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THE CHINA
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"Honey, can't you simply resign from the Party and leave it at that?"
I had to catch that plane to Vienna
.
THEY TALK WITH TEARS
IN THIS SHADOW
SHADOW CITY
Vienna
HIS week there's not
much waltzing
IN
in
Vienna. The north knifing wind across the city. The big parties are cancelled, and there's an occasional riot instead: "
The women in the coffee shops talk with tears in their eyes as they stir the whipped cream into the hot chocolate.
Even the famous baroque architecture, which ought to look so splendid, seeme sad and seedy in the ruin.
People talk of one thing only: HUNGARY. The two nations are so closely inter- twined.
By Anne Scott-James
Today I'd planned to write
about the best-dressed women in Paris. Half way to the airport I changed my mind and caught the Vienna. With the next plane to border sealed, this is as. near tormented
as you elin get to Hungary, where I think every woman's thoughts have flown..
It was escape from some- thing which had tortured them for years.
"We left because we were so terribly poor.”
because we "We left
We loathed the Russians, have had 19 years of grind. ing work
great RUMOUR IS RIFE poverty."
Arc
from which they red apples could help themselves.
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Fach day the camps diminish in size, as new homes are found for the Hungarians all over
Even Europe.
while talking to one woman with two children an Austelun young woman arrived, said she had room for three. would provide
fod, clothes, and pocket money, and whisked the family away.
But the quickest nation to
help has been the Swiss. They ldn't stop to take names and make lists. They sent buses and
PARIS NEWSLETTER from SAM WHITE
THE MAN WHO SOLD
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JETS TO ISRAEL
Paris back to France after a brief while guests were listening NE of the most 're internment in Buchenwald to a plano recital, given by
arkable figures in he is a member of a dis- Prince Marc. present day France tinguished French Jewish
has played a massive role family.
in recent months in carry- aircraft
He resumed his
business, which
A MISSION
bug out the French Govern- dates back to the 1914-18 PRINCE MUSTAFA EL money paid to AYUBI, 38-year-old ment's policy of arming war, with Israel. This is 63-year-old him by the French Govern- Arab prince, who is a des- manu- ment as compensation for cendant of Saladin and hend Marcelle Dassault,
of the religious sect spread
facturer of the Mystere jet German destruction. fighter, far and away the When ho goca to the over Pakistan, Syria and best plane France has pro- annual Farnborough air duced in a generation. The show he wears 21 tartan- Initial delivery of 20 lined overcoat, the squares Mysteres was made
to of which he uses as an im
the Israelis some time ago provised tape measure. und this has been increased
ince then.
But by what number re- mains I closely guarded military secret.
REMARKABLE
Egypt, the Marabou, la in Paris on an interesting mission. He heads an Arab financial syndicate engaged in buying up French pro perties in Morocco and Algeria.
of becau
French settlers anxious to leave
These properties aro now Koing at rock-bottom prices of the number of EX-QUEEN Elizabeth
Greece, who died the thess countries in the face of other day. adoptel and growing nationalist terror. The ennabled Mare Payrat, a prince la French-educated and 33-year-old Parisian. Shu curries a French passport, LITTLE known before the gave him the title of Prince
SINGLE-MINDED
مدان
war, when he was an (the other members of the obscure aircraft manufac- Hochenzollern family turer, Dassault, who looks jected to her wish to style like an elongated Robertson him Prince Marc of Hoehen. Haro, now ranks just be zollern). hind Boussac as one of the two most powerful men France.
in
TRUNCHEON-HAPPY
FASHION NOTE (or what to wear to riot) During the recent Communist and
anti- Communist riots in Parla soyecat
newspaper He is a remarkable young French
reporters 2011022 who composes music knowing how trumchem-happy. Paris cops can be have taken fo without knowing a single
Those wearing crash holista. His assault on the centres note, and paints views of the are marked "Press" and under-
com-
It is doubtful whether he will inherit much more than the litle he has been
of power since the war ex-Queen's native Rumania renth "fragile." has been prodigiously suc- without ever having been
One French reporter tells mo cessful and ruthlessly there.
that he long ago discovered a single-minded. He is 11
fool-proof method of turning director of some 30
This is to away police wrath, attend riots carrying a paules, most of them con-
case and a loaf of bread. nected with aircraft and
case establishes building. He has establish awarded. Elizabeth had a brief
jewel collection but
1941, of she sp
spectability while ed his own bank. He con-
bread suggests a domesticated trols the Paris Press, a suc- always claimed that its value citizen living in the quarter who had vanished, and though I I send this food talk, not with cessful Paris daily and the was slight owing to the fact has bought a loaf of bread fix waited for an hour I never sa lupancy, but because food and Jour de France, a big circu- that she sold most of her the family supper on his way
collection to aid Rumanian home from the office, him again. Later that day the
rescue work, wine and war talk,lation weekly.
refugees. Chitoms
fell to house
gentle zither music amid sinister His friends in Parliament Russian tanks.
The Villu Rosalbu, which from 9s, to 109, in Monte Carlo seem to rotate in cabinet
she bought, is valued at because of fears that the posta.
situationNY £20,000. She was robbed of international Dassault adour and un- £10,000 worth of jewellery intertera with supplies, MEZCOPYRİGHTY? are attractive personality, athe in January of this year.
Gang are
the
rumours seem all to be a part of Vienna.
All along the border the parti.
aniping
away with pathetic weapona. Inside, the
IT REMINDS ME OF THE battles ara" violent and roal, THIRD MAN, A
But I am afraid, the syhole), (COPYRIGHT) */ story is sunriòd up in this sad little picture of the torDIY-gun and the tank.
NOT ALL GLOOM
Though Vienna is a city living in a shadow. I don't want to makka seem all gloom.
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A lot of the plump. Austrian charm break through. The opera is crowded and ex- tremely good, the shops busy, there is music in the inna, and the food is superb.
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1 made a lightning ewoop round the Viennese fashion bustness.
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"I left because they shot The woman who wrapped my father four years up my parcel in a shop and put my mother in pri- already has a refugee child son."
in her home.
carried off 1,000 people.
HE VANISHED
"We left because it Wats 10 send the A
the impossible man 1 met by
Even I went one day to have a look frontier had come from Linz children to school.
at the border, I had to leave hoping to creep over and the little ones had to
the car in a village and walk sister and money. In a family of five, the last two miles. search for her her family.
A girl I dined with was trying not to cry into her soup. Her parents are in Budapest. She got out her- self a few years ago in the refrigerated compartment
of a ment van.
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four must work to scrupe The road WAS fiat. misty. up a living." This was an desolate, and rather spooky. educated woman who spoke. After a mile I caught up with a four languages.
Her hus- man walking in the ditch-a band had stayed behind to ungarian-born Austrian who
fight
THEY DREAM
Like Lisbon in the war, "We left because every for refugees and a seedbed Hungarian dreams of being
Vienna is now a crossroads
for rumours. (The Austrians are convinced that the Russians have an eye Vienna.)
free."
meant just to walk across the border and Join in. A perfectly futile mission, but people here are frantic to wade in and help.
Don't ask me how
I found ct his plank for I had no interpreter. But by exchanging and documenta, making signs, getting out a few wordz, it's remarkable how much you can
"We left because the Rus- explain. on sians are animals."
Customs house with
SWCHALTS of cashmere (Scotland beware) and the rise of coats and suits in traditional loden cloth. These, in smart now styles are going out to the top elres British and American
and stores,
аге scooping the front covers of American magaziacs.
The ultra-Tyrolean styles are except not much in evidence, for rather charming children's clothes. There is a welcome shortage of wool embroidery and cut-out felt,
1 could go on for ever about the food here. Behind all the sadness in Vienoa there is u background of stupendous cat-
ing.
As the men plan genuinely gallant rescue work their jaws are champing through roast baby pork,
THE THIRD MAN
You all drink in an Inn to the heroes of Hungary--and you drink in good wine,
At the troplice there was Russlan tank manoeuvring They lay crowded shoul- around, a machine-gun rattling I have spent many hours der to shoulder in a bar off, and a few men mushing out talking to the refugees who racks on piles of straw. But of the poured out before the small luxuries were arriy- tomtay-guns.
A womans weeps as she tells frontier
photo-- Also an closed by ing overy hour relief
American
you about an orphan who Russian tanks. A few still work has been loving and grapher taking pictures from a
ditch. I asked him which noise prrived with a ticket round its manage to trickle through, quick.
was which and who was attack-neck, and as she talks she un- including a circus troupe
ing who and he said crossly: consciously didis another dollop with three bears.
Was
MOST BEAUTIFUL
The Hungarians must be
one of the most beautiful races in the world. In spite
I warthy ging baby never heard anyone ask such of crest to the chocolate cake.
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iying in white linen slicets in a damned-fool quesitons in my whlie leather prain, some weathy Viennese.
by
life."
Some of the children find toys and there were moinds of large,
By the time we had finished arguing my Hungarian friend
of the exhaustion and the Order your copy now
dirt, the sordid clothes and
crumpled headscarfs, what
riveted my eye were the 1956
high, wide cheekbones and the oval chins. Remember,
these people aro. Magyars,
not alab faced Blava,
I asked dozens of
them
in a refugee camp why they
had Kft. panda f
Here, food in the great pleasure and the great comfort (A better one, come to think of it, than drugs or 'drink.).
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