BORNEO
SARAWAX ・MALAYA
SINGAPORE
Pacific
Washington.
GIVE
THE smell of danger, that butterflies-in-the- stomach feeling, is seeping into Washington, where all the talk is of Laos.
The assault aircraft-carrier Lexington sails from Hongkong troops equipped with atomic weapons are alerted on Okinawa
fast trans-
port aircraft stand ready at airfields close to para- troop camps. ...
But why?
Why America
reeing erits and danger in the double-coups and coups-within- latest twist of tortuous Laotian eps are formal political life. quarrels?
In the past 18 months they The answer is that America belleves she bas scen a ghost have had six different Govern. walking-the ghost of Dien ments under such a diverse set Bleu Phu.
The fell of Dien Bien Phu six years ago, and the rinis
ice that followed it. was the cuel
of Eremiers as Prince Somsanith, who was chased out of office by a certain Captain Kong and his paratroops last August; Prince Souvanna, chased into office by
of French power In Kong: and Prince Boun Oum, Judo Chins. And America who "captured" the premiership stepped in whore the Con- from Souvanna only last month. masiets had lung France oui,
The 1954 pesce etlemeut be-
Boun Oum now tells the
tween France and Indo-China's Americans that the Communists Red rebels made, of Indo-China, are coming over the border from four separate States. The two North Vietnam to help Kong mort important today are North and Souvanna boek into power, Vietnam, which Communist
rnd a satellite of China; and It is one of the sod facis of Laos, which, by the pecce terms, C.S. diplomatic life that - Just should be neutral between East as in Cuba and Korea and the and Wot.
The missions
Ainerica
devoted hax million
keeping tu happy in its "neutrality."
Dominican Repubile-the Ameri- cans In Laos have found them- selves supporting, corrupt, semi- Fascist Governments in order la keep the Communists out.
It is even sadder that ment of $300 the 3,000,000 people of Laos are Laas terate tribermen who are
unaware of totally Involved.
was like pouring money down the drain.
The U.S. Govemment also sent military missions, economic uld missions, educalli mis- sion, thet-finding missions.
USENEROUSE
West
MARTIAL
AID
FOR
U.S.
German?
JULY: holds for day to help American dollar crisis. Dr. Barbara. Moore wins first Channel tunnet walking race. Horse Guards Parade become: 0.8. rocket base. The Dally Express praises Gaitskell. Lord Lambton filte Bank at Prime Minister. rate up. Government appeals to save water
Brouchi
AUGUST:
glan to make OCTOBER: British SEPTEMBER:Falls
Now fashion, "The Elizabethat).” conquers Frencir markris. General de Gaulle protests and appeals to the nailon's pride, TY dabate between Fidel Castro and President Kennedy tasts 48 hoora. Bít car stump eases trame problems, Mr. Marples thanks all concerned, Galt- salt on inliday. Gales.
Cirens .8. rocket base runs icto criticism. Memoire by Horns Secretary, I was Baller at No. 10. cauTD # sensation. Lord Morrison bane the film of Lady C, after two daya debate in the Lords. Hall
Lord fares
Lambton up.
For atlaoka Me. Macleod.
247 rain.
HOW DOES THE
FEEL ABOUT
CUBA NOW?
U.S.
WE QUESTION OUR WASHINGTON REPORTER CHRISTOPHER DOBSON ABOUT THE BREAKDOWN OF RELATIONS BETWEEN AMERICA AND CUBA
• Doos America want war against Cuba?
Is
Cuba to divert atton- tion from Loos?
Latin America that important? the issues
The pressure
with
Elsenhower has been forced Into the position of severing relations with Cuba. He did not want to do so,
He Has tried to play along for Castro's Castro, not sake, but to convince the re The Americans would dearlymainder of Latin America that American Central Intelligence love to be out of it all, to be the United States really is not
nn imperialistle monster. Agency men - In ciher words rld of Lada, to save their money
piere there. And such
and forget the smell of danger.
the confusion, American as well But they cannot.
as Laotian, that the diplomats and intelligence men sometimes get
For one thing is certain-Laos
eremica, and friends mixed up. can have to independent life.
The loyalties
On one occasion, CIA agents tried to "subolage." because they
I fall to the Communists would, ile Americans believe, be a huge blow to U.S. prestige In Asia and put frumendous pressure on South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Slam.
They belleve Red China's ca- thought them untrustworthy, the ward march would be inevitable. very men that the U.S. Embassy
was trying to get into the Laction Government.
But in the chaos that Is Lan6- Another time the with all the mixed-up reperis U.S. Army discovered that it from the mixed-up Intelligence was actually traking the rebels men can anyone tell yet Confusion could well be Laos's whether that march has begun?
The Government and army and the royal tumlly are so Has America got something to Intermixed and are such koleidescope of changing ein- Jumping at her own shadow?
numc.
tions and loyalties that coups and
a be frightened about? Or in she
-=[ London Exprari Gervice),
THE BRITISH
ISLES... IN 1999
·Population trend in Britan
80,115,000
58,300,000
50,393,000
54,324,000
52,157,000
1059
1960
1419
EXPREBIOGNASH KY ROY BATTLE Britain's population—as it is going to be
London Extresi Mervice.
The United States Govern- ment has never seciously · con- sidered making war against Castro. It realises that such a move would be catastrophic in its relations with the other Latin American and the new- born African nations.
wondering: "What is Kennedy going to do with this mess?”
• How is Konnedy's team going to react to these two platefuls?
reversed con- ference rate at Blackpool and praiséu the block vote,
·Tory・・ conference démanda -return of the stocks. A paint- ing thought to be by an abominable snowman fetches Sir £233,000 st. Sotheby's. Roy Welensky demands arrest of "Mr. Macmilian' and ' Mr. Macleod. Galea, stormN.
Feeling here is divided bo-
thoso tween
who feel that Castro's latest moves have been ordered from Moscow or It is going to be very easy Peking
accuse as a deliberate diver for the Democrats to sieri towards the situation. in Ebenhower of having one fast flink at Loos, and those who belleve to bla
Irresponsible
Adam Faith NOVEMBER: Appears in a
musical version of Hamlet at the Old Vic. Uniukell expels Michael Foat for fouling conference decisions.
fall, bus and
Britain launches her first space ship. Esok of England rans out of notes in biggest Mr. spending spree over. Mr.
Marples nske pedestrians to Drinks Pinta Milka Day. Lord Lambton becomes Fordlen Secretary: Labour Party Unity: all Bocialists purged. For, know and lee.
DECEMBER: or class as
Clare, makes take-over bid for Transport House. Lard Lambton criticizes Mir, Mac- Kays millano Gilmand Liberal revival is just around the corner. Amag. Roads.
PARIS NEWS LETTER
by SAM WHITE
The secret romance
of the richest of the Rothschilds
PARIS.
A MAN who, although only half a Rothschild, was richer than any of the Rothschilds died here last month.
were
penses.
Ha was the remarkable 89-
ver Ironically has been forced to build up his power, to necuse him of brink-year-old Baron Egmont
enough, history other political parties com- charges of aggression manship in Laos and stupidity Zuylen, whose last years latest
marked by his passionate butepeated itself some 70 years poigning in the referendum. M. Soustelle mala this invalved against the United States in Cube. cause his situation is deterio-
But this is really not being British actress, the late Leonora society was shaken by the nar
little known devotion to the later in reverse order when Con-
Jewith his movement in very heavs! ex- tinental and especially Ting in Cuba itsell
for. While America has been Corbett. stupid. in both counkies in the
rloge between. Baron. Zuylen's Miss Corbelt died last July at daughter, Marie Elaine, and. post. the present situations the age of 52 while a guest in garn Guy de Rothschild, the THE BIG have been forced upon Eleen- the Baron's 12th century castle 1-year-old head of the Roth- however. Especially that near Utrecht. She left him in
her will her life amounting to US$20,000.
• What affect has the announcement severing diplomatic re- lations had on Washington's diploma- tic life?
But very many Americans
The feeling in Washington is the Marines go charging ashore poned." This severing of rela would be delighted in seeing en: of "Weil, at last its hap to sweep Castro 10 his doom.
between tions
and Cuba America is what everybody has months really expected for now.
*
•
• Doar Ike think the Russians ara intent on stepping up tension, in
Cuba.
For two long years America, the most powerful country In the world, has been insulted, and spat upon, by a tiny count try that America could crush In a day.
•
Conse
that has But now everybody is surprised, same. What fearful, and above all
New 'Magic Beam'
Just how angry is the American man in the street with Castro? Costro's swaggering -be- havlour when he and his fol-
savings
schild family.
་
The Baron's first marriage
FIRE PUZZLE
THIS is the story of two THI
I synagogues. A. year
She is buried in the grounds was dissolved. The Jewish com- of the castle in the family munity had to swallder not only mausoleum, The Baron's body the fact of a Rothschild divorce
ago that splendid -Paris but his marriage to a Gentle. now lies burled next to hers.
Mondo re- newspaper Lo The Baroness van Zuylen was
Baron with opposed to his friendship
van Zuylen, a tall, ported that a synagogue In Mias Corbett but the two women elegant guro with a beak nose, a small town near Moscow the recopelled shortly before was well known on the Paris had been burned- to Miss Corbett's death.
turf. He began buying race.
were
The
His fortune
son
wing Press.
A few weeks later a Russian
·tcheral came to Paris and skid that he himself had visited the synagogue in question and had forms intact.
horses in 1850, and quickly ground after it had been showed himself a shrewd attacked by a mob.: breeder. The bulk of his fortune By publishing this report Lo › lowers strowed their New York
will go to his 29-year-old Har- Moude unleashed, upon itself vard-educated
Edward the full fury of the Paris Left- hotel room with feathers plucie-
Baroness Thiarty. 50-year-old cd from chickens ley. were comes from a prosperous Alex- cooldag for their dinner, and a andrian family. She is hand- long line of luscious Cuban soine, dark, looks younger than PIAF IS megakadamatta lovelies queued up to see his her age and is a fanatical cord
United Nations delegation fast player. autumn, caraged the Ameri- cuns. They have been mad, ut In financial circles hare, him ever since.
Baron van Zuylen was con--
FTER a year's absence the Franco-Soviet Friendship universally acclaimed inly marketable America. The Americans have any other rich man on the Coned to the Paris Music Hall report that Soviet nathorities taken just about all they are tinent. His fortune was dis..
guides Comet
4,000 miles
By PETER WOON.
A from Britain to Kenya guided by the signals from a COMET Jetliner has been flown over 4,000 miles single radio transmitter at Rugby, it was disclosed recent ly.
-
BACK
Now Maitre Blumál, a trading Paris Inwyor and president of
Association, returned
Eisenhower's action will be sidered to own more immediate-
cutus than A Ediths Plat has retum-sa, anterosting
terme of imprisoninènt.",
going to from the anon they tributed in the United States, stage. Her comeback is, confirm the incident but cinim Coll the "bearded chicken Britain, Holland, France, Belgium astonishing when one reculls that those respondble had been plücker."
and inevitably, Bwitzerland. hor long illness marked by rested and sentenced to heavy Will Kennedy op
He inherited his fortune from several dramatic collapses prove of this action? his mother who was the daugh- when her life was often held President-elect Kennedy haster of Solomon de Rothschild, to be in danger..
not yet made known his views | She was the richest heiress of
has,
.
lon by Mr Dean Rusk, who is dynasty. [ State on Jan. 20. going to be his Secretary of
She eloped
“No trial'
Jawn: 11 Moscow, however, on the lecaking of relations her day, having, hersold in Now she is back and daily between the two countries. He heritos from all three Roth 53-minute session with all bur told him that no nich trial had
frenzied vitality however, been kept in-schild brothers who were the intact. How do you explain, there has been no mention of seemingly ever taken place, and” “Indeed formed of the developing siture founders- of the banking this sudden revival of energy, such, a trial in the Soviet Press
in that fall form? The flight was the suffest
Nor has there been any men- Kay to the cystern are very fest yet for
All I can say is that she has ton of Maline Blumely report A new navi- gation system which is being low frequency (VLF) redio
made a new discovery-Charles in the Paris Left-wing Press Dumont a 24-year-old
Now comer the story of tho halled as one of Eritish avia- waves which are pushed round
the earth in the space between briefed by Secretary of Stato In 1888 she created a tion's biggest achievements.)
poser whom the met, three other synagoguu. Several weeke Files/earth's - curfnes. and the Christian
Euro-months ago, since when there's' ago Moslem nationalist plotera The system, still in the sonosphere, 40 to 75 miles high, developments in both Laos and and marrying the Baran Mienne
Hetter, on all the pean sensation, by-eloping with ; been no holding her,
in the Algiers Castrais desoCESTNI research stage, promises dave which sets like an electrined Cubmar
and strecked the historia #ybt- lopment of a WORLD-WIDE (mirör.
gogue on the Cashal's outakkivin navigation aids - using nomidře
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octrin Bunidus accuracy,
"Alglor", sineo' pre-Christian
Trammitters exist at Rugby owned by the NAGond in Panama Sekond
"And scitatiune" at the Royal
Rusk, working in the State Department. has been fully
„Dobson's... conclu»" alonika.
However
vah Zaylen, so, head of 'an
aristocratie but impoverished SOUSTELLE |Dutch Catholic, family, standar
was the greatest andal COMPLAINS
of the tidy and; romalted in a
muchy Kannedy force told Between the two La Bok
This attack has been: ignored
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Alterati. Taláblishment at Tam- nATION TOMAS IN A Eisenhower's families that lasted ricarly" helt '' JACQUES SOUSTELLE has bort, in the walls on an
Janil-Jewish "outengo la not- an
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