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WHAT'S GOING ON
Sir Stafford returns to the romantic village
EFORE
B FORD
costing
SIR STAF- men with sable, now CRIPPS flew boat £300, another in violet trimmer with bear skin, and a back to Britain after a year word in gola in Switzerland to cure his spinal complaint, he made a sentimental journey.
He visited an hotel ta the mall Alpine village of Klo -
where 40 years ago he became engaged to M... Bookers Swithinbank,
LADY CRIPPE.
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Since then he has not kern back to the village To friends he explained: "I the not want to return home with ut recap- turing meniaries of my youth
Sul on
strict 101. Si. Stafford atc
speed vegetarian food prescribed by Jus woman doctin. 38-year-old DAGMAR LIECHTI, wi cumpand bim to Klosters
VOTE FOR FATHER
THOUGH MR CHURCHILL'S
metres taglie,
SARAD
LAYE "I don't mix in politics, she will interrupt returnals fo New York televat show
bis-
10 y tu Briain and vote
With her photographer ban, ANTHONY BEAU CHAMP. he utere, ar tay
to stay long magh to a herd
Luther Win
TWO
HONOURS EVEN
ان
LORD b graphics at LADY MOUNT- BATTEN av been before the
One
the public Dispatch the
in
magazine Woman.
Sunday
khe
In the Dispatch, it was a case of their Lord and Litelyships, Her Ladyship
is; Wumaa
unty.
p. Je maski
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BUT the 1. th catching will com be And tuse the 1eason why.
Lor Mountbatten's former ALAN CAMP- prea offeer. BELL-JOHNSTON, is about to take the ring it is producing a book about His dsimp. will be out rhortly
It
it is s! Her Ladyship also Kele a monti o In this book
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Al
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His hobby is gardening. his Chelicrbum home he hos strawberties for tea in Oelober. They are → French all-the- your-round vanely.
JEBB ON SPAGHETTI
JUREN UNO adjourned
to:
the summer Britain's dele- Bade. SIR GLADWYN JEBB let his New York: mansion and
m home.
Now, with the Persian erists, he has returned. So he is live ing as & guest in his Own be. Frequent postime is dis- sing with his Italian chef the hundred ways of e:oking
paghetti.
Ephraim Hardcastle
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1951.
"Stroking my hull and culling him a dear old horse' don't give me a lot of confidence in your knowledge of agriculture."
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MONG the thousands Communist fervour. And be driven from this country by high walls—and a European. assistance $1 will get from of public speakers the fact that the Tunisian which the energy and skill has quarter. If there is trouble the foreign technicians, it is likely now buzzing around union only year
Moroccans can be quickly driven to prove weak and inefficient. agʊ the United States ceased being a member of Their proper ies will be looted into their city and shut up there. I shall not be surprised to see from luncheon table to lun- the Communist
Communists World and ruined, just as Bri'lah pro-
and Strongly Nationalist districts extremists esablish a base there. cheon table as the big Federation of Trade Unions perry is being looted and ruined
In Persia today.
like Fez, by tradition the political from which they will try to run American lecture season will only make the Tunisian
and religious capital of Morocco, guns and political explosives into gets into full swing one more attractive still as more, there is one whom I converts.
CONTRADICTIONS are being deliberately allowed French North Africa in order to What has it to offer?
te decline by a policy of cause trouble and disorder. think we should all
economic neglect. with care.
watch
But I
For DI discovered in long the with their leaders falks
very much hope that Habib Bourguiba will
But reforms must come from His name is Habib Hour- not succeed in misleading Nationalists.....
They the French themselves: guiba. He comes from any important section of
pressure ONE: Insist that the French must not come under Tunis, in French North the American public or the
well Africu
He is the leade: American Government into administration which has brought from outside, however
this meaning. and apostle-in-chief of the bringing pressure on
the prace, law, and order to
and be re- erea shall depart
Any sign of division between. TASSIGNY anti-French Tunisian ind- French to appease the Mus- placed by a Medlem administra- the Frencti
and the other pendence party "Destour." Jem Nationalists.
1.on. (They frankly admit this Western Powers in North Africa, Moslem
adminis.ralion would any concession to the Nationalists have nothing near the technical
is interpreted by the Moglem resistance groups as a sign that capacity of the French.)
They sep victory is at hami.
URING his two-day visit to London GENERAL JEAN LE LATTRE LE
lived up to his reputation
France' best-dressed
man
B
milltary
His mission in America
in wears
13:
tuilored With uniforms Paris's Savile Row, he pigskin glove: coding £15.
FILET MIGNON WINS TUST who will be invited to the three mall official re- ceptions for PRINCESS ELIZA - BET!!
11:4
OF DUKE
VISIT EDINBURGH when they Washington causing specula- tion at ng the capitel's socio
zet
art
But the unlucky
01:05
will
UP-TO-DATE
For if he does, the Wertera
TWO: Adamantly oppose the
Country
appensers
TO SPLIT the vital Franco-American wit will be landed in the same right of any of the French their demands, increase the alliance in North Africa, kind of trouble in Morocco and colonis s who may remain in the pressure, and organise that very
which the of Atlantic key area
de- he Western Mediterranean as
10 have voling, disorder fence, by denigrating the prasement of the larters and
administrative, or juridical rights had hoped to avoid. in the independent Mostem State. Now I am far from upholding the French in Nor h Africa as
group of selfless angels.
French administration American eyes;
TO APPEAL American help in
int
robbers in Persia has brought us in the Middle Eax.
Motering through North Africa, for i could not help thinking of rid- Abadan-built ou' of the Persian desert by British capital, Bri ish oil, and British ingenuity..
have a comulation: the partyding North Africa of the
in the ball:com of the Billish Lambasty will be televised
But
AT PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S use there will be on y Blair House 16 or 18
Twenty people at the Cans- dien Enbay party w}} coid lobster and Filet Mignon, Email pieces. Suys the cul in Ambassador's wife: "We pon- dered roast beef as u but Filet Mign: won."
QUIET, PLEASE
ESPITE many
DES telephone
Tribute,
£1-a-minute
calls DENIS COMPTON has flown to Johan-
nesburg knowing little
the arrangements
marriage
French in order to set up an independent United States of North Africa. These States, he says, would be anti-Communist friendly to the West.
ATTRACTIVE
and
&
WEAKNESS
It is no coincidence that thu greatest danger to the s.ability Their polky involves con ra-
of the French-and win i. the uictions which are bound to ex- Western position in Africa today For before the
pose them to the eriietam of -comes from Tunisia. French came, this
01 ever larger number country I was bey
Americans now being sent to the seeing had been as barren, as uncared new bases in Morocco. for and bare as most of Persia
:he
For here appeasement has gonu further than anywhere. Bour- guiba's party has been given a Ostensibly for instance, the seat in the mixed Moslem-French French are dedicated to educate Government. The result is that ing Morocco to self-government Moslem officials formerly show- But now I was driving rough and eventual autonomy. mile alter mile of admirably
SOURGUIDA
today.
ing unquestioning obedience to
It is a brilliantly con- cultivated fields, through orange
In practice, however, they the French are now playing In ceived and impressive line, and olive groves, rich vineyards seem to be going all out to with the resistance movement and fiery little 48-year-old and-most impressive of all to Frenchify the country or as the the Government of tomorrow as French-educated Bourguiba anyone who has travelled much Moslems say, Christianise it.
is just the man to put it in Arab lands--acres and acres
about
for his Durban to
over.
MISS VALERIE PLATT.
But it will be "the quietest
of freshly planted forest land.
Berber casan's in enormous
Already he has addressed straw hats sat от tractors of quiet affairs." He expects the annual convention of ploughing and disking the land South African cricket captain the American Frederation well as any champion Suffolk
ploughman. DUDLEY KOURSE to be there. of Labour at San Francisco.
Compton will come back by His bridg
tca in November.
dislikes flying. They will live
near Grosvenor-square.
IN SPLENDOUR CLAD
LONDON'S Lord Mayor let
BIR LESLIE BOYCE
went to the House last
to be presented to the
Chancellor, LORD JOWETT.
week Lord
RELIABILITY
they believe: Even the Bey, taşular ruber of Tunis, can no longer be relied on to do as he' is told.
Even the lowest grades of the When I asked M. Perliter, the are Blled with French Resident-General, why he civil service Frenchmen. The postman who still kept the country officially brought me my letters in Rabat under state of steze his was from Britony. The police-
No sign here of those man- M. Farbat Hached, drawn biis of stick with which I man who told me the way to the answer was frankness tself.
to watch the pitiable bus station was a Savoyand. * "We can certainly get the Bey secretary-General of the big used
to revoke the siege order," he Tunisian General Union of Persians trying to scratch a
living from their soil.
"It is for the sake of 'relia- said. “But we cannot be sure Workers, who accompanied
bility," say the French, and we can get him to sign a new Near the bustling, prosperous quickly add: "You can't trust one if need arises. So we prefer tion that the United States villages were modern mills, can- a Moroccan postman to deliver to keep the state of siege in Government should make ung factories, cork works (many a lotter on time."
being so that we can apply. it If of the forests consist of cork
need be,” The European community is carefully separated from the Moslems,
him, even put up a resolu
France grant to North trees), wine and oil presses of In the Prince's Room they Africa a Philippines-like in the most up-to-date design, ripped hot rploed
wine from
twe loving cups wreathed
dependence. in
white heather.
For his year. of office Sir
Now it Habib Bourgulba and the ather Nationalist leaders
This Tunisian weakness will become parißcularly dangerous next year. For on January 1 an In all the towns I visited there independent Moslem Govern-
Grand stuff this, part!- have their way the 2,000,000 was a Moslem quarter-usually mant will take over in neigh Leslie has a scarlet rehe trim cularly because of its anti- Trench now in North Africh will the old Moorish town surrounded bouring Libya. Despite the
NANCY
High Hope
I WONDER "HOW
IT FEELS TO BE
ANF ANIMAL.
IF YOU
HAD A
CHOICE, SLUGGO
WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL WOULD YOU. LIKE TO BE 7
HMM-~
LET'S
SEE
GIRAFFE
By Ernie Bushmilller
The French are doing their best to get ready for them, The have established a milltary zone many hundreds of square miles deep on their side of the border. They hopeoipila e Tunisia from Libyan in oslich.
I hope American common sense will throw a zone round. Mr Bourguiba and isola,e-him at those huncheon tables.
(London Express Service.) |
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