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France's Pretender waits in the wings

FROM SAM WHITE

Paris.

STANDING in my corner at my favourite Paris

hotel bar I have felt these last few days an occasional swirl of air behind me as though a large fan has been suddenly turned on.

This pleasant sensation, how- To any ever, has not been due fan.

I lys been simply the result of the racing entry by Henri, Count of Paris, Into the hotel's restaurant, followed by

porse

of aides with brief cases lying trying to keep up with the 31 year-old Pretender

French throne.

What's the hurry? scurry? Whal's corking?

to

the

Why the

I can, as the saying goes, re- veat all. The fact is that de- pite staunch ulelal denials, the Count of Parts is packing up at his country home and preparing

relain Laval'e services Foreign Minister.

Laval responded in those "Monseigneur, I thank words; you for the compliments. I will pay you a compliment in return. I were Prime Minister at this you moment I would appoint Minister of Food. If you could feel the French in the present circumstances then you would, indeed. be King of France."

PROVINCIAL EDITOR JEAN BOYET: Everything that glittors in Paris shop windows may not be gold, but it is certainly priced as

to go into voluntary exile un though it wera. his estate in Portugal.

Iur

The Coun's molives deciding to leave France are based on the highest political considerations,

He feels that France has now' run desperately short of poten- tial saviours and that if any; thing either politlent or physical should bring an end to General De Gaulle's reign then only he will stand between France choos,

and

Firm in this convielion he has decided that in the circumstances

it would be better for his cause

SO TIRED

Mijanou Bardot. younger sister of Brigitte, has entered the American hospital here--the Paris equivalent of the London Clinic for an indefinite period of complete rest.

What's wrong with her? Nothing. Or rather nothing and everything

Only 20, she has lived her

whole adolescent life

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the

if he waited in the wings rather thadow of her wildly fumeus

Than at the back of the stage, and successful sister. She

In other words, he would prefer

only 14 when Brigitte

Was

Was

already married to the young

to be called back to France from film director, Roger Vadim, and

abroad rather than by his pre- Menge here encourage Decusa- tions of Intrigue.

This 111 be the Count's second exile. The first was on after enforced one only lifted the wa What are the Count's relations with General Gaulle? On a personal level they There is no record of a meet ing between the two recent years. They had a brief skirmish during the war

are non-existent.

men

de

in

in

taking the first steps to stardom,

She is now on exhausted nervious wreck. A pretty - gir), her whole life in now dominated by the fixation that she too can be a star like her sister. She has made repeated efforts to do and there has been no lack of producers anxious to capitalise on the magle name.

sn

It has all been too much for her,

AUTHOR ARMAND

Algio a when the Count, along SALACRO: I would never with other French claimants as give a prize to a book that a substitute for de Gaulle,, was confuses verbal pornography

Since then the General has with genuine eroticism. made several magnanimous

ruthlessly eliminated.

gestures to show his esteem for

the Count and his family,

Third party

the

Relations between men are maintained through

LUDICROUS

Censorship has been

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1959,

heart

As usual, GILES gets right to the of last

last week's most provocative news

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"Gentlemen, I think the World will agree that in Mr Khrushchev's visit we have ended the Cold War by making it boiling hot."

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Page Four

SIGHTS TROUBLE SIGNALS IN REDSKIN TERRITORY

A medicine-man

To

A child dies who could have lived. For her no doctor-instend

herbs and incantations. Her story pinpoints America's concern over

the Red Indians who say: "No white man's ways for us,”

from PETER VANE, NEW YORK.

Little Morning Sun death came with the scattering of herbs round the bed of skins where she lay torn by pain. Over her body was.. rattled a bag of dry bones. There were no wonder drugs, no hypodermics, no white-clad efficiency for the three-year-old Sioux Indian girl.

Just a medicine man with a bedside manner laid down centuries ago.

What happened 10 Little Moming Sun is sparking a new drive by the Government in The United States to win the raising American Indians from their

past.

For the Sioux girl could have

was

Its ugly tile head here in re- | insistent, destructive hold on the cent weeks. First there was the two ludicrous spectacle of virtually n the entire French Cabinet eilting third party, the Minister of in judgment on the latest Vadim Justice, M. Michelet. During the film, Dangerous Liaisons.

Now comes the strange cåve of war the Count also turned up

city councillors from In Vichy where he had a re- some markable interview with Laval. Stalingrad here an invitation He asked Laval whether he from the Right-wing municipal

council of Dijon. did not think the time WAS As soon as they arrived out Dog in South Dakota.

opportune to restore

archy.

the mon- went the order that

in 10 circumstances was their pre- Laval repiled that after the sence to be noted on radio, tele- war all those associated with vision or newsreel. The majority the Vichy regime harshly judged and advised him this official advice. It seems

would be of the Paris newspapers followed in a fatherly way to return to new way to treat visitors from Portugal. The Count persisted, a city whose wartime defence however, find added that if he turned the scales In the war. becanie head of State he would --(London Express Sarusco).

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deflance in traditional style,

Indeed, tepec talk on the re- scrvations often wistfully recalls one of the last great battles- the clust between Big Chief lived. A few miles away one of the fine hospitals set up Crazy Horse and General Custer, near all Indian reservations. But, That was virtually the last big instead of the hospital, and its. Indian victory. skilled doctors, it was the medi cine man who got the call for help from the tiny village of He

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Mysticism

still chants

for the Sioux

Imunched with a present of 10 ridiculous situation where one In the greatest bid for quick beef cattle to each of a number plot, once owned by one man, riches since the white man land- of Sioux. As the herd incroused is now claimed by more than ed In America, the Ind some were to be passed on to 100 of ha fellow tribesmen, are legally elatring reimburse other Indians to start additional The tangle will take a long ment for 1,320 million of the At least, that was the time to sort out. In the mean- 1,500 million acres of land which herds,

time, many Indians suffer from comprises the United States. poverty and starvation.

For

Oil riches

Claims signed with the Iribal names of the Chickasaws, the Quapaws and the Chippewes have flooded into the Washing- ton offices of the Indians Claims Commission.

can uniform during the war. and is regarded as a special

original idea. Yet no doubt the injority, 50 gift from God.

that they on nursing regrets

The tops of the cactus plants

A A good idea in theory. longer show their pre

cut off, dried and eaten during all-night ceremonies, hopeless fiop in practice. The sideshow's at these rituals the Sioux dilled and ate the include sacred fire and endless cattle and dubbed the pro-

There are some tribes, how weird chanting..

gramma E.E.R.A. "Eat 'em right ever, who are following in the awby.!!

Cedillae tyre treads of the oil- The claims mm into milions of pounds. And while lawyers, Other plans are becoming rich Shelks of the Middle East,

In the south-west, for example, their eyes on the huge potential entangict. Few The drug produces a sense of hopelessly mysticism which, by Redskin Sloux, for example, work the the Navajas have jumped into rewards, are staking the Indians

class almost in their legal battle. reckoning, beats the hymns and farm and range land allotted the millionaire.

They, and the Indiaris, have But there are other ways of psalms, offered by the white them under Federal Acts in the overnight. In the last two years oll-leaŝo bonuses have swelled white man, and man.

lato 1000'.

not forgotten the legendary tee realing the

the tribal coffers by more than £1,000,000 earned by Wah- tha Redskin has found them. The

ington counsellor Ernest Wilkin Alonquians in

The only solace, for New They lack both the capital for £32,030,000:- From the

It is sudden riches such as son after winning the fight for (they are equipment and the enthusiasm. north-cast to the Sioux and Mexico missionaries

These Acts gave every man, these that have set other tribes an £11,000,000 settlement on classify the drug os Comanche in the plains, and on fighting

the "warpath.” Bu! the behalf of the Ules. narcotic) is that peyote is woman and child 160 acres To- on He did his best as Litle to the Hop! and Zun in the

As one of the hard-pressed they own more than a fraction have been replaced by the white Claims Commissioners said to Morning Sun lay unconscious south-west, white-bailing' has not habit forming and produces day, few Indians can say that war-paint and the tomhawis with pileumonia. When he had become one of the most popular little more than a hangover, the of the original plots. Population man's law book and white me: "It heap good living if you

have produced the lawyers,

can get it."

'Forked tongue'

east the herbs round her, rattled pastimes. the bag of bones, and still she

for the I searched

did not stir, the villagers heard behind this almost total rejce- him walling Incantations through tion of the white man and his the night to "The Great White ways. I found them on Roseba Spirit." The little girl did not Rezervation where live to see the dawn.

Morning Sun died.

Cactus drug

Little

Why did her family fail to send for the doctors who could have brought life-saving drugs? Like many other Indians they The chairman of the Tribal Robert Burnetto, stubbornly resist the white Council is man's magic.”

Despite the name, he is a full- blooded Sioux Indian, He has One of America's great prides the advantage of a high school today is that her doctors are education and a glimpse of the backed with the latest life- outside world when ho joined saving equipment that modern the Marines. sclence can provide.

He talked of why the Sioux progress. "The parents

But too many of the men who rolst

hurry to answer sickness calls feel

the Government schools

ways and

the preserve the

m the Indian reservations have try to pull the children away little to offer their patients but from tribal the memories of Mystical chants parents fight to handed down by forefathers.

"White-baiting'

Tribe.

"Every child », of 12 known more than his parents and this produces a continual struggle:

the

Indian health, in fact, has Most of them say: 'Do not try become a major worry for U.S. to make my son a white man. authorities. The Redskin death'

"The result? Most of rate. from pneumonia, tuber- first grade Indian children who culosis, and influenza is บท to attend the Government school six times higher than the na- Dear Rosebud cannot sponk or tional level.

understand a single word of English."

The average life span for Even when it comes to re-'- Americans is 01 years. The Red- ligion the American Indian i

•nkin seldom gols past 40. Yet

putting up opposition and the medicio ran is still going winning. strong.

Many af those who have Despite Government aid pro- adopted Christianity have grammes, wellture / commitices, found it a litle dull comparıl and a clutter of twentieth- with the “good old days” of contury progress, many of; tho totem poles,

they have nation's 600,000 ftodiskino réfuso made their own modifcatione. ¡ to turn fronts thele. ancient In New Mexico. towa bellofs."

Ming raging over, State recognition They cling ta. the old to an Indian demand that thưdy. muspicion Vit "Paleface speaks should be allowed to uso da with forked tongum, Mannin drug as part of their worship: Many have been "inlögra fod" The druge payota. (pronounço into the new 'Amertónur way of pay-oh-tec), is declved from life, Macon-have-entered local, small" cactus; which “growe "in" politica. Many wore the Amitrl- the valler, of the Rio Glinade,

A scheme to convert Sioux into cattle

rajecte was increases

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