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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1959. ·
DON IDDON'S DIARY reports with a triple dateline:
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Pan Avation ileil desạn, ho Semper into Now THE, V.R....
wah Ummel kabiliy
THIS IS
THE
WOMAN
who has olung through the years
to
somo
of the
best-kept acorets of politics and
palaces,
AS Prime Minister's daughter and hostess of "Number 10" slie naw from the inside the Fenndalous touting for titles. and favours.
A
SHE watched and heard the reaction inside Buckingham Palace to the first Socialist Government.
SHE proposed marriage to King Edward VIII but not because she loved him.
SHE quielly came to the brink of suicide for love, and now has the speak of it.
courage
to
NOW, too, she has the courage
to write what it meant to her that her father የጊዜ BA illegitimate son.
T
PALM BEACH
Wednesday. THE new jet service to and from Florida makes the triple dateline possible. New York's airports are now only two and a half hours from Miami and Palm Beach.
Some of
rich commute the every weekend between Mon- hattan rnd Minmi, and I met a stockbroer, Tervece Sans- Jield, Worth Avenue, Palm Beach, yesterday, who tuld me he thmetimes flies buck and furth between his villa and his Wall Street offee Twice week.
"I can get from New York: here in about 10 tay tre the sante time that it took
to drive from Connecti cut to downtown New York,
-04:
a
It's worth it SAID: "Expansive, isn't 17" and he gestured toward the riches of Worth Avenue and said, "This is just about juros) exponsive place in
world, but it's worth it."
the
the
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Worth Avenue is known the Mink Mite. It is Bond Street ples under the palms and near The blue ocUIN,
MIAMI
***NEW YORK
MINK MILE
It out-glitters the world's plushest playgrounds
desple the weather. Society is.. back and bloceming. Every lane the New York Block market Roes up, and that's all the time, get another crop of we millionaires."
I did not linger longer on Mink Mile, but I assure you it has no resemblance to GUM, the Mooca Empoelum.
Nothing in Palm Beach or Miami has any resemblance to the Soviet Union except that voller is the favourite ipple.
This is the away-from-it-all escapist land which the Rur slans might consider, decadent and effete and certainly is o bit too rich for my taste.
Gold coast
MIAMI,
Europe and most of the rest of the U.S.
The now mlil'contres
and,
et course, the Chambers of Comina.co are optimistic that the best we go o for ever end gel biszer.
There's a man called Latimer Maxcy. Д local "Ficride Cracker" who hos mede $30,000,000 in the past, ten yeans on property deals orange groves and expects to reske prother $50,000,000 in the next ten.
and
Bui 1 also saw in the tax estessment offices a long list of The owner of the Sahara,, bankrupts. The chief tax asses- Colonel Ben Gaines, in soft car, John Gautier, say: You spoken, British in manner and could hear the sound of leases Listo, He told me "I've just going bruitę all over town and I bought a Silver Cloud Holls Just had to trim the taxes of and I am thinking of getting a more than 80 owner-operated Silver Wraith, American cara motels. It's no secret that 'lota can be on the vulgar elde. Iar hotels are in serious non-
gually alay at Claridge's und always travel in the Queens."
cial trouble. Of course, there was the awful winter."
The awful winter was itot season when it raved and pained and rained: This season and f has beca much better have had good weather.
Appeasement
Outside, the capital of Call- la sparkled under the worm un, and the limousines and convertibles ( counted three Rolls-Royces, tw: Beatloys, 10
He looked up and now 14/0 Cadillors and live Lincein-Con-
customers enter the coffee shop of five tentals in the sper
in beach dress. He signalled a minutes) rolled by.
and had major er eutenant friend Jones Barteld. My
then removed, who knows the town, sali "
where I stayed
He was becoming 30 grand that the
gentle and gentle- longer, 13 vulgar and manly. Later heard he had peasants only dare overge at
by Paim
Beach Anglicised his name (and why right to window shop on Weeth rauccus
standards. Avinue."
but
like the not?) and had turned down DACK in New York 1 And America's famous gold coast, adnire Film
11 $2,500,000 for his motel Beuch
#catment Bitle differ- only B of dazzling beach last week. He has a bigger, ent. The
generale continue Monte Carlo, but multiplied 20 miles
place at to te belligerent. Lard several times, better manicured, hotels and motels, and pray more expensive
that Miami's International Airport Montgomery's announced stricter-Negions are supposed along with everyone else
and has a personal fortune" of Journey to Moscow has engered to be off the street by six p.m. there won't be a bust.
ancubish and ulterly Miami Beach is a carnival,
cround $10,090,000. nure
several of them, and the charge uridi However, a friend of mine of upprascitest is being flung. contemptuous of its neighbour the home, of the huckster
I had not been frun Bosko, Bili Herlihy, said, scross the causeway, West Pain the gentle.
where canventions are there two hours when my host "Don't let it fool you. For Beach,
Overy milikaalre There are held, crdinary folk do business at the Sahara Mccel told me and the Shriners held their thal Land un Collas Avenue, 10,000 suckers who go broke, which runs alongside the beach, Jollyos.
and as for the tourisis, Although Worth Avenue is n is today being sold at $7.500 most of them aave up for a year to splurge der o dew days here.” shopping paradise, a foot and will probably go to woman's there are rows of men's shops $9,000 if the castles continue The bullding never halls, and
this Bur to be built and the millions for
eighs now elegant as London's
35 full-sized new ngion Arcade and charging pour in from the North, the hotels and
and West, and the Middle West to higher prices for clothes
put together in shirts, which siruck me as spend up to $100 a day on sun inceyths. This 20 miles of sand the castles includes more new and and somewhat shine, senfood, drinks, and was being extreme
lavish hotels than the whole of feminate.
it is only three shert blocks, its heart the ultra-exclusive Everglades Club at the corner of Worth Avenue and Coconut Itow.
I have seen some of the more pulent and plush epots of the world, but Palm Reach typified by Worth Avenue out-glitern them all.
Le two years since 1 was in Palm Beach, and after a vedka mad orange juice at the Ever- gides and calls at the Alibi and two Tako Wirth Avenue's gilded mesh bars, i paused at
motels were Palm Beach De fices of the Post.
The werd there
best *The
scasen
ever
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TODAY THE CHINA MAIL PRESENTS
cabaret shows.
A CONTROVERSY AND THE REACTION IT HAS AROUSED
Give Parents Right To Kill
Professor Pleads For Ruined Lives
CIR
RONALD FISHER, 69-year-old Gonville and Calus President of College, Cambridge, said in Adelaide that the deliberate putting to death of serious- ly deformed or mentally deficient children might be justifled, if parents consented..
these children without having any right to solve their problems.
"They should be able to approach a magistrate with medical bucking and terminate a useless life."
He knew young married couples whose lives were ruined caring for children who had no chance of becoming normal. "Child euthanasia," he added, "would obviously relleve a serious medical
Sir Ronald, former Professor of Genetics and father of two sons and six daughters said: "At present parents have all the responsibility of caring for 1 problem."
"I meet sad
*
cases, says his doctor daughter
ONE of Sir Ronald's
daughters, 25-year-
old Rose, is a doctor in a hospital ut Barking, Es-
ADX.
She said of the reports of AS MISTRESS of Downing her father's speech
changed Street
the sho
"It is the. rst time I have Fortnum's heard my father speak out his grocery order from
views on this subjeci so de to the Co-op. She knew what
But I have always it was to save on the coal | Onitely.
that he tended 10 bill. thringls these presided known
think, along these lines. feudings and intrigues, the scandals and Anally the political disasters that crumbled careers and reputations. THROUGH HER
MANY STORY PASS THE FAMOUS MEN OUR TIME.
HER
RAMD
☆
OF OF
te Ishbol MacDonald. Her father was Ramsay MacDonald. Her story one of the astonish- ing stories of the century— begins...
NEXT SUNDAY IN THE
Sunday Post-Herald
He telleves that the human race should be composed of the best people possible. And it mentally deficient, or seriously deformed children live to have familles, there will be datsterous lowering in the ston- dards of human life.
Sermons
C
A
SIR RONALD
Six' daughters, two BOTE,
'But always
a chance,'
says his son MR
ÆR HARRY FISHER is Sir Ronald's surviving som The other son, a fighter
"It 35 all fallowing on pilot, was killed in the war, Darwin's theory of natural selec- Mr Harry Fisher, a research tion in the unlinul world. But scientist living at Harpenden, my father is a Christian, and Herts, disagrees with his father's often preaches sermons at his views, Ho sald:...... college. His views are com- "I think that nowadays, how-- patible,
ever sound the scientific and "But at present I am deliver- medical evidence on a ing hundreds of babies in this doformed or deficient child, hospital,
and there is always the chance that examples of what can go wrong, in the progress of medicine and I wish that, these babies something might be done for had never been born, But I him in the future, fight to keep them alive. That "It would be a very grave is my job,'
decision to have to take,”
zomo
"You cannot
A
telly-says one of his students
why.
My friend Donald Campbell, the speed man, here with his lovely bride Tonla Bern, thought the atmosphere rather tense. However, hệ hårself was so lente ts we sat in the S
Tenia Regla Maisonette where is starrlig. walling for her to,
whether go en, that I doubt Brald is a good judge.
It
One thing is certain-Flerida isn't worrying about war. has gup ile head as well as its hotels in the sand.
ZZ
"It's going fine, Haroid, it's good practice for arguing
with the Russians when the time comes.
DALAI LAMA ASYLUM
SEEKS
"See, this proves he's mad-rushing oway like that from us, his best friends"
EDDIE AND
412
DEBBIE ACREES
"My client wants a divorce, Sir William, and she would like your advice about getting a quickie.”
KASSEM DRIVES
HARD
BARGAIN FOR IRAQ OIL
S
UDDENLY
Iraq's Premier and dic- tator Kassem has been faced by a terrible dilemma.
Should he kill the goose that lays Iraq's golden eggs?
All along he has worked to delay this possibility.
by JON KIMCHE
this year independence?
Jerusalem, Wednesday
the the have
the
and his economic
Bebind the tightest recurity screen operating Middle East Today pressures against Kassem
since Throughout the days of the been building up revolution and the ant middle of March. Western aftermath the Iroq For the Mosul uprising WIE Petroleum Company has been not the only attempt to rouse treated more sacred than any the country against Kassem. other objective,
There have been several minor Kossem was not going to uprisings site and A quite jeopardise the £7,000,000 which musty one at Ramadi, which the company pod imenusty was led by Rashid-Huwälsh,*** month.
ncar relative of Brigadier Aref, For this, he asserted, was the
But more serious has been essence
Iraq's centinted
the growing direct Communist independence against the
pressure inside and outside the -Nasserista_mand-agains, the Gabinal, against which, Kasgem
ot
Communists.
UNHAMPERED AFTER the British and Ameri-
has been trying to hold his Independent position and which has now seven avowed or hear Communists in key positions.
There has been increasing can Embassies had been evidence that the Kurds near isolated from all contact with the oilfields are being prepared all for pro-Communist action-and T the Geneticn Depart the Iraqis, after almost
coming the latest transports ment in Cambridge, Western business had come to a
from Russin standstill, the oil company's
through the Sucz where Sir Ronald's name is business continued unhampered, Canal have emphasised this.. mentioned almost reverent and untouched, even when the ly, one of his post-graduate oilfields were in the very centre studenta, 26-year-old of the Mosul uprising.
What then has happened from
during these last days to make Was Kasson consider throwing a sop doing experiments with that may cost him £80,000,000 mice, to help with his study of heredity.
Stephen Sydney,
Mandel, Australia,
He sold: "Sir Ronald is a wonderful man who knows his subject beiter than anyone in the world. But I do not agree with what he says about mental- ly defcient children.
"I agree that it might be better for a hopelessly deformed But it 14 child to die at birth. surely almost impossible to tell at birth whether or not a child is mentally declent,
"Most bables seem the same mentally at birth, and it is tot until a few years later, that mental deficiency makes itself apparent."
Last year, Sir Rongid, known R.Britain's most distinguished statisticlan, suggested that the link between smoking and ling cancer was nothing more than a fluke or heredity?.
MONCKTON
At the same time the pro- Nasser propagandu has been Buliding up the Arub olt confer- ence which is to open in Cairo tomarrow, and which Iraq has refused to attend.
Kussem has been accused by Calro of being in collusion with the Western oil imperialists,
It is a very sensitive spot for him in view of the rabid anti- Westernism that be has
encouraged among the well- organised street mobs
In fact, Kassem "is now engaged in the most difcult MANDCHYTO ho has yet sitempled.
AGITATORS HEghting pressure from Cairo and Communist pres- sura from within at the time,
KASSEM
For, the Communists, it would start something which might casily spread 'io' Kuwolt ond even to Persia. ¿
Already, all the indications. polat to the concentration of mario Communist agitators and moba la Kirkuk, the centre of the Both want to force him to Irod Petroleum Company's take action against the oil com- principal oilfields and adminis- pany to pronounce the ration.
Iraq
*be asking
for more than tho Communists or the Nasserists.
Bul in fact he wants a demon- strative concession from the oil company
Judging
just out
from
the reports of Bagdad Kassem wants to show that he is much tougher action taking nguinst the oil company than the Saudi Arabians (who are saking for much higher royalty pay- ments at tomorrow's meeting) or any
other oil-producing State,
4
DEMAND
HF also wants to show that he
La forcing the imperialists to Furrender their hold an Iraqi ———————— territory.
above all die wants to free himself from the possible stranglehold by Nasser on his all communication,,He is therefore demanding that the *Iraq Patroleum Company giną. up a large part of its con cession which is known lo'cover. large o-bearing arens and he may ask for a rush construction of a pipeline from the north to --the-Iënqi port-of Basra in the Persian Gult so that Iraqi oll сап be
without exported dependence on Nasser's good will.
This is now Kassem's great Kamble. It Loyd Monckton (In Bagdad for talks) playa the aktion along; Kassem's Ine he may saVE This oit millions and the Iraq: Petroleum: Chen- pany may save the essence of its of Interest in Iraq.
But Kassem is playing it very fine. If he falls to hold the mob he will have to choose bo- tween being branded 'as; * oll 'Imperialist or giving up all hope of economic Independence,
Western
Казел le without a doubt the shrewdest' and most caleu- lating politician in the Middle East today. He is also ruthless and without scruples,
STAKE
ONCETON in all his varied negotiations how 'nover met anything like Kassem before.
He will have to weigh factors and possibilities in his negotia- nationalisation of the
tions which go far beyond the Petroleum Company, though The Communists seem to be frame of routine, oil business. both Nasser and the Com seeking a showdown there with. And the stake is immenso. munists want it for quite difter- Kassem, much as they sought It is nothing loss whether one with Nasser's agents in the vast Middle East all business For Natser the nationall- Mosul Класт *is** reacting "will survive-over a matter of the oil company cautiousty and shrewdly. ... weeks for nati, fran would mean the economie ruấn • Ha seems to be making: tha, “There has never been qulia # of the Kassim regime,
running himself. He appears to commercial stake like itë
spt reasons,
mation
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