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An outsize hand-out by the Shah -but will it do any good?

by

Herbert Kretzmer

THE

barefoot peasants of Persia have suddenly become £47,500,000 richer. But I don't give tuppence for their chances of actually getting their hands on it. Money

has a funny way of disappearing in the

land of Omar Khayyam.

That sum is the moment-

tous autumn windfull which He resembles a lot of vult- the melancholy 41-year-old nighters I have prett...treet and Shah of Persia made avail-youthful, but with an ageless able to tis impoverished look about his eyes, eyes that subjects two weeks agn.

Sincerity

have seen death and that reffect a collude con shore,

Junger,

no one

"It is no honour." he says, Mo be king in a country where is desperately almost everyone. pour."

He turned over, his personal prsstasjons, oil tunkers, shares, farms and villages in a des-

tems, loves jazz, He plnys underling his postring effort to

and favour sincerity

dives sports cary In caring for the

two-bution Savile-row sults. But starving. the orphaned, th

there is Bile ume for much hopeless.

Trivolles nowadays...

Nobody debts that sincerity, The Shah is probably the best- intentioned monarch" on earth. But in the Middle East, ny else where, high hopes cannot put shoes on bleeding bare feet.

Tut

Money-uls of it-eatmake

relsools, hospitats,

aztel

Dephanage has to often fonta

its way out of Persia into comp Swing banks,

Along his 1,000-mile northern under the Red Army has its outpost. He remembers Krus- chey's warning: "Persia is surely producing a revolution."

Corruption

The Shinh jails curruna efficials

Two weeks ago's fat hund-rait and landowners. But his crities | was Ly

190 As

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1961.

PERSIAN TANKER

*IT'S YOUR SHARE OF THE SHAH'S SHARE-OUT'

Lukson Express Servede,

FOCUS ON

PEOPLE AND POWER

Intelligence Report

Chapman Pincher

reporting from America

This

is Nike-Zeus

Washington.

Russian rocket crew might fire a salvo of

the Shah's are quick to point out that theHE danger that a tilanthruple baptism. He has Shalf's closert relatives are djrendy cut up his own lands, among the most guilty. dug deep into his own silk-ned packets to spend, une way and mother, something like

500,000 in a brave bid to buid this fort,

Callous

Persiate impalteni, university- trained intellectuals are sick to their slamdelta at the daily Sight of callous clare segrega

tion.

Com Shah

- krystalled cerruption in time-bomb missiles by mis

to soothe the ugly tempers of

the revolutionaries who how war by accident is now deliriously for the return of considered to be so real weepy old pyjama - elad Mossadeg?

It's

WILF

It

OUR INSURANCE

POLICY AGAINST

that the U.S. Govern WAR BY MISTAKE

£47,500,000 good deedment is spending mil- the ocean. lions of dollars to coun- inny stop the torrent ter it.

Π

drup In

Mr U.S.

Congress

States for

11

way

A Foreign Desk reporter drives out of Moscow and finds his blocked by angry villagers, Why? Here is the intriguing explanation

My car is halted by fist-waving

I

Russians

Moscow.

HAVE just been standing in Red Square,"

1,000 miles behind the Iron Curtain, watching the life of this great and bustling city go by. For the capital of the Com- munist world is an exciting place one of the most fascinating cities in the world.

by BRIAN GARDNER

Only a few yards from the ancient and fantastic treasures of the Czars, laid out in row after row in the Kremlin, modern cars and scooters and mini-curs were streaming I found that when I drove pust. Russians were enter Moscow.

Into the country north-east of

ing the immense GUM Intourist had provided me with store facing the Kremlin one of their particularly de luxe across the square.

Zim ears, with chauffeur, and we And not

were speeding along in the early only Russians but evening. There were many other every cunceivable nationality cars on

to see

the road, and it was too. They say here that immediately obvious that the Moscow las imore visitors majority of these cars belonged than any other city in the worki

to the new elite. In sun glasses South Atlantic are also almost There seem to be almost as many were taking their familles out and I am sure they are right. and gay sports shirts, fathers complete.

Indians in saris, Americans with for an evening drive. The fuel cell a super-

cameras, Chinese and Africans, sized battery Invented

We were by

entering a village Brilish

called Khutikove, about 37 miles selentists is being as there are Muscoviles. rapidly developed in the United Many of the visitors, especially from Moscow. I was surprised space and defence from the remote parts of Asia, hundred strong, in the middle a large crowd, Reveral work, while Janguishes in are clearly awe-struck at the Brillo.

Some busy urban life of this city. of the wide main street. But even visitors from

of them were waving their flats cars attempting to get sophisticated places in the West at the are surprised at the amazing im- through them, and others were provements in the standard waving sticks.

The living here.

cars in front of us managed to get through. But as we approached in the large black Zin the crowd closed up tightly across the road. My driver put his hand on the heth, and his foot an the accelerator. We drove

DISTRESS

It Is being pushed ahead here to power satellies in orbit and small attacking submarines. The U.S. Government is 50 disturbed

more

NEW CLASS

by the series of Everyone you meet here free strikes which have held up the ly admits think Ellis are

missile wurning system Fylingdales Moor that 1

un better for the tan fu that street towards them.

is than they have ever been before pressing for permission to send in Russian history.

the

CORDON

Directly in front of us were

in all-American Inbour to finish Yet this JILA freer and job. This would crente wealthier Russian society is difficulties with British trades pasing problems fer its rulers about six women. I looked down uhlons, but Americans are dis-that they have not yet been able tressed not only by the delays, to solve.

the bonnet straight into the but by the mounting costs.

For, although the country is across her chest.

eyes of one of them, her arms booning more than ever before,

1 suddenly realised that Uits and everyone is bencfting to woman was not going to give some extent, some people seem way. Something had happened to be benefitting more than to her, and the people around others. And many people seem her, that had made her willing to be suffering from a growing to be run over rather than let resentment about this,

New H-bomb

bases for Asia

THE

Nike-Zeus, which may be set developing a similar unti-mis- The Shah is certain that given for a few weeks, a few months.

us in Britain to operate with sile misslie to cope with possible THE need to deter Morse of the the rocked early-warning system U.S. or British rockets launched Richard time he will root out the cancer and consolidate

Fylingdales Aring Defence Scienc

Muur, Persia's place Board

East Yorks, could has told

give President by mistake, committee that the prime par an uttack was deliberate or as

Kennedy time to decide whether Mr Morse pose of the Nike-Zeus anti-

cidental before ordering massive issite is to shoot down any Russian rocke's which might be retaliation.

or humon red by "technical terror."

in the twentieth century. Mercedes sporis ears purr But it is doubtful whether along Teher atrets while Persia is prepared to wor; that beggars baht Ihres in the gutters jong

to

keep themselves

wann.

Persant women pound their laundry in open droitm that sluice down kito Tchern from i the moustalna while mascara'd mistress show themselves off In the latest Door gowns.

to the £100 What happens million that Persia carns every year in oli revenue? What

about the £20,000,000 that is poured into the country

nually by the U.S.7

Solitude

rila

Un-

-London Express Service).

Whitehall told:

Air Force can help

U.S.

space men

From PETER FAIRLEY

Washington.

Without this safeguard the world could be devaslated In a few hours and nobody would ever

had be sure whe inrted the war.

ATTACK:

Mr Morse, who was assistant- secretary of the army until three mouths ago, told me that Nike Zeus could nut cape with a de liberate

mass-allack by the Russians,

Repeating what he had told the Congress committee, he said: "Both East and West are developing clty-busting rockets which will soon be completely Inutomatic and ready for instan

response at the touch of a few Who-response

"WC

THE Royal Air Forch could make a most important con-

are rapidly reaching question

I am afrak we are moving to the direction where

nuclear exchange in inevitable stalls- Buttically-not, because somebody

wani it, but beunuse happens,*

Бес

for

It Just

any

US PASJ.

To bring the new standards of The driver must have realised living to this country and launch the same thing, for he jammed on the brakes and brought the a successful space programme, a

vast new class of lechnologists cor almost to a standstill just and graduates has been intro- before the cordon of villagers. duced into Russian life. And Immediately, the doors of the

aggressive intentions these, it seems, are the aristo- car were opened, and shouting. by the Red Chinese--who crats of modern Russia.

angry people tried to get in. the threat of 11-bomb attack by weapons as quickly ns pos- of living more than any others. htt

pointed out that are developing suclear These are the people who They were clearly screaming

enjoy the new high standards abusive insulis at myself an infetake may also soon be posed aible is leading to major

But driver went slowly by China, Cuba, Israel, and defence muves by the United

on, although people were picked other countries.

closely all round the car, Before they marisged to get in, we were throug!! the crowd, and The privileges of the new necelerating righih," with the aristocrats are almost endless., doors open and banging to and They get priority on the waiting fro

States,

Nike-Zeus is a 200-mlie range missile with an atomle warhead

Launching buses for the jules! designed to destroy an incom- form of Mace missile, a winged Ing 11-bomb in the air without H-bomb with a range of 1,200 detonating It. Mr Morse is con- miles, are beilig Bet un on fident that it could shoot down Okinawa, North of Formosa, Mr Kruscher's 100-megaton where they can threaten most warlieads,

of China's major cities.

PRIORITY

.

acema

Plans to test Nike-Zeus in The move is politically sensi- shooting down the warhead live because Okinawa in official- of US. Atlas rocket are for ly a Japanese island. advanced on Kwajalein Islandi in the Pacifle. The construe- tion of speelal

Asversion

lists for new dals. They are Arst In a moment we were through In the queue for new cars. A the village, and 1 hud. closed young research student at the the doors. great Moscow University has a 15t

they have beco higher income than the foreman waiting a long time for the bus of a factory who has worked to arrive," the driver explained. bls way up for 20 years. "Something has happened to it, 11 is by the means that They think they should be in infentis to continto the car as well as us." submarines are also Kruschey radar facilities to be based in the Pacinto lead the world in science and

research, But by solving alle fstand in the probably at Guam.

-London Expreza Service), problem he is creating another.

on

Polaris

That curse of King

Tut is pure

Chicago.

fiction

1

Ho would not discuss the matter further.

This clearly, was an isolated Incident. I might have driven thousands of miles more through Ilussla and never come heross anything like it again. But as it happened, I we there, just at the particular time when those vlagers had, tuddenly exploded at the sight of hun- dreds of cars happily streaming punt--when Diey just could not afford them, or had Heal on the waiting lists thumselves for years and years,

ense to the "elektrs" of the second revolution is about to This doen not ment, that a

A lot of it, tau much as 11, vanishes into the Arablan night, Typical of the changeless graft that has been Pirstu's scourge for centuries is the case of General Raj All Kla.

Until recently he Gaveltament tatelligence or gandgülten

whone solc and unique function was to prepare hull only realised it. This is the view of senior USAP confidential imports on the per-staff who have been greatly impressed by the work of the point where the conal popularity of the Shah.

two Royal Air Force doctors sent over as part of an ex-f a mistake is critical, change of officers.

The doctors are Wing Com- mander S. C. Wrexford-Welch attached to Aerospace Medielne altitude: We know it all."

thu British corne here, Centre, Text, und Group Cap things objectively and put

THEM

HE "uneanhy" curse on the fabulous tomb of ancient tomb, tain Robert McPherson Cross,

Mr. Soele anys this, like the break in Russia. But it is not the, sort of thing that is likely clear iticus,

Pharaoh Tutankhamen, supposed to have cure is "nonsenso." We need who works near Washington.

more desperately."

doorned many men to atrange and untimely deaths, scriptions, anywhere. It woulddon, Manchester, or Gilan- Id daid, "hero wore H nich nen at a bus klop eutside 'Magnificant work'

Despite ofilcini reluctance lo admit much interest in opnee

is nothing but a giant fake, Haya the noted be mostble to putase any allth dow, Both have un Helpliyf

that severul I know

fave feeling that unloa USAF #ientists

anciuit Egyptologist Mr Keith Seele, of the University of cancels s with Rythms list

Mr Morse explained that the

Kruseller or his succesors can at the Institute of

Egypitan. Endeavour to contain such to protect and comfort uolto- doctors

more automatic the equipment Chicago's Oriental Institute.

The Explinis had no such of the now ellie, there will de find an answer to the problemi of Medleine, Farn-and duting crimal extravafaheb in the nuts

lengthy apaco Aviation

the shorter the the fr borough, Are keen to emna on the flights, America is now fran

Ho saki: "The only 'curse' of gain which it inust be used, the King Tutankhamen moody Shah,

concept ny death with wings. I day be an explosion that will Thaky Petronk Throne.

wat not in their culture." Generul Strickland added: "/fronter chaner of a fault or { writers who Invented it. It's pure glory nutekly lecturia His teally trying to catch up with experichey in the regenreti,

thin

npread from an obscure' villuke trim-barber shocie of hair lusalan varen in this thick the Royal Air Force has scientists, headed by Leonti human error. Ruslan rocke!

And for that matter several like Kholikovo neroas the whole is griyini fant Isisks dayt, de-portant "life support."

In inneription had been million tourists have visited the of Russia. And that the future n particularly valuable contritu Sedov, who arrived BA Belgadier General spite, te rijuvenating etrect on

a space Night ropter on the recent death of Mr John for the fun witch read: fabled tumis and lived to toll of fussin will depend on who his forth of in huving bri Stricklak, director of all USA or to make in design of safely for

**Calls

kurvives, shall toite on wwift of Mr Stele has himself. at 9. Khinamon, last survivor of Whigs it hith that touches the believed to have been kept alive waling in fe que se or and energeticy, aystems to gence, 11-moni-old male heir.

progruntner, indo macremt, if your Air Soviet

Tile story of the curve is Wit it be home. Who stand RAF erd

JE-bottl mlmites Are the roup wird opened the tomb of a Puth." Mote and more this well-offelala ve dune magnificent Ministry could be persuaded to under the closest primible ennis sacred tomb In the Nile Valley

tot a man who mundo his iving those seientists, technologiate, intentioned syn of an illernto work. They are just what we send more I could fit, another frol to prevent accidental frinig. 30 Vevira aga Halo Lwo it was quoted by manst people recturing to gulisic audiences and new ellte in derk glasiek Anry offidef is wiktdrawing Hilbi want.

weeks ago in Califotila at Uo to explain wintered, to about the terror of King Tut's who take thele familles out for The US. Intelligence authoring of 84.

theth e afi extravity o sumpoot the Russians are At tha Uima of this great séries of Vivibh! desika widcli --(London Express Service). —(London Expteti körptoo)."

The oryantation manged to But through budant of £6,- 000,000 a year, its unly member was General Kia himself. He fabricated the Taperia Jend pocketed the millions.

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