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DON IDDON
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Man with
a cough on his mind
Many
rs President Eisenhower a sick man?
Americans think he is. During the past few days American newspapers have been print- ing clinical and almost brutal comments about his appearance.
President Eisenhower has had a cough for the past six weeks and he is very conscious of it. When he broad. cast on the Middle East crisis a few days ago he said: "You will excuse me if I cough."
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Actually during the broadcast to present picture to the he did not cough, but the cough American public of a tired, sick,
EA Is on his mind. We are told in old man the White House step down and New York that people who have who should had heart attacks often have a retire, deep lung cough.
President Elsenhower is very sensitive. He has recovered from
His mistake
ATANUNCIANTSTEELZ IZNENIMIENIN
a severe heart attack and opera- ONE of Eisenhower's mistakes
tion within eighteen inonths.
My view is that people ere gunning for him.
I saw him recently. und I thought he looked well and it. Ho has lost weight: he has
bald: pone
but all the vid energy is still there.
The latest trouble is that he has an inflamed car and a cold, All of us can have minor all ments of this surt
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to seclude himself. It is a frodition tor Presidents of America to attend Q dinner called The Gridiron given by the
Washington White Houso correspondents.
Franklin Roosevelt attended them Harry Truman sitend- ed them all. Last Saturday Elsenhower didn't appear, and by a strange chance the Duke of Windsor, who had been in- vited and was happily sitting a! an obscure table, was suddenly called upon to take Eisenhower's place on the dals.
The Duke
came
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"Brother, when I fiprde out of Europe you won't see my feet for dust.”
WORLD of the UNDERCOVER
BANK ACCOUNTS
N the discreet and unostentatious front office I report from
of Geneva's Banque Privée one day last week
I watched a middle-aged Oriental stroll up to the brass-railed counter and furtively scribble a number on a slip of paper.
The clerk glanced down at the slip. In a matter of seconds he had ushered the man-an Egyptian by the look of him-ato a private office.
He did not ask his name. He did not inquire whom his client wanted to see. The number on the slip of paper was enough.
To my Geneva friend who had taken me to the bank this scene was routing, something that you could see any day any time (during office hours) in one of the many private banka tucked away in the busy streets of Geneva, Basle, or Zurich.
But to me it was as fascinating as a peep into the secret files of the Kremlin.
For the Egyptian, as shown by his behaviour and that of the clerk, was a member Di through Europe's newest, most impor-
tant and probably most
this
super-exclusive club which is shifting the emphasis of
authority in Europe
Intelligence Report
magnificently and a most un-
to find money for payment into num- usual thing happened at the Influential secret club, dinner.
out about whose activities I bered or named accounts with When it was announced that had specially travelled
Arst to out
receiving special authorisation from the depoal- the entire Geneva. he was present
Couri gathering of Supremo
Cabinet Ministers, Justices, leading Senators and America's most distinguished newspaper- men got to their fect End cheered and applauded.
SECRET
THE Egyptian whom 1
I think that this night at The Gridiron was the Duke's hop-the piest for many years.
But what was the lonely man in the White House thinking?
And what were the journalists at the Gridiron Club saying?
They were saying: Is Ike ili Why does he not attend one of the most important functions of the year?
it
And what are the publle boy- Ing? This is harsh to write but
must be told. Eisenhower has spent fewer days at the White House, which the No. 10, Downing Street of America, then any of his pre-
decessors.
had ΟΣ
been watching was one
tena of thousands of wealthy foreigners who in the last four of five years have brought about a revolution in the financial structure Europe and established, without necessarily meaning to do so, a big new Swiss Industrial financial empire.
and
By removing their money and from their own countries placing it here in Swiss banks they have been giving to small oligarchy of Swiss bank- dollars ers control of millions of they never dreamed of and power in the world out of all proportion to the size of this
State tiny mountain 4,500,000 thrifty inhabitants,
tor.
The reason for this rule is fear that agents might pretend
W
SPECIAL INQUIRY
by SEFTON DELMER
SOL?
*LEOPOLD Money for the Congo
PETER
Money he can't get
I myself was warned that if to pay money into an account merely as a ruse for finding out I continued to ask too many whether the bank holds an awkward questions I might find
myself in trouble with account for a certain person,
ALL IN A DOCTOR'S DAY by CEDRIC CARNE
NOT THE COUGH TO CARRY YOU OFF
HEN the pale-faced hero of a romantic novel has a cough the reader knows at once that he is really suffering from consumption. Novel and its readers, like romantic au- thors, make an algebraic equation of Cough—T.B.
What makes it almost sinister is that the majority of
these
I do not think he is a lazy man, but some compulsion has him going to Georgis for golt almost every other week-end,
He has almost stopped seeing people. There was a time when be used to hold conferences foreigners-crowned heads aro In fact, the majority of those
the suffering breakfast, lunch, and dinner among them have, like with
Egyptian, placed their money in have no cough at all. And very important people America's domestic and foreign the banks not under their own few peopple who cough have, polley.
names but under cover of secret in fact, anything as serious as into codo numbers. But lately he has gone
ivory tower.
ar
He has his meals alone
at
30
the Swiss banks
tuberculosis,
from tuberculosis
the
more
Like
Federal police, accused economic espionage.
ما
what
NASSER Money for
arms deals
AND WHO ELSE?
of capable of fitting in well with
existing Swiss 'concerna
Here
I have Lound: a conservative estimate given to me by one of
foremost country's bankers is that Switzerland's
!
Their production is essential to peacetime as well as wartime the industry and gives the Swiss a
power never enjoyed before. private
This Swiss economic empire leading private banks, 14 in is certainly being expanded in number, hold, between
one would have some £4,000 million in secret dreamed of 10 years ago. deposits. And this does not in- clude the probably even greater amount of money held by the three big banking corporations,
them a
the
way no
The most profile source of escaped capital for the numbered accounts of Geneva is France.
Both private citizens and
ing vast quantities
Something like £10,000,000, Industrial concerns are smygg- of money my friend estimates, of
out of the country into Switzer with money deposited
the land in the hope of having it private banks in numbered safely invented here, accounts is money, whose un- known owners have disappeared, the aid of Swiss private banks, Some French concerna, with have embarked
Anuncial
on a moet in
At any rate they have given tricate
• MatoCUSTO no sign of life for many years intended to save them both now, and it is being assumed from the consequences. of in- that they have probably been flation and from taxation. killed in some civil upheaval,
to
They snuggle money out King Alexander of Yugo Switzerland, deposit is here in slavia, for instance, is believed a numbered account. Then they to have held money in a secret get the Swiss bank
to deposit numbered account in a Swiss the money in New York in the bank when he was assassinated. Swiss bark's own name.
But even this is not the end.
:
But young King Peter, though he has tried to and his money, The French then get the Swiss does not know the number of bank to order the Amerieni the account or the bank, He bank to lend dollars, lo, the has never been able to touch it, original French arm. descends down the tubes to clear he looked
Napoleon than Napoleon.. settle in a patch on the lung.
King Alexander's money, and the money belongs in the first And the French firm to whom the rest of the £10,000,000, it on its". Of course, he wanted to know that is indeed the figure, goes on interest. It is paying on its own can then charge the own without any treatment why he was inclined to be earning and multiplying for the money in America to teci (apart from bed rest), but the cheaty while the only time his Swiss banks until it is claimed against taxes while in fact it is cought persists some time after wife coughed was as a signal to by its owners, if ever,
drawing that interest itself in the cold has gone.
the Swiss recount.
This patch clears up
tell him he was talking too much in company. "That's what happened in
"It's your case, as in thousands of constitution," I said. "It runs
Just A
matter others," I explained, "There is
in families. no question of T.B”
The colour returned
to Mr
Jackson's cheeks. (He was be ginning to resemble Napoleon) Even so, apparently before his present cold he tended to have These numbers hide their Pale-faces Mr Jackson was a morning cough,
All he with Mamio, his devoted wife, identity even from the stalls of relieved to hear this.
and make it needed was reassuring. He came It seems to me that almost quite impossible for any Trea-into my conruiting rooms like half the adults in Britain, living sury snoopera
from their own a dying Keats and went out in a climate which is as damp countries
find out where like a Napoleon on the trail of as a nervous handshake, com they have put the money.
Josephine.
plain of having a cough in the "I've had this cough," he morning. said, "ever since I caught # cold over a month ago."
who is his chief adviser.
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The great general, who was money great President during his accounts or how much there 15,
to find out what Is He informed me that his cold being done with the had not
been quite the usual these numbered kind.
Apparently he'd had a tem-
much "rougher" than
first four-year term, has become is as difficult as getting atomic peratura at the time and felt more remote than even Woodrow | secrets.out of the Pentagon,
he
Wilson.
It could be that Eisenhower,
For, 'next to the integrity their currency, the
cold, freedom
of
and
usually did when nursing a
is
Aware of the heart attack from transfer restrictions and the internal operation
"I'd my that it was Influenza, trying to conserve his strength, their own financial soundness, except that I know that
diagnosis but a term that popu- larky,covers a number of allied conditions," he sald
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We all cling desperately to the great asset of these Swiss influenza is generally not a living, and Eisenhower, a very bankers is their secrecy, human man, probably thinks similarly. Anyway. the truth is This secrecy they protect with that he gets up later, wins in Bevere laws. They have oven the afternoon with a modest gone to the lengths of making breast stroke, then has a nap, it illegal for banks to accept any and usually goes to bed between ) ---- ten and eleven.
He knows
the White House he is stub- bornly refusing to go to Arizona as his doctors advisa, (TRA I wish I could give a clear cut report about the President's health. Frankly, I do not
kursow
A commoJA condition when the "cold" settles on the chest la sometimes wrongly described
ad fu
It is our National Complaint and the price of our weather.
There дго other factors, however, Instrumental in its production.
Most important is tobacco. "Smoker's cough, you mean?” Mr Jackson said,
"Exactly."
Too wide
of
FAROUK
AMONG living crowned heads large sums deposited Switzerland
сто King Leopold of the Belgians and King Farouls.
"Childhood pneumonia and whooping cough can lead to L chestiness later on.
..
in
place
ני
Complicated, but most enjoy able to the French Industrial mind.
ARMS
:
"And the curious thing is that those who
many and Bro
Leopold does a great deal of BUT of all the particularly
peculiar deals financed by particularly dependent on molding are just business
the the secret club of the number- the peopic who often are Belgian Congo, through the constitutionally chesty.
ed account holders the..most Geneva private bank of Ferrier extraordinary are those financing andi Luliz whose directors' "So I should try to cut your acquaintance he made while in the arms traffic with the Middle amoking down," I said.
East and South America. Of exile near Lausanne.
these I shall tell you in my next
Valueless?
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Farouk has large deposits in report. Switzerland and until recently,"
I learn, was still receiving sub-
stantial royallica from. Egyptian
in companies
蠱 numbered being aware of the
account here without Nasser
"Meantime," Mr Jackson asked, "could you prescribe cough mixture, doctor? Some thing to loosen the cough?"
Some of Nasser's own rela- Many patients seem happier tives, as well as officers of his If they take a cough-loosening Revolutionary Council who have mixture-the moro evil-tasting been taking atibatantial comTM
It is the more they believe I missions on the arms they have docs them good.
been ordering through. Swiss tried to explain to Me mumbered accounts in Zurich.
agenta also, Jiavá deposits in Jackson
that most mixtures prescribed to loosen coughs are Control of the money in these probably valueless. At least, private banks is In the hands of On the other hand a morning there is no scieutine evidence the directors and bounds of those cough, may be due to the fact they do good."
banks,, numbering fewer thats ́a that the breathing tubes in While lung specialists. ara hundred."- certain parts of the lung are sceptical of their value, general
It gives them tremendous too wide,
practitioner often feel others wing in my view the beneficial power. One use that they have When this is the caso the effect of hot drinke in loosening already made of it is to acquire control of French)) and German catarrh tends to sutile and bronchial catarrh is more valu factories making the specially collect in them, and it is only able than many an evil-tasting small ball-bearings used in the
the morning, when the cough mixture,
Al the same," Mr. Jackson and bin them up: with ! Swiss production of guided missiles posture is changed, that
cald, "I'd like you to prescribe ball-bearing concerns, especially catarrh is caught up.
me a mixture in case it does me those "actuated: in But from examination. I was good."
the same the Swis
(WAY) sumer? from bronchiectasis, un "Til drink. It piping hot.”gi bave been acquiring controk - OL The "cold" infection starts doctors, call, this in condition. Then he has to rush; off to Carmen electronic, ĝi automotive,
the throat, and hose, – and: When I told him his tubes were onlch" hls: trein ne Valerioo
zmachine-tool::} luxiomation
It descends
VISENHOWER is fully 'aware
of the reports and rumours,
Other doctors more accurately about his health.. - Everyone how strong The is and I do not name itin atypical pneu knows that he should go to think his six doctors know, monia" or, better still, waani clindate to clear up the
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•
the
The bealth or lack of it of descending respiratory infeo-rtain that Mr Jackson did not When I homilated, he added: E MART Aion
cough and bring back the colour, the President of the United to ble checks, but as there has theter the been somsach criticism about tode All we CD, do Inn
tion".
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