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· PARIS NEWSLETTER from SAM” WHITE

LADY JEBB DECLARES WAR ON THE BIDET

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Paris, dahilo beds

ADY JEBB, wife of the for

£900.)

laid down. (Bill garden Improvements;

'Lady Chatterley'

British Ambasador, Sir Gladwyn Jebb, has declared war on an estim-

CULTURAL NOTES. now The able French institution, the

new spectacular show at the crowning glory of French

Casino de Paris opens with an plumbing and an age-old-to-the-hunt tableau featuring mystifier Wo Anglo-Saxon the show's leading singer

The current tourists staying in a French Lady Chatterley, hotel for the first time.

I refer, of course, to the bidet

19 A pur or hip-bath, which manent feature of every French bathroom.

of the With the approval Minister of Works Lady Jebbs with enthusias21 has entered

look of modernising upon the the British Embassy here.

There were only

''-

play at the Salle Luxembourg has provoked energetic protests trom the theatre's two bars. The play runs for two hours without an interval,

die

the barmen To apprise theatre is now looking for a provide the Purtain-raiser to necessary interval,

Her first call

THE HORRORS OF CAPITAL- Lady Hayter, wife of the British Ambassador in Mos- cow, has been visiting Paris and her dry call was on a Tashion- able hairdresser. Just a she

sented she

HOL

wils torpor

After the famous £7,000 im- the Embassy provements kitchen, Ludy Jebb has turned attention to the bathrooms her

four ball- the Embassy's sidence and none at all for the emerging from servants. So Lady Jebb planned ratin and

supervised the fustallation of three new bathrooms and the remodelling

of another. Sus also installed showers servants' quarters.

In the

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her unfantliar face the drying It was

that of the French playwright Jean Cocteau.

£50 a week

NOOTNOTE: French MPs have boosted their salaries to just She then ponderel The prob-

a week. Only the the bkiets La the over £30 Jem

the In- doubt Communists oppored existing bathrooms. No them Angling

unsightly. stie crease. In the current state of French public opinion about its ordered that they be uprooted.

Irresponsible Parliament the in- creuse and the Communist Uprooted they were.

is worth on a opposition to it moden estimate u good million votes to the Communists.

the horror of the French plumbers as they went about their almost sacri- legious tusk.

One can imagine

This is not the limit of Lonly

Earlier Jebb's enterprise,

found

there were trees in the Embassy

She ordered

felled and

too many garden.

Bed-sitters?

the UOTE {

wook: Aun- bassador Sir Gladwyn Jebb There seems to be an idea la seven trees to be sume quarters that ambassadors had two rose and should live in bed-sliting-rooms."

Champagne Room

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singing French Songs

with

Ray and the Bubbles

NIGHTLY AT 10.30 & MIDNIGHT

(Except Sundays)

Commencing To-morrow Night

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TWO

RECITALS

ONLY

at the

EMPIRE THEATRE

(Pianist);

to-morrow

and

Thursday,

5th & 6th.

January,

1955.

9.30 p.m.

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^ THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY

MOSCOW LIKES IKE

SPARTAK LAUGHED

1955.

}MALENKO7|

SINGS

NO. THERE IS

NO TRUTH

IN

2. That Mr. Molotov s to Knight of the Garter too. .....

THE RUMOUR :::

be a

1. That Senator McCarthy to to pay

a state visit to Morcow to recelus The Order of Lenin...

A

KINGDOM

- PRICE

By Col. P. T. Etherton

Explorer and

world

the expedition which flow over Everest in 1933

A and

even

IS

In the house

Cummings

3. Or that Mr. Malenkop is of to Washington to bow to Marilyn Monroe and to help out Ike in Congress....

| ARABS WANT CLOSER TIES WITH BRITAIN

By JAMES WICKENDEN

London. i

UST back from the biggest postwar Burvey of the Middle East, British Evelyn Foreign Under-Secretary

Shuckburgh is optimistic.

He thinks Britain may about-turn” from her handover of the Suez base to Egypt to fill the And present vacuum in Middle East defence, this would be at the invitation of the Arabs themselves.

In the six months since corping into being of the Anglo-Egyptian agreement, relations between the two countries have greatly im- proved, and Premier Nasser now wants the British back.

But Nasser carinot suggest returning the base, no its evacuation by Britain is a symbol of national independence in Egypt,

The big obstacle to a new Anglo-Egyptian military pact is the fanatical ant-West Muslim League.

Muslim Leagan Nassos hanged several plotters recently in the face of shocked Muslims from Baghdad to Karachi, he still fears its power.

Jordan is also angling for greater British military commitments. Premier Towilą. Abul Huda wants Britain to convert her usual yearly £8,000,000 subaldy of the Arab Legion, headed by revered, tubby, Glubb Pasha, into a per- manent and automatic payment.

RUSH FOR TREATIES

To fix the deal he is in London with 19- year-old pro-British car-addict King Hussein and his Queen, both bored by their capital Amman's amenities and secking the bright lights of Christmas-time Britain,

Tewitq has little hope of per- muading the British to change the mutual defence pact schedised to run another nine years before revision unless he can put up a good canɑ.

And so far he does not seem to know just what he wants from Britain apart from more money. But obviously he does not want Jordan left out of the present rush for now treaties with Britain, begun by Iraq and now

whispered and Teheran.

FOR SALE

£45,000

of the "king"

traveller: organiser of

sca

on Lundy is trunk full of charters and ances kings and

ordin- from

BRISTOL

CHANNEL

state s-

LUNDY ISLAND

Q

King Stephen granted it

men relating

in

HO would bre

Turkish "king" for £46,000, rovers, and a convict settle- or maybe less-not ment.

A

Some are to Lundy.

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a chain-store king or wheat king but a real king, with a title by custom going From then the overlords a royal charter in 1185. back 800 years?

took on the appurtenances Welsh and

According to Latin: One is in Icelandict who possessed

The kingdom is for sale, of kings.

a pocket paradise 20 miles Harman, off the coast of Britain.

The coins of Lundy are in sale today may be anything documents of great anti- values of puffin and half- from 7,000 to 10,000 a year. quity, they defied authority, puffin. They are treasured The "father" of all the cab. Lundy is its name and maintained their indepen- by antiquaries and have the pages was discovered on the whoever becomes "King" of dence, and flew their own familiar puffin on one side ⚫ island,

Lundy possesses himself at flag from the keep, once of these privileges:-

•

None of the

and the bust of the "king" on the other. English

The puffin also decorates He can mint his own kings could do anything the island stamps, which coins and print his own about it. One after AN. stamps.

other tried to oust the range from puffin to 12 overlords, who in time be- puffins (1 puffin=1d.) in He is free from the came kings themselves in varying colours. There was almost everything, and the an exclusive set of seven and Immunities for the Coronation. He pays

no income rights

granted them confirmed this tax-or super tax.

belief in kingship.

SURPRISING

bureaucrats.

and water

The gas men never call.

He is immune from

Customs and can lend goods he wishes.

The last charter

was

the last thing I want."

in Cairo

It up to Britain, therefore, to take the initiative in London-meetings,

the

But, as with. Egypt, the chief

family were overlords for nearly difficulty in talks is the sensitive

They bufit Internal

a hundred years, the church of St Helena,

situation in Jordan. Although pro-British, and will- to take advice, most Jordan- tans will not accept direction from London.

ing

When the Bishop of Exeter, many years ago, stopped ashore after a stormy crossing, he said:

Chlef problem in Jordan is "Now I know what it is to go the rivalry between the newly through purgatory to reach the absorbed "Palestinians the kingdom of Heaven."

Arabs west of the Jordan in- But Lundy has another charm.corporated after the Arab in- vasion of Palestine in the recent It de an island dedicated to war and the

thetrans-Jordan- birds; continuous watch is kept fans", or old-catablished families during the autumn and sum east of the river who carved out mer migrations.

their country from the Turks in the First World War.

EDEN'S AIM

There also

find

you will

field. There is the trapidor

strange species of life of the spider, whose real home is in South America. How he got to ton of the country are refugees Lundy no one knows.

ALLEGIANCE

In

Also, almost half the popula-

from the Israel-Arab war. any attempt to frame a peace between Israel and Jordan, one of the Brat neods, from the Bri- Lundy has an hotel. It needs

tish point of view, is for Jordan modernising, but Harman was

to resettle them, never keen easide and Riviera Ideas, Lundy Britain at all. He was his own morale and prestige in Jordan on this. He told Harman believed that Lundy A third problem is the strain me: "Once you start in on

was no part of the realm of on the crack Arab Legion's high will lose its charm-and that is prelite and he sold he owed so Its forced inactivity in face of allegiance to anyone-except the Israeli border attacks, such as Queen

last year's Qlbya incident, when In the evenings the people. forgather at the Marisco tavern,

58 Arabs were killed and 40 Who, then-wants to be w

destroyed, is weakening which needs no licence and "King" of Landy to live aondence in he British officers. opens and closes when it Ukes. restful lifa ainkdinates of * Amić. this confused situation, rare flowers and streams of Britain is anxious not to lose her Lundy is almost self-support- pure water? Who wants to rule still strong prestige in such a Ing.

are without a police force, or a brought to the faland by boat, lawyer? Or even without a key area

ince most of Jordan's from the unresolved but there is a small acroplano doctor-you, rarely d que?

journey of about 15 minutes. rough-and-tumble sea passage to listing in the the New Year is likely to be the And at the end of it all to war with Israel, Eden's aim iza little cemetery on high point establishment of an Israell-Arab The "king" himself lives in where the waves of the Atlantic peace. That is the first need for house built by William pound Landy with a three-a new basis for Middle East Rabbits first came to Eng- Hudson Heaven in 1837, and thousand-milo purch

Behind defence sought bath by Arabs land from Lundy, and their since modernised The Heaven them.

and British.

Surprising, too, it is to granted by Charles I. find that the granite in Lundy is among the purest any "king" of Lundy? I do not used in the construction of Could Whitehall upset the in the world. Some of it was think it will happen. It the Victoria Embankment in His rights not only set would involve complicated London. him above certain laws of legal battles and an immense England, they give him amount of research. powers over the island people, numbering 15, and their visitors.

"The "King" of Lundy can' remove anyone he considers undesirable; deny a person the right to land; control all flahing catches to a certain distance offshore.

HISTORY

Goods and

mail

which reduces the three-hour

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WELCOME (RESERVEDLY) TO 1955

OW does the world outlook seem for 19552

By Simon Maynard

the

mechate

·

T

to the

-There is no doubt at all, thist the possibility of world. mifeldb must for the base of any now talks wir Rússia, and there must obviously be some trat talking on both sides, ph

I-with

end

It would be nice to say the Russians will still be able of that gallant and for-sighted been absolute gift that it has never looked bet- to exploit in 1958.

bdividualist,

General Ridge Bevanites, ter since the war, that a long

way, who has had lengthy If anything was guaranteed/ Second is the gradual realisa battles inside the Pentagon on fo

If the West can show-Russia vista of peace lies ahead. tion by the West that superiority the

-provoke a new wave of But it would be no service in atomic and hydrogen bombs Western Powers.

future strategy of the "nentralism," or to build up they are united on this question case for the defeatists who say and that nothing on breskjur

alliance, i The last "King" of Lundy to the cause of peace to say a very mixed blessing. By

Why did NATO HQ put out civil defence is useless, then the Western the end of 1954 Independently- was Martin Coles Harman, this.

be agreement at least on could MAN MAYEN?"" Vatopic nisi, lýdrogén, bomb "dis- minded scientists

newspaper correspondents NATO's had revealed London financier, who died

We start off in 1955 with what many politicians ald

did not semi-offllcat conclusions about vided it. Spokesmen

have been armomon! In 1986, 20 a few weeks ago leaving no

www shouldi: have- The probable shape of nuclear the heir. Harman wanted to the knowledge that neither dare to say in

development of horror

war on the eve of the French stated by politicians who have But that would not mean wespons debate sell the island to a person of the two rival camps of (and esp

on ratification of the the authority to my exactly that once was any bearer of the H-bomb) Western Union, especially

what the logical implications of lak of being back in the same Indeed, we should guruh tha «greements? who would maintain the East and West can feel has now reached a pitch where

eda Ume to NATO's firepower are. For position ar at the in

'seemed an

it had the Im example, one NATO spokesman World

War the face of the universal ruce.

alleged that World..., War 111 kingship.

The price today is £45,000 is steadily going ahead with both sides.

Presented some countries, such as Britain, satellites plus Red China in rearmament.. though a reasonable offer rearmament with growing

with NATO'S conclusions as to the result would be decided terms of manpower

Bo you can": "be"""""sura, thore would be considered and unity, and that 1964 saw the Three Weaknesses what the latest horror

"win" be ind disarmament plan the main interest has so far creation of a Balkans Pact,

unless the Ruslané 'sgrew to: Su can achieve, · Jules Moch within 39 hours; come from America,

which was in its way the

viterate, antagonist of: German

Damning Admission or control. Nothin short of absolute and wmidit?ht system. expect during 1985 that rearmament, was able to argue! Look back into history most effective, if not the the Humlans will exploit to the not altogether ineffectively

this,'could" bej scorpind: by: the and bee how Lundy, three most spectacular piece of utmost these weakness in that there was no need for such

There was also the damn statesmanship of the year, the Westerns: porttión, 12 thạy varmament since any future, admission that Britain's "BRIL and a half miles long by news could have added fail to make sensational moves war would be settled by horror to survive more than a coup less than a mile wide,

up to a vidly improved post- tooth in on these "hidden bomb

'of Et-bomba" might d visible from the Devon on for the Western Bowers, dividends. I shall be much Therefore he claimed German

the way: the wind armament, which was a riac coast on a clear day, has but for wekbandy do the debit surprised grown with the centuries.

rights and privileges of exactly pleased with the superiority counts for little choose of making

world outlook. In the East 18: suicide which extensive uso 01. Chrisimas present of an argu-" would be all over in a matter. Western, countries outnumbered the realisation that the West these weapons would bring for ment to the opponents of Ger- of a few weeks, and that for the 'Russiană -and-- their

Walt has

for

side, Western Union has not provendes at anything like the thinking Pace vpected at the beginning

(1054,2 and, the stromana, and

Indira

The truth in thuttim 1955 the landë,of pawar wil

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