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DON IDDON'S DIARY
THE - CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1965.
GREAT MEN ARE CONSIDERATE
"I done
New York, Tuesday, mahogany tree, and said: HE Prime Minister planted that the other day. It will be here longer than I ever
T has sent me a most expect to live or you either."
charming letter. The
salutation is in his own To Argentina
hand, the first half is typed
a much better job than
is predecessor, Trygve Lic.
When, Mr Hammarskjold be. came Secretary-General he took
L
OVEN an organisation tow morale, dispirited, and in many ways Inefficient. He has restored THIS week I have had the confidence of the staff, boosted morale, and made U.N.
in exceptionally large type, T telephone calls into Bucnos and the last four lines are Aires every day Yesterday I also in the Prime Minister's put a call to President Feron and own writing.
rather miraculously got through to his personal office.
The letter, dated June 4, on No. 10. Downing Street writing paper, was sent by sea mail (no extravagant armailing by the Conservativer) and was written during the strike.
I was very happy to receive this note from Sir Anthony The fact that he should Eden. take the trouble to write in the middle of all his responsibilities
and worries is the measure The rhar
and
Winston's reply
DI
The American operator said: "President Peran is on the line. sir." Then there was an inter- uption and the Argentine opera- for broke in.
President
Finally, after an exchange of several. sentences; I was in formed by the U.S. operator:
they say that the only talks to owners of news papers, not to people who work for them" So TM trldn't get through.
But I got through easily enough to Sir Francis Evaus," British Ambassador in Buenos Aires, whom I know well. Sir CREAT men are
invariably Francis used to be Consul extraordinarily considerate General in New York, and was I see that a as effective as any we have ever painstaking 12-year-old American girl, had, Kathleen Orban, who wrote to Tall, grey-haired, handsome; Sir Winston Churchill, has re- he is an Ulsterman and a superb evived a most gracious hand- diplomat. When he came on written reply from the
*** the telephone he said: "How Prime Minister. She, her
every thoughtful of you to be parents, her relatives, and her wondering about myself and my
delighted that they have had numerous photo wife. It's very sice of you in- stats made and the letter has deed to ring up. We are
solutely all right even
been photographed by
"The Embassy was shaken by newsreel cameras. For a time
bomb blasts and some windows were broken. Everything i quiet now, I want to say agaio how thoughtful it was of you to phone, up.' This put me corn- pletely off my purpose of asking about Peron's future.
school
are sc
it was on display in the school auditorium.
- also
1
has
Another 12-year-uld girl, Molly
Gregg, of Oregon, received handwritten
Sir note from
Winston. Her mother Mrs Ernest Gregg, says: "We felt it took a really great man to make such a kind gesture,
When I lunched
Out of it
ab-
QIR FRANCIS EVANS is one
of
*the
a happy place to work in for people serving a noble cause,
It has been a good week for the British in show business. Noel Coward has been such a tremendous hit at the Desert Inn, in Las Vegas, that he is
being offered a contract to ap- pear every year for as long as he likes He telegraphed me: Everything is going wonder- Nilly well”
Las vegas and Miami Beach are now offering Alec Guinness.
prodigious sums £15,000 ว week, or so-to appear in gh clubs.
Ten-year-old Michel Ray is being called the greatest boy actor ever. Despite his blue eyes and British accent he was chosen to play the part of a Mexican boy in new $2,000,000 picture The Boy and the Bill," directed by Irving Rapper."
T
HOW
FAR FROM IT ALL CAN YOU GET?.
by GILES
"My! The Thames has changed since you tied up at that riverside mooring last night.”
London Express Service
Did It
FIFI AND THE CHILEAN Happen?
war!
BARENG
TRUFFLE...
HERE was once a were so glamorous that truffle that almost she had palled strings, and started a world the striking example now under her chef's suspicious eye had been flown all the way from Santiago to The black things they put Paris in the diplomatic into goose livers. Pigs dig pouch.
Not "trifle"-truffle.
Tuber Melanosporum
~by-
ORSON WELLES
with Sir of the most respected and Anthony Edon during his con-
members valescence at Newport, Rhode regarded Island, and most of the world Diplomatic Corps in Argentina was dousting if he would ever He was icily calm and utterly recover from his serious opera. collected during the revolt. He tion, he told me he was confi- tells me he plans a trip to New dent he would get it. Today York soon. he is as strong as ever.
The New York HQ of United he Nations felt rather out of all for them, but they almost His Excellency the Minis- When I wrote my
What the tenth birthday, ceremonies never get to eat them. Any ter had at first mistaken it for the dinner was a stag boy?" that have been going on in San
find for some exotic meteorolo- of the Francisco. I strolled over there Pig our likely to
rang me up
1. story
and said:
have you written, old
nothing
10 the newspaper cothing".
been 13ken
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this she leaves our story,
affair.
There was
routing about under an oak gical "specimen, while the ""It would not be wise," eminent statesman talking down the other day.
The flags of all the nations, tree in the French Fro First Under-Secretary, with sald the Minister with of which forin Nor is there
a great rainbowvince of Perigord is bound a nice flair for melodrama, typical understatement, "to arc, had Arrogance in Sir Winston Chur
down to be heavily chaperoned by took the precaution of im- disregard my wife's wishes. chill's dealings with the Press. Instead. in front of the When he asked me for a drink fountains, facing the huge glass a keen-eyed farmer with a mersing the truffle in a And besides, the Bolsheviks
of water under the couldn't possibly know during his holidays in Jamaica slab was the small blue-and-pocket full of com. The pig tub The took me by the arm, led me white flag of the United Nations gets the corn, and what the impression that it was into the garden, painted to a Organisation itself. There were farmer gets for the truffle is bomb.
only small crowds of sightseers.
Headaches
Toothaches Colds
BAYER
are quickly overcome by
CAFASPIN
difference."
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wife, lost no time in setting
Fish sauce
I feel that UN headquarters a pretty penny (or "jolie Madame, the Minister's
has been rather neglected,
sou").
That Shake-
More confident speare among
THE confidence of Americans
chefs, Brillat-
Tin U.K. is growin Antrough Savaria.
the newspaper with the largest
circulation here, the New York
referred to the
truffle as "the
Daily News is bitterly opposed black diamond to It headlines its editorial: "U.N. a_Ten-Year_Flop."
of
the kit-
The Chicago Tribune is, of chen," and the course, opposed to U.N., and the little roots are priced accord- ingly.
Hearst chain of newspapers are not wildly, enthusiastic.
But there is more American the new League than there was when it was born ten years ago.
faith in
In autumn months
the
opti-
1 was at the birth in San mistic porkers.
Francisco then, and Americans, traditionally opposed to "en- tongling alliances" were scep. tical despite the ardent hopes of envoys.
Now they think its record, while not exceptionally spec. tacular, has been good.
in Northern Italy turn up an outstand- ingly succulent "white" truffle - actually
a
The Secretary-General, Mr lovely "clouded Dag Hammarskjold, who was grey. These largely responsible for the re
are grated into paper- thin flakes and
lease of four American Ayers
from Communist China bas silky
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THE First Under-Secretary jumped forward as Fit dug - her teeth into the vegetable's greenish flesh.
the
Man
who
shook
America FORTY this your, Georg Gras Welles-the child pridigy from Kenosha, Wisenarinda stif} prodigious, At 23 km shook America's Deas with his breadcast version of 2. G. Walls's The War of the Worldslistamers though!" a Martian invasion was really taking place. He oim wrote, directed and stand in Citizen Kund, was Korry Lime in The Third Man, and grow docad Othella in London in 1951. His liim of the same play has yat to be shown kaca. Hii martinga to Alta Hayworth—bis second vi was discired in 1947.
had turned the hated truffle into one of his most subtle triumphs, chopping it with shallots and mushrooms into a sauce of white wine thickened with butter and the yolks of eggs.
The Russians
to a man had mopped, their plates with bread and asked for more, and now, over his second glass of an excellent champagne the Minister
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to solve in this series of FACT ar FICTION Lales by famom writuri AB, these stories. COULD be truely Tomorrow, "the answer will be "gives.
was congratulating himself on a limitations!"
And
bere the
diplomatic success when the First good man burst into tears of Under - Secretary slipped a despair.
pencilled note under his hand.
The message was simple:
"FIT IS DEAD,"
The Minister mumbled his excuses and rashed into the kitchen.
At this black moment there enters the Third Under+ * Secretary, He knows nothing
"of the present diplomatie con- tretemps, for his rank is not such as to admit him to the banquet. **T. have teen speaking to Madame- "Call for an ambulance!" be
says he, "on the She 'phone. cried. "If the Russians die here over the news about Fif
was most upset in the Ministry, it will bring down the Government!"
Cold blood
•
The Minister cuts him off with an impatient gesture. "We are all upset," he says, “indeed, we've felt the loss most keenly.** "Madame asks me to request that we fire the assistant
His hand froze on the tele- gardener. phone. One ambulance would
My
But the chef, a man of vivid temperament, was not to be placated. Think of he the responsibility!" cried, holding the mossy truffle at arm's length. Excellency." "Sixteen high ranking dignitaries of the Soviet Minister, would care to act as down the Champs-Elysees in Union! Suppose they die?" a guinea-pig———
scarcely be adequate, there "This is hardly the moment were 18 in the defegation. The for domestic trivialities. image of 16 ambulances, each God, man-we're on the brink
Soviet diplomat, bearing its screaming and clanging out of "She is a brave woman, Your the Qual d'Orsay,
"But the gardener left the ,"was quickly replaced with a mental tableau gate open, and you know how
18 distinguished corpses in Fil always would
cars- "Now if one of you," said the 18 hearses surging endlessly
an
afler
The Minister seizes the Third
what would certainly be the Under-Secretary by the lapel of most well-attended funeral in his coat, a lapel which will Now, now, Henri- There followed uneasy history. Every Communist in shortly be brightened with the.
disturbed by the Europe" would don't make a drama of silence only
march in that rosette of the Legion of Honour. asthmatic snumings of Fin, an procession; there would be it ---
"You mean aged Peke.
general strike, and then
"Yes, the poor old thing tried "Drama?" first plac- "It boils down to this" the In the dining-hall another it just one too often. A big
could be delivery ing the truffle gingerly. on Minister
staring Comrade Commisar
truck.. Death the floor, Henri, started bleakly out of the window we heard proposing another mast. instantaneous. It was very sad
have the choice of poisoning the "I give you" he said, "the waving his arms--"Drama? entire Soviet
delegation or French Revolution." Let me assure Your Ex-defying the express wishes of cellency that to involve my wife. Either contingency is "That thought the Mais- such a vegetable growth in unthinkable. FIA! Come back ter, "is precisely what
with that!”
a fish sauce, and to feed it
to
resumed,
Ailing beast....
we're going to get." With 16 honoured guests of the Republic struck dawn
at an official dinner in cold blood, revolution was only the beginning-this was wart
a group of revolution- arles schooled to the most direct methods of political action is not to make
Dessert was just about to be heaped over the fluffy
drama but to encourage
The Pekinese had seized upon served when a trustworthy doc- rizottos of Milan, But
the truffle, and was worrying it bor, under the strictest, oath of tragedy!"
drearily across the parquet floor. secrecy, was smuggled into the luckily these superb rarities
The First Under-Secretary Ministry and put to work with "He are seasonal, and travel
is thinking," said jumped forward as Fifi deg her Henri in the kitchen. There poorly.
the First Under-Secretary teeth and thereby hangs everybody straight. As they in a discreet undertone, "of greenish flesh; but suddenly he antidotes for truffle poisoning
into the
vegetable's are
are, it seems, only two
effective my tale.
well knew, an official dinner reprisals.”
stopped the dog was chewing, and it was felt that neither of with evident relish, a generous then was sufficiently tasteless to It happened in Paris and of the highest importance
Chilean delicacy, risk introducing in the "Bomb the tragic hero was a was to be given that very "Well, now Henri, don't hunk of the
a terrible look had come Surprise," Obviously the ant forget the Ministry's behind and buster eye,
doter would have to be surrepli tiously administered.. and if "Long ago," he said, seaking world peace was to be preserved,
Minister in the French evening. Cabinet.
So glamorous
villain
Was a
. The truffle.
you."
"It is July," she pointed "Your Excellency forgets in tones he generally reserved it could only be with the coffee. out, "the white truffes of
funerals ot the highest Italy are not to be found, to what I owe my first for
pp, this elderly and
alling "Turkish coffee," the First loyalty." and people, eat black truffles
beast should have been put Under-Secretary urged. "Cafe Give it another Diable laced with heavy spirits, every day.
"Naturally, your professional quietly away.
piece of trutile. Should
Henri must arrange it." pride
survive till dinner we are safe to proceed with the menu.. as mlanned by.
But my wife. should Fin perish-it will be in a good cause: the security of the Republic.
Brave woman
Black moment
This last, of course, was "Not at all, I refer to my This truffle was neither not strictly accurate, but position as a member of the black nor white.
her husband contented him- Communist Party." "It pretends," said Henri, self with hinting that per-
The chet, mindful of his owni the Minister's chef, "to be haps his honoured guests,
By dinner time everyone was sponsibilities as a good Com- being dignitaries from the grey. But in point of fact wilds of Soviet Russia,
munist, laboured mightily. breathing easter. Fin was it is the most abominable would not, during their
perhaps the only exception. Not try me tabasco," suggested hadn't agreed the Minister, or a bit of curry green,"
I had slipped the Minister's that the truffle brief stay in Paris, have mind that his chef was a Com- with her, I had; but is the powder The truffle was, moreover already become sated to the
always a bit troublesome. The “Your Excellency,” said Hench, awkward, doesn't i enormous. It was the size point of boredom with munist. That does make it evening hours her asthma was
Minister let her out to graze in spitting out a spoonful of the "at one period of the of a cantaloup end it came French truffes.
I am already suspected of the garden and turned back brew from Chile, where the
Heart with ght heart to receive his Occupation. I was implicated The truffle of Chile," deviationiam," hald
Euests.
in a pate of very young Minister's wife's father had said Madame with finality, Imagine my fate it so much as
kittens, he has one's resources, once been en poste,
is a pleasing novelty. In one minor gastric upset A bare hour later the Comrade but they are exhausted; the * Vice Commissar of Soviet effluvie of the clinic persists. This lady's childhood form the chef to use it Henry, my wife stands behind Fisheries was already on his feet Send for the stomach-pumps memories of Chilean truffles with the sole. And with those truffles."
-proposing a toast to place. Henri and the priest -1 know
A
my.
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