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WHAT'S GOING ON

Sir Stafford returns to the romantic village

EFORE

B FORD

costing

SIR STAF- men with sable, now CRIPPS flew boat £300, another in violet trimmer with bear skin, and a back to Britain after a year word in gola in Switzerland to cure his spinal complaint, he made a sentimental journey.

He visited an hotel ta the mall Alpine village of Klo -

where 40 years ago he became engaged to M... Bookers Swithinbank,

LADY CRIPPE.

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Since then he has not kern back to the village To friends he explained: "I the not want to return home with ut recap- turing meniaries of my youth

Sul on

strict 101. Si. Stafford atc

speed vegetarian food prescribed by Jus woman doctin. 38-year-old DAGMAR LIECHTI, wi cumpand bim to Klosters

VOTE FOR FATHER

THOUGH MR CHURCHILL'S

metres taglie,

SARAD

LAYE "I don't mix in politics, she will interrupt returnals fo New York televat show

bis-

10 y tu Briain and vote

With her photographer ban, ANTHONY BEAU CHAMP. he utere, ar tay

to stay long magh to a herd

Luther Win

TWO

HONOURS EVEN

ان

LORD b graphics at LADY MOUNT- BATTEN av been before the

One

the public Dispatch the

in

magazine Woman.

Sunday

khe

In the Dispatch, it was a case of their Lord and Litelyships, Her Ladyship

is; Wumaa

unty.

p. Je maski

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BUT the 1. th catching will com be And tuse the 1eason why.

Lor Mountbatten's former ALAN CAMP- prea offeer. BELL-JOHNSTON, is about to take the ring it is producing a book about His dsimp. will be out rhortly

It

it is s! Her Ladyship also Kele a monti o In this book

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'BEAU' GENERAL

Al

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His hobby is gardening. his Chelicrbum home he hos strawberties for tea in Oelober. They are → French all-the- your-round vanely.

JEBB ON SPAGHETTI

JUREN UNO adjourned

to:

the summer Britain's dele- Bade. SIR GLADWYN JEBB let his New York: mansion and

m home.

Now, with the Persian erists, he has returned. So he is live ing as & guest in his Own be. Frequent postime is dis- sing with his Italian chef the hundred ways of e:oking

paghetti.

Ephraim Hardcastle

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1951.

"Stroking my hull and culling him a dear old horse' don't give me a lot of confidence in your knowledge of agriculture."

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MONG the thousands Communist fervour. And be driven from this country by high walls—and a European. assistance $1 will get from of public speakers the fact that the Tunisian which the energy and skill has quarter. If there is trouble the foreign technicians, it is likely now buzzing around union only year

Moroccans can be quickly driven to prove weak and inefficient. agʊ the United States ceased being a member of Their proper ies will be looted into their city and shut up there. I shall not be surprised to see from luncheon table to lun- the Communist

Communists World and ruined, just as Bri'lah pro-

and Strongly Nationalist districts extremists esablish a base there. cheon table as the big Federation of Trade Unions perry is being looted and ruined

In Persia today.

like Fez, by tradition the political from which they will try to run American lecture season will only make the Tunisian

and religious capital of Morocco, guns and political explosives into gets into full swing one more attractive still as more, there is one whom I converts.

CONTRADICTIONS are being deliberately allowed French North Africa in order to What has it to offer?

te decline by a policy of cause trouble and disorder. think we should all

economic neglect. with care.

watch

But I

For DI discovered in long the with their leaders falks

very much hope that Habib Bourguiba will

But reforms must come from His name is Habib Hour- not succeed in misleading Nationalists.....

They the French themselves: guiba. He comes from any important section of

pressure ONE: Insist that the French must not come under Tunis, in French North the American public or the

well Africu

He is the leade: American Government into administration which has brought from outside, however

this meaning. and apostle-in-chief of the bringing pressure on

the prace, law, and order to

and be re- erea shall depart

Any sign of division between. TASSIGNY anti-French Tunisian ind- French to appease the Mus- placed by a Medlem administra- the Frencti

and the other pendence party "Destour." Jem Nationalists.

1.on. (They frankly admit this Western Powers in North Africa, Moslem

adminis.ralion would any concession to the Nationalists have nothing near the technical

is interpreted by the Moglem resistance groups as a sign that capacity of the French.)

They sep victory is at hami.

URING his two-day visit to London GENERAL JEAN LE LATTRE LE

lived up to his reputation

France' best-dressed

man

B

milltary

His mission in America

in wears

13:

tuilored With uniforms Paris's Savile Row, he pigskin glove: coding £15.

FILET MIGNON WINS TUST who will be invited to the three mall official re- ceptions for PRINCESS ELIZA - BET!!

11:4

OF DUKE

VISIT EDINBURGH when they Washington causing specula- tion at ng the capitel's socio

zet

art

But the unlucky

01:05

will

UP-TO-DATE

For if he does, the Wertera

TWO: Adamantly oppose the

Country

appensers

TO SPLIT the vital Franco-American wit will be landed in the same right of any of the French their demands, increase the alliance in North Africa, kind of trouble in Morocco and colonis s who may remain in the pressure, and organise that very

which the of Atlantic key area

de- he Western Mediterranean as

10 have voling, disorder fence, by denigrating the prasement of the larters and

administrative, or juridical rights had hoped to avoid. in the independent Mostem State. Now I am far from upholding the French in Nor h Africa as

group of selfless angels.

French administration American eyes;

TO APPEAL American help in

int

robbers in Persia has brought us in the Middle Eax.

Motering through North Africa, for i could not help thinking of rid- Abadan-built ou' of the Persian desert by British capital, Bri ish oil, and British ingenuity..

have a comulation: the partyding North Africa of the

in the ball:com of the Billish Lambasty will be televised

But

AT PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S use there will be on y Blair House 16 or 18

Twenty people at the Cans- dien Enbay party w}} coid lobster and Filet Mignon, Email pieces. Suys the cul in Ambassador's wife: "We pon- dered roast beef as u but Filet Mign: won."

QUIET, PLEASE

ESPITE many

DES telephone

Tribute,

£1-a-minute

calls DENIS COMPTON has flown to Johan-

nesburg knowing little

the arrangements

marriage

French in order to set up an independent United States of North Africa. These States, he says, would be anti-Communist friendly to the West.

ATTRACTIVE

and

&

WEAKNESS

It is no coincidence that thu greatest danger to the s.ability Their polky involves con ra-

of the French-and win i. the uictions which are bound to ex- Western position in Africa today For before the

pose them to the eriietam of -comes from Tunisia. French came, this

01 ever larger number country I was bey

Americans now being sent to the seeing had been as barren, as uncared new bases in Morocco. for and bare as most of Persia

:he

For here appeasement has gonu further than anywhere. Bour- guiba's party has been given a Ostensibly for instance, the seat in the mixed Moslem-French French are dedicated to educate Government. The result is that ing Morocco to self-government Moslem officials formerly show- But now I was driving rough and eventual autonomy. mile alter mile of admirably

SOURGUIDA

today.

ing unquestioning obedience to

It is a brilliantly con- cultivated fields, through orange

In practice, however, they the French are now playing In ceived and impressive line, and olive groves, rich vineyards seem to be going all out to with the resistance movement and fiery little 48-year-old and-most impressive of all to Frenchify the country or as the the Government of tomorrow as French-educated Bourguiba anyone who has travelled much Moslems say, Christianise it.

is just the man to put it in Arab lands--acres and acres

about

for his Durban to

over.

MISS VALERIE PLATT.

But it will be "the quietest

of freshly planted forest land.

Berber casan's in enormous

Already he has addressed straw hats sat от tractors of quiet affairs." He expects the annual convention of ploughing and disking the land South African cricket captain the American Frederation well as any champion Suffolk

ploughman. DUDLEY KOURSE to be there. of Labour at San Francisco.

Compton will come back by His bridg

tca in November.

dislikes flying. They will live

near Grosvenor-square.

IN SPLENDOUR CLAD

LONDON'S Lord Mayor let

BIR LESLIE BOYCE

went to the House last

to be presented to the

Chancellor, LORD JOWETT.

week Lord

RELIABILITY

they believe: Even the Bey, taşular ruber of Tunis, can no longer be relied on to do as he' is told.

Even the lowest grades of the When I asked M. Perliter, the are Blled with French Resident-General, why he civil service Frenchmen. The postman who still kept the country officially brought me my letters in Rabat under state of steze his was from Britony. The police-

No sign here of those man- M. Farbat Hached, drawn biis of stick with which I man who told me the way to the answer was frankness tself.

to watch the pitiable bus station was a Savoyand. * "We can certainly get the Bey secretary-General of the big used

to revoke the siege order," he Tunisian General Union of Persians trying to scratch a

living from their soil.

"It is for the sake of 'relia- said. “But we cannot be sure Workers, who accompanied

bility," say the French, and we can get him to sign a new Near the bustling, prosperous quickly add: "You can't trust one if need arises. So we prefer tion that the United States villages were modern mills, can- a Moroccan postman to deliver to keep the state of siege in Government should make ung factories, cork works (many a lotter on time."

being so that we can apply. it If of the forests consist of cork

need be,” The European community is carefully separated from the Moslems,

him, even put up a resolu

France grant to North trees), wine and oil presses of In the Prince's Room they Africa a Philippines-like in the most up-to-date design, ripped hot rploed

wine from

twe loving cups wreathed

dependence. in

white heather.

For his year. of office Sir

Now it Habib Bourgulba and the ather Nationalist leaders

This Tunisian weakness will become parißcularly dangerous next year. For on January 1 an In all the towns I visited there independent Moslem Govern-

Grand stuff this, part!- have their way the 2,000,000 was a Moslem quarter-usually mant will take over in neigh Leslie has a scarlet rehe trim cularly because of its anti- Trench now in North Africh will the old Moorish town surrounded bouring Libya. Despite the

NANCY

High Hope

I WONDER "HOW

IT FEELS TO BE

ANF ANIMAL.

IF YOU

HAD A

CHOICE, SLUGGO

WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL WOULD YOU. LIKE TO BE 7

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LET'S

SEE

GIRAFFE

By Ernie Bushmilller

The French are doing their best to get ready for them, The have established a milltary zone many hundreds of square miles deep on their side of the border. They hopeoipila e Tunisia from Libyan in oslich.

I hope American common sense will throw a zone round. Mr Bourguiba and isola,e-him at those huncheon tables.

(London Express Service.) |

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