AROUND. Paris With STEPHEN COULTER
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1964.
State Turns Tables On
T
Art Smugglers
HE "honourable smug wood this summer where 31 m gling" of art treasures ver Wilitma Gaetz was gone from Kurupe to Amerien is, oddly enough,
to make a din of his de pans wow: Danny Kaye
"Sum 111.4 Visa
providing French rustoms started haven't had as much meat with their most glorful a moments for years.
posted fro Gurtz ver Danny Chevaler, Ila as Thought a leper."
corporal Hid. a day, a sergeant 1s. 3d, a day, an adjutant 18. Ild, a day bod & chief adjutant 24, 1d.
a day! A private in Indo-China
1 la better off with about co a week and a corporal with £7, 10, Buia French divisional general at herne gels only 137.10.0.0 week, against a British general's
BO 15 0.
፡- incl
American Reneral's £100,
either M: Kave rays 1 vene
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might
They have just up a brilliant now technique that not only watches
DENE Mayer. lar t offenders but is giving the
Pizme. 1 French State some of the
even wanted Cami Minister) biggest art barguing ever. bugtung
floground "Honourable muugglers" one of the alls of Finger at a are not professintal eroula Paris Ny dani
the true ‛;41 : but people of otherwise Be Bat
French seript enklest na hes stainless repute who try in fore the company commander,
my epeal through "Have you
commausden, for nothing quest asked customs with the len of top prirë “xpecting the usual rejdy alunt the man's preference for one on other sules in Amerion.
branch "Well win," replæd the esiseript, I'd be glad od a smull subs.dy M Mayer dado't have to explain to bas laughing audire tha
get ar tvasures
the
A friend of mine at Cherbourg the The new other day saw technique in action.
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A dignified elderly man nowadays thus what pretty presented hai bagage, well eve gbody
among which was a hand- sume picture, "That?" he shrugged in reply to the chatons men. "Oh, the PX- pets say it's almost worth Jess. I'm only taking at a a gift for my aunt.
IN
Think he has at light to
DARIS Fadkars Lashellerene a have Team Teaching feverishly for their throat tablete Frank-taty
up
skal
sance
Mared
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plabbe over French feriileities
The name of the Frenele
tematen arse Paquarissam Yenile. known as Maur
Put it down at £10 if you like," senador
My21 The custom
Haskel
lime to wail: *14 They
brought up an expert From The Ministry of Fine Arts. whoxummibed
A pageaisouderame
The picture THE barak
ON the Bittany CHRANE INC waiting with some
The World by author and
and valued it at C33980, So expectation for the next visit to the customs men turned to there part the traveller. "You've de. Franens Max clared it for $10. All right. Nobel Prize Winner In a recust we will buy it for that
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and collect your money.
And the "honourable smuggler" found that under COME British marel other the rules he had to accept!
THERE
HERE seem to me to be all sorts of awkward postal
the blew tried
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foreign residents in France are feeling the strain The Best national versus since before the was has started, and toamiauchsler- booking white forms are thatter- ng through letter boxes all over M. Los Duratel, Country Connelline-General of the Seule, hat protester alektions
The
The falling off In regular There realment has so worried Frecci Monsters lately that they are going to push through a pay rise
THE best leuths of the Pare
podem are again serviching tamar bends over The reappear- sance et "Inities, the gentleman. burglar," who has lifted a for- Tota Create
Ert The
swagger West Kid
"Raffles" fool shiok police last year by breaking roto a series DỊ imillionaires nomes and getting ¿ clue. away that leaving Never a fingerprint or fool- mark Deter lives were able to Bok the pestilering becutive they noticed th
mysterious erneksitad suwed expert Taste He is not taken my by undatiotr Jewellery p objets d'ort Aut only varies ST ser VITY best things
Saree The two lafest luinglaras, the raminal police The Rade have maller du pewter Chot, vine al The meet teriowned expert, un art Lougees in Europe
MacCOLL
IN
MOSCOW
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MOSCOW. on
SHOP
ICES
"Just tell me 'It's lovely to see the sum again' once more, that's all,"
London Express Bervice
ANTHONY EDEN RESPECTED BY CHINESE REDS
By PATRICK MAITLAND, M.P.
A meeting
T their first private a map showing Chinese na- in Geneva, timal territory within Indo- British Foreign Secre- China, within Burma tury, Anthony Eden, is said (Assain) and even down
Such, indeed, is the theme that attends every converon- tion with members of the Chinese delegation who they
Not been HU
expected. approachable
have
11-
ure
to have suggested to China's into Slam. The Chinese Premier Chou En-lai that it make no secret that they was time China sent an Am- expect to recover this terri- bassador to London. There tory in due course and are had now been a British Em- In no great hurry now, basay in Peking for som But when they years. Mr Eden stressed. chivied by Westerners to be Premier Chou allegedly more forthcoming in their answered: "There is no peace proposals, they simply hurry."
smile und remark that, of course, they have these claims which, if tha West will not make
pence now, are in a position to press.
They are meantime follow- The delegates, in private ing a course definitely not conversation, imply
altogether set by Moscow. they want fighting halted hulted both in and kept Korea and in Indo-China. But they also make it clear that Chinn has claims-- critical territorial claims relations with Russia. In particular, he was asked about which they do not
whether Chinese Com- feel bashful.
munism differed from the It is possible to obtain Soviet either in ideology or from the Chinese delegation
organisation. As to ideas, came the reply, the Chinese still drew their principles from Dr Sun Yat Sen. As to organisation, they now looked to Russia.
DICTATORS LIE
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BY SIDE
The second despatch from Rene MacColl
xe
Jeft and I am walking down a remains Alght of marble steps into the
Tumb itself. tur to the right and there euch sharply spotlighted in ofherwise dim chamber, lie the TWO Bankers of 20th-century the history.
overdoing "The ulher night
point in
The
con-
I
that
Careful Analogy
delegate, about Chinese
One Chinese was asked
This delegate then drew A careful
analogy. "We read in our papers," he said, "that you British are look- ing to the Americans more and more for help in indus- trial and other kinds of organisation. Sometimes our people exaggerate and suy you are controlled by the USA. So it is with us. We was naturally look to the USSR. the frills.
walking
back ofter hop-But they do not control us.' pening on a full-dress rehearsal Take air travel.
In particular, this dele- for a
rehearsal parade. The the
planes in took trast between
place In
Wis asked if near-freezing gate
he which dew from London by
weather, and it made me under-thought all Communist coun- way of Stockholm and Finland, sand why the U.S.S.R. is proud tries should "live under one and the Soviet's Convair-type
of its army. job ino which
umbrella." I climbed ut
He replied that, This was an array of strictly though that had been the Helsinki They He on separate calafal-
for the last 10p Moscow
disciplined men. vin ques, with bronzé banners and
healthy look- Lengrad, could
Russian idea, it was not the ing, alert and smart. Thousands of people every
bronze Bowers as adornment at
not have been sharper if every to the day visit the
The sides. The bodies
one concerned had sat down and red-and-grey
N days when the mausoleum closed
gluss
finely planned it that way. marble mausoleum Tew O
Le
but ittat(TI the Kremlin
yam see the huge polthed yards from
As took my At the four corners matically
scut, I auto- queue fou abast and stretch- inviibir,
glanced up of the WONDER how many pesupie walls, where the ties of the for perhaps a mile or more, of the sunken rectangle
place where there are usually who
the te Vladimir Lenin am foseph winding downs a title hill from tall Followed
The entafalques stand
the twin flesh-on signs saying Battle of Dien Bien Phu realise
vozing Red Army soldiers Stalin lie perpetually
in Hest Squares and then round the four
"Fasten your seat belts" and at s what Da JAY
Freuch
corner and vanishing under the fact inwards.
"No smoking please." Fodder is”
to think state, Escal
Kremlin Park In trees of the British Lates, low enough.
the distancs. A Fierp
Af 7 d.
the French liner Lyauley Song tatue after the ships hard set rut
Marseilles, from
treated were
To formance the first ever
Med
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nat new) showing the crowd wait- ing to then con the rayside e their
Casilan Porewarned may be des carmed But stil
MAURICE
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at
Cherv.. Lam looking particularly sad The big party he floors Finase and Marton la Courtier. But he ses de teck it heraus he can't get an American entry Visa S I can't NBY-
thin days Bad within An otheer motions me to the HEY lie there side by muted hours,
side. One died 30 And Since Stalin's
in the tomb just subterranean years ago. The other wete
ag it has been last year. Together
members of the have changed the pubite to get a pass before they poole Ink » pesiple's privité Bives. course of history, affected pay theis in peeta.
But what
use the lives of us all. Nor is the have wen Iying
story done yet.
it
Britons who
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The aumber would be even thegreater were it tol that the day, authorities allow visitors only
the Colony
NOW
SOUT
ORNIN
& KOWLO
ו ד ו ת
Four abreast
I is an arresting sight. this greve, and a constant reminder of the veneration in which the people of the Soviet Union hold
P
In
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Clear view
Dre
the two extraordinary men who three or four steps 1 go
50 that I am looking down nt Lenin and Stalin from a dis- tance of a few feet. The tight ing 15 admirable And the features of the men stand out with perfect clarity.
ic
the
other
They were whiling away the Chinese. They could afford minutes until midnight struck to make distinctions and and
cuissons rolled by find friends among their rehearsing their greetings to socialist' neighbours. Malenkov
the and
He notables when
pass the instanced Burma and India, they saluting baso atop Lenin's tomb. and he said China
would Dapper officers, many of them look further afield. But he
stood coplously moustachiorů,
also implied that China had up
troop- There were no such signs in carriers holding little red flags chosen her friends badly in
earnestly to the the past;
look
this Russian plane.
REASON: No seat belts - and it was up to you whether you smoked.
In the armoured
and talking
Then at a signal from the flag ideology.
men.
all the steel-helmeted heads would jerk to the right and the The seats a single row down men would give a roor in the right-hand side and a unicon: "Hurrah - Hurrah— double row on the
left-were Hurrah." covered with what seemed to The officers were clearly per- be bits of old carpet.
fectionists, for they made the men go through it angin and again-One lot did it 33 times.
in turn led Russia and bullt it. in less than four decales, Into a mighty world
power. Jinke my
place at the head of
the queue
one sunny wfter- noun. a courtesy reserved for foreign visitors Behind me
Lenin wears a binck shirt stretches out of sight the line of with outside breast pockets. His piece men, women, and children of arms le outstretched, Russin,
all
3
Some of the ventilation blow-
not.
How come?
now
she must to their socialist
persis-
No Secret
Although Premier Chou En-lai was evidently loth to concede much when he Someon had festound
talked with Mr Eden, his of bright blue plush and the to simulate a curtain at the
delegation members make right Ast is clenched, The left entrance to the cockpit, but it
no secret that they regard Some of them travelled great hand lies open, and one notices hung woefully lopsided.
the British Foreign Secre- distances to look upon their the square-cut strong fingers,
tary It is a silent, He wears a couple of ribbons on dead lenders.
the outstanding whispering concourse. although his shirt.
holes worked while others did WELL, a few minutes after personality. In private they about us are the normal
leaving the rehearsal i came acclaim Mr Eden's busting trafic noises of a great black shroud from the waist Both bodies are covered with
The stewardess was a short, upon un open manhole, andthin tence in negotiation and his city.
down, and
down inside it, doing something girl, dowdy Jengths of binelt pale
by our rather difficult with В Five minutes before we are to
constant readiness to work standards, with
heavy anaomic On
electric be ndmitted
*mile. You n polleeman just crape are cast at their feet.
cable, was a woman. could not have
out new proposals and seek She was ahead of me
Lenin's head.
wrapped wilder
in heavy to secure their acceptance. is neat.
contrast to the clothes against the nippy night The had o measured progress across the upslanting eyes of his pictures curvaceous cutles, groomed to
cheerful; but Mr Dulles role has left a cobblestones of Red Square and and photographs are a notable the last eyelash, who undulate air, and seemed
atil it was strange we all shuffle
to see a lesser impression. Chinese characteristic. He has hair around in American planes.
0
woman doing that sort of job at express disappointment. seemly rate.
never expected to come a woman agree with him. But they
in the dead of night?"
with such strength behind "In the Soviet him He replied:
would there
prove more arc no unpleasano
warts a slow and
after him at o
line moustache and from certain angles the hint of a smile seems
Red drapes
T
the
to play about his lips.
On time
that time of night.
The next dày Russion:
I said to
They
does a "How a job like that did expect that a statesman
On the contrary, all work ready for serious diplomacy. Now, however, in place of a
lunch, DTÍCU
Stalin is in a khaki militory tunic, bonked with many rib-
HUT she came round with well- end of the
His face is rather more five bons.
thumbed Sovet magazints, Union marked with and later mora minutes I have come up to gaunt and
with a box the great bronze doors of the the cares of responsibility than This had a gay picture on its te tomb. flanked by huge red- I had anticipated.
top of a plane flying over the At night the huge red star, diplomacy of draped wreaths. We halt while
warnings with It is a handsome leonine head, Kremlin at sunset.
glare forth above the Kremlin's which Mr Dulles paved his way the guard 18 chonged (four the grey hair brushed back and Inside I found a caviar sand towers....and I find It extra- to the conference, there times an hour). Three young the familiar grey moustache wich of brown bread, another of ordinarily soldiers
difficult to tell you change in the American scene Axed bayonets drooping below with
the prominent
salami, two apples, some bls about this place.
also. Recent reports stemming move up, marching the
cuits, and some excellent bolled
from the U.S. delegation suggest reference aro "parade" in which each foot is
sweets. And you could have as something you and I have no that Mr Dulles would now be whammed down on the ground
much Russian-style tea (in a knowledge of. We have never willing to consider the partition as bord as possible.
tuif glass with a sliver of lemon) encountered anything remotely not only of Vietnam but of Laos, as you wanted.
piso. When all is sald and tone, went fast, we went these
two men of we
safely, and we landed on time. Rusla form an absorbing And as far as
nose.
Over there is the architecturat fantasy of St Basil's, with its twiated gooseberry Orientat spires, probably familiar to you I death,
from countless pictures.
Contrast
}
The terms of
like it.
Rough bunch I am concerned
on my hit parade
Touchstone
first leave
quòs.
of
This last has been tho St Basil's has been a museum visual contrast-Lenin the in- that is No. since the Revolution and sud- fellectual, with his high the where al travels that the YOU alt in a banqueting hall exchanges,
Louchstone of the past ten days and bald head, denly, as I glance round and bones
But how I wish
Western for the look at the silent people behind planner, the man of burning Russians
would
match their of unexampled opulence- Powers have insisted that Vlot- speech the ideas speed in their restaurants,
must me, their faces rapt and tense, prusive
no expense spared marble minh forces got that,
Stalin the door, the man I Iam in grave danger of losing pillars, mosaics, good, wines, Laos and Cambodia if any parii- some of them at least, this of action-even dead he seems
three Umos dally music,
Hors
of Vietnam is to be agreed. vas my temper mausoleum and the mortal to radiato a
sense of massive here in Moscow at breakfast, And, this setting contains the American sources, when taxed remains within must have taken power and the magic of a com- at lunch, and at dinner You roughent bunch of customers with this change, direct the place of the churches and monder.
never saw such sloppy, go-as- you ever clapped eyes on-you tioners to the personality cathedrals.
About me are the tiny sounds you please servies, and I am think they must have strayed in their delegation leader Gen. of scraping footfalls and the staying at one of Moscow's best by mistake drab in their Bedell Smith, U.S. Ambassador muted whisper a woman say hotels,
clothing and uncouthby in Moscow, during the Berlin ing something to her wide-eyed The place was built in 1907 out, standards their demeanour, airlift. He is not the man to chlid.
and my guess is that the kitchen Ticloas mengainst bright "quit", they say. And, they The four sentries stare fixedly must be an awful long way green, marblo. Caviar and event murmur about massive re- STEP
out of the sunshine at their erstwhile leaders.
from the dining room.
sweaters. Bell-bottomed trousers tallation. Land-into the air-conditioned I walk outside into the sun- The menu is in four languagès, and champagne. Aj slap-up || || But that makes no Impression dush of the Interior. ham shine. But the groas queue of and the Banglian vorsion le mot dinner but no teve On Russians of Chirene, Both mer and sickle medallion work, adulants comes on, implacaby, invariably bang-on, coming out... | But they are all enjoying|feel that change, is at hand in ed in allver... twinkles, againat There are Certain things, with such, itema as "roasted › themselves. 3. Enjoying them- every quarter and they have no Ithe dark marble background. about which the Russians, black cock with görnishings.” "Helveh very mughi
need to hurry.
Into dusk