1959-07-23 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1959.

The map that shows

how they lean on Britain

Major American bases

Europe, North Africa

and Middle East

British boses

After Notting Hill, The New Zealand all-white All-Blacks and the Forest Hills tennis club, we now have the Salisbury hospital where an African medical officer is prohibited from "working on" European patients in case he finds out they have The same insides as Africans.

NOR

America has oves

20 major

Installations

DEHMA

HOLLAND BELGIUM

in Britain

Atlantic

Ocean

PORTUGAL

İGIBRALTAR

MOROCCO,

SPAIN

FINLAND

Nate countries

Russia and European: satollites

RUSSIA

Black S

Caspian

PERSIA

500

SYRIA

TRAQ

GREECE

„KUWAIT JA

Parsian Gulf

OMALTA

TUNISIA

Mediterranean Sea

ISRAEL JORDAN

DILFIELDS

B

LIBYA EGYP

SAUDI ARABIA A

MAP BY JOHN BODLE

5.Rhodesian slewt

DELIVINGSTONE POUND JAVILIZATION

JUSTICE IMMINENT

by HUGH POND

OUR MILITARY REPORTER

of land bases, in fact relies largely on Malta and Italy for refuelling.

A delay

TAKE

PAKE A LOOK at this parts and then transported withdrawn from Nato com-

mand. map. It shows that to other European axes.

In GERMANY in Algeria keeps the bulk of the hard core of Western stationed the cream of the the French Army occupied Defence centres on the British Army, 55,000 strong leaving only skeleton forces British Isles and it re- with the best equipment, in France and Germany. veals that Britain today, highly trained and ready France is virtually a non- more than ever, is the for action. It is tied down active member of Nato and the withdrawal of Ameri-

ean planes, and a wide open gap in Western has agreed that this shall main bastion of Western

Backing the Army is the Defences. offensive and defensive 2nd Tactical Air Force, with

Canberra bombers power.

fighters.

In BRITAIN the bulk of the nuclear deterrent force is based on airfields up and down the country.

Army

The British Strategie Reserve is poised with planes ready to carry troops to trouble spots any whore in the world.

are

under Nato treaties,

A gap

MOROCCO. is demanding

the U.S.

In ITALY AND GREECE eventually be done.

LIBYA British and

and the American plan for

busing nuclear rockets has American bases are ham- been checkmated by Khrash strung by the policies of chey's threat to put Soviet King idris and are virtually useless under existing rockets in Albania and the

treaties. position remains uncertain. SPAIN. American bases

In the MEDITERRA-

are behind schedule and NEAN Nato depends on

Dictator Franco. subject to the whims of

In FRANCE it in a very different pleture.

of

and

General de Gaulle hus de- the communications supplied manded the withdrawal of by the British bases

Malta. il atom-armed planes from Gibraltar, French soil.

Cyprus. Much of Nato's supplies The French Fleet in the The U.S. Sixth Fleet,

has delivered into British Mediterranean

been supposed to be independent

Britain is the one strong and certain buse upon which American and Nato strategy can depend.

London Express Service).

He roams world to aid others

JOHN

London. OHN Malcolmn, a 23- year-old Lowland Scot stood in his green kilt in a Sohn (London) pub and said: "You can say I'm crazy if you like, but I like the kick of helping Somebody who is really down and out."

By

A Correspondent

"I've travelled on practically

every form of transport-excapt aeroplanes.

You can't hitch lifts on them.

PATIENT Got Blogg

TROUBLE

COLOUR BAR CRISIS

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

THOMAS

WISEMAN

Limelight

A girl, her prince

ONE day, about two years ago,

Belinda Lee changed worlds as other girls might change furnished rooms. She just moved out of one and into the other. And nobody was given any notice.

At that time, Belinda was one of Lord Rank's Young Ladies and a

But I've done a thousand miles celebrated example of cinematic

on a bullock cart und at the end i

et it the natives asked me the still life.

eternal question about & Scots- It was dimeult to Imagine that mon's kit! They hadn't been | dramatic would ever happen to her. through able to and out on the long the screen. the Middle journey no matter how craftily they watched me!"

fod devastated area in the has worked his way events.

India. Turkey and

with a ginger beard, has a skin

John Malcolm, good-looking. East.

bined dark brown by the sun, demobilisation work and since his He's off to France to voluntarily on reconstruction in from the Army three years ago

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"'re gune half-way round the world since I left my native bridge of Allan in

Stirlingshire," he explained.

She was just a nice, ordinary girl from Devon; she had played hockey at school, the looked ex- John Malcolm travels light-tremely pretty In healthy ju a rucksackc

small wholesome way. brie? case.

und A

"The less you have the less you seem to want," he explains. "I've had my frightening Inu-

"At Arat 1 just hitch-hiked, ments naturally. Sharks nearly

gat me swimming when

then I joined the London Aden,

branch of the International

Voluntary Service-nobody in

it older than 30-and with

them you tb out and work

for nothing.

"But you

are kept amang people who have been hit hard in some way.

No Planes

"I worked with the refugees

Romance

.

Very rash

anything Even on

and a rich

new life

SO DIFFERENT FROM HIGH ST., KEN.

"Oh, yes,porridge is very now it means nothing to me. "Oh, and this is Philip Orsini," geed" raid the prince, miming Now I just want to make some

I want to. she added. She did not refer to eustacy, everything English is money. So I can live the way him by his full Ltle-Don Filippo very good. My suit is English. Orsini, Princo. of Solotra. Nor My eroes they are Enzhit. did anyone else.

the best, No?"

Is

sald

She talked to the French "What you сап do," woman in fluent French, to the Relinda, "ne likes everything

I called her the girl with the prince in porfect tallary and English." nt antiseptie sex-appeal. She would to the rest of us in ber slightly i have made a good advertisement quaint English. "So rarely 1 for cider. She would never do speak English these days," she cnything silly or rash or colour- satd. ful or even interesting, one felt.

"But the most restful was the period I spent in a Buddhist

monastery.

"I've had some fun with the Teddy boys in London during the last month. They think I'm nuts but I generally feave them thinking instead of laughing.

#Girls? I'm no asectie, Tve.run acruss some pretty weird girls in my time-though I think the best was the Parsee girl in Bombay.

"Incredible the

- way they

in Pakistan, and with the Hindus really wanted me to become une in Southern India.

~Just Fanca hát !**

wrong.

Of course one, was Because Belinda, like one or two other nice ordinary girls,

A.

Indignant

An outlet

wam only

Bim star when you've

to be

3

You famous got nothing else in your life. "Baby Doll is English," said It's on outlet for your energy. the prince, using his nickname. You put it all in a catser like for Belinda; "Is very good, is I did. When you're happy what does it matter to be a film stor? English, Ls the best. No?"

"I used to be so serious about was n11 The talk at dinner

edreer. At the Rank 4bout fast cars, cbout that Organisation it was as if I was

Noel Coward in

my

still at school-being told what to wear, how to behave, what to time I know nay. All the nothing. All the parts I was We were a long playing-it was out of imagino-

That evening we all went to night with has done some very rash and have dinner at a blitro away: Parls, about the way the photo colourful things, as a result of from the main icurist belt. The graphers used telescopic lenses which she is no lenger one of prince crdered pate together to get pictures of Benda and Lord Rank's Young Ladies, no with his step whicis made the the prince. lenger a resident of High Street, chef, who was also the proprietor way from High Street, Ken, Ken., and no longer the wife of wince with gastronomie indige- the photographer the married (lan.” at the age of 18.

She said.

the

sald

tion. I hadn't experienced any- "I believe in des- thing. How could 1 net? iny I think what happened to The following day the and "Of course," he said, that me was going to happen; nothing the prince joined me on

New all beach. "You know," Belinda went to Ronie und met is what you wish.

It is your I could do about i

to blame for & prince, and the consequences clcmoch pot mine, monsieur, But the time I make films. One Belinda, "you're and repercussions of that meet- pale with coupi. Op-ina! Tell after the other Ing have nude heavy headlines me, would you eat chocolate ice but now I am in demand I might Rome I couldn't act because I

Ls well cash in on it.

hadn't. experienced anything. all over Europe. The girl I met ereans with lobsice?

Her

voice

It won't last, everything. You told me. in

Give my love.

...

"It was a corny thing to have said," I said~~~

Then

of the family. But they were "Then there were, the lepers very rich indeed and I couldn't

in Connes few days ago has and the Middle East refugees.

reconcile that with my way of loft High Street, Ken,, and all it The prince gaid that, sounded "For the first time I make You said I had to live first. life and desire to help In for

slands for a long way behind. like an interesting combination. mency. This never happen to I've got a leopard "You learn to be qulie nifty parts. 1 often think of her'

He is a very easy-going sort of me before. with your hands at things like though--but now it's the flood

The change in her has been prince without any pretensions: skin coat and a mink coat now. carpentry.

areas in France,"

considerable she even speaks solidly built and rather worn in a year I make seven alms English with pronounced like a good pair of leather shoes, and I turn down 10 others. Italian accent; her phtosing of Not a smoothie by any means

"Always I am asked now to

The trouble is" she said, sentences to sometimes that of Nor is he the sort of• noblemen, a foreigner.

who continually reminds every play wicked women, I have just when you have lived that one else that he has 100 years made a film in Gemony atout becomes more important than

peting.

you don't care has acquired a more breeding than they have. Rosemarie Nitribuit, the German curious and xttractive Italian He is a very charming, courteous protule who was murdered. about acting particularly,

"rart-of-princesy

--"Thert I ́made a amin which them in the I played Lucretia Borgla and I evening before they left fon She is much thinner; her long

am making one about Messellan, Paris, hair is now, its natural colour-e

who was a vestal virgin who got "Give my love to everyone in brunette-and her infovemento

up to some high old pranko. London-who's Interested in and gestures are fuld and easy,

Despite the chef's protesis

having it," he said. betraying nothing of her hickory.

"On the Continent 7m2. hout pale with his op

And then they left in their ing past

vory thought of always in connection Alfa-Romeo, in pumalt of the Belinda, sabdi, "He has

Elt at eich full life, the nice English "Oh you the said. "I've strange inside, in food. Always with parts like that, changed.

She introduced me to Imurt make, for him you change from the old Bank Orgy, girl from Devon and the Italian her friends. A German Gim know what porridge, cultuge But I'm not ambillow any more, prince who likes overy thing director, an American, & French plo, rich słów. 85- much so I don's cure any more to be a big English,

--(London Express) Service), woman who owns night" "Clube, loves' porridge:"

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