THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1957.
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"OH! HOW SIMPLE-JUST DO WORKERS WANT TO RUN
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LL was not sunshine in Moscow and Rainie's biggest crisis was still to
come.
The interlude with Onassis had not solved the problem of how to make Monte Carlo a profitable enterprise once more.
Rainier earnestly dis- cussed the subject with his ministers and it was finally agreed to use the whole of the Sthate treasury-about seven million pounds to finance a vast development plan.
There would be a new city by the sea, a 17-storey skyscraper, a new station, conference halls, new gardens.
New Monte Carlo
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Europe, continued to grieve for the one girl he loved but could not have. Gisele Pascal had gone out of his life and left him empty.
over
One day, Father Tucker drove
looked and
overy- where for the Prince. He walk- od through the gardens. On a garden seat he saw a woman's ed hautes. sum hot. The place almost look-
He heard sounds of hammer- ing from an old outhouse where
had but himself
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MARRIED!" THEIR OWN MANAGEMENT?
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Rainier studied navigations and, charts into the bending over small hours of the morning, he planned his cruise.
lelt Monaco early In November with his eight-man crew and
a negro cook.
The yacht called down to Gibralter and Tangier, past the Canaries and thence to Conakry, the main port of the French Guinea coast in West Africa. Rainier led his small party in a hunting exped tion into the Interler. Every- where they stopped, he inquired about animals, how to trap them without injuring them and how best to take them back to Monte Cario with him. He was happy.
refused
the Prince
real
,,gentlemen
P
houses
one
on the fact that only employer in five distributes in- formation about the firm's profits and assets to its employees.
ORT TALBOT is a booming, prosperous, happy town They blame part of the trouble
on the South Wales coast. The vast yellow-brick building which Margam Works, Europe's most modern steel works and probably its most efficient, breaths life and wealth into the surrounding countryside.
And that is where the trouble begins....
By
They insist that "every an- ployee, by reason of his employ..
ment,
mementous
Port Talbot poser question which Britain must answer-- "Should workers start running their own factories?"
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the labour management fric- tion which 18 currently man!- festing itself in
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bulld a brand new television station and studios right on the hits above the city. Since space the Principality, was short In the plannera chose a spot on the French side of the border, argu- on that since the whole enter- In prise would be Monegasque character and backing it would
by as such the be respected French authorities. Or would it? and their Croveito, Solamito associates were Jubilant. In their eyes, the station-Tele Monte Rainier Cario was already built and workshop. The Prince was at bustly sending round-the-clock his bench working on a beauti-
the ful crucifix made of to sponsored programmes
wrought Money would iron. After a while the two men rest of France. The Trensury could not flow into the State coffers. It walked down to the little beach ther, and went sounded like a good idea.
together, fishing quite cover the vast cost and so
vely AMIT
of delaying Rainier with his goggles on and Trouths Rainier's favourite ad- two of
French Arthur Crovetio visers.
and actions, the
Govern his harpoon In his hand and Cesar Solamito were given the ment finally made up is mind: Father Tucker working the boat, the station, it said, was in
The Prince Job of finding new funds.
reappeared territory and since French
public but he shunned the lime- French regulationa prevented
light ond went to work with television, commercial"
the great orncentration to equip his
He was highly amused one station would not be allowed to
yacht the Deo Juvante Il for a Down went the hopes long son or- open.
He spent day in the bush country when Voyage.
his cook, with his permission, of of the speculators, down went thousands of pounds on stripping
selected a bride and bought her the shares, crash went the Bank the main cabin and putting in of Precious Metals, Private in all the latest scientific instru-
from her father. With a French official, Rainier was a witness at in-
vestors rushed to save their
ments which he could learn to
the ceremony. Jokingly, he said, money and the Bank paid them
use, including radar, a
radio
"I wish my problem trom telephone; the bulkheads were
were as with what was left over
simple as that, lined
books. technical the Monaco State funds.
with
radia telephono Meanwhile the soiltary Prince, charts and tropical fish tanks. Through the hounded by the most dazzling It looked almost like Captain and a relay of messages, Rainier sent orders to Monaco to have and
Nemo's marriageable
cabin in the Nautilus.
more animal cages ready for his return, both at the Palace and at the Villa Iberia. In all he with him four chimpanzees, two baboons (one
unlon spokesman pointed To the government and out that the plant was bullt of which he captured himself), several mammasets, a pelican, Villa Iberia, he cleared an acre to the management, the deal with public funds and that it two lovely young gazelles, entirely new
of garden to make room for an comes as a considerable re- "belongs to the pation".
and much bigger
In the depression of tho news by doing just that she
said, that Hi'thirties, Port Talbot was had heard, she
its population Serene Highness was partial to desolated, American women and she had
largely reduced to penury. come to show hun what 10
trace of former ordinary American girl looked Now, no like. A good-looking brunette, poverty remains except in Jo Ann nearly waited in vain as the minds of the people who the Prince, rather ungry,
live there. to receive her. But in the end his sense of humour won and he He invited her to the Palace. showed the young student his animals, his stamp collection and
Last week the govern- took her for a moonlight ride in
the works. They just usurping ene of his fastest sports cars.ment completed Its plans to move
management Jo Ann To
sell the Steel Company of don't trust private enterprise. la Inck "Charming.
but the Wales, which owns the Port and so handizome..........
Only hours after the govern- next morning, she flew back to Talbot works, to private en- ment revealed its sale plans, the ployees do not seem to be very Chicago.
terprise. It has taken a 25 The marriage question took long time because there is on such proportions that itz ond Rainier was forced to a staggering amount broodcast to his people about it. money involved.
With the world listening in he sald, "The question of
Margam Works was built marringe which so rightly pre-after the Labour Govern occupies you, interests me, be-
nationalised the lieve me, much more.
Though ment
it
· and
cost political industry this question has aspect which is far from leaving £80 million pounds then. It
it also has indifferent,
additions- is now-with human side witch I
I hope has
reckoned to be worth nearly notes sutemenyintahed
the £120 million. . This Monegasques, for a short while, At least it assured them that their handsome Prince had not made a vow of celibacy. Quite went On unobtrusively. Rainier
A good iden soon came along. Unofficially the two men in vested a million pounds of the State funds in a business ganisation called the Bank Precious Metals. The precious metals in the care were from French commercial terests wishing to advertbe television.
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on
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egret and many other kinds of birds. They were housed in carefully made compounds on the decks of the yacht erd Rainier took over the feeding
arrangements.
The yacht sulled back, up the West African coast and at every chance Rainier dived over- board with the full deep-diving apparatus which he had pur chased in France. He collected over sixty rare specimens of fish for the Oceanographie Museum, dozen which including over a had never been catalogued by the experts. Unfortunately, the weather on the return voyage was bad, the boat rolled, and the specially built tanics which lined the cabins were broken. Most of the fish diet on the way.
On January 17, 1955, Deo the small Juvante Il passed lighthouse at the entrance to Monte Carlo harbour, Rainier was home a changed man. Willingly he posed for press photographs with a chimpanzee shoulder. each
Ho tremendously it, sunburnt and wore a collar beard which, much to the regret of his subjects, he shaved off the next day.
on
was
The West African črulse had given Rainier a breathing space, but otherwise it had only served to whes the appetites of the Monte Carlo marriage makers.
·Husband Hunters
In the months that followed ho was introduced, casually OT officially, to no fewer than thirteen daughters of kings, and princes and millionaire magnates, He stil said no. The Mayor of Monoco declared, "We have several times begged His High- tress to alleviate the anxiety, of the nation by choosing n Printen." Once, invited to be a passenger in a cruise of million- aires around the Grook Islands, Rainier scanned the quest llat and said, "Too many marriage able girls among the passengers. Thank you very much?
The world wanted so much to see him married now that girls with aspirations to become the Princess of Monaco took to travelling, all the way to the Palace frven many countries just for a .chánco 10 Prince, A tow⋅ weeks, return from West Africa, a yourgftsdent at the Univers. Lally Fofu illinois ^,in : «Chiengo, Anu Etorok, made world
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with his chosen pastimes. At the
RELIEF
of
private zue; he now had a col- lief. The industry has been
of branches
the Steel Interested in getting the in- Union
passed a formation), seems to depend on Workers resolution pledging their complex psychological factors. members to resist the sale with every means of their disposal.
It is doubtful whether they themselves
know what the solution is supposed to mean. But feeling in favour of strong action, perhaps a strike, reportedly growing fast.
Employees simply do not feel that they have interests in 'com- mon with the managements. It is unlikely that the distribution of printed forms listing the com- pany's profits will, by itself, help is much
And it's never been worne,
One good test of the times is What is certain, however, is always the state of the pawn- that trouble in Margam Works broking business. will mean real trouble for Britain. And it is difficult to
what sort of solution possible.
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The words are, of course, irue
lection of 128 animals. At the half-nationalised and half in enough--but not in quite the. Oceanographic Museum he spent the hands of private enter- way the union leaders take many hours discussing moderni prise for a long time the them to be. sation plans with the curator.
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count last week revented that there are only 1,002 pawn- brokers
still in business n Britain. Thirty years ago, there were more than 5,000.
All of which means that things are better than ever in Britain. For the "uncles" never go broke because they're left
with too many unclaimed pledges. They go broke when nobody pawns anything.
built with But whoever mentioned the uncertainty did no one any The plant was
ì. government funds and belongs name of Rainier really thought good.
The
It seems that the Englishman the of marriage and one day in
government. Aprill 1965,
fold a the Prince
But to the people who government is responsible to the who used to pawn his Sunday determined inquirer that in his live in Port Talbot and public
and the public has sult from Monday to Saturday
now wears it all week. eyes the ideal should have "blue eyes, fair situation looks different.
life companion work in the steel mill, the authorised it to sell the plant. hair, a sense of humour, a love of animals, an interest in door sport and a fondness for
out-
such a
a curt
not The
is government responsible to the steel workers They remember that it was in Fort Talbot and, children" Asked to say whether nationalised industry which put stitutionally, it would be a very mate, the town on ite feet and that, serious thing if the government he had found
before
the natonalisation, Rainier replied with
gave in to the steel workers. owners had wanted to locate "No."
the new plant in the Midlands,
Naturally, they do not think that anyone is going to try to
TOMORROW The Prince moots GRACE KELLY
“mtus ayant fäla hulima uonse, or 'humour." animalaman. Interest in out: door sporámand✨
THE GIRL WHO HAD NOT YET AFPEALED,
DESERTION
Also on the downgrade is the Communist Party.
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On the other side, the malter personal and a. highly
one to the steel emotional
It has membership according
lost 20 percent of its to the last year to official
figures
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workers. They have regarded published last week. the steel plant (such as the Worre, its officials speak of a power of emotional words like "loss of quality" in the member- #nationalisation") as somehow ship-which presumbly means their own. They feel that the that only the unquestioning still government is taking it away hang on. from them,
One of those may be Mr John No doubt the Labour Party Gollan, the party's general will try to explain to them that secretary who said, after seeing a nationalised industry no more the figures, it must be made bojongs to a workers than a clear that the party will not privately owned one. The decide its polley on the basis of Labour Party, no more than the threats of resignation from any Conservative Party, belloves in one," government by strike.
Mr Gollan may, take some But it will be a diamal busi- comfort
the fact that noss for the Socialist politicians eventually
mid
ho may be able to
It will not make anyone elect himself leader by acclaṁā- happy in Port Talbot,
APATHY
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USEFUL
The Port Talbot dispute is Librarians continue to bonat,
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public
Ubraty.
Just one instance of the growing year after year, about the in- concern often confused and creases lacking in direction of workom circulation, with the management of their enterprises.
The upsurge has prompted the British Institute of Management to do some probing.
They have discovered that in
No one, however, a very sure just what the customers: do with the books after they take them away,
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Some idea was forthcoming some companies as few as three at Bridlington last week when
the public library: put.. percent of workers have ever display some of the books, even taken an interest in the "renders had returned. firm's profits. In no caso, dia
they find a company in which Prize exhibit was a boole more than 10 percent were in- shown open at the title page.. torestedingen
k Acromit in Jarge, ink · letters.
wero, the words: "Fish and;
Even among what they Chips in the Oven, Make: some describe, as :“æenloe waif"; they fresh, ten
find no very great interest, în
the overall affairs of the comeBooks, it seems, have tielk