THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER (5; | 1957.
PARIS NEWSLETTER....from SAM WHITE
The ambassador's wife
signs a contract
with a night club
FRONT LINE AMERICA
Russian Rocket site
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Paris. some four years ago that her
incom professional life was patible with the dignity of an ambassador's wife.
TN considerable secrecy the French Foreign Office is at present pondering the
The matter came to a head future of its top ambassa- dor, the worldly and witty when she received an offer to sign in London night-club and M. Herve Alphand, Am- the then French Ambassador in
London M.
inade Massigli bassador to Washington.
strong representations on the
M. and Madame Alphand subječt, have returned to Paris on this leave and have taken
opportunity to break the
NO ALIMONY
startling news to the Qual M. ALPHAND is a polished d'Orany that they intend to divorce.
whose
him in Monte Carlo recently what is the cause of it?
Well, oll-carrying freight charges have dropped down to a level lower than existed before the Korean war,
Onossla hus some 20 ships under construction which will come into commission at a time when the long-term prospects of a rise in freight charges are bleak.
A great deal depends, of course, on what type of contract
Mr Onassis signed with the ofl wit and mimle,
companies at the time of the imitations have long delighted Suez cricis. Al that time most the better dinner parties. In of his fleet were on short-term this connection, friends point contracts and he was therefore out that just as no man is à hero able to reap full advantage of to its butler so no man is a wit the crisis rise in freight
charges.
to his wife.
Furthermore, to odd to the delicacy
the situation, Badome Alphand intends to Jeturn the United States
to
The Alphands are not rich, where she has signed contracta
a small, for night-club appearances on In Paris they live in
servantless fnt. sloger.
Mudarne Alphand does not wish for alimony. considering herself perfectly able to ear her own living.
I spoke to Madame Alphand on the subject and with charac- terlalle und diplomatic frankness she confirmed this news.
"I cannot bear the life of
wife," *mbassador's
the old nu. "Herve and I are in com- plete agreement on the need to divorce."
FRUSTRATED
YEAR ago while on a shop A ping visit to Paris Madame Alpliand told me how much the detested Washington and diplomatic life generally, and How frustrated she felt over the Foreign Office's Insistence that she abandoned her successful career as a night-club singer.
MODEL AGENCY
my right, Lucky, the famous Dior mannequin. American On my left, the model Miss Dorian Lelght. Miss Lekh has started an agency for cuts across models, and this which territory
Lucky hos always considered as her own.
Says Lucky; "Such an agency is legal in France, and I'm Madame Alphand, who is no going to drive Miss Leigh out mean wit in her own right,
The Qual d'Orsay have not
deelded yet
un M. Alphand's future, but it seems likely that he will not remain in Washing- ton for longer than it will take to analise à divorce.
of business.
PACIFIC OCEAN,
THE THREAT
It the Russian claim to have_pertested the inque-conti mental rocker missie is true then this to the threat that faces the U:5. ler the first time. The roshets which Russia and America have beert racing to produce are designed to fly at 16,000 miles an hour. They could cross the roof of the world and stelky American targeta
la 20 minutes
THE people of America
shock that for the first time in their history the United States is a front line
Ture realising with a
country.
That is the main signi- sums up the conflict between " run a kind of union forficance for them in the her and her husband's careers mannequins but we are barred in this way: "It seems as though by law from taking commission claim that Russia has de- I have created a precedent in on jobs we and for them. I am veloped the ultimate weapon reverse. Many diplomats have not going to let a foreigner get an inter-continental balls. married night-club singers and away with it."
tic missile capable of travel- converted them into dignified diplomats wives.
As a result Lucky, aged 38, is a toughing 5,000 miles to its
shrewd trade unlon boss target. al my example, however-fron and diplomat's wife to night-club who runs her union which, in
If true--and no Service singer this reminds ton many effect. is under the guise of a of them of their more humble strictly welfare organisation. chief in London was pre-- past. It is most embarrassing
The fact is that it negotiates pareil to discount it entirely for them.” -
with the leading dress houses it means that the Middle of West, last stronghold of and conditions on wages work. The weakness of Lucky's isolationism, and New York position in this matter is simply have become, overnight, as
Madamo Alphand is a blue eyed blonde with a husky voler and λ beautiful Agure. She looks in her early thirties, but js, In facl, 53-threy yehrs alder than her handsome husband. She has sung in London, Paris and New York, That worried look о Mr but her
was blasted Aristotle Onassis's face when the Qual d'Orsay inalsted which I noticed when I saw
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by NOEL MONES
of the fashion magazines, in-vulnerable to devastation as wars Britain has been.
in Hitler's front line country. cluding the French ones, prefer London
or British blitz. models.
to
American
The reasons for thle are that Jack spontaneity, and have
French models are too stited, reputation for unpunctuality.
CULTURAL NOTE
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Today it is put squarely to the Americans that in any futuro global- war they could expect civilian casual- WITH nuclear warheads tics of a terrifying nature,
This was the big stlek thut West Uncle Sam, and "the generally, kept ready to meet the threat of Russia's over- ventional weapons. whelming superiority in
COD-
Now the whole military think
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ing of the West and America Minister, in must be revised, The day our
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
"The Russian claim is not York or Kansas City half an taken
wag gospel,"
all hour later? Britain's air chief, Air Chief
Mr Sandys has already stated Marshal Sir Dermot Boyle,. that the R.A.F. will have their would say. Fair enough but last manned fighter in the Fi nelther should it be discounted. when they get it in about three years' time. He was severely If the Russian claim is criticised in high air quartors justified then it is a completo vindication of the stand taken by My Duncan Sandys, Defence regard to the reshaping of our crmed forces. For armies, navies, and air forces become obsoleta once the I.C.D.M. becomes an opera- Ironically, or fortuitously, the
tlonal weapon in full production. in the best Service aviation brains In Pacific, to Iceland, and in the Commonwealth sat down It was Mr Sandys who be America's
Et the eluding some in Britain and in conference
Air Reved the Germans were mak- V-weapons even when reading West's strongest shield, Canada. On these bases are Ministry the other day within sing
the Strategic Air Command, the six-jet- bombers of the few hours of the sensational Churchill's scientifle adviser, the late Lord Cherwell, poch-hoohed which, since 1945, has been Strategic Air Command.
the idea. our "great deterrent" The nearest is about 1,500 must soon be by-passed and miles from Moscow, or a outdated,
shude under three hours' flying time.
INGER ROGERS'S cx
husband, Jacques Bergerec, tells me that the reason for his break-up with Miss Rogers - Was that he insisted on aloud French classies at Misa dinner Ropers's Hollywood parties.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
M. Andre of the
Deauville
Casino: "I prefer Frenchwomen, but I must confess that when
an English woman is beautiful, she is a splendour."
-London Express Service).
the future
has
half a dozen 1.C.B.M.s could, in a few hours,
America's global strategy planners feared and knew be-
10 longed on a world-wide arrived. devastate key American cen- is based tres and take toll of ring of bases stretching
a
from Okinawa, millions of lives.
-and
News of the terrible cap- abilities of the I.C.B.M. will
In addition, the U.S. not shock the people of Bri-. Navy's Sixth and Seventh tain as much as it will Fleets are capable of Americans, for In two world striking with atom weapons,
ANTH ASIAT FLU
CURE
forter
the
Moscow announcement.
Not ‘gospel
What next?
INCLUDED were the Chlefs of
Do we go on building milllor- Air Staff Britain, Canada, pound plated V-bombers, de- Australia, Now Zealand, South signed to carry the "great deier- Africs, India, Pakistan, Ceylon, rent" when a technician may be "button at a and the Federation of Rhodesia able to push Russian base and Nyasaland.
and send off a is missile with a hydrogen wars the main item on the agenda. head act to explode on New
The Russlu 1.C.B.M.
Same goes for this stuff as Scotch during Prohibition, Paddling it to
U.S.ARMED FORCE IN EUROPE REPORT FOR ANTI-ASIATIC
'FLU INJECTIONS
**1 remember when I was a tiny glyl-some 47 Disarmament Conferences
arch"!
for saying that six months ago; Eut he could be proved right by the news from Moscow. Watch out for even further cuts in R.A.F. Fighter Command.
The last
THIE last Vallants are
now
being delivered to Bomber Command, and the Bist Victors and Vulcans should be in full- scale operation early next year. They are bound to be the Inst piloted bombers of the R.A.F..
Mr Sandys foresaw all this when he est down at his desk at Story'-vate eight months ago and become Britain's sixth Defence Minister in four years.
One good thing could como of Moscow's claim; Britain and America may, pool ALL their inissile know-how and concen= trate, as Russia `seems tỏ have. "done, on the Ultimate Weapon:
Mr Sandys, new In Australia, : has revealed that Britain is planning a missilə “"better than anything America ham”. right, be a 8,000-miler) of a
1,500-milèr.
· IX: Dritairi and"Amerton could- now pool thair vknowledge of land "experiments, with, both
| wespons", it would i-savo, both countries mĮ packet of "mbory... and, maybe," precioul mengha