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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playboy. Most of his time he spent at Cannes, on the French Riviera, where he had bought the palatial Château de Thorenc (reported purchase price: $250,000). In his garage were a pale blue Lincoln convertible, a black Citroen limousine, a blue Simca "Gordoni" one-seat racer, a sleek Italian two-seater, a Simca-8 sports model. He also kept several motorcycles. He insisted that every engine run "as accurately as a watch...
...caught his eye. ("My grandfather had 125 wives and 300 children," Bao Dai once remarked to a journalist. "I have a few mistresses. What then?") He played golf capably and bridge like a master. A crack shot with rifle or revolver, he often arranged target competitions with the château's servants...
Behind him, at the Château de Thorenc, he left Empress Nam Phuong and their family of two boys and three girls...
Angrily, Chia Ch'ing ordered the mission to turn home without an audience...
Last January, to protect their trade in the Far East, the British offered to recognize the new Communist regime. They expected an eager response. They got a rude snub. China's Red masters first kept the British dangling, then, last March 3, handed British Chárge d'Affaires John C. Hutchison three extraordinary questions, implying that they would not accept British recognition unless the answers were favorable. Asked Peking...