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THE TIDE RECEDES IN ITALY
World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian,
The state is Monte Carlo-a fairy-tale land on the rocks. To-day its fate is bound up with a flower-seller's. daughter and a wealthy Greek. This is their story,
THE ACTRESS AND THE SHIPOWNER
A
Monte Carlo, ROUND a pretty face
a big bank
а
By QUENTIN CREWE
Nathaniel Gubbins
ONIGHT we have the gentlemen when you can condot privilege of bringing the weather are unlimilof.
mean, what's to "prévent microphone some foreign cricket spy sneak-
to tho Mr... what is your name ing into the control ream of the
Offe of again?
Works weather machine und turning on tein overnight when a wet wickel` ir very interesting going to suit their skie? Or gain when.
a
Wool-el-ruh. That's nam. How do you spell it?
Double-yew. Ol El KI Of they're loving and maiding va
En
draw7
the
Oh, Wilkinson. Well, I'm Of course, there may be a sure we're all very pleased to time when there is a belt of fine have you here tonight in the weather and no rain to turn on studio, Mr Wilkinson, I SUD- But you never know with pose you're in town to see the foreigners. They might whistle Coronation decorations?
up seme--in clouds fmihe Als ti'.
Argentine and tum' those on I'm sorry. I didn't quite catch just in time to prevent a clean that.
wm for us.
I soldats, TI', Oh, that's right. Of course, Well, what do you think of the
docurations, Mr Wilkinson? They're a bit of ori ri'. A bit of what? Ori Ti'.
Oh, I understand. You think
they're a bit of all right. Is Mrs Wilkinson
you?
At l'
You might think. Ha merey that most of the older chap? like myself, who are keen on erlokok, won't be here in 1973, But you never knew. Modern medicine may keep us going for a long time yet.
J
If it does, all I can say is that
if we live to see the leiser
in town with breeds without the law" plas
lang dulcica 'with our cricket, Ice us hope on that sad day our
And want does she think of blood pressure will rise to bursting point, and that--we
the decorations?
She thinks they're a bit of ori shall le like gentlemen in the ri too.
pavillon, with a glass in our
She thinks they're a bit of all hands, drinking demnation to right too, dors she? Well, it's all foreigners.
must refreshing to find a rur
sted couple agreeing for once,
Isn't it? Ho, ha. Where have
you been? In Piccadilly?
Ats ri
And where did you go after that?
Into a pub.
Hi, ha. That's very funny. So you went into a pub. And what did you have there?
A * G-out.
A what?
H'
"-out.
a light ale. Oh, good for you. Anxi I suppose Mrs Wilkinson had a light ale too?
Ata ri'.
Ho, ha. Good for Mrs Wilkin- con. I suppose you both had some blotting paper?
No. We didn't 'aue no blot- ting paper.
mean
something to cat? We 'ad a sangwidge,
t
I see. You both had a sand- wich. And you both had light ale. And you both thought the decorations a bit of all Well, thank you £0 I'much for telling us your interesting experiences, Mr Wilkinson...
But Is there any evidence of his turning talk into action? and
There is precious little proof balance a drama is and Rainler. That since once ing with gilt and crystal, which of
Cer- Onassis's intentions. like Nico toinly he has initiated the build-right. unfolding which may before they had the experience have seen gamblers
Gordon Selfridge, ing of a new harbour for yachts. bring to an end the in- of one of their rulers marrying Zographos,
own the Dolly Sisters stake millions But as the more cynical Mona- (Rainier's commoner dependence of a 600-year- randfather married the palace of francs on one spin of a card, gesques point out, this may be old state.
washer
would almost chood woman), they
an walked, because he wants the existing not wont the experience to be across them. The pretty face belongs to
repeated French film actress Giselle
There might Indeed have Pascal. The bank balance boen relief at one me about to a Greek shipowner, Arts- Rainler's broken romance. But totle Socrates Onassis.
Let the lady come first. For five years the limelight of the stage has Alckered less on
Giselle Pascal than has the lime light of love..
time During that basked in the favours young and handsome
The
highest bet I saw was
£35.
certed
All Monte Carlo is do- and rod. It reminds Harrogate on an out-of-
harbour as a base for his ships. Forward Glance
Too Late
Now there is only me of unday afternoon. Once 11/HAT a fate for a fairyland,
not now. worry.
Rainier's principality, nesting as it does between France and
of both countries.
frason
WŁA
the by-word for all that gay and extravagant, it now
sees only un occasional flash in the pan lice Farouk or the Dockers but the flash is in- frequent and the pan is empty.
The Greek
Yet such is Onassis's finan elal power that this could indeed be Monte Carlo's end if he
degreed.
WILL
Tuesday Mr de Freitas ask the Ministry of Works whether it is awuro of the need of further research into the
of rc- in Britain by discharge
-00
A
Love Story
CCORDING- to orders kived
by the Burmese Communist
Party, a man proposing marri
must not use the wordn "You are beautiful" and "I love
you."
After obtaining permission of theperly executive,' he must then may to the girl of his chaire:-
"I am deeply impressed, by your qualities as a faithful *and, energetic member of the party, and I wish to wage the party struggle together with you.
After that the dialogue bots up.
"I never knew you' fell IBe that about me.”
"I have felt Hke that about you ever since I saw got in the factory with your face smothered in engine oll." "How did I loak?".
"Terribic.
But the fore- man told me you had broken all production records In selfless effort to overthrow the tyrants of Western Capital- 18171."
"You mean the filthy Fancist
and
dosa
Capital jewen,”*
cannibals of Wretern
"When you say
thore-forety
You
words, your voice reminda më of an engine with a broken gulating mbilities
crankshaft." making rain clouds their Coronation-spoiling, holl- thing and I am reminded of the
do
beautiful day-spoiling, sport-spoiling rain over the sea on speelat
party with its eyes Axed, an casions. The regular gamblers will all
the far horizon of world Gom- tell you that you should always
munism, He appears to be thinking 20
when see the stop while you're winning.
fanatical squint in your little years ahead, and of the sclentine Once you start to lose you lose adjustment of weather to suit black eye all. Perhaps this is what Monte events like Test matches. Carlo has done. Gone on play- | **}; ing
Italy, technically independent Its inhable tants do not therefore have to go to the bother of fiddling their Income-tax forms. They do not she has even have to f them in.
of the But there is certein dibariy in which Prince defined circumstance
this -- Joy-ride...WHAT- has happened to Monte
stop.
Carlo? The rich people it
when it started to lose. This will be all right so long
as cricket is still played ex ler has Do was designed to attract no longer Now it is too late and it must clusively by Anglo-Saxons and heir
then France, exist in sufficient numbers to start working for its Rving.
other chaps who know the rules. under the Mona- keep Monte Carlo alive.
mean, chaps who understand that cricket is one of the few san constitution,
clean can appoint a
left,
and still games governor. this
gentlemen for play. gentlemen. happened, then
But as foreigners have adopted lon
The man who "bought" Manto Cario : M. Omatsin
TE
But there arc consolations,
How
Carlo be The sun shines. There is can Monte
income tax, no death, duties, no saved? Only if enough money
no
od
by
on starting a business..
will
is spent in turning it into the milltary service, few restrictions for ever sort of playground which would be the six altract the masses,
Kone
hundred
tux-free
**Year
Inde-
Su If you're looking for some where to spend your holiday, 80 bendence of this that the Greek enters Into the
It is at this stage of the story there not expecting a fairyland, 1illputian state. drama. M. Aristotle Socrates and you'll have a good time. If
The perturba- Onassis. tion of the 29,000
Monagesques be- Onassis is a short, swarthy comes more un- man about 5ft 3in, táli. But his the heavens. derstandable, money rises to
Their Icar Is The cash comes from shipping that Rainier, he owne D ships totalling even although he 1,000,000 tons..
is only 29, may
Pascal ho
be so much in Onassis first came into the love with Gisella Monte Carlo nows in January
that
it of this year when it was ant- not nounced docg
that ho had bought MISTY
her he 300,000 shares-enough to give may never marry him effective control-In the at all.
Monte Cario Casino.
It is true that
This made him virtual con- the prince has a troller of Monaco's destiny. For
-
you are in woman and have a figure like Giselle Pascal, you might even become a princess.
A GIRL
·
poot."
"You should have pensa
"Do you know what your figure reminds me of?" "Not a tank?"
"Yes, One of the great Russian heavy tanks with el- inch armour that will one day roll westward to free the enslaved people of the world. Will you marry me?”
"I would if I could remind
of a
light tankoht "All right,
other clean British games, football, and turned them into dirty games, it le possible that, you by 1973, some South American cads will have taken up cricket and turned that up into a dirty
game too.
Therefore, the possibilities of making cricket intolerable for
lank. Even in our, enlighten- cd community I suppdie one must make concessions to women's bourgeois..punity." --(London Express Service)
IN RED SHOES SETS THE RADIO LINE
By PAUL NORTON
with his wile in the yacht Creole at Spithead.
Munich. ern ideas behind the Iron Cur Europe is run, that there must TWENTY faces turned tain.
bo no incitement from 'outside Rainier 11, ruler of the prin- sister-Antoinette-and he could, the principally extracts much
Most members of this refu- to the countries of Jiz: broad- cipality of Monaco.
if he chose, nominate her as his of its revenue from the Casino.to the girl in the Black gee brains trust needed no re- casters.
But there the post- Theday Onassis is the most frock and red shoes, with rainding of friends and rcia- At this point Anna's voice They have been Inseparable, tion is delicate-so delicate talked about and most seldom fingernails to match the tives unable to get free, who became. fervent. The time for
successor.
this prince who was born in a indeed that it might serve only seen man in Monte Carlo. castle on a hill, this young and to complicate rather than resolve lovely girl whose background is the problem.
the humble Cannes flower shop her father still keeps,
It seemed
For Antoinette married in secret two years ago, her friend
What Now?
OIR.
shoes, as she said quietly: might have to pay the penalty intervention is not yol,"
for Indiscreet radle comment; said. "Just let us remind our "We must think of some neither did they need remind people how the Red Göyõr- way to help these rioting ing how deeply Zapolocky and ment has promised (thank ¿very- ・・
his Reds are entrenched be thing would be available in the people in Czechoslovakin."
shops when there reforms are ("It's Anna Bartova," whis- hind machine guns, there could be no for many years, the tennis player OUTSIDE the Casino the qu
completed.' And then,sald end to tho Giselle Roller Aleco Noghes, and there is much tion on the Ups of the pered my neighbour. "She is n
Anna, we can report, their, reac- romance. But now an end has confusion as to whether in the Monagesques Is What is Onarris Prague law graduate.")
tions to this promised plenty. her circumstances
children up to? l ho going to save us
Anna was addressing a round
An American
A nod in agreement from would be allowed to succeed.
Czechoslovake Prague got free, sald Is he, for table of exiled from bankruptcy?
Anna, chairman Dr Viteslay- Fram, a exemplo. going to bulk us a now who broadcast every day
because his Government could Czechoslovak parilainentary c Yet even
their homeland from the West, intercede for him. "Who would porter if that question premenade?"
when Masaryk wa Their problem is-how best intercede for our own never arose, there would still be
people Foreign Minister
come.
Only Worry
VISELLE who has
to
Gehieved euch sumus ha fluns on the lone
never one other major and terrifying Well, what is Onassis up to? to explain the real meaning of goled as revolter!" to haunt tho Certainly he seems to be taking the strikes caused by the Bubjects, One that up · permanent residenco In economic changes being pushed A man who has. It is diary threatens to engulf them hourly. Monte Carlo He is building through in Prague:
is now seen in the company of prince's
Cooper into whose eyes she now Bankruptcy. -
looks,
And Rainior? Sho announces. she will see the prince no more. And all over the world-but With
insistenco
Nearly Empty
the new
in gaoled
table
BAW
The 20 others. round the
her
himself a house, and a large coinage, the ban on savings, the argument. black of offices. Meanwhile, he tie-up of the Czech crown and Ilves some 25 miles away at Russian rouble. Cap d'Antibes in the Chateau
da la Croc, once tha homo 'of
the Duke of Windsor.
-0.2
our
the point of
So the quiet, persuasive line But the young man next to that Radio Free Europe will put across to Progub is fixed. her Zdenek Podhorsky,
Economic experts of tho student."» came the Prague
brains trust. take:ayer. Dr whisper) was all for the
Milos Vanek, departmentai boss volt.
We must give
in the Prague Food Ministry in Should the riots be exploitedt people a chance openly to show the hard yours after the war,
ro their opposition, bo sald. with a call for un open Certainly ho/also talks of volt?
Opposite him the man in the demolishes the argument that
Bult Yes, that was the problem. I stiff blue
(No name, any stratum of the population benelt. rebuliding the glories of Monte Curio, and hints he will make it heard the Czechs debate and please he has only just es- Take the old fölk zhoršáld. a cultural rather than a gaming it took over three hours at the coped") sald: "While
"To them food will be up to centro.
Munich Headquarters of Radio, about it let's go all out for a three times as expensive. Free Europe, the private, but general striko."
Another congla expect, a When I saw him he told me: powerful, «transmitter, that 18 Something of a shocked hush fair-haired young man looking and followed. That would be break much too young to: paye zboen It might be thought that the half-Alloc with a fow desultory "I don't believe in the luck of supported by the dollars people of Monaco would wel- gamblers. The croupiers took the game; affil 'Jess it it is in dimes of 24,000,000 Americans Ing one of the Low Implicit
Radio who seek to keep alive West rules on which come the breach.betwein Gisella bored. These rooms shimmer- gaming room"
Troo (Contimod on Page 72 Col
Monaco-the question is an MONTE CARLO has glittered for 75 years it stilt dow For the first time people Does the mean it Has she are asking if the glitter is gold reaily Anished with' the prince. for the first time it Lan't, for good? Has she given' up
Nowadays theomco-packed all hope of becoming the prin- cess of the castle on the hii?" Carino la nearly empty. They aro uning only two rooms, bach
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