I'M WRITING FROM THE JEWISH H.Q. IN PARIS
From Gordon Young
T
PARIS, April 28.
THE men behind the refugee ships, the men who rejoiced this morning at the killing of Palesthic police chief Conquest, regard this Lutetin Palace as their personal "Grand Hotel." Uninvited by the management, the men of the Jewish resistance use the Lutetia Hotel as their rendezvous for their European agents:
From two rooms on the fifth floor (rent about 25s. a day) swarthy Samuel Merlin and an attractive Jewish girl named Miss Kenne direct the "American League for a Free Palestine" and make no secret of their support of the Palestine underground.
It was in one of these rooms last January that Professor Johan Smertenko, on the eve of his vain attempt to force his way into Britain without a visa, told reporters: "We support the whole concept of the resistance morally and we give money to their repatriation activities."
Then from three rooms on the third floor (rent about YE2 15%, a day) A retire French colonel. Alfred Imhus, preddes over the French branch of the organisation? called Le Ligue Franels Pour La Palestina Lihra
A third-flour
room is also the editorial office of the League's own i
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wendly paper La R.poste (The Answer), worse eier, Alfred Stan recently front-paged a jolly little carloon showing bru al-faced. Eritia soldiers leading a ting Jew sh bey
in chuins to a conentration camu.
Colonel Imhaus has enrolled many
famous Frenchmen into his league, At a recent metting organ.sed from the Lutella and held in the Salle Wagram, the Albert Hall of Paris, the speakers included men ka veteran politician Louis Marin and the former de Gaullist Minister. Reau Capitant. ·
Today he Lutetia has become fori Paris more or less what the Grand Hotel was to Stockholm during the
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1947.
ROUND THE EMPIRE
"OPERATION BOVINE
BRITISH WARSHIPS
HAULED TO THE SCENE OF ACTION- 3.000 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL-
by OXEN
Subtract 45 From 45 That 45 May Remain
THE STONE-MASON'S PUZZLE, ENGRAVED ON A STONE WALL, IN BEBINGTON, NEAR SIRKENHEAD, 160 YEARS AGO
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IN 1915 The 42 TON, 40FT LAUNCHES, WITH MY GROW ON 100F PALME,
WEIGH 40 POUNDS 27 MEN LED BY COMME SPICER-SIMSON (inset).
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Prince Juan were to take his courage in both hands, go to Madrid and proclaim himself openly King of Spain, he would have the backing of the whole Spanish nation,
That is the impression I gain- after ten very searching days in the Spanish capital.
This does not mean to say that Franco has fallen from power, or is even tottering, be- Cause that is not so.
The followers of the
monarchy
treat Franco with the greatest respect and the only
person who could displace him is Juan.
Franco maintains himself in power purely on the memory of the Com munist regime in Spain. He tells the Spanish people clearly that it is either him or Communism.
The Communists gave Spain such a drubbing that nobody wants them back-not even the Communists."
WORKERS' WANTS Only work and bread. All the average Spanish workers want, in their own words, are work and breads They are even prepared to put up with Francu for these.
Because,
seem.
paradoxical as it may
introduced Franco has
11
large variety of reforms that bene- at the working classes, although he has quashed their liberty to strike.
with Pateman
THE ESTOMO LANGUAGE, CONTAINS NO WORD FOR "WAR" but
2000 EsumOS WERE ENGAGED AS MIR SPOTTERS ON CANADA'S FIRST LINE
OF DEFENCE AGAINST ANY
SNEAK ATTACK FROM THE NORTH DURING THE RECENT WAR, DE
"SEA
BARBADOS.
SEA URCHINS
COVERED
WITH LONG, **
TROGLODYTAS SHARP SPINES ARE YO TROGLODYTES FOUND ON THE GÓRAL. TROGLODYTE REEKS THE LARGE ONES
"ARE SCOOPED OUT & FILLED WITH THE FLESH OF THE SMALL ONES, ROLLED INTO CONES & WRAPPED IN ŰRADE (ZAVES,
- FRIED, THEY MAKE A TASTY MEAL
PATOMAN
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FRANCO
SURVIVE?
Not if Prince Juan decides to step into Spain
by
MONT FOLLICK
Socialist M. P. fer. Loughborough
However, all the taxis in Madrid They are the people who Arc people went nut' bearing the burden: everybody, says were hired, und
to a taxi. ten and twelve
so, including the Foreign Minister himself.
+ Everybody feels that something should be done, for the working classes, but not ʼn single subsidised house his been built for them, be
So great was the enthusiom that the taxi drivers actually naked per- mission, to parade in front of Juan and salute him.
.
And those taxi drivers were some
of the people who fought on side of the Republic in War.
At the other end of the city. In Les Burros Bajos, the poorer people live, and they are having a fright fully hard time.
James Cameron
Forgive me if I'm cheerful.
L
ever
T
IFE in these parts is tough of meat? Of course we are ridden by enough today without a lowering bureaucracy, but did you try to get a forin signed in having Cheerful Charlies thrust- Egypt, or pass an innocuous week in ing around with silver linings. any of the Balican cities without an
office-folder full of papers? Nevertheless, this has to be said, regardless: This is Eng land, and a pest on the regi ment of well-informed people who have been trying to spoll my first sight of home.since Before The Deluge.
A fortnight should be enough to make it clear whether one is living in Hades or not, call England or anything else, I have been back a couple of weeks: It still smells all right to me.
The line of talk HAD been long enough away from the country to have been, I sup pose, mildly conditioned by the hor ror stories that are going about. "You can't want to go back? Well, you
know we're sorry for you.... thought everyone who could was clearing out. I suppose you'll be leaving as soon as you can?"
That is the general line in the clubs and verandahs by our overseas re- presentatives, the official travellers British who arc and expatriate spreading--I believe just fatuously, not necessarily viciously-the worst find of defeatist propaganda.
This influence is a little hard to dodge when you are a long way from home and budly informed on the that build up day-by-day detail In that distressing word ""morale."
the fuel through Was nway all troubles and the cold spell-all right,
1 have formed the opinion that, und as it may be, inefficient as every Imperial boxwallah tells me it is, the British telephone system is the best I have ever met (did you ever try to get a call out of Basra?) and the Post Office as reliable as anyone's (you should have a go at India, where you must queue up for 20 min- utes to get every stamp personally cancelled, to make It not worth any one's while stealing the stamp and throwing away the letter),
Dear knows we have an official- dom. Dear knows it is a weariness of the flesh, But the maddoned traveller, reaching Journey's ond af- ter in endless obstacle race of im- migration officials, Customs men, health Inspectors, currency detectives all the way from, sny, China, knows precisely when he is home by what can only be called Frontier Manners.
Story of a garden
SPENT an enchanting afternoon with my neighbour, a successful and charming playwright, who can nevertheless become almost inarticu- fate with hatred on one subject, the Government. Not any Government, just this onc. For an hour he ful- minated to me on the fantastic de- gradation of contemporary existence, on his contempt and leathing for the legislators- who have reduced this country to a deliquescent ruin.
And at the end of this we came to the woodland behind his house, where carpet of primrose and wild violet met the vell of springing leaves all around; he stopped and looked as I know; I can't talk and what though he had made it himself, and
he said: "You see what I mean where else in the world would you For just that moment he was a contented man, before the shadow of Mr Herbert Morrison came be- tween him and the sun.
heard was terrible.
Nevertheless at this moment, you may be sure, Colonelin Allahabad and Mr-in Cannes and above all the dehydrated Misain Nairobi are telling each other with some ro- lish
that
you and in Britain are on ground down by the grimmest and most oppressive tyranny, hellbent for personal and national bankruptcy, and can you wonder that the Ameri- cans want to colonise us?
live?"
But I got him. And if people so
me, as Lord McGowan of 1.C.I. and Mr Bradgreen of the King's Arms, can agree to "a robust faith in the future of a newborn people," then There Shall Be No Despondency In This Column. At least not today.
In a long interview I had with the brink of bloody revolution, far removed apart as this man and 64-year-old Count Romanones, who has been three times Prime Minister of Spain, he told me that no other regime but
parliamentary system is any good for his country.
He was frank about L He salt Franco must go and the monarchy must retur.
Well, after a fortnight in this living death I am still looking for the the twitching trigger-ingers und neurasthenia, I ani still, in some doubt, waiting for the This old man is the wealthiest creeps to crawl out, and send mo person in Spain.
1 candid gasping for a passage out of England.
Quite
midnight Cater To Women
the cause it is not a business proposi rok of H3, "And Thus It Happen- Whereas all I can diseaver in myself Of Distinction
the Civil tan to do so.
to
Naturally, Franco could not re- press the news, as It had got round Madrid, but when it come publishing photographs in the papers that circulate throughout Spain he gave the order that no photograph must contain more than, six per- sons.
where many men war- centre mcat on curious aniretunk.
Three out of four of the visitors who pay from Us. Od. tu 30s, day for its 340 rooms come from abroad. Thy runge from South Americans, Egyptians and Persians, to British Strikes are not allowed under any tourists, among whom are many consideration. But there is a syn-
But I have seen photographs with visting English clergymen who ap-dicate appointed to adjudicate parently like its modernic prices disputes and settle them.
arma and handkerchiefs and hals, and proximity to the Sorbonne and
There is a great deal of -our-centres of learning.-
Jiherly in Spain-teday-compared that were taken at the time,
has seen
on
more
Tho hotel, imposingly furnished with two years ago, with marble, gilt and red plush,
People spank quite openly and was bull in 1910 and
looking over their adventurous days more or less over freely, without
shoulders to see who is listening.
The newspapers give good reports from London and Parts almost daily, and there at least one that does
since.
A
AFTER the German occupation of not accept any subsidy from Franco
Nobody is allowed to
Farls it was taken over by Admiral --A.B.C.
criticise Canaris as headquarters for his in- telligence pervice. When he arrived Franco, although everybody criticises the admiral told the manager, white-the regime. haired Emile Chappaz. "We shall The Falange is hated by every; be staying here for the nex: 20 body except its own followers, and
and gave him un Fury"
armed everybody would like to get rid of Wehrmacht men to it--except Franco, Kuard of two see that nobody raided the wine cellar.
M. Chappaz, who as a young man owned his trade at British hotes in Bexh21 and Ascot, Uinnked
month
the next
Admiral Canaris diplomatically, Then he spent qu'atly smuggling in cheap wine
the German, Army instead
Serve
of the good wine in his cellor.
That is why M. Chappez was obla this afternoon to walk with me through the long
wine
celitar which
corridor of his
bottles of everything you
150,000
want
he
He plays off the Falange against the army, so that when the army becomes too outspoken he relies on the Falange. And when the Falange
11ttle too difficult becomes a fails back on the army
The Falange holds on to the big jobs, and that will be the difficulty in getting rid of it.
TWO ARGUMENTS Keep Franco in power
In a stretch of the street in the Colle, de Alcala and. the Puerta del Sol-about the length of Oxford- street from Oxford Circus to Bond- street--I counted nearly 30 large banks. I have never seen such a collection of banks in any part of the world.
ed," is on sale everywhere.
The banks are getting everything into their
Another power and into their
is an intense longing to remain here for the rest of my life.
Don't forget,
though
HAVE no right whatever to inflict
an insufferable messoge of good
and
thousands of people, all waving their hands, I is not money they want, Jose Yanguas, Count of Avedilla, / British people of the depths of their Robert Cummings of El Paso an-
MONARCHISTS Make open avowal
Even persons in Franco's closest surroundings do not hesitate to de- clare themselves Monarchists.
I spoke to the Foreign Secretary, Martin Artajo, and, he told me quite clearly that he was a Monarchist.
I spoke to a score of people, all in the closest contact with Franco, and they all proclaimed themselves Monarchists,
There are also clandestino pam- phiels, openly favouring the monarchy passing from hand to hand."
I have been assured, on good grounds, that the Falangiste do not give any directives to newspapers.
letters from have received Britain, and they were not opened by the censor,
I
I
I was not subject to any police while I was in Spain. I Inspection alled in the usual hotel form, and that was the only pollee regulation I was asked to
to comply with. went where I wanted to go, and astute Gallego Franco, being an
did what I I wanted to do. I was except
Gallegos are the most never put to any inconvenience of whisky and show me huge and the
Spain-balances shelves stacked with precious, dusty astute people in
1 upake treely about all I want- bottles of 1928 Bordeaux and 1993 his maintenance of power on two any description.
ed to say, and when there was suggestion of a meeting with Franco I said quite openly that if I were to have an Interview with Franco...I Questions intended putting definite to him.
Needless to say, I did not get thọ Interview.
Cognac.
Admiral Canaris ("sudi a poltto little man he seemed"), whose in- telligence service never found the 1893 cognac in their own hotel, was sacked by Hler for inefllelency.
•
arguments:-
When there is no trouble, he says there is no need for him 10 #0;
If there is trouble, he says it is now the time for him to hold on,
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And so he manages to remain the
AFTER the liberation the Hotel Caudillo.
Lutetia was used for a time by It may be some alight Indication moving rapidly General de Gaulle,, then as a centre of how things are
a solution of the problem if for welcoming returning French towards
deportees.
Now it is back' to nurmal and Its
I give one or two instances of events
that have happened recently:
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But I would not be so bold; niš that was. the reason, to say that although it very well might have been.
When I asked for a visa in Lon- don I made it plain that I was go- On the sixth anniversary of King ing to take advantage of the fact Alfonso XIII's death the A.B.C. That I speak fluent Spanish to make day serving anying from 000 to Rave a a full-size plcture of King Al- my own investigations. I was told
a day. In
e is fonso with a very wide mourning that I would be free to do what I
300 employees aro busy night and
1,000
M
liked.
This was the very first time that
brasserie and in the cocktail bar, band round t where Mr. Merlin eon, meet bis
Jewish friends under an Incongruous this had happened. fricze of old English sporting pris, It also mentioned that services drinks are freely dispensed.
would be held at the Church Today the Lutetia is crowded, Medinaceli in memory of the late great was the crowd assembled
lively and prosperous, with a galaxy king.
And I did just what I liked.
but substance.
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There are, by the way, plenty of English books on sale in the shops, and a translation of Ernest Bevin's blography, by Trevor Evans, stands in the front of every shop window. PRIME MINISTER When Juan, Returns
outstanding Monarchist very old friend of mine, who was Foreign Minister In 1925, insisted that Spain must go back to a Con- siltutional monarchy, with a proper
Parliament, responsible
He said all parlimentary parties The Gran Via, which is a new
inst
represented-Conserva- cutting right through the tives, Liberals and Socialists-but he artery centro of Madrid, has outdistanced would not include non-parlimen the old centres of traffic, and here tary parties, such as Fascists and
abundance of luxury Communists. you find an living.
It is very probable that Yanguas will be the Prime Minister of Spain when the monarchy returns.
Whatever happens in Spain, the banks and the insurance companies will come out on top.
Here is the wealth, and here is Franco's Spain.
BADLY OFF
of
F
The working-classes There is no doubt that at this present
Spain.
HOPS
of visitors with a million different interests Right now in one of the in the street that it was impossible hold's big banqueting "rooms
an
AT
for even a small part of them to dinaryoment there is extraor International conference has been get into the church. They filed the Big houses are being built all over
going on about how to make in dustrial use of poplar trees.
whole neighbourhood right down to tho
the banks are buying up the Palace Hotel and beyond.
everything, the shops are full from customers When Juan's airplane came down morning ill night with Foreign Minster troubled by a at Barojas, near Madrid, a
Lone problem: "All weeks ago to refuel, so large was the making their purchases.
Says M. Chappas, with the air of
tricky • diplomatic
A man who has money in Spain
my visitors are just guests to me,crowd that wonted to mish out to has a life of luxury
of course. But when polities come see their king that Franco prohibit-But the working-classes are very into a hotel that is not a very ed any buses to move out in that badly off. Wages have not risen "happy thing."!
with the cost of living.
direction.
Students who used to work their way through college as magazine salesmen lacked ima- gination. Here are a couple of cheer on anyone. To begin with it Texans who date women for a Is unfashionable; Sir Sigfford Cripps price to raise next terms fees. has found it necessary to launch a
Vincent Roby of Houston campaign of publicity to inform the
nounced their now escort burenta in parenthesis how one wishes he might have chosen as his in plight. (And in paren
the Daily Texan, the campus battlecry something less Inept and newspaper. The rates are $1 plus batt nonderous than his "We work, or
or all expenses on werk nights
and $2 want, and some standard-bearer plus expenses on Saturday night. less banal and turgid than his adules. Formals cost $5 plus expenses. cent and untrousered John Bull!) The boys claimed the girls were still getting the best of the bar- For all that it might be possiblu gain. Nothing modest about these to suggest that there are a few points | chaps. where Britain, even now, can im-
prove on other places. No doubt wo "Our service caters only to those are starving, but is it a pleasure to who can afford the best,” said Roby. get back to a place where a veget- | "The
of distinction.”—~. able tastes of vegetable, and meat| United Press.
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