1961-12-15 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1861,

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This crazy game Kennedy plays with British

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by CHAPMAN PINCHER

OUR troops could be home from Germany soon-

for good. But they might not be and then

more British troops will have to be on their way out there.

It all depends on a battle now going on between Bri tain and the l

over how

Europe should defended.

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"If you ask me it would serve 'em bath right if we handed the Congo straight back to gallant little Belgium."

London Express Service

If the British view prevails our troops will come homme-- and the taxpayer wail be saved up to £30,000,000 a year II The US WIN

doing nowmore British troops will be poured into Germany and the defence bill will sour

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Further nipelea! arnged troops wyll memes

ther Tag each The Fast We erler. Creating dangerous fetisions

The pause

The Staked purpose

the of Troops buaint-amp, which has led to the extension of ensseription in Bitain, is 16 enable Nato to

forer

Jause of a

0 few hours of the Russions decide to invade

The "pause" is to serve as #1! ultimatum that the West will loose H-bombs an the Russian homeland unless they with-

draw

The "pause" male sense when Russia had no nuclear weapons. Now is a farce.

The risk of allowing time for The West for strike first with H- bombs would be so great that he Russians would be inteet 20 1151 her first

soldiers

increased

bombons and rockets, it makes Why does Britain go along no difference whether Britain with The Americans in this has 1,000 men T 100,000 in erszy "numbers gune“? Germany Yot because of U.S.

Because Lord Hone The pressure Britain's troops there Foreign Secretary. backed by are Iuring

at great the Prime Minister. insists ext

that we must not offend tum.

Nothing

must shake the Anglo-American alliance, even when the

is strategy

50 bviously wrong from Britain's standpoint.

Undermined

la private, the US. delente its ngice with the British Learning They are Velo- boring their massive deterical al home indi stock-piling H- IN Germany and Britain. But it public they are calling up more

andry for Europe

Whis

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Their purpose is political A

deterrent policy means that the U.S. most bu prepared to risk the sacrifice of New York. Law

Angeles, and

other enties in defence of her all4 A Jess awesUITA jitos- pest would be more popular Amerun

MAL

"Ak rasement"

dirty word when applied to the Russians. but not to the Americans.

Britain now needs no more than a few battalions of troops in Europe to serve in a loken Nato force to

preven skirmishes.

Badgering

border

Yol General Lauris Norstad, who is an American first and Nat elket second, will continue 10 Badger Mr Harold Walkin

the Defence Minister. to To the British defence chiefy send thousands more British this attitude is crazy. By de tops to Germany when they monstrating their unwillingness meet in Puris this month.

use the big bomb in defence Europe, the Americans an- dermine the credibility of the whole deterrent polley.

But the Americans get their way Thousands of their own

vilians are called up

The Germans are

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Mr Walkinsun wants to thin out the trougs in Germany and bing many of them home.

But his resistance to the U.S. demands will have little impact

if The pass has already byeen

Monsieur

Pour

securite

Kanaler

DER

"Ach, Herr Heath! Can't you remember it's Tuesdays we oonduct the Cabinet meetings in French-today we talk in German!"

London Express Service.

LOOKING BEHIND THE REPORTS OF A

'PLOT' TO KILL EGYPT'S LEADER

Nasser's next big

move: it may be

towards Moscow

BY PAUL JOHNSON

given sold by Lord Home, who will THE French "plot" to assassinate President Nasser, announced recent further opportunity to increase get his say in first in the ຍ aruclear War which ther forces and Britain has to would be settled by long-range extend conscription.

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lv, marks a further and perhaps decisive-stage in Egypt's evolu- tion towards a left-wing dictatorship.

Hitherto, Nasser has played the role of a bourgeois strong-man. He has nationalised most of the big foreign-owned firms. He has broken up and redistributed all the largest Egyptian-owned estates. He has cut down heavy spending abroad by Cairo's local playboys.

But until the Syrian revolu- Vion and the collapse of the United Arab Republic, he had studiously avoided ultra-left wing policies-lactics symbolised by his suppression of the Com- munist Party,

REVISED

These tactics were dictated by his foreign ambitions, the creation of an Arab super-state

vised his plans. Hopes of a speedy drive to Arab unity have been temporarily aban. doned.

Combined with the Syrian Aasco, they have reduced Nasser's popularity to its lowest ebb since he first seized power from General Neguib.

Indeed, his own regime is in Jeopardy. Population le rising much faster than productivity, the Mediter- and the income per head is fall- stretching from ranean to the Persian Gulf. ing. Nasser can no longer hope

To achieve them,

Nasser to subsidise Egypt's economy by recognised that he would, at taxing the richer Arab states or least initially, have to work with seizing their oil revenues. Arab nationalists of all politica) complexions including the middle-class businessmen who run Syria, and such millionaire sation of the Egyptian economy. For the Arst time, Egyptian- aristocrats as the Crown Prince owned property is being con- of Saudi Arabia.

Instead he has deliberately embarked on a wholesale sociali».

But now that Syria has fiscated on a massive scale. The new moves hit the middle classes defected, Nasser hos re as heavily as the rich,

You won't

print this, Mr O. tells Izvestia

THIS IS RUSSIA

Hence he needs a spectacular to justify his pubile platform new policy, and

to whip up popular enthusiasm behind it. The "assassination plot" is pat- fectly tall red for this purpose.

SIMPLE

commis-

in

It is both simple and ingenious. Since 1858 French sion has been working Cairo to arrange, compensation for French property seized qt the time of Suez. Its members have held conversations with a great variety of foreign re- sidents, Eypbian businessmen and land and government" off- cials.

Unfortunately, although some members of the commission were diplomats, its activitles were not protected by the normal security screen which embassies operate to safeguard their transactions.

In fact, we now know that Its offices have been "bugged" with microphones for the past 18 months. All conversations have been recorded by the Egyptian secret police.

There can be little doubt, too, Were that incautious words spoken-not only by the French commissioners, but by many of their Egyptian visitors. It will surprise no one if the transcripts mission's HQ was a centre... of contain evidence that the Com- anti-Nasser sentiments, The

This, of course, does not prove an assassination plot - despite alleged cgi- fessions extracted from the arrested men. But opinión In Egypt and throughout the Arab world will not demand such proof,

MURDER

The Arabs remember that the Tunisian trades union like the truth, and in the present leader Ferhat Hached, was case it is staring you in the face murdered by the French in 1953. "In conclusion, I would like to They remember, too that the change the title of that article French authorities dánapped and in a new edition publish it the leaders of the Algerian re- as Gift From Ten Million,"

bellion from a Moroccan civil airliner in 1956. In Marseilles, This indignant answer then

a radio station beams anti- came from Izvestia: "Your

Nasser propagande In Arabic. letter was read and not only

What is more to the point, not destroyed but, as you see, the secret French "Red Hand" published in full without any network has abridgements or changes.

committed nearly

We

a score of -murders all over want our millions of readers western Europe, and

to see your full stature and ali case the French governa

your spiritual poverty.

"You have.

has signally falled to lice

action

It will

painstakingly energetic

members. how: much you have paid for the use of your that the "Red" cult to persua

calculated

radio and television sets. But

do you know anything about to kit Nas

and radio broads true.

television

casting?

have

A LEVER

"We think you must some idea of what work is devoted to them by directors, But even more importeni, actors, -scriptwriters, authors, from Nassar's viewpoint, A composers, musicians, camera that he now has a lever against men and many other nearly all the prominent op specialists. Their labour costs

ponente or potential oppone

of his regime Inside "To put it briefly, the suns Many of them had dea

THE Soviet authorities have decided to do away money.

with radio and television licences from the collected from the ownere of with the French beginning of next year.

The newspaper Izvestia greet- minore

ed this Government announce-

rustlo

and television sets their visits and actually go to compensate for were recorded.

the money spent on cresting The Arst lite of arrests indi-

from this

ment with an article threaded:g of the television set I have programmes. As you see, e "Gift To Ten Million People" Pat almost half its original State has made no profit at all

But at least one reader E Ozatekovsky, WRS not im pressed,

THE QUESTION

Ho zote a letter to Izvestia

saying "No. 204 of your news-

CALCULATION

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paper carved the article, "Gift lyen a kit for when To Ten Million,I went to show it is the 10,0 you what kind of gift this is, ing radio speaking for mysel

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