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THE CHINA MAIL; SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1968.
LOGAN GOURLAY Dare we miss
'Baby'
(HE'S
41 YOU KNOW)
in this
air-conditioned
jungle!
New York.
about
We exchanged notes world tours. She said she liked Bangkok, though the precious stones were often semi-precious on the Siamese have no great regnet for truth.
"Look morning.
J
1 what
got
this A writ pushed under They
INDA, if may paraphrase that eclebrated and my door from BOA.C. Licked cabaret song of Noel Coward's, is at it again. And as is Count Francisco Pignatari, known affectionately as "Baby."
Linda Christian and Baby are always at which is the business of making headlines by staging romantle adventures and mishaps. Usually involving each other,
Neither of them
appears to have much else to do t the moment. Baby, of course, is SE Brazilian millionaire whe dors not have to work. Linda has her allmony.
If you think it is all too trivial to record, must point out that posterity might well consider the behaviour of these two in be interesting, though Incredible. At least as interesting us the golf scores of Present Eisen-- hower.
It is only a couple of weeks since I went to a party in Holly wood given by Zsa Zsa Gabor for Baby, who was
her boy friend that week, and who tried to enliven the proceedings by bursting balloons, Baby, Inci dentally, is 41 years old."
but
BRIEF
ageles. words from Marlene Dietrich: "I'm the same are as I WAS 10 years In fact, 1 gel younger every year." be the She may BOOT,
who only grandmother
is younger than her own grandchildren.
well, even when that man called him a jerk. He never gets rafted in situation like that. He only gets a bit wild at those they have in carnival parties his own country.
"Everybody does parties. They even have either as well as champagne. 1 don't approve of the ether, Puts you I prefer to know in a coma,
п those
Then I can
Jun! before that, atter go ing with Linda on a round-the- what I'm doing. world trip. he had staged a enjoy it when I'm doing it." ireworks display for her In Rio.
and puld pickets to parade in
front of her hotel
reading "Co
She went.
I
with signs
Home. Linda."
Her plans
Now this week in New York ASKED her if she was ready
to tell the world what she
we have been having the big was planning to do with Baby Ju
with the near future? reconciliation Dubile
it up again. "We've made various contretemps but without freworks so far. It has been Actually the Rio business with happening mainly in the pro- the plekets, WER mises of the well-known Morocco night club against the just his idea of
Ε
background of the zebra-striped
of
private joke," "A
private
decor which makes the place jake in public." look like a jungle-which,'
Well, it nik fired. What he
course, is.
A couple of nights go they really meant appeared there together and was: "Go home, stalked lovingly like 1 lody Linda, panther and her mate round the wait for dance Bear.
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Advanced
NEXT night Linds turned up with a party of Greek ship- including ping millionaires, Peter Theocoracopulus, one of her newer escorts. He is 22 but very advanced for his age and Linda, who is adding Greck to the other six languages sho speaks, says his name means, in
DBC
which what he had been Saying
LINDA AND
'BABY'-NO
FIREWORKS
THIS TIME
a loose translation, "Pennies for days, because he didn't like, from Heaven."
the interest some of the other
Baby came with * blonde men were showing in me. model, 'Melissa Weston, who is Instead, he did me a great often seen with Linda's CX service. Many important men there were actress Vivian Blaine hadn't even met phoned to sym- pathise, and I was showered.
husband, Tyrone Power. Also
of "Guys. and Dolls" fame,
comedian George de Witt, and with inviations. I never realloed
rallroad her Butler Miles, both admirers of Lindn.
I was so popular,
I
"Anyway, Baby and I are still
Mr de Witt sent Linda a note in love with each other. But I
don't know if we'll marry,
asking. "Where do I fit in?" Mr though he has asked me several Miles told Baby he was "a jerk,
a big jerk." Baby shook his fists at Mr Miles.
It was a wild night in the air conditioned jungle.
times."
She looked surprised at my suggestion that she might And
it difcult to settle down again. Next day Linda came to lunch with me, undaunted and un- "Not at all. That's what I scathed, She chose the 21 Club want to do eventually. A man where the atmosphere is alle must have little iriations to boost his.ego but it's not dim- more placid.
The decor is stockbrokers' suit for a woman to concentrate Tudor with toy models of exclusively on the right mon. airplanes, airships, and ears I don't really want to concen- hanging from the rafters. We trake on a career.
sat under an sirship and. 0
for
"I haven't made o film petrol truck with the word "gas" three years and all the scripts lettered in whlie,
Linda, looking lovelier than a I'm being offered are so bad 1 girl should who had not escaped don't know when I'll make an from the jungle till tive in the other. I want marriage and trust
sold: "It was morning, great tim. Baby behaved very
1 CAME sorges a shop in New York with this sign, the window: **(Almost) igenuine cantiques," "I) ((almost)
But something..
All
and respect."
She looked puzzled at my cuggestion that money might b another Czentit.
"I've never really thought. about it. I've never really con- gidered the possibility of marry- ing a poor man, I'm not likely to moći one; In the circles : 1 move in. Anyway, It wouldn't -work. I have to be able to afford to travel. It's as my horoscopa."
this great chance?
London:
IN September a remarkable opportunity presents itself to the people of Britain. An opportunity to guarantee our prosperity for years to come. An opportunity to protect ourselves securely from the recession that began in America and is creeping through the nations of the Western world.
What Is this
great opportun- The man who seeks more Empire
Ity? It
01
event whose im-
portance
can trade: Mr. Clarence
hardly be over- stressed
The
Commonwealth Deputy Prime Minister
Conference
is to also place
In "Montreal Zealand, here
At this con- ference Brilain
has a key role to play, I will be
an immense challenge to our If they siccced, the statesmen.
for the Common- prospects tealth and Empire-and for
Britain.
claim owe them about every family never before. baggage on a flight 1 mod: 10 London in 1958. It's ridiculous.
While she opened her handbag to show a bundle of notes two -well-dressed men came over nid Janked up at the toy airship on the celldrig.
Failure
of
"1 always CUFTY enough money to pay small things like
the back- that. I don't want to show off,ONSIDER, Amt,
Empire ground of there but see what I've got now in my hondbag, About
It's a background 2,000 dollars talks.
fallure and disappointment. For (£715).
from being preserved in recent the years, the links that bind
been have Commonwealth allowed to rust and decay.
Those links are primarily the links of tende. You might Linda said: "Funny, isn't 7. Imagine that in order to main- They didn't want to see the air-tala the political influence ship at all. They just wanted to the Commonwealth, every step get a closer look at us."
would have been taken to ex- pand the Empire Trade upon which this Influence depends.
They lett without calling me a "jerk."
She waved neross the room to another ກວດ. "That's Baby. Trying to flirt with me across the room. You can't see him behind that bowl thing."
When I did see him on the way out he was gazing at the toy modris
the ceiling. Longingly, thought...:
03
PRICE index: Light lunch in New York for two-mixet salads with
tonist--17 erry, chrezo, dollars 50 cents, which is abogi £. I forget to mention that we also had two glasses of beer extra charge. -at no
on а
by
When he went for a haircut a low days ago, the other cusia. his hair- mere as well
dresser all said what a pity t was that New Zealand could not Boil butter in Britain at a price fair to the producers.
Resources
THAT is overybody's view.
How, then, can the declin in Empire trado be arrested? invite you to turn away from the dismal picture of recent deve- lopments and look at the vialon
The British
In
that can be reallecd at Montreal.. has tremendous resources primary commodities. Common- the tree world's output of wool. Jute, cocou, too, sisal, mangan-
wealth countries produce half-
ese, and asbestos.
Between one-third and one- balf of natural rubber, rice, oll seeds, in, and chrome come! and between one-fifth and one-third of the output of wheat, oats,
from the Commonwealth,
Skinner, sugar, butter, wood pulp, bauxite,
copper, load, zinc, and coal
of New There are abundant suplies of
uranium. Within
the Commonwealth. manufac- mission, too, there is a Vost
turing potential.
THE RT. HON.
Arthur Bottomley
Socialist M.P. for Rochester and Chatham. Secretary for Overseas Trade 1947-51.
The market crashed. The Aus- tralian farmers faced rula,
No choice was left to the Austrollan Government. It was
Britain accounts for about ond-fifth of the world's · ex- poria of manufactured goods
· Canada ↳s one of the world's COUP- leading manufacturing irles.
In New Zealand, Australls Afrios menulae. and South turing Industry gives jobs lo mare people than any other nellvily.
All these Commonwealth economica are complementary rather than competitive, and this gives immense scope for mutual development and benefit. Mr Nehru once sold to me that know the British and Indians each other so well, had traded together for so long, that given could the will their economics prosper together.
The Anglo-Indian trade agree- the Anglo-Pakistan ment. The trade.
which agreement
I
of forced virtually to denounce the negotiated in 1051 when I was
Ottawa agreements
on Empire Minister for Overseas Trade, is a good arrangement, benefletul trade preference. And subse- quently it signed a trade pact to both countries.
But look what has happened. Instead of more trade between Britain and the Commonwealth, there is fer, far less in many commodities. And always 1 Is the foreigner who benefits..
We are buying 21 per cent Jess wheat from Australia and Canada than we old five years ago. Ilove they the wheat to scil?
WO
Indocd they have. If would buy. But instead WO 74 per cent Are importing more from non-Commonwealth countries.
with Japan.
This meant that Japan got the wheat. And Japan got thr order for
factory
Guarantees
products MANY other
similar agree
paid for by the wheat. The ment should be, planned at all-round loner: Britain,
Montreal. We should discuss with the Commonwealth' coun- United istries the needs of the
and their
The same wretched story
over buller. New Kingdom market occurring Zealand earns one-third of her ability and willingness to meet foreign exchange by selling those needs. Guarantees should abroad, and she has been spend be given and the flow of trade ing nearly all of this in Britain.
assured.
But it is no good relying only
C.
But we have been ollowing te Argentine, Finland, Sweden, un occasional top-loyal confer- Holland, and even Poland to ences like the one at Montreal dump their heavily-subsidised to build up Empire trade.
What is wanted is i per- butter surpluses in our shops....
manent Commuɔwealth creizriss operating on similar liner to the Organisation for. European Economie Co-opera- tion in Western Europe. This secreturlat should be In- charged with the duty of
and investment creusing trade
and and co-ordinating export import policies,
Now examize the tobacco
There has been a temporary figures. If we really care about
British leading the
Common- advantage for the housewife in wealth. if we don't want to be cheap prices, but the long-term foreign come just an island off Europe results unless
Lopped-will be. depending on American charity, dumping is
disastrous. they should make us ashamed.
For
since
the
the New
Z04-
In the same five years tobacco
Commonwealth landers are Onting it impossible Imports from countries have gone up 13 per lo sell their butter here at fair. ceni. But from non-Common- prices, they are getting short of
up money. wentth countries they are Inearly 80 per cent.
conso-
ה
temporary
of
the
There should also be tublished
Commonwealth Bank. Run on the same lines as Soon they will have to
cut the World Bank, it would en- buy able Empire countries experienc
short-term run on their There Agures, and many like drastically the goods they
And that ing a them, show just how far the from our factories. betrayal of the Commonwealth will result in less work and a sterling balances to draw upon greater danger of unemployment the bank without having to fear ileal has been allowed to go.
bankruptcy through for familles in Britain.
dimeultics. And, of course, the
The What can be done? There is Three quences are grievous, угата Digo wheat, farmers in no question about the desire in Commonwealth is not simply a to promote trade matter of short-term economales. Australla found there was this country
It must be achieved in order to 10 way only one
dispose of between the Empire countries.
Mr Clarence Skinner, the Increase the strength of their harvest. To burn it.
a political Deputy Primo Minister, of New Commonwealth
the world. Britain no longer wanted It Zealand, who is visiting Britain, and social force in because foolishly. criminally, tells me he has had plenty of Peace can be the promise of the
well we are letting the Argentinos evidence of this even at that Montreal talks-as dump their wheat surplus hore. centre of opinion, the barber's, prosperity.
Bow to your partner, curtsey low, Turn your back and away you go. Sidestep slowly round the floor, Back where you were and start once more
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