1961-05-22 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL,

MONDAY, MAY 22, ́ ́ 1961.'

BRAINWASHED

BY JAK

AK

Paris

'I had my brain washed yesterday and I can't do a thing with it!'

Newsletter

Paris.

ONE of Paris's most exclusive din-

ing clubs has been dealt a heavy blow by the resignation of one of its committee members, the Duc de Brissac.

The reason for the resignation is ubscure and so, for that matter, is the nature and purpose of the club itself.

The club, which calls itself Les Can- dides, has an all-male membership of

about 50.

inchutes 11

a sprinkling of French ariston rats, vich bujness- men and a remarkably heavy proportion of Latin Americans-- especially Latin American dipi mats,

The curs motto printed

its invitation carda is "AIL

for the best in the best of all Bosslide worlds,"

The invitations to its dinner and cocktail

from

London Express Service.

SAM WHITE

Mystery: Why the Duc resign

from his club?

de Beaumont, Prince Charles d'Arenberg, former Culon Am- bassador in l'ari, Hector dy Avala and

official

'1-

serati of proof. only three weeks from President Kennedy's

arrival here?

did

The role of scapegoat has now

The words were spoken over fallen on the ill-starred Ameri-

the BBC on December 7, 1942. can Central Intelligence Agency.

The quartet he referred to in- Recently with

cluded Admiral Darian and I name two. The first is Mr General Giraud. the legend that couragement, one the most the CIA

uf

was involved in the Pierre Haradue, the spokesman

-London Express Service). important f Swiss bankers Alfers mutiny became a gener-

of the French Foreign Omer. He Richard Flez, who is proud of all held belief, even in quarters brlefed-if that is the word to be

striking resemblance Prince Philip.

to normally believed to be sune.

used in connection with rumour- mongering Le Monde on the subject.

As for the reasons for the

The

story is a sordid and one and makes over the

parties sent to Duc de Brisac's resignation, the shameful young and attractive women in Dur himself refuses 10 com- France's humillation

all walks of life aght to be ent on the matter. I gather indiscipline of its generals com- more speville and, to quote u however that his resignation plote. trading members "We brist was prompted by what he con-

upon only one thing: that our Wonten Bests shalt be treniment meted out by other beautiful.

sidered to be the unchivalrous A THEORY

"Apart from that they can be society women or actresses, models or ballet dancers,"

He went on: "We cuz elves, of course. forma 1 exclusive group, but there is no snchbery as regards our women gtests,"

EXPENSIVE

The diners are expensive nffairs and are marked by hand- some gifts to the women guests, Another member of the club pointed out to me what he term- ed the cultural purpose" of the club which, ft its members were not so rich would ulmust rate it. subsidy front UNESCO,

He said: "We try to enter- tala kuportant foreigners who pass through Pari and press

ปราก them The culture of Parisian social life."

Among the club's more proml- nent members, in addition to the Due de Belssão, are Count Jean

members of the committee tu

his own favourite woman guest, The story was first put about the handsome and stately by the Fascist and Communist Baroneas de Bellroche.

the French The second Foreign Minister Mr Couve de Murville, who told a dis- linguished American columnist,

JUST WHAT IS THE WEALTH OF THE VATICAN?

by Rene MacColl

Rome.

WHEN the Queen went to the Vatican and met the Pope she wasn't just visiting a tiny independent State-108 acres-and meeting the spiritual head of many millions of people.

For the Vatican is also one of the richest states, for its size, in the world; and as its ruler the Pope rules some of the biggest kinds of busi-

ness.

And the Vatican pursues tant business with Immense acumen and resource.

The Vatican plays the American stock markel, The Vatlean invests its funda manv centres

Over the

Western world.

Im

Il awns huge industrial enter- prises in Italy. And is for- tune is conservatively estimated today at £5,000 mililoa.

AGREEMENT

The main basis for this size. ndic

Acancial Gum was the settlement arrived at in 1020 when the then Pope, Plus XI. negotiated with Mussolini an agreement, called the Lateran Treaty, which ended a dispute which had continued between the Italian Coverminent and the Haly Sez since 1870.

By that agreement the Vatl can received about £750 million In a jump payment.

Through

this The years original stake has been, through the employment of perfectly legitimate and orthodox bus- methods, regularly methodically increased.

Bess

Tha

The T.E.T.I. telephone com- pemy, one of Italy's biggest, 1s Vatican-owned, and In this Generale Immobiliare Churchi has the largest asiate company in the whole country.

THE BANK

real

successors in charge of the 'special administration“ — can operate all over the world out- side the Iron Curtain.

They can USC the Vatican's

diplomatie privileges and have vnut and ready-made pray of agents everywhere in the shape of cardinals, bishops, and rellable Catholic inymen: an information network which even the House of Rothschild could The Vatican's creat interna- not have matched in its pioneer- tional bank is called, charming, ing and aggressive carly days. ly enough, the Istituto Opera_di Religione (the Institute for Ja the Vatican wise to retain

its rule of secrecy concerning its that money?

you

Religious Good Works), and co well docy 11 operate probably the next time holiday here you will and that your sterling travellers' cheque has been cleared through the Vatican concern, for IV 13

renowned for giving the most advantageous exchange rates.

counterparis

Inevitably the gossips and Rome 19 a weat place for gossipa - ate encouraged to start whispering campaigns of behind the lavish

scenes

expenditure in high places, ct waste and lush living for some of the prelates.

No reasonable person doubts that the Vatican's expenses dro enormous.

The men who ran this formid- uble tunelal empire on the Pope's behnl/ have many advantage which make them fte envy of their in other countries.

They have no taxes to worry advisedly Ind in no sense of disrespect-like the Vatlean's sheet is ever including a private army, vast

about.

and

No balance produced.

Today the Vatican owns-

1 A series of important and famous banks, including the

Nobody outside a tiny handful

Д

of The cost

running "show" and I use the word

palaces, and staggering spec- tacles, must obviously bo grievous.

of men has ever known just In Britain we take it as 2 what the Vatican fortunes add matter of course that churches, Bank

and of Rome, the Banco di up to nor where they all bro as well as universities Santo Spirito (the Bank of the at any given moment.

charitable institutions, should Holy Ghost), and the Credito

publish balance sheels; indeed, The Fopes have been fortuit would be thought very strange Centrale del Lazio,

nate in their financial advisers. If they did not.

A controlling interest In Italy's biggest gas, light, water, telephone, and publie iransport services, real estate

hotel chains, concerns, Insurance compaules.

PRIVILEGES

But there 18 one rainer modern touch in St Peter's bo widely

which may not known.

ΣΠ Hogarn,

а

One morning I was

Yes, a bar in St Peter's. Everything there too from gin

and Bernarumo

taken architect with genius for inside St Peter's and Into the finance, started the food work bur The Bastogt Finance and after the Tateran Treaty had @ Holding Company, a huge produced the initial windfall. concern through which the He died only a few years back. lo Scotch, and even including Vatican makes deals in

called real. After him came others almost something

"Australian estate, railways, and cement. as talented.

Rum," which, so the bartender convincingly explained to me, interests

In addition to being able to is bottled in Trieste. I gave it 4 Voluminous

countries including Britain, pursue their task without worry- a miss. Switzerland, and the U.S. ing over taxes, Hogara and his

im

London Express Service).

WANTED: MINISTER OF

Me Marquis Childes, that there | B was something to the story.

If the French have any evi- dence of CIA Involvement, not only have they failed to produce

it jublely but they have failed

THE SECRET SERVICE?

Press and was promptly picked in inform the US Embassy of it PRIME MINISTER

The Baroness wished certain up by Moscow, 11 was based on privately, Mr Baradue is now if women to be invited whom the nothing more substantial than à state of high dudgeon because other committee members con- the theory that as Challe

I publlely was

taxed him will: sidered unsuitable.

until recently one of the com- spreading the story. manders al SHAPE, there he Itis indignation is welcome, if must have mumbered American bointed. It is the nearest any

officers among his friends, there- French official has come to deny

They didn't quite measure tip fo our standards," was the cutting comment of one end- mittee member.

i have an idea he was not referring to the club's

High tiny. cultural standards.

Scapegoat

One of the surest indications

of our decline as a world power

fore he must have been encour- ing the story. aged by them to stage his mu-

Encore

Then Le Monde, which is France's most important and seriou:: newspaper, saw it to sanctify this dirty rumour by How strangely history seema referring in an editorial to the to repeat itself in France. This in is an extract from a speech by likelihood that the CIA was

General de Gaulle: "The nation volved in the Alglers muliny.

will never allow a quartet of T'he next day Le Monde generals who have usurped pow- or to soil the honour of the no-

in that the misfortines and hu- declared that Itv editorial

millations that befall France are reflected official views in Paris, lon. The nation will never add-

and First Lord of the Treasury-it is a re- sounding title, indeed, and one that reflects the most arduous job in the country.

Everybody

knows that

The Prime Minister is head of

ap-

IMPOSSIBLE FOR A PRIME MINISTER TO HANDLE THIS JOB AS WELL

BY DEREK MARKS

is

The sort of thing that allowed Miss Geo to abstract documents from Portland,

in the esto knowledge that, as it was the would misa weekend, nobody

them.

One might have thought that the Government, but it is only should be placed upon a Minis- Office and reports direct to the the security services at least from time to time that the ter who

devotes himself full- Prime Miniser.

kept awake over the English incredibly varied nature of his time to the job?

These are primarily Britain's weekend. duties becomes widely preelsted.

The plain fact is that George spy catchers. Then there

Lord Morrison recalls of Bur- Blake was able to operate for M.15, which is, in effect, Bri- gesa and Maclean that "the nine years, under the rule of taln's own espionage serviee, weekend gave them opportunity three Prime Ministers Chur- These are the two top-level to get well away before their chill, Eden and Macmillan.

A STORM

FIASCO

organizations.

NO POWER

A storm about the appoint- no longer attributed to the ma- Who are the officials who have mil that these men should be ment of a bishop-and suddenly chinations of the British Intellig beun encouraging speculation ullowed to bring elvil war to everyone is aware that Anglican ence Service or General Sir Ed- along these highly

Lower down come the Special dangerous France.

bishops are appointed on the

At the time of the Comman Branch, the men ward Spears, or both.

In bowlers anti-American lines and, without "Theirs is parody of power." | say-so of the Prime Minister, der Crabbe Blasco, when the and boots, who make the arrests

This it is that another flare- secret services for which

for the M.1.5 men, who them up over security drives home was responsible clearly acted selves have no power of arrest. that it is the Prime Minister without hla authority, Sir The Special Branch is part of

PLAN IS WINE AND DINE

New York.

AMERICA's giant corporations are courting the good will of their shareholders at their annual meetings with free entertainment, food, fashion shows and even champagne balls. The theory is that a wined-and-dined shareholder is a submissive shareholder.

the

FOR U.S. INVESTOR

0

absence from work was noticed on Monday."

It is this sort of repetition of error that makes the security services to suspect

It has been proved time and again that people who are not of entirely British extraction are bigger risks ihan others, yet

George Blake was in a position

himpelf who is responsible for Anthony Eden put up a alone Scotland Yard. security.

wall defence In the House of

Each of the three services where he could, in Lord Chief Exactly how individual is that Commons,

runs its own intelligence branch Justice Parker's words, render responsibility was shown by He bluntly told Mr Gallahell: answerable initially to its own much of this country's eltonta Lord Morrison writing about "You have spoken very freely Ministers. The Ministry of Avin- completely uscless." the Maclean and Burgess case about the secret services and tlun and the Awonild Energy

And yet Blake is of foreign in his recent autoblography. speculated about their control, Authority cach operates extraction.

When ho took over the their organisation and their security service of His own.

All this points to the fact that

Foreign Onice the existence of efficiency. a leakage was known, and Morrison writes:

SECRET

"Highly secret investigations

cuss these matters in the House doce this ramshackle organisa

ibem a full-time supervisor,

And the Defence Ministry runs the security services, and the "I am sorry to have to say the Joint Intelligence Bureau. faceicas, ruumeless EX-971 who that I am not prepared to dis- The question now is, simply, operate the top anes, need ever ..only the Minister con judge on adequately safeguard our It is a job that, because of hin discretion in this particular security? Most of the available all his other inmense responzle. respect is absolute.”

evidence suggesin that is docs bilities, no Prime Minister can Leader in this trend in

Chesapeake and Ohio will They have completed at a level which would be over

That stated the position not

adequately fall. Cheapeake and Ohio Hallroad, tions Be "atmosphere" and then crown the occasion with £15 million convention ball the head of the Foreign Secre- clearly enough, and exactly the

President Kennedy 110s which has also

been playing climate. This year's meeting is its champagne ball. It was at where the 4,500 owners can mest tary and known only to the same situation provalls today. THE POINT appointed one of America's. "Cupid" វា៖ Its shareholders" | being held at a company-owned a similor ball that the three each year,

Prime Minister had begun." Now one of the factors (hai

most briliant brains, Dr James meeting. In a recent com-sort hotel in the mountains of romances began last year.

This year a seven-piece or- There it is clearly shown that is causing peoplo to questionI It is really no defence to say R. Killian, to be chairman of enunication to the company West Virginia.

The railway hiso provides chestra, a fashion show featur an investigation Into niepart. The iden of the' Frime Minister that once the Special Branch the President's Board of Con shareholders, the president

holldapt weekenda for sts hig swim suits, and a quartet of inent presided over by one of continuing to carry this respon- has been tipped off arrests fol- sultanis on Foreign Intelligence

the ringers were used. to brighten the most senfor members of the ability is tho fantastically low with tremendous speed-es Activities three couples who met ut last Special trains wit be pro year and at bargain prices. up the six-hour meeting.

Cabinet can be carried on with- diverse nature of the security happened in the Lonsdale Naval There is a good case for Bri- year's annual meeting have since vided for the shareholders, "and.

company which Baked chicken, upple pie, out his knowledge.

services themasives.

Becrets came.

Jain going one better, and married."

special luncheons feature such has been carefully wooing its and a company-made illen älvs But ta the burden of this There is the curiously named The point at issue le just how appolating a Maltine et intell«. Tho company plans the delicncles 33 out-of-season stockholders is the Brunswick were included in the day's offer: | Particular reponsiblitky one SHAR VIRH Department of Military does li come about that, main ganon, and femerity to mover sil location of its annual meeting strawberries and Southern Pecan Corporation, with interests in Ings.

should property be home by the Intelligenes, that has nothing tively simple routine security, kepants of the problems -- at with an eye to such considora- pie.

the bowling field.

Pilne Mulater, or in li one that whatever to do with the War moksures are not observad?- hone and abroad."

wrote: "It is worthy of note that Southern Pecan pio areholders throughout

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