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Racial Intolerance/

" NO, REALLY! WE MAY

SEEM PECULIAR AT

TIMES BUT WE'RE ·

NOT LIKE THAT !"

AN ENTRY FOR THE POLITICAL ACADEMY

Sefton Delmer's

NEWSMAP poses a question:

CI O W FAR IS

THE

W

more

FA IK

?

EAST...

cer-

(2) not

1 arrangement :th pissy drool

now made their appearance in Nanking and Shinnghot.

The clue in that

Kremlin banquet

this

He'll risk all

would

the

The American-sponsored Gov- ermynt of Man Tre-tung's ans) tagonist Chiang Kai-shek 15 j- proving itself as corrupt. capoble, and unpopular in 11a last-ditch . fuge on the island of Form sa as ever it did on the

an island of China.

No nursing

A MAN WITH

Four Million Pounds A A Year

By JOHN PREBBLE

NEW. man-with-the- rifted through the town for

A biggest income-in-ones.

the-world comes into The fantastically rich shelkh the news.

hina opened

Ano modern His

hospital with 150 beds under a

annual income is British medical officer, There is probably larger than any n handsome two-storey depart- man's has ever been. It is ment of education and many just short of £4,000,000 a primary schools year: roughly £280,000 A Education is free, but not month, £70,000 a week, or compulsory. £6 163, for every minute of tent on to

education, every day.

And it is free of all taxa- Sir Ahmad is also planning a tion except what he cares which will give Kuwait its own £1,000,000 distillation plant

Brighter boys are

Cairo for further

to impose upon himself. water and may even roll back This new Croesus is the centuries to the years of Sheikh Sir Ahmad al-Jabir Abraham when the desert was

green. as-Subah, KCSI, of Kuwait. He rules 100,000 subjects in 2,000 square miles of sand and cases at the tip of the Persian Gulf.

But the women

are still veiled

And, as with other of the WLE the richer Kuwaitis are becoming Wenteraised the work's richest men, his sheikh still dieapproves of West- almost incomprehensible ern dress. The women are velled. forlune flows from oil.

Reports just published give the first definite indica- tion of the sheikh'a wealth.. Oil gushes from his country at the rate of 1,120,439 tons a month,

On a royalty basis this means by, a ton for Sir Ah-

a

The sheikh himself lives in cicaming white pałaco which, excep; for the intro- duction of air-conditioning and a telephone, has re- mained unchanged by his wealth.

There, in two large state- meets visitors and rooms, he holds court.

Te in an absolute ruler, con- trolled by custom, not constitu-

mad, £3,300,000 a year, paid in Indian rupect And almost every month the tion. But he has an advisory

Kush flow more strongly, Cabinet. taking him up to

1.000,000 line.

Its only city is walled in

the Bra

the

A cautious man, he look on his new wealth wlih route scepticism, believing that what Allah has v Anh may its radily take away.

But be Lude zome CORKERS

But he himself owas no horses.

HE

Fair in alt his dealings

E has, naturally, become the target of thors who would Itefors cil was found Kuwait help him exploit his money. had remained unchanged Asia the alliance between the breeding of fine horses, and dentist.

centuries, writing: ila history years ago, he met the King. MHROUGHOUT South: cunt slowly in pearts and poverty, in bought a radio, and went to the

for

On his one visit to Britain 15

Recently a group of speculat-

sheikh is an ertet, dignissions to the Western fever which fed man of 05, with a short, has fushed the fose of us grizzled beard resting он * country. Vast cases of American ma- double chin.

He han motor yacht, a Genial crow's-fret eyes crease gift, and he neensionally attends ai! HAT a good thing deed they beat even

Above all, he has put Russia's chinery supplied under it is that coffee is Lords of Louis XIVa hed. military preparedness in Siberia plates, I was told, can be reen ly-the corners of dark eyes looking the horse races organised by

troni beneath {1 bend of the clandestine war ing broken open, rusting, and out

pay-

employer of the oil company. not rationed in chamber.

let the British in Malaya, retting on the wharves of Kee-patterned head-itress,

Britain protects his country Britain. For there is ITO By giving priority over the French in Indo-Chins, and tunik

and keeps interests

Rent #political trading soporific job than the accredited Ambassador Wotem

The ruthless oppression of the there. reading Russian news of the Chinese Government generally throughout Southeast nativo population by Chiu's Its only elty, the seaport

Asia. papers and monitoring re- to a man who is (1) only the

my and Chiang's politicians of Et Kitwalt, a typical has created another pro-Com- | Arab town, surrounded ot ports of the Soviet radio, official of a provincial at-

munist ifth column longing for!

three des by a wall 15ft. thority allegedly subor-

liberation by the Chinese Reds. thick and on had not If they had

the fourth by dinate 16 the Chinese plenty of coffee to keep Central

Government, and port this clandestine war is them awake and lively, the

being waged under even the head of direction of Chinese Communists. hackroom boys who comb that authority but its de- It is being supplied from China through both for portents

puty hend, the Russiums and financed by Chinese. 12 of Soviet intentions might were undoubtedly staging a China went Titleist, that war easily have missed a

I almost certainly peter out, emism none the less tain Kremlin "court cireu- minor, but lar." It was the one (it has very important, political de. Just as did Marchal Tito's mier- Aslatles hungry for power has only water supply.

rilla campaign in Greece.

Stalin is prepared to risk all followed the banquet given we have a vital clue to the new

I believe that in this incident this in order to hold on to Man

churia.

JES

experts have told On top of all this come: by Stalin for the Chinese Soviet policy in the Far

hin that Manchuria is essential (a) The continued concentra-i Communist boss Mao Tse- hitherto kept as secret as the Russia's military plans in ten of the Western world on the

Siberia

because it is the only European front In the mistaken tung, in honour of the sign secret clauses of Stalin's treaty practical source of food supplies notion that the Far East is still

good ing of the new Soviet- with Mao Tse-tung. It is

for the armies of workers and for away: that

at we should know what it is. Chinese alliance.

soldiers

encamped although that policy

in aim Siberin, More easily still might immediately at the men and

Clearly this brush between the have been missed the high- women of Moscow, Pekinit, and

Harbin, its effects will be felt Ambassador and the Deputy tit-bits ly significant

the equally in Manchester, Peck Commissar, and the whole situa tion it reveals, presents an oppor circular contained about the ham, and Huddersfield,

tunity De-

ty which our diplomats and Ambassador and the

political warriors could exploit. puty Commissar.

Russian snub

From what I saw and heard, Painstakingly and duti

however, fully our backroom boys ASI sve it, this fussian snubs scanned the list of quests to the Chinese Ambassador

Kremlin the

just reached London) which

In

munique.

cam-

monstration.

incans two things:→→

Easl,

aims

now

cate

one.

Communism and the anti-West- the building of the tawny tenk

of Western-educated dhows which once brought its ors tried to interest him in art- ing a string of racehorses. They This water came in goat-skins showed him a flm of the Derby. from 50 miles down the coast and was sold at a rupee n skin.

produced a revolutionary situa- tlon which requires no nursing from Moscow,

(b)

the On top of that dangerously conflicting policies of the Western Powers in the Far Eastern theatre.

All these are factorg which must encourage Stalin and his Politburo advisers.

They must be convinced that they are safe to build up their military position in Siberia and Manchuria and risk the political

consequences.

(London Express Servico)

Oil has brought

them luxurics

the

He watched politely, but

of

end expressed un interest only in the peculiar gesticula- tions of the tic-tac men.

Is family life is traditional..

NOW oll has changed all that. In accordance with curlom, he

It has brought luxury cars has more

than one

wife, and

and radiograms, chromium plate many children. пра

"I HAVD Juprescent lighting,

for a high regard Sheikh Sir Ahmad." said a British offein! recently, upon his. return from El Kuwait,

It has paid for diesel tankers which bring in 100,-

gallons of

000 It has

and straightened the narrow main street of El Kuwait. Where once

meandered

water a day. cleared and

"He is fair in all lila deal- ings, and has not let his Im- mense wealth go to his head. "He Is proud that his country

the dark men of the desert, herd- incir goats now stand wille is now rich, and considering the ceted Arab traffic policemen short time he has had the money beneath shady umbrellas.

Soon oil will pave the streets he has done a lot for his people. and shut out the rand that has

-(London 'Express 'Bervice)

The Judges Scratched Their Heads

during my recent trip across Southeast Asia, I believe the risk which Stalin is taking is a fair videne I was given

On the Far from keeping their he kas

reason to consider promises und There, lo and behold, back Manchuria to the Chinese Russia pocket for the next five Handing Mao Tse-tung as safely in the they found that the Deputy new that China hus 41 pro- years at Wast. Commissar of the Man- Soviet

Rus- Famine in sweeping China and

TS Il a crime

to marry your pensant.. Mahmoud Abdel which sald the procedure was with it to hang on churian Regional Adminis- sions are

pestilence.

own mother-in-law?

Ghaffar comes from Sakkara. He criminal. tration had

accordingly Banditry, which always ne-

Most people, and in married Sandia, a young virgin However, Mahmoud been given to it. They are

had Manchuria not 35 A companies famine in China, and

particular the precedence over Mao Tse-

naked a lawyer to defend him. hen pecked just turned 10, of China but-like the usually follows In the wake of husbands, would say immediately The court report, as appearing The Jawyer produced the tung'a Ambassador in Mos- Japanese before them-ns an a war, is once more raising it that a man wanting to marry his fa Akher Lahza, a Caire weekly bombshell. Ho read our

independent puppet State, Its head.

mother-in-law 19 mad and magazine, bald there were nu hichest dignitaries, therefore.

marktol relations The new Communist Govern should be shot. outrank the ambassadors of ment is already finding consider-

COW.

Gent, the

They're sticklers other States in Moscow. able difficulty in asserting it Mahmoud Abdel

QUEENS ALHAMBRA They're sticklers

AIR CONDITIONED

to

2 Stalln has given the highest authority in the newly conquer is not difficult

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DANNY KAYE

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wards

Ghaffar has

and married Els

out

written by

between wheuncements by Al Kortaby, complied set of Koramic ława, and laws from the But it has actually happened. By SAM SOUKI Afoslem legislation

Achammed Den Al Husn Α done it. He tossed out his

Asfahani

Al Kirbassy In his youthful bride and shortly after husband and wife.

He soon volume OIL Shareca Jaws married her widowed divorced her

(Moslem legislation). They mother. It has created quite a mother-in-law. problem in Egyptian courts.

The authorities heard of it showed that this act was no- and

the blissful second marriage criminal offence but quite legal. Judges and

are was charged as unlawful and

The lawyer concluded: "If this poring over legal and religious proceedings were started against point is one of dispute between volumes trying to find whether Malimoud. for it. So far, they've found she was glad her husband mat- Ignorant peasant who cannot there is any law against it of In vain did the first wife say permit us to condemn laws that condeinn it and others ried her mother. In vain the even sign his own name?"

picas of the second wife that

the United States and Canada. In addition

TN

to Soviet staff Deliberate it must have

officers, political and adminie- He has put the exigencies of trative advisers, it has now had been. For in matters of preparing for a possible Aretle to summon Russian troops, precedence the Kremlin war with the Americans above egalitarians are sticklers the political need to save the Soviet military units, mostly that condone it.

face of the Chinese

lawyers

the erudites, will our consciences.

an.

for the strictest protocol. In munists, and avoid the risk of with German-made anti-aircraft colourful as some of the world's criminal to marry

Com- anti-aircraft troops equipped This case promises to be as she did not realise it WAY The judges scratched their

the art of separating the their being provoked into V.I.P. from the V.IP. In- Titolst rebellion,

NANCY

Frank Suggestion

BY

---AND IT PREVENTS

INDIGESTION

guna, have so I was told by a best. Chinese just come from there- Our hero Lo An Kliterato

son-in-law.

her former heads, and decided to investigate the matter further. United The authorities read out laws Press.

By Ernie Bushmiller

the

Technicolor

Inspector Generali

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