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WHY BARBARA GAMBLES ON HARD-TO-HOLD HUSBANDS..
PARIS.
I HAD a long talk lust
week with Prince Igor Troubetskoy about his former wife, the Woolworth heiress, Bar- bara Hutton.
The prince. I should say. Is by way of being the world's greatest authority on this intriguing subject.
For
M
ostly as be Berty to Mis Button Be was her fourth at his is the nily o CAT the six marriage Which has developed
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artille, hay mo, also inteligent, a quality 241 Mix Hutton's ex-hus- bands.
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(Explanation By Husband No. 4)
PARIS NEWSLETTER
who, as money does not matter
to her, gambles instead on men. The bigger the odds against a happy marriage with
pur- Heidar man, he explained. the irresistibly she will be drawn to him,
more
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Although eriteal of the mo- tive which led 544120 21 marriage with her, he does not, worst seemingly the cases, blame them for the final break-15)
Over an
He attributes these break-ups Hution's melancholia and possessiveness.
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the late Aga Khan's family highly qualified for such a post.
No alimony
by SAM WHITE
in England was that of becom-
ing typed.
"In England you are either cast na a glamour girl wenring strapless dresses and sequins or Resistance terrorist," she said. Miss Lee has avoided this danger of being typed by mak- At the same time DA Mine. Ing a series of Alms in France l'atino was appealing unsue with titles such as This Most Ce fully against . Mexican Desired Body, Love Is My Trade divorce granted to her husband, and Goddess Of Love, tin onufre Anletor Patinu,
Prince 37-year-old
Mark de Bervena-Craon Was being grunted an uncontested divorce agni st her daughter Cristina.
Cristina is the sister of Isabel Puting, who died tragically after her elopement with Jams Goldsmith.
Her ambition, she tells me, is to be given a chance to act, and she likes to see her futuro "p a cross between Sarah Bern- hardt and Marilyn Monroe."
"What I detest most of all to the type of sophisticatd comedy English studios gu in for," she zaid
She Ilkes Continental life The court granted the custody
far more (there is
privney children to the of the two Irtove noe stipulated that there here") and her French is now his so, good that the problem of ulimony for ex-wife. The couple were mur- dubbing her in that language ried to circumstances of almost does not arise. Ix
regal pomp in Poris in 1952.
In general, he gives a peture of a woman who is intelligent erinph to be bored by her life but nel quale Intelligent enough to know what to do about it.
Mies Hutton, after years uf
Paris, 18 hotel life
Ha here which belog lavishly deerruted. The Hat was bought at the insfigi- On of her present husband, Baton von Chamin, from whom
hus now long all t She is now estranged, art she
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The dat formerly belonge
thaibstes thus entirely in her the late Andre Citroen, the
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With 28-year-old French. Cat gate Dough.
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MYSTERY: Sadruddin Khan, Aly Khan's haif.
that there can be any question brother, who is married to
of marriage, but the friendship the model, Nina Dyer, as
perording to him MIA Aures me that he has been Hutton's dual need in lavish her given a job by UNESCO.
UNESCO denies this.
pengerubes generisly and
the
interested
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devotions.
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the nagging neurosis which has diven Mus Button into so insy reessful marriages, ae has an interesting expiang- flon
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should be no
Cristina, who is 27. left her husband earlier this year after falling in love with an Austrian skiing instructor.
First P.M.?
Political Note: Whom will de Gulle choose as his first Prime Minister
French after the General Election and after be of himself Becomes President the Republic?
Ocklly enough, It is unlikely Jacques Soustelle,
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leader of what will undoubtedly
Parliament, the newly
She still secs a lot of Prince Orsini, and is quite reconciled to the fact that he will never be tree to marry her.
HEADLINE OF THE WEEK (In France Soir on the election. resits); "Colonels are doing better than generals."
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
Playwright Marcel Achard after the
be the biggest party in the new failure of his play in New created York: "The Americanz Unfort for the New Republic." like French humour about
is considered ino Soustelle "marked a man" because of the as much as the French like role he played in the May 13 the English Sundays." revolt, and, furthermore, despite American hostess Mrs his close war-time and post-war
Langdon association with de Gaulle, rela-
Othemere: "I really don't like diamonds but without
tions between the two men are
of the coolest,
James
Sadruddin's version of hir job: That he will be a member of UNESCO', commission for the nd- vancement of women. 1 Aereading to him, Miss Tut-
btcurable #mhter consider
The man most heavily tipped them I feel so drab." any member of
for the Premiership is another member of M. Soustelle's party, 46-year-old M. Michel Debre, who lo virtually unknown abroud,
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M. Debre 15 Minister
of
Justice in the present govern- ment and it was he who was largely responsible for drawing up the new Constitution.
His loyalty
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He is a most remarkable man, widely widely hatext and also admired. He has been the most fallhfni of de Goulle's followers
The few of and weak ane Guudlists elected tu previous who parliaments
consistently refused Ministerial posts under the old rugine.
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This loyalty hus greatly endeared him to de Gaulle, man of brilliant intellect, he is a member of the French High Court
und the author of the most devastating iterary attack on the miners and morals of Fourth Republle politicians.
He aise a man of the most explosive temper of any politi en I know. I once had the mis- fortune to ask him a mildly In- discreet question with the re- stil that I out of his office by the ensuing blast.
(London Express Service).
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"Oh Selwyn, for the simglo days of doar old Bacle Joe! Ho pointed HIS gun and we just pointed OURS..."
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free
THE statesmen of the
Western world must be cursing Mr Khrush- chev under their breath this week-end.
They had headed him off from Summit talks. There they were, from incompetence or design. safely back at the "cold war."
more.
rigid once
Berlin? WHY NOT!
-by A. J. P. TAYLOR
And now Khrushchev has
edopt the cause of freedom
Three soldiers-one British, one American-
And they did. Now we can't one French,
Just walk out of West Berlin and would be just as effective as tho situation. A United irave its inhabitants to defend present their own freedom or be shipped Nations force would be still bet- ter. It would actually lessen off to Siberia.
Але the tension.
Khrushchev has proposed It.
To desert West Berlin would be an act of shame The morat reputation of the Western would never recover Powers
would courage,
be
ur.
Then what are we waiting fur? If the freedom of the West
secure.
Everything
No need to think. done it again. He has pro- from it, in comparison, Munich Berliners is what we care for,
a policy. No need to have Just sit tight and wait for the coming collapse of So- viet Communism, which we have been promised for 41
years.
ROUND-UP
HULA-HOOPING:
THE DOCTOR'S WARNING
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THE hula-hoop Britain's latest craze - should be tried with "It is a very caution, says the Brilish Medical Association. energetic form of exeretsec," said a B.M.A, spokesman. "No one yith a known heart disease should try it, and anyone who is out of training but otherwise flt should not go hard at it right away. Exercise of any kind for someone who wants to lose weight is a spare and delusion."
SOLDIERS WITH BEARDS
BEARD-GROWING tradition in the Army dates from the time
when ploncer sergeants and pipe majors of the former Regi- ments of Foot were permitted to grow them. There are few beard- e soldiers today but one of them in 28-year-old Pioneer Sergeant Kenneth Dodding of the 1st Battalion, Scots Guard, who has just left Victoria Barracks, Windsor, to join his battalion near Dus- seldorf. Dodding, who has a full face light-brown beard, says, "I didn't grow the beard. because of any personal preference. So he traditions ore dying out. I think a tradition should many kept up." The custom goes back to the days when the Army travelled in sailing ships.
was almost hurted £70,000 H.Q.
INCIDENTAL INTELL- GENCE: A mannequin at Balmain goes by the name of Flora de Chicago.
Few regrets
Miss Belinda Lee tells me she has few regrets about her break with the Rank Organisation, She says that the danger for her about continuing her film career
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¡ARGATE'S now £70,000 police headquarters, the first
Britain with a specially reinforced fint roof designed as a hellcopter landing base, is now taking shape on the cliffs over- looking the harbour of the Kentish town. Due to be completed in February 1860, it wil replace the old headquarters in the town hall buildings which were condemned in 1011. The new head- quarters will include a three-storey steel-framed office block and a separate two-storey garage with a workshop block. It will provide a rifle range garage and cell block. In addition to normal features a photographic studio will be included with a rest wom und accommodation for women police, & sports room, dining rooms, kitchens and a recreation room.
new plan to un- duced n freeze the cold war.
Maybe he is cheating. Maybe there is a twist in his suggestions for Berlin. All the more reason to take his proposal seriously, and so make him take it seri- ously tou.
arc
Scratch plan
act of signal here is the way to make it more
T10 there's the catch. But freedum of Berlin is not all the Western Powers care for, and rertainly not what the Weat German Government cares for. The object of Western polley. both German and, Allied, is not to preserve the freedom of those
It Germans who are free now.
But to see that the people of West Berlin keep their freedom is one thing To insist on the in all its present arrangement details is quite another.
There is nothing sacred in is the unification of Germany. If Khrushchev is smart, the the present four-Power control. And, what is more, unification right answer for the West is It is a scratch plan set up in a as fully armed Power on the to be smarter.
hurry towards the end of the side of the West.
Is this likely to happent No,
ence
war.
11 ly not. Western statesmen If we con keep West Berlia dare not enter the competition. tree, free with greater security, They are torried that if they and at the same time lessen the by lee of the cold war, why not do manoeuvred Khrushchev from the position of it? merely saying "No" to every- thing they will find themselves with nothing on next moment but their underpants
The call...
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These objects cannot be at- The sooner we under-
tained
and this the better.
What terms?
Russia now has to be treated ask As an equal. We must vurselves not only what terms will satisfy us, but what terms will satisfy her.
Khrushchev and the fussinam Look at what happened with
will never ngree to a united There Austria. There is a world struggle be-
Tour-Power rule, four-Power Germany, allled to the West and forces right up tween Communism and freedom. occupation.
Then we all agreed with Western Freedom, our cause, is losing. to Ku away and to neutralise against the Polish frontier.
Austria.
Should wc Not because it is the worse or
sgree to Q weaker cause. It is because
under Com- united Germany The arrangement has been a
mundst control with Soviet have no con- statesmen
Austria is forces on the Rhine? Of courge fidence in their own cause and triumphant success.
free, 11 is
The prosperous no competence to defend it. But
not. So why waste time pursu cold war has almost vanished. someone must.
Neutral Austria is a large-scale ing the same policy in reverse? Once more the call has come model of what we could achieve For 10 years, ever since the
I hear the objection: Berlin In Berlin. to use our brains and our nerves. Our forces protect the freedom banging along in Germany with-
our
What is at stake in Berlin? of the Berliners." What is the concern of the three Western Powers theref
But they don't,
The Soviet
airlift
wo have been
out anything that could be called a polley. Army could conquer the whole We have not strengthened dur It is not security or military of Berlin in a couble of hours it position. We have not brought defence. Berlin is not an asset it wished to do so,
freedom to the people of East in cold war or in hot.
Germany. We hav, simply gone Ijability.
Western troops there
for the day” when are on waiting macroly a token that the West Soviet Russia will cease to exist, Our concern 18 this:
an' would defend Berlin with all lis Inescapable moral obligation, forces. The reality would be the We urged the West Berliners to same if we took the token away.
It is a
JAK IN THE CHILDREN'S WARD
PARY
"Nah, mate, it ain't visiting” time for another hour-we're doing fisioterapy.""
'London Bayṭate Strate
The answer
It has not come. And it is not likely to come now. Dragging on the present_set-up will not force the Russians out of. Gor- many. It will merely : per- petuate the lack of freedom in East Germany. And If we are not careful, it will turn the Germans against us...
The Germans want freedom, All of them. Fower of them want uniftention, Even politi- clans in West Germany dread the problems that it would Cause Very fow Germans at present want a new war, Yet that is what we are in fact offer- ing them when wo, advocato thwarting Russia.
of
·A· free elly
Berlin Increases the chances of freedom. It tumcus the chances of war. lo thai why Western statesmen are in swole. a hurry to reject I?
No, to suppose that they were aven planning war would do too much credit to their intelligenes. The truth be that Khrushchev, though no doubt a very wicked man, is aligaman and that Me Dulles, Selwyn Lloyd, and the rest are what? Something for which there is no polite word..
It le a rough look-out for the freedom of the Berliners, or anyone else, when it has to de- pend on those who direct Western Affairs. I would like lo sow it on a more solid basis, "The Pros City in thọ máy tại đất
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