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"The ball? Oh, dear, I forgot all about it."
Julian
"I had no ides there was so much dirt in a garden!”
New York.
KEPT my appoint- ment with Mrs Evangelina Callas last week, even though her hotel was on fire at the time, the foyer a damp snakepit of white canvas hosepiping, and she her- self in the middle of a group of five firemen, two policemen and a hall porter, all shouting their heads off.
THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1960.
What must the West
do now?
THE situation of the
West is much worse than is generally ac- knowledged.
The Soviet bloc is going to push its advantage very strongly in the next few weeks in Asia and Africa, In some cases it might be sold that the West is fighting with its back to the wall. That is the case in Al- geria, for Instance.
Now a reappraisal is the first necessity. What is the problem? A possible economle breakdown? No! No Marshall Plan is needed. Is it the danger of a military on- slaught from the East? I do not think so, for the stakes are too high, the risk of an all-out war too great.
Let us act in
harmony
by JACQUES SOUSTELLE of the French Mainspring
revolution in Algeria
may find themselves isolated in a completely hostile world, by the fact that Asia, Africa, and Latin America could be more or less to the pro-Soviet committed
bloc.
The greater part of Asia is already lost to Soviet imperial- ism. Japan is on the brink. In Africa some of the new countries
The problem is the danger that are already under Soviet bloc
the Western world and the US. influence.
NEW YORK NEWSLETTER
From standpoints widely diversified, the China Mail this week is presenting estimates by people of influence on the Kvaliest question WHAT MUST THE WEST now that the developments of recent weeks have given new urgency
the free world's foreign policy.
BOUSTELLE
Others may fall into the same situation very soon."
Latin America, in order to coun- teract the advance of neutralis and, finally, of Communism.
I we go on as we are now, we will
certainly find ourselves
swept into Isolation.
dicussed
IL should all be among Governments. For just now there is no united policy: there are only conflicting policies, The US. seems to be dominated by the fear of not appearing. to lavour nationalism without see- ing that the wave of nationalism, is being used by the Soviet for its own purposes, - --
The situation, I repeat, is much worse than is generally thought. The Russians just now are winning a political war, and they win it without flring a shot.
Let us
In Latin America it should not move with
be overlooked that the Castro re- gime means there is a Soviet bridgehead 90. miles from the Florida coast.
The deterioration in the situa- tion is pot economic or military but political and psychological. It is due primarily to the fact that the European and American Governments do not understand the process of decolonisation and independence countries.
the times
by CEORGE BROWN
making resistance. legs credible and the consequences more terri-
• tying.
LET US
FACE FACES
by NELSON ROCKEFELLER
Governor of New Yoric WE MUST assess realis- -tically the facts befors us and define realistic purpose and actions to meet them. That is the lemon for all American polley of the Tokyo Incident. A lesson already made clear, on the other side of the globe, with pacts will only increase our self- the failure of the Summit deception.
conference.
ROCKEFELLER
In fact. Nato must be regarded
not just as a military bulwark LET EUROPE but as a platform from which
to move to political settlements UNITE
or at least from which to put forward convincing policies that point that way.
For example: a zone of con- Labour spokesman trol and limitation of arms in
by CEORGE KENNAN Former American Ambassador in Moscow
tand out. Europe leading to some form af EUROPEANS must
TWO things stand out. disengagement there, practical
proposals for the economic and
get out of the habit
First get a positive social development of the Middle of standing outside of
a
of the African political policy on which
we can act together in consistent way at all the various international forums.
aut
They are victims of slogans and some of them also believe they can fight Soviet imperialism in Africa by offering money technical help, at the same time yielding to the pressure of such movements as pan-African and pan-Islamic movements which are nothing more than Com-
We live in a changing world munist International fronts.
A great effort in statesman- and cannot ourselves be static. ship, in cool and clear thinking. Nor will the vast "uncommitted a united policy areas" be won without dynamic is needed with. of the Western nations towards and progressive leadership. Yet all our military the Middle East, Africa, and without them
or To do this we must get
so long as
we of our heads the "dug out" mentality that have security pacts and alliances the status quo will be maintain- ed and all will be well.
Mrs Callas talks of her bitter
with Maria
rift
Mrs Callas claims that she lart received money from her daughter in 1947, a cheque for
In a way it was no upshot of a legal action her Since her marriage we have not more spectacular a scene lawyers are bringing against a been on speaking terms, and I that I had expected from Greek newspaper, which she have never even met her hus
claims has pirated whole chap- band." this segment of the ters of it. Callas family, which is now on the point of an- other bitter inter-family dispute.
Ugly duckling'
"I have been poor, yes very poor," she told me. "But I am
100 proud to ask for money now.
£400.
Maria promised me when fame first came to her that she toould Two records
inake me a queen. She wrote that to ne in a letter. You think I am a queen now? Where are the golden spoons, then?
Very soon Mrs Callas brings "All the money I have asked out in New York (and later in her for is 35 a month, That I London), a book about her thought reasonable-It is only gaughter, Maria, the inter- what a rich person would give national opera star. It contains to her mald,
frank explanation of why mother and daughter have not
been on speaking terms for more Turned to ice'
"She was my creation. Her father was against her going to music. school. He was not at all: musical. But. I insisted.”
What is the future for Mrs Callas? She believes her daugh- direct action ter will take no against her for the revelations contained in the book, strice the rift les too deep even for anger to bridge the silence.
by Jeremy Campbell
pect the action to last for some, little time.
You emerge slightly breath- less from Miss Russell's com pany, Following her in a 10- minutes talk is as hectic as beagling. She hikes out acros all sorts of conversational landscapes, drops
epigrams, makes sides and occasionally
interrupts herself (rudely),
Lunatics
These are her. views:
ON HOLLYWOOD: "Some times I think the place is crawling with lunatics and cheats but then It doesn't owe me a thing."
East, to remove the great tinder smouldering there; a great deve- lopment plan for Africa and India; the admission of China to
box of poverty and misery
the United Nations.
And side by side with that the West should then resume its
strategy and
Arms policy for the interim until wider military agreements become possible.
themselves and saying: We are finished.
There is an excess of nervous-
ness and worry to be found in Western Europe.
Europe, especially Western Europe, while it professes to.be afraid of. its external enemies is actually afraid of itselt
The only solution for Western Nato is not becoming stronger. Europe's political problems 25- It is, in fact, weakening, And pears to be a confederation of the soldiers in despair are tum nations, but I do not favour try- ing more and more to nuclear ing to get Britain into such an Such attempts in weapons and long-range missiles organisation.
to "restore the balance. Instead the past have, only made con- of which they increase the dan- federation more disulf ger and reduce, our defence by.
I'm glad
Katie didn't!
ᏚᏅ
Katie Moss stayed at her place in the sun while her husband lay 4,000 miles away seriously in- jured and his hopes of becoming world motor racing champion shattered for the fifth year rum- ning.
:
Katie Moar did not succumb merely reopen an ald." and to the temptation of stroking painful wound." the fevered brow of the tallen hero-a temptation which would have sent most women flapping like a flock of Nightingales half- way round the world.
And that is one reason why I uphold her dificult choice. For a hospital, where the emotion is as thick as the antiseptic in the air, is hardly the place, and Katie Moss did not calch the when your husband is wounded dest plane to Europe with at is hardly the time for mending bunch of grapes and a mouthful marriages. of soft words. Katle Moss did
When Miss Temple met him in Hollywood, she recalled, Mr ON HERSELF; "I've got a K had grasped her hands and face that says I know a lot, but pressed, them to his stomach as underneath I'm as innocent as the unexpected and I think she
was right, a sign of spontaneous Russlan a cild." friendliness."
film of
Apart from litigation, she is
here to begin a Peter Shaeffer's play Five Finger Exercise, which will re-
"Was he wearing a bullet- also proof vest? asked Mr Nixon.
1
Dignity
"It felt like one," replied Miss quire her to use an English - Moss come into that Temple, thoughtfully. "But ft cent. could have been a girdle."
Her room is barely furnished, "I shall not marry again," she with a tiny cooking-stove set said. "Where should I find a into the wall. By the window is suitable husband? I do not want QUOTE FROM SOL HUROK, a painting of Maria Callas in to marry a man with no money,
burned
Marla was born in New York
For Mr and Mrs
contemporary category halt-marrieds.
But there's another reason why I think Katle should stand. by her decision. It is there in her own words;
strangest times.
at
But we can deliberateis, cã÷ove, the man that we marry. And what's more, wer SHOULD.
"I love Stirling and I think he loves me, but that's not Stirling enough foundation for mani. curious age. We have already found that
- the out." This she acquired with such
Now none of us sit down and expertise at an all-Engilsh
They still bear the same name. choose the men we fall in love that one actress asked her: "Do repertory company in Boston
They occasionally live in the with-it is usually something we same house,
can't control, it is usually some one on a completely different the role of Medea, the beautiful I am poor already why should I the impresario, who import you come from the colonies,
But they have announced their wavelength, it is usually in the sorceress who sent to her rival want to make myself poor twice. ad the Scots Guards, the darling?"
oddest places andă. the gift of an the
enchanted over?
Royal Marines, the RAF "You're damned right," Miss separation to the world. wedding-gown, which
replying.
True they managed the her, to death,
"I still love my daughter, and Regiment, and the Blues for Russell remember
dimeult husiness of parting I pray that I will see her again, the British Military Tattoo! "I'm from the colony you lost."
just want to meet her, to at Madison Square Garden: ---- a. few months after her parents embrace her. I will not mention The War Office is a very Arst came here from Greece. the past or money."
PRESENTS I wouldn't have as with mora dignity and leas Now, for the second time in her
nice reasonable firm to do a gift: A New York television
become an American citizen. life, Mrs Callas is about to
network is offering ga q; prize, in drama than the majority ot business with.”
one of its competitions a year's She will not attend her
supply of gin rumpy scoring-people in their Hmelight. daughter's performances at the herself from blame in the public Metropolitan Opera House--"It Shirley Temple was photo-
-London Expræes Service). would make me very upset, and graphed here the I have no money" but has having a tremendous joke with "Once, when she was a young bought two of her records. was the ugly duckling, fat and girl, we got on well. She was clumsy When my voice was
"I discovered ber discovered everyone loved me. affectionate and warm-hearted. But my mother only wanted me But now she has turned to ice, when she was a chlid,” she said, ject of Mr Khrushchev, for the money I could, make for her."
than eight years, and reports say that Maria Callas is "furipus." Miss Callas has given her reasons for this long and angry- silence.
"My sister was slim and beautiful," she said. "And my mother always preferred her, I
The fire in Mrs Callas's hotel
was a small one and we soon went up to her fourth-floor room in a smoky lift
The
*
"It was fame I wanted for my I never, thought to make myself daughter, money came second
a rich, wornan, by exploiting her. She says this only to excuse
'eye.
MR. K's VEST
other week
GOING TO LAW
“Flops are part of life's. Vice-President Nixon: Sho menu," sald Rosalind Russell. revealed later that all the. "And I've never been a gir) to voice laughter had been on the sub- miss out on any of the courses."
SPACEMEN FACE A NEW HAZARD
dispute between, the THE pink elephants which
various members of the family
TH
a ́man: sena when, he's
is deep-seated, explosive and had a few too many may
violently partisan,
be nothing to the illusiong
PINK ELEPHANTS
*
Mrs Callos is separated from which may appear to space Agency, carried out the experi- voices. I felt there was someone her husband, a New York
cabins in the cabin with me." ments in capsules and pharmacist, and lives alone, in travellers. Tests by three designed to duplicate conditions her 27-a-week hotel room not U.S. scientists, indicate that inside a space vehicle.
In an experiment conducted
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Miss Russell's husky, abrasive voice somewhere between a puzz and a. croak (a New York critic compared it to a raven with a throat condition), informed me that she is risking another flop she is suing the United States Government..
"My father told me, the facts of life," she said 'He always used to say: 'When you're a big girl never be afraid to use the
courts. So I'm using them."
cards.
TALKING
POINTS
bright world.
I
Years...
For marriage is something that, however rosy the glow, must be calculated. Its problema True there were no, hysteri- cannot be shrugged off in the |cal, outbursta, no wounding divorce courts as merely the
accusations — simply.
ayer-Impulsive straight results of an forward, unmalicious (If some- gesture. what unmeaning) statements.
Wound
I
It took Katic Mosa nearly three years, to understand, that love and marriage were not necessarily synonymous,
It took nearly, three years for admission: her soft volbea! "The marriage was a mistake in
the Srl place? We
FROM: HIM: "Katle and Man's chief merit consists are still the best of friends, and in resisting the impulses of that is the way we we going
to stay" his nature.
FROM HER: "We are still And it took nearly three years friends, despite our differences." for her to learn one of the Nevertheless, they made their hardest lessons of all that the decision in a moment of calm man you love can be linpesi bila
JOHNSON.
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* Mini Famell, claims that she Acquaintance. A person; and, I think, now. more than to live with ought not to pay taxes on her we know well enough to ever they are right to stick to Every, weman knows frese by Dr Phillip Solomon, of Her expenses while she is in New borrow from but not well ** far from the Puerto-Ricin dis- the astronaut may be after spending 30 hours in one vard University, which was York, circa her home is legally enough to lend to
As Katle sale from the things. tiet, the seedy sour-faced criss troubled, by visions of Red of these rapsules a potential scheduled to last for 38 hours in Hollywood Tas tax office.
£12,000 house which Stirling AMBROSE BIERCE designed to overlook the Atlan cross of streets which are
Indians and animalk: panring, spaceman reported:
the breaking point came within with great courtesy, Inmists that startlingly faithal to the sole of
she should.
tie I had down to him and the gang-war musical, West Side af him from the inserimento The meters seemed: al tenes 180), minutes.
there had been 4 reconciliation, You know who critical what theat When Sterling was 2 panel, or, ka, may, saa koles: tó be something else. Some The volunteer, possessor of *** She has left her job as 20 yawning in a steel; Beer. times it would be an Indian face two university degrees, begged | This is nice news for other]
und the next it would look like "Please help me!" and, lay, un actors in a similar predicament, are? The men who have Lleytenant Col George 1 of 3 piglet move, even ate he was since the case wil sa prece failed in literature and art.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI. achatices and royalties from her Steinkamp and George
Aberdex airman said: "There released: wine. when I heard singing
Story.
assistant in a small city Jewell
Lery store. She reles now DE
some book, and og de flauty, of the Federal Aviation
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well again, we would be back just where, we were when we dedded tartart: I WORRIE IT to be, wifl'] Hing, but thigh" would
Jill Butter!