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A landmark in the history of Time mERTUTEMENT
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1958,
In the new 'colonies' it's raining dollars
HE most interesting
THE
was
part of my visit to Southeast Asia seeing the work of the American Colonies or Plantations, or what- ever you like to call the men and women who distribute and check American aid.
The
money that America
-BUT EVEN IF THEY ARE GOING INTO THE
་
WRONG POCKETS,
I SAY IT IS A GOOD THING
By LORD LAMBTON MP
country
won for his
SOUTH VIET-NAM la a police eventually gives to this part of the world as state, ruled by the President and fontartic
a small oligarchy whose power for Home Rulo, is based on the 160,000-strong army which is entirely paid for by American dollars.
Revealing
At the moment it is on a de-
In CAMBODIA one ɑnda not clining scale, but even
Jast
» police state but a more or less year they
millon KAVE 200
Absolute monarchy, ond an dollars to South Viet-Nan, scinating is the position here million dollars 10 Loos. เค
that it is worth a moment's ex- million dollars to Cambodia, and
planation The Prime Minister, their nid Slam, including
Friar Stranouk, was originally armaments, cannot have been fur
million dollar nude king at the age of 18 by short of the 100
the French when Cambodia wng Turk
still a colony,
And what is revealing Lype of
government America is alding
Ly the which
However, he soon contrived to arzet his individuality and
year, his popularity and stand- ing la so great that his authority unlikely for at least a tow years to be undermined by Comunurusm
And
so he rules; now the a bloodless victory democrat making such gesturca as announcing that everyone in Parliament must work one He then become the first king month a year at manual labour;
Cambodia
the of free
father-benevolent, dales at cloth to nis while he decided that he would throwing have greater authority as a de- poorer subjects as he drives mocratle figure. He therefore, triumphantly through his capital.
Afler
abdicated from the throne, put- ting in his place his father, ant became Prime Minister.
now
Fortunes
H Parliament fails to im- Then In SIAM you hove press him he dismisses it and had a succession of milltary dictator) Enother elected. His authority (whose power rests on the U.S. is unchallenged and while his paid army) succeeding each recognition of Red Ching was a other, while the general public severe shock to America last watches the political game with
EARTHA—Weird, Exciting
WHEN a
man says a woman is ex- citing, and every other man agrees, a wise woman checks up on the opposition. That's why I went to Hotel the May Fair round about tea-time to Eartha see how well
Kitt lives up to labels.
her
Orson Welles, if you remember, described her US the most exciting wanso In The world. Eartha herself says she's an old-fashioned girl.
Just
I wanted to find out which was true, or If, as I suspected, They bath added up to the same thing If they did, I thought it would be useful to know how- and why.
were
In Eartha's suite could c at a glance that all the accessor-
to the scene
old- Inshioned warm fire, soft lights, sent flowers, labie and a women curled on the hearth--sewing.
EXPLOSIVE!“
jow
uzy
Ve y quiet, domestic
scer e Eartha except that
th was nearest thing I have ever seen to an explosion in silk. She was wearing a flame-cok ured coole suit, topped with a bright pink was patternoa kimono and she sewing a sash that was yellow and white.
When she wanted iL new thread, she bit of the old ene as if the were taking rep.sals. was When she shook hands it
By MARY HAMPSON
with the grip of a wrestler not sure
measuring a fuli.
Welles told me: 'Why are you
of yourself, Eartha? You're 2,000 years old. You're Nefert, Cleopatra and Helen In one, and I'M Her hair was in pin-curls and of Troy all
Is it broca LEGE about scared of you. she couldn'1 care less
because or is it maloc-up.
"I don't think inen you're wise care about make-up," she said. You're a wompa?"
"It's the MIND that attracts remembered ther
Orson
If you can leave a man with that question in his mind,
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Larry
.
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Bangk
OF
SLAM
TONG-KING
Har Nu Island
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CAMBODIA
Salgon
WYN-IHA
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INDO
CHINA
THIS IS WHERE THE DOLLARS GO: South Viet-Nam, 200 million; Loos, 40 million: Cambodia, 40 million; Siam, nearly 100 million.
Amused Indifference as to way to private sources for which
they were never intended. who wins,
And so we have the extra- Each general follows the same ordinary sight of America-from routine: ho declares he has whom since the war we have seigtd power because the state had so many lectures on moral is in danger, he declares loyalty to the constitutionst king, and
responsibility, the evila
of
re doctores that he will rule for colonialism, the rights of the individual to choose his own the benefit of the people.
method of government, and the
Interference He then ammasses a huge evlis of outside poker fortune and finally makes way actually maintaining in this part of the world one police state, for a fellow genorul,
fcadol monarchy, one That's another point aralysis,
thought. Be
Lastly, in LAOS, perhaps one military dictatorship mysterious. Give nothing away of the most sparsely populated Incredibly corrupt
she made An excellent ployer
in this
ORC
and ono community;
If you're Eartha Kili, means countries in the world, they have maintaining them, what is more, you add up to some hing
At the moment a Government very well. 30 exciting that you can count your which could not by any stretch income up to six Agures, it of the imagination be said to be the chance of rejecting gifts, working disinterestedly for the which range from a string of people.
in
For what the Americana hava realised in the Far East is that while democracy is all very well 17 civilised communities,
Sultan elephants. (very a
ecuntries whose civilisation is 10 a Indeed in each of these coun- 500 years behind their own diamond as big as
your Os!
trica bribery and corruption is 11 can become the enemy of the from a prince. You can *own
part of the people and the Instrument of
Juggling
two blocks of apartment on acknowledged buildings
in New York and a system of government. heme in Califo: nja,
At that point, the Strange Fartha Kit became eych stranger, because as scom as she nientioned her home in Holly- werd (and never ence did she call it a house), her whole face softened.
Cmunian. So in Scutheast Asla they have made the beat use of the clay that was at hand. and their Success...I repent Ruccesss that by their realian Owing to an intentional jug- they have created states which themselves strong It Is are proving tune with the currency, estimated that members of the enough to resist the spread of Laotian Government and leaders Communiam and where the great "1 think a home is the most of the country were able to put majority of peoplo lend content- important thing in life, don't more or less streight into their cd, happy lives,
In conclusion, I cannot help you?" she said. "I searched for pockets nearly one-third of the this one for 18 months because 40 million dollars ald granted by wondering whether it had to be right, and it IS America last year, and, though taken diplomatic advantage of
this figure is not as high in the this American realism other countrica of Southeast Far East when pressing them to Asia there is ttle doubt that support similar policies in areas vast sums of money find their vital to ourselves.
RIGHT.
CAT-LIKE
"It wasn't easy,
because
had to have land, and land isn't easy to find near Hollywood. "I spend half my time making garden. Nobody believes that 7 boul the rocks around tɔ make the rockery but I do. And I set up early in the morning in pimper the roses."
Somehow, the thought of Eartha Kitt pampering the roses, or herself, or anyone else, lied never occurred to me.
That's another thing. She is completely unpredictable.
She proved it two seconds th- later by streaking serosy zoom in her bare feet to bark An order down the phone. She moves quicker than any other woman I have ever seen. thought, you've got
she's lying One minute
[11] wondering along the right lines. length on the floor, next she's Maybe that's the secret. Frighten him!
him
about a dozen yards away and you never saw her got
She's like a cat, quick which
graceful and controlled.
Eartha just laughed; she has a quick, derisive laugh turns into a mysterious amife, Most times she has a com pletely
face. expressionless Watching her, I wasn't surprised
and
"How much of yourself to in Partha your songat" I asked. sings songs Ülke "I want to be: evil," which was banned as un- American In Los Angeles.
THE FUTURE
not what I sing into them, it's the way people take then that counts," said Earthe, looking happy for once. "That ban wan good business. My Ralary shot up from 600 dollars to 10,000 when the Mayor com- plained."
Always when money is men- and tloned Eartha looks bilak busy. "I have to think about the future," she said. "I'm NOT looking for a millleraire. I can manage very nicely. But I never forget that show business is à choney thing. They like me to- day. They may not like me to. MOTTOW."
Suddenly, I wondered if that might not be part of
Eartha's
secret. She has an arrogant in-
We Jaum
Vicky
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VICKY has joined the CHINA_MAIL. From this Saturday, one of Britain's most brilliant cartoonists will hold our, cartoon platform along with GILES, CUMMINGS, LOW AND JAK.
difference that must be exciting Vicky wields his pen like a rapier, pricking
but underneath, she's
not so sure.
EXCITING
She's like ✡ itle boy swaggering down a dark road, whistling to keep up his spirita. So while she telghiens everyone rlar, she disarma them
COTTA-
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the pomposities of politicians on the Left and Right. Especially on the Right.
His political views may not always be those of the CHINA MAIL, but Vicky will have no shackles.
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pletely by being scared herself. He will have the same freedom of expres-
So what maken her exciting?
I asked hor. "People."
Eartha laconically. "They want
10 belleve I'm weird and strange
sion that this newspaper has always given its political cartoonists.
and wicked. Don't ask me why. Vicky's first cartoon will appear in the
They create the illusion, and
they make ma fie it.”
CHINA MAIL this Saturday.