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SAM WHITE IN PARIS
A TITLE WORRIES A COUNT
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THE news that the
Count of Paris's elder HI, 23-year-old Prince Henri, will shortly marry the Duchess
Marie-
Therese of Wurtemburg. calls for nu up-to-the- minute report on France's "shadow" royal family and the French aristocracy general. Here it is:
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The Count of Parts is not the only Pretender to the French throne, although he is the most Dupported. There are several other helding n galaxy Bourlas ifke Ite Duke of Segovia, Priner Xavier Bourtsin-Purme, and the Duke
of Seville.
OPPOSITION
Many Freeh royali (s apponech to the Count beetme they consider
ahvectors, the Duke of Omenne,
regicide. He voted for the executions of Louis XVI at the thue of the French Revolution, Other: are opposed to han because try wtile
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nough all three of these considerable women were
born Commoners There two leading aristocrate famil in
the Reliana, France. preventing The pre-Naidavus aristocracy, and the other, the Murn
rej asenting thuse families enobled by Napolvon, who went at this task with all the zest of a labour Govern- men! creating peers.
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THIS is the Gin
"You've done the wrong one. That's Sister's boy friend-he only called to say 'Good night.”'
The Money... The Crooks
The Women ..
^
The
Spies
ALL THIS WIDE-OPEN WICKED WORLD IS ENDING
THEY ARE the cities of escape. Of escape from revolution, from conventions, from justice, from frustration, from unhappiness, from the weather-from oneself.
● THEY flourish for
a few years. But the disciplined masses of the world are jealous of them.
⚫ where
THIS is a report from such a city of escape.,. the bars of the modern State are already being cemented into the windows and the doors.
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By DONALD EDGAR Tangier old-timer he will still be able d'hotel is
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first-class by
So is his
to point out ..."She works for national standards.
The
Sultan....maybe he too would like to be president of a republic....
"The Russians?" I asked,
"They don't operate directly bere, But, of course, they have their men...... they aro walling...."
Eugenia Benkhead, Tallulah's fister, was holding court in "The Parade" bar which is run by two Americans who were over here as soldiers and decided this was the place.
often andy the night there, Some_ times buys drinks for everyone in the place....and the band. Sometimes she stays until dawn. The bill may come to hundreds,
paid by but it's
a secretary without a word.""
"Guy Burgess was here," I was told, I was not surprised. "Yes," Had about three works here. What a time he had.
He made a lot of dirty doodles while he was bare. I you wanold, we might be able to have a look at them."
I didn't want.
Eugenia's voice to nearly a husky as Tallulah's. inter-
Perhaps their politician father always hoarse from public said
You look down through windows on the gardens slope down to the sea.
E were standing x. That one works for Y. As food,
by the Fght- for 2 over there, he works for
B. which house
is working
against Y....That is C, who is double Malabata crossing both D and F....And Point looking across the those two....well, there's
that Tumour
they combine wide bay to the city. drugs and espionage..........*
"There." said
Murals are descendanis of the rusen led King of Naples, Napoleon's brother- who wish In-law Although te mbers of the Twi aristocracies have Biter-marus ori large scale, 11 Would sdal bay unwise invite a Rubng at a Murat tu the KING đur party
Between The two wars some women members of the aristo-
timer "look at that view. cracy
considerable enjoyed political influener as mulstresses Isn't it beautiful! Isn't it of wax French politicus.
wonderful! And there she (This was ai notobie contrast
is....Tangier....the city pre-1934 politicians mistresses were al-that has outsodomed Sodom moat invariably drawn from and outgomorrahed Gomor-
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when
the actar of the Comedie rah....
Francaise.)
Since the
have Come
and for the
tal War wives
the old.
It was sunset. The white lo their own, city sprawled along the sent time in the shore was losing its white. the Republieness and its sharp angles.
history વાં politicians are seen in public wives-tuation unthinkable before the war,
with their
DISAPPROVAL
MUL
MILLE.
will
The green
merging
Atlantic was into
the blue Mediterranean so that the surface was shot with tur
ODILE RODIN, whoquoise.
stortly MAITY The
Dominican playboy Portirio Far below a small, sturdy
Rubirosa, is a protege of the Immensly wealthy industrialist Paul Louis Weillèr.
bas
Her remur.ce with Rubirosa put a strain on her friend- ship with M. Weller, who dis-
approves of her cholec.
M. Weiller had hoped some time at Mlle. Rodin mit become "discovery" of his close friend Charlie Chaplin.
Mr Chaplin
however, thought ste would have to wait until she learned
English Mademoiselle -Hodin wha a fellow house guest with Mr and Mrs Chaplin at M. welller's magnificent South of France villa this sunumer
She did not, however, moet Mr Rubirosa there. Instead, they met regularly during her stay with M. Weiller at the
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bot haphazardly
eruising outside the bay. Probably a smuggling
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Was
speaking?
the
thut
Eugenia
is middle-aged, expansiva The world has been her oyster. She opened the shells wide.
Sho
а in the corner
parly of four men and a woman, Mr Beletre), the Foreign Minister
you begin to belleve everyone After holf in hour of that is working for someone against someone else,
You wonder who that couple And then you are over there.
PRINCESS MARIA PIA I WAS AT HER WEDDING
talning Me Cavendish of the new Moracco, is enter Cannon the new Amerkan Ambassador
and his wife.
I
The last Ume
Saw Mr Cannon was in Altens. He was ambassador there and had just expressed American sympathy for the Grock people because of British action in Cyprus.
Mr Beletrej is pale. He wears dark glasses. Ho lu
very restrainext. He has the les flame of the professional revolutionary,
Their days are numbered
ig
Xan talking to Fielding, the writer, and his wife, the former Marchioness of Bath.
They are living in a small but charming villa on the cliffs. They have
the a sun-lounge length of the villa,
There is just the Atlantic beyond.
He was smoking
(UTHE
The
hashish
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man next to you moking
hashish," said the old-timer. We were silting in a cafe in the Medina, the old Moorish part of the efly. NOW he and his colleagues
hashish-smoker was have achieved their indepen.. dence. But thero is stili D quiet old Moor puding eway
In through
pipe-stem Army of 80,000 Morocco,
jonz. And many of the officials are still French.
"As you know," continued the old-timer, "It makes them amorous. But, by and large, it doesn't cause much trouble. A
boat with a cargo of drugs realise it is John Pudney and French waiting for nightfall to slip his wife on holiday.
into a cove,
And you go over and "But Sodom and Gomorrah," hello and find that her arm is any sald the old-timer, "were des- bandaged.
She has just been troyed by the
wrath of God. bitten by one of the monkeys Tangler will just rot away. The on Gibraltar. Nothing ordinary Moroccans
taking over. The eight Western Powers that happens to anyone who comes
to Tangler.
дге
And with
ran it are leaving. them are going the money, the crooks, the spies...."
I was very quiet. Soon the crescent moon of Islam would shine softly on the elty,
"She" looked very beautiful.
home of M. Andre Dubonnet The double-
in Antibog. When the play- wright Marcel Pagnol, also
H
close friend of M Welllor,
close her for a part in his new
play "Fabien" which opened last
Crosser
week, Paris critics were frank-THE Cafe de Paris of Tangier
in not the
IT
I saw them
married
will
Their days are numbered, Mr went Belofre), and his friends the number to be a low one.
But the now Moroces need capital and technicians.
Mr Belch would like them to be American,
And if the Americans VIETO rather reluctant...or started to make bowe with their strings is just after dinner. Thatwell, Naer, the Arab at
the other end of the Mediter means about midnight, It is Dean's Bar. Dean ts a rancan, has shown that Soviet
is very Russia is always good for nail and drab. That le party loan.... why it is tres anob..
Jammican. The
Marin
bar
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An American calia method of the Arab world "the politics of El Racket":
this
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foot
really filled with it. a butcher's knife and went in search of some Europeans. Out-
"It won't be bad at when the Moore take
the banker.
Brat over."
"They want it to be a great city still.
CAVENDISH CANNON SYMPATHY FOR THE GREEKS
But in time, inevitably, it will cease to be a great international city. Its future will be as a port of the new Morocco. Perhaps as tourist centre.....H they open a casino."
He laughed..
"But you
know," he added, "they have closed a lot of the disorderly houses in the Medina already. And If they make vice difficult in Tangler....well .... the banker opened his hands in a brond gesture. -
• Tangier, as an in- few weeks ago a Moor had got ternational city, as a He took 'city of escape,' is dying ..just as Shanghai and all the former 'cities of escape have died.
side a bank he came across an
English couple. He slashed them
badly round the face and neck."
"Is there much crima?" "Not a lot. The international police are efficient. want to be careful where you
But you'
But, as we left, 'she' still looked lovely, fas cinating.
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light.
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at night. The other wander day an
Henry Englishman,
Like an aging demi- Graham, who had just arrived mondaine who can still with his sister on holiday, fook attract in the right a stroll on the beach. An old upright piano is being
"Some thug ly mystified by his choice,
came along, most elegant played by an Englishman with
bashed him and trod on his QUOTES OF THE WEEK
cafe of that name in the world. fair hair and a cowboy shirt. "We know quite a lot about throat while they. robbed But it in....I was going to say: In one comer are Frincess Namer's Influence in Tangler him.. Former Foreign Minister M.
the heart, until I remembered Bidault: "Ence is the victim that Tangier hasn't got one....
Pla, ex-King Umberto's and Morocco," mid the man
and daughter, of two confileting theorica One so, call it, the centro of Tangier, Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia. Colonel Noggar.
her husband, the know. There is a certain:
Egyptian that the History of France
And if you find it tiring ended with the French revolu walking up and down the seven
military attache in Madrid, who I saw them got married at is quite a constant visitor. He tion and the clhor that it begon hills on which the city bullt, boril, with the French revolution is
outaide Lisbon, with is a relative of Nasser. And § alt down in the Cafe de Paris all the pop and circumstance Colonel Hassan, Fahmy Meguid,
·Commentator Alfred Favre- The city will come to you of the world.
UE were down by the beach, often comes from Rabat 100 paganda. «ülernent against the
"Barbara Hutton usually was here that the aples, This time the Crown Prines. Tangier to admire the scenergoos
that bathing station nowadatelk of British of Italy, a handsome young and talic,.. What along there, mid the old-timer.
ation Ind. uropoduring the war The Tangler man, le with them,
There, is a largo pogonts, and cloak-and-dagger:
Tu thod, who take or
defeat over was one of the great latening
thai Chaty 2/that/ at least posts) and clearinghous
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