THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1961.
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A TOP CAPITALIST WHO IS FRIENDLY WITH A TOP COMMUNIST
A tycoon who mixes with strange men in baggy suits and drinks only hot water
By Simon Kavanaugh
THE multi-millionaire chairman of the powerful Cheseapeake and Ohio Railway Company was addressing shareholders after yet another year of solid profit-making.
Had any other American businessman ex- his pressed the views with which he closed speech, he would have been jeered off the plat- form and investigated by the FBI.
when that famous Gagarin
off in young men stopped Canada
after his recent visit to Cuba-where he delivered a blistering attack on the capitol-
1st world.
But not an eyebrow was should entertain spaceman Yuri raised when Mr Cyrus Eaton told the meeting: "We have neglected George Washing ton's example and advice. The Father of our country wornad UB against on- tangling alliances. Ho reiterated that wo should never let our foreign policies be influenced by prejudices against any other notion.
"We have flagrantly dis- regarded these two pieces of sound advice. We are now in- extricably entangled with one
third of the nations of the
ances
another third
DELIGHTED
Cyrus Eaton has been dew nounced as a crank, threatened with being taken to public account before a Congressional committee, and accused of try- ing to blind his fellow-Ameri- cans to the fact that freedom the iron cannot exist behind Curtain.
CYRUS EATON......WORTH £70,000,000
But Eaton remains unper- Morid. We are angling for all turbed and is delighted to notice greatly admired his uncle who
with
foreign aid that his enemies, giving him up was minister of the local Baptist through a lavish
as Incorrigible, no longer make church and under his influener progranunc. Finally we are
a fuss about his views.
began studying to follow in his permitting prejudice to lead t
in feet, the American and footsteps. into bitter wrangling with the Canadian business worlds
But Rockefeller persuaded him. remaining third.
coming to the reluctant conclu- to take a post in one of his many alon that his steadfast refusal to companies. By the time he WRC ·
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STRANGEST regard the Russians as potential 37, 4 somewhat surprised Eaton
are
Paris Newsletter from Sam White
Paris.
UR Foreign Office,
OUR
as everyone knows, works in a mysterious way, its wonders to per- form or so it often seems to foreigners.
But occasionally it seems to get_enmeshed in Its own dex- icrily.
REVEALED: the man
behind Bourguiba –
he's from Manchester
differences at the moment were Middle East Bureau headed by morphine-through my skirt and
the late Brigadier Clayton, stockings,
As though Anglo-French
not sufflefent, a special and xratuitous irritant jus bern In- troduced into the entente not- so-cordiale.
Boford the French, at a suit. able moment set about unmask-
Not only that, but he was Intimately involved in the bitter post-war Anglo-French disputes In Syria and the Lebanon,
mg the latest of our villainies HAIR-RAISING
let me give you a peep at what will be revealed.
At the moment you will have CONFESSIONS gathered relations between
President Bourguiba of Truneta
of the mast poisonous.
Onco Is
B
To build up the impression that a de Gaulle reign of terror is sweeping France, his, where- for my syringe which I kept hid-pointedly undisclosed. He is, in On all fours, I would grope abouls in Italy are carefully but den under
my bed. I was a fart, in Milon. wreck. In a lucld moment I do- elded to kill myself...........I didn't love the men who wanted me....
"I WAS abandoned by my mother when I was two months
Q
Nonsense
But what nonsense alt this, is, old and I was brought up by In fact, neither Hight nor Left, my grandmother who kept the one with plastic bombs the house of assignation. To keep other with treason, can provoke me quiet during the day o I de Gaulle Into abrogaling demo- wouldn't disturb the clients I crafic liberty, was given plenty of wine."
Any other French government
and the French over Bizerta are INGER Edith Piaf is the comes as something of a shock, Intest victim of the therefore, to discover that urge to tell all—at a price- Bourguiba's principat diplomatic to a tape-recorder. Now her
There is a silputation in Mile. would have panicked long ago adviser with the rank of Ambassador in the Tunisian tape-recorded confessions, Plate contract forbidding the following the open threats of u sale of the memoirs in the US coup d'etat, but not so de Gaulle, Foreign
British authorised by her, are being This is because if they were pub- who continues to treat both subject who regularly renews his splashed in one of France's Lshed in the US. she would be extreme Right and extreme Left British passport at the British biggest circulation news barred as a former drug addict. minorifes with supreme disdain. Embassy in Tunis,
It seems a little naive to think is involved in the issue the Considering that his own Ho publicised that there widely
magnificently memoirs will escape the notice performance is
impressive, of the American Norcotics Burchtt,
Collection
He is Coell Hourani, Lebanese Christian, who
Was
papers, Franco Dimanche.
It is hair-raising stuff and it
makes the notorious confes- sions of our own Diana Dors look like nursery stuff.
It is all here-drug addiction,
born la Manchester, It was love affairs with such celebrities GOODBYE TO
Hourani who flew to London as boxer the late Marcel Cerdan, when the Blerta crisis flared and early days as a prostitute. up; and it was he who went to Washington to discuss the situs tion with President Kennedy.
Hourant also holds, of course, a Tunisian diplomalle passport; in fact, Hourani and his wife, gay, little Iraqi, seem to be collectors of passports,
the
Here are some of the more printable extracts: "BY THE age of 20 I was already known to the police for being constant ly in the company of pimps. I war often hauled away by police in black marlos, and orce bistro I was shot at with a re- yolver.
I was also once arrested and charged with the murder of one af my protectors.
the
SOUSTELLE
to it's goodbye to Jacques Soustelle. Recently in
There is, however, a sinistor aspect to the Soustelle "escape": he may have wind of another milltary revolt, in which case 3: would clearly be wise for kit to hold himself in readiness Ouside France to
It give political leadership,
INCIDENTAL INTELLIG- ENCE: with rare brilliance
a manifesto-like interview the French chose the work- with the French Right-wing men employed in building the weekly, Soustelle, one of the current French Exhibition in most brilliant of men, whose Moscow among card-holding adventurous mind is match members of the French Com- ed by his taste for adven-uniat Party. When the Ex- hibition folds.and the workers ture and politics, announces return, the French Commu-
Party nist
She, for example, holds passports of frog, Lebanon, Tunisia, in addition to the British passport to which she is entitled as a British citizen by marriage. "FOR FOUR years at Who Is Houron!? Apart from height of my fame 3 acted like his voluntary exile from his present post, he is chiefly an animal. People saw me foam France on the grounds that slight, but none the less from Fur notable for having worked for ing at the mouth and screaming he is in danger of imminent marked, drop in membership.
from both sides of the Iron Curtains,
regular features of We on the-Eaton farms. (Beports of their dis- cussion have been described
"horwash
wash"). Eaton does not jos kleep Over the fact his hobnobbing world conquerors waiting to found himself a millionaire, spring, combined with a dret The snowball gathered in with the Communist world has
name, disap These policies are burying us close business brain, makes him speed and size. Eaton took over resulted in his
pearing from the Cleveland the best choice to talk trade and expanded companies on both
the under
1001 Sucial erushing burden of with the Communist world. D
sides of the American border, he edition. of taxation. If they are allowed
It has been cald that he's mode huge investments in al-Register. to go to the length of flaring into open war aur people will be annihilited and everything that industry and science have aims and interests that he quarrying concerns, steel mills, white hair-he looks something created will be utterly den would
like an unbearded Uncle Sam exercise in negotiating shipping lines and tyre factories. the purchase of the sale of vast His industrial empire ranged shows emotion only when dis- property or a merger or proxy from the Arctic to Brazil, cussing the great alm of his contest,"
The great depression of llfothe promotion of Inter- understanding and the thirties, fatal to so many national tycoons, proved a mere tem- proce. porary setback. Within a few years he had regained every- thing he lost and was soon richer than ever,
simply brought to the problem most every type of enterprise, he This slow-speaking, courtly the same logic and cold accept became boss of gold mines, rail- man of 77, with his pink, kindly ance of facts and assaying of way
companies, banks, ore face surmounted by a mop of
troyed."
The Americans arc now learning to live with Mr Eaton and to be surprised at nothing he says.
Mr Eaton is the world's strangest millionaire. The man who described himself "the world's greatest capital- ist" is a firm friend of Mr Krushev and is as much at home behind the Iron Cur- tain as he is riding to hounds in New England and imingling with his fellow-capitalista in
the mont fashionable clubs
of New York and his native Canada,
GROCERIES
The first man to recogolse Eston's vast business poten-
Today he is thought to be
tial was the great American worth £70 million. business tycoon. John D. Rockefeller, who quickly de- termined that the gangling 17-year-old Nova Scotian he met at a Hapist church meeting at the turn of the century
Eaton is now an American eltizen, but his heart is Canadian. He delights his prize-winning cattlo on his vast farms in Cleveland and Northfield, Ohio. but every few months finds him STILI wasting his in his 15-room mansion built of talente in training to be B wood, overlooking the harbour He is the only American sure
church minister.
of his native village, where he of a welcome at the Chinese Balon born in the sleepy is the "equire" of tho 550- Embassy in Moscow, and has lobster-shing community of strong community.
host played
to both Mr Pugwash, Nova Scotia. In 1883. Kruschev and Russia's second worked as a hand on his father's - most powerful man, Mr Miko- farm and delivered groceries for yon. It was natural that he, the family-owned local store. He
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INFLUENCE
He scorns criticism that he is willing to turn his back on the free world. "They talk about Russla being a pollee Anne state," he says, "but and I don't find it crammed with
thin policemen. In
every- country the FBI are
Bon- where. The commit ference broke down because people like the Central intel- ligence Agency brought, in- fluence to bèze to keep the two halves of the world apart," The brilliantly successful business magnate who holds the Despite his great wealth, he Lenin Peace prize spenda vast lives simply; he does not smoke cums in bringing together and and drinks anir hot water. He entertaining
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had two sons and Ave daughters, from all parts of the world. by his drat marriage which" "They have got to mix and broke up before the war. He talk to understand each other's presont wife, an attractive point of view." he says. "Pre- woman with waist-length foxen paration for war can result in hair, whom he married at the crushing taxation and set the age of 73, in 30 years his junior. scene for complete annihilation. Mrs Eaton, condemned by If we let time and evolution lliness to spend the rest of work free from threats from the her life in a wheelchair, goes Western world I think there with him on his world-wide would be a great chance of travels and is an enthusiastle Insting prace. supporter of his campaign to bridge the gap between East and West.
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She was as thrilled to help entertain Kruscher at. York's plush Biltmore Hotel and on one of the Edton Ohio farms
and he held the ace of that suit, as she was to visit the Russian
lender's country house
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Having amassed a vast for- tune, Eaton has a poor,opinion of the prestige of wealth. You can only wear one suit. You only eat three heals a day, What matters is the creative- hase. That is the real distinc- tion between one" man and an- other."
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