1959-06-30 — Page 1

* THE CHINA MAIL," TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1959.

THIS IS HYDE PARK: CONTINUING A PROFILE OF THE PARK THAT ‘SHOCKED. BILLY GRAHAM

THE FLOTSAM and Jotsam of Hyde Park.... it is not all to ba found down by the Sorpantine, Bay some crítics of modom behaviour. But today in tho second part of this profile of

London's famous landmark, the China Mafl finds out. not about the street girls, but about the people who go down to the Serpentine to swim, to fish; to

sunbatho, or just to die.

Beggar or MP -all are equal at the Lido

by TOM POCOCK

"WHEN people have years, ever since it was opened

no clothes on," mused Mr Ted Stoter, "they're all the same."

He was alluding to the social Jevolling pincess that TRCUITY dally at the Hyde Park Lido, of which he is in charge.

It was, he said. Iru de mocrazy and yuu muhl not tell who was a begg and who was a Member of Parliament after all cutward signs of temporal status had been consigned to the 4. harness in tents).

Avoided

by his hero, Mr George Lansbury am, naturally enough, he does t take kindly to criticism of the hike he loves or of the park that surrounds it.

The overflow folls Into the old Westboume river, now a sewer, where it is eventually joined by the more privileged water from the Palace,

Unlike the Thames, the Ser- Hilly Graham's comment is a pentine can support fish-mainly roach, bream and pike--and Mr subject to be avoided.

Stoler has himself landled an cel weighing nearly seven pounds.

Off-shore the launch Chlorynne is patrolling like a frigate, adding to the chlorine that is being pumped into the lake from a silore station,

Mr Slater says: "The water is in the the changing as clean as you'll find

upper reaches of any river. Ten thousand people come to swim here on a fine day so it's got to be clean, hasn't it?"

Sunbathing at the Lido, Inset: Mr. Ted Steter with a young visitor.

ол up

ww5

the

I

bridge. Then in front of a car The car stopped in time and went for the police."

me--

fe was down on the diving As he talks, the afternoon Royal Parks had told boards. He

traie has faded to a bee's hum, "young ladies tylng down in the and heat haze softens the green grasa had complained and any

of Trees that ware way the sheep WCID getting planted before James billows

Boswell, fussy about the grass they ate

would ent the best and the biographer of Samuel John- They

the гель leave son, prowled the parks.

growing elumps. Very unsightly."

re- who

Not. all these stories have happy ending. Mr Stoter members "The Colonel," used to swim in the Serpentine, "One day the Colonel suit to me: Ted, I'm going to do away with myself in the lake.'

bikinl A

in

Mr

IN MR. K's 'WILD WEST'

THEY QUIZ ME ON THE ARSENAL

CHRISTOPHER DOBSON

sends Dila, second despatch from the Witd West land on which Russia in pinging her hopes for the future. This is the land of diamond fields, peirol, iron, and coal all waiting to be turned into wealth,

Inside Siberia

THE streets of Yakutsk are made of foot- long lengths of log hammered upright into the shallow soil-making the surface look like ponds dimpling under raindrops.

The pavements are shuffled round plank causeways raised monial dance. above the dust, mud, simpl and snow.

in their

vere-

I joined them. It is quite Something Like 3

tio circular palais glide. But Yakutis dance with their faces The people asked me about stern and intent

the 011 England, about Arsenal, about rhythmle chants of the leader. A chorus girl In

But he had agreed with

the Queen.

There teelers by on stiletto heels, and

and was volleyball football in the stadium next fat man, whose trunks hold Stuter about the pastoral scene.

"Friends him like an egg cup, goes off the from Scotland to stay with me the Yakutis

arriving after dark

In the Communist-built park door-the sort of etadium that

perform

Division many English Firs! spring-board with the thump of in Hyde Park used to woke up monial chanting dence.

club would be proud to possese, With their hooded eyes In the moming, look out of the "I knew he had been turned a depth-charge. A

red-brown skiri "And out of his lodgings in Kensing strolls past along the wet fore window and see the sheep and

ten, but I thought he was having matting Mr Stoter notices my the trees and think they were common ancestry with the The summer here is feres

there's not still in the country." So I said: "When you glance. "Oh, no, do it go in near the side so I much trouble here," he asserts, don't have to spend

werk

five

Two thousand Ashing permits are issued each year and, it is sald, about one thousand hundred fish are caught. you wouldn't believe what I have fished out of the inke with my drags," says Mr Stoter.

Although the Serpentine has cleaned The ant been drained and were fangners and on weekdays for nearly a century (when

"The exceptions

Suicides

re- "Handbags, False teeth,

Just before 15 volvers, bottles.

me on.

dragging the lake for you. Removed

was joking, of course. Then I got a letter here it is."

eight 悲 of 10 bativers were fort of putrid mud was found at you came they threw a promo The plunge fateigners-because the colour the bottom) and Jake-side the bridge. We thought there bath is provided for might be a baby in it so we shower swimmers, the water could cer- fished it out. But tainly dirtker.

find any baby."

Ilis

DID

of the skins might be different, Every day, Mr Stoter, 59. late of the Royal Marines 25 night guves from the sahte he can cut away when the super- interdent calls, moves along the Serpentine swimmers with the dignity of a Grand Vizier and the beneficence of a millionaire unpleasant throwing a pool-side party.

It is pumped from twn wells en Duck Island in St. James's Park, and after it has owed from Kensington Gardens to The Delt (and some surprisingly

we didn't

back. memory easts "Buleides. We've had dozens of suicides. I've had some change their minds.

folsam and jetsam "I have watched a man from has been extracted) it is piped suven in the morning to dive in

He has worked in. on and to the Buckingham Palace the evening trying to make his around the Serpentine for 30 lake.

A

SAM

mind up to jump in the lake.

I

the

Mr Stoter handed me a sheet of paper on which was writion: "Dear Ted. It's goodbye. have taken the plunge in Lido, western end of the closure. Yours. The Colonel."

"He had, tuo," Mr Stoler con- tinued, "He'd taken me seriously, The Colonel had tied himself to a couple of park chairs and gone in by the edge."

policeman

D cere-

and

they share a

Nearly the whole village turned out.

and

very

snatches Kunshine,

American Indians.

TIGERS

short. Everybody every moment of

The girls, both Russian and

Mr Stoler nodded emphatic- ally. "A very nice type of per- sun comes here. People who The lavatories are wooden Yakutis, parade after work in appreciate the country. What sheds in the backyard. And in their finery, and the men, like "All that business Mr ever may go on down there—" | the hotel you wish In enamel men all over the world, tolk of Graham was going on about is and he jerked his head towards | basins with cold water ladled sport, money, drink and up the end, by the bandstand, the trees around the Victorian from a wooden cask.

girls. and by the roads, We've got bandistand-"that kes nothing For this is frontier territory, Brick and concrete buildings nothing to do with that. Down to do with us."

where men are still battling 10 rise above the wooden houses you might be in the

create a civilisation in seme of and open sewers, Big, buxom here

the world's wildest country and girls work alongside the men country."

worst climate.

on the heavy jobs.

where the sheep pens had stood. We were, in fact, standing

A flock grazed in the park until 1953.

Then they were removed be- cause, na Mr Tom Barbour, the Superintendent of the Central

WHITE'S PARIS NEWSLETTER

SACKED-BUT THE

Paris. SOMEWHAT inde-

eurous farce which

would make a good holl- day idea for the Crazy Gang is being played out these days in the Cuban Embassy in Paris.

Some time ago, shortly after Fidel Castro came to power in Cul 1 prophesied

AMBASSADOR

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his sucessor, a 65-year-old pro- Enng.

who had been ambassador here The problem has now arisen

To fire M. de Ayala, I pointed fessor of physics. M. Manuel nui, would involve the Cuban Gron has arrived in Parls, and The Snag That the then am Government in the expense of presented his credentials to the bassador, M. Hector de Ayala, buying a new embassy.

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Cuban authorities claim, how- ever, that while M. de Ayala may have paid the rent himself, be was regularly reimbursed for it by them.

QUOTE

There are only two subjects for the novelist: love and solitude. One leaves the one to find the other. Novelist Francoiso Sagan,

n group of American children attending a Passy school.

work"

Puzzle

TOMORROW:

The eccentrics

-{London Express Service),

Is further from Moscow than New York is from London, There is six hours difference in Ume between Yakutsk Kremlin.

'JUST WAIT'

and the The Yakulin Supreme Soviet meets to plan the future of the the district. Men are

brought in forest, seared for nine months from the outside districts to

Yakutsk exists here

in

of the year by the bitterest cold attend courses,

thing:

known to man, besieged by And everybody I met sald snow, surrounded by wolves and much the same keurs and even that anachron- "Yakutsk may not be much now ism among animals, the Siberian but just wait a few years and

you'll see,"

tiger.

And yet there is an ir of It is an amazing thing to have viality about the same rough, this spirit ruling in a place boisterous vitality that swept which only a few years ago was the American mining towns still one of the. most tragle during the gold rushes of last places of exlie. century.

NO NIGHT

People were sent here from all over Russla and forced to work.

Now young people are coming For Yakutsk, this little log out to the frontier land of hutted town, is sitting on vast their own accord. Why? "We wealth, 10 is surrounded by feet Is the land of the what Ja reputed to be the future,"

world's greatest diamond deld. It is the same sort of spirit There are also gold and

gas, that sent the Amerleans west-

iron and coal, petrol and timber, ward in their covered wagons; They are all here waiting to and, established pride and love be taken. But the dimculties of country in the early are so great that no large-scale Australians. attempt is being made to

harvest the wealth at this STREET MUSIC

noinent.

Yukutsk must

wall ☐ 110

When I want a taxi urgently

my three room-mates scatter to And one-and arrive with three. There are children every- where, shoven-headed young- sters and girls with long woollen

"Canned" music

Wherever I go I am warmly longer for prosperity. But Its greeted, but greeted with a Inhabitants have no doubt that great deal of surprise because it will come.

in "Angleski" is a very rare The sun Was up when I bird indeed in these parts, arrived. It should have been When I got into trouble with should be of dignifled architec- just dawn, but at this time of my airline ticket a dozen people ture no more than six storeys year there is no night up here. crowded round to help. high and should not house cer- I left the plane and started Maitre Maurice Gar- tain types of shops, for exam-slapping mosquitoes. They grow

big_and. vielous in Siberia. con "The right of ple, fish-mongers,

The action concerns a property The Lena river, which flows calling up strikers is

as known

as the Winter Palace in north from the Mongolian much enshined in

the the

centre of Monte Carlo border lo the Arctic Ocean, French Constitution as the which M. Blanc's heirs had wound brownly on one side, and stockings.

M. Konsten at the Yokutals huddled for protection Horses are used a great deal right to strike. In other sold to words, you can strike pro- sold it to co-proprietors.

turn of the century, who later in the pine forests on the other for transport.

A taxi bounced me, spewing

blares out viding you don't stop In 1056 the enterprising dust, over the wooden road to over the streets.

Beligun architect, M.

There is the fading shell Louis the town's one hotel.

of "Yes." sald the wondrously a church where wallows nest. Haneuse, settled In Monaco and took over control of its leading fat woman who runs it, "we Thero

museum, which have a room for you." and decided, to

proudly shows a mammoth dug I have been puzzled in recent estate agency

rudimentary up near by. We USC my Eussian days by large advertisements add six fours to the existing

camenns of com- two floors of the Winter Palace.

Over all there broods the thoroughly exasperated, Pro-

appearing for the Observer in

it turns out awful presence of nature in the fessor Gran,

He resolved authorisation to munication and

that I um sharing a dormitory raw, something almost primeval. Tése Callets, too, have to be care the British Press.

M... Gabriel. do so from the co-proprietors with three Russlins, The embassy, it should be notle-

quote

For this is the heart of 0% questioned od, consists of a sumptuous fat on

Rebluet. The editor of the dis- and Prince Rainier's Ministers

what pleasant people Siberia. One of the last out- which ambassador they tinguished Parls newspaper, Lo He added six floors resulting in fashionable

nre. Constantin, Avenue Foch, and

they

an posts of civilisation. wish to speak. The situation Figure, in praise of the Ober- 20 luxury fuls.

Yuri, an electrielan, engineer, part of it is M. de Ayala's pri-

-fLondon Express Service). M. Blanc's heir attacked M. and Sergel, a tractor driver. play on the vate residence, while the rest in beginning to

over tout nerves of the French The advertisements show M. Huneuse la court list year for

We each have a chrome bed- la used as embassy offers.

Now a temporary compromiso Fordgr Office.

Gabriel-Robinet turning at the contravening-M. Blünce wishwa,

A table and a tenpot all the window of his office engrossed They won their care and M. stead, a locker, and a tiny towel. Hauruse was ordered to demolish centre of the room. It is rather in a copy of the Observer.

My puzzlement arises from two of the eight floors. the foot that M. Gabriel- M. Haneuse appealed and the like being back in the Army.

universal I played chess-a original verdict has now been sel language and was thrashed by Robinet neither

aside. The Importance of the each of my three room-mates in speaks English.

verdiet lies in the fact that it has turn averted 1 positive cascade of

They have questioned me for About Novelist Solange Boil-tigators against a speculative hours about England.

skyscraper boom which has gone Arsenal. About lot: "When I was 14 on in Monte Carlo in the past About hula-hooping. About the the Queen. ald I Was over few years and which has netted medical services. And about

mormous fortunes for those con-rockin' roll.

Sumptuous

has been worked out.

fully just

to

ал

Ex-

yer.

It is re This is

enough for that the new ambasador should embasador to continue to stay use the embassy his offices, on in a country to which he hás while M. de Ayala continues to previously been necredited (ht

of the rare live there. In other words, the eldentally eno ex- ambassador Ilves but does pilons to that diplomalle rule not work at the embossy, while was the late Lord Norwich, who Paris the new ambassador works but continued to live on in

after his successor, Sir Oliver Harvey, had arrived). But it is, positively unprecedented for a years former, ambassador and his suc- cestor to go on living, not only in the same capital, but in the samo anbassy.

does not live there.

Confusion

After the day's work the now ambassador goes home to n hotel room in a moderately- oriced hotel, which is the beat. his government can do for him at the moment.

The situation of course pro-

ducts come Austong

monumental coa

'Go home

readin nor

welmed by the tragedy of illegitimate children who could not become.priests."

Up or down?

cerned,

Secret

And

Luckily, Yuri speaks German, and that helps. They took me out to do the town.

A bunch of the boys were

As to who exactly M. Blanc's whooping it up. helrs are the Monagesque prefer

The onc restaurant Wat

The police in the fashionablo An Interesting lawsuit not to draw a vell of secrecy. All packed full of plaid-shirted, suburb of Passy, have lately reported in the French Press, that is known is that the aristo-bearded, husky men drinking been involved in prolonged because of allusions, to Prince cratic Folish family of Radziwili vodka and catlog steak while M. de Ayala kag been a lear. Investigations Into the origins: ftainier has been taking place and the equally aristocratic a bond ground away at Roas 1rg Ogure in Paria soclety over of what seemed like a revival in Monte Carlo,

The lawsuit French family of Rochefoucauld Marie, I love you."

There is nothing fancy ebout snee the war, and it is hard. of anil-American propaganda in is being fought by the heirs of are prominent among them.

all this. You cat and -drink for his host of friends in tele- the uro.

Francois Blanc, the founder-of m

because you are very hungry, phoning him to get out of the Lately, it appears, there has Monte Carlo casino. habit of asking for been a marked increase of Apparently M. Blanc left a★ Incidental intelligence, not because it seems the thing Excellency,

The shortest strect in to do. of the foll chalked, signs, reading "US, go third

Durgake of

After the restaurant there More often than not they are home."

the principality to his heir. Ho Paris is called the Impasse was the park where the young automatically" put through to The pollor, have now dis stipulated to his will that any Franco-Russo,

girls turned out to dance the the bewilderech and by now covered the culprits. They are building greeled

pa this Ind

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