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Round

the world

with Francis Drake?

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1953.

A SATURDAY SEARCHLIGHT ON THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE NEWS

WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS...

How do these

women

of

Russia (W.8)

get on with the wash?

London. wiven,

children, and

RACIOUS me! Things without immunity nearing are happening! Here

are

nino. American newspaper executives getting visas for Russia and Mr Vishinsky being a hail- fellow-well-met aboard the Queen Mary.

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Yet Mr Churchili says he won't ask Mr Eisenhower and Mr Malenkov to come and talk things over be- causo he is afraid one of them might say "No."

I'd.

Why, In this atmosphere ask all the Russian diplomats in Britain round for dinner-and there are 102 of them if I thought It might case the tension.

wie would ask all their round for tea, and my chidren would ask all their chil- dren to

to play games on the lawn, If there was any chance of it doing some good,

If cowboys and Indians was too imperialistle I'd let them play Stalinites and Trotskyists, or Red Russlans and White-it would be any help.

Would risk

HE McCarran Act might bar Trom entry into the

United States because they had played with Russian children; but in the cause of good will På take that risk 100.

think we should know more about the Russians, and if we

about can't learn

thom in Russia let's learn about them here. There are plenty of them. Besides the 102 with diplo- malle Immunity there are

it had a circumfarentor and a diagram

of the planetary aspects, i tide table and a nocturnal. Made by an Eng lishman, Humphrey Cole, it sailed with one of the greatest of all Eng. Eithmen, Sir Francis Drake,. And i also told she me-within half an hour or so. (Reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees at

the National Maritiem Alsseum, Gerenwich, England)

{7HEN Elizabeth 1 was on the throne of England and English sea-power was at its height, this dial was buccaneering the sess with Sir Francis Drake. It was probably with him when, in 1577, he laid course by Morocco and the Cape Verde Islands and set out to sail around the world.

Nearly four hundred years were to pats before the Rolex Datejust made its appearance; but the analogy between Drake's dial and the Datejust is not in far-fetched as it may seem. For Rolex watches, too, have quite a naval tradition, They've been used, for instance, for destroyer navigation when the ship's chronometer was destroyed-and once, even, for timing a flotilla attack in the Far Eat.

But dicy've also served with distinction in quieter roler; served with such unvaried accuracy as to make their name abyword. And top of all Rolex watches we can put the Datejust perfectly waterproofed by the Ort asc, powered by the llest, efficient Rolex Perpetual solf-winding Rotor, it shows the date qutoquically in a neat, clea window on the dal Of all grens Rolex watches, the Datejust in the latest and the greatesting' far, at leas

Latent and greatest of the Rolex triumph, the Datejust a waterproof, thanks to the Oyster cave, and sellwinding, thanks to the patented Rolex PerpetualRowe.". htoreover, the daju eppoŠTE automatically and clently is a meat window on the face. Acrutaret Of course). The ultimate accuracy; Rolex-accuracy.

And the Rolex Red Sealt ja sen that she wish to which say suacijeri has been testøjl by an Quiet Testing Station ofthe Swiss Government, has been awarded its awn Official Timing Certificats, and thatlileofchroeter. All Daeimas party the Koler Red Seal

ROLEX

4 Landmark 1p the history of the reqsurenunt

1

total of 200..

In 1938 there were only 20, with diplomatic status. So they are increasing. The TILLIT- ber of British diplomats in Moscow is still only 37.

HE WALTZED

WITH

AN OCTOPUS

By Robert Harman

THE depth-gauge

T

on to feel dizzy, then light-headed,

your wrist says 100ft. then gloriously drunk. Slowly, a god-like joy spreads through You carry your air in you. You

on your back. nitrogen

cylinders

aro in the grip of

You breathe through a tube of

tho do tho'

And

Crazed

to

any

gripped in your mouth. You

bave longed to peer through the water out their air-pipe and sing apensing fish as a sublimo through the window of your gift. It needs all your strength mask.

to fight against the madness In front of you, slanting down Once out of the danger zone, into the ocean depths, lles the everything is normal again. skeleton of a ship Careful But Cousteau fears this rap-... there. Its platos and rails are ture more than the mons There used to be a school for coated with toge-tooth mussels, ters he has ever met.

Sharks? A und lot, he deeld- bul razor-sharp; rub against them their children in London, gela

that has closed down, and now ribbons.

they will cut your flesh to ed at first acquaintancy. Oft Swinging from your Capo Verdo, Cousteau and his cluizens of school age so tight wrist is a 4ft. pole, its tip team had to swim into caves home to be educated.

barbed with sharp nails. That's and pull 16-foot monsters by the Russian diplomats in Britain to drive off sharks that come tail to drive them out in front of are not allowed to go more too near. You don't try to hurt

movic-cameras. than 25 miles from Hyde Park them with you just push A 20-foot "carcharodon car Corner without giving 48 hours them gently away, to Redhill any time they like, notice in writing. They can go because that is less than 25 miles; but they cannot go to Dorking, which is more.

others lots of children peeping through

10 a cracks in the doors

glimpse at the pictures.

The centre of the Soviet community in London is in Kensington Palace

Gardens, of all places. Here, in an architec- tural atmosphere of securing Victorian opulence, the of Soviet Socialist Republics has its embassy and consulate.

You can find out that much from the telephone directory

The consulate is at No. 5 and the embassy spreads over Nos. 13, 18, 10, and 10.

How much do we know about all these Russians in London and the lives they lead? little.

Jolly

BERNARD WICKSTEED

The ambassador, Mr Andrei Gromyko, livas

the

.

Tho weight of the ocean, ton upon ion of it, is crushing against your bare head and un- protected body trying to cave your ribs in. But you have an other 2008. to go yet if you are to follow Jacques-Yves Cousteau

They can go to Stalnes and look at the Thames, but not into the farthest depths of his Windsor: Watford, buf not "Silent Jungle." Amersham.

at No. 13, but he is away mile rule is Seacox Heath, near Aqualung."

at the moment. charge d'affaires, Belokvostikov, is No. 10.

The

the

cherias," generally agreed to ko the one certain man-eating shark, had them cold with ters

or till IT saw; THEM and... whiring round in a frenzy of fear, disappeared like a rocket... Back to reality

a

Sharp-nosed sharks, tiger It was in June, 1943, that a hậurks, mackerel-starks, treated The only exception to the 25-French gunnery-officer Cousteau ground-sharks they

became a mandish. In his them all with contempt. “It.

nutomatie com- wesn't til they harpooned diving-lung that he bottle-nosed winle, and want has helped to invent, lay the down to photograph its capture, his wildest dream-to that they came back to reality key to explore the bottom of the sea, with a shock. as free as the fishes themselves, Fantastic pressure

Mr Hawkhurst, which is 50%1⁄2 miles at away on the borders of Sussex and Kent. The Russains have rambling old house there that they bought for £30,000.

The Russians took over No. 13 first and ex- tended their domain by 'sloges, as the Americans have done in Grosvenor Square. It was former

called Harrington liouse and used to be in habited by carls. The nith Earl Harrington was rather in favour of revolutions so long as they were genteel ones, He was also

fanatic tectotoler; so if the Russians do drink vodka in his home it must distress his ghost.

ISSUES AN INVITATION ON A PURELY PERSONAL NOTE We know how many there are and where they aro

I that is about all. am

international it's bad far Intions.

know

and

suro re

a

I'd like to know If they really cat caviar all day and what sort of games their children play. I

they have Billiards table at the embassy because a friend of mine has scen

It. Are the rules for Russian pool the same as ours

I'd like to know If their wives

use washing machines and what they think of the Coal Board's nutty slack, and what they put in their tea when they can't get Jemons.

When the Russians gave ᄆ film show at the embassy and Invited journalists, there were

Paris.

#

No school

No luxury

An eight-foot shark, grey anda. cold-eyed, began cireting them at a fow yards distance." Cous-*-*-* submarine in cau's team-mate Dumas swam Ideered with silly Victorian hollow its steel plates will behind him, putting his tall

TT hac 30 rooms and the roof

week-ends.

20

the

turrets. In the summer the collapse below a "couple of while the camera whirred, mi! Russian wives and children go hundred feet. Because the They swam nearer the shark,! down there and sit out in the human body Is tough and He did not retreat. They backed. an among the rhododendrons. resilient, Cousteau found ho He llowed, his hard little øyea Their husbands Join them at could dive to depths that would never leaving them.

From the abyss below climbed crush any sub.

Let's Eo down with him

two more sharks, steel-blue and.. It is not over-luxurious. A

again and see what it feels savage-looking,

ing, lurking on who wis reporter

down like. You won't be able to stay edge of "tho circle. And there last year sald there was lang-nitrogen forced into your then, with a quick dart, the grey cocoanut matting in the hall joints by the fantastic pressure shark's pilot-fish wriggled for and the dining-room tables will cripple you for life if you ward cgainst Dumas's mask, as were covered, with

American overstay your welcome in the ir trying to lend its master to [NCIDENTALLY, I'vo

several people who have

met cloth.

depths. But Cousteau knows to There are swings and a sand- the minute what the limits of been to embassy partics, and pit for the children, and a coin cadurance are,

The automatic lung feeds intoTM they say that all the drinks were box on the telephone.

as you divo down, And that, more or less, is all your body There is not room for all the know about the life of a down...you feel nothing of the with spinning round to face the pressure except a pain in your sharks. Time and time again. Russian in Britain, 10 live as well as Russians

It seems wholly inadequate.ears. Swallow, and that goes, they shoot to the surace to try work in the Soviet Republic of w

coll thair boek," one man Kensington Palace Gardens, W.8. I know for more about badgers. too, You pass the 100-foot mark. to

Mr Vishinsky "being Down, down...and now comes waving frantically But, with So they have colonised a pum- cheerful and Americans getting your greatest danger. You begin other guarded his legs. ber of sub-republics in such places as The Boltons, S.W.10. visas for Moscow, anything can Addison Lancaster Road W.11.

Western ones.

Road, W.14, and happen.

-(London Express Service)

PARIS NEWSLETTER

WHITE

Poet Louis says 'Sorry' for this

his prey.

+

Boat far away b

The divers were dizzy znów

With the aid of his new book away. "The Silent World," published in U.S. by Harper.

while the

But by now the boat was far The grey shirk flicked our

of his course, retreated a few yurda

and came for Coustonu in a'7" rush. Blindly, ho Biammod 12 straight in the face with the camera, reeled back in the wash i from its body as it swung away. from the

blow.

And then suddenly the bruter seemed to

to take fright, dashed round in a terrified circle-pric

disappoured.

And the rest of the monsters

of the deep?. Squids, ocfapt, congers, sting-mys, devil "Ash, 100lb, merous with

moutha enough to engulf a man-Cou Handsome 68-year-old Aragon will play a role in which he is French Empire. and Louis XV test has lived with them all, units

Art treasures have been PET Luis Axon uns of the fashionable poet which stead of

DOET Louis Aragon has retains the foppish mannerisms supposed to be much older in style.

the fashionable poet which read of much younger than he bought from dealers all over a fond of them...

Pred legends of the blood. Durope to furnish the house,

thirsty octopus just begged to be. ist Party's ruling and agreed ruthless as a Soviet secret police

DIAT

can afford to indulge investigated — Cousteau and It is a comedy

in which himself. His Paris home alone Dumas investigated the

blow...! them that

publication of chice Picasso's portrait of Stalin A close friend at his and a 30-year-old man. His wife, who did more than £1,000,000 worth them sky-high.. Time and time. in the Communlat weekly fellow Communist, the novelist will play opposite him, will tion there are the prafts from again Duras dragged unwilling

Gultry will play the role of a

businesara.

of business last year. In addi

broke with

thee the role of his great grand- bis New York house fud his octop out of their hales, tried publication which he edits, Paul Nizam

Communists over the Stalin- daughter.

perfume furs and hosiery to wrap their tentacles around

pressed was a "mistake."

their suckers:A Hiller treaty, enlisted in the

DIOR'S EXPERTS In the current issue he per- French army, and was killed

Backed by Marcel Boussac, against his flesh. No good. They formed a brisk elimb-down: "I in action.

Dior Christian profits.

colorts 40 percent of the refused to engulf him. hat ma agree without reservation with the Central Committen's evalua hibition of the works of French house in Paris, kas just com- quiet social life and often when

When, after the war, an ex- DRESS designer

Like playful cat *** Dlor, who recently bought Dior leads a comparatively tion of the portrait" Ho de-

Determined to got some sort writers and artists killed by

pleted redecorating It at a cost alone lunches or dines with his of response, he grabbed one by tr Germans was organised, from Communists pro Aragon made

of £100,000.

servants at their table. condition of his testing against

The picture.

works

The

house, which is in the are of such supreme support that Nizam's

should be barred.

fashionable suburb of Auteuli, concentrated Fallis

has been rodecorated and re *PERSONAL LOSS

Paris' designed by

volca page to extracts from the

letters

These

banality.

tinism and would-be religious

plety that they make - Argon's humiliation complete.

radiance,

Mexican millionaire

stalesman Elder Herrial: It is

Edouard

its tentacles and whirled it.. ground in a mid underwater wadiz. Goggling at him wildly, t

of feeling that drives menup: towards the top of Everest. And as

land

a that

MIRE QUOTES PRODUCER David Selznick: followed him round collupsod at,

the end on its back, with its legai two most the way I figure it, a man in the air like a playful cards? fashionable interior decorators

and M. Grand with 19,000,000 dollars is just What is it that draws Cous SAMPLE: "Whore the ANOTHER clue to his mental M. Jeoffroy

is

make-up is provided by his, Pierre.

as happy as a man with 20,000,-teau down? Partly the same: the gentleness, the luminous intelligence, the in- obituary of Stalin.

palsy decorated the Venice '000. finite humanity all so evident He wrote: "Only once before Carles 'de Bestegui; Grand In photographs of the great in my life have i telt auch 4 Piorre mostly WOTKE Stalin in Picasso's portrait of sense of zomow and personi. Bestegul's

social ..rival, him?

Joas, and that was after my Chilean Arturo Lopez. showed the drawing to mother's death." my 14-year-old son and he

FROM A TOMB Is there é a psycho-analyst in agrees with me."

There is no possibility of the house?

THE Dior houso has an on- Picasso making à públle reirat-

GUITRY AS 90

trance hall copied from a tion, but Aragon is on

Rornan temb. From the entrance Dijon's Mayor, Fellx Kir: The perienced perfonnor in the

time in his hall, there fan out a series of wine I prefer is the one Communist art of self-abase OR the first

avior Sacha Qultry malons decorated. in elaborate haven't yet drunk. ment,

JOHNNY HAZARD

AFTER THEM, YOU HOUNDS" OF THE DEVILA FIND THEM+4°

FASTER...PASTER/

carcer,

• SNARLING VICIOUSLY, THE SAVAGE ANIMALS 'PICK UP THE SCENT!

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the manter to 53 an abominable will not always be enough for

QIL

friendly to women in political men to exist

In the yours ahead matters. I am simply discreet, which

mankind A is essential if you want may yet live to find undredint-

with of sources of food in the mil to have good relations

Willons of square mile hidden them!

By Frank Robbins

THEY'RE HERE...SO SOON! GOTTA SHOW MYSELF.DRAW THE DOGS AWAY FROM THE OTHERS.

IF I CAN!

under the seas--and to think Jacques-Yves Cousteau as the, man who had the vision to sea and the courage to seek it

Ciran 200

ETHR

Miguel

qu