PARIS NEWSLETTER from SAM WHITE
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THE, CHINA, MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER" - 26, 1956.
DRILL SQUAD PARLIAMENT
They are the 100 Communist deputies in the French Assembly who have overcome the de- Stalinisation Stalinist than ever problem by becoming more
handful
luntaries
of
the Britain he would have been one of I of the leaders of the TUC.
"All What a waste." professional
NO TAXIS
because Paris largely AZE down from the "ganizational ability
Press Gallery at the semicircular 20- plush benches
The of French Parlament and an astonishing sight met the aye. There, on the extremer
chamber. is left of the Bolld wedge of 100 men and womon occupying a precise sixth
the available
■ of seating space.
Duelos,
I
in ka ke
bother.
meinbers These 100 respond to Parliamentary procedure with all the well-
Omelly the leadership of THE other day it was harder veu et in 1 than ever to go a taxi in ;arly remains As leader, bury ex-miner Paria. The recson: the great
Thuż, anï the pre- Mauri
Lumber of Russian-born laxi- Hecretary, Jacques drivers here zent acting
attending were a fut little man who
the funeral of the 78-year-old Andre, cousin of prosperous pork Grand Duke
the late Tsay. since increasingly
He was
Jast the
of the Thorez's long drawn-oun III- Rustian Grand Dukes and ho he leaves
widow whom to a tower has moved
the triumv.rule of revolutionaries married
morganatically, ballerina, Kelesiska, we have beti members of the famous leadership for 20 years or more, now 85, who still, incidentally,
weathes at ballet schools.
Jut
De A
PROFESSIONAL
The mox important of those
The present pretender to the Vinaumir, son Russian throne
of the late Grani Duke Cyril. A Vladimir was born during the
revolution in Finland,
drilled precision of a squad is probably Laurent Casanova, of guardemen. They chant who has been Moscow's direct alogans in unison, break arent in Paris since 1930. into rong like a couir, standartrome, Gurk
mer with penetrating ego, he stayed in
as though at a signal-heud Fine throughout the Oe upa- back, chest out, vyes
Ton, playing a leading part in the Real tuner and laying the ping defiance.. as the
the postwar ostindatum for sower of the Communist Party
between Par.s VOYLAINES
of the chamber how
hatred of them.
tist
i
11-
an i
My
He la a tenuotia link with the past and the fact that he had
first-han exponençe Ies him almost value- of it makes less us a symbel to the ageing યા.. fast-dyindling colony of Russian exiles here.
Viadimir, who is married to
of the descodant
great Itussian general of the Napoj- eo.c Wars, Prince Bagration.
A
of
1 Prate ate kernly watcotu.
53-year-ol Then tomes
who is passBest of wird whose pass-
atten François Billoux.
1. Riving his profession, lives modestly in a small vile
tales quile uuthfuly "profes
Cool revolutis.arty
The i munikl MP $,500,000
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STILL HIGH
Last week,
the midst
The Hun slaughte teen Pycle aj
heldan 1
was 24 bath a
Inside thre
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The party has survived the e-Sinisation
timpty Statimest
in Blepie.
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REVERSAL
He has been a Communist MP THE Egyptian criris has pro-
T 3936 and
Calitet duced some strange reversals of loyalties here. An extreine right wing MP. noted for his anti-Semtilsm, spoke in Parlia
the other day
in high praise of the Israeli army.
When he sat down a neigh- bour nudge! him and pointed to M. Mendes France, who
wearing Jis Was
usually The max) EXPICERION gloomy who had just been extolling the Israelis glar.ced at his old an! muttered: "That enemy so-and-so Jev"
in the wide French governments of the imetrale postwar years, He a berly man who, sitting on the 110 right of Communist there no sign of uphḥ, vai few intellectuals are threatened front beneh, acts as a kind of with
few fellow parliamentary --sergeant, 11
MOST PERSONABLE fallen by the waeside that is all
The last of the three is the mosi
personable. He is 03- year-old knoit Frachon, non arcel becoming
of a miner and a forme ever before. It has never, før worker who heads the Com- example, published the text of munist Trade Union Federation. Krushchev's report
Stolin, He is a mat. tf quite exceptional nor has it ever mule its peace ability, and he has been
ber Tito.
of the Politburenu alnce this
weil nigh 1929. Incredible in
country like A British trade union leader France, with 113 Ilbertarian who once had a long talk with traditions and
high him came
im- away deeply Intellectunt standurda.
more
EN
has happens! and
on
Its
by
than
a mem-
WHAT THEY SAID UOTES of the wock: Foreign Minister M, Pincau: We must not behave towards America like cuckolded hus- hands.
M. Poujale: Over Egypt we Yet at pressed. Ko told mic later; are in great danger of fighting happens "If that man had been born in for the Queen of England.
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BESIEGED IN BUDAPEST
I
Caught in Hungary's embattled capital city, EVELYN IRONS took refuge in the British Legation there together with other British newspaper people. They shared
the the chores while
battle raged
WAS
one
of 80
to
Show Busine Miss Perfection
Follows The Science Of Mind
M
looked
By LOGAN GOURLAY
of
London. With a businese-like alr she 135
Uke lo sec ARLENE said: "Would you DAHL, who likes tome of my lingerie creations?" said, "Yes," feeling like a to categoriso rich customer in a va'on people as flowers, baute couture but hoping at mo
assessingly wouldn't have to buy.
She railed from the lounge to and Fald:
the bedroom of her hotel suite "You're a bachelor but and, came back with he full ion."
range negligees, nightgowns, slipers, and boucos caps.
She draped them over ful lengh portrait of herself in the corr What,
cr-an unusual port"alt, The artist, feeling he had not
Godfrey Winn could probably have coped with a remark like that. But I was stumped for a moment. Nonplussed.
in the name of Adam the
Gardener, docs a man ho's called
I tried a
when done justice to Miss Dahl, who bachelor button?
is labelled the most beautiful literal matter-of-fact Kiri in the world, had luned approach and asked, "Can I be a bachelor button although I'm married?" (thinking That's the s'llicht question you'ne ever been forced to ask, bul she started ).
Not the type'
"No," said Miss Dahl. "Oh dear, no. I never thought of you on being morried. You don't look the type. That's meant to be a compliment....
"Thank you,” I said.
"Now I
flower for you.
And another
She searched the herbaceous
borders of her mind for
moment and came up with:-
巍
"I know, you're a iger lily."
accepted that, and decided
1
to get some other people Into the garden.
I felt certain she would have
the
flower appropriate
for his
canyos upalde down
Liberace. 1 was astonished sorted again,
when she said:
"No, I don't see him as Bower."
and
Her first head was still surrealistically visible through her skirt. Dgalr, slowly,)
(Read that
She said the artist was Peter that. Shell, not
Picasso "Maybe 1 two heads” — and have got turned her attention to her own He is creations.
I
offended Wasn't orchid?
said Liberace might be
If he heard
Or he even a petunia
"No
He's a cherub.
"No."
beautiful, don't you think?"
Eritrance of Misa Dahl's
"Each ensemble is named after a flower, of course,
"This is the Slightly Scarlet
doctor with a welcome change Rose ensemble, Here is Blue of subject from Bowers and Forget-Me-Not: And the Pink
Liberace to fungus and and White Camellia.” penicillin.
#
Miss Dahl,
who has been
1
Comforting
is
suffering from Induenza and She held up the Blue Forget- toothache, mid she didn't Me-Not, nightgown "This want any more penfcillin by ms. At least, my husband Injection "I can hardly sit thinks so. But I like to think down." Otherwise she said she I'm so Bligh.ly Scarlet Rose.", was fine and ready to cope with I wouldn't care to say exactly the Arlene Dahl Enterprises,
what she is. Bozeath the shallow garden topsoil she serious-minded. She told me that she is deeply interested in
she AB me aphysics, and ex-disciple of Science of 'Mind.
So the beauty has Intellect too. The forge-me-not has brairs.
All flourishing That is the name of a com- pany she has formed, and the Enterprises include, sho plained:-
your
"Derigning Kagerie, writing newspaper column called 'Let's
Beautiful (not like column at all); and myself."
All three, 1 gathered, flourishing.
were
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The all-round specimen of perfect American womanhood. Almost too perfect to be true.
I wish ber no harm, but it's
wife, One reporter and his
However, they were informed had come
to that if they wore to live in the Be with him refugees from Soviet who terror cooped up in the Hungary, did most of the chores Legation they would have
Then a roster was appear civilised. British
in drawn up Legation
and we all did our So all the boards came off,
As Miss Dahl, actress, she is comforting to know that she Budapest recently, while bit.
except one goatee. in the
making "Fortune Is A cometimes gets Food from
aches in the Russian tanks roamed the
the store
A hard-working Legution Woman," her second British fin leeth and elsewhere. Russian streets and
basement was strictly rationed. guns
staff man, Mr Banerjee, whoot | in First
been A year. And abe has We ran oul of bread, wife and 18-month-old daughter asked to return in the next few cussir battered the brave defen- the we run out of potatoes. had
not весть evacuated, months to make two more with ders of the city.
+ wo Ton out of earned monitored the radio, translating Laurenes Harvey.
I wo
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• MARILYN MONROE dis
g her tastes in men:--
"I don't prefer dark men to fair men.
Work with Lany, darkly like a man who thinks
The British Minister, dapper meat.
the German of Radio Vienna
"I'd certainly like to come. Mr Leslie Fry, was host to 25
that point another legation and the Hungarian of the local I'd love to British newspaper correspon- ELI CAC eme canned pork.
Save-controlled radio Into I'm very fond of him."
P.S. She thought that one up dents and cameramen including
TYPICAL MENU English,
She Indicated that her fond- herself with no help from her a reporter from the Communist
ness should до! be Press agent. Dally Worker. There were also
A typical day's me. u was:
Fan'astic gorip and rumours
THEY WERE talking in misinterpreted. 1 dice Finish journalists who breakfast.
of bread circulated among he trustrated "Bui. I'm not sure if I cau Ibiza, Spain, where I was оп had no isgation of their
and own,
margarine, onc cup of
newspapermen. Tempers flared come. My husband is opening holiday recently, about the Crew-out
Dutchman coffee. Lunch, a slice and a Thore was nearly a fist fight. young whose legation was inaccessible half of canned pork, boiled rice,
After a on Broadway in a new musical Errol Flynn i cident. Mr Jacklin, the bricklayer, and I want to spend as much party on board his yacht he was because t was on the wron
a cupful of carried fruit salad, a was probably the least unhappy time as possible with him." Involved in a wrong
brawl with a side of the river, fix university bot le of beer, Dinner, spaghetti of us all. i have plenty to
(Her husband, her second, is Spaniard. The Flynn fist was la students and on Oxford den.
scrap of canned tell then when I get back to actor Fernando Lamas. with a small
Her contact with the Spaniard's Ard Mr Jackila, a cheerful meat, sweet biscuits and buil's Scunthorpe," he
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KITTEN SAFE Twenty-four members of the let'en stalT WERO
the teria
Cigarettes were ratloned to one packet a day and, like the wine, had to be paid for.
The rest of the hospitality WDE free until the Fordign Office refused to be responsible for their visitors and it w decided to charge £l a day--- boo, plus 13 Hungarian drivers, the bils to be retrospective. maida and other
employees.
Last refugee to be takes in was a diminutive groy kilton found mowing in the street out
outside. The
door was constantly guarded by an armed lungarian And through that policeman. door came a pathetic procession of Hungarians soeking British add.
Two of the residents, university men
en who came to see the war, then refu.od to do
their kitchen duty, saying, that
said,
THE ETERNAL STUDENTS
AMONG COMMUNISTS
By MAURICE MÄNNING
ENERALLY speaking, their Communist counterparts twenties, who are agents of the
effect various Party direc'ivcu.
The chief way in which the Communia students · have been comrades has been by rounding "active" amongst their younger them up into a body called the Singapore Chinese Middle group of Schoo1 Students Union
recently SCMSSU);"
INDOCTRINATION
litle In
If the place was run like hotel most people finish their are made of sterner stuff. When Malayan Communlat Party, they would treat it as such. formal education by the they retain student status have been helping to put into Instead of a bath we took an
The hotel had i's drawbacks, age of 25 or so, at latest, and the uhul age it is because such statur brings them into down in cold After that, any studying contact with all-over sponge
n-rich crop of water from a basin,
they may do is a spare time patentiri recruits. Their out To all these requests there Five of us, including myself, affaire, and they cease to be look, in this as in everything was only one heartbreaking bad burst into the country classed as students,
else, is grimly practical.. reply: 'Impossible."
without a visa and had réglec ed
An estonishing Among Communists, however, The legation staff worked to get one on arrival...
Studenter the terms "student" and "youth" "alernai magnificently. Heroine of the We were advised we were in rectisch was the Britlab Consul, Hungary legally, and that fi alvo œ: strange clastictly. To cama to' light In Singapore. It
take a couple of examples, at war discovered that largo`num- The SCMSSU, which was Joan Fish, whose parents live would be extremely dificult to random: the first president of bers of pupils corolled in the recently banned by the in Fowey, Cornwall
extricate us from Communist the Communist-dominated
had in city's Chinese socondary schools government, She never stopped working,
hands if we were arrested, as she never lost her temper.. wo had any morale at all, it we certaicly would be if our tornational Union of Students were well over 30, Significantly common with ordinary student
passports wons checked.
not only remained in. office un- enough, there has been a car asociations; it was concerned was largely because of her,
We were somewhat scared by he was nearly 80 but had tain ringunt of unrest in Singa- oh the welfare of its 'members, but with their the The Minister emerged from this and agreed to accept the nished his student career be pore during the last few years, soctrination
of dis bis second floor office rather Minister's advice and not leave fore he was even, Appointed to and in every case
It was the SCMBSƯ "which bullet hurriedly. A
had pinged the Legalion until we had visas, the poet. And one of the de- turbarice, schoolchildren have organised the various
dont through the window close to the
demonstrations. We acquired them later, Kartes to the Bucharest Youth beon involved. :D Ma
Festival in August 1950 was the In May 1964 they demonstrate The SCBISSU, was banned by 70-year-old: Dean of Canter- ed against a actional service; the Singapore Government on a year later they took part in September 24, 1956, for, binaking which was once a bank. arrived at the Legation because
riota, arising, from:m" buy strike; its own, promise not to onizilgu Mattresses and blankets had their hotel, the Astoria, had news students sre not, some 2,000 of their camped out the government of Burma also and in September, this year us politics. Shortly afterwards; been brought in at the start of been hit several times, in the Overgrown the revolution. These comforts battle that went on outside it of course an exclusively Cons: In their school grounds and re-ordered its student union
yes close down, und "on". out, and we slept Among them was Michael mumist product. But, whille infused to lase de halen Warnice floors. Ta
Harda, son of Vincent Korda, -Communist countries such what the reason for this. U. Nu, the former Bur
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