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THE TIDE RECEDES IN ITALY

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian,

The state is Monte Carlo-a fairy-tale land on the rocks. To-day its fate is bound up with a flower-seller's. daughter and a wealthy Greek. This is their story,

THE ACTRESS AND THE SHIPOWNER

A

Monte Carlo, ROUND a pretty face

a big bank

а

By QUENTIN CREWE

Nathaniel Gubbins

ONIGHT we have the gentlemen when you can condot privilege of bringing the weather are unlimilof.

mean, what's to "prévent microphone some foreign cricket spy sneak-

to tho Mr... what is your name ing into the control ream of the

Offe of again?

Works weather machine und turning on tein overnight when a wet wickel` ir very interesting going to suit their skie? Or gain when.

a

Wool-el-ruh. That's nam. How do you spell it?

Double-yew. Ol El KI Of they're loving and maiding va

En

draw7

the

Oh, Wilkinson. Well, I'm Of course, there may be a sure we're all very pleased to time when there is a belt of fine have you here tonight in the weather and no rain to turn on studio, Mr Wilkinson, I SUD- But you never know with pose you're in town to see the foreigners. They might whistle Coronation decorations?

up seme--in clouds fmihe Als ti'.

Argentine and tum' those on I'm sorry. I didn't quite catch just in time to prevent a clean that.

wm for us.

I soldats, TI', Oh, that's right. Of course, Well, what do you think of the

docurations, Mr Wilkinson? They're a bit of ori ri'. A bit of what? Ori Ti'.

Oh, I understand. You think

they're a bit of all right. Is Mrs Wilkinson

you?

At l'

You might think. Ha merey that most of the older chap? like myself, who are keen on erlokok, won't be here in 1973, But you never knew. Modern medicine may keep us going for a long time yet.

J

If it does, all I can say is that

if we live to see the leiser

in town with breeds without the law" plas

lang dulcica 'with our cricket, Ice us hope on that sad day our

And want does she think of blood pressure will rise to bursting point, and that--we

the decorations?

She thinks they're a bit of ori shall le like gentlemen in the ri too.

pavillon, with a glass in our

She thinks they're a bit of all hands, drinking demnation to right too, dors she? Well, it's all foreigners.

must refreshing to find a rur

sted couple agreeing for once,

Isn't it? Ho, ha. Where have

you been? In Piccadilly?

Ats ri

And where did you go after that?

Into a pub.

Hi, ha. That's very funny. So you went into a pub. And what did you have there?

A * G-out.

A what?

H'

"-out.

a light ale. Oh, good for you. Anxi I suppose Mrs Wilkinson had a light ale too?

Ata ri'.

Ho, ha. Good for Mrs Wilkin- con. I suppose you both had some blotting paper?

No. We didn't 'aue no blot- ting paper.

mean

something to cat? We 'ad a sangwidge,

t

I see. You both had a sand- wich. And you both had light ale. And you both thought the decorations a bit of all Well, thank you £0 I'much for telling us your interesting experiences, Mr Wilkinson...

But Is there any evidence of his turning talk into action? and

There is precious little proof balance a drama is and Rainler. That since once ing with gilt and crystal, which of

Cer- Onassis's intentions. like Nico toinly he has initiated the build-right. unfolding which may before they had the experience have seen gamblers

Gordon Selfridge, ing of a new harbour for yachts. bring to an end the in- of one of their rulers marrying Zographos,

own the Dolly Sisters stake millions But as the more cynical Mona- (Rainier's commoner dependence of a 600-year- randfather married the palace of francs on one spin of a card, gesques point out, this may be old state.

washer

would almost chood woman), they

an walked, because he wants the existing not wont the experience to be across them. The pretty face belongs to

repeated French film actress Giselle

There might Indeed have Pascal. The bank balance boen relief at one me about to a Greek shipowner, Arts- Rainler's broken romance. But totle Socrates Onassis.

Let the lady come first. For five years the limelight of the stage has Alckered less on

Giselle Pascal than has the lime light of love..

time During that basked in the favours young and handsome

The

highest bet I saw was

£35.

certed

All Monte Carlo is do- and rod. It reminds Harrogate on an out-of-

harbour as a base for his ships. Forward Glance

Too Late

Now there is only me of unday afternoon. Once 11/HAT a fate for a fairyland,

not now. worry.

Rainier's principality, nesting as it does between France and

of both countries.

frason

WŁA

the by-word for all that gay and extravagant, it now

sees only un occasional flash in the pan lice Farouk or the Dockers but the flash is in- frequent and the pan is empty.

The Greek

Yet such is Onassis's finan elal power that this could indeed be Monte Carlo's end if he

degreed.

WILL

Tuesday Mr de Freitas ask the Ministry of Works whether it is awuro of the need of further research into the

of rc- in Britain by discharge

-00

A

Love Story

CCORDING- to orders kived

by the Burmese Communist

Party, a man proposing marri

must not use the wordn "You are beautiful" and "I love

you."

After obtaining permission of theperly executive,' he must then may to the girl of his chaire:-

"I am deeply impressed, by your qualities as a faithful *and, energetic member of the party, and I wish to wage the party struggle together with you.

After that the dialogue bots up.

"I never knew you' fell IBe that about me.”

"I have felt Hke that about you ever since I saw got in the factory with your face smothered in engine oll." "How did I loak?".

"Terribic.

But the fore- man told me you had broken all production records In selfless effort to overthrow the tyrants of Western Capital- 18171."

"You mean the filthy Fancist

and

dosa

Capital jewen,”*

cannibals of Wretern

"When you say

thore-forety

You

words, your voice reminda më of an engine with a broken gulating mbilities

crankshaft." making rain clouds their Coronation-spoiling, holl- thing and I am reminded of the

do

beautiful day-spoiling, sport-spoiling rain over the sea on speelat

party with its eyes Axed, an casions. The regular gamblers will all

the far horizon of world Gom- tell you that you should always

munism, He appears to be thinking 20

when see the stop while you're winning.

fanatical squint in your little years ahead, and of the sclentine Once you start to lose you lose adjustment of weather to suit black eye all. Perhaps this is what Monte events like Test matches. Carlo has done. Gone on play- | **}; ing

Italy, technically independent Its inhable tants do not therefore have to go to the bother of fiddling their Income-tax forms. They do not she has even have to f them in.

of the But there is certein dibariy in which Prince defined circumstance

this -- Joy-ride...WHAT- has happened to Monte

stop.

Carlo? The rich people it

when it started to lose. This will be all right so long

as cricket is still played ex ler has Do was designed to attract no longer Now it is too late and it must clusively by Anglo-Saxons and heir

then France, exist in sufficient numbers to start working for its Rving.

other chaps who know the rules. under the Mona- keep Monte Carlo alive.

mean, chaps who understand that cricket is one of the few san constitution,

clean can appoint a

left,

and still games governor. this

gentlemen for play. gentlemen. happened, then

But as foreigners have adopted lon

The man who "bought" Manto Cario : M. Omatsin

TE

But there arc consolations,

How

Carlo be The sun shines. There is can Monte

income tax, no death, duties, no saved? Only if enough money

no

od

by

on starting a business..

will

is spent in turning it into the milltary service, few restrictions for ever sort of playground which would be the six altract the masses,

Kone

hundred

tux-free

**Year

Inde-

Su If you're looking for some where to spend your holiday, 80 bendence of this that the Greek enters Into the

It is at this stage of the story there not expecting a fairyland, 1illputian state. drama. M. Aristotle Socrates and you'll have a good time. If

The perturba- Onassis. tion of the 29,000

Monagesques be- Onassis is a short, swarthy comes more un- man about 5ft 3in, táli. But his the heavens. derstandable, money rises to

Their Icar Is The cash comes from shipping that Rainier, he owne D ships totalling even although he 1,000,000 tons..

is only 29, may

Pascal ho

be so much in Onassis first came into the love with Gisella Monte Carlo nows in January

that

it of this year when it was ant- not nounced docg

that ho had bought MISTY

her he 300,000 shares-enough to give may never marry him effective control-In the at all.

Monte Cario Casino.

It is true that

This made him virtual con- the prince has a troller of Monaco's destiny. For

-

you are in woman and have a figure like Giselle Pascal, you might even become a princess.

A GIRL

·

poot."

"You should have pensa

"Do you know what your figure reminds me of?" "Not a tank?"

"Yes, One of the great Russian heavy tanks with el- inch armour that will one day roll westward to free the enslaved people of the world. Will you marry me?”

"I would if I could remind

of a

light tankoht "All right,

other clean British games, football, and turned them into dirty games, it le possible that, you by 1973, some South American cads will have taken up cricket and turned that up into a dirty

game too.

Therefore, the possibilities of making cricket intolerable for

lank. Even in our, enlighten- cd community I suppdie one must make concessions to women's bourgeois..punity." --(London Express Service)

IN RED SHOES SETS THE RADIO LINE

By PAUL NORTON

with his wile in the yacht Creole at Spithead.

Munich. ern ideas behind the Iron Cur Europe is run, that there must TWENTY faces turned tain.

bo no incitement from 'outside Rainier 11, ruler of the prin- sister-Antoinette-and he could, the principally extracts much

Most members of this refu- to the countries of Jiz: broad- cipality of Monaco.

if he chose, nominate her as his of its revenue from the Casino.to the girl in the Black gee brains trust needed no re- casters.

But there the post- Theday Onassis is the most frock and red shoes, with rainding of friends and rcia- At this point Anna's voice They have been Inseparable, tion is delicate-so delicate talked about and most seldom fingernails to match the tives unable to get free, who became. fervent. The time for

successor.

this prince who was born in a indeed that it might serve only seen man in Monte Carlo. castle on a hill, this young and to complicate rather than resolve lovely girl whose background is the problem.

the humble Cannes flower shop her father still keeps,

It seemed

For Antoinette married in secret two years ago, her friend

What Now?

OIR.

shoes, as she said quietly: might have to pay the penalty intervention is not yol,"

for Indiscreet radle comment; said. "Just let us remind our "We must think of some neither did they need remind people how the Red Göyõr- way to help these rioting ing how deeply Zapolocky and ment has promised (thank ¿very- ・・

his Reds are entrenched be thing would be available in the people in Czechoslovakin."

shops when there reforms are ("It's Anna Bartova," whis- hind machine guns, there could be no for many years, the tennis player OUTSIDE the Casino the qu

completed.' And then,sald end to tho Giselle Roller Aleco Noghes, and there is much tion on the Ups of the pered my neighbour. "She is n

Anna, we can report, their, reac- romance. But now an end has confusion as to whether in the Monagesques Is What is Onarris Prague law graduate.")

tions to this promised plenty. her circumstances

children up to? l ho going to save us

Anna was addressing a round

An American

A nod in agreement from would be allowed to succeed.

Czechoslovake Prague got free, sald Is he, for table of exiled from bankruptcy?

Anna, chairman Dr Viteslay- Fram, a exemplo. going to bulk us a now who broadcast every day

because his Government could Czechoslovak parilainentary c Yet even

their homeland from the West, intercede for him. "Who would porter if that question premenade?"

when Masaryk wa Their problem is-how best intercede for our own never arose, there would still be

people Foreign Minister

come.

Only Worry

VISELLE who has

to

Gehieved euch sumus ha fluns on the lone

never one other major and terrifying Well, what is Onassis up to? to explain the real meaning of goled as revolter!" to haunt tho Certainly he seems to be taking the strikes caused by the Bubjects, One that up · permanent residenco In economic changes being pushed A man who has. It is diary threatens to engulf them hourly. Monte Carlo He is building through in Prague:

is now seen in the company of prince's

Cooper into whose eyes she now Bankruptcy. -

looks,

And Rainior? Sho announces. she will see the prince no more. And all over the world-but With

insistenco

Nearly Empty

the new

in gaoled

table

BAW

The 20 others. round the

her

himself a house, and a large coinage, the ban on savings, the argument. black of offices. Meanwhile, he tie-up of the Czech crown and Ilves some 25 miles away at Russian rouble. Cap d'Antibes in the Chateau

da la Croc, once tha homo 'of

the Duke of Windsor.

-0.2

our

the point of

So the quiet, persuasive line But the young man next to that Radio Free Europe will put across to Progub is fixed. her Zdenek Podhorsky,

Economic experts of tho student."» came the Prague

brains trust. take:ayer. Dr whisper) was all for the

Milos Vanek, departmentai boss volt.

We must give

in the Prague Food Ministry in Should the riots be exploitedt people a chance openly to show the hard yours after the war,

ro their opposition, bo sald. with a call for un open Certainly ho/also talks of volt?

Opposite him the man in the demolishes the argument that

Bult Yes, that was the problem. I stiff blue

(No name, any stratum of the population benelt. rebuliding the glories of Monte Curio, and hints he will make it heard the Czechs debate and please he has only just es- Take the old fölk zhoršáld. a cultural rather than a gaming it took over three hours at the coped") sald: "While

"To them food will be up to centro.

Munich Headquarters of Radio, about it let's go all out for a three times as expensive. Free Europe, the private, but general striko."

Another congla expect, a When I saw him he told me: powerful, «transmitter, that 18 Something of a shocked hush fair-haired young man looking and followed. That would be break much too young to: paye zboen It might be thought that the half-Alloc with a fow desultory "I don't believe in the luck of supported by the dollars people of Monaco would wel- gamblers. The croupiers took the game; affil 'Jess it it is in dimes of 24,000,000 Americans Ing one of the Low Implicit

Radio who seek to keep alive West rules on which come the breach.betwein Gisella bored. These rooms shimmer- gaming room"

Troo (Contimod on Page 72 Col

Monaco-the question is an MONTE CARLO has glittered for 75 years it stilt dow For the first time people Does the mean it Has she are asking if the glitter is gold reaily Anished with' the prince. for the first time it Lan't, for good? Has she given' up

Nowadays theomco-packed all hope of becoming the prin- cess of the castle on the hii?" Carino la nearly empty. They aro uning only two rooms, bach

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