1960-05-30 — Page 6

The Reds find there is gold by the sea

From LESLIE SHORT

Sofia.

SATELLITE Bulgaria has its little, shabbily

uniformed Red Army out in almost full force' these days--helping to punch a hole through the Iron Curtain. Army work gangs are building new roads and improving old ones - part of an all-out drive to lure currency-rich Western tourists.

I

Western am the first journalist to be allowed a look at this programme.

It is clearly an imitation of Tito's successful move to do away with restrictions on travel to and inside his country, which has brought millions of tourist dollars and pounds to Yugo- slavia for years.

In a mighty effort-consider- ing the country's poor economic standing Bulgaria's Balkan- tourist State travel agency has built 70 new hotels for 11,000 tourists on the Black Sea coast in the past two years.

After driving from Solla for hundreds of miles on roads still full of potholes and all sorts of hazards the Bulgarian Army has not got around to them yet, but it will I saw these hotels

Varna at

and the "golden sands," a stretch of 15 miles of Ane. soft, level sandy beaches.

Volunteers

.

choicer drinks because bring the hard money.

they

Ignatov had to fight sharp the country's opposition: from orthodox Communists when he pul through his hard-money- camming plans, I was told.

—

Bulgaria's neighbour Rumania still one of the most Stalinist of Russia's 'satellites has also joined the chase after tourist dollars.

Carpali, the Govemment tourist agency, has built new the Black hotels for 5,000 on Sea coast at Constanza, Mamoin and Eforia.

Dance halls

Price for one day in one of these hotels they were built in much the same way as those in Bulgaria was cut from over £10 to just under £4.

There are jazzy bars, luxurious restaurants, and dance halls ioo.

tons remain. Western tourists But many Police State restric-

will not be allowed to travel" alone in their

own cars, but

The hotels were quickly and cheaply built by volunteer brigades of unskilled people - students, housewives. children. soldiers-putting brick on brick must take a guide. And cameras

no are eyed with deep suspicion.

by

hand. There were machines apart from a few cement mixers.

The hotels look good. but in some the walls are only one brick thick and in a few years their maintenance will become a problem. And the plumbing shows signs of strain.

But they are bright and modern and the price for one tourist day, all included, is roughly £2.

Peter Ignatov, Balkantourist's well-dressed, tycoon-like direc- tor, told me that he means busi- nèss.

no

Visas will be given with almost

restrictions and tourists will be allowed to move about freely.

And while there is only horse meat poor horse meat (9)

sale in Bulgaria right now, no beof, almost no pork, and no lamb, which the Bulgarians like 50. much, Western touris's will served with the country's be

best home produced and i'm- ported foods and wines.

£22 air trip

Taboo, the Bulgarian airline,

is offering fights from Vienna to the Black Sea for about £22 single.

Last year about 50,000 tourists came to Bulgaria, most of them i Russians. This year the goal is 200,000 and most of them from the West.

West and East, I was told, will be strictly separated in these new holiday resorts. Westerners will get better food and the

TALKING

POINTS

Happiness a good bank account, a good cook, a good digestion.

--ROUSSEAU.

* Pessimist he who builds dungeons, in the air.

-ANON.

-(London Express Service).

ARTIE..

¡STAGE DOOR

"I

Autte-

either the Sputnik-

or Sammy Davis Junior..."

TF

London Express Service.

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 30, 1960.

The cast that played out the Summit drama

MAC LOOKING THOUGHTFUL

•President Eisenhower

Selwyn Lloyd

Herter

THE MOODS OF MR, K.

General de Gaulle

JIM HAGERTY, EISENHOWER'S SPOKESMAN AT A PRESS

CONFERENCE

VILXL

Pau's 60

FOR MACMILLAN ABOVE ALL-THIS IS TODAY'S OMINOUS QUESTION:

Where do we four go from here?

from DEREK MARKS: Paris.

FOR

OR four men, this is a time of new beginning. Each one of them must be asking himself the question that everybody else is asking today: "Just where do we go from here?"

For President Eisenhower, Mr Khrushchev, President de Gaulle and Mr Harold Macmillan, the breakdown of the Summit Con- ference

means inevitable changes in policy, home and Abroad, some of them voluntary, some of them enforced.

Undisturbed?

sian policies on banning nuclear tests and continuing disarma- ment talks would continue.

What Mr Khrushchev has to consider is whether his own political career is going to con- tinue undisturbed.

There are many who think that it will not.

MACMILLAN

Can he do it again?

EISENHOWER

Must not embarrass.

During that abortive week in During his Press conference the impression at times of a man

clear Khrushchev sat between sitting between two warders. First of all take the case of Paris there were fairly Mr Khrushchen.

signs that he does not carry Malinovsky and Foreign Minis-

Malinovsky on all his public He it

was who broke the that absolute degree of authori ter Andrei Gromyko, a repre- appearances looked tough and

sentative of the Stalinist old uncompromising. meeting up.

ty that once was his. fantastic press At a

The first question that is guard in the Soviet Govern ference he showed himself to being asked is just why was

It ment, be completely unrepentant but necessary for Khrushchev

Con-

to

From time to time he ap at the same time he indicated bring Marshal Malinovsky here peared to be deferring to one or that in broad outline the Rus- with him at all?

the other. Indeed, one gained

This fantastic man

Tubman-IN ALL MY TRAVELS

Gromyko, however, was more relaxed than I have ever seen him. This impression was con firmed by diplomats who have been in close contact with him.

NEVER BEFORE AN ENCOUNTER LIKE THIS

Monrovia, Liberia.

IF you have not been to

Liberia, you do not know the meaning of frustration.

The drive to Menrovia frosa the airport is 50 miles and these we covered at breakneck the driver raced speed while every car he saw and shouted and waved at anything coming. The sides of the road were Uttered with crashed taxis.

On arrival I tried to make arrangement by telephone

my

but here I found myself in sympathy with the immensely

by LORD

LAMBTON,

M.P.

this time Lincoln, who is made complete command to look like a vulture on a' quick as lightning. госв.

and

BS

DE GAULLE Business as usual,

In all his dealings he had an air of commanding assurance which was quite new,

KHRUSHCHEV

Old guard watching

But perhaps the man who is most concerned at all is our own Prime Minister.

Mr

Maybe it is as yet too soon to Since he took over from. Sir start reading any signs of move Anthony Eden three years ago, ment among the Soviet stars.

Macmillan has involved But it must be remembered himself very closely with the that

the policy which Mr Government's foreign and de Khushchev shattered here was fence policies. his ow

Once again the cold war is on. And even under the Soviet system policies are ́inevitably linked to personalities

Broken

The evimination of these was For President de Gaulle the designed to be a excessful situation is quite different, Summit conference which would He has declared his intention so reduce tension as to justify of restoring France to the rank and reward the long diplomatic of a major power. He has struggle and to confirm the Insisted that France should have wisdom of his defence policy. her own muclear weapons and be capable of defending herselt The breakdown of the talks here has justified his policy to the hilt

Today these hopes lie broken. Even a man, as outwardly imperturbable as Mr Macmillan cannot but feel hurt and depressed.

He was never optimistic about the outcome of the Summit and nor were his Ministers.

For one should not under- carried It through In order to estimate the energy and the oblige their allies.

vigour that has been expended

They

For de Gaulle and his govern on this fruitless clamber to the ment it is now a question of Summit. As it seemed to me that he business as usual-only, rather It may be that in the broad was having too easy time, I more sa. asiced him whether, if he was What of President ft and well, he would stand for hower? So the Presidency for the fifth at they time?

pattern of history the scholar Eisen- Macmillan can find consolation

In fact, the presidency of the U.S.. has been in commission for a long time, with Mr Elsen-

commission, rather than the executive head of the govern

Proxident Tubman is a ré- markable man Thirty years ngo his country WBS civilised that fathers, were hard up, used to pawn their were sold to work on thie Spanish Island of Fernando F. replied: "That is a question."

Then his voice grew Berlous ment. Today, ander him, it is the and he went on; "But this 1 Switzerland of West Africa, con

whether my with foreign capital and roads health is good or

Whether my and schools,

health is bad, I would like to retire."

children, while slaves He roared with laughter andhower acting as chairman of the

Yes-men

say,

that

Successor

in the past, but there is little to console the politician, Mamilian in the immediate future.

The big question is simply whether the Prime Minister has either the will or the reserves of sheer physical stamina necessary for a man who is once again obliged to embark on the Jong journey back to the Summit and at the same time, to reshape his defence policy so as to be pos "With the presidential clection pared for any eventualnyak

Remember that

Mr This gave a Liberlan mob sig.only six months away the Pre- ter her chance and she asked,sident is increasingly conscious Macmillan set off on his journey in a tremulous voice, where the of the fact that he must do to Moscow to see Khrushchev be nothing which would embarrass. went in the face of opposition President

his strength

of his 'principal allies and he or involve his successor,

But the bla moguls of the US. met with treatment at the hands when the younger generation He took the cigar from his who have been sharing and, to of Khrushchev that few men were given their chance, he mouth and said" slowly and some extent, usurping the pre- would have stomachet

But fribly after immbesike In het he does nothing of had few colleagues upon solemnly: "From your prayers, sidential power, now have the

meeting was the kind. I saw him twies in whom he could rely to do any from the prayers of the people opportunity to dig themselves in efforts the Summit, s

agreed upon; his room in the centre of Mon, thing, except agree,

of Liberia, from my own feeble more securely, than ever.

Mr. Alan Dulles, of the Cen- It was a personal triumph for He is an absolute ruler. No car those prayers," A moment later Gates, of the Defence Mals thought to deny

prayers and God has answered tral Intelligence Agency, and Mr Macmillan which nobody is allowed to pass him and any he was rearing with laughter try, are now presented with an But now that mesing, car that meets him has to stop again. or the driver is fined £50.

popular President Tubman, a woman who was clasping a had to be placed some feet out

who had just announced that bit of fish. so bad was the service that

There is no fortress 50 none of its employees would be strong that money cannot paid until it improved. "take it.

-CICERO.

I hope that they were paid, for I never had one right number.

not

Conquer thyself.

--BURTON.

a little better.

Unpleasant

the

At Joast, she alternately, clasped it and picked her nose, en I was glad when we dropped. her,

inio the room, which gave the Impression that, the President was falling over backwards.

I had another glance at te rovia, where people walt in here at the Immigration Office, scores.to see him. where I had to fill in a volu

minous form under the un

winking eye of an official' whò

watched me unul 1 had finished using a pencil, when

Huge desk

This he has done on his own, from for, until the last inauguration,

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"

extraordinary opportunity,

For the CLA and the Pentagon, never believed that the Russians could be trusted anyway.

Now Mr Khrushchev has Justified them, too,"

falled,

Rally?

Mr Macmillan

Can

pople all over again, for

As one American said to me his energies to make the

You cannot judge Tubman Instead of loving your

But the greatest due to his by Western standards, but in I turned to taxis. enemies, treat your friends no toximar here knows

However, he calmly handed me a pen

success is to be found in the his own way he has done more

that has already for his He sits at a:huuze desk, olub- sepulchre and said that it was to be done

incredibly backward way but makes up for it by in tak

tered with sliver mmmers be built for him at Totos. It people than any other president, -E. W. HOWE. saying that be does and

and a vase of waxen roens and is a sculpture of a kneeling Me And roly there is some-wrhis is a good thing, at least piclong up his friends and This office was furnished in smokes a green cigar in a and on his bask ́alts, or rather, ***** dropping them at your exes the most “pecully way with silver holder,

"rides:"President Tubman like a thing of groźness in a man. Most people enjoy the pose,

two desks and a 16 ft high oil

rajah on an elephant, with a who when an attempt is made for pater,ki will slows fast toonths, decide

Berdue and tHES H painting of

bemedalled Behind him mo two win,) frage cigar in his barel

on hy ie, free his would bour people just what mortng the coridor which Inferiority of their beat

bastards we are dealing with “

whatever phesas I had gne most unpleasant President Tubman. ---

dows,, one is suffered and cur-woping

asuarinator, wipes his hand, friends.

lesson in this, method of travel-

tained and against it. Reans, I w him at his best at a gyes him 50 dollars and tells Mr Khrushchev, certainly has Jaglandins e ling, for

of the new in that is the ana I was kinen 20 As the room was only 12 ft, once again of the flop, gibther Press confer

ex-him to come back some time no monopoly

Mr Macmillan can anspre minaries out of my way to drop high, the bottom of the picture langs pleture, la president

language of diplomacy, was 10 and try ACAID,

-LORD CHESTERFIELD,

(London Express Service).