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PARIS NEWS LETTER by SAM WHITE
THE STRANGE CASE
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1961.
OF THE FLAMBOYANT
M. POUILLON ...
ONE
BRATI
WHAT WAS THIS ASTONISHING
SOON, in cinemas all over the
Commonwealth, audiences will
be gazing at the full-length film of the most exotic journey ever made by a British Queen.
The elephants encrusted with jewels and gold; the gay parades crunching across thick carpets of strewn marigolds-DeMille himself
NE of Paris's best-known architects is in custody on charges involving never had such sequences.
the embezzlement of more than HK$16,000,000.
flamboyant
His white
He 15 The astonishtirur B= year-old M. Fernand Poisillon,
Rolls-Royce with whose life was as as his architecture, which has its Negro chauffeur was a well- breate a feature of the land-known sight in Parks West End.
present-day เป
Paris, His drst major architectural Marselles and Aiglers.
task was the reconstruction of Paullion, tall and thin and the old port in Marseilles des
Troved by the Germans during with a long beak nase,
which an Adam's apple bobs the war. like a ping-pong bati, is one of the best-known social Agures in Parts of this decade,
A FORTUNE
under
His partius. which always mark the completion
of his Intust prehitertucal Sucress, were [anotts und the setting for them wres fabrelons. They were given in his vast drteen-
A Left Winger then. he be- came friendly with the eu liberal mayor of Algiers. Jac- qites Chevalier, und was en- trusted the building of two new suburbs of the clay.
The result
was briliantly executed series of blocks of flats which is one of the glories of the Adndnistration of Al- French Klers.
century mansion, which he had TACTFULLY
restured opposite Notre Dame.
1 contains iwe courtyards, on bordered by a cluister, and the other flanked by two mag- nificent staircases.
He then moved to Teheran where the Shah commissioned some work from him. His friendship with a member of the Shah's
family, however, were heated arosed displeasure
and the for the benefit of the Jash French Embassy. after sending plants growing there.
harasset reports on the situa- tion, was instructed tactfully to tell him to return to Parls.
Both courtyards
In 10 years Poulton had antssed fortune which en-
hh in #aked
addition to his Turk botise 10 maintain two The charges arisr from chatonix, one in Normandy, the project to build 2.500 flats on other in the South of France, o the banks of the Selne, most of yacht and a fleet of expensive which were sold even before foreign cars,
work started in 1957.
THE PERFECT
ORBIT
THAT IS AMERICA'S AIM
1
AMERICAN scientists are about to launch
brand-new type of rocket. It is designed to lift much heavier satellites into space, land miniature laboratory on the moon, and send
instruments to Mars and Venus.
Experts describe it as "the most radical advance in rocket propulsion since the Germans developed the V-2."
The rocket is named Centaur. Its lower portion is a standard | Alas inter-continental ballistic inssile, similar to those now be- in deployed to supplement Ther rockels as deterrents to war. But its 35ft-long upper stage is pow- ered by two engines which use an entirely new type of fnet - Ilquid hydrogen.
PRESSURE BUILD-UP
Now still only half-completed, work has stopped because there is no
Yet there is one scene in particular that I recommend to those who are in- terested in the strange world of and illogical
books. money left to pay the
contractor.
Watch closely for the moment Despite the parlous financial when, at the entrance to a state of the company however, | shrine, a kind of cloud of awe money was always found to pay and tension descends ver the fancy salaries to some of the royal party, Reverently they directare, many of whom are silp off their shoes and put on pillars of respectability, and spectal red velvet sandals. Also [ make a payment of | Blushing British equerry, carry- HK$400,000 towards nancing a political fournal.
ing a huge wreath of 400 whic roses, struggles with his long cavalry-type boots.
The greatest
THE forger arrested ro-
A
Having falled to wrench then off, he tries to slip his velvet sandals over the booted feet. But this, it is decided would be cently for taking Van sacrilege Indeed. The forlorn Goghs, Braques and Ber-equerry has to hand over the wreath and walt outside the nord Buffots is proving a shrine alone. difficult problem for the police.
He claims to be His Royal Highness Prince Jorge Carles de Bourbon y Contenn, Duke Santiago and Compostelle.
He is extremely self-assured and has told police, "The great est painter of Spalt today is not Picasso or Dali-it's me. I am a Goya of the 20th century."
For the benefit of the police he enn polish off a Buffet-style
sketch in 20 minutes.
Coincidence SOME minor mysterics
of son
Eric Peugeot, heir to the Peugeot car fortune.
the mator
CREMATED
Whose shrine
Is it? From
the reverence on each face it It is is easy enough to guess. Gandhi's. This is the spol where the Mahatma's body was crensated.
the royal And, of course, visitors were right to be solenn. out the world, Gandhi is revered Not only in India but through- as perhaps the only authentic
saint of our times.
philosophical,
SAINT CALLED GANDHI
REALLY LIKE?
chastity. Even milk le banned observing: "I have not the tenst doubt that milk dial makes the brahmacharya (chastity) ve difficult to observe."
Konstler writes; "Tolearnce was Gandhi's guiding stor and the main source of his magic charm. He was tolerant of every burnen falling, but not of the love between man and worhan. That love he hated. He could never forgive God for his mis- tnite that male and female He created them.
The effect on Gandhi was not attractive. It delighted him to break up marriage by per- suading the wife to take a vow of chastity and jolo him in religious contemplation in his astram.
Even more strangely, up to the end of his fe, he insisted that young girls should share his mat al night to prove, so Koestler reveals, "that he was immune against the temptations of cernal bust.""
Thus, surrounded by temp- treeses. he would make his journey across India. To show his kinship with the poor he always travelled third class-
his third class except that
had carriage
cir-conditioning installed and was reserved for him alone.
HUSHED UP
Why is it that these things about Gandhi Are known?
So
little
Koestler writes: "This sign- Acest chapter in Gandhi's "fe is common knowledge among those who were close to him, but has been carefully hushed up in India.
"It was decribed in My Days zulti Gandit by Nirmal Kumar Bose, Bose was one of the most distinguished scholars of Indla, who for a while acted Gandhi's secretary
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as a kind
of public service, and resigned his post on the grounds that he disapproved of Gandhi's ex- periments with young girls. "I saw that, "The Gandhians if animal pas- thorough in effacing every trace sion had
But what exactly
fhis was
At the amazing saint like? shrine the Queen was handed two of Gandhi's books--one be- ing entitled Non-violence and continue to plague Peace. She was also given an lustrated biography of Gandhi. the case of lost year's kid.
It is certain, however, that five-year-old she would not get napping of
complete books or, answer from thos for that
from matter,
ny others. For, my knowledge, there is no book in existence which Lells the full Gandhi Recently police arrested in story, the winter Sports resort of
I turn aside ex-Communist That is why Megeve the wa nien whu from my usual practice. Usual has a seal of carried out the kidnapping.
Fly I write about the boots approval from coincidence, which The astonishing
are just
be all about to
the most However Is that they shoulJI
published. Today discuss dedicated pro- have been la Mereve ai the
book which has not even been gressive circles. same time as M. Peugeot, kils
the torture of written, and does not seem like-
What would a true te ofi it Gandhi is a attractive young wife Colette ly
separatland Gandhi be like? i believe that, to be written-The Truth
Koestler shint,
has his Own and young Eric.
Koestler acknowledges that from my father during his last although it might scrape some About Mahatma Gandhi.
smatt-halo in off-plak.
Gandhi was a saint-but a saint moments. This. .. was a blot lustre off the image of the saint,. You know, of course, the con-
What is more, Koestler's of o rather special kind, i have never been able to it would serve to bring alive
efface."
one of the most amazing con- called Apart from this experience, tradictory and powerful human him Boy, which means father, Gandhi belt to an intense beings in history. and although he was the degree the primitive Hindu epitome of kindness, he treated belief that people suffer
It seems incredible that in
by ROBERT PITMAN
Although alt
small resort town like Megesventional picture of Gandhi. It writings have been vastly pe- Koestler writes: athey should have risked being is presented by the school text-pular in new India. That is why
recognised by Eric.
books and by the B.B.C. It has he recently spent over a year been accepted without question there in the hope that Indian by almost everyone except per- religion and Indian thought haps Winston Churchill.
This picture shows a simple might solve the problems of the
West.
in the fuel tanks will build up
| AUDACIOUS
CENSORED
But it seems now that the visk little man in a loin-cloth who dangerously. To overcome this was even
greater because M. had a Christ-like love for his this rocket engineers have built in Peugeot recognised the man to fellow men. A holy man,
whom he gave a cunning system' of vents.
the ransom picture lefls. US. Indeed, more The Arst Centaur will carry money when he was confrented than just holy, progressive- tiny TV camera to monitor with him.
man who brought the Hindu tells how
with religion into line the behaviour of the fuel in its tanks.
Mr
Yet the man had been at- Fonner Brockway and the New that be-
The second and third will dacious enough to risk recozul-Statesman by insisting carry more test equipment. On-tion by dining on several oc- indin's untouchables must 1 then will the rocket becasions at the same restaurant come touchable.
nunde available search.
for space re-
a M. Peugeot.
Speculation on the case has now reached such a stage that
One of the specific, tasks of M. Peugeot has issued the foi-
the perfect 24-hour orbit."
EVIDENCE
Centaur will be to achieve lewing eurlously worded state-ikeness of the man who swept Yel is the picture an exact This involves restarting Its tent to the French Press re- motors in space and guiding garding the kidnapper who re-
celved the
money, Haymond it into an orbii precisely 22,900 miles above the equator, so that
Rolland. alias Raymond de its speed and trajectory exactly match the rotation of the Earth.
The statement reads:
appear stationary and can
From the ground it will thus can affirm that my wife_has
bever known Raymond Rot-
Beaufort,
This fuel gives a much great- er "kick" to the rocket than con- ventional liquid oxygen, and will allow US space research teams to put satellites weigh ing nearly four tous into Earth rbits. But liquid hydrogen Is tricky to use.
I must be kept at a tempera- used to maintala a permanent land. It is the kind of
The Lotus and the Robot that hope was shattered.
Koestler found that the be- liefs and aims of the yogis had been presented to the West in a carefully sweetened and censor- ed version.
In practice, they were often stupid, repellent, and depraved, Looking for serenity Koestler and wisdom among the Hindus, often found harsh narrow-mindedness and sexual neurusis instead.
were so
not of the scandal that Bose's book blinded
me. I is unobtainable not only in should have India, but also at the British been spared Muscum."
his two eldest sons abominably." irreplaceable physical loss
Unfortunately, to judge from
on the Intellectual elimate In India today, it would be as diMcult to write as a candid life of Stalin in Russia in the 'forties,
-(London Express Service),
First, Gandhi would not allow during the sex act. them any form of education He spent his life experiment- because he wanted to mould ing with foods to encourage them in his own image. When, a 40. Candh! decided 10
renounce sex for ever, he expected his sons to do the
same.
One of them, Manila, did his best-but when, at the age of 23, he was seduced by a married woman, Gandhi made a public seandal of it, fasting to remove the shame, and declaring that he would never allow Manilai to marry.
IN EXILE
the British out of India?
I During the Queen's visit turned to a book which was published several weeks before Gandhi. Were you aware that, his father dually give permis Which brings me to Mahatma Not until Manilat was 35 did she set out-THE LOTUS AND when Gandhi's wife lay dying sion, By this time he had "THE ROBOT, by Arthur Koest with a lung infection, he re- already been banished from his
Jer (Hutchinson 258.).
fused to allow doctors to save father's ashram (settlement) It devotes only a few para- her with penicillin injections? for helping his brother, Harlial. graphs to Gandhi, but I have certainly did not know this until who was in even worse disgrace. been startled by what those I read Koestler's book. Gandhi's Koestler quotes Manital him- |paragraphs tell us.
reason, according to Koestler, self who said:- First let
me struss the was that injections were against importance of evidence from the rules of strict Hindu Koestler. Remember that this religion.
thing
"ypse post office" through one would know and i would ture 391 degrees below faliren- which messages can be relayed have known it. In any case, helt freezing point. So when the from and to points all over the friends of my wife would have sun's rays beat on the rocket's globe.
known. -London Express Service).
-London Express Servtes),
casing out in space the pressure
IF EXPULSION FEVER CATCHES ON...
EXPELLED
EXPELLED AUSTRALIA
EXPELLED
EXPELLED!!
INDIA
EXPELLED WELENSKY
- for not
- for
sitting on
ship
~ for
Kashmirk
EXPELLED PAKISTAN
- for dictator. CEYLON for Ship
press censorship
EXPELLED
Letting black while
EXPELLED
CANADA for its Nike Zealand) -for
for
Capturing the "Keep out
country from The Japo* The Red
Indians
EXPELLED AFRICA
Apartheid
GHANA
dictator
policy
-for moving in on the Maoris
COMMONWEALT
CLUB
CLOSED
Cummings
"Yes! Britain's expelled now! For racial discrimination in North London boarding houses”.
Lenten Arprem Bervios,
"Father did not send The away completely empty-handed. He gave 1120 just sufficient money of my trab-fare and a little extra
I had to ilve away from him in exile, in South Africa.”
...
And Harilal? Не went lo pieces after being disowned by Gandhi for marrying against his wishes. When he was involved in business scandal Gandhl attacked him in an open letter to a newspaper.
Gandhi explained to the readers: "I do indeed happen to be the father of Harila! M. Gandhi.
Could I have influenced him he would have been associated with me in my. several public activities.... Men may be good, not neces- sarily their children."
Koestler adds: "Herllal, an alcoholle wreek, died in 1948 in a Bombay hospital.".
OBSESSED
Gandhi's allitude to marriage may seem odd to his admirers in the West. Somehow or other his name is mixed up with all kinds of fashionable" "liberal" notions.
If he had zlill been alive, one! would almost have expected him to appear In Itis foln' cloth at the Old Balley to give evidence for Lady Chatterley,
As Kocaller shows, Gandhi In fact, obsessed with almost insanely, repressive feel- ingy about sex. The crisis hour In his lite came, not with some encounter with the British raj but when, as a young man, he and his wife lived his sick father's house.
Once, for a moment, he gave over the tasks of massaging" his father's feet in order to vidit his wife's bedroom While lie Was there, his father Gandhi wrote later:-
ed.
"This is the Grst steady jab Fred's had in
years.
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