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Victory Over A Wedding

From SAM WHITE

Paris.

marleed a wedding cele brated in the ancient walled · Provencal town of Uzes, whose chateau is the all- cestral home of France's pre- mier dukes, the De Crussols. There the 29-year-old Mar- quis Do Crussol celebrated His wedding to 24-year-old Elizabeth do Belleville, daughter of the Marquis de Belleville.

entire Al-

Almost the mannch de Gotha attended the wedding, and among the GOO guests there were princes, dukes, marquises and counts from France, Italy, Spain, Bavaria and Belgium.

The town wan en fete for the

Occasion and at night all its ancient bulldings and monu- monta were illuminated.

The entire population of Uzca flocked after the marriage to the ancestral chateau to bu received by the bride

und

bridegroom. All this splendour must have been of considerable Bullsfaction to the bridegroom's mother, fie elderly Duchess De Crussol.

The De Crussols are not only France's leading Aristocrac family, but are also extreniery rich. Their lortune comes from the manufacture of sardine-tus. Nevertheless, the Duchess has stormy He had this marriage has had stormy history.

hind

In

HER ADMIRER

Inter-war years she the WIS one of France's most im-

portant political hostesses. Her jaithful admirer was the Radical Preinler, Edouard Daladier, pu

GILES reports..

THE OHINA MAIL4 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1955..

of

Carl

famous Giles the

cartoonist, is in hospital with blood poisoning after puncturing a linger of his left hand with a drawing-pin. Despite the attention doctors and hurses, this latest bulletin hax bear smuggled from the hospital.

our

dear editor,

mr giles saying o.

as the youngest and only member of the giles famly who knows where the pen is i am writing to say he is sorry he cant send a cartoon this week as he is in hospital with blud poyson.

he says the nurses are all very nice and keep sticking Poway pinkal penicilin in im and eury

laugh. The says the doctors are a lot of the time he says o we all doctors are also very nice and all, look

very. fit. So are all the Visitors who keep bringing him flours and smoking his cigeretts. he likes it ever so much in hospital and only has to have fairly light chains to that the fact that he only drinks penny penisil penicilin these days, and the fact that wisky. Sales have dropped is purely a coincidence and hopes he will be

• hold him down now.

back soone

WHAT

TO

M

Thirl

AKARIOS,

Archbishop of Cyprus, Ethnarch, Nova Justinian.

whom she was reputed to The title is impressive. It is

exercise a great influence.

As for her sun, only last year

marriage

also all-embracing. Both

facts are worth remem-

he arsks me

to

say

-flours.

London Express Bervice

ENOSIS MEANS FANS

MAKARIOS

By Les Armour

Greek.

In 2,500 years it has hnd a lot of rulers-Egyptians, Romans, Byzantines, Venetians, Persians Genoese, and British.

But it has never been ruled by Greece.

There are 400,000 "Greeks"

SANDALWOOD-SILK FANS, PLASTIC, CARVED FÁNS, ETC. One man dominates the troubled Cyprus living on the island; but there

By mainly "Grecks"

Greek JUB TAI CHOON FAN FTY. arbering in any assessment of scene-Archbishop Makarios. Critics have are also 100,000 Turks. And the Inasmuch as they speak the said that s a churchman he should language of that country (an in-

ference which tumble of

would make be above, the rough and

bo underwent a civil in Paris with a step-daughter of an architect. the man who has deliberate This was a quicler occasion thin this week's marriage, but ly brought a whole island was to have been followed by a to the verge of explosion.

similarly splendid religious They indicate, for one politics. But, is the Cyprus question a

evreniony.

Then came the bombshell, in thing, something of the political one to this stormy figure? the form of a brief announce- | way in which Archbishop ment in the elegant marriage Makarlos looke at the column of the fashionably reid Paris newspaper, Figaro."

The

merely

announcement sald: The marriage of the Marquis De Crussel to Mille Marque lins been indefuitely postponed,

A can now be seen the post- poned marriage bas given place to another marriage with the

was

Duchess,

and the

Cyprus problem. For he takes the title--every word of it seriously.

The rest of the world sces the Cyprus problem in terms of political geography

twentieth and

century

claughter of an aristocrat sociology: the defence of family,

earlier civil the Middle East, the marriage has been annulled. All economic and political state the work of the of Cyprus and Greece, the Opposed to her son's marriage rights of a majority to de- its future, the with Mile. Marque, the Duchess termine led a successful full-scale family rights of a minority to be offensive against her, As she surveyed this week's splendid protected from the majority, the distrust that stands be- tween Greek and Turk.

Ecches she must have felt glow of satisfaction,

MONEY IN MOROCCO

A CONSIDERABLE nancial reshuffic will accompany

the French Government's pre- sent plans for a resettlement in Morocco.

The most delicate probleın concerns the amount of money to be paid to the present Sultan Ben Arfa, whom the, French placed on the throne two years years

and whom they now intend to replace with a council

regency.

of

DHO

is predecessor Ben Youssn was paid £250,000 a year while being kept in exile in Mada- gascar. Will Ben Arafo, who intends to retire to a palice he has bought in Tangler be paid ΣΠΟΙΟΥ

I understand that he will and the pure mentioned is over £300,000 a year which, with the Ananell advantages accruing from

Tangier with money transfer advantages, is a generous sum.

A suitable financial reward is to be made, too, to that remark able Agure, the centenarinn

Vizier

Mokri, who Grand played a recent negotiations.

a valuable part in the

Archbishop Makarios secs

in it terms of religious geography and religious his- tory.

Wis

Behind the bushy black beard, the bright, penetrat- ing eyes, is a mind which sees straight back to the when Rome days crumbling and Byzantium was rich and prosperous; back to the days when the Bishop of Byzantium and the Bishop of Rome broke for good and all..

Americans English).

But they missed Makarios's. soint. His point was-and is— essentially religious. By religion, the Cypriots are "Greek" (mean- Ing Orthodox), and that is what matters to the Archbishop.

title, but he is well aware that it was Justinian who framed the law which still, to a large extent, governs Cyprus and he fumes when the unlearned forget that he Of course, he has had more is the New Justinian by pro- than his share of trouble over it. The Communists, for instance, clamation.

vocally and support Enosis But all this may yield a actively. They are not, indeed, interested in religion or in union false impression.

Makarios did not spring full-blown from history they would gain out of it-- book. Nor has he lived his mostly chaos. The Greek govern- life in a musty cloister un- ment lacks the strength of the heeding the world around Communist trouble of its own

British government. It still has

him.

And the Communists could Greek, If Cyprus were

for Its not hard to see what

But

He was born in Paphos, the cadily, son of a peasant. From Paphos make troublo, draw off a good

he went to Nicosia where he part of the Greek army to quell studica at the Pancyprian It, and then start real trouble Gymnasium, the best Greek in Greece itself. school on the island.

Archbishop Makarios knows it

By the outbreak of World War and he does not like the idea II, he had enrolled in the at all. But it puts him in University of Athens. In 1942, a dificult position. The strength he graduated with hipiours in of his case lies in the plebiscite theology.

}

himself conducted which showed that 95

percent of the Greek population supported pnosis.

If he splits the "Enosia front," his claim to popular, support is

From theology school, he went gone. And the Communiste are to the underground where he strong.

became a famed and respected aloof.

So he can only remain

leader and a man the German Then, too, the wave of emollor occupiers would have alven he has stirred up has brought several companies of troops to a wave of terror. In Ita wake T'hero is little doubt that be rid of.

Makarios deplores open violence, At war's end he went to the For he knows that, whatever United States to study sociology else happens, Britain will never and theology. Tho World never allow herself to bo blasted Council of Churcher paid his ou' of Cyprus. For Cyprus was once part way and, curiously, he chose the The Greek Orthodox of the Ottoman Empire. It Roman Catholic Boston Univer- Church dates from that day was also once part of slly for his course.

The Archbishop

and it has never lost the Byzantium and it is worth Two years later-while he was. dream of the theocratic remembering that, in official stál a student and just 86-he

But again, the "popular front" empire which would be the seniority, the Church

of was elected Bishop of Kitics.

unable to take a strong stand rightful heir to Rome, the Cyprus ranks behind the Within months, he was elected must be maintained and he is

and Ethnarch. Hia

Finally, there is the vital rightful protector of all that Patriarchates of Constan- election was unopposed.

problem of the Turkish minority. is valuable in human tinople, Alexandria, Jeru- In those days, Enosis was just lakaries is wall aware of the achievement. In the mind of salem, and Antioch but be a word. The Idea had been ancient enmity, between Greck

Archbishop and

of the roll the service the Greek Orthodox Church fore. the Churches of Russia toyed with for years; but it had and Turk and well aware of the

A Grand Vizior is iterally "Prime

Sultan and El Mokri must be reckoned the most successful Prime Minister An history, for

for ho has held the

Job for 50 years.

Nobody knows his exact age which is

is yaribusly estimated at anything between 101 and 112 In any case he represented the Sallan of Morored way back in 1809 at the inauguration of the Suez Canal.

A stout, slightly stooped figure ho retains enormous energy. He does not drink, bat cats Euro pean food with relish and re- malos a heavy cigar smoker. QUOTE OF THE WEEK TRENCHI Minister M. July on herding from, a Cabinet. meeting on Morocco: Nothing lide bogis decided but the Govern ment is absolutely unanimous,

it is not easy to soparate and Greece. church from state.

1

days when, under the tot province of the church while govemment

tho tering Ottoman Empire, the the older arods fell. But that

i

ever caught fire.

Turkish fears. Ho knows that, Britain had proposed a new when they talk of a massacre It is a matter of curious constitution and, for a time, the If the British ever leave, ther

British government hoped that are talking of The theocratic doctrine history that

something that Greece and Makare would support the con- could happen. gained strength in recent Russia remained within the attrition

and eventsl self

Ho knows, too, that the for Cyprus With

stranger the wave of emotion British Common didn't the danger to the minority

which he whips up, the greater new. Archbishop non-Muslim community was they are all integral parts take kindly to the suggestion But hò đods it hard to con- organised into semi- of one empire, Archbishop He boldly forged abood and autonomous

the emoilon.. TO each Makarios does not doubt stirred Encals into a raging and thiet the case for Enoris without groups

He did more than that of oppulace would be to cool the under the control of church for one moment.

OQUETSY. he worked Mered fervour and to coat the fervour dignitaries. It was their Hence the fatal attraction the antaries and the educational would be to write finis to, the task to preserve the connec, of "Emosia" mion with glacards of jis priests will be whole fatio. tion with the mother culture Greece.

and they were uniques. It is, in effect, part of his |tioned rulers.

expanded the band's Chrobk school

He reminded af den te darálo of theik angient religion hat As Ethnarch of Cyprus," He might have boon part and be publicly

LILLEW and all that Archbishop Makarios In-doned for dropping,

the

Opponents point harits that mantée,

"Nova Justintän" from his Cyprus: "coult hard

The

celin

The tangles, are almost too bigg bếp, to tinravel and hord BEL DE, JAFFA when, the Arch” longs for the coghparative puffy of the pildiet ourid.

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