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THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1980.
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Paris
Studebaker, Newsletter
Edison
I HAVE JUST SEEN THEIR LITTLE-KNOWN CRUSADE IN
ACTION
Munich.
are
Paris.
MELE SIMONE
ness.
SIGNORET has given me a touching feminine explanation for perpetrating, an act of great political rash-
In
with forty other intellectuals, and actors headed by Jean Paul Sartre, she has signed an appeal to French troops serving in Algeria to desert.
common
by Sam -White
My husband and
Marilyn: Simone Signoret talks
Gaulle's copy is In front of me closest and most distinguished telephone. collaborators,
Such an appeal which would, which has intrigued me for one of General de of course, earn the signatories the
past two or three heavy prison sentences in any other country has so far gone unpunished here.
So fed up
us I
A
**But we passad the Mnishing pral a long way broki "
HAS PICASSO
BLUFFED THE
EXPERTS?
SPARE young man in a brown suit stood before a picture at the Picasso exhibition at the Tate Galley recently.
Many visitors paused before the same work. It is called Paul as Harlequin. But no one noticed the young man in brown.
The
is portrait
of Picasso's son, painted when the boy was three years old. The young man in brown is the same boy grown to man. hood. He is now 39..
-by- TUDOR JENKINS
He speaks some Hagbah,' but Paul is the only one of Picasso's without sufficient grip to under- children born in wedlock. His stand the opinions of visitors to
Olga Koklova, a his father's exhibition,
mother was
ל!
At the last moment, however, young dancer in the Dinghilev
ballet whom Picasso mel Plon has taken fright with a PLON thought that if it publishes this 1917.
NE important part of the American radio war ONE
with Communism was not mentioned by the runaway mathematicians Mitchell and Martin in their Moscow Press conference-the private enter-
months. prise campaign run by American business men
During that time I have seen DILEMMA DE
secret with household names like Heinz and Studebaker.
Col. Rayon, the former service agent who was the cen- Their two stations for broadcasting pro-
tral figure in last year's great paganda against Russia and her satellites
Walter scandal, keep a rendez- Mile. Signoret explained her vous every Saturday morning in here in Munich Radio Liberation and Radioaction by saying that she was 50 Paris bar with a tall distin- Free Europe.
fed up with being questioned on guished man whose face was the subject of her husband Yves faintly familiar bul whose Montand's alleged romance with identity I could not establists. Marilyn Monroe that: "I longed to do something serious."
Rayon, it will be recalled, "So," she added, "when they claimed that he had been hired asked me to sign I was so re- by the multi-milionaire Walter Heved to turn my attention to family to kill on adopted something outside myself that I who stood to inherit a great volume of memoirs by a The papers were shares in signed fämmediately,"
part of the fortune,
The
Radio Liberation has its headquarters in a gaunt concrete building with burred windows, standing on the edge of the Oberwiesenfeld Airfield where Chamberlain landed to meet Hitler in 1938. I broadcasts in Russian and in 16 other languages, such as Ukrainian and Georgian, which are spoken in the Soviet Union.
Radio Free Europe's studios
neur Munich's "English Garden"
put pul hours programmes by
a day in Polish, Hungarian, and Czech, and six hours a day in Rumanian and Bulgarian.
Its broadensts are relayed by land-le to a powerful short- Wave transmitter In Lisbon which beams them into Enstern Europe,
Some of the money behind Radio Liberation comes from a committee whose members in-
Michael
Connock
clude Mr H. J. Heinz II, Mr compilers is a foriner Soviet Studebaker LII, Mr Charles naval Inteligence officer, who Edison, sum of the great inven- Jumped his ship in the West, tor, Mr Alan Grover (a director of Tine mi qozine), and a fair number of other lyrnons.
There are also anonymous donors who want to fight Com- munism but don't want to pre- judice their chances of doing business with Russia,
The bill
Radio Free Europe too has backing from unonymous bus ness men, and from
"Freedom
Crusado" flog-day in the United States.
The programumes are a mix- ture of news, comment, music, and feature material. Radio Free Europe has 10 minutes of news on
hour on each of its programmes, About 10 per cent of its material is editorial.com- ment selected from Conserva- tive and Liberal newspapers in the West.
She commented: "Perhaps it was a little pretentious of me. Even as I signed I said to my self. Here we go again, falling into my old bad habits,""
tinguished Poris publishing hard labour for life after
Labonne was sentenced 15
the
Ballet walk
book It may lose de Gaulle.
The book is written by Roger Labonae, a former colonel in a CONSIDERABLE dilem- French init raised by the Nazis
to fight on the Eastern front, mo facas the dis-
The young Picasso has in- house of Plon.
war but was released in 1952. herited qualities from both his was confiscated parents. He, walks like a ballet Plon are the publishers of All his wealth
dancer. His hair has a reddish except for some pieces of paper tint, se his father's had before then considered valueless. General de Gaulie's and he is both its most famous
He has been able to live in he became baid, author and its biggest money comfort ever since as a result of
this aversight. son Now Plon plan to publish
roplied
Waller family that Rayon had been trying to backmail them.
39
Her old bad habits to which The case though still officially she was referring are her im- under investigation, looks pulsive generosity which has though it will never be brought often brought her and her hus- to court. band to the fringe of the French Communist Party.
the
spinner.
memoirs
notorious French wurtime col- the Thyssen Iron and Steel laborator, Proof copies of the Works given him by the Ger
and which Are still book have already been issued mans, bearing the firm's Imprint and a honoured.
ECONOMY-CAVIARE MINUS TOAST
Like both, he is shrewd, le is married, and devotes himself to looking after his father's pro- perties.
I can tell him they people aro bewildered
Listen to their comments. As groop approached a large canvas. one sald **Hampton Court
colostred maze." He slightly on referring to the catalogue: he found it was Picasso's idea of his kitchen.
Roland Penrose tells me that when the exhibition will have been seen by around closes it
-400,000 visitors.
What attracts people to this exhibition in such fantastic numbers?
Mystique
Picasso sent his son over to get a first-hand account of the Tate oxhibition Paul
stayed
First there is the mystique of only 24 hours, went round the exhibition with his father's old Picasso. He is a man few have friend Mr Roland Penrose, who seen in this country. arranged the pictures and wrote the catalogue.
Like Carbo and the late Montagu Norman he knows that one way of getting publicity is his to make a big display of avoid- are ing it. Ut
Now, thanks to General de-, THANKS to large imports of lesser known brands of Scotch the price of whisky here has "now"
What will he report to As an emotional upset has Gaulle's Press conference had such serious political conse- other week I am able to identify dropped to the point where a bottle costs less than it father? That the pictures At the same time the price of bread splendidly hung and well Rayon has been seen does in Britain. quences we discussed briefly the the man rumours of a Moniand-Monroe with weekly.
has risen so steeply that I foresee the day when those that the catalogue notes
brillant, romaner.
who can afford whisky will have to economise by eating their caviare without toast.
To Paul Picasso, everything was "magnifique."
'A bad film*
"I felt as if I had been cast in a very bad flim,” she said.
"There was Monroe, the bad blonde; Yves, the sexy French- man, and I, the suffering, smil- ing-through-the-tears soint
for
"If I laughed people said I The station also adds its own was being very brave. If I was comments on world affairs, and silent they waited tensely on the domestic affairs of theme to countries to which it is broad blew my nose I was of coun casting.
д
break into tears. If I
trying to hide convulsive sobs." "Our great advantage a
Her eyes flashed in that private station is that we can tremendously attractive squlat criticise the internal polloles of of hers as she hotly protested The budgets of both stations the East European countries in that her husband was incapablo are secret, but I was told that
a way that Government stations of making that outrageous re- aftributed to him in Radio Free Europe must cost at like the Voice of America could mark least ten million dollars, and not do," I was fold by Mr Hollywood to the effect that Radio Liberation must spend at Robert Scott, programme chief Miss Monroe might have had a
schoolgirl crush on him.
The Montands come from different social back-
Parislenne sophistication and he the selfveducated son CX "But we
broadcast a lot of Italian immigrant parents. Department, Shough: this is Jazz as well," he said. "The denied.
Polcs, espacially, are great ex-
least as much.
Here in Munich, it is general- ly believed that some of the cash for the running of the stations comes from the
Russian
State
of Radio Free Europe.
very
Jazz experts grounds. She is the product of
15
Certainly the satellite Governments are con- you mix up jazz and blues."
and Derts and get very agored i Glowingly happy
vinced that the stuilons
The marriage has been
arc What effect do the stationglowingly happy one for the
run by American Intelligence.
Hitler men
་
have?
XIMELY
past 10 years, with Milo. Nobody knows how
Signoret as the fiercely posses- Russians listen to Redlo Libera-cess was safely established
sive and until Montand's - tlon, but Radio Free Europe safely established the I myself have known Ameri- claims that its Intelligence scr career-minded wife. can Intelligence officers who vice has discovered that seven worked for Radio Liberation as out of ten East Europeans listen film sript she outlined but I halg to revert to the bart part of their training at the to their station,
left her foeling that slie had
U.S. Army Intelligence school "We have interviews in most bean badly hurt. in the Passion Play village of parts of Western Europe," said Oberammergau.
1223-
Mr Heary Hart, sociologist and the station's audience research Quote of the Week | |
Kastern Europe
Former Premier Edgar
The bosses of both stations head, are Americans. The head of They approach members of Faure: "The only fault I Hadio Liberation, Robert trade delegations and other have to find with General Murphy, is á former State visitors from Department official. At one time ond and out their views on de Gaulle is that he is not be was Eisenhower's globe Radio Free Europe, the BBC, President of the United troiting trouble-shooter.
and the Voice of America, will State
The people who write the out giving away that they ARE PROMETRITMIONs are: refugees from working for us.”
the countries concernéd. Some Of one thing there to no of Radio Liberation staff are doubt. Both Radio Liberation, men who fought for Hiller' in and Radio Free Europe 'annoj
the anti-Communist division he the Russian and agtellite. raped tran his Soviet prisoners. Governcient.
Qew of the Bunja· ́stydrazojne
可
SECRET
SERVICE
at losé, able to claur little. mystery
up a
I saw him scated; umong the ministers at de Gaulle's con- ference. He is Olivier Guichard,
*Never
-(London Express Service),
COUNTER-ATTACK -
BY JAK
you'd l
are
Then there is the tremendous ballyhoo that has surrounded the exhibition.
For months before it opened in July, there were stories pub- lished about this exhibition, "the
greatest the world' has seen." An echo of Barnum here,
It opened with a remarkable
Three. touch of snobbishness. large parties were held-one for 2,000 people at £5 ös, à head.
These pictures come from al parts of the world. A large number has been lent by mal- leries. That is the right pinge for thein. Picasso "should" be jaken in small doses. His works are not for the home.
What man or woman, 'coming Home after a busy and exhae)- ing day, would take a ch£r and spend half an hour retrash- ing the soul before a Picasso?
Picasso has no qualma 'about this, "Painting is not done” to decorate apartments," be sand. "It is an instrument of war against brutality and darkness." Antidote needed
there are marié, Of course pictures in this exhibition that must give pleasure to every- one.
But as I came away I felt th need of an antidote. I wolk Uke to have seen some of the other great pictures in the: Tatu, pictures of deep and satisfying beauty
It was too late..
My companion the strat night was forthright "What you think of it?" I pakkud:
"I think," she said, "thật Picasso - has pulled off astfàm in mendous 'spoof, like the false mpasskaka In those strange-esalbu they have in America, he... Bhar bluffed the so-called 'experts atid set them up as his own hilla priesta. Pavy
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