THE WOMAN BEHIND POUJADE:
"I Loved Pierre At First Sight"
By Cynthia Judah
Paris. ̈*•Evidently!"
F1 ved at St Cere, 1 would get all my papers
the frum Papeterie Poujade. That is, the business that belongs to Pierre,
At it would be because of Ma 03 Poujade that I 4. The ha fust the kad of glory, Capable personality to make a
ut sueerty and a
centre
Bay
an: H-12wn enterprise.
She runs not only her hus- band's news Rency -as weit LS their home which includes four children and a mother-in-law- but also manages a good many of 11
extra-commercial
tivities as well.
When I saw her in the elderly
liate chalenu
Pouladen have rented l
on water suburb of Paria 44 was cleven o'clock in The morrdDK
"Itave you an appołulment with Pierre Poujade she erwd. She was easily the most decisive person around
No Madame," I sakl, "with Madame Poujado
She showed me into an ugly We sat on two 11e room chales with pale pink silk wents, "Well," I said, "what do you think
bil:
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surprised ***
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WHOLE PATTERN
Voti
"But what made you love him so quickly?" I asked again,
"His frankness, loyalty and love for his mother for away in
*All S: Cere," she said firmly.
many qualities." Be hus
After two months Yvette was nent of to Corsica, but in February 1944 she came back to Algiers and, four days later, she and Pierie Poujado were
married. He was al off to an RAF training school in Cam- irley and she, now that her He was devoted to him, stayed more prudently in Algiers.
THREE MORE
Meanwhile, nearly
year had Yves-Pierre Juler, Yvatie
Pierre of his And
June of mother's home in St. Cere, Lol... the small town tu south-west- Central France where he had heen born.
By 1951 they had three more children, Patrick, Moggy-Nocle pod Alain,
old Madame Pijacke Jent them money to Try shopi. They sold books, supers and stationery.
wls
wondered if their folher's selden celebrity affected the children's school lives. Madame Pujade
surprised "We ver talk almal," she said. "What are you going to da I asked. "Will you come agal live in Parts
Certainly w
Brow
“I don't know
want to keep the children out of
We re
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"Oh, no" she råd kindly, her 12014S
us brown eyes widening Hey tu foon glower and her dark hair went back in
"We expected H shiny waves we worked for 11
"Aren't you afrid, though, that the whole pattern of your He will be changed?"
It hs," she waved us the various marble cuphls round t}# r€n}
Madame Poujade's name is Yvrile. She has an elder alster and was born in Algiers where father. who was badly wounded In the 1914-18 war.
lives on his pension. in 1943
simple
people"
were
All this time prople talking in the next room There wils all beensionat clear "Pierre Poujade » Odd men kepi open- ing doors and peering in
GREEN TROUSERS
"Who th
1 smil, catch- ing sight of a thicks young man in green trousers
"A ceretury," said Madome "Aren't there any Deputies ying here?"
"Oh, yes" the sald, and her
the took a diplome, straight face glowed more richly than
Durse. lun
then,
know
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Now
from school.
unel joined the ever Before the elections we French Air Force as D
slugle one of She
them, not a stade one, twenty-one WHA
Trichos Intensely patriotic as she still they are all our Is, and she was sent with her But it must all have been unit to Rabat In July, Pierre terribly expensive." I said.
Pounde appeared among her
He was nineteen. "Was I love it first sight?" I asked. "Yes,"
she said, her smije - spreading right across her face.
"And for him, too
Wherever a Pajadist goes" said Modame Poujude, "uther Poujulists welcome them and invite them to their homes. We have no expenses to speak of, His wonderful communal life."
the trus
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I KEEP A DATE WITH
GRACE KELLY
FROM WISEMAN HOLLYWOOD
HERE IS THE FIRST-
OF MY INTERVIEWS
WITH THE STARS
Sunset Boulevard, with the sun pouring down like ruin, to keep date
with beautiful Grace Kelly. In those circumstances one
could
be
ย
excused
achievement in a town where the only dind of royalty they can call their own is "Prince" Mike Romanoft, the
aurateur.
So
un-
Miss Kelly's story, for
typical of Hollywood, is o jumping to the conclusion dream, a film script come true. that Hollywood is a place where dreams come true. į
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She is
ilving what other actresses have merely noted. At last fe has caught up with Actually it is not.
Hollywood and Is arranging Hollywood plice where dreams are filmed
matters in the best
MGM trudi- HAD heen iccbound and sometimes analysed. tion Indeed, listening to Miss
Wis why Was 50 Kelly
her tell the story of in London, snowbound Which
interested in meeting Miss supersonic romance I some- in Canada and fog- Kelly, the local girl who made times
found it difficult to dis- bound in New York, very good and is to marry u tinguish between the hand of the hand of Meiro- and now i was driving down prince,
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FOUND the allegedly ley Miss Kelly redient and defrosted. She seemed an abnormally nor mal girl in beige slacks and shirt, C
everybody's ideni kid sister
ambitions whose would have thought would be confined to the tennis courts
de the kind of lukewarm blonde who would readily be acknow- ledged the belle of the country ball.
This is the Initial impression. timed But there is more to her than that. I asked her if she had heever had the childhood ambitions
She of becoming a princess, Omce
giggled.
deduced from analysis of the statement officials who and Britain's pro- American policy "unacceptable" issued by Donald Maclean was
Inserted by undoubtedly and Guy Burgess in Moscow Soviet Intelligence men so that
It could be followed two weeks ago.
names later.
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Warning No.
This could be most damaging, 1 is this: EXPECT more statements because many of the men with whom Maclean con legitimately from Maclean and Burgess claim to have been friendly in in Moscow statements 1951 now hold positions of the
importance in carefully calculated to create highest
Government service. the maximum distrust of Britain in America.
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"No," she said, "I wanted to an FBI agent, Then, later, wanted to be an actress,"
"And now that you are to be a princess can you face the idea of giving up acling?" I asked,
"We haven't decided about that yel.
I haven't discussed
1 yet with the Prince."
"You'd like to continue?” "I'd like to, but we haven't made any decisions."
"Is there any constitutional reason why a princess of Monaco connot also be a film star of Hollywood?" I peralsted,
"Well, W's never been done before," she said.
However, I
gathered that mere lack of precedent was not going to stand in Miss Kelly's way.
It soon emerges that sho is not the sort of girl to be in- Linkdated by
or protocol shackled by cliqueite, In mat- ters of state she is refreshingly lacking in stuffiness.
$15,000 worth of dressca which she will be wearing In the film "High Society."
Miss Kelly is reciprocating in port by
Prince wearing Halnier's engagement ring for her role in "High Society.""
I admired the ring and asked what sort of stone it was.
"It's a-a-well-a diamond," naid Mins Kelly uncerlainly.
"It
white diamond, emerald cut," said the helpful gentleman from MGM with authority.
Miss Kelly has a small house on the Pacifte Ocean, and there
is a swimming pool.
Royal style
THE wedding, when it takes place, should be a tremendous boon for Monaco
and principal industry, the casing at Monte Carlo.
ita
Miss Kelly has not yet made up her list of wedding guests, but she will certainly be invit- ing David Niven, Cary Grant,
Neat and tidy Alfred Hitchcock and a host of
NOTED that she had very good, clear, well-cut (zatures, all arranged neatly and tidily a face that has been designed on a drawing board, Her life or should one say her schedule? has been planned with equal precision.
She said she had not bad time to make any plans. She had been too busy working in the studios where she is making o Alm called "High Society," She had not even had time to think together her about getting trousseau.
He said
other film personalities.
In preparation for her new role she is taking dally lessons in French, and her teacher re- ports that she is making good progress,
She ig
hoving her handkerchiefs monogrammed in royal style.
When she becomes Princess of Monaco in April it will be on a sort of loan-out from her studio, because her contract sit has four years to run and MGM is understandably reluctant to let
her go.
Quite a job
But nn MGM official more knowledgable.
SAID to Miss Kelly: "You have her wedding gown was being MGM's top dress
taken en quits a job. You designed by
will have to do a lot of formal designer and that it would be decorated with 125-year-old entertaining and run a palace. Brussels lace, That she would Are you going to enjoy that?" Pusseis be wearing a
Juliet
cap, which
"Yes, I think so," she said. is a sort of skull cap.
That
I thought about her taste for MGM were not roleasing the practical jokes and
her
tendency sketches of the gown until a
to
and wondered whether giggle, there were not going to be bo week before the wedding, be copy it before the wedding look palace at Monaco. But I am cause otherwise somebody might some awkward moments in the sure that if Miss Kelly should As für as Miss Kelly's ever get into any difficulties trousseau Was concerned, he MGM, with all its accumulated
me that MGM would know-how, will always be ready- assured be making a gift to her of the to help out iis contract princess,
placo.
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GERMAN CAR RACKET
By ROBERT GLENTON
So Maclean and Burgess Warning No. 2 is this: thesc EXPECT
traitor kely to reappear, at Press con- diplomats to discredit Bri- ferences or on Moscow radio at times when Foreign Office men
It has been found tain in the most scurrilous whom they could slander
SECRET report has
that in chars was a wild attack on Bri- the country
Germane Vish ears. Aro Inking
допе out to British every naming highly being pro-Russian Way by
dovole more
to con- energy
Refused manufacturera vincing motor Office men part in negotiations involving pinced Foreign
potential buyers that America.
revealing details of an un- British cars are a poor bargain The Germans aald that whom they will accuse of
cars they do to telling their British being secretly anti-American 2 ceased to be of much value paign
Maclean and Burgess have relenting propaganda cam- than
Laulty and would have no second-hand by German car awn cars. and pro-Russian.
The British Government has a value, the Russians except for propa-makers which is seriously copy of the report and is taking The Germans offer all kinds I disclose them because ganda purposes. Their know hitting our European export part in discussions. Mr Peter
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THE TIMING
statement
diplomals, Mrs Maclean, or
her children have been offered praising German cara and Soviet citizenship. Their value attacking British cars. for propaganda purposes 狙
of favourable trading agren- ments to woo distributors away from British curs.
Before the last Motor Show tion approached several Con- tinental journalists to ask. If they were coming over,
1. In Sweden, where British car also took them on a trip round
The journalists refused, to clearly higher so long as they And any writer who crllicises
I have ranged Europe to dis- come unicas given expenses The timing of the Moscow can claim to be Britons working a German car in an article is cover what is going on. And I They pointed, out that the
bombarded with intimidating undoubtedly for friendship with Russia. Was
havo found that the Germans: Germans were not only paying linked with the April visit of Yet Bruno Pontecorvo, the letters
have a clearly defined technique. generous expenses for them to the Russian leaders Bulganin
have had many runaway Harwell atorn scientist I know-I
visit German, factories --- Key: and Krushchev to Britala.
who was of immediate uso in such, letter myself.
The now report has been salos have dropped.; from Europe; But analyals of its content the laboratory when his secrets
of 37,700 to 17,800 in a year,
What
is the British car indus- leaves le doubt that far from had been exhausted, was given circulated by the Society
Manufacturers and spoke to Helmer Lindstroem, try doing to night baék? being the last act in the sordid Boviet citizenship in 1952-two Motor
after he arrived in Traders.
Stockholm director of a large
The manufacturers
have Mtory it was the first of many Rusein.
They started an investigation firm which deals in British cars, agreed that publicity, must be appearances by the diplomata in
There are the facts. And this to o and out why enles of British Ho told me that he sent stepped up. the new role of provocatours.
is the exposure which may help ears to Europe dropped from potential buyers to find out. It is likely that a caripaign In $1954 to what the Germans were up to. will be, started in Europe pub- There are three strong reasons to prevent further - damage to £32,000,000
They discovered that the liclding not just one car but Alike As for believing that the Russians Anglo-American friendship by £25,000,000 last year.
•Time Tubulte are matounding. general argument for German Brillah cars. intend to bring out Maclean and these two dangerous-trations,
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