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What the Tired Diplomat will see in Paris

UNO CITY

cashes In-with night-life, champagno

at: £5, and, of course, Les Girls

As the United Nations Ass

PARIS.

session, the Paris-tourist industry looked hopefully

at the pickings to be expected from 4,000 free-spending customers. 2

Sad the proprietor of one- fashionable Paris night club os he completed plans for an x- "This tension his premises: time we shall at be taken by surprise as we wers when the Assembly me: here in 1948. We are opening the special bar where our old friends ren sa comfort while they wait for free table" Cost of comfort:

£ a bottle of champagne, £12 a bottle of whisky.)

from Sam

WHITE

Some delegates, ico, e fx- pected to ake spe.ng holidays in France after he sits.on enas,

an all the major French cry centres, ke Vichy and the Viera, advance beckings frem are already re- The same note of bustling en UNO delegates terprise s struck n advertise- ported to be heavy. The French inents

Paris newspapers, Government, who have spent £2 grouped 1cge'bar under such million in extensions to the Palais heachines as TIPS TO OUR de Chaillet to house the Assembly, UNITED NATIONS VISITORS. expce: a £12 million return in

the One advertisement begins: "Tar the menty del gates wil perfect spot for the tired diplo en Paris and on holidays

n Frant mal. Another for a night club called The Nudists reads "Come and see cur typically Montmartre evue, Marie Symphony, with 40 ef he prettiest girls in Paris. You don't have a know the language 83 your eyes, afine will rip you take me one the bes souvenirs,"

SHOCK TREATMENT

UCTES.

Commonwealth` delegate

UNO. "The decision to move the United Nations Parts is, on the administrative livel, the mus, uncapposible decision UNO

D

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1951.

HAND: GRENADES

“Before we start again. Gentlemen, there are one or two little arrears outstanding from 1945."

NO PASSPORT TO PIMLICO

OWN in a basement room at the Science Museum. Kensington.

Who will be the freest spenders has ever taken or is ever likely arcng a UNO deceated? Un- to take. The Dominions comesta doubtedly the Scu.h Americans strenuously, but found that he and the Egyptian, who were La American determinatics chiefly instrumental in moving move to Paris was co strong for the Assembly to Paris. They have them. The move has involved us

there was the hum of a taken over two of the most ex- in

of miniature movie-projector. hundreds of thousands pansive hotels, the Gtorge

pends cf unnfeestary expense An amateur colour-film flick- the Plaza Athence,

and has disrup.ed UNO's pro-ed on the bare, cream wall. gramme for the next year.".

V aod

NEXT-A HOLIDAY

AFTER

the work- hotlay.

The 700 UNO staff members who have been brought to Paris from New York, will be allowed e take a holiday tour of Europe after the session ends sometime in February at the expense of the United Nations.

This concession o employees, whose minimum salary is £1,200

A South American diplomat: "Frante :he sick man cl Europe. It needs shock treatment. we are providing :1,"

WHAT AN ACTOR! JNO television experts in Perls

repon the following as sta- performers:

First there were scenes of the Kremlin. Then of the British Embassy in Mos- cow. Suddenly, two pretty girls were seen walking to wards us down

a path in the Embassy garden, both waving and smiling and acting as though they were

Mr VYSHINSKY--"A superb desperately jolly.

yes, tax free, will figure in the UNO budget as "travel ex-se cr."

The things they do OFF-DUTY

EISURE

Xoine

people enjoy it, others gritter t away. To be able to All leisure intelligently is the last product of civilisation," sCES Bertrand Russell.

Its usually the busiest people who achiene most with their leisure 1 put the ques- tion, "How do you fill your Jeisure hours? to three

well-known peopie :

Actor RMLYN W1 LIJAMS:

"When I take

Д

holiday I

study foreign languages. find it mentally very

Tefresh.

ing. This year in Italy I read Stefan Zweig's Life of Marle Antoinette to the original German.

Playwright MARY HAYLEY BELL: Gardening and 0:1 painting are my two relaxa- tions from

Actress

EVANS:

writing and doʻme sticity, I grow all kinds of cre- matis.camelllas and asaitas in my Richmond terrace garden And I am now experimenting with 200 square feet of mushrooms In a disused wine cellar."

DAME EDITH "I usually do

something very · islow, "very meandering or very

medira.

tive I like Idle conversa-

wander

tion

ing about sit ting

in the

garden. In the

words of W B Davies's poem.

I stand and

stare quite a

late

London "Ežprés Serpico:

NANCY

Trapped!

REY SISSY

DR MOSSADEGH. — "He builds up tremendous tension around himself. We can't wait for him either, to faint or burs into tears.**

M.

SCHUMAN-"His gallic gures go over very well."

Bald men Wors, performers: ("ves hem a halord appear- ance") and delegates with beards maus.aches, which do photograph will. ("Bad luck about Esen and Acheson, ecm- mented one TV dechnician).

*I

SAFETY FIRST

One of the girls-pretty, dark-haired, wearing a blue floral frock-came close up for a moment. She looked straight at the camera, smiled meagrely, wagged an admonishing finger. Her lips moved. She passed off the

screen.

for Mr. Rickitts, a cable from Moscow brings news of his Russian bride hold behind the Iron Curtain.. What has happened to the other Britons who married Soviet girls? Some of them "We still hope on..."

say,

for their wives' exit visas. tha: the first diplomatic rift appeared. But up to 1945, and by personal

represêmalion to Stalin, a duzen visas were granted and a dozen Russian wives came to Britain.

Tiben war ended, and down jammed the family Iron Curtala. Since then the busbands have acted in concer-but in ever- decreasing numbers.

In 1946, 15 British husbande

trom Russia.

Mr Richitis

and wife

bassy, disappeared in February this year, has not been heard of 'since. He gave me news, as un to date as he had it, of the helpless, but still hopeful, British

husbands.

their wives MOST of us have scattered,"

to get a passport to her husband's home in Pimlico, in England awaited

He recognised the blue, high-heeled shoes he had In 1947, 13 of these signed a long ago saved up for and letter appealing for help and

sent her.

"She looks younger," he

"and prettier thi

suid, ever.

reason.

Twelve of these later formen an "action squad" pooling their gratuities and savings to pay for a campaign, biring a mobile headquarters (a pig-swill lorry), picketing a Big-Four conference at St James' with a banner read-

British ing: "For

and Soviet

THE unashamed tears in Mir consciences. We are the British Rickits's eyes as his friend Husbands Without our Wives." Down in the basement from Moscow 2.

ran and re-ran They attended Wedminster de- room at the Science Museum those 70 seconds on the pro- balcs, cireularised newspapers

and jector served un an Anglo-Soviet had 10,000 copies a man turned aside

of an open problem in its most human and letter prin ed and distributed. said:

its most easily assimilable form. It brought an echo of what a Erish delegate once told the of aithfulness" in a solicitors Nine of then swore an "eath General Assembly of the United presence, signed it, sealed 11,

Two hundred uniformed police

and 180 plain clothes m=3 will look after the delegates.

Tan plain clothes men are Livrz

the George V Hotel, which houses most of the Latin American and Egyptian delega

Their colleagues envy them. The Russians refused French cffers cf police protection. They

have brought their cam security

aquads of 120 Iormer Red Army

Meers.

M. HENRI

A LA CARTE

ROBERT, of the Crillon Hoel, is in charge UNO's three restaurants for The delegatca, the staff and the Press,

M. Robert is preparing to serve 3,000 meals a day at a maximum cast of just under £t. He pic mises I shall be able to provide sach nation with its own speciality a: a moment's notice. There will be bud's nest ecup for the

Chinese.

M. Rubert has created a special dish for the phrasion—UNO sole.

SIX

THE TACTFUL SIX

IX atractive Parisiennes-their names and priva.e telephone number are a State secret-will lock after the information section,

dvising delegates on shopping. heatres and night clubs.

Bach has been chosen for

싶다

her linguistic abihtics, fact, poise

and charm,

The head girl is married. This

was a deliberate choice because

"She's saying 'Hullo, dar ling, keep waiting for me. I knot that's what she's Nations. saying."

bound

it with red tape and

Sovie presented it to visiting delegates in London.

"Perhaps more than any other single thing." the delegate said, "the Soviet action over Bussian

Three of the husbands flew wives of other nationals has Paristo try to see Molotov. convinced the average person that the Soviet Union is B

THIS pathetic little film country having standards com- screened in the pleely different from those in lunch-hour of a 49-year-old most civilised countries."

THAT was the outcome of Science Museum messenger What has happened to the

these actions? Exactly --and afforded Mr William war-time marriages between

and people of nothing, save the slow disintegra- Rickitts, the man who made Soviet citizens

tion of each marriage. countries? of other the disastrous arrog

What has happened to the dozen Britons

None of these five of the wives remaining in been so great that by 1948 only the first glimpse of his wife girls has been allowed to leave Russia had not applied for for five years.

Russia. Does any hope real divorce. Since then two of the that the Soviet Government will

gids have attempted suicide and relent?

"disappeared." Two. other's have been abducted Only-one Clara Hall and her six-year-old son Nicholas (whom his father- has never". seen), remains að Liberty within the British Embassy and no one can predict how long her liberty will last

Yet in Britain three of the. husbands. I have traced have told me separately:

falling in love with and who like Mr Rickitts, married Coercion by Soviet police has marrying a Russian girl, Russian girls?

of

For 70 seconds, on a film recently brought out Moscow by a British friend, he watched the miming of 29-year-old Iraida, the girl

he married when he was a THERE were 30 Anglo-Soviet security officer at the marriages during the war.

the Britor's were British Embassy in Mos. Most of

Servicemen. Some of them the cow, the girl whom

were Foreign Office em- Foreign Office reported kid- ployees. "They ranged in rank napped from her job at the from a brigadier

a navel Embassy, the girl for whose telegraphis, in status from a captain in the British Military release he has now petition Mission to Embassy messengers.

to

· ·

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"We still hope on...." As far as there can be a spokesman for a scattered mis- ed Stalin by cable--and the The siris were almost all young, cellany of husbands whose maki girl who sent him a cable: a most all very pretty.

common interest is that they am living at home. Love

· married Russian wives, Mr John The men lived with their E Bolton, once an RAF sergeant wives in apartments; some of and now a market gardener in them had children. It was only Coggleshall, Essex, is that man. when husbands were re-posted His own' wife, Nadia employed to England and made application as a typist at the British Em

at the 1948 Assembly girls you always."

•

ehesen. to run this section

married at the rate of one every three weeks.

WHY

HA--HA-- AINT HE DON'T YOU CUTE SOCK HIM.

SLUGGO?

But she la also the girl who has found it impossible

ARE YOU A MAN OR A -MOUSE: 7

By Ernie Bushmiller

ER--PLEASE.

PASS THE CHEESE

OGNA

The

says, "and In many cases, our wives have either been forced to desert us, or have been kidnapped or disappeared. Two of us, Patrick Henderson and Alfred Hall, have settled Canada, where I believe, they are both working for the re- lease of their wives.

:

in

"Hall was over here in the He

summer and came to see me.

told me he still has hopes.

"As for me. I hope on too.”

From Mr J. T. Burke, once in- the Merchant Navy and now

at Ealing, whose bank official tall, beautiful wife, Lola, onez in her un- attempted suicide happiness, came a similar story.. He has not heard of any of the British husbands re-marrying, He believes that at least nine of them will never do so.

Peter Duffield

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