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THE WORLD'S

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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1959,

MACCOLL. WITH THE SHEIK OF DATAN

EXTRAVAGANT

MAN talks to RENE MacCOLL

Geneva.

I CALLED recently on a grave-mannered, dignified Arab, rich beyond the dreams

nvarice.

of

For 68-year-old Sir Ali Bin Abdullah al Thani, the Ruler of Qatar, one of the spots in the Persian Gulf aren whence spouts oil in dramatic profusion, is reputed to enjoy a tax-free income con- servatively estimated at £20,000,000 a year.

here.

the

31 told

British the Big

Belush

briefing

Sheik Thani-"the Ruler" didn't at first lock as though I Secretary Selwyn Lloyd to try to all his huge entowage is would get very far.

I put the record straight. at Art. 3in, Toll, but he walks with People were

Accordingly. surging there, and everywhere. offeic spokesman amp and leans upon a stack.

ile terves the world with Tiny Aala boys were darting Four conference

trees, presumbly newspaper mon al' a lovel gaze thenugh gold-rimmed wing the spectacles, and spots a grizzly, the theik's grandchildren, for that the shelk has but

Test two of his with him--"the well-tended moistackte dhe has summoned trim goatee bord.

sung by air all the way from conculiines." Qatar complete with thele large

lunched Selwyn Lloyd families al Inslated them rozst

lamb with the sheik at handsomely in nearby villas at Carefree Castle and-so the

end of £12,000 per villa for sheik the as011.

Upon his brad he wears the "einal," the Ami, ringg bol derss. The getvetni bersen bisht cleak tents from his should and beneath isteri- blur finted "thub," under-yobe,

elona-diting

A Midas

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There was t euriously incun-

•requential imosphere about the whate set-up-it looked Though big party of wet in putters had moved lu but didn't really intend the stay jong. Yol be b Andet man this. legemly Rang Midas come to litr. He can spend a million pounds as you or acht spend

shillings. Recently the sheik has ren spending for more in a wrest than have the BR Four Peipts Minhters combined in all of their two months here in Geneva,

I sunght and the shelk at the Chateul de Sans Squei (Care 1. Castle, spod about 3, meter of an hum's dive bom The centre of Geneva,

It was built by a Swhen banker

One wife

A Siss pl in-thes mea e-couted me to the front deck. which was unaccountably dank- ed by two plastie buckets.

Alter a short wait the sheik's person:1

privato greretary, Abdur Rabinan Darwish. me to a medern annège just

ul. an die grouts.

I wish, 11 intense man in me with Anb dress, occupied

in the ass all marble pliers, Falf talk and Aralin coffee, mosaic floars, and peth views aromatic and served piping hot a white- ros great lawns and rich from a taas pot by flower beds to the sparkling like gurbed slave, beyond.

Then eatured the Ruler. Swin bankryst The sheik mot ned me to it and intoned 12 t i C. thr traditional could bay up

polite Arab your telephone after breakfast.

gleefing trust that

He

1 Carefree Castle for his ex.ellent." £200,000 and Geneva l "I like Geneva," went on Sir ut the lake, estate men, who had had it Ali. The breea Buitely ca their boules for you know. Mest pie sunt, years, fel! that the millenhum

At this time of the year the temperature in Qetar i apt to elin. 1 arotand

Jud suddenly arrived.

Squatters

harle).

one wife ure only

an

Thirty thousand pounds spent the on new American cars for family since arriving?

Denied.

That the shelk is having n esurse of rejuvenation injec- has now he is in Switzerlandt

More Wer

Just think

were

50 am-

The denlais phutle that I had not the heart tu ask if it was true that the basic expense account for the Ruler and his party in Geneva afted up lo a useful £30,000 per week.

told me received an Invitation to visit Qater (which, by

the way. is pro- Coured Gudder).

"Did he accept?" I asked "Yes, he did," replled the sheik. te accepted with pleasure," Now What aboul #11 The stories which have been fonting

Although secretary Darwish around Geneva concerning the astonished me just a little by The Ruler doesn't Huler's mighty way of living?

"Lies-all lies," munnured the remarking:

mind these stories, you under- ruler.

stand, even

if they are quite untrue,"

The suggestion that four of the Arab ladies in his party had spent £3,000 la ene ufterion's shopping expedition la Geneva's biggest department store?

No, no,

That he tipped a elreus troupe £8,000 £fter a performance that had tickled his fancy"

Nonsense,

Polio: a

We trooped outside, and the tuler pressed for, pictures.

Just

le would like to stand," suid Darwish, "but he knows you prefer him to sit." think of it£20,000,000 a year. But no smoking and no drink. chups. Just Cadillaes unlimited.

-London Express Service).

warning

from the U.S.

London,

MERICA is having a bad summer in the battle against polio. It may prove to be the worst 115 in the since she started a vast immunisation programme

with Dr Jonas Salk's vaccine in 1955.

The thik hes been consider- ably put by reports appear- ing in the foreign Press to the he is recompanied his present visit by wives."

With the "peak" season still nearly twice as not reuched. many cases of pullo have been

eported as fast year.

1 hnd beer tut that entry would be impossible. At night effeet that the whole plave is a mass of o Dewly installed neon light. A large segarty squad vms the 11amds. And when i walked Morlem practice, and the shelkive as was first thought?

This is all wrong, Lecording to

in at the wrought-un gatex i personally asked British Foreign

TEACHER'S

Highland

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SCOTCH WHISKY

Is Sulk vacchie not as effec-

It may be that America is

having naturally high wave

of polio. For it quetustes great-

But

By PETER FAIRLEY

attractive

ly ron acasEN U SELUA

the last year, Britain bus

has known launched her own masave this immunisation drive.

And advantages,

Firstly. It is taken through plumped firmly for Salk

the mouth. In pilt form. syrup.

vaccine.

FEWER CASES Britain, on the other hand, is having a good "pollo summer." In the Brst 29 weeks of this yeur, 721 cases were reported, with 50 deaths. Against 780 cases for the same period last year, whh 63 diceths. Compered with 1,844 cases the year before with 79 deaths.

Millions have rushed for their #Jabs." Last year 7,500,000 took them, This year already more than 11 million have come forward-all under 26 years of age,

"killed"

Is

a

Salk vaccine vaccine.

Medical opinion in Britain has come down strongly on the side ut Salk vaccine for three

reasons.

Firstly. If the virus has been properly killed in the labora tories, then Salk vaccine Is SAFE.

Or

Secondly, I protects against all three ways by which pollu body--through the enters the mouth, the lungs, the skin. With Sulk vaccine, is difficult to protect the intestinal tract.

OBVIOUS

There is a growing body of opinion throughout the world though British virologists are sill, in the main, aceptient) that it is completely anfe, Its dangers are obvious. The doctors would be, in fact, asking you to

wallow Heing pulla.

"discussed "lve" When I

with Vaccine verzus "killed" Dr Salk carller this year he atly refused to entertain the idea of a "live" type because "peither you, nor T nor any- of bady could be quite sure controlling the danger."

"Live" vaccine is not avail able tu the publle. Unlik is, it Secondly, It is available.

might be wise to postpone shouts Thirdly, it undoubtedly does for it and hope that the excel-

lent much good, and no harm.

British polio summers

What is the alternative! A continue,

type

of "live" vaccine. Aงเป

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Sylvia's new escort wins approval

Paris.

WORD reaches me from the Riviera that Sylvia Casablancas, having ended that floodlit friendship with a divorced American, is now engrossed in one of France's leading tennis players, Jean Noel Grinda.

Miss Casablancas and

Grinda are playing in the prd duly celebrated the victory mixed doubles tournament at a Cannes nightclub later. at Nice and have been prac tising together (and sub- sequently dancing together)

for weeks.

A snub

Pablo Picasso, who is

nc-

Her rejected American customed to being unappreciated in less enlightened parts of the suitor, William Millner, has world, collected n snus the other from The Infernational been practising on the next week court with another partner. headquarters

the Avante

the

No words have passed be. Garde, St Germair des Fres.

AR

knows, everyone tween them.

and high-browed bearded men - Grinda, 23, has scored an blondes of this corner of Paris form a srt of living woric of ace over Mr Millner in one reference to all that is really up

is to the mlaute in the arts. respect already.

He

fully approved of by Mias Recently, alas. St Germain

Casablancas's parents.

The son of a surgeon at Nice, Grinda has played in the Davis Cup and was at Wimbledon this year.

The meeting

Miss Casa- He first W blancas at a nearby table at a gala at Cannes a week ago, and promptly went over to ask her to dance.

They spent the rest of the evening together and have not missed an evening to- gether since,

has reminded me powerfully of Selby In -Yorkshire. which recelled in horrer from the offer of a sculpture by Epstein.

The episode concerns the poet Guil ume Apollinaire who used to tule this little kingdom the intelligentsia.

of

Some friends of Appollinaire have Just erected a monument to him beside the ancient church which (Incongruously, as think)

PABLO PICASSO... Brubbed

no 10 years, the tunnel will be in

operation.

Apollinaire" in advance, action can now be taken.

So is still possible today to

cate Final reports on the project at the Deux Mogots

stamped will be ready by the end of the (where the bill is

Then, varlous Inter- "Rendezvous of the Intellectual year. elite") and look out at Pleasan's national interests sponsoring the some

research, Will decido about dominates this most new monument,

approaching the British und Should you do so, though, you French Governments for per- cerebral of Parisian quarters.

Reasonably enough, they ask will lose face sadly if you reter mission to start building."

great friend to it as a "bust of Appollinaire," ed Appollinaire's Picasso for a piece of sculp- which is what the lure, and the bust he gave them involved have been doing. was duly unveiled. The poet's

Jean Cocteau, who led the dead poet's friends in having widow was present,

Later, however, came trouble, the monument erected assures British

Indignantly

that it is vist nothing of the sart. It is a maximum attention to the road head of a Muse, which Picasso sign most ofters neglected here. regards 03 one of his best works of sculpture,

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It must be a pleasant: Strong words

change for Sylvia to have a romantic friendship with

#

muscular civic

The deputy mayor of the full parental approval, after

district, Mr Casablancas's forceful dignitary intervention with police offl- Lochmann, into her acquaintance complaints сега with Millner.

ine

The tunnel

officials

Warning

I would like to urge motorists

to France.

any

io about

pay the

These are the tle coloured triangles which are supposed to warn of the nearness of a major road whose traffic will automatl cally assume priority.

A shocking accident In which

of

two

I heard the latest news

Channel tunnel project

And a solemn historical society weighed in with further strong Sylvia ontered

tennis words about the damage done

at St floors tournament under a false name to the splendid scene -Mile. Skvarini in a mild 'Germain.

the

named Charles delivered forceful about the "UG- suitability"

Picasso of the

cars collided after con- sculpture to an official Com- the

in full view of each has just spot-lit the This time, by contrast, Sylvia's mission which exists to protect the other day. To do so I went Verging

to the dignified Paris head- other,

dangers of this "priority" Салат quarters of the Suez mother and Grinda's mather the aesthetic virtues of Paris. have even begun to meet every

system. Six people were killed. Company. afternoon for tea.

The building, with its marble

The drivers-bath professional differed Chauffeurs evidently and deep red carpets, ripely evokes the golden days over the question of priority. before Nasser. It seemed a My own experience is that attempt to keep her friendship I can report, however, that litle unreal to discuss the tun many drivers do not seem 10

room hung nostal notice French bureaucracy (which in nol in a

the signs, which are skliful use of the proper forma gically with maps of the Conal. close to the ground. Many others

But the Suez Company, hay apparently disregard them, ing lost its vonal, is one of the Pollen aro now talking main backers of the reawakened of introducing uncompromising The Commission has decreed tunnel enterprise, and it was "Stop" signs inulead. MeaDe that us no fewer than four publle made plain to me that they have while you have been WATEL authorities had given their ap- enormous faith in it. Hopes ats

London Express Service). proval

with Grinda a secret.

That subterfuge, of course, was rapidly penetrated by the sharp eyes of the Riviera,

As for the tennis, that seems to be going well, too..

Grinda and his partner won thele first two molches recently

is surely second to none) has now found a soothing way out of the quarrel.

to tho "buat of high at the moment that, within

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