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End of the line
for the plotters' special
By
RICHARD KILIAN
IN
Paris.
a grimy Paris rail- way station a fantas-
tic romance ended at 8.25 pm precisely on May 27.
At that moment a shrill whistle announced the last journey of the fabled Orient Express,
Atur 78 years of steady run- nue in the world of fact and Action, the Orient Express as we knew it was no more,
A harsh, unromantic French
Railways offlin told
ADUL
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1801.
TWO VIEWS ON A QUESTION VITAL TO ́ ́US ALL AB
KENNEDY AND KRUSHCHEV PREFARE TO MEET
(MCKS
the Comic
Cummings
The Communism
will win M'K.
"Long-I'm East-West Trade!
**If only thore wore as many Kennedys hore as there are Krushchevs, negotiation might be easier"
Will they talk sense
The train will continue querat ONCE more we are offered a Sum-
ing but only to Vienma.”
Vienna, Indeed! He the punt completely.
missed
It was the "Orient" that made
this Train so special... the Balkans and Turkey which gove It glamour and mystery exptic favour.
This was the train on which
James Bond worked. The train
which gave Graham Greene the tainment." The train which
perfect setting for ny "Enter-
fenced in neatly an Agathu. Christie murder plot.
WAE
For every boy, including my- self. the Orient Express
symbol of the unknown world of intrigue.
the
The very umes en route-
Paris. Strasbourg. Munich,
Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest- are full of romance.
the Orient Express as a luxury train; air travel and the iron Curtain,
mit conference. And a very dif- ferent one from the inflated affair at Paris twelve months ago which was pricked by the U-2.
This time President Kennedy and Mr Khrushchev are to meet on their own, with no bevy of attendant allies and no exaggerated hopes. They will explore each other's minds. will they find there?
to
a
Contrary
widespread belief, they will not find
sealed antagonism over deep Indo-China and the Far East, Events there are almost 0% embarrassing to Mr Khrushchev
w
es to President Kennedy.
Gone are the ever existed)
days (if they when the
What
about Berlin
at last?
by A.J.P. TAYLOR
Russiany regarded every ad- grounds
what
Who is going to complain? Certainly no sano Parton in Great Britain should do 50. No
for hoping that the vancy of Communism as auto- deadlock may be broken, Cuba The question of East Germany Two things have helped killmatically a gain for themselvca, has changed decisively the very can be settled by a stroke of the
Now they look on Com- Lasis of American policy.
pen. Berlin presents a more munist China with increas-
For
Was President burning problem. Mr Khrash lug apprehension, and recognise Kennedy's attitude in regard to
chey han made it clear that the the wisdom of the late Cuba?
Simply this: That the Will raise this question in the lamented Stolin in preferring a
United States cannot tolerate course of the summer. victory for Chiang Kai-shek.
hostile country so near its duri shores.
The first Orient Express, in 1883, ploneered the Idea of crossing Europe by rall and epting and sleeping in comfort.
They have proposed repeated- ly that West Berlin should be made A neutral Free City, delaclied from their bloc as from ours.
I could even be administered
United Nations, by the experiment kely to be a good
Fuccessful than deal more
the UNO effort in the Congo.
Mysterious: where is Bourguiba's wife?
EVEN TUNISIAN EMBASSIES ARE CONTRADICTING EACH OTHER
Paris Koskikler
Paris.
HAVE been trying in vain to pierce a mystery in connection with Pre-
sident Bourguiba's State visit to London.
The mystery concerns the Tunisian Head of State's French wife. Apparently she is not in London with him.
The
tried
Brilish Ambassador In Tunis, Mr Anthony Lambert, In vain for two weeks prior to the visit to find out if she would be accompanying her husband to London.
Not presented
When ther Queen Mother visited Tunis three weeks ago the Tunisian First Lady Was never presented to her.
The French Press reports the
The name she has now taken means "mako Mounds. It yourself useful."
INCIDENTAL
GENCE:
large indigenous European popu- lation. Du Gaulle is now on the
D task point of accomplishing worthy of a Lincoln and it is INTELL! to be hoped he does not suffor
the same fate.
The news that Jean Paul Sartre, who is Sagan has entered a clinle her Francoiso writing the script for the publisher has vouchsafed the film vonion of the life of startling information that for a has been on a Sigmund Freud, ends his long time she story on a dramatic note- dlet-has caused surprise hare time she has Froud being triumphantly been leading a remarkably quiet acclaimed after a lectura on kie. infantile sexuality.
End of epoch
The peace French
talks
open
which the
In Evian with
Nationalist
YC the
because for some
In fact, the nervous break- down which has taken hor to a clinic has been provoked by a great personal tragedy. A close friend of hers, a talented photo- grapher, comnaitled suleide four weeks ago.
A
---London Express Estul€),
POCKET CARTOON
What is wrong with the idea presence of Mme. Bourguiba in in Puris confirms 1. The one wants to fight a war for the West Berlin as a Free City? London, The Tunisian Embassy This solution would free us from reuniŋcation of Germany.
Tunisian Embassy No
in London, No an impossible responsibility. one in his senses wants to keep would remove, at a blow, most however, has her in Washington British forces in Germany at of the
from Contral staying with her sug, who is the tension to the taxpayer Europe, It would strengthen Tunisian Ambassador there. vast expense and grave detriment to our enormously the prospects for A check carried out on my the Algerian balance of trade,
Quote of the week: world peace.
behalf with the Foreign Office bels will mark not only
end of a beginning of the But it demands the recogni- and
has Buckingham Palace
Paris columnist: "The tion of Eastern Germany as a produced the following intrigu seven-year-old Algerian rebel- Western Alliance is now in
Ilon but also the end of an prelimiary. Once that Is Ing replyThe Foreign Offer:
completo disarray. The epoch. rettled, everything else falls into "Apparently Mme. Bourguiba De Gaulle is determined to French have no army and the place. Enstern Germany will not with her husband." Bucking- give Algeria Independence even British no Sceral Service?"" accept the Soviet line. It will ham Palace: "There
in nothing it means forcing independ- gladly pay the price of leaving to show she is on the visit." West Berlin. alone,
What gives? There cannot be ence on it by a total French This solution Is the best for two or more Mme. Bourguibas. evacuation of the country.
Tunisia is a He hopes in the process of It is also the best for the Because although us.
however, to save Bourguiba, a negotiation, Germans, though many of thein Moslem country.
man of completely Western out everyone from the consequences refuse to admit it.
folly the French Germany, East and West, will look, made polygamy illegal in of their own
nation, the army, the Moslem be a cease to
stumbling block 1950.
He also made divorce impos- rebels and finally the European For position between the Great Powers. Tin
without the consent of settlers themselves. which is untenable in theory Germans will be free to prosper
He will do that by bluntly and practice. The Western undisturbed, which
is what the both parties. the pietura, Here they are on the facts of life.
troops in Berlin could
Mathilde Bourguiba is 72, 14 posing the question to the rebels be sensible ones among them wont years older than her husband, do they want to take over policy
apites to arrested by a corporal's guard to do.
as a going concern whom she married in 1920 when Algeria Cuba applies just as much of Soviet police. Indeed, West elsewhere.
she was the widow of a French which involves association with Germany is wearer Berlin can be made unworkable
army officer and he a law France or do they wont to in- to
is Russia as Cuba to merely by economile pressure.
atudent in. Paris. Washington, and 15
for mere formidable danger. Germany has twice devastated Russia this century. What harm could even the most inplacably Communist Cuba do to tho United States?
mfort Vital point
Those first six years were real adventure on rails,
Travellers had to navigate perilous open catwalks between Card.
Ferries
This adventurous Orient Ex- press was the brain-child of a Belgian with the unromantie bame George Nagelmackers,
He created the Orient Express for his growing company called Wagons-Lite,
In those 'eighties passengers got off the Orient Express at
The tiny Danube town of
Glorglu and look ferrybonts across the river to Rouichouk in Bulgaria.
From there a train took them
Black Sea
port where
a
to another buat took them to Constantinople.
But by 1800 Paris and Con- stantinople were connected and
It took 67hrs. 35min, to make the transcontinental journey.
Soun other versions of the Orient Express came into being, but none captured the imagina- tion like the original.
Tinderbox
The Orient Express soon be- came the vehicle for cloak-and- dagger fiction.
The Belican tinderbox with crumbling royal familles and riting people, and plots and assassinations which helped plunge us into the First World Wor helped to create this repu- tation.
To create the great train Nakeimackers had to get the agreement of the private rail- way lines of Eastern France. Alsace-Lorraine, the Grand Duchy of Baden, the kingdom of Wuttemberg, the kingdom of Bavaria, the State of Austria. and the royal railway of Rumani,
Now the Communist States behind the Iron Curtain, with their bureaucracy, vian restric tions, and frontler delaya, have driven travellers elsewhere and helped to kill this splendid adventure story,
-{London Express Service),
Mr Khrushchev, like President Kennedy, would like to keep the Far East quiet and out of
Before long. common ground. we may even ୯୯ them in alliance.
They will be on equally com. mon ground in acknowledging that war between their two countries has
become impossi-
bie. They both know that it would destroy civilisation and perhaps mankind,
But as they probe they will discover one vital poini of difference: Germany,
the question which has world affairs since the begin- ning of the contury.
shaped
The Americans claim to want
We may condemn this polley ur praise it.
In any
case it exists. I breaks with abstract a frank principle and asserts realism. For ยม first ilme
American policy
walch
A
Every_right
a united Germany. They refuse to take precautions against
We shall be in terrible diff- culties if we let things drift. We shall be faced with a bitter choice between humiliation and provocative action.
For what?
Soviet Russla has every right Berlin
the uniled Germany, Once
recognise thir, on
a
we
Useless
No threat
More than this, recognition ol Eastern Gernuuny and security for West Berlin open the door tu
White-haired
herit chaos?
The best cards are now mostly In de Gaulle's hands including this particular trump: it will require almost as many French rebels in troops to install the power as it does now to fight them.
Dangerous?
Docs this mean that Wu should abandon the inhabitants German unity in the only form
She's stout, spectacled, white of West Berlin unconditionally, in which it is tolerable to others.haired. She was a devoted wife after protecting and entourag- The three States can form 4 to Bourguiba during his years German confederation with ing them for so long?
of exite and struggle for Tuni- By na means. On the every independence except the slan independence. The Bour contrary, we can
West Independnce lo threaten others, give
living apart gulbas have been
With Algerian Indepondence Here is a bold, constructive for the past few years, greater security once
the
French do- process of we recognise Eastern Germany. Dolloy whleh President Recently Bourguiba has been
out almost West Berlin in useless in it- Kennedy can put forward trying to persuade his wife to colonization carried
will be self.
when he meets Mr It has been kept going the Cuba only as
Khrush live aboad. The project, how- entirely by de Gaulle chev. symbolte gesture to-
It is a policy which ever, has met with
the stiff completed and France, which The Russions want a divided basis, the problem of Germany words a united Germany. We meets every reasonable opposition
of their son, Hobib entered the docolonisation stakes
much later than Britain, Germany. Thoy are impatient can
Soviet have no interest there, only a
Russian axloty.
Bourguiba, Jnr. with West Berlin as a hostile Russia and the United States. point of honour: our repeated President Kennedy can then It was he who persuaded his have completed the course lang outpost, breeding-place-as Eastern Germany exists. Is pledge that West Berlin should ask comelling in return.
It is mother to end her insecure before Britain. the Blake affair taught us for existence is of vital importance not be absorbed into the Cont- that Mr Khrushchev should stop status in the country by adopt- No other country in the world
Advanced mutual spyin
for the Russians. The Ameri- munket East.
merely talking about peace and ing the Moslem faith. This she has yet
beyond the The two outlooks scum irre cuns need deny its existence no
The Russians are prepared should instead do something to has now done and it involved frat tentative moves to give in- concilable. Yet there are good longer.
to meet this point of honour. help I forward.
her taking an Arab name. dependence' to a colony with a
to consider any change in
position of West Berlin.
cense
to divide
will
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