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ONDON'S most select and officially pampered guests-you know them by the black and white CD which gives distinction and privilege to their cars have twice been challenged re- cently.

Once, in a report that the Govorn ment is considering a plan to confine Iron Curtain diplomats to a 30-mile ring around London's Court of St James's.

And, again, in a question in the House of Commons. This suggested that since London's CD cars had increas- ed from 294 in 1939 to 780 by last year, the whole question of privilege needed looking into.

Who are the 780, what do they get out of their pri- vileges, and what is life like inside this exclusive circle?

by

CD

GEORGE BILAINKIN

Author and correspondent among the Diplomatic Corps In London....

Bearded, splendidly robed in Jong flowing silks, Saudi- Arabia's Sheik Hadz Wahba has

" distinction for u an unusupi diplomat. He was sentenced to prison by the deputies of King Cearce V. in the Kalser war and was decorated at Buckinghar Palace by King; George VI, with the K.C.V.O.

The most striking contrast in) neighbours? Near the Russians) Is the home of Mme. Веле Marripi, the much-publleised French Ambassadress. Her adventures in fashion and davish entertaining give more than one this compare with woman's share of gaiety and the diplomatic missions of brilliance 10 the diplomatic the U.S.A., in their "littlo Ameri- colony.

How does

ca" in Grosvenor-square?

The

United States has about 200 on

the official list entitled to full Medals,

diplomatic favours.

stars...

dominate

C. V. R. Thompson

Bill

on tour

Garuer finds oil very slippery

SNYDER, Texas. Serfulints of yours in Eng anʼ1,

AFTER & night in this and we will be where England

boom town I could of lo."

courao tell all the usual

stories about men who win Macting

ÆR MCLAUGHLIN is certainly

sudden wealth.

In the five hours I spent with him, I heard bim

Make arrangements to build Snyder a country club, provide

But in Snyder, the Texas vil Inge avhich of turned into city nimost overnight, I was more Interested in two of its citizens who did not tell me the nn arena large enough for Joe umial stories.

Loula, to put on a fight, give a trophy for the best calf raised by a teenager, and endow A foundation 40 teach young Mexican labourers how to farm for themselves.

C. T. McLaughlin was one of them. He began this boom by striking oil on his ranch, The Diamond M,

And the first unusual fact in

Mr McLaughlin's story is that he there was anything unusual

did not particularly want to strike oit.

FIRST I did not think ·

about the other Snyder citizen, except that he was 01. At 50 he was already com- fortably off from

I carller

Was introduced 10 Bill adventures in the oilfields, and Garner at a street corner. They had settled down to raise cattle told me he is n cousin of the "for fun.".

man F.D. 1. chose as his first vice-president..

But he let an oil company persuade him to drill.

23/11 was staring out at the traffic with a distant look in his

SUI watery eyes.

looking ODAY, there are 27 oil wells head of him, he said: "In me, on his rouch and not a sir, you sce the unhappiest single row.

person in all Scurry County."

I found Mr McLaughlin, wear-

ing ranch clothes in his office, as LIE WENT ON in a monotone: worried as any magnate, But I "For 75 years me and the again he was unusual in that he old woman had that farm. Was worried not about how Every year

worked like much money to make, but about what to do with It.

"I am a rich man," he confed "and ft's time for us rich men in

We

heck, planted a little cotton and a little corn, raised a few boga and a cow or two,

"And we

had a little billy America to get some sense. It's market garden. Never made no good just hanging on to our much, but enough to live on. monicy,"

and put by a dime or two.

HE ADDED: "We've got to do some good with it. That's the only way to keep our way of life.

"We've gol to help the boys who come out of the alleys to get somewhere.

A week before this boom we

duckded to retire and sell out.”

said, "you are unhappy because

I knew-the-real-"And so,”-I··

you lost a fertune."

"Hell, no," replied Bill, look- ing straight at me now. "I am the unhapplest man in Seurry "If we don't they'll all become County because I nin't

Kot a long deirea radicals like those damn thing to do."

Have you

M

heard of

a Sheelanagig?

By JAMES KITCHEN

The

heavy overhanging

formed the eyes

by knobs in relief in the middle of

MOST people have heard IVE of Leprechauns at brows, some time or other, but how many people have heard of

Sheelanngig?

deep hollows, the short noses and very long upper lips--some of them, suggests Professor R. The total number employed in HOSE, then, are some of the

A. S. MacAlister, the famous people--medalled, ribbonca,

Of all the strange archaeolo- Irish the U.S. embassy is nearer 1,000,

archaeologist, in this all entitled to limited privileges. and sterred-who

Ands made in Ireland respect present a curious anti- Many of these Americans are corps of 6 ambassadors, minis-gical

centuries elpation of the stage-Irish face Since the Russians are

working here for the U.S. armed ters and high commissioners in during the past tow

re- of the English "comic" papers. The lounge-roofed by 63 im- forces and most closely concerned by nosing glass panels-leads to the sidegations.

the Marshall ald London, who in the news pages one is stranger than the

sculptures and cartoons of about a century appear to step from a succession markable series of

dscovered In the course of re- go. The very prominent check- the threatened cut in pri- dy study of Ambassador

of flawlessly served courses in pale work being done on White bones and chin, all differentiate vileges, let us examine the Georgi Zarobin, a wide-chested

Island, in Lech Erne.

these Agures from anything that They have taken to parking sne dining room to another. headquarters of Stalin's men man, tall, with thick eyebrow!

is known elsewhere in Ireland. the liveried This ance-starving orphan is their

The treatment of the hair in in London.

normal bent now in Russia, returned, he says, presenting the passer-by with chauffeurs, whose

two of the Agures is also pecu- the finest crop of CD labels in is from one piece of inviolable

ar. on "personal business."

foreign territory to another. For them, life centres on

CD The enviable

plate on Harrington House, No. 13,

Another touch exclusive to their cars offers more than Kensington Palace-gardens, out of his 15 roubles monthly

1s the "Shop," salute from the pollee. It which atom spy Dr Emil pent five on evening classes in the Americans

nient (expensive)

that their masters do secondary school. In 1918, at where fresh Klaus Fuchs is reported to the age of 18, he was in the Red and all varieties of imported U.S. not pay a tax on the car or buy church there is a simple but supported something, for

Army as a technical ofcer. delicacies in tins are available have visited.

arationed to the staff.

|T"

Stalin's

tress.

there

London.

He left Moscow at 13, and

He fishes

10

and

10,

cara

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double

ns

the

of the

Contrasts

Ines, Oustice

wall

White Island is one of many islets situated In Castle Arch- dale Bhy, on the eastern side of

Lower Loch Erne.

It bears the relics, reduced to their foundations, of an early monastic settlement.

Ort the south side of this

things are

obvious at

Trst sight. The figures once

#

licence for it; they are not turamoned for major or minery elegant Romanesque door- mortice hole is cut in the top of

way the only one of its

kind the heads, and the church Indiscretions.

in the province of Ulster.

Petrol... food

-

the

them.

builders who erected the He went to London in 1946.

Romanesque building were nt after being principal of a section What of the smaller nations?

In 1928 the repair of

this once ashamed of them and also ut the Narkomindel (Russin's Baitt, the romantle Negro re-.

church was undertaken, five Foreign Office)

This afraid, for they built them into has

privileged envoy in public,

One of

Involved the clearance of rub- the walls in such a way that persons in London. THIS grey, forbidding building Canada.

them, Mile. Giselle Duvig-

bish from the site and the re- they could no longer be seen. looks like a Cromwellian for-

of a French- E envoys-but not lesser moval of ivy and other destrue- nenud-daughter

HE The private rond where

But they dared not reads speaking ex-editor

fish

destroy who left

In the Diplomatic tive vegetation from the walls. It stands has uniformed guar- blographies, but not, he assured prison to become Minister here Corps carry a splendid metal

"beautiful dise to show

The first of these figures is is named

to any inquiring dians, and is known as "million- me coldly, "your study of Tito.

Facing Mr Zarobin's garden is

ono of those strange they also carry a diplomalic policeman;

carvings brunette" alres' Row." It includes the the sun loggia, the dining room.

allotment of generous

SERIES of seven colony.

petrol

strange which so frequently disconcert embassies of France, Nepal, A staircase sweeps to the square

coupons, issued by the Foreign carved figures was then found with

sense of Incongruity Office. Iraq, Norway, and the legation gallery above.

There are extra food built to the wall. Three of these when seen on buildings devoted rations,

for too, of Syria.

Corps figures

been to sacred use. had previously, Diplomatique.

known to exist and had been illustrated as long ago as 1861. The visitor to No. 13 climbs for the Ambassador, and bla

In their vast mansions, they They had been found by the ordinary figures made for? Are worn stone steps, and when he library. Kitchens, lesser dining- uIE Bulgarians have four to live in a world dominated by

artists with unstable has rung the bell, is examined rooms, garages are below stairs, five people here entitled to gilt tables at which are served owner of the island, lying loose they merely frank outbursts by

In the ruins, and he had them early through a panet by English close to Mr Maicky's famous air- diplomalle privileges, the Poles the world's best wines and ixed in the walls, The remain- ninds, like the carvings some- speaking commissionaires speak- raid shelter, where former US. 26 and sometimes 27 (including spirits (at prices free of tax or four were new

seen under discoveries, times to be ing ing here from Russia.

Ambassador Joseph Kennedy a woman as first secretary), the duty for senior diplomatists), and all seven now stand in miserere scots of ancient cathe-

drals? the and cigars of quality which they row to confront the visitor badly bumped his forehead by Panamanians

Or were they meant to Yugoslave 23 (including two alone have sampled since 1930. he enters the church. lounge is forgetting the low celling

avert the Evil Eye? To promote Inside, the Jarge

women on the diplomatie stolT).

In the style of the carving fertility? Or to scare away de- solemnly gay with flowers in

To all this-and to the bowls, with jenormous

dark About 00 Soviet men (and All

in Belgrave burdens together

these figures belong to a school vits, Scandinavian pirates In of diplomacy rettees, with many easy chairs, their wives) enjoy diplomalle square stand the embassies of

touchy

world the letters CD entirely different from anything other unwelcome intruders?" A portrait in oils of the man of privileges in London, and occupy Spain, Saudi-Arabla,

One guess would appear to ber previously known and which Mexico, steel,

crosses Be Eood as another. United Stalin, in top boots, several mansions in

gave us the sculptured the same the Argentine and, at No. 1, the are the passport.

Press. dominates the room.

Iegation of Rumania.

and doorways.

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