1956-09-29 — Page 8

THE CHINA

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

1956.

** see your car, gives the samé trouble then.”*

WIFE 6 KIDS

ZANIES

You're lucky, I have

a symphony porchestra

to support !!"

GUTER

-RESTAURANT

Miri

Gambling With Power In

•

Stalin's Empire

T

By JULIUS GOULD

was

Worse,

HIS spring Mr to "malignant anti-Party views.

Krushchev began his received without protesi "sland- important leaders" cre against biggest und most and, what

they dramatic gamble. Could shouted down pious Parly Cminunist power be main speakers. tained in 21 "reformed" Communist Hociety?

10

The "important leaders" Do doubt included Matyas Rakosi— Party boss and Moscow agent.

wet the "reforms" in the For the Party decree named at USSR and Its neighbours the centre of the Petoon scandals "a group formed around Imre loosen the Party's hold?

former Prime Minister Nagy

The reforms were clearly and advocate of softer polteles, necessary:

force whom Rakosi supplanted a year

naked

could no longer suppress the Clearly, the Hungarian Party

pepine tensions of life

are frightened of tes under Communism. Yet the discussion, and they already risks involved were greal- have good reason

As

for anxiety. : Rakosi, who for years hud sur- Mr Krushchev must

vived all threats to his power, at the time, has now have known

fatlen und although How much more obvious Gero, his successor, has a TC- the

are those risks today!

At no time is

putation for toughness,

future pattern of events in

a tyranny Hungary is at present anybody's more vulnerable than when guess.

it attempts its own reform. CALCULATED RISK The Soviet State inachine

of

These Bre some results can take great thony Krushchev's springtime gamble knocks it can even absorb the calculated risk he chose to Can he succeed-or will the dethronement of Stalin! take,

events outpace him? His Central But in the East European Commitice's

the reaction to satellites the situation is Peznan riols was simply to re- peat the formula that "Western somewhat different.

agents and spies" had been at Work. It displayed tile insight or originality,

THEY

REMEMBER

In Krushchev's palh stand There are still men alive who

many forces - the impatient remember freedom-who even hunger of the workers, the vest- hanker after social democracy, ed interests of the satellite The State machines, having im leaders, the critical impulses of posed a "revolution from above,"

E the younger generation. are far from stable: the personal forces pull in many directions. disclosures

about Stalin have

Can they combine? And if they not raised The prestige of hla sotrops still in power in satellite what will become of Stalin's

Europe. Today, months after the Soviet Party Congress, Mr

Krushchev must be counting his gains and losses.

The debit side of the account seems quite impressive. There has clearly been a weakening of Stato

authority fr Eastern Europe. It will not have escaped notice In 13

Moscow that the Poznan rising came but a fort- night after a most severe purge of the Polish security corps, ing volving 500 dismissals and

several hundred arrests.

No police State can take much convulsions completely In Ita

empire in Eastern Europe?

(COPYRIɑnr)

These

1

Show Business"

SURVEYS SOME NOTABLE SEASIDE SCENERY OF 1956 -- Å ̈ DUO IN ITALY

A SHOW OF

Miss

T

HEY were the first sight which greeted my travel wenry eyes when I entered the large marble-pillared foyer of Genon's leading hatel.

Anita Ekberg and An- thony Steel were draped ninorously on a sofa.

They were probably de- monstrating to the world

SPIRIT by EKBERG

by Logan Gourlay

ceremony

She meant, I supposed, the I didn't argue, but they were that they are chuolic, unceremonial, uncivil, determined to demonstrate their

still happy civil

In Florence's burning leve. and affer town hall, Monate after

of

They went into a clinch I said I didn't think she could kissed passionately.

ever sho 18

And

She hissed dladainfully st oho

of the photographs, and threw the book back.

The signorinas fled.

Mr Steel said: 'Quite a girl, ch? She's got spirit."

Milas Ekberg put her hand. which could not bo described as petlle, over his mouth and sald: "Sshh. I want to talk.

"It's not that I don't like sign- The Rola three months blame the press entirely for creaked. I inoked away: I wis ng autographs. I were always (She still marriage, that.

beginning to feel like a keyhole doing it in London." (Anyway

does Swedish somersaults ceen+ "What about the damned spy, a boudoir interloper. photographers?" they're still Ekberg, who has become what-

sionally with English verbs.) vaich Miss

Two hotel guests sitting near

"But now I do murried).

not sign today by being by lett hurriedly.

autographs when I am working. They could not only be photographed off screen

Mr Steel disentangled

him on the set. scen but they could be aftener than on-in

provoca- self and called for more refresit- tiva, pneumatic poses. heard all over the foyer.

ment from the bar. Their voices bounced loudly off the marble pillars. They shouted at "Come over and have

WONDERFUL

She cooled her re about me: photographers with a sip

A vodka and orange julce.

of

"After all, would Minister of England

►

the Prime would He rose and picked up

an Winston Churchill stop the Avork enormous chmu vast from * in the Houses of Parliament to

table. Smiling playfully

of heaved it in my direction.

my

he sign autographs. Would he?"

"No."

I managed to held it when t She cdjusted her tight green

said:

а

VENT RELACIONEER PORN rink." I went.

Mr Steel made on announce-nded in my lap. Mis Ekberg Jeans and crossed her legs, Mr Steel slapped me

ment defiantly and loud enough coyly

"Wouldn't

you which pre longer than to be heard on the top floor of rather I was in your lap?" the back and said: "Why the hotel.

Churchillian cigar, ont mora "Well, we're still

shapely. have you come to this awful hoppily married. I adore

Mr Steel said: "Now, now, keep your arm round the vase. dump? Now I know why beautiful wife,"

Don't touch my wife." Christopher Columbus "Isn't he wonderful?" Bald left!"

she. "You'll never guess what he was doing the other night when I got back to the hotel from work."

Ekberg

"i want to AUT.“

'TELL ME WHY'

HER INTERESTS

Mr Steel got a word In: "Anka's CITECT is going very well, I'm proud of her. People mako fun of her Engish and her accent But they're 1 said had no designa

on Improving all the time," Miss Ekberg or the vase. 1 "I wouldn't try."

gave the vase to a porter who have been brief

(So far her film appearances Miss Ekberg made room for

had been sent to protect hotel dubbed voice in poor

ones--with me on the sofa on her left dank

"He was

getting everything property.

Gimė. ther husband of course was on ready for the laundry-a pile

but she will shortly be seen in the right) and got down to of my lingerie on one side and Three guests who had been two eples, "War and Peace", and personal matters:

his own silk shirts on the ather, watching from the other side "Zarak Khan". "Why did the press louse up He's the best husband In the of the foyer left for the safety our marriage? Tell me, why?" world. We're very much in love." of their rooms. I looked after

A PATINO ESTATE GOES UP FOR SALE

Paris proces of establishing a legal P for public auction residence in Mexico.

next week goes one

His wife's lawyers in Paris of the world's most believe that a DEGION fabulous relics of the move may be that Senor Patino stride. The absence of security Victorian eta. It is the im- intends to apply for a Mexican controls along the road from Warsaw to Poznur on the day mense property known as

of the rising bore eloquent wit- | the Chateau nas to this breakdown and con-located on the fusion.

ity police and the milder atti-

Valrose, hills over-

The purge of the hated secur-

looking Nice.

It includes massive century chateau,

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tude of the regime have been taken, of course, as a sign of 19th

weakness. Not only in Poland, hideous beyond belief, but In Czechoslovakia and Hun- gary, too, there have

bcen

for the

PARIS NEWSLETTER FROM

SAM WHITE

divorce from his wife, As soon as this rows became known the Lawyers began to sharpen their wits for yet another stage in the 10-year-old legal battle between Patino and his Spanish-born wife, who was formerly the Duchess of Durcal,

The battle has been fought in

smaller chateau, a private New York and Paris. powerful currents at work, above theatre, an enclosed winter

the surface and below.

In Poland,

, as is

garden, an amphitheatre

and Intel-known, for orchestral recitals, a

the social ment has been the mast

ing.

of Poznan were shouting

ter-Russian

for palm

Communist intellektuals ank Tor more!

BLOCKED ASSETS

year

The Last verdlet

cetutes.

Miss Ekberg took over

m

"I'm serious about my work. ded up posing for the nothing. Now I want to get." cheesecake pictures. That's

them enviously and inquired I about the professional career of Miss Ekberg, who was in Italy on location for d now alm.

It's

Mr Sicel

said: "I've just

+

She waved her arm in an his- Unfortunately gesture,

come along for the ride. But fronte

just as well I'm here to the knocked over a drink on the

table and the contents protect Anita's interests."

* over Mr Steel blue sports

He made it clear that he trousers, didn't think much of Victor Mature, who is her jeading man I dis in the Alm.

cd at SHAPE. Sergeant-major cafe, I came here in 1053 and Yates, who is a Southerner, told began looking round for sane me he bought the yacht, which property. I could buy. is insured at Lloyd's for £12,000, covered that milliary man cut of his savings. He lives on hore couldn't buy eny French board with his Viennese wife. property.

Equeczo

QUOTE.

ther's

but the is 100

He danced around

the sofa

spilled

'LIKE AN OAF'

He stood up looking like "A lot of these Hollywood careless, shamefaced little boy... leading men are full of hot air." She said: "Go and change, said Mr Steel. Yates has been in the anny "I tried in Britain,

darling. You look disgraceful

He went upstairs and she for 16 years and has only four credit

followed. Fifteen more years to serve. He bought tight, Cars and yachts are about throwing punches in à display

minutes Inter the yacht, he says, a an invent the only properties milltary of shadow boxing, which was he came back wearing an un- ment against his retirement. He man can buy over here." He to deflate a Hollywood leading trousers. He was alone.

meant. I gathered, to show how stained pair of cream, sports aims to carry out improvemeála stood back and gazed at his

Sho to it and then fet it out

had probably stayed on Mercedes and his yacht, "I don't man full of hot air.

behind to start the major opera- charter in, Florida and the know another sergeant in the Mr Steel is ah ex-Guardsman Alon of packing her 11 pieces of Ballamas.

United States army who owns a and amateur boxer.

luggage for their Vétűrh to Lon- yacht and a Mercedes."

I naked him if he was likely don. to become a leading man hin- self in Hollywood, where he was three in the morning he was Several hours later-around.

still downstairs in the foyer, up- NITED Stala cil magnate

braiding the lift boy because Charles Wrightsman: The

"he stared like an oaf at my trouble with the British is that "I've had lots of offers from parters how to salute k

lovely wife," and teaching the they won't work.

That is the the leading studios but nothing's Guardsmen. trouble with Itálinas (co. I know definitely settled yet. Course I I have just come back from all have that contract with the whey're [no] good, 4hoic Venite.

Rank Organisation at home, but people. Never make soldiers of they've offered me some dud them. One Guardsman could parts: lately"

take care of 8,000 of them? Three perinas approached, He offered to teach me how to smile sweetly, and held out relate like Quardsman, I saki

thanks

You can

He will mail it back to Florida every posible nation her husband when he is posted back to the might mako.

States and is wirendy engaged in getting army opprøvet der Ume off against leave for the 40-day voyagé across,

ARMY LIFE

JAZE down from Alexander

NI

living recently with his wife,

OFFERS

chalet, stables, THE last judgment in New Long before the Workers huge parics covered with T York ordered Senor Antenor

trees, cedars, pine Patine to pay his wife $30,000 dodge along the Selfie

'I SAVED' brend, the intellectuals of War trees and orange and olive at the Parls High Court declares and an enviable sight meets the saw were demanding greater freedom for the expression and trees, and finally choice her cattled to half her husband's eye. There, moored by the Quai ASKED Yales how he had

Is a 125it, two-must exchange of ideas. A small dose detail--"a reconstuction or a income and

Fending d'Orsay,

To much mancged to 231 of freedom works wonders: even Greek temple in ruins." further ligation in tho €150, motor yacht, and, glanding bis money out of his pay, Said Yetos, the court ordered an inventory side it on the quay is an elegant, in his slow drawl: "Well, I have

been kinda lucky. I have, diwaga, All this was once the property, of Patino's potsessions in Paris plum-coloured 1955 Mercedes.

Simon Patino, founder of the and ruled that his assets are THE LESSON

blocked penting

Poker, find I saved my money. great Bolivian ti fortune, It should be has not bein Ulvet in Keet his further uppesi.

min who owns these desimble My wife works for the firm too. GENCE: The famous Alhambra While Miss Ekberg was slim- This was the lesson of the death, and it is being put up for

properties? I went down to In- and saved hers. I saved my muse hall, is to be rehamed the ins a book, she noticed that it rail out May meetings at which the rear by his son, Antenor Palino, Senor. Patino has contested a

"One result hes

been that veilste und made a surprizing money by staying out of Jolats honour of Chevalier's 68th birth-Hollywood leading man., Nong Me Steel went upstairs Pre-

Maurice Chevalier theatre in was filet with photographs of fell out. discovery. Tho owner is ¡¡ quests of Czech students for ins and four other direct hetra under gift her husixiezd inde to the ran major John Yates of The only money. I spend is on day.

of her.

kumably to teach his wife how Marxism and more. academic his will.

She screamed What's thu?, to salute, etap liberty were dismissed by First

Louvre, pointing out that while the United States army, station- en occasional colled in a dewalk

(COPYRIGHT)

Why should "sign, this book?!

(COPYRIGHT) Deputy Premier Kopecky This is one of thice Patin she approved the gift, it should "tendentious provocations."

The intellectual excitements of Wor-eces of being sold, A Victorian not pro offerted solely by Senor properties in France in the pro bo described as a joint, gift and saw were deemed unsuitable for manaton co the "Avenue Foche. Pathuo, desde Prague. The same zeal to pro- has already been soid Loct

for selfora Patino opposes divorce from the 245,000. It will be pulled down young people stral

of free dlicussion, has been displayed in Hungary, a block of nats built on the bath because abois Roman

Who is the mbulously riched a litis crap and a littlo, INCIDENTAL "INTELLI- their autograph books berkedipure no good;"

At work in Budapest

Catholic and › because, having Hötes martiod under Boliyları law,

hack!

bten a section of the official Youth Then there are Patino's stables.ho can calm half his fortune, Movement known as the "Potoenprobably the most splendid in not known whether Sandr Circle and there, too, libertias Einept which are 1:6 gold up

WALL UNUSED

freely taken. So at the end of for cuctions by June-two days after the Poznan risire the Hungarian Party leaders, ansted in spdeial decres: “donouncing the chréle's evening debates, at in which, it seems, various writers had advanced

bour gools

counter-revolutiona

Happarently, that your

Padino has made at attempt to BoCurea Papal anualment of the meringu

JOHNNY HAZARD

LIKELI BAY ONE EXUS | MAN - 15 ANOTHER CAUS. POISON OKAY, I'LL SHOO "HIM"AWAY, AND HATE, MYSELF

STEALS A GIRL'S JOB AND NOW PROBABLY WANTS TO ASK ME THE TRICKS OF THE TRADE? THE NERVEWARES

ا قرا

· IT WAS A TOUGH A BATTLE, MOM...BUT. I LOST! HE'S THE DETERMINED TYPE JUST WHAT I LOVE?

I'M SORRY, MISS HAWKES —— BUT THIS. 15 A MATTER VITALLY. IMPORTANT TO BOTH

BY DON'T KNO ANYTHING WE

HAVE NICO

By Frank Robbins

San