THE CHINA" "MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1958.
SAM WHITE'S PARIS NEWSLETTER
The man who shocked
PARIS. PETER
the
MR HOWARD, 26-year-old American, who gave that party which shocked Rome is now in Paris planning another shindig.
Be in giving
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it this moulta tourist old-established 123 haunt in Montmartre which he will take over for the event.
One lesson
He will leave for New York immediately
"Just in case
Blac after
1 hell
party brenka
loose again."
This is only one less
!rat
Mr Howard has learned
from
hle Roman experience.
was
At that party, which attended by all Rotman sciety including several Pupul princes, like Anita
were
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am slate
young
Ekberg, and Elsa Martinet, and Turkish Birl who ereater a section by performe ing a striptease dance.
Following a drunderous elt - Vallean torial In the official newspaper the American Em- bassy in Rome told Howard that it would be wiser to leave than Italy immediately rather
the escurt await a police frontler.
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What makes Howard indignant that it was the very police-
men
Rome plans
a new party
1721 Fis known for eccentririls such as the type of
that goca With a Rover. The hull port- 7th er of the hotel in which always aktys s now accustom-
lost
have The Communists heavily and survive with 10 of their original 130 seats.
The
M. Maurice Couve de Mur- ville, a professional diplomal, and not on MP, is unlikely to remain foreign minister after The elections.
The new French Government is almost certain to give the poat
foreign minister of politician.
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fiery Maria est to despatching messengers by Callas will make a first
or various parts of Europe
Howard's
Passport appearance at the Paris te reenvet of other belongings.
opera this month at a Apart from his own Paris
In which Case M. Couve de Other Social charity gala which will
Murville, who party, Howard'
French Wes mark the engagements vir include
last Ambassador in Washington and ranun! Purly barman's ball official appearance
Benn, will be looking for an of
ather post. must Plus is always me," he said. "because frankly President
And BarTUTI Mel interesting Pan people you find In bars."
the also
with
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Thete o detail about Mr
Howard which I would like to spare you, but feel it is my duty 4 reveal: He treats his hong- overs with Bloody Marys (vodke
and tomato jure) followed beer chagerS
Spirited
POLITICAL owner u!
11:
Lay
NOTE:
The Folies Bergere gate- he hired to keep
tin diruptur of France's crashiers out who raided the and
asylum Arc party. As a result Howard wilt ligest tunahe not seek police co-operation at standing as candidates in Gener-
al Elections. His Paris party.
Howard, a sight brown- haired young man with a Frank Sinatr Ipok about him, 1 stepson of George Vanderbilt.
He is quick-witted and amux- Ing and has been coming to Paris almost since infancy.
He
is well known here as a lavish host and a leading member of a Parislan Bohemian
theatreal
set
M.
1s
Th, and the defeat Mendes-Framer rabot the only points of interest is what has been the dullest election campaign within being memory.
The engu In Algeria gone completely contrary to de
and Ghulle's intentions Mostem candidates love largely pitchforked into campaign by the army,
A gracious welcome to your guests
FOR CARISTMAS
DRY FLY SHERRY
LANDLATER, MAC rape S
More & more people are drinking
DRY FLY SHERRY
The
been
the
Aristocratic
And he likes London, Coty. Seats costing £20 each have already been sold out. Madam Callas will re- ceive £5,000 for singing three operatic arias.
New envoy?
DIPLOMATIC NOTE: The
as to who betting a now open will succeed M. Jean Chauvel as French Ambassador to London.
MY
Now they have written a book on their experiences, a kind of aristocratic version of What The
Butler Saw.
New venture
and
A new business venture by the
Jean brothers, Terroll Claude, makes news. Claude is of best known as the owner Paris's most
and expensive.
the restaurant, spectacular
Tour d'Argent." He also e husband of Barbara Warner, The of Jack Warner, daughter Um magnate,
LITERARY NOTE: Count and Counless Jean-Baptiste de Vilmorin have roturned trom an What is not generally known unusual stay in Hollywood. ubout the family is that the two The Count and Countess are brothers own between them four
of members
city's mast the aristocratic of the
famous Vilmorin family which scils restaurants, four extremely hotels and three grain and the novels of Louise fashionable de Vilmorin.
night clubs. they While in Hollywood
Now they are adding a new secured employment under
ther name as butler and cook, night club to their collection and
-
visitare one famous to British ever since the Prince of Wales made a habit of going there in the 20's.
£
This is Jimmy's, dimly-lit minuscule low-ceilinged club in Montparnasse.
The owner was killed by the and the war Germans during
tras been run by ever since it
handsome "Mme. Jimmy," blonde with a distaste for busi- nces. Now it has been bought by Jean Terrati.
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Terror Drives Cypriots (1 in 9) To Britain
THE
By J. W. M. THOMPSON
HE strife-torn island Cyprus Church. Greek Cypriots ore faithful sons of the Greek of Cyprus exports Orthodox Church, and this is
many things to Britain, their centro. but the most striking Elpidios
There I found Archinendrita
Horapis, * gentle,
black beard and a soft volca
export of all is neither courteous priest with a full grapes, nor oranges, nor which still stumbles in tho wine.
English language after nearly
It is people.
This is ane
BU01-
two years hero. of the great
Hla predecesSOT Was ironies of the Cyprus tragedy. As the campaign of hate and marlly deported for engaging in fotor against the Briush rises Propagando ageinst the Govern to new intensity, so the flood of ment. He was a Greek subject.
Cypriots being British by birth Cypriots to Britain increases.
if not always by choice como Britons have Twenty-eight
and go as they please. been killed Cyprus this year. In the same space of time, ot least 5,000 Cypriots have chosen to leave their homes and settle in Englund.
For every Briton killed, 200 Cypriots have moved over bope- fully to what EOKA would call
enemy
territory, There never been to many.
havo
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To lessen competition the very fashionable while elephant of nearly 65,000. favoured by the Duchess of
One Cypriot in every nine now moved from Uvea in Britain. And they aro Windsor whii be Montparnasse to the Right arriving at Victoria Station -- Bank. The "Tour d'Argent" Is rathor lost-looking people, of course famous for Its pressed mostly young, mostly speaking duck a manner of cooking no English at a greater rate duck which has the advantage of ❘ than ever before. scaling its julers. A similar.pro- cess is obviously being applied by the Terrall brothers in their busincra affairs.
(London Express Service).
The shark that tried
to scratch
Round-the-world- sailor Edward Allcard
sends his latest report... thle time of
a Caribbean journey on which his sleep was abruptly interrupted by something that wont bump against the side of his boat.
ANTIGUA.
Y 10-ton ketch Sea Wanderer idly swung off course. I put
M
by EDWARD ALLCARD
the wheel hard over and hurricane season had start- waited. But in vain. The ed. Already there had been last breath of the two seures and I had rid-
den out trade-wind had vanish-
squalls. ed, leaving me com- pletely becalmed.
Olly swells stretched to the horizon. broken by land in two places.
To the tinique, away,
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north lay Mar about
10 miles foreground of jagged peaks rising sharp- ly into the sky with a more distant background of the notorious but now dormant volcano Mont Telec.
itself
200 at St Vincent, where the two prolonged crop had suffered in a strong wind, rendering many unfl for export.
But the hurricane season brings calms too because trade winds are less reliable.
That is why, for the Brst time since I started cruising In the Caribbean at the beginning of the year, I was now motionless
one of the channels betwe the Islanda.
Generally the
wind
howls
through these gaps and the seas. remain choppy ill one gains the lee of the nestt leland.
waterline.
Usually they find homes and jobs in London. There is lite unemployment among them.
No parallel
the
The Archimandrite gave me a cup of strong, sweet coffco, "I is Greek coffee," he said with "Not Turkish
mild
humour.
coffee." We talked pleasantly
for B few moments,
I said I
wanted to ask him how Greek Cypriots In London felt about the violence in Cyprus. He sald it would be better if he gave his answers in writing.
Later they were handed to mo with the courtesy and friendli- ness I have met from every
Greek Cypriot I have come pcross in London, It turned out that there had been a meeting of the whole church commitice to consider the replies.
But they followed a torpilor pattern: regret at the violence, with blame solely for the British Government, Like this:
Q-To what extent are the
violent taotles supported by Cypriota hero?
They cause no trouble, exist harmoniously beside their English neighbours, enjoy
A-We regret the loss of benefits of the Welfare State, every single Ufe in Cyprus for and give every sign of being which the British Government a peaceful and contented com- is to blame. munity.
Except for one thing. Through the community runs the fervent hope that the present link be. tween Britain and Cyprus will be ended soon.
1 have talked to many London
Q-Do you thing EOKA I supported by the Cypriots in London-elther actively or in theory?
AEOKA is actively pursuing the the national struggle of Greek people for freedom, an
la deep in the these hearts of, und fervently cherish-
another glancing blow near the Cypriots, and their leaders, in ideal which
recent days. Опе
coders, a plump and pollaheded by, every Cypriot, wherever young
Spyros he may be. All Greek Cypriota the here are on friendly terms with of their situation the British people and wish to remain 50.
man named but Kyprianos, recognised
strangeness
and
aa
here.
I leaned over the side to see where the shark had gone had to draw back hastily jerk my arm out of the way its long notched tail hit the top- sides, dashing a shower of water into my face. It appeared to be attacking me now!
Its ride was streaked with red from rubbing against my anti- fouling paint. And a bare patch on a boat's bottom acts as an invitation tu the destructive teredo shipworm.
The reason
to When the shark came in the attack again it tolled side- boat, Ways before striking the showlug me clearly the reason for its manoeuvres-ash about
Boat shivered to fundoubtedly a remora
or sucker fish) was sticking out at an angle from its belly and it was trying to free self.
At last the wind sprang up her again, and Sea Wanderer,
But, however much I could tanned salls pulling her along, skipped up the Martinique coast, sympathise and understand the and across the channel to reasons for the shark's some-
what
behaviour, alarming Dominica in the dark until 1
could hardly have more of my under into the calm
the
precious paint knocked off. Be- sides the propeller or rudder might get damaged.
ran
icc.
This was more than welcome after a night at the wheel and, after a final look round,
my bunk with
rc-
I slipped below for my volver and, hastly pushing three cartridges Into the chamber, I advanced on deck at the ready, hunter in my the gleam of the
I cok Edvantage of the calm hopped into
diving over the alacrity. To the south, in the blue lo cool of try
side, then got hotter than ever haze, I could make out the by drying off in the sun on deck
Smack! Burpl
The boat pulline of St Lucia, before going below to fry seven shivered from a blow. Startled eyes. dim whence I was bound for bananer for lunch.
out of my sleep, I shot up un Antigua.
deck.
Few yachts were
The number of bananas limited only by the size of the frying pan, not by the lack, for in the West Indies, for the had been given
than
about
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"You will find no parallel in all history," he said.
the official Mr Kyprianos s representative in London of the Arch- Cypriot Ethnarchy-of bishop Makarkes, in other words. There is no doubt in his mind why the Cypriots emigrate to Britain in such numbers. "They come here for better jobs," he sold.
Not, he inalsts, because the emigrants are dialilusioned with Island the struggle in their
The Greek Cypriot community here," he says, "wholeheartedly in- supports the struggle for dependence."
Same methods
to me:
And so on. As we talked in a cosy little office at the back of the church, one of the
officials said Church "You know, we would not be free to talk like this in Cyprus, We might get put away in a concentration camp.”
But I know that here in London there are restraints on
free spanking wong the Cypriots BOKA terrorists have never committed any Act of violence here; but their preselico is felt among Cypriots,
EOKA "activists are know to be here: perlings not-many, and perhaps not very active. in- Their weapons are threats, not
guns,
And what about the violcnço and the killing? Does this band of Immigronta quiet, dustrious people by everyone's account-endorse these methods?
'This is war' Mr Kyprianos's neat shoulders shrugged regretfully. He lean- ed across his desk. "You must
10 remember," he said, "this war."
A huge photograph of Arch- bishop Makarios looked down, poker-faced, from his office wall
"War," repeated Mr Kypria
"But not against the British people. Wor. against the British Government Bod policy.
nas,
In any case, Cypriots do not come here to make politic They come to make mones. They can get here for £33; and better jobs, higher wages, ond the Social Services are waiting
for them.
in
They live a little Cyprus Inside London, cating their national dishes in their own restaurants and cafes, drinkding their wine, dinging their Greek endlessly songs. And talking
about the "national struggle."
"Look," said the fuent Mr Kyprianos. "When the Germans its occupied Greeco the British helped the Greeks to resist. In But my sudden disappearance Cypriots draw a clear dis- it surprising the same methods must have given the shark food
tinction between the British should be used against tho for thought (I did not want to
people, whom they like very
British who and occupying I looked wildly round but give it any other focd). It was could see nothing. Then a com- already 20 feet away and swam
much, and the British Govern Cyprus? You would have done ment. motion in the water by the stern
We blame the Govern- the same it the Germans had In a circle round the bout before ment for the violence."
occupied England." attracted my attention.
slinking off, its tall tail looking like a periscope of a submarine. Thera
The was
shark- mustard-coloured beast some With all thoughts of further 19ft, long, with a mottled white sloop gone, I lit the An cutting through the water. brew up some coffee.
From the Ethnarchy offles I 11 veered off, dived, then
through Incidentally. I decided to skip went
the dojected charged the boat, giving her my early morning swim.
streets of Camden Town to the
END
Slove
to
He paused. "Unfortunately," he went on, "more innocent people are killed in any war than guilty ones."
BERLIN
I funk I can understand that a Cypriot enthusiast should talk like itis. I know also that in Berlin rere was nd thriving colony of 83,000 Greek talking cagerly and freely of the struggle to get rid of the Nazi yoke,
London Express Service).
** it's fine htanding firm 'sasinat pressure, Batwyn--but if only WE bould think of something to preseurige THEM,"