1960-01-11 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1960.

THE BIG MERGER

"BUT WE THOUGHT YOU WERE DOING THE TAIL END”

PARIS NEWS LETTER by SAM WHITE

London Euren Sereses.

M. Boussac breaks a

A SAVOURY

little

social triumph has come the way of the

French racehorse owner and industrialist, M. Marcel Boussac,

•

Recently he line the presi- cleart of the body which trols

con- The

French racing, Society for the Improvement of Bloodcock," and thereby bes came also the test president bl that 120-year-old body who not member of the Jockey Club

The society is the parent body and the ironic or the Inekey

situation therefore brises (S M. Boussac belnut electri valdende one while the Doors of Vic other remain barred to him.

Snobbish

"Le Jockey" as it is known here is without doubt the most alrogantly snobbish club in the world.

It

hay

fact thut

unver

disguised the untitled 51. with

Водикас with llaks "trade" would be Unaccept-

able as a member.

Nevertheless, M Boussac would not have won

presidency of the society with- out the votes of mumbers of the Jockey.

social barrier

and he is backed by the

club who won't have him

QUOTES

as a member

was Minister of Justice at the time.

saleh buie.

either too

much or

Mitterand is having his own troubles at the nonvent and in defending himself in the Senate a

It is up to him as the man who knows all the facts to make

public declaration

on

the

Just three years

another canal

and

the cry

of 'GO HOME'

Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama.

later.

(THIS TIME

CALLED PANAMA)

HERE in Balboa, headquarters of the US. Government-owned Panama For Canal, there is, for a Briton, a strangely reminiscent feeling. everyone is upset about a canal, especially the American civil servants who |couldn't understand Britons getting upset about incivility over that canal at

Suez just three years ago.

This is lush, green, tropical Panama, how- ever, where they have led their hitherto peace- ful, sheltered lives. Now, having got over their initial surprise that any- one should dislike them, they are afraid.

For the Panamanians have spoten their dislike with rocks hurled nerome ihre unmarked border between sleazy Panama and the

ultra-hygienic Canal Zone

FEAR

civil

So the alcold-afraid

eervants

of a rising tide of anti-American hatred, Afraktí from far-away at the message Egypt, where Naster tonk held the Suez Canal with in- punity.

In case

wore

Qu

the anyone missed

in black message, it was there

of while l : placards: "Yanqui, go home."

Zone Twenty-one Canal policemen were injured in twe

of outbreaks

Anti- Separate American rioting along. the Canal Zone border, and only the fixed bayonets of U.S. troops in full battle order peaceful Zone, from widesprend pitlage and bloodshed.

save

saved

་

the

over

the

by IAN AITKEN

1640

rush gold

and

decided to stay, la an aspiring

dilate in Panama's presiden

tinl election next spring.

A SYMBOL

De-

Senator Boyd angrily

u influence may Je haul

tp the the Panamanian dog Aspoles of the Canal Zone, anxi may even put more mCRNY INTO the Panamanian Troskwy,

ADAMANT

But the military men who achamant. Concessions to Pana- manian blackmail, they kny, lead to ever more OʻZÜNEBOLLY domanda, not only by Frastos but also by the other Latin American countries,

So I found myself in the neat, rubu:isan-style home of Bet

at Sam Roe, an independent- minded member of the tiny Canal Zone police force the who terd the Ve same Fatriotic Panamanian rocks.

the While

וי ננון

air-conditioning

rumbled in the cortier, Ree struggird for words In which to express his Indig- to the nation.

has

It

Mr Roe is a "Canal brat"—— was born here in the Zone. He does not intend to fervo denied quietly.

A joen tende union chief and Communists or Cuban

of umpteen Canal that

of emissaries of Fidel Castro or the a member

Egyptian Zune advisory committees he is propagandists

"-appeasement” powerful strongman Abdel Nasser were in nny way involved in the m

ngninst Finomanian campaign the Panama Canal Company.

I mentioned the Egyptian Sam Minister to Panama, Mohammed

a newcomer el Taboi, Panomanim

who Roent

was a familiar story. an impres- I have heard it a score of brought with him

of assistants. times sively large mail

from dispossessed "He is tiny

just a very: upright

British Colonialists. In hie diplomat," said Boyd blandly.

broad American accent, it A SEARCH

had a tragi-comic ring.

SEED SOWN

"Believe me, 1 don't hate tory senith of the authentic panamanlans. None of us does. But we must face the fact that "Yanqui" viewpoint.

was a more dimeul Panamanians do not want to search than I had expected, work. They could not run the

for A sharp division of Canal," he declared,

The formula for peace in opinion exists between Panama

There is no longer can broadly be

one that is likely to be par- what described as the Stale De manent.

Concesions have been too partment group and The

long delayed to be interpreted Pentagon, or military, as anything but appeasement in

He is also candidate for the tile of Panama's "Naguib," Rod he has been bitterly chased o deliberately instigat- Ing last month's riots as an un- serupulous part of his electoral campaign.

his He greeted me in box-like office in the peeling but picturesque colonial section Almost im- of Patine City. mediately he began to talk.

He talked first about the Panamanian flag, which he had fiercely defantly planted on Canal Zone territory j before surged across the border between Panama and the Zone.

"It is a symbool," said Boyd, "Above all, it is a visual symbol rights in the of Panamanion Coral Zone. People can look at the Bag and say to themselves, This * part of Panama." 11 is just a ärst step."

An

ANGER

De mobs

I lett the youthful and sincere Mantor to terri- into Canal Zone

cross

group.

the face of violence, "Fitmnast"'

feed the Aaron, of The State Department, caus cen only tious and ever watchful of the nationalist resentment.

The seed has been sown. The propagandist purpose to włuch

will be whirlwind U.S. actions can be put by

reaped in is anxious Soviel Union, the appease.

-London Express Service. the

that

he

What the next steps would be were swiftly outlined in fluent, but by no means Scottish, Eng lish. Senut Boyd insists the United States should pay Panama o fall 50 per cent gross receipts earned by the bayonets, the Canal. But

and should pay the subject of furious profcets opemnting costs of the Canal out from Panamanians, did not of the remaining 30 per cent.

American property As alternative. across the border in offers a 50-50 split of the

Canal's 100 Panama City.

net receipts, 10- 50-50 split gether with a win-

the of its administration. and

in the more distant future- nationalisation? Naser-style

smiling Senator Boyd's became more serious

"It is not possible to talk of nationalisation in the context of between two M. Mitterand has 'since cur-

Sucz Incidental intelligence of its rarity, but it has brought a relationship rected this alleged misinterpre-

10,000 American sovereign nations. home to the hazards Social Iation of his speech and made it The

"Zonians"

meaning of different. It was the nationalisa- clear that ji was he who had diplomacy are hitting Aly colonialism,

tion of a private company by a the What was behind approached Debre end not

bul sovereign nation."

that other way around, and that the Khan hard. Ever since, a

Did that mean In

of search

an delegate to the break?

did not contem- meeting took place, not at the Pakistun Ministry of Justice but

in United Nations, he voted answer,, 1 called today on 38- Panamanians

Boyd, the plate ever owning and operating year-old Aquilino the corridors of the Senate.

Apparently it did against the French on the strikingly handsome Panaman- the Canal? Between these two speeches

salons lan senator who launched the not. for Senator Boyd went on: M. Mitterand had a Fres con- Algerian issue, the

the "I prefer to talk of recuperal- her ference

Panemariari and sald he did not of fashionable Paris have demonstration that led to

ing

jurisdiction' first outbreak of rinting. oxecution believe for a moment that Debre been ringing with threats

Boyd, whose great-grandfather over the Canal Zone rather than ves involved in the murder plot. Now clearly M. Mitterand has never to receive him again. was a Sent who passed this way nationalisation."

Actress Daniels. Delorie

on being reproached for her shpusas, “A woman is like an army-be is long without her reserve."

Author Pant Morand, "In love to be French ke half the battle

Author Andre Mauron. ''Thal which people find hardest to forgive you for is the evil they have spoken of yuu.

public feeling sinco husband's grisly

15 short years ago.

His election Was in fael

The funeral was an impressive secured us a result of private demonstration of widespread advice to members of the Jockey affection and reverence for her who were determined to volt husband.

against him to say away from Letters of sympathy flooded in the meeting which elected him to the home of her daughter Why was the society so anxiets the Countess Josce de Chambrun, to have M Boussac fus its and private condolences were president?

expressed by leading politicians

Simply because i needs and high officials. man of Boussee's influence to defend racing interests *gainst dom acted to mark the change

the government.

Just before her death official-

in the public mood,

Considering its snobbish pre- While she was in hospital she lensions, the "Jockey is une of the cheapest clubs in the world, was advised by the Ministry of Finance that on instructions from probably because of the need to consider the improverished con- the government all her claims dition of many of its aristocratie her and her husband's property from the confiscation of members. The annual subscrip- tion is only £25, a bed casts & would be settled quickly in her

and its food is very nearly the best and cheapest in Paris only about a meal.

'No reason'

Standard

rejection of

formula

arising

favour.

A killer?

the French Prime Minis- fer. M. Debre, a mur- don't Frankly t

for the derer? candidates is a

clipped "no reseon," Women know, but I doubt it very are allowed in as guests pro- much.

vided they are "werden of high

society."

One of

membere pollides

The accusation. consisting innuendos, has been is its rules that largely of masi mot discuss voiced by sections of the Lefl-

a

Press and echoed in a rule, incidentally, wing which in view of the mental more flagrant form in Britain. sluggishnens of most of the The charge is based on the members, seems about es noc 1957 attempt on the life of the

try ns, say, one forbidding ruce- horses to play chess.

then C-in-C in Algeria, General Salon, by firing u bazookg at his headquarters.

Ha escaped but his ADC wan

Another interesting feature of the Jockey is that Jews are barred, even Rothschilds, It is killed.

therefore a Httle murprising to M'Debre is actsmed of laking And among the British members part in this plot aimed at pre- et a club which practices paring the way for a coup d'etat religious and racial dinerierna- in Paris.

tion such names so that of the M. Dobre is said to have been Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of implicated in the evidence given Windsor and the British Ambas- by tho leading accured,

resourceful sador, Sir Gladwyn Jebb,

adventurer named Kovaks who later escaped from custody and is now believed to bo abroad

Sympathy

THE

late

a

de

When questioned, Koyaka didi Pierre Laval's the sensible thing and Impli-

cated everybody. Including widow died in Paris. Gaulla, men pemili

events

Incantly and

following

the

death

The curious part about this air is that the man who knowe most about it a Deft showed _the" revelation In wing senator. M. Mitterand, who

he let it be understood that M. information in his possession. I shall con- Debre had come to him at the Until he does 60. time to the Ministry of Justice tinue to look with a much more and asked for his old in fighting beady eye on him than on the the charges.

irascible, uften foolish, M. Debre.

the

of

overturned, Cars were dows were smashed, Stars and Stripes, flying

were Larr the U.S. Embassy, down and ripped to shreds.

It was a display of savagery Brat horrified American rest- dents of the Canal Zone because

the

face

was

to due course

SELECTION

By FRIELL

3TAVI89

If that Bill for decent office conditions is passed. Mr: Twitch, you'll just have to get another chair in here!"

OLD VICKY'S ALMANACK FOR 1960

ONLY

Dr. Barbara Moure FEBRUARY Mr. Buller open MARCH

JANUARY become

Mlalater

of Transport and solres London's Field-Marshal traffic problem. MontgamerY SAJA ANJone who criticises Dr. Verwoerd is barmy. Hitler posthumously, de-nazified. Mr. Amory calls for price cuts, Tresage brissa elopes with neinernarias gori. Wellest month for 37 years.

ERENCE ON THE SING OF "H-TESTS

1958-

new telephone service which enables him lo bear AND watch all subscribers. Dr. Adenauer says he will retire in 1964. Lord Salisbury becomi Ambasador to the Republic of Maria Callas cancels Cyprus. singing engagement, fresident Numer Invited to visit littain. Fog, frost and floods

JULY Zorilaslon z Maris AUGUST Deterten

Genève

talks-arter - 15% enhance mirik: *W7%, los bays the bomb." Mr. If he lived in Jidly he would be a Jatimasage Mar, Amory onlin for

• pride out. Finid-Marshal. Mana-

With • Field Marshal Montgomery fi trata, Henk wave,,

532

On his visit to Paria APRIL Budget boom in the

Biggest star w City. Otd-age pensioners told they can double their ring standard

years. Dr. Adenauer says that owing to the interostional situation le musi slay on unul 1970. Mr. Onassin makes take-over bid for the Royal Gaiz belght Opera House.

periods and thonderalarma

Mr. K. pratues traditions) French dance and says that if he lived fo France Mr. Gauillat he would be m Gattshell enter + MONASTE For " period of re-thinking. Mr. Amary calls for pelæ fuis Duchess

elopes with last age Marly Wide playe pop singer

Rain. am at Old Vic.

* SEPTEMBER CO

.. international relations sa the Olymple Clames apen in Rome. The Time fore chal the imminent resignatian Dr. of Mr. Belwyn · Boysl.. Adenamer visit Vernet, šuo says Germany is ready to forgive Everybody. Begitu Burdet plays St. Joan.

TAIR

SHARES

FOR ALL

MAY

дет

dance. The

End of rock 'n' roll x JUNE Trumphant rais

the country. Lancers, sweeps Field-Mirabal Montgamery Baye anyone who criticises Mr. Swarl is crazy. Gozaimons agreement at Summit mesting on the day for the next Spainit meeting. Mr. Amory calls for price cole, Tommy Siecle plays liamies a Stratford. Hill and gules.

of

Elsenkower President Lo Husais. Mr. K. unveils » siste In Red Square. De Gaulle aaye peace with Algeria in just around Goebbels the corner. Dr. de-nazified. Election of Mine Venus As Miss Universo stario. Mr. Space. with Outer Giniiskeli pubilaben autobiography I Was RIGHT, Sunshine.

row

M. NOVEMBER DECEMBER ****

ever spending

A/C UCTOBES Vannounces a slight'

for new poliding in Plecadilly Grena Mr. Clare makes take

Tapk of the bid for GYIT England. On a golfing holiday in Florida Mr. K. saya LHAL Ranela

BOOM Brurinke Ameries' production of gol nilla. Mr. Amary calls for price.

Driest manth for 21 yepes rúta

change in Labour polley at the party confereaus. Lórd Shawṛruss says he is above parties and joins the Government, Mr. Macmillan denies reports of the resignatian of Mr. Elwyn Lloyd elopes with heir. Maria C'allus cancels singing ongewicht Gates, ball and Goods

At

Appearance Dams Margol Fonteyn in a new ballet based on Our Man in Ivana Mr. Clare wins £375,000 on the phole and kaya it won't change ble way of life. Prinung by kt. dnknown manker seilpi fetenes 13,800. Nr. K. invin 18 in NATO si dr. Nis109 haoumen Freudent. Kaos,

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