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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1949.

Calling in at one of Europe's glamour spots for the wind-up of the peak holiday season..

At 9 p.m. they rush for their jewels

DEAUVILLE.

EVE PERRICK cables from DEAUVILLE

N the specially fitted safes of the Denuville big-three hotels -the Normandy, the Golf, and the Royal-are resting at this moment the rubles, diamonds, and pearls of three Indian maharances, a set of antique jade belong- ing to an Egyptian prin- over the three hotels is ing golf every day, have cess, the ten-carat diamond worth something like £250,- been brought into the town solitaire of 011 American 000, but the reason for its due to any special ner- chain-store heiress (not safe custody has nothing to vousness on the part of the Barbara Hutton), the sap- do with the recent jewel population. phire and diamond necklace robberies here. owned by the ex-wife of a Canadian millionaire, and a few odd gems or two.

This load of ice, spread the Aga Khan at his morn-

Nor is the fact that 100 extra police, apart from the two special ones who guard

WHAT'S

GOING ON

BY EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE-

They are part of the sunl precautions taken here annually as Deauvillo starts on its big week-end of the season, the setting- off point for the Grand Prix. And the town rapidly fills up with the world's

men.

Although the

pubile

"I suppose it the master tailors' strike affects Savilo-row we shall automatically bocomo

rich

trans-

'When Britain

are

port services to the Normandy

of luxury living centre adequate, it is better to arrive here in something you own yourself-an aeroplane, a yacht,į or a highly powered car, de- nending on where you are com- ing from.

The gamblers

T is said that FIELD)- Over 70, he is going to Dur-DEAUVILLE

MARSHAL

MONT- ban, where

three one of his

GOMERY and sons has an hotel.

GENERAL JEAN DE

LATTRE DE TASSIGNY,

his principal military sub-

**

He was

*

*

wounded when

а

Carlton in 1940.

ordinate in the Western bomb hit the Union Forces, have not ffe stayed on as manager hop- spoken to each other for Ing the hotel would be reopen- two montha..

And that Montgomery's staff

is now finding it dimcult to get him to sign's letter to da Tas- signy.

New royal home?

cd,

But the Ministry of

Food

(sh section) is still in possen

sion,

'Gay ninety'

must surely be

the only place in the world where the comparatively room, as against the £3 to £5 n diny (without food) hotel guests, are the people who live in yachts,

At nine o'clock each night-

that is when the ladies

Until then it is possible to get a dinner in the elite places

the

a în carie

for the fixed price of £1, plus 15 percent tax. After this you menu at three times the price. All the English here are early

CELEBRATING her nine- must eat from

tieth

THE KING AND QUEEN pald 11 recent visit to enthuslasin Deeside Abergeldie Castle, two miles from Balmoral, with П vlow to extending the lease.

It may become

tinh home

ELIZABETH,

Long in disease,

birthday with great

was

MRS BUCHANAN MERRIMAN, the "Aunt Duchess of Windsor's Bessie," her closest living rela-

diners), +

is in a jam -the British

are the

a race of intellectuals

Do they care

in London for

people 11

to get her out'

the far-off family?

W

is

I

and from

Londen Express Service

by

a Liberal member of Australia's Federal Parliament who grad- uated at Oxford, won the M.C. in New Guinea, and t well known as a journalist—

HENRY GULLETT

B.

C.V.R. Thompson One way

W

only

NEW YORK. TE will see this autumn which political way the American people want to go

Left or Right.

President Truman thinks they will go Left. Congress disagroes.

A by-election chaping up in Now

York, Ammerlen's most papulous and Influential State, will tell Truman and Congress which of them made the best gues

At stake is a seat in the U.S. Senate

Truman's mon; Herbert Leh-

man, many times New York's Governor, entered the fight to- day. It is a strong candidate, and there can be no quibbling about his politics. He was a 100 percent. F.D.R. man.

And he is just as strong for what Conservatives call Tru- Inan's Fair Deal "Socialism,” as he was for what they called Roosevelt's New Deal"Com- munism."

But the Republicans, or Tories, will have just as strong a candidate. It is almost сета tain that John Foster Dulles; appointed by his friend Gover- nor Tom Dewey to finish out the present session in the vacant seat, will agree to fight Lehman.

GOLD parked in transparent

bottles will be sold for Christmas gifts in the US, this year. Each package will contulu 24oza. of unrefined metal, and will cost £25. Shoppers will be advised to buy it for their friends as security against the return of inflation.

On the drbit side, there is Ignorance, doubt, a woeful lack of Empire leadership, and a feeling that the great problems PANDS may soon be called out of the future of our people are of most of New York thea- not being faced or tackled tres, night clubs, and hotels be- honestly in the highest quarters. cause of n row between James Petrillo and his Musicians' and the Variety Artists'

Petrillo complains that a bass fiddler in a Hnelem night club was forced to pay dues to the actors' union just because he spoke a few words Introducing an entertainer.

Got together THESE are not small problems

but they are not Insuper

freed able, we have

them before.

We met them at Ottawa, we sent well-informed

own countries,

Union Union.

TE in Australia and Britain undertakes to pay a To come extent this finds New Zealand will substantial part of the Argen- expression in the millions of Lino meat bull with 5.8 food parcels. It shows, too, in bear almost any sacri- million tons of petrol and petrol our reluctance to adopt even mnice fices which will aid Britain's products. This petrol is nearly our own National Anthem In as Australia's preference to God Save ic their way down to the strong- economic rehabilitation, not wice as much

total consumption,

King. acnti- roums io collect their jewels-only for reasons of the tempo changes.

ment and loyalty, but in

Yet Australia has been told, This feeling. GO vastly with much flourishing of "secret" strengthened during the wars, common self-interest.

documents from Sir Stafford, inds little echo in the bloodless ever, to assert that in the paid for in dollars.

It would be foolish, how that she must restrict her use of and colourless statements from whert

petrol because it has to be the Prime Ministers' con-

TT IS TIME. wrote Mrs Eleanor Dominions today there

Roosevelt ferences, from Dominion Stere delegations. They put their cards

in her dally laries

Chancellors, the table for all to see, and As a member of the family.

the war it has been fighting anything approaching com-

of the human and physical

against Britnia ever since the plete confidence in the poli- we, presumably, are to be paid who have so small a realisation they had power to get in their column, that America called off

for our meat and wool in frozen make-up of the Empire.

The result, tical leadership of

much criticised Boston Tea Party. this sterling funds, which we cannot

as it has been since,

Sald sho: brought

"We have taught Empirea leadership which convert Into things we urgently - We are not primarily

sharing and lightening of the history in such a way that many quite rightly emanates need to develop production in business partners, пог do we burden of depression. Indeed, of our young people adil belleve

our country.

ow our relationship and status it brought a measure of peos- Great Britain is an enemy. We from London.

to the defence of lawyers.

need Great Britain But perity to the participants. Few members of the Atties the

citizen- average British As crisis succeeds crisis

people, and she needs us." have visitedi the Canadian, Welsh or Government

Fijian- and

one panacea follows Dominions. There seems to be finds reflected in the policies of the samo

__Let_us_have_a_conference_in

another we ask ourselves are

atmosphere, even if OBOES from all parts of at home of our, rulers ED no understanding

H

DTO meeting for of problems we really making any pro- the

not with the same aims, today, America population

warmth and Individuality which By all means let

annual convention send their us characterised the reintionship of delegate's to gress; have we a long-term Austria and New Zealand.

I.TOU.N.O., Rochester. But their boss, Jen policy, or are these measures

This great question, expressed our forces during the war,

O.E.E.C. and all the rest of it. Davis, complains that hoboes 11 the blunt and significant

are not what they used to be. recognise that They may dò some good.

Instead of arriving by train, grown up in

let us all reallse mosi of them are Qying in for increasing

But first ап deserves involves the whole

the meeting. speci for the American that the British people are in a

only

the British It is the "sad truth," says economy and a realisation that, jum, and like the rest of the world, we people throughout the Common-hoba Davis, depend for our

wealth can get us out of it. prosperity on vigour, and generosity of the.

And after nine o'clock even-

tive. the Scot- Mrs Merriman was in Eng-ng dress is compulsory for the PRINCESS land at the time of the Abdlen- high stakes gambling of

But

niece, where you can lose £1,000 yet. tion as chaperon to her not

'in round unlucky noney She attended the marriage much

would have to be spent on i France.

**

It was the boyhood home of

in

Olte Casino.

ikt

*k

Sk

She is a renirkable example

rooms,

in

the

We should

the King and his brothers, but of vigour in old age, stays up watch the people arrive Is Uke merely designed to postpone terms whleh many of us feel it there has also

The atmosphere outside the entrance there every night as Crowds of sightseers wait to

film premiere in Leicester. the day when we must admit

failure and recast our whole problem of the dispersal of the But there are no fim stars in conception of the Empire population and industry of the Deauville now. The Grand as we have been brought British people in the United Prix brings the solid, tangible up to believe in it?

Kingdom.

socialn

Square.

hns belonged to the Gurdon late at night, has tony family since 1500. Present activities, never seems to show owner: Mr Bertram Gordion, of fatigue, and her mind is Somerset. The Royal Family and appreciative.

has held the lease toria's_day...

since Vic-

State seat

Wilson swings

clear

MR HAROLD WILSON Joined the Hampstead Golf DELIVERED to Calcot Club some time ago, but he has Place. Reading, home of played few games there. blind BIR FELIX POLE, ↑ mahogany chair.

wealth-and-not-sainried-actres

and actresses, however much their weekly pay cheque mey be.

Janu Wyman and Hody He is undergolog Intensive Lainurr are two who have looked tuition from Fulwell profes-in recently.

who sional W. J. "Bill" Cox,

years

He used it during the he was general manager of the says it will be six months be- fore the President of the Board of Trade is really ready to play.

Great Western Railway.

When he heard that the Rall way Executive was replacing old furniture at Paddington he wrote asking whether he could purchase the chair.

*

It had a

*

**

fetime of

memorica for him.

And it was already 50 years old when he first sat in kin 1921

GW.R.'s general manager.

*

**

*

To meet

these crises, Prime Ministers meet in

Australia

ittle of the

American people. Population

London. What they discuss. DOES the Attice Government, to?"

example, realise

be

for

15 war years.

TC-

Trade

and her

iD

that most of the

boys jobs.

are now

then

in conventional

CIGARETTES MORE you! Inter-ever

were smoked by Organisation. Americans in the financial year Organisation;[

ended June 30. The year's European

sales, published by the Indus- try, totalled 300,000 million, an increase of three percent.

London Express Serulce)

To remind What does all this add up

On the credit side, there national that is loyalty, affection, mutual self- United Nations But after this vast country will inevitably Interest, and desire to work Organisation of no one knows.

Alled and filled due

quickly? together as we did during the Economic Co-operation. consideration they

to decide is The question Inevitably return home whether Australia is to be an The mannequins with far from reassuring Asiatic, Europein, or a British

with country. NOW that Rosie Dolly has

Kone back to Cannes, bleak announcements in the send us people heiress Mrs Donahue, Mme. best Cripps tradition of Lake those from elsewhere who Henri Citroen, the Comtesse de further "necessary restric- Chavagnoe,. (sometime hostess to tions."

the Ditke and Duchess of

and usually nows,

the

Windsor), Mrs Eric Loder are

It is no business of the

Mr Wilson has spent the last 12 leasons just swinging club, without a ball.

vying for the title of the best-

not If Britain does

then we must

or

any

are prepared to come.

Ilow, in the long run, would an Australia of mixed nationall- but one great nation. ties, a owing no ues of blood or senti- He is bearing up under the dressed woman. But this honour Dominions to criticise any ment to Great Britain suit the

one of a group particular Government or British people? happy strain, but his garden is suf-belongs to any

foring.

of working girls here.

party in the United King On the other hand, in Britain Korda's scholars

They are models from the big dom, but today there is a itself are there not now more you can decently Paris dress houses showing growing feeling that there feed?

people than

Will Socialisin, or free thir now. collections twice is not sufficient appreciation enterprise,

other youngest THERE WILL BE no more day in the

£600 Korda

£10-a-head night of the dificulties and poten- politico-economic system enable scholarships spot, the Ambassadors. by which there was an inter-

to overcome The mannequins, wearing the tinis of the Dominions in you Western Region had the change of French and British

most lavish of evening gowns the mind of the British

mental truth? chair polished, sold it to Sir undergraduates between the and fur wraps, parade smilingly Government.

To many of us the continua- Felix for £10, fixed by valua. two countries.

tion of inadequate rations secmis the applause of the customers, The scheme

proof that it will not. wag never unaware of the fact that, out- In that you have an essential publicly announced. "It was a side, the Casino's doormen are difference between nationalism- post-war iden of mine," says pouring down curses upon their Uon and private trading.

ALEXANDER KORDA.Innocent heads, for the latest "Half a dozen British under-evening dresses they are dis- graduates went to the

playing are mainly short ones Ser- bonne, the samo number of French came here.

tion.

.

With the railways nationalls ed the chair had become public property, and could not be zade a gift, as It would cer- tainly have been under private enterprise.

SIR

"The winding-up has nothing to do with the film slump."

In 1944 Korda gave £5,000

Д

this funda-

Growing doubt In fact, is not Britain's al-

ternative as inevitable as ours- that population must decrease,

un-

MEMORIES persist of an either volunt wily by migration

earlier, perhaps guarded, statement by a pro.

un or through economie compul-

minent Socialist Minister to

to It seems

115 that the attitudo of Eome British PERSONAL POINTS: Deau-the effect that the destruc-

lenders who urge the British ville's two wealthiest figures tion of the Empire was people to

home stay in the the Aga Khan and American essential to the

bath ochlove islands-lustrates publisher Ralph Strassburger- ment of Socialism.

willingness to see the necessities are the least hvish spenders in

of our sitution and misunder- With sauce

the Casino. Neither of them

There is an increasing standing of the essential make- to Oxford University, so that a gambles on the tables; neither doubt as to the wisdom of up of-the Commonwealth. MUSSOLINI'S barber, gar- commission could visit the U.S. of them drinks. Each time they our being permanently tied There seems to be an idea dener, buller.. have all and study films and drama.

make a table reservation at tho

that, in leaving Sussex for Now Crippsian economy South night spols the head weiter written their memoirs of

Walcs, the migrant writes "Yoghouri"

Ara which pays so little heed to abandons something more than Duce.

Khan's name, "Lemonade" after our own basic requirements, his homeland; that he leaves, Now comca another book stairs. MANIA from below

THE TRANSLATION | Strassburger's, to remind his

in fact, his very allegiance, his- DARDELLA, his cook, is writing burenus of the Control staff not to serve wine...........

For example, in Australia we loyally, and his race. But it is Mussolini Commission for Germany of blography

are short of petrol The Aga Khan's remark making m.chinery,

and road- not so. as seen through the kitchen- busy with an increasing

Wo must written by Germans to the Maharajah of Rajpipla; of lettern

"Every day my to members of

to disperse doctor finds country, and they are available its wealth, its people, and its Royal the

"comething else wrong with me. only from dollar sources, Family.

enterprise among its own people Mostly they are appeals for but I will live to be weighed in al, and are referred to rolevant platinum yet.".

b:yond the seas, and our leaders fells us should recognise it. C.C.G. departments..

A

hatch.

..

the

the

Her reason: She needs money,' for although she is sald

to be an excellent cook po ono

will employ her.

Carlton exit

pre-war hoteliers 10

'Dear Queen..

A woman wrote fo

recovery et a

k

蠱

·

are

flood

to

have these things to develop our a like opportunity

No other nation in history has

Sir Stafford Crippa ....Princess Rita, wearing the that we must reduce our dollar same culot, every day-she is expendituro and do without making

Very well, then we shall up-them. pearances since her husband have to do so.

more

public

QUEEN announced the expected bɔby--- But it is difficult for us to aco

Empiro pride

It would be wrong to give any picture of Imperial relations

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MARY acking her help in the fred swagger coat over blup the necessity for it whin the from this end without more THE BRITISH GENERAL Electric Co., Ltd.

nactum, elcanar, Scans in the morning, navy British Government agrees to than touching on the admira- THE LAST of the great missing since 1945, when her blus moternity two-plece in the buy bref, mutton, and lamb tion and affcellon which we feel of the United higher than she pays for, Aus- Kingdom end the pride'wo fool tralian meat.

In our association with them.

ro house was a British Army bit-afternoon, black full-skirted from the Argentine at prices for the people

tirlag: "GELARDE; now the sole. let. resident of what used to be the Carlton Hotel, Haymarket.

dinner dress at night....

--[London Express Servicej

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Queen's Bldg.

Chator Road.

Hong Kong.

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