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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY (5, .1959,:
The File on the
SUDDENLY a string of international personalities have become associated with a story of revolution and intrigue more fantastic than any fiction. It began almost like comic-opera. At the centre of the story was Dame Margot Fonteyn, whose husband was accused of trying to overthrow the Government of tiny but strategic Panama. Dame Margol was arrested, then released. She flew fuck to Britain.
Events suddenly looked serious. There were reports of Panama becoming a "Little Suez," with a plot to seize the canal. But it was hard to follow just where all the people who were linked with it fitted in.
Daily Express reporters in América, Britain, and Europe have tracked down this drama. The result: A file that roads like the best thriller fiction; that happens to be true as the whistle of a bullet. This is the first examination:—
This was one campaign Errol Flynn ducked out c!!
Elusive Ballerina
by DAVID LEWIN
He had a recond chance, however, when the Panama police chief, Jose Remon, who was known as Chi-Chi, put him
later removed him.
And here enters that re- must have found out quickly back in power and then a little
markable
For
Alas the Errol erwards, figure,
family is it up to its eyeballs. Flynn. Flynn had spent And there are many Ariases.
two weeks with the Contro forces in the mountains before the final coup in
the Havana, Then, after revolution, he met Roberto -Tito--Arias in Cuba.
Says Eirol Flynn: "Tito was an old friend anyhow because I've been around the Caribbean for years. But this time he had something spezial to ‘usk. 'Can 1 hire your beat?' he said. Now iny boat, the Zaca, is tied up in
Ju Cadiz in Spain.
sing arcand deing nothing. And it is big enough and powerful enough for ocean travel.
"I asked Tito what he wanted' it for, and he finally said, 'For some work or Panama." We didn't need to discuss the rest.
I guessed what was coming. My bout stayed in Cadiz.'
But Arias got his boat. Fren an American-born Panamanian Ham Jimmy Ernest he hire the 4211. deep-sea fshing launch Nela. Il cost han 75 dollars a day.
ihan a
The Panama telephone direse tory lists two pages of them and the ecuntry has fewer
lion people. Petly important some of them ore 100. And not unversed in the art of making a revolt.
This
the family that Margot Fenicyn married into, it was more exclting than any thing she had known before.
Was
When Margot st stayed with her husband at the Panime Hilton Hotel she could look down from her balcony on some of the visible signs of her husband's wealth, There, rank pca rank, were the shrimp boats, all jointly owned by Heberto Arias and Alar star Jchn Wayne.
It was during this tricky process that a policernan was shot and Uncle Arnulfo was put on trial. Perhaps because of the legal skill of the family he of Bir was merely deprived politier rights and still lives in Panama City today.
nephew Between uncle and Tilo there grew a certain cool- ness created by the fact that during Arnulfo's second lean of office The was considered to be one of the many conspirators against him.
Amulfo deal with this by pulting a price on Tito's head, said to have been 25 dollars dead or alive.
In time.
The father of Tllo Aries is of
(a
Some of the names in the file
JON (DUN) NAYNE al Arma in the Pirama
SAMESTO DUARDIA mated Wom
LA
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Paterpa
RUBIN MÍ}}D—Tawyer. set-erlessed" pinter, Kultfad at a prici Cent's
KLINIM. x100.
JUDY TATNAM. IN most?
JIMMY CATIE FATINO-Bolivian tin Fortune hair, Flaw tu Lenee aid Market,
AHIRTDEL CHASSIS-Grand
KREINRI
Aresting Stipa para Paramé Tor
Queen Mary's Carpet Is Tucked Away Now
Ottawa. THE famous needlepoint
Mary and sold to raise dollars for Britain during the 1947, crisis was not on- tirely the Queen's own work, says Mr Alan Jarvis, director of Canada's Na- tional Gallery where tho carpet is now hidden behind a curtain.
"Nobody la criticising." he said, "but the fact is that
members of the Queen's personal staff worked on the duller back- ground. And it simply is not a work of art."
Mr Jurvis is a former pri- vate secretary to Sir Stafford Cripps. "I remerit- ber the day that the Quben offered it to Sir Stafford to be sold to raise dollars," he said. "It was in 1947 at the opening of Ham House, "I never thought then that it would come into my
Seen 'on request'
Arius also has a large share in the nw rm
run by his father. Harmodia, Both the very different style of politician. father and the unele or Dame Father Harmedió served his full Margot's husband had been In four-year term as President Panzma politics-as President. high mark of distinction in But she probably left Panarua escaped and were granted|keeping."
For the ballerinu, meeting these perts) and he still lives, juxt time. For while she was asylum In the Chilean Embassy Uncle Arnulto must have been aged 72, in a colonial-style house st
in Paltamo. And in Cuba other ut rea Parent Govern-
urmed men are waiting for the quite an experience. Arnulfo in the centre of the town.
ment patrols were shooting at a
command to So far in this mixed-up affair rebel band of five in the Vorn- Ruben Miro, cousin of On had been President twice.
go or so the first occasion in the "Torlies of a shrimp boat, two film stara, quas mountains who claimed Arias, who adds he suddenly left the country in a fost yacht, a fashion
model they were part
of the it Marged Fonteyn did not search of a beautiful blonde and a revolutionary lender in know how her husband was and by the Ume he got back he un expensive hotel, Dame Mar- involved 1
polites found" he had lost his job and got Fonteyn has not heard Η she married him she been replaced. Delore
gun fired in anger.
Exit uncle
says Tite
thoughtfully The highly patriotic Arlos that he does not wish to involve Canadian Independent Order
mevement.
Two of them, Л newspaper columnist and
architect,
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WHAT HYPNOTISM CAN DO
I'
would be difficult for nybody to deny now, with any degree of authori- ty, that hypnotism has be- come respectable.
been
con-
has Hypnotism New York. Teggy Hookham in Rei- THE secret life of gate, has lived in the school stripped of the air of of rigid bullet training. She mystery and mumbo-jumbo Margot Fonteyn be- had studied in Shanghai that used to surround it so gan around a year ago and even for
far as most people, including while in iL when
many doctors, were her husband Louisville, in America.
cerned. It has become ceased to be an ambas-
Her mother was a mem-acceptable to large numbers sador at the Court of St her of the wealthy Brazilian of those whose purpose it is James's and turned in- Fontes family who made to heal humanity..
from coffee. stead into a Caribbean their money conspirator.
From the
nume
Fontes Which is not to say that
FOR YOU
By A Special Corresponden!
115 423 uid to childbirth # well enough kamyn, But is i so widely known
an
Castro personally events,
In
coming of Daughters of the Em-
It may all sound like in script pire bought the carpet for for a Marx Brothers film but in $105,000 (about £35,000) Panama there are only two to keep it out of the hands main pastimes for the rich of American buyers. They deep-sea fishing and polities.
presented it to the National Gallery.
In deep
The Daughters were out- when they raged recently
be
ELT
Tito Arlas las Indulged in that in the both with the certainty that the heard that Mr Jarvis has United States it hps been gains may be high and the losses ordered the carpet to employed at an anaesthette in low.
Iput behind a curtain where operations for the removal of One of the many questions it
appendix and a thyrold unanswered so far in wil this is
can be
seen only by who request land-or that it has been used why Tito
Arles broke with visitors by dentists in the extraction Panama President de la Guardia jattendant to display it. of teeth and in the Alling ofatter serving him for a year in dental cavities?
Mr Jurvis said today: Artus says it was because the "The carpet should really President was interfering with be in a museum but for the Press freedom and Tito Arias is present anyway it will a large newspaper owner too.
to
the remain in Guardia 1
is havo inslets il beenuse a mining contract was gullery.. given to a rival of Arlas.
London.
De
It's no cure-all, but, properly applied
One remarkable cust 1 by the qualified practitioner, it can
classic in recent medical history, who was concerned a patient be of tremendous benefit to the hypnotised to hold his left arm
pressed against his right foot for victims of many ailments.
a period of no less thin twenty- eight days while a successful from stammering, asthma, his mind has been in A skin-graft was made.
Whichever way it was, Dame tension bas
Margot Fonteyn will be conclug peptic receptive state, insomnia, migraine,
been broken and wrong habits It should be fully appreciat-again soon and the ballet will ulcers, skin ailments,
corrected. He has alono cannot be considered as a | Ponama,
'Quite hopeless'
But if it is shown perma- nently next to a collection of
came later Fonteyn--and it sufferers from any ailment all manner of disorders huv- have been
and which aggravated his condition ed. however, that hypnosis seem remote from the bullets of The change brought the was in the Brazilian Em- should hurry to the nearest ing their origin in nervous leurned to dispel the dread of eure where there is definite But when a woman breaks bold Canadian painting it is
The particu conditions. In some cases, ballet bassy in Panama that her hypnotist and
next allack--that dread physical malady. It can simply love once into a different world really quite hopeless. Any- which sufferers from re.larly not to the unqualified it is said, even baldness has know only
asthma be a powerful weapon in the of adventure there can never one who wants to hypnotist.
too well. He has qualified doctor's armoury, to again be a total surrender la only, to ask an attendant to yielded to the skill of the learned to understand the be used in conjunellon with the right customs of gentler pull back the curtain."
when cause of thu attacks, to orthodox medeal science, The unqualified hypnotist qualified hypnotist
classically
was granted
While Margot Fonteyn supported the
often to
regal
Husband dancer into a strange, new world. A world of excite. fuge. ment and fantasy, of Latin American politics.
cause of has always beon in evidenco the cause of it has been anticipate them and
prevent them, and certainly Appreciating this, it is easy the Castro she did not play an in the world, and the breed emotional stress, of course. At first there were Barbudos-the
I know of one long-standing their paralysing bearded active part. At parties in still flourishes, especially soldiers of Castro's reh London she would tell her where authorised medical sufferer from tion in Cuba-then alleged friends excitedly of what practitioners are
Castro
doing. She couraged to take gun-running in shrimp boats
would use the word "we" and a royal blue yacht
study titl practice. off the Prinama coast almost in talking of his forces and
hypnosis.
was
his Government.
at the same time as Prince Philip was paying a state
Enter Flynn
call on the ruler of Panama, whom Roberto Arias, Dame
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years
what was formerly to understand why medical au- to control
effect. Over thorities con be so ninrmed nathina who the months the onsets have be- when they learn of unqualified
come blesses the day he first went to
less and less frequent, or amateur hypnotists giving not en-
#onlined medical hypnotist, and less intense,
what they claim to bo "irent- up the fe had been a prey to bronchini
ment" to people who havu of asthma for may years, and
turned to them for relief. had been the victim of attacks
that were frequently acule.
Now, after a few months, he is
*
*
*
He emphasises, Incidentally, persons can
trealment he has
well
In the first place, unqualified Romelines be a far healthier and happier that the
positive menace. To' IndurC man, still subject to occasional been receiving is medical as sleep they may resort, for in- altacks, but But it was not until she
looking forward In recent
there
*$ hypnotic, or hypnonce, to a technique known as confidently to complete cure.
vagul occlusion, which Margot's husband, is said went to Panuma this have been impressive re
therapeutic as a doctor might For him, the magic of
highly dangerous. to be plotting 10 over- fishing and holiday trip suits over a wide field from by pholism cummed up in prefer to call it.. throw.
that she found out about treatment
relaxation. He has by hypnosis. one word For most of her life the delights of cloak-and-People who have benefited been taught the art of how to Margot Fonteyn-born-ilággür÷worki÷
baveinuludel sufferers le body=hga: been relaxed and
SALOON
on
America is probably the
hypno-therapy
country where relax (for art it is). While is most firmly established in
'They say they know they're not in the script-they're looking for John Wayne,”
the medical profession, Hypnosis
The term varai appertains to the vagus, or pneumogestric nerve; actually a pair of cere brul-nerves which with their branches, supply the lungs and other respiratory and vocal organs as well as the stomach, spleen, liver, etcetera.
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The word 'occlusion' significa
the art of stopping-up, or elus-
ing, co shutting oft-in case by pressing quickly the hund on the vagus.
this with
Apart from the risks д patient may run at the handy of In unqualifted hypnotist who is, ignorant of the harm he may do by Ill-judged methods, there is also the dan- gerous possiblity that the patient may come to imagine an improvement in his or her well-being whereas the foot- cause of the trouble, if physical, is really continuing Lo develop-perhaps to the point of defying proper treat- ment.
of
Henco the importance ensuring that, wherever necesa- ory, orthodox medical selener and hypno-therapy go hand-in-i hard.
Hypnosis, in one or another of its stages, can be induced In a large percentage of normal people, providing they are will- ing to submit to the process. As one prominent authority on the subject has sald, however: "People know of the power of the atom, but they don't know of the energy in people's sub- conscious, which wo 'top' by hypnosis. You can use hypnosis for almost anything."
society".
TOMORROW: The plot moves to London
-(Landon Express Service.).
li has
The Daughters of the Empire are demanding that the curpet should be placed in an airtight glass case and be on permanent display with an explanatory note,
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