TRevival of "OPEN SKIES PLAN?
THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1960. I
This is a decision I am
sure we will regret...
MID all the excite. ment of the last few weeks, and the grim Mad Hatter's Tea Party of the Congo, the Bri- tish Government, has es- tablished a precedent
that may well have the most dangerous implica- tions.
I refer to its support of
BY LORD.
LAMBTON, MP
both worlds. We would
not create a crisis by preventing UNO from taking over. At the same time, we would be able to say to Belgium that we had sup- porled her.
they also are thinking of the advantages of getting out and cutting their losses la face of the gale that the wind of change has become.
It they do sn, the whole future of British East Africa is dark, indeed.
Now they are shown by our vote in the United Nullons that Britain does not consider that, in the final resort, she has the right to come to their aid in the event of revolution and chaos. They are shown, instead, that the force which would protect them is that of the United Hut it must have been with a Nations Organisation. Pierson Dixon, oner
he knew Baly had decided to do, and that France und Haly were going thu tacitly Support Belgium?
to abstain, was forced to vote Or send it take the easy against Belgium.
Into have out and tow everything
The lap of the United Nations?
the Security Council Reso lution
1
that the Belgian ed ពន Colonial Power or good deal of reluctance that Sir Army should leave the should it abstain as France and Congo.
Our vote supported the principle-which we never before maintained — that a nation has no right to come to the aid of its own people when they are in dafiger.
Dilemma
i
Confusion
two seco They
and
During months they
have
The sad world of the man
in Ward 39
E
Paris.
VERY morning
at
9.80 the French Army psychologist pulls aside the chintz curtain Burrounding a bed in Ward 39 of the. Sainte Mande Military Hospital in the suburbs of Paris.
He sila at the bedside making notes as the till pale-faced young man in rough bine pyjamas talics:
And when the tense voleo is sillied the doctor clores his notebook and, leaves without a word.
He has just recorded the secret Thoughts of one of France's newest National Servicemen, Private Yves St Laurent.
Colled up
For the world-famous designer
of the House of Dior, called up
on September 2, is suffering from a nervous disorder.
And the world that this dark, 24-year-old man soos through his over-size hom-rimmed glasses is far removed from the seanted air of Dior,
TWO VITAL FACTORS
BEHIND THE
HOT SPOT TROUBLES.
Keep Him Alive Kennedy..
A MAN WITH KHRUSHCHEV'S LIFE IN HIS HANDS
ΚΗ
by GEOFFREY THURSBY
New York.
HRUSHCHEV was livid. He shoved and pushed at the New York cops around him. A few feet away his security boss, General Nicolai Zaharov, was kicking furiously in the iron grip of a burly New York detective.
His scores of faultless sulis hang useless in his elegant home near the Invalides where the
"Enough" shouted Khrushchev a fow minutes later. "I've had enough." He fountains play softly outside. shot off a bitter personal complaint about the treatment he and his party are
Instead he, shares his first-getting from the New York cops. foor word with six other soldiers.
In Room 200 in New York's police headquarters-the building. looks like s only privacy lies in the block of new London flats-New York's chain-smoking police commissioner light chintz curtain round his Stephen P. Kennedy picked up one of the four telephones on his glass-topped desk bed.
and said angrily:
He gets no special treatment just that visit from the psychologist and tranquilisers from an orderly Inter in the day,
"Put out Q statement. if it were true? Any altempt Detectives aro assigned to Khrushchev's not going to treal on Khrushchev's life would be each reader. us like that,"
momentous happening. IL could even spark off war.
The rest of the day be spenda pacing restlessly up and down Kennerly tok the world: the ward or gazing from the "General Zaharov started push- windows in the direction of the ing people around. Be had to Avenue Montaigne where his be forcibly restrained," ward swayed the fortunes of the House of Dlor, and the choice of the world's fashion- able women,
.
Visitor
So for St Laurent has agreed to see only one visite his best friend, Paris sociulite Pierre Berger.
Borger visits St Laureni every day in his white Jaguar con- vértible and usually brings art books for him.
"No one must annoy poor Yves, He is very nervous and needs rost." sald Berger to the military orderlies.
last these Now let ts turn to the very serious Implications
how effective that is. the Faced with such dilemma, the decision. It is our policy to give have seen Belgians killed. Government came to a decision tome Ruste to which can hardly be described as
vast portions of uns raped, and ever-spreading Africa, Yet a large measure of war and confusion. How can courageous, I was this, Sir the success or failure of these they plan their future in Africu Dixon at the United new countries depends upon the Wilt confidence when they are Pirason Nations was told to wait, and see willingness of British officials to told that this is the authority- what happened at the meeting of
Council The Security
their pets, under and not the United Kingdom - On the
was called up six he was also told new rulers during the period of that would in extremity, be the other hand,
transition, and for British only force to help them?
slay and do their I would be impossible to
the
ontinue in
Their replies are not im- portant to this sad story which thai of resembles so closely Jaques Charrier, Brigitte Burdot's husband,
He too
Murder
man
This is the sort of problem Kennedy-the
New Yorkers are calling "The send em back alive guy" because he has the job of seeing to it that most of the world's most un- popular men get home sately has to deal with from to minute.
To men
minute
like Khrushchev, Kadar, and Castro, short, well- built Kennedy is vital; for their lives depend on him.
15-
The moment he moves, the detectives ? in touch with I have just been looking into Operations. Ahead of the Chief how Commissioner Kennedy is of State go detectives carefully imposing his all-out
the security chooking.
route. That is plan.
what makes it embarrassingly difficult
when Bomeone like ghty Castro ignores security and walks into the crowd.
Twenty-three thousand armed New York cops swhging brown call wooden trunchcons--they
them night sticks in New York
are officially brvolved.
he checked my Dass before let- One of them said to me as
Jihe: ting me through a police "We are watching for every- thing. A bulge in a guy's poc- ket could be a gun. How can you always tɗli?”
The list
set
up
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As these movement reports come in, Kennedy is in his office ---Room 200.
Rain
Sald a police Beutenant: "IL anyone CENT keep all these visitors alive, Kennedy can. He certainly does not like a lot of the people he has to keep plic, but he will do his dooty."
up. This
Small wonder that Kennedy
So fur Kennedy `-` ́as' be manches his hamburgers is furious when they comptari,
Kennedy has One error by him and an
in Room 200—has had great sassin's hand may strike,
United Nations operation's Juck. It has rained most of the room, Six specially picked time, keeping New Yorkers off The latest problem harassed men work speedily and almost the streets. Now after the rain months ago, was sent to hospital Kennedy, has to deal
R with silently in a room 30ft. long. for the same reason дв Si is an accusation that there is a Laurent after only one day in murder plot againat Khrushchev. barracks, and later released The story may be a deliberate end is a big
the army
Russian plant, but for Kennedy chalk, as if it us medically
must be Investigated. I lesson, are written Khrushchev, days are a Kennedy's delight, must be worked ~~(London Expicas Service).
on for what Nasser, Tito.
-(London Express Sarules).
a
from unit
that, if it appeared Thely the traders to How did it come about that UNC motion would not receive husless in these countries. They imagine anything more disturb- the British Government took
enough votes to give it this decision? We were in a very
majority
do so with reluctance and at a ing than this vote to our officials in the necessary dimeult position, for, as Sir
Security Commell, he should then
very considerable risk to them- who are asked to remain Anthony Exten painted DUR.
selves,
West Africa, and the civilian the resolution dr. SUPPORT since we never hammered out
population which is being asked any European Plan for Africa nunding Belgium's withdrawal,
to remain in East Africa. over the past few years, we if he could be.
We say to them. "Please stay. were quite unprepared for such would be enough votes to carry
the future of these countries de- an utter breakdown of authority, the motion against
are the enlontsis Pends upon you' ond then The British Government could then he should
admit publicly, In East
to the whole world.. that we no longer even
not make up t mine why voting.
it was going to do.
Should it
sure that there
Getting out
abslain fram
Then there whw retain
Belgiva
Alries,
who have built up the area and claim the right to hold ourselves f other words, the aim was upon whom its financial posi- responsible for their safety. support Belgium and be brand- that we should have the best of lon depends. At this moment
"She's been with the firm for years he can't bring himself to
{"part with her,”
London Expreas Service).
KEEP LEFT
"Ray Evers
"Notice anything peculiar about this island?”
World's most
is
fig
uminous.
ig
It is a narrow room. At one While Khrushchev and his
blackboard.
In friends are in New York were a school days are dangerous days.
dry
Wat
elusive art
collection...it is all stolen!
INTERPOL recently
circulated & fat
dossier of photographs.
by JOHN RYDON
continue- Turner from Bond- street's Fine Art Society; a Brueghel from a gallery in Hanover; a Picasso statunite from a Mayfair gallery....
But you can be sure that the
treasures do not proudly display them to their friends.
But these were not the And then there was the fort and the crooked picture usual police "Wanted" spectacular disappearance of fancier who will keep stolen present possessors of those art
four Old Masters full-face photographs
belonging to paintings in a velvet-lined cellar collector John Leapman in or some place like that where and profile of scarred Amsterdam fast month,
he alone can oppreciate them in Bolltuda," thugs and international Earlier als year, 20 Im- An Insurance investigator who crooks.
pressiontal paintings vaniah- specialises in art thors con
ed from a private collection on Armed that picture thieving is They were photographs of the Riviera.seven more from substantially on the Increase. valuable paintings and
Mr art the Mentone Museum.......... eight But he differed from treasures. All
that he under- missing. Old Masters and 14 Greek icons Rickett In arc are enough
from the Vancouver Art Gallery, standably enough, spoke of a
third to All
category of Undoubtedly, thefts of paint- insurance swindler. Ings are increasing.
And there them on
gallery.
list
of
1
Consider some notable dia- appearances of pictures in the rocent past.
Haul of 20
Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery plmost lost the pride of ila col- lection, a £100,000 painting by Simono Martini,... A nightwatch- man switched on a light and the thleif dropped the painting he
thlet the
One of the men who received Too hot...
Whether as decoration, statue symbol or financial investment « picture must have a certificate of authenticity and proof of legal ownership. Otherwise it is vālueless.
That may not be art; but that's life.
-London Expreen Mervice).
Interpol's largest missing picture
at recently was Mr John Rickett, Betheby's picture expert. "Otherwise, there
efforts amatourish
are
that
the
Come
TALKING
POINTS
He told me: "I think that the unstuck and, of COUTEC, thd increase in drt thefts is due to cranks.
the Huss pricen como pafoalinga "As far. az the swindles go fatch nowadays.
you must boar in mind that
Amateurish
every picture of any importance Religion has done tove 'a theso days is carefully eate great service by making it a logued and is movements Bin. through" the art markets well
-ANATOLE FRANCE.
"But I cannot recall a slagle known
had wrenched from the wail and successful art theft, for there is *“So the possibility of it being
flec
no such thing aseirele of disposed of for anything like ite
in reol, vahto is very unlikely,”
The National Portrait Gallery docters who do businers-
pay."
lost a self-portrait by John, stolen pictures. It just wouldn't Russoll, With 800 people giro- sent in the wallery at the time, the thlaf unserewed the painting
walked out with it. ***
and
*
# Great
Atte words of the insurance from the heart,
- men underline the remarkablo fact that nk, the prices of
Mr Rickell added, "There paintings pour year by year.
He only two... entegories digir value as stolen property
݇f thlef; thy'amateur who thinks atendibe diminishes,
coma
thoughts
--DE VAUVĒNARQUES,
Bin writes history, Virkus
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-GOETHE