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THE CHINA MAIL,

MONDAY, JULY 8, 1961.

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COUNTRY THEY LIKE

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BUS STOP

PERMATA

Cummings

**D'you know, Bill? I'm kolidaying in Italy this year-had a sudden urge to hear a little English spoken again"

THE SILENT CRUSADER

AMONG the men

Paris.

of enormous wealth who operate from Paris there are a few whose influence on events is considerable but who are virtually unknown to the general public.

BANKER

ANSLEY

LOSES

PATIENCE WITH A

A daughter comes out, another BRITAIN ON THE BRINK

a horse wins a

daughter elopes, racing classic-and their names appear fleetingly in the newspapers. But of their weight in world affairs little is known outside a restricted circle.

SAM WHITE'S PARIS NEWSLETTER

world, i

the

interests in Israel, whose future unele of Ansley's ran the bank's Nice from where he made his prospects he considers uncertain. Banetal interests irt France triumphal entry into Paris In any case. with his invest before the war. He died during next day. Among the most important mends in the Arab of these blurred 1gures is 65- would be difficult for

him to the Occupation. year-old George Ausley, who Invest in Israel. By contrast, he heads the family bank of Henry has recently begun investing in Ansbacker and Company in the Spain, feeling that the Spanish City of London.

future is bright.

THE MARKET

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Ansley has his residence Dublin but stays here a great part of the year with his second wife, a Frenchwoman, emal fal off the toile.

iti

At the moment Ansley's role

A daughter of his married a scion of the French aristocracy, a de Bois Rouvrey. There was a Anancial dispute between the two families after the war with the result that they are on ex- cellent feading terms.

in world affairs deserves special A HIS INTERESTS in He has long been a

fervent but unpublicised cru-

matter

sude for Britain's entry into of protocol

The Common Market. In "fact a

THERE is

no Foreign Office in the world in-

Here in France his interests great deal of his Anancial plan- have interlocked with such sing is geared to the assump- Important French banks as the tin that Britain will eventual- Bank of Indo-China and they get into it. He is becounting! Rivand Bank "f the famous ineringly inpatient at the cluding even ours which is de Beaumut family.

mora protocol minded than the French.

delay.

He is the chief administrator Ansley is in a position to and chier shareholder f an wield Ereat influence with his Importan French financial and views. Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick.

It is therefore always a great building trast which has the former head of the Foreign joy to catch it out in moments interests in France and North Oflee, Africa.

financial

Problem over the empties

A

London Express Bervion.

provision merchants

and have the whisky put under the gen- eral head of groceries,

A shared

Sahara

I

is foolish to be over- pessimistic regarding

the break-up of the praco talks between the French

and the Algerian robols.

Alarming fact:

We are

the

hardest-to-wake nation in the world

By DAVID ASH

PERHAPS we shall never know why the alarm watch in Mr Gilbert Mitchison's waistcoat pocket disturbed the already erratic progress

of the Finance Bill in the House of Commons committee the other day. When I asked him he replied, a little huffily: "You can jolly well go on wondering!"

Some M.Ps had rather cyni-

coily supposed that the honour-members yawned and trooped able and learned (Mr Mitchison off home. And none of then is a Q.C.) member for Ketter- ing might have set his alarm watch for 9.20 pm in case the debate bored him to sleep.

If this were the case, I ara advised, then the shril alarm bell at 9.20 was probably not unparliamentary.

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The

introduced in 1335.

first, alarm clock was It had no chuckled, or even remarked dial and rang every hour. You hind to check which hour it about the alarm clock.

was with the sundial, it the sun whs out.

I knew an elderly country parson who felt bound to con-

une his predecessor's practice Now more than 4,250,000 of plucing an elegant brass

alarm clocks are made hero Victorian

ventually. You сал alarm clock on his

buy big electronle alarms or alarma pulpit.

with an adjustable volume like No ruling was given on the He would set it at 11.24 for mine. matter and the House merely mating and 7.24 for evensong,

I just can't stand the shock dissolved, they say, Into so that his sermon would not of mine. It is a kafldly bullt laughter.

-be inordinately long and

the mode!

and when I put it at Since reading about this in- sidesmen and choir would wake "Saft" the resultant rattle la cident I have made excursions P

for the offertory enough to rouse the dead. If and put in a bit of research hyun.

1 put it at "Loud" I'm afraid eventually got on his the are brigade would turn up. nerves and he dispensed with

The craze for streamlining 11.

has affected alarm clocks too. "I de resent this intinna Travelling types will pay £7 bulation just when I am about 7 for neat little lightweight

inlo Valarums" - as peare called them.

Shaker-

THE MEMBER

in Rime

to make a particularly salient ones which zip up easily in a point," he said, the last time I leather case. rang.

THE PARKER

gas

I have found that our annual purchase of 5,000,000 alarm

"Compared with what I was clocks makes us the hardest going to say, it is quote St to-wake nation in the world.

Paul in his First Epistle to the The Immediate issue on which No other nation bugs that Corinthians-'as sounding brass, the talks broke up for fler time number per sleepy head of popu- or a tinkling cymbal.**

Some people ke them as being was brilliantly chosen by intlon.

At school an alarm clock used bijou ornaments for the mantel- the French and preceded by And I don't see why "this fo go off in our chemistry piece ones got up to look lita

Regency some equally brillant diplomatic internal instrument" (is Mr master's desk whenever It was paint palettes, work.

Gerald Nabarro called

It) time for him to take his anti- Janips, stage-coach lanterns and The issue was the Sabers, or should be unparitamentary. billousness pill.

church steeples (Gothic or rather not the Sahara or even

A friend of mine distinctly I have known alarm clocks

Wren). Sahara petrol, at the mightly tentembers visiting the House to be used very effectively.

of Commons when a few bored agalast long-winded rich deposits of natural gas now

bores at were sit annual meetings and dinners, beginning to be discovered there, committee members

With singular naively

the ing late one night a few years rebels claimed sovereignty over go. the Sahara. What they appar- Half of them were slumped ently did not know at the time | on the benches, apparently was that their claim would be usteep, us a dour compalgner on and on about a opposed not so much by the droned French us by five other African Drainage Bill. states including Tunisia, Morocco and even the fellow-travelling Mali,

At this point the French {Fasttk a suspension of the FRIEND who recently talks to provide a period for

reflection." visited the Algerian

The perlod for reflection rebel delegation for the should convince the rebels that peace talks with the French the best they can hope for is a -now suspended-at their seventh share in the exploitation of Sahara, the French them- Lake Geneva villa discussed

selves being content with just frankly with them a de this part for themselves. licate problem that is facing them.

It is the age-old one of what to do with the empties,

The villa belongs to the Emir of Qatar who in the spirit of

London Express Service).

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A p the chairman, who was breathing heavily with his eyes closed, started and blinked

clock went

off

JS

an alarm under his chair.

THE PARSON

THE OFFICE

Or the ones with farmyard scenes and gnomes painted on the faces. The most tasteful alarms, however, are usually expected to be rather plain with round dials. Often with the bells and hammers outside, on the top.

Alarm watches like Mr

You can also get a parking Mitchison's are more rare. But alarm, a tiny gadget to be at- 71-year-old Lord Harris Mel- tached to your keychair. It mont-who carries a watch in will his breast pocket, two

buzz when your six- waistcoat,

in his penn'orth of parking ig up. and two in his when you need to ring the wife, trouser fob pockets-has one or af opening or any other

time.

with very loud alarm.

"It is useful at work in my There was once a German City office, to remind me of who slept through the loudest appointments,' he told me. alarm. So he devised a gun- "Some people And it a little surprising.

But without any fuss he stopped the alarm, stood up and also have a watch which said: "Gentlemen, the touse chimes the quarter hours and stands adjourned."

one which gives the exact date of the

The man with the Drainage and year and phases Bill stopped droning. The hon. moon."

HOOKED!

JUST as the ancient

a

Arab hospitality not only ro fuses to charge for the villa but is on the board of of stress.

Insists on paying for everything. directors of his London bank.

Egyptians, Romans, The Emir, like all good Mus- and Greeks did centuries with In addition he is the chair. He has close friendships

Take for example the recent lins, is of course supposed to man of other French

many elder statesinen

of the State Visit to Paris of the Pre- frown on drink. The Algerian ago, many modern Bri- houses and a member of the dors in Paris have always been

Tory Party, British Ambasse gident of the Ivory Coust, rebel delegates are also presum-tons went down to board of an important French shipping company,

close friends of his

M. Houphouet-Boigny.

ed to be good Muslims who do mysterious (and incur- Ansley himself is a smail, On the eve of the president's not touch the stuff,

able) disease at dawn bald, fidgety man.

Sinte Visit the Foreign Office However, they happen to be the other day. discovered to its horror that he fond of relaxing after the day's He has two daughters by his had quietly arrived in Paris four work with a glass of whisky. His interests are now world- frst marriage, one of whom wide and there is virtually no recently eloped to Italy with a days earlier. In short, he was in country in the world outside the Portuguese | painter and Was Paris when his Stale Visit was

He recently opened bank in Switzerland with French and

Swiss banking participation.

Monocled and

IN THE EARLY

MORNING MIST

by

Donald Seaman

the lushness of East Angila

powder contraption which blew him out of bed at the appro- priate hour.

Guy Fawkes planned a simi- lor Idea for the Houses of Parliament.

-(London Express Service).

On that glorious day I caught

It is arguable, but most of them will agree that there was The problem is how to pre-u touch of gentle madness about vent the itemised necounts of it all.

to hard to get out of bed rushed four pike, the smallest 11 lb. their bills betag seni to the Long before the sun came up the lanes of the West Country, into the garden and began to Eintr.

I remember that I fell in the they began to show the first they woke abnormally early and dig frantically for worms. wafer and symptoms.

nestly drowned “as In homes through at once began to behave very

Then they set off on foot, by we landed the fourth, and the out the country. from the smoky oddly indeed. Midlands to London itself, from

bicycle. and {21 nonster biggest, a dog-toothed glant of

nearly 17b.

Iron Curtalu in which he does mute a ward of court for a time, about to commence. not have investments.

moustached The problem was suived by Probably the only country in Ansley sometimes has the air of M. Houphouet-Boigny being My friend suggested that they which be shares no financial an English country squire. An persuaded to catch a plane to should have a lolk with their

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Men who most days find it iedravan of cars on a nation-

wide exodus to find the nearest

"But, Daddy-why on earth didn't someone tell those generals they were fighting the wrong people?”

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stretch of water, be it lake, river, <una), or reservoir to celebrate the start of another coarse nahing season,

But I know a man who is 70, who became so excited when he caught his

carpit

weighed only 3lb.--that he had a minor heart attack. That was

I quit my warm bed to job four years ago, He Wnd oft them and before you could blow carly to try for another carpl

a six o'clock hooter I had two

Coarse fishing has never been

fat bream in the net from my so popular. favourite 40-nero lake in the heart of Kent,

Any age

Chambers's Encyclopaedia says thin sport is "particularly for the poor man." Maybe. But Just look at what they spend.

Anything from £3 to £10 for a rod. (Most have two or three "Coarse" fishing an ugly rods), Up to £12.175. 6d. for a description for our most popular reel (of which roughly one- sport is described in Chambers' seventh goes to the Government Encyclopaedia as "Angling for in tax). From three such fresh-water fish as are not shillings for a spinner, which is included in the sulmon family: a metal ultation of for example, roach, perch, Bike, fish, sixpence a time for a hook omall chub, tench, and ecle.

The

to six

popularity of the sport, particu- tied to nylon, about Is. Od. for a larly for the

metal trace (which Door man,

you the on increases yearly...

the end of your line in case the the pike tries to bite through), four

The season begins in

South of England each June 16 Pence and more for each ledger, and Insts nine months. tods which is just a heavy weight and lines are put away from designed to carry your bait far March to June, while the dish out into deep water. spawn and take their frat Admittedly this is small try faltering fin-swims to manhood, compared with the buge BUK How does a mats firat succumb game fishermen spend in their .to.this June madness?

quest for the lordly Balmon and trout

Exciting

I went down with it at the age of suven, and I am happy to any I have never recovered,

Mr Harold Bridges, of Pre- ton, has just pald €20,750 for the tight to fish one and a quarter milca of single bank water on the River Lune, which slows through Westmorland and

I was flating on the Norfolk Lancashire to the Irish Hes. Bronda using a philling roo. That works out at...hearly- and with my total equipment AD 10s. a yard, a record pries worth perhaps half a crown, for British fishingi