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CONTRACT How to Play

BRIDGE

"AND"

How to Win

By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON

Lying in Ambush

WHENEVER the bidding indicates] spot. Dummy and East ducked and that the opponents are headed declarer won. A diamond was led straight for trouble, it goes without toward dummy's singleton. West saying that no obstacle should be put ducked, and East won with the ten- in their path. Silence at the right spot. East now made matters ths polnis in one of the greatest virtues difficult as possible for declarer by at the bridge table.

South dealer.

Match-point duplicate,

North-South vulnerable.

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South West North Fat I A

Радн 2♡ (1) Pass Pass Роля Dui, Разв

I'nna

returning a low spade.

Declarer could have saved a trick by letting this le

lead ride to dummy's nine, but (as East foresaw) this would be a

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The declaration of Gen- eral Catroux in the name of Free France, pledging Syria her independence and freedom, supported by the proclamation of the British Government

very dangerous play. If West had guaranteeing that pledge, ellier trump honor he would win and return a trump

has distinctly heartened and then de clarer would be unable to ruff even the Arabs of the Middle one diamond. Although South sug-

East. pected that East had both the king and queen, he could not be at all, sure of it (East might, for example, holl the diamond

as part of his

double). Hence, declarer could not be criticized for putting up the spade ace, in order to make sure of ope diamond ruff.

After ruffing a diamond, declarer led

a club and captured East's king, then laid down the spade jock. East won and returned a diamond. De- clarer was "forced" and was so re- duced in trumps that he never could protect his own club queen from a need hardly point out that run by East. Thus, In all, he lost North's two heart response was hor- seven tricks, and East-West garnered rible beyond words. With only onen 500-point penalty simply because: queen in his hand, and no apade fil. (a) North made a horrible response, North could not afford to open his and (b) East knew when to pans. mouth, except to pass. The fact re- mains that in n recent duplicate

game one North player actually bid as re- corded. By doing so he gave East] a beautiful opportunity for sllence East knew that the two heart bld. was forcing for one round. There- fore South was bound to rebid. East

Was prepared to slaughter spades,

hearts, or diamonds, and could even take chance with

clubs if

the

necessity arose. He hoped, of course, that the opponents would go higher than the two level, but when the two spude bid, was passed by West and North, East reflected that a little -was-better than nothing, and prompt-

ly doubled.

To-morrow's Hand North dealer.

East-West vulnerable.

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On the other hand, the fact that Syria had been forced to become a battle- ground grieved fellow Arabs.

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The Iraqi, who endured a month of fighting in their on territory

much. smaller scale than in Syrin, know to their cost the suffer- ing which war brings in its wake.

Syria will benefit by the victory of the Allies, not only politically but also economic- ally,

As is well known, the coun- try had been heavily hit by the British blockade and her economic life was virtually at a standstill. The re-establish- ment of commercial relations with her neighbours and the outside world will bring about her immediate revival.

She will certainly benefit

How should East defend against by joining the bloe of other

West decided that a heart opening South's three totrump contract? was as safe as any, and led the ten- Opening lead heart jack.

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Arab countries who stand by Britain and thus will be able to re-build her future.

Honour Is Restored

The pledge given to the Syrians by the Free French lenders, Generais de Gaulle and Catroux, has helped Free France to regain a great deal of the prestige lost by France' in Arab countries.

This loss of prestige was due not only to the collapse of France last year, but also to her policy in Syria in the years immediately preceding the present war.

When in September 1936 the Franco-Syrian Treaty was concluded in Paris and accord- ed Syrian independence on' the same basis as the Anglo- Iraqi Treaty of 1930, every Arab rejoiced to see that the fifteen-year-old quarrel be- tween France and the Syrians was finally ended.

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France as a Muslim power, governing millions of Arabs, possessed great prestige m Arab eyes. As with most other nations, the Arabs felt strong sympathy with France in her difficulties.

Nevertheless, the breach of faith and, even worse, the re- pudiation of the signatures · given by those same people who now rule in Vichy, has embittered many an Arab and made enemies of those who were formerly the staunchest friends of France. It 1408 therefore with great satisfac-. tion that the Arab world learned that the Free France of General de Gaulle does not intend to follow the footsteps of Vichy...

The only possible means of restoring the prestige of France by honouring the pro- mise given by her govern- ments at varying Intervals during the last twenty years have now been taken.

Before the 1914-1918 War, France was considered in the same degree as Great Britain as the protector of the Arabs of the Levant. It was in Paris as far back as 1905. that the first association for

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From A Baghdad Correspondent

an "Arab Fatherland" was created. It was also in Paris that the first Arab Congress "to study ways and means for the formation of an indepen- dent Arab Stato" took place in June 1918,

When the last war broke out every Arab staunchly be lieved that, out of an Allied victory, complete Arab inde- pendence would come.

In 1915 many Arabs were sentenced to death as the re- sult of the discovery at the French Consulate of docu- ments proving their collabora- tion with France. The Arab patriots nevertheless tinued to help the French to the end.

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The first clash after the last war came between King Feisal and General Gouraud.

After the unhappy revolt of 1925, which brought the grievances between the French and the Syrians to their climax, a moment of·. hope came with the arrival in 1926 of the first civilian High Commissioner in the person of M. Henri de Jouvenal. Hd .saw immediately that, in spite of all that had happened, there still existed a strong sympathy for France.

That sympathy-could-be- rekindled provided that the Mandatory Power satisfed the legitimate demands of the Syrians.

M. de Jouvenal therefore made the first suggestion of a Franco-Syrinn Treaty, fost tering a permanent peace in the country by the granting of "national independence" with France remaining there- after only as a "counsellor and guide on the road of modern progress."

This idea was taken up by almost all French Govern- ments until 1986, when, after renewed troubles, a Treaty on the model of the Anglo-Iraqi

Treaty was concluded and Syrin was at last to become an independent and sovereign state." She was to enter as n free member of the LeagueTM of Nations at the end of 1939.

The Arab world was de- lighted at this understanding and France was hailed as the grent Muslim Power.

Unfortunately, intrigues of a personal character inter- vened.

Men of the type of M. Henri Haye, the present Am- bassador of Vichy in Washing- ton and at that time Rap- porteur of the Franco-Syrian Treaty in the French Senate, and M. Georges Bonnet, then Minister of Foreign Affairs for France, denied in Decem- ber 1939 the guarantee given earlier that the Treaty would be ratified not later January 31, 1939.

than

Unhappy Betrayal

Thus Syria entered the war still under the Mandate of France and trammelled by her sad destiny.

After the French collapse of last June, many Syrians would have liked the assur- ance provided by an im- mediate British occupation of their country.

Great Britain declined, how- ever, to take advantage of this desire even when, during the few days following the French collapse, the military and civilian. administration expressed a desire to join the British in their fight against the Nazis.

Nobody, therefore, was sur- prised to hear the declaration by Mr Churchill in his recent speech in the House of Com- mous that "Great Britain has territorial designs in

no

Syria."

Now that Great Britain and Free France have declared the independence of Syria, every Arab may justly hope that this country-regarded in the Middle East as the "cradle of Arab nationalism"-has finally achieved its great am- bition.

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