1961-01-17 — Page 6

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THE "CHINA, MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1961.

London Kipras Serice.

by

Shalimar

I'm just back from a wonderland

the Queen is going to

Patricia Lewis

"BET Pakistan at this time of year.

ETTER take your fur coat, dear," they said in London. "It can be very cold

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So I packed my coat and winter woollies and jet-streamed into Karachi.

The dawre Wa cool when

1 atived-ny 00

dagren

Tut by the time inch was

over

most of

the

population

Jalong the

native Inid ott In' various

WIE streets

stages of heat exhaustion.

The twinset

SU the locals krw I was British (they could tell by my twinset and twerd skirt) and therefore mod; so-what more nutural INATI to Inke the

memsahlb on a sight-seeing trip la what war by now 06-degree winter sunshiney

TRANSATLANTIC NEWSLETTER

Refreshing-to hear a touch

of cattiness in the talk...

FRESH from a holiday

ain

in England I again en route to New York and all the delights of the up-coming year: the Inauguration, ย special General Assem- bly, those slowly aging astronauts, et al.

Brief but blessed has been this stay. After many years in distant lanas England is a joy beyond telling.

Conversation does not exist. in our tering of the world, among the Americans. Certainly Ameriems do talk but it is the kind of talk presaged by the words.

Now hear me but

out you must.

by JEAN CAMPBELL

this subject." And hear them and a giant golden watch chain, once told me the ad. vice ho gave to his only

His advice

son.

"Nover," he said, "my boy,

ho upuce office, "Protest "The pale hands beside' and

Note to the royal parts your children like a Hosess non to leave for Indin and

Note to loyal party: Don't Takistan: Lenora Al that bother to bargain-hunt. Most well-meant

advice About

"local" #teras Including car- parky Pakistan. Ii'n deelúcdiy

silver from arts and beaten hot. Put the blink on yr

Kashmir n3143 that chunky mink and pack luts of eno).

gem-strewn Jewellery — are sleeveless silks and Night

cheaper, as you probably altd weight mults,

A stran

know, in Birmingham. wan-hat if protocal allows A spare good mosquito net la vital as the bugs of Bengal potent and are uncommonly

pernicious,

Sweating, swearing a plaque on all misinformants and trailed by three Sunice-Charmers who had suddenly roused themselver and their dozy, cobras from the shadows, 1 followed any gulde Abdul to a t

The sights

"This month We

The plans

Abdul took me back; 10 town and, after a couple of stiff sun- downers, revealed his plans for the morrow.

ul si jazz." I finished wearily. for in that heat the mysterious East could remain a mystery as far as I was concerned.

The gardens

Yet Shalimar is quite some- thing. But over 300 years agʊ by Shah Jehan in 17 months, it eamprises over 40 acres of lawne by and plantations threaded ornamental waterways, Inkos, Unfortunately, the fountains. to comprise 40 peres of silent morning I was there it seemed fountain and green, stagiant pools of dirty water. Not at all

romuntic.

exciting places. First, Lahore to "We will go to all the must

It Was colourful enough, beautiful Shalimar the Gardens. Then to Peshawar and though in another sense. the Khyber Pass."

From the street beyond the walls Shalimar is slag-bang in the middle

sort of ot a

crics of shanty-town- the botel-vendors, sweetmeat men and radish-sellers cut across the aubdued, serious conversation of some 100 gardeners.

"Splendid!" I Interrupted, my heart powiding at the sound of welcome such a romantle name. "How Your Queen. Do you how much luggage should I take?" her?" he asked.

"No need for luggage at all," replied Abdul, smoothly.

"Only by sight,” I said.

He seemed surprised.

"No?

What

A pity!

"We go there and come back in a day.

We holled bofore a huge, rectangular pond dolled with

"The Queen and her husband will be seated here on this island in the middle with all those hundreds of fountains playing reund them."

"This is where the Nawab of “I strall collect you tomorrow myriads of single jet fountains morning at 5 am. Don't forget Kalabag, Governor of West thought that while you were in to bring your coat-It may be Pakistan, is holding a reception Pakistan, I would show you the cold on the North-West Frontier, for the Queen," said Abdul, pinces the Queen will see, 49 Goodnight. that when you return to England you can tell her what deep purple evening.

And he burried out into the

On the coach, at the aliport, By cow, WP had left the in the plane-while dawn had spacious roads and bougainvilles. yet to crease the sky-Abdul was Elrung houses of the **high-

The life of the carly morning cinas" section behind and were tea-party. hooting our way past convoya of rubber-stred trucks drawn by proud, plodding romels.

la specially fascinating.

O Note to the royal party: The bridge across the pond is quile Harrow So I tho "Island." And the water is very muddy. Do be careful!

The Pass

And, by the time he had told me his 18th unfunny story and given me his card--"your friends will have need of me here"- Every door, window and hole for the fourth time, we "were in the walls seemed to contain swooping down on Labore. alas, the person they most Stow-voiced, and ponderous, shop of some. Ilnd with - It was B-am and alrend,-80 In

painted above the the shade. want is

1 left, hoping that nothing the person most Mr Harriman is always calm ogs

and gives the impression to entronice, like

"Most unusual for this time so awful to a show-down with unlikely be given the those about him that he must

of year," said Abdul feebly os, India over the hend-waters of post.

"Sodawoter more than surely know much

"Heat with balefut looks, I shed top- the Indus, which supplies the # ts, of course, Eleanor he says.

Chicken Tika Here" ..."Real coat and cardigan "But let us Punjab, will transpire to ruin Roosevelt. She connot rambly

Cheap Jeweller"... and, over to the Garders of Shalimar...." on two counts. Fhstly she has Mo private fortune and clambered

secondly she only

оп to the Kennedy bandwagon in the runs of last summer.

Kennedy has in effect cald that an imbassador's face must be his fortune. But that means

the U.S. Treasury will have lo be heavily ralded to keep the embassy larders flowing milk and honey.

AN elderly friend of set a reputation for wit. It Popular

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As you."

The en listened to his father:

he curbed his public anet pri-

with

TO money troubles harass Nthe lunky 69-year-old

vale tongue through school, Ambassador-at-Largo Avo- through college. through busi-

pes, through love affairs and relf Harriman. through war. Today the son is herited

For he in-

100 million dollars

the youngest member of the at the age of 18. He will

United States Senate.

bo warmly welcomed in our

A trille confusing for we midst.

gentle islanders schooled to the

bitter wh; of Benjamin Distach, So, too, will his wife, Marie.

Tim Healy and Michael Foot.

And party conversation. How it rips and sizzles, scars and scoms

London.

In America

who, although suffering from folling cyesight, is his dear com- vation. Marie, unlike so many American women. was a friend to England in our grimmest hours.

In our beloved important

ash of friend And that we shall not easily

and you will almost certainly be forgel,

fold: "AR, he is a warmi and Harriman will be popular 11 lovely person.** Everybody, the West but it will take som? Including your new husband, me before he can win the con-

Inst wife but one is a warm and Odence of the Soviet bloc. As levely, pervon

After #

divorcus.

suicide,

property

early as 1940 he sold to James Forrestal: "The outward thrust few years of of Communism is not dead-we alimony, dear might have to face an ideolo- court struggles, glen) wortare just as vigorous settlements, you and dangerous na Fascism

begin to gaze i wonder at Nazism."

all thre warm and lovely

people.

or

Roosevelt's palley of "Teach

the Russians to Trust Us-even

Now in London, nobody will at the expense of the English" tell you that anybody is either Was Harriman's first momentous

waim or lovely. Like bitches

and everyone

mission,

with bones we will carefully and secret swift surrender plan way It went a little askew winnin conscientiously lear oursetvus

found to be under negotiation clse we love to for Kesselring's array in Italy-

piensure the without, of course, Soviet know

ledge.

turns Nothing came of

the

rplinters-all to

present company,

The Amerlenn docs tiol understand this: Like Mack the plan except a sudden flare-up

bad feeling between

of

Knife he keeps his Jack knife United States and Russiu.

out of sight until he wants to

Have a body on the sidewalk Harriman came to England with It was just after the war that oozing red.

So newcomers beware.

delicate mission entrusted

to

my grandfather sald to me ng

As him by President Truman,

le

was told, to explain that the

Iberly in New York Harbour

favour

years

wo kalled part the Statue of Democraile Administration ald

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110t necessarily ago: "femember Churchill government. from here on everybody you tneet will be good, kind and tened the Socialists in

Harriman's intervention, hear- their election campaign and befora lonia Truman was dealing with a Labour administration,

Industrious."

Not Eleanor

EVERY

TAVERYBODY in London their running favourite for Ambassador to the Court of St James. But,

Whlio Me Harriman maX have much to explain to the Rusikar the Tory Purẩy will kave long forgiven its un- Simply intervention in British DOLITIGA

-London Expres. Scrvloo%.

Cummings

LABOUR

PARTY ASH-BOX

Walln".

LA LANTERNE

MORT

AUX

"Maybe if I looked loss respectablo' the T.U.C. might

give me something

Lahore's great occasion.

to

"Now," súd Abdul, “let us on the Khyber Pass," And where he learned his quaint old English, I do not know.

An hour's flight later, WO touched down at Peshawar and set of straight away on a 60- bone-bruising, nerve- numbing drive through the steep,

that red-brown FOTRE forms this old-time gateway to India, the mute, unchanged scene of no much bloodshed," as Abdul said with n chuckle.

happy,

I

No blood was shed while was there except my own.

Note to royal party: Don't wear high heels on the Khyber Pass. You're liable to falt and cut

your hand. It makes the locals laugh a lol, but it really in't worth

It.

The banquets

Well, that

Was it I did ICarochi and Shalimar and the Pass in a little under 20 hours, The royals will take tnore than a week,

But they will havo sutne 25 banquels and receptions to abpe with as well. And I wish them the best of luck when they dino With the Malik tribe for whom sheep's cys are the grealest possible delicacy.

~London Express Zerolce).

TALKING.

POINTS

and

the

War is the child of pride, daughter of riches.

pride

-DEAN SWIFT.

Until I truly loved, I who alone.

CAROLINE NORTON.

Woman submits to her fate, man makes his..

-DADORIAU...

The supremacy of the póople tends to liberty,

TACITUS.

People are either -- horn hosts, or born stuesta, -

*MAK BERRBONM.