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GWENDOLYNISMS
by Frederick Cook
Washington reporters have
an easy time
covering the ac- tivities of Gwen
Cofritz.
If
The two men I'd call back to pep up the Z
T
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army
London, Mar. 20. writing reports whichTM nobody HERE are two men in will read, or to send them round
Britain under the C.OI, lectur Koren whose proper
ing on 110 around the 38th place today is the Parallel. West. If Mr Strachey wants to show that he un- derstands the importance of the new Russian Army he talked about at the week- end he will bring these men home.
Our need
Cond is good enough to win the unstinted MacArthur's senior generals ho praise of
think
is good enough to command # division in Rhine Army.
The two men are Bri- This is no time to gadier Basil Coad and Bri. about questions of seniority. His arrival in Germany of his as- gadier Tom Brodie, who
of command sumption
of a command the British 27th Territorial division would set- and 29th Brigades in Korea, in motion a lot of new ideas Each has won glory in a which are badly needed. tough campaign of ups and The Chinese, North Korean or downa, writing the names Soviet way of war is very differ. of their brigades in the an- cnt from Hitler's Mr Strachey. Red soldier is not B auper- unts of British military his- man but our troops will not be
tory.
They happen to be the two sentor officers in the British Army with .the latest, most complete front- ling experience of Aghting Communist soldiers.
by ROBERT JESSEL
MILITARY COMMENTATOR
The
trained to meet him unless their commanders themselves have trained in the hardest, most up- to-date school.
Mr Strachey is now engaged in planning the shape of the British Army in 1962. Fidd- Marshal Slim is his chief mili- tary adviser but it would in- volve no breach of etiquette if the Minister had the benefit of long personal, first-hand dis- cussion on the organisation of
We with Brigadier Brodie's
I say that it is high time we an infantry division with a man brought them home. Not to be
dined and wined and feted perience,
though they richly deserve it.
But to teach the conservative- Query
minded generals in London and
Rhine Ariny everything that
query
ex-
1
they know about the new kind HAVE we too many trucks in of war our men are fighting in Army units today when it. the Far East.
comes to fighting in guerillo- Infested country? Have we too many men cleridng in company offices, too many educational instructors teaching current affairs, too few men actually trained troops can tackle any manning an automalle weapon type of nigning to which they in the forward areas? put their hands.
Don't believe the people who tell you that there is nothing "new" in war, and that
HE address is 2301. Supreme Court judge. "I
Foxhall
Road. Hke things to be interes- Washington. It is a ting," she says, perfectly nothing "inter large, rambling, white-brick straight-faced, waving a six- esting" has hap- mansion listed in the city inch-long cigarette holder. pened there, are directory as the residence of Mrs Cafritz's father-she always new Mr and Mrs Morris Cafritz. was born in Hungary was "Gwendolyn. To Washington's social elite, a noted immunologist, Drisms" to quote. writer it is much more: it is The Laszlo Detre de Surany. As one Place, the most desirable With him she travelled all put it, "Gwen has a way of house in Washington to be over Europe us a child. She saying
things invited to. It is the scene of speaks
foreign that make you the capital's most lavish languages-Magyar, Italian, think your ears are picking up parties where sponer or French and Spanish-and static." Some later you meet every- body who is anybody in Washington. It is also the WR-
A NAME BY MIXING THE 'UNMIXABLES' shington end of a transatlantic tug-of- is' a Latin scholar, too. She examples, "I think it's nice Ambassador or a Supreme Court side Koren both the British and HAVE the United States troops
four
THE HOSTESS AT 2301 FOXHALL ROAD ADDS.
A NEW WORD TO THE LANGUAGE—AND MAKES
anything
MRS. CAFRITZ
BRI
American
They paid
well
armies
Territorial WILL the average
battalion, now 120 strong, be copable within a few weeks of mobilisation of with- standing attacks by Red suleide squads?
ARE we underrating, the Com-
munist potential enemy?
any
and
weapons In
our
soldiers
DRITISH and French
went to war in 1939 pre- .. pared to fight a 1914-18 kma of war and paid the price. I have a nasty feeling that out- ono Republican,
particular one the American armies are train- European back- Justice, a
Germans
Korea which and If you
from Democrat and one Person in the ing to fight come
introduce a subject Italians, nemels" on exer
covet? Limelight,
British and maybe Greeting 2 woman and Europe."
and let 'em fight it out. guest, "My dear, you look post-
Cocktails are served at 8. By rises anything but the massed ARE there any special lessons which the Army ought to tively strategic."
8.20 everyone
la at table, for the Communist armies with their
Im home with the Z men soup and sherry. Then there is
this summer at Territorial the fish, with a white wine, mest spearheads of trained battalions. It ought to be Cond's job or game with a rose champagne and
Brodie's to
that put
ba Mr and after dessert & pate with the right. It ought to
We may not have much longer
power style-3 novel-touch for most see that their
successors of our troops in Europe away Washington as The Snake Pit. behind his wife's social throne. Washington dinners.
from the young conscript'e wel- At four she likes to drive the He started out as, a small builder.
fure or the business of winning youngest of her three sons, (built the first bowling alleys in
--MISSING---GUEST
the divisional boxing, cup to the Conrad,
grim business of knowing our aged 12, home from
potential enemy.
THE POWER
war between two remark reads whenever she can to have Fable
Mrs Perle "stuff on politics, economics ground, women, Mesta, unchallenged social and art, leader of Washington until everything." President Truman sent her
She likes square-dancing, art as Minister to Luxembourg,
exhibitions, and sleeping until and Mrs Gwen Cafritz, 4110 am.
when she can. She year-old wife of a multi-
usually lunchies at a millionaire builder, who, in Mrs Mesta's absence; is bidding hard for hér crown. EVERYTHING
floor lighted from below.
camps?
hotel's cocktail lounge known in ris Cafritz is the
famous FIFTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD Mor- salad. Coffee is taken British Strachey's main objective to in which to jerk the minds
has no
There are terraces looking Foxhall Road she employs * National Art Gallery. At 1301,
J
of len
able
Or
Mrs
-(London Express"Service)
JUST JUNK
PARIS.
GEORGE DAWait wh
The London
financier
even sent them my
bill yet?
aren't the men at the top of the seniority list, nor the men most cally accessible out East...
divisions
Ex-
We want Cood and Brodic
(London Express Service,) EDITOR'S NOTE: Eriga- :dler Coad returned to Hong.
kong yesterday on compu
Mrs rionate leave to see Coad, who is ill in hospital.
·He is expecting to return to
Korea,
from No.17 CHATER ROAD
to ANYWHERE!
school (Calvin, aged 19. is at Washington) and went on from TN the Mesta-versus-Catritz
They must be young senior. NUMBER 2301 Foxhall college, 14-year-old Carter at uero to establish a vast empire tug-of-war, the absent Madam officers with a great future be-
Junior high school). The boys in real estate. His fortune today Road is the sort of house have a trust fund in which each is estimated at more than 25 Minister is still one pace ahend fore them, with in turn will come home and quickly.
It is a matter of regret to Mrs some in six months' time to million dollars. Few Washing Catritz that she has not yet been pass on to Western one might expect in Holly has an equity of 63,500 dollars. mil
tonians could afford to pick up
to have as her guest of the lessons (pronounced the
which hard wood. It has everything. Mrs. Cafritz
bill at one of his
wife's There is a private night- kayfritz)
political
the President, and Mrs Mesta club with curved bar, built ambition. "I don't think Morris larger affairs, when pate de fole honour the biggest prize of sliperience has taught them.
gras at 20 dollars
a plate is has.
And when theso Korean in settees and a glass dance-, would like it," she says, Her one served and a battery
ambition 18 to be elected a waiters
at 18 dollars waiter
course,
Mesta's veterans do come home, the one director of Washington's
friendship with the President thing Mr Strachey must not do are called in.
ques back to the days when he is to stick them into office jobs out over the city, cool and butler, two malds,
"But I give few of these large was a Senator. Mrs Catritz is chauffeur, affairs," sald Mrs Catritz. "I biding her time. "I haven't had pleasant on a hot summer and a cook. Extra help is brought prefer a little dinner, just 20 or an opportunity yet," she says. night,
in for her large parties.
22 guests. I like to have an There are colourful gar- dens, a private pool, a char- coal grill for open-air barbecues, El complete gymnasium, a huge living- room with murals of Egyptian muidens and decorated in Swedish modern style. One whole wall is of solid glass, open-
What they are trying to do is dodge out of paying the bill back in an armchair whose deals are said to have before they've even got it." ing out on to the patio.
millions talks to There is a private cinema in his favourite Paris bar made
and reflected on the wicked- Reporter- and television room. And above all the oval dining-ness of a world which had
a multi-million- SAM WHITE replies reassuringly made him room (champagne coloured Swedish modern) which is the scene of the renowned Dawson had just read 'n' Cafritz dinners.
Washington report of Con enterprising type of Continental
business man-a "well-built But the biggest attracgressional allegations that double-breasted dark blue sult. tion of all is. Gwen Cafritz he had made £85 million white silk shirt, slik tie, broadly herself. Petite, dark-haired profit from resale to the spread white handkerchief and and attractive, she Is United
States army in a little "personal jewellery" in everywhere at once at one Europe of war surpluses he the shape of a gold bracelet and
gold wrist watch, ". of her parties," as a guest had bought from them just We were. faced with
At each mention of a sum of pint said, "like a butterfly be before the Korean war.
glasses of champagne and stout money Dawson would sit back witched." *Her greatest
mixed-black velvet-Dawson's Wa
with a far-away look In his Dawson is a 42-year-old favourite drink.
eyes and gently› ́ stroke the Lapels of his coat with his podgy who once ran asam, that's just plain politics hands in a curious affectation of the success of her dinner Cockney partics, is in mixing second-hand car business in what's going on in Washington mock humility,
he said. "It's De- Washington's unmixabléa Clapham. Since the war he about me,"
A telephone message reported and sitting back to observe has lived mainly in Paris mocrats trying to get, at them that his private aeroplane we rendy to fly him to Zurichi the results..
operating war surplus ma- "I bought this junk in Feb. Sam, it's been a real picasure torial, of which there still ruary last year. Nobody else to meet you," he said getting
and 10,000 tons of spare pariahere are
I want
pleasure, and the secret of
· PAIRING
SHE carefully pairs an maxtreme right-wing Ro-
aire.
othom
D
More black velvet and ceaseless stream of telephone calls from Rome, Geneva, Brus- sela, Frankfurt. To all Dawson "Don't
worry; it's just politics."
We then talked about other deals.
The sums mentioned wore 6, on the currency in which Daw- 9 or oven 12 figures, depending son was talking.
A REAL PLEASURE
Booms to.be an almost in- 'would look at it--29,090 vehicles up, things-r
exhaustible supply, de
"DODGERS'
I paid for it in hard currency you to put in your paper about Bot. German marks, like they mo. Number one, Some people my. Cost me only €1,300,000. so I'm a Communist. Don't you Nobody else would look at 15 believe it. I'm just a business *man. And another thing some
[publican... with an advanced The long yours of residence. Bama Korea Soma of of the papers call me an ex
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left-wing Democrat, a in the Continent's best hotels Then came political columnist with a have had to effect on Daw it was requisitioned straight Senator he has just on He looks like a rosy out. Some of it I sold back to barrow boy tell you? I've | lambasted; in his column, a voltag the fact that he arsels made, all this money out of itsomogid:
choaked farmer's boy. This de the Yanks. Now tiny way 1 born in that line in my ballet dance, with a staid ifir standard dress of the more How could R, - when ; I»/tiaven't "
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