THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1959.
The Shah loses his bid for the Princess
PARIS NEWS LETTER by Sam White
FROM a member of the Italian Royal Family, now in Paris, I learn that the Shah of Persia's courtship of ex-King Umberto's youngest Princess Maria daughter, the exceptionally beautiful 19-year-old Gabriella, has failed,
It is now
in Switzerland, and the Princess hercel.
QUOTES
σ
Playwright Marcel Achard: "When woman finds no оло bo- loves her she is opt to lose oven the desire to tell the truth.
Writer Blaiso Condrass: "I might go and live in Switzerland permanently, I have always dreamed of a country where the mountains arp higher than the taxes."
Painter Van Dongen: "Artists don't havo successes with pretty They have tha
any
girls any mora. beon replaced
hearts of those young ladies by
cameramen
from tho
fashion magazines.”
General de Gaulle to the new head of French His proposal was more amiably TV: "Your now post will received by the ex-Queen.
The family are favour- Pape and he has now finally from Umberto nlly Impressed by w advised against the marriage.
four months since appears to them to be a great lock of deletey.. un the part the Shah indirectly approached Umberto to ask him for his of the Shalı.
Furthermore,
His proposal are daughter's hand, there nimost inrupernbile religious was coldly received, obstacles to the searriage.
Undeterred, the Shah The matter has been under directly approached the
consideration by the Queen of Italy who lives apart
ROUND-UP
BIG ORDERS FOR CANNON BALLS
.
then ex-
To the Church the question impose a great deal of work is simply this: Would the Shah on you. But I hope you won't to prepared to guarantee that bo too busy to seo on occa- any tir to rich a marriage sional TV programme.' would be brought up as a Catholic. Even if such an under- taking were given, the Vatican would have to take into con- sideration the political rist auch
give up the chateau when he erased to be Ambassador.
After his dealt they even
to revert to the
a decision would involve for more confidently expected that hlm
Lady Dians would allow the The rejection of the Shah's property dis- institute. proposal has roused great appointment 10 Italian oil interests.
FOLLOWING the purchase by American airmen of old English APOLOGIES
Instead Lady Diana cenfinued to live there and ofta mode the chateau available to friends during jer frequent abseness from
France.
Two years ago the
behalf.
institute
Let's get
tough
with America
Cummings
WARNING
You are approaching
the CADILLAC CURTAIN
English Electric
tende
"And remember, General, don't shoot till you coo the whites of their tondoral"
TRADING with the
Americans is like
BY THE RT. HON.
HAROLD WILSON
Goclallet M.P. for Huyton, Lancs. President of the Board of Trade from 1947 to 1961,
scene
rannon balls as souvenirs at 5s, each from the Sea Scouts at them.
and row last patience sent Lady trying to play a game blazing Porchester, Hampshire, orders have been flooding in for
There was a
Gaule at Diana a curt three-line notice to: The Sen Scouts found the cannon balls in Perchester Creek, once about Genem de
of football with a team a naval practice dritat range. Order No. 2 was from Bermuda for
party given by the Duke and quit, tourlata. Duchess of Windsor recently. Powerful friends, including which insists on 300 enunun balls to place about St Katherine's Fort for
They are being
The protagonists were a Latin the present British Ambassador Now people all over Britain want to buy them.
Sald
Gladwyn Jebb, boarding up its goal- sold to raise funds for the Baden, Powell Memorist Fund.
Amurlcun millionaire, resident in Paris, Sir "The demand is
01 Lady Diana's mouth before the kick- Commander Anthony Colihan, the scoutmaster,
Rothschild. so brisk that we are going to be hard put to and enough in the in Paris, and the Baron Elle de intervenca mui to go round. Most people want the cannon balls as orna-
The Latin American made a As a result, Lady Diana was off.
Washington disparaging remark concerning asked to sign a new agreement.
is in 10 Umes the value of tho ments. Many will be put on top of pateposts,"
That is what many of us de Gaulle,
Recently a new complication RECRUITING CAMPAIGN
feated set to work with Arkansas contract. was introduced into this un-must have felt recently on
Well might Britain's Ambassa happy relationship.
and the US. Office of Civi- "security"
argument: in Defence and Mobilisa that to the Marines; the sailors tion announced that the won't belleve ." contract would go, not to
If this were an isolated case English Electric, but to matters might be allowed to the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton rest with the sharp verbal Corporation of Philadelphin.
protests of British Ministers. But it la not an isolated case It is one of many.
Baron Clio zone in his place instantly and addressing the Latin American said: "Sir, if we
were not guests of His Royal Highness would clap
face,"
London Expresa Bervien,
Many English Electric workers are constituents of mine. Washington should realise that these
have a propio security problem too; it is an economic one, involving the security of their jobs and the earnings they take home.
Pilloried
few Already in the past months Britain has lost valuable Russian orders because the
pillorled by
rending the news of the their backstairs influence, or in Washington say of the attitudes a result of an act of shabby Aa clemency by Gentral de Gaulle,
AMBITION of the Green towards now in the new Yorkshire all- Brigades to establish itself at full strength on an Regular basis by 1961 when National Service may end. Target for the next two years in an all-out recruiting campaign is 300 enlist- ments. Purt of the publicity wil be a musical programme, shared the Dachim Light Infantry and the Northumberland with Fusiliers, to be broadcast carh Thursday evening by the Tyne
the A tape recorder has been presented to Tees Television service. the Green Howards by the television company on whitch members of the regiment can record their requests. SALMON FUND
He thereupon departed. Now suitable apologics were presented to the Baron and the Duke and Duchess.
The Rothachilds
are par- ticularly sensitive regarding
treatment
meted
your when he became President of out by the U.S. Government the Republic, the veleranto the English Electric Algerian
leader, Company. Nationalist Messull Hadj, wuo ved fran exile on an island off
Let me be frank. This Brittany coast and allowed to kind of decision calls in live on the mainland.
tis question the whole issue of Ho chose Chantilly pa criticisms of General de Gaulle, place of residence and sults of the trading partnership be. This is because they have a deams in a hotel in the town tween our two countries, pecularly personal interest in was ented for him by the and accords ill with the the success of the do Gaulle French Government.
They put out a story that The Government da not unctuous protestations of experiment.
A top Rothschild executive has intend to go on paying for a friendship and "interde would not have deceived a boolean to General de hotel suite indefinitely and the pendence" which are issued ten-year-old. It was solemn BARRA, the original "Whisky Galore Island off the Hebrides, power last Jane, and has dune atmative residence, ding on with such tedious regularity ly stated that the decision
CALMON art fishermen at Sloke Gabriel. Devon, have decided to oppose the Torquay Water Bill which, they say, will affect salman fishing in the river Dart. Each fisherman is to give one ralton during the coming season to be sold to raise funds, to meet
begal costs.
SCOTTISH ISLAND
for sale. Owner is MaeNell of Burra, the G8-year-old elon chief who is 45th of the Bue. He lives in Vermont, U.S., but spendu fils summers rebuilding his ancestral home, Kistmal Castle. Price for 9,000 acres of rough shoot, and gruzing, with trout fishing thrown In, £10,000.
CLIVE'S ALBUM AUCTIONED
N album of exquisite Moghul miniatures presented to Clive of
AN
British and
Their story
one
Tell
Mikoyan,
MI
Orders of up to £150 million for plant and machinery for the chemical and plastics industries were lost to last year because they all depended, to a greater or lesser extent, on American patent rights and royally agree- ments, and the American Arms
An even more glaring caso is concerned, under State Depart-
ment pressure, refused to allow, presently in the news.
the order to be placed. Yet when some of our industrialista:
The Decca Company has pro-
electronic aystem for guiding air gested and dangerous channels,
new and highly effective fun westward to the American and pecan liners through con-
So unfair
had been taken in the inter- tioned as the Teneral's right- The first shot in what locks whenever hand man until recently.
lice a carefully orchicalrated American statesmen meet ests of "national security." He is 47-year-old Georges campaign to persuade Lady in aolemn conclave.
Well' might
ask, 10 Pompidou.
Diana to leave the chateau was
security qonsiderations were Penpidru, an elegant, almost fired last week by Paris's most
Involved, why were foreign dems It is not only vastly cheaper Proustlan charceler, la a dignified newspaper, La Figaro, Set to work
invited to fequer in the first than the rival American system: remarkable man.
place? When Britain and the British and American pilots are united In saying that it is safer, The facts aro beyond U.S. had just signed a much-
ex- and can mean a nuch more trumpeted agreement to The US Army change atomic octrets, dispute.
what efficient use of overcrowded alt possible security problems could space. arise in damming a river?
He was a prefessor of litera-
he joined the Rothschild banking
crganisation.
India by the Nawab of Duch has been sold at Sotheby's, Lou- ture and a reted wayist bef TEMPORARY don. for £1,900. The album was among a number of Moghul and other Indian works of art sent for sale by the Earl of Powis, who Is a collateral descendant of Clive. Clive was presented with the nibum after his final term of office. It contains 30 miniatures, painted in Lucknow about 1705.
Excellent for the aged and convalescent,
He will remain, however, close adviser of the general.
worried
It
In a front pare announce-Corps of Engineers is build He has now restined his post ment, Figaro wrote: as de Gaulle's principal assistant French
"Thing a dam and reservoir at Institute and returned to banking.
about Mescall Hadi's presence in Greer's Ferry in Arkansas.
Washington's answer was even A France. Us residence in a
Tenders were invited for more naive. The favoured com- Cantilly hotel is regarded as purely temporary and is two turbines, and the Eng. Fany apparently had in their service a number of "Jumbo" intended to place at his dispeanlish Electric Company sub- machine tools, and if they were the chateau of St Firmin mitted a bid of £517,000, not fully used they might not the edge of the forest A war of nerves has broken Chistilly.
nearly 20 per cent below the be there when wanted, in time out again between the French "A
a matter of fact, this lowest tender of any Ameri- of emergency. Institute (a d of French chatceu is at the moment being can rival, equivalent of the British rented by n distinguished Council) and their distinguished English lady.
MUST SHE QUIT?
of
The institute, There in free enterprise Bruant, Lady Diana Cccper, however, feunally centest her America, the home of com- Lady Diana is at the moment petition, the best man won,
Lady Diant rents from the Institute a chateau in Chantly I which was made available to her husband, the late Lord Norwich, as a week-end home when he was British Ambassador to Paris.
The institute confidently ex pected that Lord Norwich would
right to sub-let."
abstní from France,
Her secretary told me: "She has heard nothing cfficial yet, There is no question of us leaving the plac"
(London Käprenz Servicz),
and he was British.
Lives, as well as profits, are at stake, yet the U.S. Govern- ment is bringing every kind of unfair pressure force airilacs and shipping con. cerns to adopt American devicts.
is being forced on
market they And therisolves open to the kind of bats I have described,
Since the *Yor American statesmen have preached 'the virtues of free trade to a some- what suspicious Western world.
'The position of Geonomie power they gained as a result of the wor enabled them to dictate trading policies which, until the coming of Marshall Ald, brought economie disaster them. on the countries which adopted
Resistance
They tried to force the end of Imperial Preference-but, fortunately met strong resist« ance from both Sociallat and Tory Governments. Today they are rooling for the EnroŸTari Common Market and the Freq Trade Arca.
One Amerleon system hor been forced on Nato countries for defence purposes, in the This pathetle story of these hape of extending it to civil lurge machine tool sitting aviation and shipping. Another there, eating their hearts out, system, in which the U.S. miserable and unwanted, has Government has Invested
We are under strong pressuTÓ been shown up by this week's heavily, revelation that British orders, airlines with the threat that to allow more American goods frem nationalised industry and alreraft not equipped with It Into Britain. Many M.P.
alike, have will be refused permission to both parties feel we Navo Then the rats got at it.
provided
already geno tco for and too The high-pressure business company with £8,000,000 worth
fast in removing dollar import lobbies with which the of orders in the past four years,
controls. From 1054 to 3087 Imports from the, dollar orca increased by 12 per cent, while those from Sterling Area Com- that
monwealth countrica remained being put on airlines which will stationary, Lost autumn's easing of American machinery Imports be meeting at Montreal next has been followed by the English.
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CHEZ ALF'S
private enterprise
tho Baldwin-Lima land at New York airport.
“WOT'S UP, YER GRACE? . STATEL Y ‘OME SHORT OF TEASPOONS?”
Landon Kaptaja maraton."
More to it
Ugly rumours are circulating
improper
pressurea A
month to decide on an inter- Electric scandal. national system.
tho
When Mr Mikeyan visited
Department
મ
sald that trade between East
and West was being strangied
Not enough
I welcome the strong protests by the Americans cold war of her Majesty's Ministers. mentally.
But words are not enough. This is certainly true, but it The interests of this country is not the whole story. There demand a strengthening of our la too a section of American trade with the Commonwealth officialdon, under strong and the reversal of our growing business pressure, carrying on dependente од the United an economnie cold war against States. Britain and America'a other allica,
any
But this f not oll. If friend- ship, and partnership, and This cold war threatens boin "interdependence" mean the nation's economio strength thing they mean the right to and the Jobs of British speak frankly when the under- workers. Tho world cannot lying purposes of our partner- fo on buying from America I ship are endangered. our goods cannot be shipped there.
Our American friends havo Boyer beta backward to.«Desk- out when they claimed ta And cause for complaint about our actions.
Do not let us he lulled by the #uccess of aur motor-car exporters; once Detroit tools up for a small Europein-type car, the going will be much harder. We should be equally frank The world's dollar problem can- now, and make it clear to than not be solved union, Aimerica seross the Atlantic who preach pracitoes what she preaches and the virtuts freer trade int dismentles some of her legst action of the type that has# defensible trade barriers,
100 become all
common in Washington's trading depart- ---This, too,--needs to be said: Ametis can~~~~only~~
tor
a Ume when jobs are harder to diminished two-way trade, pad gel and to hold, American to an exchange of ; muwal action such an 'that directóð récriminations which,
In the against English Electric and long run, can bring prófi przy Decca in going to arouse wide-" to the Kremlin, spread resentment,
--¿London". Exprajo, Biro'en),