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CONTRACT How to Play

BRIDGE

How to Win

„By: JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON

· Lying in Ambush

W [/HENEVER the bidding indicates; spot. Dummy and East ducked and that the opponents are headed declarer won. A diamond was lesi straight for trouble, it goes without toward dummy's singleton. West raying 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 points is one of the greatest virtues difflcult as possible for declarer by at the bridge table.

South dealer.

Match-point duplicate.

North-South vulnerable.

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Pass Dul L'ass

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low spade, Declarer

have saved a trick by letting this lead ride to dummy's nine, but (as Enst foresaw) this would be a

very dangerous play. If West had either trump honor he would win and return trump, and then

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clarer would be unable to ruff even one diamond. Although South sua. preted that East had both the king and queen, he could not be al ali sire of it (East might, for example, hold the diamond ace as part of his double). Hence, declarer could not be criticized for putting up the spade see, in order to make sure of one

liamond ruff.

After ruffing a diamond, declarer led a club and captured East's king. then laid down the spade jack. East won and returned a diamond. De- elarer was "forced" and was so re- duced in trumps that he new

never could

protect his own club queen front a seven tricks, and East-West garnered

(a) North made a horrible response. and (b) East knew when to pass,

To-morrow's Hand North dealer. East-West vulnerable.

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North's two heart response was hor- 500-point penalty simply because: rible beyond words. With only one queen in his hand, and no pade it, North could not afford to open his mouth, except to pass. The fact re- mains that in a recent duplicate game one. North player actually bid as re- corded.

led. By doing so he gave East a beautiful opportunity for silence, East knew that the two heart bid was forcing for one round. There- fore South was bound to rebld. East was prepared to slaughter egades, hearts, or diamonds, and could even a chance with clubs if the tuke necessity urore. He hopedi, of course, i that the opponents would go bigber", than the two level, but when the two spade bid was passed by West and North, East reflected that a tie was better than nothing, and prompt-j ly doubled.

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West decided that a heart opening South's was as safe as any, and led the ten- Ouening lead heart Jack.

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FREE FRENCH ARE WELCOME IN THE MIDDLE EAST

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 guaranteeing that pledge, has distinctly heartened the Arabs of the Middle East.

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 territory on much smaller scale than in Syria, 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 commercia} relations with her neighbours and the outside world will bring about her immediate revival.

She will certainly benefit by joining the bloc of other Arab countries who stand by Britain and thus will be able to re-bulkd her future,

Honour Is Restored

The pledge given to the Syrians by the Free French leaders. Generals 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 wis 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.

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

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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 enemics of those who were formerly the staunchest friends of France. It wns. 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 menna of restoring the prestige of France by honouring the pro-- misc given by her govern- ments at varying intervals during the Inst twenty years have now been taken.

Before the 1914-1918 War France was considered. In the same degree as Great Britalri as the protector of the Arabs of the Levant. It was in Paris is far back as 1905 that the Arst association fors

From A Baghdad Correspondent

nn "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 State" took pince 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 1910 many Arahs were sentenced to death as the re- sult of the discovery at the French Consulate of docu- ments proving their collaborn- tion with France. The Arab patriots nevertheless Call tinued to help the French to the end.

The first clash after the last war came

between King Feian 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. He 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 satisfied the legitimate demands of the Syrians.

M. de. Jouvénal therefore made the first suggestion of a Franco-Syrian Treaty, fos- tering a permanent peace in the country by the granting of "national independence' with France remaining there- after only us a "counsellor and guide on the road of modern progress.”

This idea was taken up by almost all French Govern- ments until 1936, when, after renewed troubles, a Treaty on the model of the Anglo-Iraqi

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

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

Unfortunately, intrigues of u 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 than January 31, 1939.

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-f 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- mons that "Great Britain has territorial designs In

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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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