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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1961.
Paris Newsletter
DURING
Paris.
URING__the_height of the Bizerta fight- ing, a quiet friendly transaction between France and the Federal
German Republic slipped through almost 11- noticed.
Was
The act of goodwill from France, who gallantly, de- elded i was time to hand back to the Germuns the Hotel Beau- hurnals, which used to be their embassy in Paris' before the war.
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It's a beautiful building the Left Bank, built in 1714, I teme the German Embassy In 187] und remained
thele
THE FRENCH GIVE
THE GERMANS THEIR
OLD EMBASSY BACK
visit that the French Govern inent intended handing the building back.
Now the French Assembly has its adopted a decree allowing restllution.
The Germans scom rather hazy obout what to do with it.
So far they have nut de
pussession mill the French con- elded whether It will once tiseated it in 1945.
again become their embassy. Their present embassy stands the Avenue Franklin D Roosevelt.
Undecided
President de Gaulle informed the Federal Republic's president Mr Luebke on his recent state
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I suspect they will decide to turn it into the private resi- dence of the Germen Ambassa~ or here, Herr Herber Blanken- horn.
FROM JOHN
oppear presumably from mysterious beach to, witness,,,
MOYNIHAN
Bomo friends submitted,portrakis ba her for the Arst exhibition.
Does any suppose that Paris Wil Become" turklornbla in August now?
of
Reinhardt, Gelab, the explusive The artists included Mòŋ Ray, chief of the Calcago Osler school, and Takis, the Greek sculptor.
Some of the tiles. wore -Iris
Sphinx and Electromatic Iris,
QUOTE of the week: "My rumance with Brigitte Bar. dot? A romance which could
"It was one of those miracles," have happened between any said Mics Clert. It certainly was-for Mr Theodore Ahren- berg, the Swedish millionaire, bought the 42 conceptions of M199 Clert for more than form a £10,000. They will special Irls Clert Room at
Distel.
for wedding will take place in typist and a student."-Sacha In August has caused a thaw
the French
He will be a lucky man the interior of the Hotel Beau- harnals is a jewel.
Prince Eugene de Beauharnais, son of the Empress Josephine, bought the bullding in 1803 and spent a fortune on decoration.
The Interior, with a throne room, pink reception room, and Empire style furniture has re- mained unchanged ever since,
Unseasonable
A remarkable ovent Is' soen take place in Paris. The announcement that a society
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Davina takes
the road to Rome
By Christopher Lucas
N the soft sunshine of a Roman summer, a woman who could only be
IN
English ash-blonde hair, cashmere jumper, and gentle good looks, slips a veil of black lace from her handbag.
She walks fast and straight. She ignores the fountains, thei marbled statuary, and the city walla, warm and friendly a baked ineringue, Unconcerned with the trivia of a tourist capital, Davina West, alece and heiress of Lord Portman, turns Into the coal shadows of Marta el popolo, a church, a sub.. Imely Renaissance church, a Roman Catholic church. IL N the tour of High Mass.
was benu-
Just six years ago sho accepted as "the most
ital pri in Britain." Today,
her 30th
year, she
in
has
been accepted BA the nowest recruit Into that most Com- plex and varied of reeds--the
Roman Catholic converts,
Obliterated
ihis enthusiasm
is don't
of us
most "All defections are These sternly contested by the Church rather undergraduatlsh. of England, which claims 3,640
you think? tenverts from
Church of
"As it happens, must Rome, and insists that only 800 would rather read Henry James registered Anglicans switched ur Conrad anyway." to Catholicism last year.
Yet, shelving the computer contest, Britain's
minority church has unquestionably collected a roll-call of con- as tm- verts which remains pressive as it is diverse.
Surprises
UTHORS like Evelyn Waugh
Liberals' claim
THE agnustle. Liberals claim
DI
the move 15 spurred by audi, by personal disenananunent adult — picæng up a really
Dolley packaged insurance
at Belea.
00
In Rome's Engish College, after Henry founded in exte
und Grahani Greene, poets VIII dissolved the monasteries, like Edith Sitwell, actors like Alound a more substantial ex- Ale Guinness, scientists like planation. Sherwood Toysur
You eat to Bike eating
the 7101signor. or Sets.on Snow, the ex- live," plorer, Douglas Hyue, former "Some eat more elaborately
oinera.
'For
The
JARIC
UX years ago she was Baron's Castor of the Dally Worker, and than
favourite foce, the wife of a opera sincer Juan Hummond. reason no two people ever have prospering stockbroker, client of Even Dennis Hamilton. Mis Aspreys and The Mirabelle, the Dora's late and estranged htes- dedicated servant of society, pand.
elosing.
exactly the same matives.
"Many Anglican pastors come uver for doctrinal reasons: they feel their Church tucks, moru discipline and rm teaching," he added.
from Tale opening to Mitres Within Rome's city limits, H Beda College, the converts Today she lives in a no-star Ammary, one surprisingly dis- hotel, scrafty, backstreet held Theological College,
covers the ex-Principal of Ligh- "Some ordinary Anglicans the actually come for the ritual, place where travelling sales-
thu ex-Dean of Johannesburg,
Church men stap.
because they feel their two dogs. The giddy, rather ex-Chaplain of King's College, is a bare, numb affair without vacant pant
been London, and obliterated. quite quietly, paranns. qulic firmly.
Alone, with ber
"I've always wanted to be a Roman Catholic,' she says. simply. "I considered it tung before leaving England. Obvious- ly it was something I decided for myself. It had to come."
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ex-Anglican wir warmth and humanity.
"If this is their only pur- pose, well, we tell them to try the operd. The great majority actually think their way in after tremendous reading and mental effort,"
Which will does not include the marc celebrated foreigners, Boraya, ex-Queen of Persla, spare-time diplomat Clare Boothe Luce, Red Skel- ton, the lale Gary Cooper, and a Japanese Ambassador lo the Holy See.
And for anemiy-decided canTM rlidate, the passage through The Church of England, one conversion but the road fees, would find it difficult
An inevity and personal choice, perhaps,
carrying
heavy somhe
these days,
not
simple private
to but swifi-six months*
of an
to Rome, It would seem, is match such a runter vi celebri dnstruction in the so-called
traffic tes, Yet the Vatican remains "penny
and the catechism" aloofy unimpressed,
brief reconciliation" rite, which "There are $72,000,000 Roman Josts under a quarter Private calls by the Arch Catholics and 42.000.000 Angle hour. bishop of Canterbury, publle cans. It would seem rather calls by the Queen, uncounted obvious we do not need to got
callers froin Lambeth into competitions,"
quier Palace.
A
chaln
whien reaction erupted in
A superbly testy, maybe even unfordly, wrangle
most distinguished peers collid-
uno prelate.
commented.
Adamant
of The Church Rome, It
adequately prepared An- would appear, Cessively impressed with its problems. The chief questions In the Upper House, with the converts. In his cool modernistic normally concern moral prac
study, Father Purdy, teacher of tice, difficulties about marriage
I was ing dogma-first over Britain's philosophy, wit and conversa and sex."
told; Subo tionalist, explained; religious horizons,
is quite adamant on "Among aur more dis- birth control ind the indis- tinguished converts there' is a soluble state of marriage, We keen. dixitnellon between the must stand On
minimal Ilterary Gold, the Waughs and morally. Greenes, where they arn lika-
is not even exalcans there are usually no
Defensible
..
VET the suspicions of Viscount Alexander, that bluntest of Socialist Baptist; may well become defensible,
RYKU
For. whatever the ment, the Vallcap of Popo
ly to be constantly arileufale, and - tho petforming arts, where the Joan Hammonds are not constantly siring their views in publlo.”
Father Purdy smiled, perhaps John har, quile clearly, be just a trife maliciously.
our land "Graham
come a power in ahoe again.
Church
*
"The Charah is not callous, but it cannot change a morál principle just besatise circum- Ktances change."
must
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Here, at the Holy See, I have misconceptions about: tho bech shown statistics 67,520 Church. converts in the past five years,
Catholics ace "Progressivo Wille infant Leptams have meant to and him Jumped woll uver 500,000 emancipated because he uses can take over 20 years,
For Davina West, still young. of Peter West, those are the in- still elegant, and silil the wife
flexiblo precepts which Greene, for example, he's produced endless now direct her conduct,
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a noophyte convert, САП почет marry again. Tho secred Roma Hota naïlifos Lew
decision marriage, and the madly
When one woman reconUy complained that her beauty
for and become a włuż,
confessor "Both ideas, obviously, are pladsme, the Church has
replied dryly: total notaense. A good many, serious
/during the’same period,
sudo words
backward and
These, Agures are based on Catholics ero meant to find him might alter,
church registers dimeult to ignore.
Only last year, apparently, there were 10,704 converts in the United Kingdom, including 17 Anglican ministers, almost double century-old average.
the co-box
aristocracy.
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A fuller of astonishment has crossed their lofty expression for they do not normally dream of going near the city. In holiday month.
the
The wedding,
has which caused the stir, is between Count Charles de Rohan-Chabot and Paola Sanjusi, daughter of Count Orazio Sanjust.
Miss Sanjust is a close, friend of Francoise Sagan, who
will
Forever Iris
Iris Clert, who is running a new gallery in the Faubourg St Hancre, is a sharp, witty Greek woman, much respected by the younger artials here.
"I don't take enormous profits," ahr told me. Only recently, when she opened her new gallery, 42 of her painter
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