THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1955.
★ DON IDDON'S DIARY *
MARCHING THROUGH
GEORGIA
Savannah, Grargin. Tuesday.
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by extraordinary State amy standard. The forests and the nways encroach
on the roads, some of which are rutted
there is and bogged, and sickly our smell in the air.
fund
The coloured people are very black
The and very patient. whites are gentlemanly, exqui- proud of itely pollie. their British ancestry
Along the highways a proces 1281371 of hourðlags and sters ances in Baring entoured let.crs. *Alligators! Live stakes! See the Jungle, see the Monkey Fat
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FOREIGN MINISTERS
EIGHT
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SEATO:
HE eight foreign
FAILURE?
ministers going to By JAMES WICKENDEN
Eist Rio Chi-minh Tiang through
Pathet
con reach
his allies,
the
Lao. which controls
three districts of north Luns. have Arxi through Nni Pridi-onetime Stamere premier and Tang's old leader in Yunban can also link with Tiang.
re- Now that the French
no more power in Indo-Chinn, the time seems ripe for his return.
The
the SEATO ference at Bangkok
thelr and programme two There ke Bobert E Le have to ark themselves an
inoves from the peasants--by Stonewall Jackas
The United pumping
through mestris ana
fundar odd question. tels which
Freich, Lotels. There are
then worked States is working night an
free Vietnam through Diem, day to SBVC from Communism, but does Vietnam want to be saved?
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glam 1ces』' Crown 1:otels it re
7814 Theam mutedo. Palm Grove motels, the best, the next the ultimate
Du nodevidualist, sick of the suptrativos, advertises his motej as "The worst in
pia is one of the bl
Competition is strenuous down
and the fight
19 Bure format lolla
The Americans in Indo- begun the South-China have already Huserable Inxi," Actually tasto compare Premier Diem of free Vietnam to Syng
Rhee of Korea----UN- favourably. Rhee, they say.
What Ch meat minus each item of is at least dynamic. feed is followed by a note which ever his faults, he was
"Better Um another evtr
PBERE was
SPO
been sufle hot in the border States where while and closed
alien have been puan Scuffles, protest meetings
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some best! by White
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de
istents, but is the whale the
Pata is working well
In the real South, the Fer South, the Deep South. plan is met working at all.
being ignorext,
it
Carolina the Al-
Harry Camply:
In North Jeepney-General. Multan.
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State wants more Ume to study, stat we want more power honile dividual schont silus- tions."
In South Carubina not a single pubite school aubtie means opened public here has been to coloured children
Grurgia, Wherry I am living fur a layup Two, in defiant Herman Taftaniste
braces and as
114 Stinzis wants th Court stripped of all power to decide Georgia Scloud cases,
Other terms
cufes
allexi
There marked White
rates macked "Cul
caked" or "You haven't tasted man worth burking. down till you've had
our pecan petindi this salesanoshup Slezstly jarring.
Deeply religious
ave the greeting EN there
nd punyer cards which are handed to you with the menu, suggesting that you say to read
But Dum is in no one's gond books. His army does not like
beemuse he 12 Alm, idendist,
a
The gamblers of Chole, who provide valuable funds for the Vietnamese police, do and like
LA case his promised out their way clean-up wipus
h
of life. The French do not like
"a prayer of gratitude at mical-him because he is anti-French. tune."
several laxis, ing
is deeply The Deep South
and have step, on Bugs which
y. "tio to church on Sundays,"
Savannah itself,
ita despile the old town rand shims, t
and the British wonder if ascund man for the job.
el handsome churches and noble T
makes money
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IN A SPOT
he
THE Americans are in & spol. They intend to make freedom seem worth while to the Viet
Since January the Ameri- cans have bypassed the French, and aid goes direct to Diem's
administration. But still that is not enough,
For one thing. the plan to reduce the Army to 90.000 and disperse it among the villager as exemplary police and anti- corruption squads is still in action For another, tho 350,000 ragged refugees North Vietnam have sit le ba stilled, aux fore are pouring
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from
The Americans blame Dien for the delays.
TOO TOUCHY
NO far, svine Amaricans have been too touchy to listen to British advien, which comes from Mr Malcolm MacDonald. the Commissioner-General Southeast Asia. With his mild manner nach precise insight, MacDonald saw long ago
that
The respect for his position lies deep Ir Indo-Chinese tradiBons, which are not dead despite years of unrest anci political upheaval.
China
These are the pieces of a jig- sow alliance that only need to be fitted together at the right moment to turn small, separate forces into # real threat to northeast Stam.
THE CHINESE
He is sufficiently above po- lules even to make a den with Ro Chi-minh. And that, in the end, may be the only solution for Indo-China, Southeast Asians are now say- THE right moment might come ing.
14 Tany
This problem of leadership
in Uxo-China is not the only one facing the SEATO com- ference.
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when Pibul carries out his threat to send the Laotian re- fugees packding from his terri tory. The refugees are content among their green riccields and whitewashed Buddhist temples. But Pibul anys they must go. There are Slan's fears ond that he is prepared to go Na Tiang Sirikhand and his to the United Nations to on potential "Froc
Independent furco his decree. That army
At of 20,000. present his forces number only a few hundreds living in atap thatched huts on the Laos mile of the Mekong River,
JIGSAW
only one man can really tree BUT across the river live 50,000
Vietnam.
Bao
It is the shrewd, plump Em-
who Dad, регог refused for eight years lo enter
has
A third problem, Indirectly affecting SEATO, is China's policy towards the eight million oversens Chinese in Southeast Asta
excluding Formosa, of about three and a half million in Siam form the largest
whom
refugees from Laos, who meats merely fed when the French returned view of Sun
colony.
The
rtcent
Peking state
confirmed tho
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Yat-sen -- the at the war's end, Out of them architect of China's renascence Tiang might raise sizable
whate doctrine was summod force. Not a Communist army, in
up
the phrass "once but an ordinary, old-fashioned Chinese always a Chinese." namese before June this year; the political агепа of Indo- rebel column to carve out new state in northeast Stern.
This is admirable—if it does not stop overseas Chinese being By Itself this is a domestic good citizens matter of banditry which is as country. In the past it was un
of their adopted The Important if Chinese took old as the country itself.
D that to Siamese are confident has
interest in local politics But wait, in his hunting lodge or few extra police posts and some
the growth of new states de- on the Riviera, until he can be troops can keep the refugees in mands that all eligible votera
hand. sure of a free hand.
go to the polls.
builings. 11 has segregation K dignity and charmi
Savannah no longer pays its are strictly Platelist In
its famous culton; by that time they reckon that China. Even Isolated from his Starte Southern
are way from
for 1956-when country, the Emperor has had lot of electioneering 4112 but it
to choose br
sufficient influence to hire and 13-from turpentine a paper fali Vietnam
are key men, such as the Chief or free bags and of course, frem motels, Communist
the motels, must begin. 1 ust not forget I never will
Footnote: The only Travel thing that could be finer than
Carolina is to be in rest-L be
Segen 14
haven't oured coloured person iving in any of the three
I models
have stayed at during this southern
journey.
repurate
There rooms or lavatories, separate Georgia heading for Florida.
of
his
regime
of Staff.
But
he
special But Eisenhower's envoy, General Collins, and his team have so direct control of the country.
launched They
Paris Newsletter from
RECONCILIATION
preferred
Sam White
- THE TRIUMPH
OF A DETERMINED WOMAN
couple in
State Switzer- including
Department opposed by Peler's mother, the like the American-still pro- for Russian caviart," says Mr ocials and Cardinal Spellman Dowager Queen Marie,
Fixon, sadly. -in a successful effort to make
Paris, Friday, the young HEN ex-King Peter und.
Yugoslavia and Princess Aspasia is a wrman Petir change his mind. Similarly wife Alexandra of remarkable determination, during their last separation che return to Paris after their Over the past few years she has came repeatedly to Paris, and, in worked with single-minded zeal impervious to snubs, plended sgeond reconciliation
who helping and cajoled with anyone
Peter three years they will go to
couple financially and of might help to dissuade live in a 30-roomed mosted securing their permanent recon- from divorce. chateau complete with a 18-cillation. nere park.. It is some 26 miles from the capital.
4 her The
double task of
SMALL PENSION
more
and
CAVIARE NIGHTS
in
PAUSE, REFLECT
a
Without that basis of demo- cracy tho future is left to power politics It is yet to bo acon whether Peldog's apparently OVUTICOS
mild
Injunction to Chinese not to interfero' in local pollties in a curning de- vico to thwart forthcoming elections, both in Malays Indonesia.
NEW THREAT
mid
THIS question of minorities is the biggest diplomatie lasue between Southeast Asian states and China at present." Néhru. of India, U Nu of Burma und Soekarno of Indonesia ́have all tried to rezoh ogretmeid with Peking on this point. Bo' far
hey have fafied.
Finally, if the eight foreign ministers gaze into their crystal globes, they may see a threat to the SEATO countries from an entirely new direction in the yours ahead-from the south. For Indonesia is becoming soft, ripe plum for Communists to pick.
• Cold-war and cavlare nole: M.
Fixon, probably George
week (in
• Quote of the Europe's
of memo from Sir Winston Chur- biggest importer
to caviaro, tells me the Russians chill
Ambassador Str down are winning hands
Gladwyn Jebb): "The British wor will the Government is fortunate to be She kept repeating with a their caviare
geniusta. wan smile, "Kings junt do not Persians, with whom they share served by so many
One might almost say too many divorce," Similarly for long surgeon fishing rights in the
genuises, I would ask you to periods she looked after Peter Caspian Sea, This suggests that Peter The first tarkk has bren and Alexandra's son, the young M. Fixon has been flying out ponder upon that." has overcome, for the time almost as difficult as the second. Prince Alexander.
Persian caviare from Teheran in
• Headline of the week (from 14 not a wealthy
spreally chartered aroplanes, being anyway, the financial Aspasto
Threa Franco Dimanche): She receives a small Soft-spoken, dressed usually but says the risks are too great. have woman.
As in Indo-China, the out- difficulties which
black, and with delicato "It has
of Indonesia's troubles plagued him for the past pension from the Greek royal in'
family, Hule
than features
Veronique Pascanni to interview piercing, eyes, alcaples nd me too many years ago we sent our reporter como
nights," he says.
lies in its own hands, The West, Gregory Peck. We have not five years.
When the Forainns auMelent to maintain her to Aspasia has had an exceptional-
and, even Nohru, could not In- her modest home in Venice,
her since." [They, say terfire and would have to look. Her husband. ised their caviare industry. ly difcult lie. King:
Alexander of Grecce, was new clow; they made a con soon.]
the Russians struck a their friends; are to be married
on from the outside.. She is a lonely figure, too, killed in an accident just before shion of signing a new treaty
may The foreign ministers Alexandra's birth,
Incidental intelligence: Forty conclude cold-shouldered by the Greek
the Persians would not em- -- ●
by posing another twenty and atty The rent and upkeep of the Paris.
-when-it lạ never CommunianS This became more chateau are substantial,
after her husband's death, and 1977.
The result has been a thory account. Sixty-five percent of directly? The reconciliation is
Three years Ago, when Peter she moved to Italy.
deterioration in the quality of Frenchmen with bank accounts triumph for Pater's mother-in announced in New York that ho
When Peter and Alexandra Peralan caviaro.
use choques only to pay their The Americans, who foot the Inw and Alexandra's 'mother,, intended seeking a Princess Aspasin, of resus, Aspasia flew there, saw every met in England during the war A final blow: Even Embargos electricity and telephone bill in Indo-China, are made"
could the marriage, was strongly sies which ought to know better bills-and their taxes, who Has been playing host to one of Inquence she
The chateau is the pro- perty of the Marquis de Galliffet, who is not a por
shu WOR
shrewd
national- three
on Wednesday, 16th February, at 9.30 p.m. | sonal friend of the ex-king, rayol family and by Yugoslav faced from the start with the t any foreign specialists in percent of Frenchmen eaming question; bow can SEATO halt royal circles in London and hostility of the Greek Court. ploy aylaro industry winds a woek have no bankablo to reach the trouble spota
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