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S the eighth United General Nations

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Uno's now Secretary-General faces jittery session with one big pull: he is still on speaking terms with Mr Vyshinsky

By EVELYN IRONS

THE SG

tively unsound" he ured his pre- rogative as Secretary-General

to refuse to do as he was told by the Administrative Tribunal to whom eleven sacked em- ployees had appealed.

The Tribunal decided that four of the employees theuk be reinstated. Hammarskjold rid

no. That pleased the Americans, but left the staff in a state of Utters.

Marquis always dined in

his bat

by JAMES BARTLETT

THE most

T

scandalous

serial story of a life. time has been running for more than 40 years,

All the most respectable Hibraries put it openly on their bookshelvck.

For its title is "The Complete Peerage,” now stretching out to twelve 500,000-word volumes."

It looks auch a sober work. But don't be fool-

ed.

Apart from its eye-raising revelations of high-society amours. and intrigues the new Instalment shows how # Duchess of Somerset served only a leg of mutton and dish of potatoes when the duke brought home a guest for din- ner

n

folk, frail how an Earl of Suf- and sickly in health, worried his friends because he wanted to marry a lusty widow

how the marriage of Duke of Sussex was not legal after all.

Dip where you like and comes a sensation...

The gambler

"

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THERE WAR Lord Thane: who went gambling in Paris, broke the bank twice by winning £40,000 one night, and then lost £120,000 a few nighis laar.

Marquis

The wine-loving Townshend always sat at din- mer with his hat [: a Lori Tänkervilla ro fancied his rich basa-baritone voler the he became known as the Singing Earl,

The ron at one peer was so

for a fortnight at a time miner than get up.

daughter, who stayed behind when her father moved out,

The following week, however,lczy, that, he would ein bed But there is no serious or come the great gel-19thc immediate possibility of the SC party withst another member the SG proclaiming "going steady." He seems' quite happy as he is.

of the

UN staff," and

with

As

It has been noticed that giris Ereat bonhomic acting as com in whom he takes even a sight per at a variety show on the

podium

General of the Interest are not of the magazine-sembly. hall. cover type. He likes them banksy and brainy; his own He also used the occasion to

authors as tell the tastes rum to such

assembled thousands

T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, that he was retting up a sprejal New York gossip columnists committee from the staff to ad- have not been able to pin ony- viso him. thing cn him yet, although one hinted the other day that he was actually seen around with a woman journalist.

Contrary to expectation, he Americans pleased

They like him

the new boss.

required,

The beautiful wife of another

peer did not marry him until The had had an affair with an- other peer and had "passed through the hands of soveral other gentlemen."

"Take my coach',

(KELETONS in the peerage famly cupboards are not peculiar just to these S to T families in the newest volume,

Nearly all the great families already exposed in

carller volumes keep to the When the first

MOTONG

of Abercorn, for exemple; found that his wife planned to ruN away from him he bogged her to go In the family coach.

All the shameful, shameless, eccentric incidents that have kept gossip going for. nearly 1,000 VERTS OTO now on отеть record for nine out of every Intermediate floors iften high-society families.

He also began to take meals with the rest of the staff in a cafeteria in the building. And пе went round personally to every office In the whole labyrinth, shaking hands with each of the four thousand. The effect of all this was rewarding. "He's a good guy," one of the doormen fold me. "You know- democratic."

In his wide-windowed, deep- carpeted office on the 38th floor

Meanwhile the great, majority of the UN budding, Hammarsk jold is seeing far more people of the staff are inclined to like than his predecessor did.

He started off by making one He takes the line that he is There is no saying, of course.

change in UN custom-- when some unforeseen tiff may

an intermediary between the tiny disrupt this harmony; but for pluhy restaurenta. In the delegations, someone who must instead of whizzing up to the floor without stopping the moment, at least, all is nature of his job he has to be constantly available for con- 386h

Hation and advice.

when the SG got on board, the sweetness and light. Hammars- entertain a great deal, but his sultation kjold speaks fluent English, guests are invited to meals Thus far Hammarskjold has clevator girls were told not to French and German, but an either at the UN or in the Park been paying greatest attention treat him like a VIP but to stop Russian.

Avenue apartment.

to domestic problems. And he at any Lic the Norwegian, and Ham- They are invited with a pur- has plenty in his own staff. marskjold, the Swede, are about pose to talk; and their host

10 talk different as two men can be prefers

In peaceful Lle, a family man, lived as surroundings. Secretary-General In a large

any married oficial residence whose upkeep has never asked took oll of the 15,000 dallors lady in the UN diplomatic corps

Seventeen allowed him for the purpose, in to act as hostess for him at a

hundred of them addition to his tax-tree 40,000 party.

Americans. And although Although he is apparently shy. Hammarskjold has firmly Pro dollars salary and expenses.

of the Bachelor Hammarskjold de- he is by nature self-sufficient, claimed that "members

entertains clined to live in the big house, and he

his guests sinft must maintain a loyalty to without So the UN set him up in an himself

requiring D the organisation and to no one else," he is up against the fact elegant duplex (maisonnette to woman help

theca Americans aro us) on swank Park Avenue with There was chatter among the that

large living-room un the gossips when the boss, fraternit required by their own govern.

floor, three

bedrooms ing with members of the secre- ment to prove their loyally to upstairs and quarters for his Larlat and their friends at the the United States.

Without any explanation day" party. butler, cook and

other UN's first "staff one

otherwise that to act servant.

was seen dancing with Gurl Lie, excent This

is

24-year-old would have been "administra- predecessor's not his arrangement exactly cheup, but as it costs 10,000 dollars a year it save the UN 5,000 dollars, since the money cannot be switched to any other use.

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An outlet

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URANIUM DIVINER

By. Jack Comben

Buenos Aires. the ground with a forked rod The place is rented unfurnish- ed, and Hammarkskjold, whoIR Christopher Gibson, of hazel, oak, peach or cherry. likes to tell his staff that they ; ▶ a British businessman "The trouble is to find some- must cultivate a purely inter who claims psychic powers, thing strong enough. I am very national outlook. 13 having It decorated a modern Swedish is to lead an oxpedition into sensitive, and reds often break South when I get close to what i am De an cutlet for unexplored central his

nationalist feelings. America-in search of

a. after " But he has an irreproachably uranium field. And his only cosmopolitan taste in platuros, and on his walls are a Braque gear will be a small ivory painting and drawings Matisse and Picasso..

Sir Christophor is a member

head- by elephant and a diviner's of the British Society of Dowsers

-water diviners-with quarters In London. He has many striking

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He has found water for dozons paraphernalia," he told me in the Buenos Aires office where he of celtie broeders, all for. Royal runs his agricultural supply Dutch and quantities of Jesult business. "I am paychic. I intend to and uranium tising my extra- sensory perception and a forked rod.

omers.

Last year he located, again by moana of bla "magie pendulum,"

a huge coffer suspended by fron chains under. Water near the

I am sure there's a big Great Mocona Falls. uranlum field on the northern border ojot, e Argentin, near, "Unfortunately, we hadn't got Frenguty. I found it while in the equipient to lift he told Buenos Airco by holding my me: “This King I shall go fully hollow elephant Ivory pendulum prepared. I am certain 1t con- over a map of the district. Now in Josult gold hidden there in all that remaine is to go over the Seventeenth Century,"

Only the remaining families between the Tredegers and the Zellands are left unexposed. They must wait another year, or two before they find themselves In the final instalment of the 20th century's most scholarly, scandalous tale,

[* "The_Completa Peerage”: _S«T, Vol. 12. Part 1; St. Catherine PrezÜ, just published.

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