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WHAT'S
GOING ON.
LONDON.
HAVE been looking
the
by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE lem-hoid to give gourmet anything he aske for quickly, efficiently, and
without question.
Timos chango
I round the London res.
to
and caburcts taurants ace what we have to offer to the tourists.
Quick advantage has been taken of the lifting of the ba, limit, and I think that the visitors will have, few complaints about food and cooking.
L
WHAT WOULD Qucen WIL
Charlotte have thought? The cabaret at her 204th Birthday Ball, when this year's debutantes. rando their curtsies, would cer tainly have persuaded her that times have changed.
What was the entertainment provided for this demure tender flock? A display of ball- A tew operatie room dancing? York arias?
The price of a good meal is no greater in a smart London restaurant than in the same kind of place in +Paris
New though, the other day, 1 saw caviar on the menu at 26s. a portion.
or
Stil, we have far to go before we reach the supremo Paris excellence.
Main snug shortage of trained stuff-particularly cooks. Waiters, chefs, even the maitres, are struggling with an unfamiliar prob.
WHO IS
SCHUMAN?
M. Jean Mon- net, France's chief plan- ning com- missioner.
He is an urid person- ality 21 Catholic zealot, n moderate all his life. man whose
OBERT SCHUMAN, Conservative
in A humourless
if unentsciou the French Cabinet printest,
present which fell a few days ago, jest he been to
melancholy pose author of the audaciou his long
to the cartoonists of the invitation to Britain pool her coal and steel with world. that of the Continent, way born in Luxemburg,
to
were
His parents' home was in Lorraine, then part of the German Empire, and
they comequently German subjects. And for more than half of his 64 years he, too, by reason of the German reupation, was a German subject.
He shares this paradox with many of his fellow-
• He was Army
an officer in the Kaiser's
• He crossed to the French Army
• He was a Minister in Petain's Govern- ment until he saw that Vichy was to be the lap-dog of the Nazis
• Ho was arrested by the Gostapo
• And he was the last Foreign Minister of France
to the national scene.
we have the
plan, fin
ly
parsionate aca- with hin demic Interest in books.
He has a collection of over 2,000 rare und valuable vol- unies in the old family house at Chazelles, In Lorraine. There, behind bald white shut- ters. lives hla housekeeper, Marie Kelle.
She has been with him for over 40 years, and she look
after hi tenderly when. viste Chazelles.
he
Far from it.
and
^ Issam young woman, dressed iri the smallest and WAJ honest of bathing suits, hurled through the air by two tough and muscular men in a manner which would have done credit to any Montmartry night
I doubt clubtough 1
it the whole Latin Quarter could peu- duce a club with enough head for such violent and room abandoned aerial contortions na
these.
I
Paying guests
TOLD recently of big busi
toy being done neys Duke of Marlborough and Lord Warwick. who are
pounds by
many thousands of opening the doors of their stately homes to the pubile.
the
con-
tigations Marquis of Hallsbury Is tent with more modest tuldings nt Hatscid House.
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Last year 30,000 people went round, paid 25 6. cach. So his fordship
£3,750. pocketed Against that he must sel wages: for guides, money produce.
fron. lens or garden
date
The Duke of Nchnion, 100, commercial makes
great effort at Goodwood House, open; one day each werk since the head for beginning of April.
He charges entrance, another
23. for cat- logues.
And bis Grace is a confiding type: sightseers may at will among his That is his time for relaxation. wander He rises at eight instead of his retres, observed only by four estale workers, who keep un- more customary 0.30.
obtrusively in the background. He comes down to fight
bu week to Iis He 138 Here perhaps Ministerial post in emutant Impulse behind the breakfast, before which he a brought 375 visitors, but he his first
Impule ways kitses the wrinkled check 1910, when Premier Paul Rey Schuman
the holiday donbled during Under-See- Lenerated as much by Buch- of old Marie, and then buries hopes that this Sgure will be 12112 mide
himself in his books.
season. man as by Schuman,
This platonic bus is probab- The duke has one advantage. He lives the life of att
only intimacy which The local bus runs through his small flat in they the choite in a
in his wifeless life. He has de- Latin quarter, browsing among Schuman has permitted himself park, pasas within a few yards the bookstalls on the Left Bank, under for a few weeks
tiny cared that he has never been cating frugal meals at "a but when 1
redam the Boulevard St in dạng.r of marriage. known Machal Petain, A mun with no
To the Frenchi that per German that Vichy was to be only Germain.
the Nazi he re-
has hi most vices, except a
REL last for a pipe and a glasa a lap-dog of of beer. And there are those and and went back to In- who deny that he is even this weakness.
Gallic
atel
retary for Evacuees. with no A man clan. On his tongue the
He fallowed the dying French French language, divinely made for oratorical battle. is insipid.
countrymen. He shares Loyal to France
with few, if any, of his fellow-statesmen.
TODAY Schuman
Government to the tragedy of Bux. He remained in of
ilco
4me.
in office To remain Petin was a blunder.
ve bee
under 1: has allowed to forget,
In the National Assembly the is 4 Cmunis taunt him with
119 Frenchman, The Socialists mistrust him be- loyal This lean, dry man, whose wrinkled brow, bald much by choice as by the use of it.
His defunct
within i thul crown and and blue eyes Treaty of Versailles. He in
months of leaving Petain he give him the upward stare acting in the interests of of a lonely spaniel, is a his countrymen. But he was in the hands of the Gestas Lorrainer. And therein lies would he the first to admit
German influence the a key to his personality.
his early life.
On both sides
LORRAINE
in-
po
on
Not
arguments
His family was an one in Lorraine.
old
On
course
Le not And what
Robert Schuman
an Arg ment to not worth consideration.
He pursued an uninspired Lorraine therofore
through warm evitably became the mor- academic tar in which Franco-Ger- the German Universities of French. man enmity has ground Munich, Berlin, Bonn and out a confusion of loval. Metz, and emerged in time
to have
in the to serve ties.
Kaiser's army.
From Lorraine came Joan, Maid of Orleans. There was first heard the
Between wars
i only light amurement in sturing one. He has a taste
for gangster Buns that sets odd-
-
of his front door.
No faint heart
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Now a gun is packed with the briefcase
From Nowell Rogers
NEW YORK.
hus
agricultural air-lift.
lived far longer Can he had. expected, for when he was 40
scheme including
he believed himself to be dying ideas, layout and finished. design is available to
of # heart disease.
he would advertisers in the At that time ways at us an invalid, with faib feet up.
But, in the 40 years between then ind his death, the has done He spent 10 a big man's job. of those years in Parlament, 13 nore us a Lord of Appeal. Ile retired from his high orice, only 20 months ago.
He was a man of many ne working. qualities, hard
td 1t trans- thorough,
modest, did' a
The
he achieved
he
who is
THE life of a postwar ported 5,050 Spanish-speaking great deal of public work over that diplomat is not as hap- workers from the impoverished and above his legal duties.
And his popularity extended HIS
TIS only comment
shores, for experience is luminatingy as in the old striped land colony of Puerto Rico, in
bect-felds, near, played a leading part in Mari- came first For most of his young "Concentration camps," he says, trousers and top hat age. the Caribbean, 2,200 miles to the beyond our
inst une Conventions, making and Indeed, so unsafe has it 14,000-acre life he WILA 2121 orphan, are not arguments." under German
become that the U.S. State Canada's border. occu-
In these activities, I am told Its people cared for by a governess,
Department
ordered workers arrived two days be amending the laws of the sea. pation in 1871.
an extraordinary by remained French at heart. despairingly dismissed
diplomats in "certain posts" fore the deadline, after which
the beet would have begun to go prestige on the Continent. and carried on a stubborn his schoolmaster as only lit
in Southeast Asia to carry bad.
10s. a chukka resistance to the German- to be the editor of an en-
"I am a technician," he says, guns for protection.
TY: Wall-street's boom is isation of the province. cyclopedia.
also a boon to some out-of- The order has been disclosed
A man "not an ideologist" That tart of
THERE IS confession
by a brief mention in a State work Broadway actors. They trying to make pelo cheap does not provoke
He is approval among the Department reply to attacks on have been hired to take tole
and popular in Britale. It by Republican Senator. Joseph phone orders from customers.
Mr min Walsh, 43-year-old DaCarthy.
keeps 32 polo Around him the Frches Con- Said McCarthy:
STALKING: Every week 205 Irishroan, who "For nearly 1 Congressmen broadcast to ponies at Ham Common, Rich- prickly sana 20 years we have allowed dilst- servatives rally, sure to critician. Their Press tante diplomats to do the night, voter back home. This is a Con- mond.
gressional aloction year, so they
In the evenings, and at week- turns angrily on all oppancatsing for us with kid gloves in nro passing a Bil to authorise
may forake of their "myslic," their "saint" perfumed drawing-rooms." Alm shots of legislators for TV ends, enthusiasts
This stung the department into programmes. In Los Angeles, the tennis court or golf course reminding McCarthy that U.S. bus passengers now watch a anul play polo on Mr Walsh's
have been gaoted in TV screen
driver's ponies at 10s, a chukka. diplomats devout Catoli-Communist China, fired on Despite his scillaise. Lorraine, although Hat 1010 when the ancient cism Schuman has formed the Greek civil war, and LA its spirit has always been divided loyalties of Lorraine deep friendship with Dr Frank Palestine, and that Consul-Gen- ENGLISH-STYLE brod 15 15. 3d, a minute.
I wish Mr Walsh success. Ila Bale in America-for an French, has supplied 1 burnt пр
Inside hlin and he Buchman, ebullient leader of cral Thomas Watson was killed.
in is more likely to achieve, 1 by a sniper in Palestine in 1948. Is. ed. a loaf. It is made tragic list of men who have saw which way his duties loy, Moral Rearmament
It is for these reasons, said the America under licence, and feel than that He has decorated Buchom fought on two sides in and went over to the French
English dray.......... with the Legion of Honour, and department, that With the end of World War I
a friendly preface tri now able to reply to guns with standards set by the be settled in Metz and
open- written
company. The company believes French Kuna.
He and a handful of rich men | When France proditjes a leiral practice. He was the yet unpublished
there is a market hers because ed a
Buchman' "Re- district edition of
TRAVEL: This is the worst American bread has grown so who play at Cowdrey Park, are swearing andying elected deputy for his
ever making of the World.
keep polo alive as it used to be leeberg cron in the North sweet and airy that people are fighting & rearguard action to hatred of Germany. he is and has been re-elected
ate thak," wrote Atlantic Ence 1930. Aerial pho- tiring of i Imediate
In that preface, "is
in the heyday of. Hurlingham probably a Lorrainer. Wheh since..
The facts of his life during Schuman
the creation of a moral cimata tographs show that 10,232 fee- sho produces a man who the inter-war years are sparse, which true. brotherly unit bergs are of
1,800-mille drift
expecting that Shermb
What's the price for them? Refeblly, with a lawyer's pleads co-operation in práce
An average pany costs £400 he, too, is probably it for he turned on the can
world Allers. Only now hundred Dingsley. proprietor of their Communist paper, Action which that today thara
get to the shipping langs berpro hvourite night club, will soon to buy and, about £3 165, each rainer.
maiting, but there are mode, now dethard a loyalty test of Biweek for stabling and fodder, accused him of having worked apart."
custorhers. 10 has already is And anyone, who plays an edict to bar dve left seriously and regularly must In the light of this must taciz for the great delle And then "May Buchman that usun
wingers, among them a me keep at least four poules.**
-(London Express Service) Like Dur
playwright, an artist, and a mystory" writer."
rousing rant of the Mar-
three wark.
man
СУСП on Press in Britain.
Beaverbrook the
held a commission in this
In head.
The
over the
Even at that I reckon it costs
fine, ont-
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Foreign Minister by those who today still clash in 100,000 sugar beet crop has
Into fratricidal hatred."
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came
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