THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1960
Cummings
Constellation of
o
Paris
illusions of Grandeur
"CLOUDS OF GLORY
TO LETS THIS DESIRABLE ROCKET:
BLUE
STREAK
only slight
'Of course i'll tell the General of your offer, Monsieur Macmillan--but he's almost in Space already!"
For Bardot...
(Doom-laden Peter
London Express Service
Pan)
Newsletter
from
he came
to
Never, since
SAM WHITE
power
has De Gaulle faced such dark days as he is facing
Paris.
FRANCE is experiencing today some of the chilling consequences of power without glory. On every front, domestic and international, de Gaulle appears to have reached a point of total frustration.
I
hards
were
now..
matters, that these words
We who have faced similar problems have rarely handed terrorist ovor power to a minarily claiming to represent, a racial majority.
We did not do so in Cyprus, we waited for a Greek Turk Malaya ugreement, nor
where we fought the Chinese Communists for nine years. As for Kenya, no one ever sug- gested handing over to the Mau Mau.
And the Left claims that de Gaulle cannot act in Algeria because he is à prisoner of the army.
This is grotesque change against a man who has so often detted it, who has purged it repeatedly and who reduced it
As for the rebels, their de- could now only be spoken by to submission in the January
dazzled with the members of the sxtreme uprising.
Of course, de Gaulle has to prospects of Chinese and Russ Right.
The fact is that by some odd take the army's feelings into consideration. So have the Left. san ald, plus major diplomatie victory at the United Nations
anti-French vote un pollitent quirk de Gaulle is a with an
passionate
in colonial otherwise I would long ago liberal Algeria.
matters, This he has provert have advocated a popular front L bitterness De Gaulle's
with the Communistá,
Latest In any after by granting independence to 13
case, the understandable. Shortly
French colonics, by vast eco-
example of French Left-wing nomic and political reforma in
appeal to Algeria and by making it clear follies the Sartre that he favours an independent troops to desert can have only
one affect: and inflame the army" Algeria,
upart de Gaulle and demo cracy in France.
His plans for a politicat against "soft" targets, reaching the outbreak of the rebellion by its peak during the preliminary the then Prime Minister spoke directorate dominated
peace talks with the rebel dele- thase
Parliament: France for the European gales in Melun last June and be worn tre rite Six of the Common Market culminating in the
bols, Algeria ts an integral has met with the obstinate the execution after a "secret
Algerla from France is ineon- opposition of all of France's trial" in Tunis of two captured part of France. The cession of
French soldiers.
ceivable," partners.
too much too soon
by LEONARD MOSLEY
VHEN Brigitte Bardot came to England a few WH
years ago to make a film called "Doctor at Sea," she was taken to a party at which several medical men were present.
I introduced her to one of them, a famous specialist, and they went off into a corner to chat.
From that moment on Brigitte Bardot ceased to be the greatest sex symbol in the world, for me, and became a poor little mixed- up walf-with spots.
Until that moment, Bardot Characteristically, acne sufferers had been remote, susplelous, are sluggish, gloomy and sullen uncommunicative. Now she Often have euicidal moods." suddenly became vlin], ani- matod. terribly pretty and appealing.
The other doctors stared at their colleague, pop-eyed with Jealousy because he had obvious- ly struck stich sparke off this beautiful crvature, We longed to hear what she was talking about.
A child...
His proposals for reforming Nato are viewed with alarm even by his closest friend, Dr Adenauer.
Plots
in
The quarrel he has pleked with the Americans over the control of missile bases France looks like ending in n humillating defeat for him.
Franco-British and Franco- American relations have sunk to a point almost as low as any reached during the stormlest days of the war.
His decision to snub UNO by not attending its latest session
horror of
A prisoner
The Left by its latest gesture has given aid and comfort to the extremists on both the French and the Algerian sides; thereby helping to prolong the war rather than chorten t
In a sense, civil war hat intellectuals the having fired the first almier
He has also made, a frontal torture and this attack on
been so muccessful nilack has that oven his bitterest Loft wing critles cannot cite a case of riure less than a year old and have to fall back for their already started in France with propaganda on exciples of the Left-wing
The speaker was M. Mendes- Why did the talka fall. Inci-
Gate on his France, now de Gauile's woubt dentally? De side refused to give the im- be mentor in colonial liberal pression that he was treating ism
It is a messure of the with the rebels excluzively res garding the future of Algeria chongos that have token and insisted this could only be place, largely due the discussed ni a round table coeducation de Gaulle has torture committed under shot.
given the French in colonial Fourth Republic.
ference, which would fix the terms of a referendum.
to
Why a royal marriage
has profoundly disappointed THE Vatican has in- tervened decisively
Frenchmen.
In short, France at the
moment is shorn even of the to block-for the time consolation of the grandour being anyway--a pro- de Gaulle was supposed to posed marriage between bring hor.
was
stopped...
At home there is the ultimate Anne de France, 21-
of the time specified that the and most dangerous frustration year-old daughter of the male offspring of the marriage working
brought up of all-Algeria. Peace remains Pretender to the French be
Catholic.
wing polley towards de Gaulle,
la
A Parls newspaper has been
on which would otherwise appear on an article
be dominated by nothing 13 Greek French intellectuals who did not
an irresis- as elusive as ever.
a sign the famous manifesto Incit more rational than
lible urge to self-destruction, ing iroops in Algeria to desert. Criticism of his polldes now Throne, the Count of Orthodox and the female extends in nearly all political
Among those the newspaper For those of us who in the parties, and is even being openly Paris, and 23-year-old
However, the Bulgarians did" voiced by manbers of his Simeon II, the exiled not keep their side of the bar telephoned was the mm pro- meantime will be living under gatni. with the result that ducer, Raoul Levy. Levy re- the Fascist yoke it will be a an enormously tremendous comfort to look for- Princess Marie Louise, Simeon's plied with sister, is not a Catholle, but patriotic speech, the gist of ward to a future in which M.
Like Orthodox
ber which was that he, as a French- Servan-Schreiber will be Minis-
it found Inconceivable ler of Information in a Mendes-
Frendiman could France government,
Cabinet.
Once again the air is sled King of the Bulgarians.
with plots, this time with a sinister emphasis that the blow will be struck in Paris and not in Algiers.
Yet his own popularity in the country remains as massive ox
ever and there is no doubt that
new elections would confim his mandate to rule France as he wishes.
As for de Gaulle himself, he is gloomy and unapproachable. He is also showing signs of fatigue.
At bay
נס
his
The heir
What makes this Inter- vention fascinating are the invoked by the reasons Vatican for its action.
B
Simeon is of course member of the Greek Ortho dox Church and Anne is a Catholte.
to
Greek brother,
man. that
any!
Futhermore, this is not the Arst time the Bulgarians have openly side with his country's falled to keep their word in enemies. similar agreements negotiated in the past with the Vatican to enable them to marry into Catholic royal familles,
Patriotic
усте
Five
in
later,
Levy
Inaldontal Intelligence:
As though de Gaulle were not "For having enough troubles at the ho Za Just been moment, he denounced as a plagfærist In a
minutes wlephoned the newspaper back
an agitated state: heaven's sakce Corft publish what
I have just sald," pleaded. "I have just remem- belated review of his first iterary work-play-which he wrote bered that I am a Belgian” At the age of 18.
Fascism?
2
QUOTE
Former PM M. Bidault: "
Simcon's grandmother and Catholic He cannot marry n Recently in a long talk he had
triend of mine unters prior with a foreign
are his great grandmother were also guarantees with great given that de Gaulle Броке
the heir the Catholic princesses und in both
cases their daughters
M. Jean Jacques Servan- bitterness Algeriamy throne will be brought up in
of
brought up in the Orthodox.
Schreiber,
leading Left- Calvary," he called it-and of the Greek Orthodox faith, Left-wing attacks
As a rostit, the YaUcan wing intellectual who is gen- His mother, Princess Jeanne faith. Algerian policy.
erally credited with being the He recalled bow for more of Savoy, sister of ex-King has finally lost patience. than a year he had held the Umberto of Italy, was herself a The Count of Paris has work- biggest thorn-thumbnail bo
when she married ed hard to bring the Pope in General de Gaulle's left side, we lost Algeria we would have entire army at bay by forbid- Catholic
around to countenancing this has given it as his considered to make a hare of Loule XV, who
opinion that France will have lost us Canada.” Just look the background ding the execution of any ter- King Boris of Bulgaria,
particular marriage.
Lo
a period of go through rorist, no matter how hideous
the Left can against which she has lived her
his crime, in the hope that he
It might have been ensler Fascism before At the age of 10, when what would get some response from
engaged in the diplomatic talks the earlier agreement in which triumph in this country. the rebels.
The the Pope himself was involved
This, of course, makes some she most needed was security,
kind of lunatic sense of a Left- His reply was a mounting preceding the marriage. and she lived in the sinister
crescando of blind terrariam Agreement which he negotiated had not been broken dangerous world of German- when morals occupied Paris, and morale had been knocked
first 28 years.
cockeyed by the Nazi defeat of
France.
Whimpering
She was presented to the sexiest thing in world as the
Can you blame her pletures. for believing her own publicity and trying to live up to it? And when I read the news While other girls were trying Parks recently that to keep up with their school- from Bardot had been discovered auf- mates, she was trying to keep fering from an overdose of up with the characters she was drugs, my heart went out to asked to play on the screen
her.
I remembered the doctor's
storm-tossed sexpots unhappily
in love with men twice their
To look at, she was a beauti- ful woman, But inside there
ago. words: "Sho'll never be right "Well" I asked him, after until she grows up mentally. I wards, "what secrets did you mean."
was a deprived child whimper- worn out of her?"
At 13 she know a lot about Ing to get out.
of
The result was a rash
romances, wild parties,
He replied: "Only one. Do the black market and oven broken
you know what is wrong with more about sex, and had been trashy exhibitionism — and a
that poor girl? She suffers from bruised by a love affair she case of acht.
депь."
I looked at him to see if he was mocking me, but he was quite serious. I said: "But
I thought that was a disorder
df adolescence. She'll grow out of it, won't she?"
"Not that giri," he told. me. "Not until she does something about her private life. Not untü she really grow up-mentally, I mech. Not until she stops belig a child-inkle her own mind."
I went home that night
and
took down my medical diction dry, and there I read-
"ACNE. A disorder of adoles cence which, for paychologini reasons, can
won't old enough to cope with. When I Bret met her, at 15, she
had a vocabulary like an alley cal-but she still couldn't copt.
No dolls
And that was when she was Brigitte Bardot today is nung into the grease-paint world doom-laden Pater Pan trapped from which she has been das- in an adult world which sho erately trying to escape ever hasn't yet learned to live with, since.
Pathetic
None of the privacies of normal childhood. None of the companionships with girls and boys of her own age.
She has a real baby in the cradle in the nursery. But what she never had because thera was never time--was a doll when she was a kid...
Somehow, she had to stop yearning for the childhood she lost on the way tip,
I hope she will meet my
continue into For seems to mo that doctor friend again, and he wil runturity Can be caused by Brigitte Bardot is a pathetic report that her ache is cured urban. Binog, greasy occupations, example of cruelty to children, Deosure when Brigitte Bardot Isto hours lack of frends Me a classic case of # kid, who has no longer has to worry about and exercise. But stressos from mayer had a chance -- because her spote, went wron't have to love affairs, examinations, and she has always had too sitach to worry about Brigitte Bardoli
*(Londen Express Eerviss.) employment are Arredatans BOGEL
It was in fact the present Pope, then Mgr. Roncall, who
osily youth star
3
by being idealistin, anxious to prove itself
COLE JOTUN - JUNT, CONFERENCE AT HARROGATE,
Jean Cocteaus" "It is "da" im- possible for a poat to' lecture on. poetry as for a plant to give a loature on horticulture."
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