

for tyling for quik 30 Interofis nience or for use with Its framework will probably moulds to form the aides, roof seconds, then gushes out. Price a computer." be made from titanium alloy and floor of a hut.

procitely

of an automatic barman: £190.

(London Express Kurules).

with Mr

With that Green bared His handler, of Hoth--and within minutes the Pontardawe,