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DON IDDON'S NEW YEAR DIARY

THE CHINA MAIL," THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1955.

Was So Different

6,205

Camo W

Days Ago

has

Cummings

EDALS WY)

with

tude, and Fritz Kuhn struiting In Yorkville--the German scelton of the city.

New York, Tuesday. tures have shot up in their TNLESS my arithmetic place.

The Rockefeller Centre Is addled, New Year's

spread and scared since I came Wall Street was in the dol- Day was my 6,206th here, the United Nations bulld- drums. Many Americans day in New York-6,206 ing has sprung up on the East thought it possible to do busi-

both uptown and days and nights, quite a River, and

ness with Hitler, and Angle- there are mammoth merican relations <downtown I firat total. When

were often new housing projects-Stuyve-

bruised by the Anglophobe here Franklin Roosevelt wan rant Town, Peter Coaper Vii-

New York Daily News, tho in the middle of his second tree, and others.

ferocious Chicago Tribune, ant The Lever Brothers building and term

President, AN

the newspapers of Mr Willian: on Park Avenue is new. So are thinking about 1 third;

Easo Bulld- Randolph Hearst, to whom the Manhattan llouse, talk Flower

word British was like a red ray Florello

ne, and a hundred banks and

on Fifth Avenue; and to a bull, Latiuarilia was Mayor; Tom shops

has been chris- Dewey Wa gang-luster: Sixth Avenue

tened "The Avenue of the und Dwight Eisenhower

Americns,"

no although

one Army calls it that. unknown

in the Then there was no elevated East-side high-speed Drive, no the coloured hadn't begun to invade Jersey Turnpike,

Upper Park Avenue, and the influx of Puerto trickle.

WILM

major stationed South,

The country was strongly inclined toward Isolationism, there were 7,750,000 nem ployed, and I couldn't walk

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being across town without asked by a panhandler for a dime for a cup of coffee.

New Yok CHY

E Aluvana

First See l, Thin, Sixth, and Ninth now they only one, Aves.

Tird Avenue, and that he to for down Can-top double-decker buses ruited

Fitth Aven thechas cutlered 50th Street, fough to gri ittel fax-havers

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By

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Ways Mortants were only

25 cuts (a shulling at the then rate of exeitiges They are now 79 veut 10 dollar

seven zbillijps).

You rruld get a leak sand-

15 cents

custs steist

Living Costs

at

Ricans

Was only

Television WAS

struggling iz.fant.

*** airship 1linden- ling was spanning the Atlantic to lay over 1,000,000 people fly In end out of New York City in Transatlantic planes every

Jean Harlow your), Felgning in star, Paul White man "the King of Jazz," and Cab Calloway was the latest cult.

WAN

Diamond Horseshoe

MISS Harlow Is gone.

but

M Whiteman and Calloway ure

still

around I

Ja next Whiteman at Tools Shors' the the day-he must have sheri

seven stone.

At that time there was

wich for me than a dollar, a world's biggest night club, with Cigarettes

three revolving bars, in Times Now bacher

and the Diamond fast £1 sterling and cigarettes Square,

Horseshoe sparitled. Both have tire around two shillings for 20

Vanished. The Savoy Ballroom las Harlen drew tourists, and Joe Louls was getting ready to bent

Braddock. Jim

Now ent

***

million dollars with his fists, is so plentiful that landlords used broke and trying

10

pay back rent In one month's to throw free end almost everyone ved his debts with exhibition bouts,

while Rocky Marciano On October 1. The dollar way worth twice what It is tortay, champion and saving his money. and the cost of living was about one-third less than it will be this January

ONLY the rich pad

Ix. und apartments

income were

Louis, after earning severa!

sul work

is re

trou-

Dresses were shortish, sers were bakky, and many men

word "Derbies," There were no self-changing I have seen the face of New York and of the United States grare on motor-cars, few trafic

Thousands Jutass, change drastically

Buildings, eluding the of

Hitz-Carlton magniärent Hotel, the old Vanderbilt house, and great blocks of stamps, have been torn down and new stone

d

Colds

Anl you rarely saw British ear. Today British cars durt all over town,

Fran Royal Oak, Michigan,

priest radio

Father Coughlin spellbound the muddied multi-

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These are the big changes I have seen the death of Isola- Honian,

of the assumption world leadership and

world- wide commitments by the US, which has trebled her national income, doubled her production, nd increased her population by 40,000,000. One day I'll walk down Memory Lane again.

New Governor NEW YORK'S new Governor. Averell Harriman, oncc global troubleshooter for Roosevell and Truman, taken office. He is thr Democratie Governor New York State has had for 12 years,

has Aral

Thomas E. Dewey, Whe reigned throughout that time, has abdicated to take up private law practice.

Despite the bit'erness of the election compaign during which Dewey called Harriman unЛ! for office and an "illegal can- didate," the changeover is tak

place smoothly. ing

Jay Kennedy. Duthor of "Prince

which is prob. ably the best book written about Hollywood, although it

the

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A BIG PARTY WORLD WAR II CRACKING SHOW — EL ALAMEIN

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STICKY WICKET

CHURCHILL AND ME

CERMAN SURRENDER

TREATY

MEDALS (KIGHT)

the

Thyself Stalin

Churchill,

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PART OF TAN CAPTURED ALONE & ARHED

THE

BARDLEY

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WITH ONLY AH UMBRELLA

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"Police ? We're worried-the Field-Marshal's gone on a ree ce patrol for Sir Winston's telegram, and he's long overdue.” London Express Service

has too much sex in it (but so has Hollywood), dropped for a drink

other night. Kennedy usen the scalpel On the film

Warner city, but Brothers have bought the book and will aim it.

No Portrait

ENNEDY denied to me that

the principal character, loose-living,

Aim licentious пето, was based on any par- ticular persofHe mys: "Every- one sees someone else In the book, but never themselves."

Ho

Hu a remarkable man. is a stockbroker, o

a lawyer, an agent, and representative for over 20 leading Blm figures, and a highly successful author. He has the cast all

loed up for "Prince Bart," but whether Warnera can hire all the talent Kennedy wants guess.

cock, Senator Esics Kefauver, and Iddon.

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The Perfect Hostess Says Goodbye

By STELLA KING

London.

CHE has bad Garbo to lunch. SHE has

hnd Plensso to dinner. SHE has given banquets for Kings and Presidents. Now-- after 10 years as London's number one hostess Mme. Odette Massigli; Swiss- born wife of the French Ambassador, is leaving.

She leaves behind 0 trail of per- fection almost too much say some of her 'critics.

They can find no flaw in the candlelit dinners given in her grey-marble-walled dining-room. In the glittering receptions held in her perfumed white and gold salon. in the way they are greeted by their im- maculate, smiling, hostess.

Is she really perfect? "No. Of course not," scoffe Madame. "I make so many mistakes and I am always putting my feet into it."

DISCREET ROW

Maybe she remembers the discreet row there was when French President Auriol came over for a state visit four years ago. That was because she had asked none of the diplomatic corps to the state banquet at the French Embassy, to which the King and Queen were invited.

That was the night turned the dining-room into

when sho #smoking-

room and held the banquet in the ball- room .. when she matched her dress with her amber curtains .. when she had the ment and flowers flown from France--- and nine saddles of mutton did not arrive until late after noon (imagine having a King und a President to dinner and no main course).

What makes the dark-haired, tanned- skinned, Mme. Massigli an outstanding hostess?

Says Sir Leigh Ashton: "Her food is superb."

Says Mrs Neville Chamber- lain,

who should know some- thing about diplomatie occasions, "Mme. Marsigli makes you feel as If you were the only person who mattered."

THE COLOUR BAR IS

NOT IN ENGLISH

Capetown.

honoured existence recently turned from

Its "official"

WAS writing a tele- RENE MacCOLL cables a message Afrikaans

gram

in

the

Johannesburg central to set a lot of people thinking

this post office when

me on the friendly #

"Look,

coloureds."

60

English

to

Soys

stamina.".

Madame:

havo

And she proves it. She had a hair appointment al 5.15-on the morning of Coronation Day ---kind held an aB-night party after it was all over,

The day before she appeared on TV a hostess, to lanugur ate the first relay from Paris, She had her cars pierced.

She seldom rela ruffled. Before that same relay, when arc nowadays BBC technicians accidently

tugged down the curtains

and in her drawing room, fittings *

she was undismayed. Afterwards "You must she said to them, como again," And she meant it ARM IN ARM

language because the majority of its recruita Afrikaners and aot English.

Here in Capetown I see. protusion of magazines news- papers, specialised publications,

all in Afrikaans.

is anybody's chap tapped

in shoulder

the bustling airport in Phoenix, is this matter of the Hollywood horoscopes say fashion and said:

English Arizona, which bore a notice, speaking population and the that "Leos" will have the best chum." So I looked and saw rather like the ones you see on Afrikaners, who are the des- of 1055. They Include Arlene that the booth where I was the desks of unimportant vice- cendants of the BOCTs who That has happened almost Doll, Lucille Ball, Mae West,

business offices, fought us so strongly at the entirely since the end of the Cecil B. de Mille, Alfred Hitch-standing was labelled "Nie presidents in

which anid: "Reserved for turn of the century.

inst war.

But in the short time In her rooms there are photo- Blankes."

The Afrikaners are in power that I have so far spent in this graphs of de Gaulle, Foch, and friendly Brland and the Duchess of It seemed too much Anyway,

both the U.S. and now, as they have been since sunny, pleasant,

1948.

country, 1 have formed this Kent. The only one of Madamo trouble to move to the the Union of South Africa aro

"The "en- is unframed and propped -up On Broadway

that they have a grave "Blankes" or in the

First it was the Government strong impression:

and place sure

behind a the "cnmities," Now it is the slons" And both are of Dr Malon.

clock on the Massigli HERE are three openings on reserved for coloured people colour problem,

Cabinet of Johannes Strydom "problems" and "crlees" which mantelplece. equally surv Broadway, highlighted by only.

And we often read about as affect parker from abroad can possibly (pronounced Straydem). "The House of Flowers," A

know anything obout the Strydom's Nationalists have an- ing South Africa, are not quite what so bad when you get up close musical comedy

Harold This sample of South African problem or make any construc- nounced

to the situation Arlen and Truman Capote, segregation probably shocks you five sugges ions, So it you they have in mind.

THE

by

that nu

nusty-

more than it does ine. Because would kindly stop heckling, wo starring Peart Balloy.

"Black-Eyed Susan" starring in the Southern States of the would be able to sort things out Vincent Price, lasted only three U.S. which were for long a for ourselves, quietly, sooner or performances. It was such `n part of my professional beat, later. vulgar show that the critics such things are a commonplace. said it gave indecency # bad

name

Sir Cedric Hardwicke gone to Hollywood to

bas

Drinking-fountains. ralkway The programme

waiting rooms, washrooms these are among the public play amenities which

are automati-

The Vuga

| featured roles in

bond King" and "The Commandments,"

Ten

London wants Shelley Win- ters back there to star in "Hose Tattoo" on the stage.

| Mason-Dixon line-one each for

"coloureds" and "whites,”

I have a vivid memory of a nagging

because

CHINA, TIBET GRAPPLE.

loud and clear

The programme includes:- (1) The formation of a South African republic, preferably out- side the Commonwealth;

Bato-

by Britain's Colonial Office),

means necessary, by

whites.

Now, uranium

- Sir

the

It is one of herself and Winston Churchill, arm-in-arm.

She is at her best at children's parties which sho gives

for her young daughter Jacqueline, now 16,

The first party she gave when the family moved lato the present Embassy in Kensington Palace Gardens, was a birth- day party for Jacqueline....

Winston Churchill, Jun.,, For her

Dssistant.

out acted as comp" receptions

The German-Jewish taxidriver and pollicians.

She van disenia. Knything,

from

the

tend to talk a good (2) Acquisition of the three PEOPLE native protectorates

Aight." But the Nationalists, land, Bechuanaland and Swazi- who talked the biggest fight of land (at present administered all when they were in opposis

i tion,

are considerably more she mixes and pairs her guests, eally duplicated below America' PUT whereas America has this

a reasonable now that they are Ballerinas and bankers. Poots. BU

problem in a straightforward, blockade:

sitting on the throne. uncomplicated form, here in

A "Armly paternalistic" (3) South Africa It is made more attitude towards the natives who took me over to Pretoria

latest Walton opera to besides the strange little table set aside in worry about "non-whites" there which means nudging them off from Johannesburg the other pantomimes on ice. From the Into reservations and making day told me: "Sure, my boast Egyptian dynasty to Span them live that life of "apart has been bullied a bit at school

ish swim-suits. ness" (apartheid) from the because of his race, but com

axed a "Why

guest, do pared to Hitler's Germany this Spardards Insist on so mucla. But while the Afrikaner coun

country seems like heaven to propriety. Can it be that young Nationalists have been bo ug." laboured abroad because of their The basic thing is that the Spanish men cannot be trusted?

this "Oh." said Mme. Massigil, polley towards coloured people, unlit chunk of real estate down "Are you suggesting that the the cold fact is that nearly here happens to have a series of

be overy white

young Frenchmen South African, monumental Christmas stock trusted? What an insult to tho English-speaking or Afrikaans Ings lying under its tawny sur young Frenchment speaking, Nationalist or non- face..

- ❖ - Sho takes endians frouble, Nationalist, feels the same way. They have found the

gold

There are masses of flowers. about the colour problem. and the diamonds.. And now Huge vases of all-white arura It's coming around for the Illes, hydrangeas and carna- second time the uranium and tions. Great bowls of dark the coal

And when there's crimson roses thab port of wealth meekly waiting to be dug up, it come NOW here is another fact: the klid of foolish to keep worry distant Everest; South, the Time in this reckoning is halls, streaked with the grime Afrikaans-speaking part of ing about who looks like what of this 'and just where did your,grands and grease to China's

of centuries, the white population Communists who now fight |

hundreds of devotees centre their fabulously wealthy country is parents hall from.

IN

WAR OF

NERVES

By JAMES CRICHTON

Darjeeling, India. Jewel King. He is the earthly His yogic exercises plumb the

more manifestation

of the Dhyant depths of the mind and scale of fantasy." In Buddin, one of the five celestiat the heights

NORTHWARDS,

than

over 20,000 feet high with once every two thousand years stand

twenty peaks beings who appear personally solitary caves without room fo

bo contemplates

for weeks along. In cavernous

a snow plume blowing from or su

earth's curve in the haze nothing. Except

a

Statistics

percent of the 18- year-olds who are called up for

aro

'Wow! Wow!

can..

GUARDED SECRET

And those scented rooms of hers. That is one of her best- guardod secrets, Before her first guest arrives, she pours expen=" of India's plains; East, the war of nerves against Tibet's hypnotic power, en him in dron- on the march.

alve French perfumes andto the: ranges of Sinklang in massivo monasteries. To assist ing chanie, clashing music and Here are some statistics.

bottom of a hot from. It is China, "where the rainbow them, their slave labour has just awesome ceremony, tr

“carried.-round the reception ended" according to Tibet- completed two bighways in

When he emerges he is master Nearly 66

rooms like an oriental IncenRO ans; West, the dark blue Lhasa through the deserts and of the briefest thought, hardened national service, (it is a selec- METTING back to that holder

to every austerity and it with before sunrise,

glaciers of Siakiang. A four deep insight: To there men the frame-specking. And bor business of the Nis Blankes Before leaving London the ney of several months is now "brainwashing of Communists today there are 10 tenes along in Johannesturs the other Zarewell Pastice Troch before I sign off, I was walking Masigils are giving their final This is near the roof of the possible in days. world. There the wind serenims

is clumsy amateurism. And de-

coleagues and for days, through : dwarf troen,

testably corrupt. The 'dawh lé horalded by 10,000

Whatever nows 1955 brings children,{ monks at the, booming call of This struggle between Peking go on beyond. the mountaina,

from Asia, this unsten war will southern part of the Union de looked me over with what colony in London, there were 10 years backed to be subesclation and "We have bren It afteen-foot trumpets, At this and Land gode back for you may be more far-reaching in

kojnoplated: “Wow!"?"He then she said. "I

olker, ambaæERE physie centre of ARK thousands

And in the schools of Cape halted" TLETSON, ICWAR, MD $2.16 now. K-rect than it appears, if only Proviico (which used to

fondied my tapet

here for only 18 peer into 1985, Maja on auntie it contest between the through Tibets strategie position

Yours,' Léman have resigned strength of emperors and the between his and inple are today twios

ritish, tradition). from Peking in time, welcomed power of weten

AS THE TORAH Opened by Chins Afrikaans-speaking always they become a two-edged wwse them are ingili

the, pona Coramunists can now, move vergang

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