THE CHINA MAIL,
THE AGA KHAN GETS HIS
AFFAIRS IN ORDER
-and has the world wondering again
...which son will succeed
Paris Newsletter from SAM WHITE
HE decision of the Aga
trim ?
Coco Chanel on the present-day "Paris fashions state of Pork:
run by a bunch of are being
who have
one from Rita Hayworth in dehydrated and de-sexed. Switzerland.
Woman
Paria now divorced wife of Baron Voo
Thyssen.
As for Aly. his marriage to Khan to establish, the model Bellus in now con- mate misogynists with his two sons Aly sitlered certain, awaiting only married their singular masculin-
mythica and Sadruddin, his and the legalisation their legal residence in Swit- zerland a country happily free from death dulles-is the final step taken by the Aga to place his affairs in order.
It
has naturally revived speculation as to which of his two sons he will name as his
uf ha Henoty to
"They are eating marvels of As for the Aga, his health at construction, harmony, daring- which n dress the moment is remarkably good, everything init fact which is largely attribu- you can wear. table to the selfless devotion of "They are all geniuses, where- that remarkable WOMAN, the as in fues they should be dress- Begum
markers neding not gerius but a kn wirdige of their craft and a
PLANS TO MARRY the midst of us preoccupa tainty regarding his future he To this strong candidate
post of perinanent head of the interesting Foreign Offer which alle vnean It Hes in the at the end DI this yeur Ser
between Gladwyn Jebb, the British on romance
Doone bussador in Paris,
tlans with Suez and uncer-
for the
successor.
there is
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pointer.
broken
Sadruddin and Miss Plunkett of the Guinness family.
BREAK WAS MYSTIFYING
BECAUSE the
worry.
bas ther
Where are women going to
To cocktail it these creations?
le hit et good taste.
parties,
+1 appears, Le cocktail al way another
replacing uility by quantity"."
TIME WILL TELL UE Prime Minister of Tunisia, M Bourgba, having made a He has find a new private declaration atamst polygumy. I the secretary. He present secretary questioned the eldest son,
of Mcrocco, Prince 37-year-old Miss Irew Durinch, Sultan
Moulay Hassan, on the subject. ME, who has filled this exacl-
pust for the past five years The Prince, a man of wit, re- Hotergsba is an elderly he was greatly pled young muple and on whe
has old hum that man. besides he has a French wely very much in lose dependent.
she plans to marry a Frenchman wife and I feel that his words and beenise the marriage særent.
are used by her. As for my- ed entirely stable, the sudden shortly
38-year-old Jean- self. I am prepared to let time break-itp of th:
Clonet des Perches, settle the problem." years
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formidable war Ford. to this Young crumple
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POUJADE ON SUEZ QUOTES OF THE WEEK.- "If we are let Poojade: Pierre
Sucz down by our allies over
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should reply by nationalis- me British and American petrol concessions in France.
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and for the
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is that be fo
Sir Gladwyne will miss Miss nished with Nuster. Whatever Durlacher. A difficult man to hesitations there may be in work for an abject to swiftly inch and Washington. France Sir Gladwyn is firm and the world wil yet changin
leurs that the French nation in decided upon a policy that pulley will be curried out "
According to this view5/ Aga is highly conscious of the rise of nationalism in the Muldir Fast and foola that Sadruddin should murey fellow Moslerz.
is a complete o Sadruddin
He posite of Aly
highly serious young man wie laas just completed his studies a political
has come to rely a great deal stience at Harvard University.
visits to France on useistants with a sirung per- On previstas
mewhat some loyalty to himself. Sadruddin has led remole existence, cultivating
aceived a rare devotion to duty circle of intellecital friends and
He al unstinted admiration
INCIDENTAL INTELLI- interesting himself in the run-
American-viited has promised to give her away GENCE.--Property values have of ning
In Monaco Iterary review in Parts. He is at the wedding.
the announcement that the Princess Grace is expecting oli veterna dress des power baby.
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now leading a more workly life.
At the moment he is friendly with the former Nita Dyer, the
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How Does It Feel To Be
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A Briton In Egypt?
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Cairo. in not really fashionable time of the year to visit Egypt and admire the pyramids of Giza and of Memphis or temples of Luxor.
But I thought it might be worth while braving the noon-day sun and examining some more recent ruins.
By DONALD EDGAR
Out in the Gulf tankers and and white liners-green, blue, -were getting up steam for the morning convoy.
and
Everything about the Canal- embankments,
gardens, avenues of trees-releels the combination of French logic and English imagination--which in
fact it is.
They have particular in-
I went to the headquarters of the company-it looked like a terest for an Englishman al
In one
better of the this time for they are the sing
short French spas and had a ruins of the. great Suez talk with Major Mohammed
Darwishe, on which we Canal base
one of the military now running this expended five hundred mil- gentlemen
Canal. He 129 abandoned lion and some thousands of
uniform in favour of mufti of lives in order to protect our
open neck shirt and sandals. world Empire.
Now the new ruins our Egyptian ruins--can provide 11 not awe, then leitor and amazement ruther than wonder.
The Egyptians have not yet made our base a tourist attroc- tion-no
cager
drugomans escort you No camels are pro- vided. In fact, I should say photographs of the
quite unpopular.
SO BLUE
STARTED at Port
area are
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Tewik, where the Guir of Sucz Tho narrows 'nto the Canal.
SO AMIABLE
of
That space there, rapidly re- turning to the desert, was Ball Button Alley, named after the Royal Horse Artillery who lived
Jonger those barracks no barracks, but ruins.
in
Over there is a Rugby held with one lot of posts still stand- ing, looking as inappropriate as Cleopatra's Needle in London.
Over there I can still read on the disused buliding "NAAFI BAKERY" und "NAÄFT BULK ISSUE."
But all is not ruins.
SO KIND
to have the right to use what remained of the base in the event of being Involved in a major war.
because we were
These camps
in
Englishmen work guarded by Egyptian armed police, and machine guns are manned at each corner.
I would not bo surprised; if ot these conscientious some Englishmen wonder who might
make use of their work.
They also run other essential services-for example a power- electricity to house supplying
This includes. the whole area. needless to say, all the Egyptian
army and air camps.
New York
dot, dot,
dot...
CHRISTOPHER
DOBSON was assigned from London to New York six months ago this week: what he has. learned about where
this city minute lasts
only half as long as it does anywhere else in the world" he tells you today
in the speed-punctuated "dot-del-dot" style of New York columnists.... New York
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THIS IS NEW YORK:
in the Children playing
from gushing fountain street hydrant on a hot night...their elder brothers rolling dice on the pavement ...the "winos" and "bumB" with their pathetic chant, "Say, Mac, you gotta dime for a cuppa cawfee?"...
⚫ THIS 18 NEW YORK: Cocktail time in the Rainbow Reom, d5 storeys above Rocke-
feller
Plaza, watching the sun set blood-
red giving
way
the
to twinkling of fadryland
ab the city night. Dinner inter among the
DOBSON zebra seats of El Morocco of the newly fashionable Hurwyn Club toss a penny there and you hit a celebrity.
And there is no bother about rushing a last drink before they close, Nearly all the better-clasa bons
legally, open, stay unt four in the morning. Even better, most of the barmen buy
+ drink
fourth Ука
every round.
IS NEW THES
YORK: Men strolling to their offices in
Bermuda knee-length
shorts women staggering beneath a kad of chunky Jowellery und brief-cuse size handbags,
everyone
When I realised
18 that, my
NEW ⚫ THIS
YORK: emotions got the better of me. Central Park, a joyous casis by I just burst out laughing.
day, hunting ground of young things at night.
Greenwich No wonder Nasser is always village.
exuberantly joyously,
working Bohemian very hard to be very different except for the old men who sit playing chess beneath the trees of Washington Square Avenue with marching in perspective to
Broadway, the city's fairground ("My Fair Lady is the big success) coloured boys dancing to jazz floating from a restaurant
Na gesture so
bad that per- the gods haps
wished to
days. laughing these
One of destroy themselves, our rulers
the Sphinx's nig- gave the Egyptians what camps these days
crack into a they wanted for themselves matic smalle will WITH words
charming you can imagine how busy they huge grin. W amiability I my cars I are at the moment. left and drove on to the Canal loud towards Fayida
Ane straight road built by the com pany, and I watched the ships passing under Egyption flugs along the Canal.
England's leaders who gave this away, I thought, have a most shameful memorial in our nation's history.
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And English mothers may yet tears because of than
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wives and shed bitter more bitter Lakes that
sea was utterly turquoise with diamond flashes revealed by
sun
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Intent on showing
Herr Buhl
the placidly lie by.
The old commander-in-chief's residence is now the officers' club.
Egyptian
So...
TO TEA
AFTER this edifying spectacle
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to
you would want to take
the rest of the There our successors can dis- things easy for
day. cuss in English comfort the de- fence plan of the Suez
Drive along pre-
the Canal pared by German staff officers. Ismailia and then follow one of Over there is an Egyptian tank the branches of the Nile camp. And there is an Egyptian Cairo. Air Force base,
admit that You must artu is richer in historical Lerest than any Pyramids,
But there are still English- men working here, supposedly
this in-
Has A Passion For
The scenery and population are picturesque, and you would be back in time for a nice cup of tea-and you would have down enough not to calmed choke over it.
Hardship,
So He Conquered A Mountain-Alone
WELCOME the technique, he climbed routes of translation into English ing the art of movement
ever-icreasing difficulty polish-
on
of "Nanga Parbat" by Angers and toes up smooth rock
outstanding European faces,
&
strenuous which Jutting overhangs.
By
cracks and!
SIR
JOHN
HUNT
climber": book cannot fail to convey, even After the war he ventured to those least initiated into farther afield.
Wo of
First, in illicit our sport, the very essence journeys across the frontier of ita drama, its challenge the famed Dolomite to the human spirit,
Ав vehicle for im- parting sensations, for con- juring up situations on the very borderline of life and the hereafter, this is one of the most successful books on climbing that I have ever read.
Farther afield
the
camp, a night survived in open at 20,000 feet, and back again.
What is interesting is that ha reached the summit alone.
In
this fact lies the real fascina
The
Firth
in-
вкупстарств
to
smell of roasting peanuts, Park Avonne, quiet, sedate the with the sun angling down the pigeon-laden centro strip of grass.
Fifty-second where Street,
barkers rival shout the talents of rival strip- teasers and the drinks are ex- persive.
Brooklyn and the Brons, at the opposite ends of New York, but akin in spirit, The spirit of the poor people, Negroes, Italians, Poles, Puerto Rigans struggling for their place in the sun.
● ALL THESE THINGS One New York, they and many others make up the whole. But the whole itself. is ecething different agaİK.
It is a hedgehog with sky- scrapers icr spines' erect above a tough akcia of materialism and cynician, flea-bitten in places.
But underneath the spines, a vast red-blooded heart,
Vital. That is New York, tion of Buhl's story; the revela- But then a New Yorker would tion of himself. Here is the say: "You FREY, Mao? That ultra-individualist, a man with stuff's striolly for the birds,” a passion to achieve, the medium of mountains,
through
even
more ambitious goals by the hardest possible way. A man contemptuous alike of ease andi
spires Italy. Then, scarcely daring to mountaina affront the higher. farther from his home, but with the ingenuous delight of a North Faces of the Jorasses and danger, seeking dimculties and schoolboy, Buhl set out to dis the Elger this latter the most hardships, ruthless in his burn- cover the Western Alps, to make dangerous climb on the grand his first contact with steep ice scale in Europe. and snow.
!
In most of these undertalings he prepared himself to
It was typical of the man that Buhl seems to have had more
the
hie
com
ing seal. This spirit drove him
to the summit of Nanga Parbat,
Quite different
utmost, even for this progress than the usual share of mis
and from one part of the Alps to adventure. Stonefalls, ice
It is tempting, because I know another, by deliberately forcing snow avalanches; storm ove them all, to compare him with Bone of the hardest cliffs in him hair-breadth escaped, Even others among his contemporaries Austria and the Dolomites in mono breathtaking were who have attained, an
equal mid-winter, and even by night, falls of himself
skill, displayed the game doring, Ler, panions, whether by misjudget
yet whose nature lu quito Nevertheless, they hammered into the peech
display to packed chapter is
the same qualities of simplicity with thrills which
ring true.
and sincerity which are the hallmark of hand, bitter Yet all this was but propara glorious experience,
Here is the record of a young up rocks streaming with water. ment or the dislodgement of a sister those who meet them
humble of
Austrian
origin, glazed with whose passion for the steep and temperatures.
scarcely accessible places of the
fee and sub-ELTO
earth was stirred at an early age Stepping deftly
by the great mountains towering
above the streets of his naliva
Innsbruck For several years
each
TOOK
It is no less indicative of his tion for a more natorishing deed
even, higher
yot
he gavo vent to this yearning nature that on arriving at sill, for as he progressed not. In his "Nanga Partat” Buhl to discover the limits of human Chamonix Mecca of Alpine unfavoured by chance, Buhl saw has not unfolded the full moon- skill' and courage, on the vertical climbing, he and The companion visions of an
once assault those horizon the Himalaya, king of climbing mountains T even the most important portā limestone cling of Austria, to should at him, these walls were made for bigges peaks by routes of great It is not surprising that this The expedition; was heel the
culty,Once I/"
bce I met him and human phenomenon should be negation Pol
happy, co-operation man to climb.
Kuno
stepping With astonishing: determinn... :
of German-Austrian expedition to oilsiasi ahigh anal worthbr tion and a growing brillance of the Grand Druty after and swicent Nonga Parbat in 1853 nor even objective. But he has had the Zen AZ121962 the North Face of the Prait that the finder of his book courage and the waily to reveal
Dru in renewable time. IE won should ® record that ha rooched its brils vividly dramatically Manik Parbat," By Herman Buhl not long, before he had climbed the top, alergan onaxing scent and the honesty to revani likne
Hodder.sna stouzhinë. //. 284.
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