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'Ghosts' of Monte Carlo
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Homesick For Coconuts
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WAJALEIN, Marshall Islands.-Chocolato- skinned Juda rubbed his chin thoughtfully. Then he concluded that movies, Ice cream and electricity may ba all right for some people, but for real living, there's nothing like a coconut picked off the tree.
Juda is the chief of the 173 natives who left Bikini atoll when American atomic experimenta began.
The U.S. Navy, making a tactical error, sent the nativea first to the tiny but nearby island of RonJerik Thera, the natives found that coconuts were scarce and the fish poisonous. The Navy had to put them on relief.
Largo quantities of food, water and medical supplies & were shipped in, but still, the-natives complained. So now they have been transferred temporarily to Kwajalein, where they can work for a wage if they wish.
To accommodate the new arrivals, the US. Navy, bullt a tent city, a mess hall and a school. Sallors put electric lights in each tont and eagerly awaited the reaction.
play for sixpences now
No dress, no riches, no joy,
just forgotten
by JOHN PREBBLE
ONTE CARLO is now an elegant shell-a diamond ring without a jewel, highly developed industry starved of raw material.
It was from the salles' priver that the ruined men used to walk out into the gardena and sometimes
heavy bushes.
The natives were unim- pressed
"Electricity is all right," said Juda. He did not want to go any further.
Ice cream?
"It's good, yes, but we like the movies best," Juda replied through an interpreter.
LIKE ROY. ROGERS
commit suicide in the shelter of the THE Interpreter added that the Marshallese already have a He might be sitting in the same
favourite movio hero: cowboy place where that great gambler the small try sit mesmerised at
»That drama has gone, too. The Roy Rogers,
the
They like to U.E. steal chief. Charles M. Schwab, tables, enthralled by the music
of listen to hill-billy songs on the once showered his gold louis on the past
ghosts. Bowing to the in-radio, but when they sing thêm- green before a crowd of admiring evitable, the casino is retrenching, selves, they go back to a tune spectators.
cutting its staff to 1,350.
the missionaries taught them: These
are employees in the "Row Row, Row Your Boat." At the scarlet tables of the Cafe black wig greased flat to his skull, gaming-rooms, offices, bars, gardens, de Paris, to which the gamblers keeps his notes hidden on his knee, workshops, theatres, and Are came from the casino, a solitary.
brigade. workman sat and watched a hearse In ten minutes he loses 500 francs drive down the Avenue da Monte (12s. 6d.). He passes to Carlo,
table, loses another 80, and wins on his last two sixpenny chips.
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It was black and empty. It might have come for the corpse of Monte Carlo.
But although the soul has gone the body stin moves in the pallid play under the pink lights,
tho
Britain's Government and the European political situation are throttling a rich man's playground. Clinging to the cliffside, where the grey Alpes-Maritimes fall into the sen, eight square miles of terraces,
The sculptured · facaden (of cypress trees and rococo architecturo casino, Venetian mosales, copper that make the, little Principality of domes, thing across the bay to the Monaco, face the biggest slump In feudal palace of Monaco. their eighty years of extravagance, None of the fierce sunshine pene-
trates the casino,
Leaning on their polished and blue-uniformed, commissionaire deserted counters the barmen of flicks his Angers toward you as you Boulevard. Albert und Avenue da enter. Inside it la dark and oppres Monte Carlo shrug 'their shoulders. . gjvo). The air, for, all is stifling
agenda keat, is dampa 1.mika da When the 1014 war swept
hway the Russian and Austrian aristocracy night great glittering chandeliers The lights burn thinly, and it that had scattered gold at the tables, wait for a magnificence that does the English came to the Catá
not come,'! d'Azure
Now, with the English tone, per- haps the Americans, gamblers from Miami, their fears quietened by the results of the Italian elections, will come to Monte Carlo and make that Christian Democrat too.
Live on gambling
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Monaco must live on its gamblers. Ever since Francois Blanc here in the 'seventies and established the casino and the magnificent Hotel de Paris on a rocky plateau over looking the harbour, the elaborately vulgar gambling rooms of the casino have sustained the social and work- ing life of the principally,
One third of the municipal re- venue once came from the casino's payments under charter, Now the amount is less than dve per cent.
The casino authorities, the quaint ly named Company of Sea Baths and Strangers' Club, hayeṇa-capital-of 500 million france (£625,000).
Its 43,000 shareholders last year received 45 francs : (approximately one shilling) on, each of their 500- franc shares
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Grocer's pay
Since the war the cost of running this white wedding-cake structure which is the casino has increased 14 times, but the price of the lowest stake has only risen from five to 20 francs.
Slot machines
A man in a
collaricss
shirt,
a
another
With his winnings 30 times hia stako he has reached his targets, and leaves with 361.
An old woman in blue is always at the tables. She is among the 30 or 40 who queue at the doors every morning at ten.
She is fragile, with bright, black eyes, and she chirrups incessantly, breaking into a falsetto giggle when she wins, opening and closing her old handbag when she loses.
No Jools now
The casino is no longer the omal- works and the sowage, built roads, potent authority that ran the gas supported hospitals, and paid high Monaco. tribute to the Grimaldi princes
Of
When the famous Sporting Club closed it marked the end of Monte Carlo's old elegance.
The English were the Sporting Club, 70 percent of the patrons of its restaurants, ballrooms, night club, and gaming tables..
The 'Red' shop Evening dress was obligatory, and
now that the English" no
longer come, and the French will not dross,. the Club is useless.
Juda, however, was eager to cast aside this frivolous life. Most of all, he wanted to go followers. They do not under back to Bikini. So did his stand the dangers of radio activity and perhaps never- will.
shoes that he wore.
Juda liked the GI pants and
But he was- more annoyed than amazed when twin-engined amphibious plana thundered down the beach, 100- feet above our heads, to spray disinfectant
As the tiny globules of liquid sparkled and danced in the glar- ing sun, Juda-looked out across the.
of a coconut palm.
Facific, and longed for the rustle
WANT OWN ISLAND
661VE want to live on a big island "WE
of our own," he said, “It must have plenty of coconuts. Plenty of
In her seat, perhaps, onco ent Solly Joel, a gamblar among $10 great Thera are no Solly Jools now, and in the harbour of Monaco his white steam yacht waits Idly. over the shop, painted it n bright, water and fish. And no other
The casino bought it, with Bran-
In the Rue Grimaldi was once a shop kept by an Italian Fascist. After the liberation a resistance group took happy blue
people.
• In the inte-room there la a bar," 'and, a fow alot machines on which? American Ballora from the cruiser diose schemes of running luxury Over the shop they painted then think the government has an Rochester at Villefranche play with trips to Corsica and Sardinia. But nama of the a hearty enthusiasm uncommon In the petty gamblers and middle-class Party. the casino's life.
French Communist
bollday-makers in Monte Carlo do So for the party here is small, with Kwajalein. It seems to answer most
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picked out." One Island' that the US. Navy 1. thinking of is Kill, south of
The gaming rooms are to the left., not want much trips.
Juda's requirements, but the -z- changing- membership,
Navy is high, ornate rooms, gilded, panelled,
moving carefully this time. and luxurious," dwarfing" the
The six
private
rooms, once frequent-.
Commdr. Edward F. Ferguson, But as the Hfe-blood of luxury roulette tables and two or three ed by the high players, now differ drains out of Monte Carlo and the new chief of the civil administra-
only in the sense that their minimum debilitation is felt by trento-et-quaranto tabics.
the shop. tion of Kwajalein, does not want stake is 100 tranes (2s. ed.). With keepers, walters, porters, and to dump, the natives on an island In the whole room there are not a limit of 3,000 francs on any ono workers down in the Condamine where they will have any excuse number the maximum win can only triangle, they may turn to the lits for asking for more food contri- more than 150 players.
be 100,000 francs (138).
shop in the Rus Grimaldi,
butions or another transfer.
Some are there from ten in the morning, and may play until past majority are women." Thele midnight. Fow are young,
Laces are pale, their clothes untidy.
the
All of the sitting players follow a.system. At their elbows are cheats of paper, exercise books, and some cases small ledgers.
......
in
They note each number as turna diagrams in coloured pencils.
up. Some draw complex
SO THE BEES ARE FOOLED
INTO DOING OVERTIME
Once a minute the ball spins, the WHEN the fruit fails to set and croupiers rakes slide across tha the cabbages and clover run green, and, win or lose, the expres-short of seed-and it is happening sions about the table rarely change. now in Britain something has gone
A
bo-
seed. Dr. Butler thinks he
may eventually breed a ruce of boes with
By CHAPMAN PINCHER longer tongues, but he is first solv
ing the red clover problem another way--by what he calls "fooling the bong."
Here are human beings at work wrong with the balance of nature.
hedgerow nesting sites, cut the trying to earn living, but "Blame the bees,"
say the farmers, weeds which fed the Insects un- “Biamo the bees," say the quandaring a plitance.
g- til the crops blossomed, and killed He puts into the hive soma syrup flowers have deners, "there just aren't enough of millions of bumble bees with poison in which red clover francs, 1,000, win or lose, and each
Each has a target for the day, 500 | them” And it is true,
sprays intended for pests.
beert soaked. As the bees drink it they break up the scent of the clover,. leaves as poon as it is played.
In a creeper-covered house
To increase the wild insect popula- and this fools them into believ Play is rarely high. No winner
hind the White Horse Inn at Har- tion is impossible. All that can be ing that rod clover is yielding а There is no evening dress, gets richer than a moderately suc-
The penden, Herts, tall, 35-year-old_Dr
done is to replace them with hives good drink, cessful grocer would do by less hard sports, clothes which once prevented Colin Butler is experimenting to find of honey bees. This is Dr Butler's work. They play for sixpences # man from entering the casino are an answer.
problem. with gold louls. where the pre-war gamblers played worn by most players.
He explained to me why intensive
But he has shown that simply in They smoke incessantly. They are French and middle-class, is no noise, and the effect upon a made his work vital to the
Thereforming during the last ten years has creasing the number of hives is not entire cautious, persistent, unspectacular.
enough. The bees have to be made stranger, is such as to make On this thin fuld of moderate want to shout at
him agricultural programme. No longer to work to order. the top of his. are there enough wild Insecta gamblers, play acting a great past, volca.
Ris chief difficulty is getting them seed. bumble beca and the like-to to patronise crops
dialike rod they floats the colossal edifice of
One. This is among Dr Butler checks his theories by, casino. An opera house playing full: A young man with thick black pollinate all our field crops and fruit clover is company to a sparsely filled gallery. hair and a pencil line of
Important fodder marking bees with paint; then The
More
crops have been Monegasque explain the along his jaw plays with a
planted crops, but its nectar is awkwardly follows them in the field and watches
the
of them at home in a glass-sided hive or "bad politics." emotion. slump by
than wild insects could cope with placed for short tongues
he has built in his laboratory. The Soon, they hope, there will be a
and the wld-bee colonies have been honey bees. So they ignore it. revival, but in truth, however, there He kisses each 'sixpenny chip bo- decimated. For, as farmers cleaned In East Anglia, especially, farmers final result of his work we'll find in has been no "season" sinco 1939.. fore, he, places it;
up their land, they destroyed the are regularly falling to get it to sat the larders.
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beard quiet
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The falso news spreads through the hive and the bees fly out în search of the flowers. Even if they find little nectar in the red flower they keep on looking long enough to pollinate the flowers and sot the
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