After the Ball

After President Roosevelt and President Inoenue of Turkey departed, Winston Churchill stayed on in Cairo until this week (when he turned up in Gibraltar). He discussed the Pacific War with Major General Richard K. Sutherland, General Douglas MacArthur's chief of staff. He called on King Farouk I of Egypt (confined with a broken femur after an automobile accident), lunched with George II of Greece. Churchill dined with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, conferred with Harold Macmillan, British Minister in North Africa, and held an off-the-record press conference. Through it all he was usually with his old crony and adviser, Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa.

Data on Grandeur. The correspondents who saw Churchill also had, at long last, a look around Mena House, from which they were barred while the conferences lasted. They found Admiral Ernest J. King standing meekly before the transportation desk while a G.I. attendant tried to find his reservation. They sat in General George C. Marshall's chair, assembled some staggering data on the Pacific-Asian and Turkish conferences:

>The conferees lived in three types of villas: 1) luxurious; 2) class A; 3) ordinary. One villa, complete with truck farm, had been rented at $6,000 a month. Mena House itself cost $340 daily.

>Available for delegates, flunkies and guards were 22,000 lb. of meat, 1,000 lb. of coffee, 17,000 lb. of bread, 78,000 eggs, 740 lb. of tea, 5,000 cans of milk, 800 lb. of turkey, 4,600 lb. of sugar, 19,000 lb. of potatoes, 5,000 cans of fruit, 1,000,000 cigarets, 3,000 cigars.

"It's Churchill's." President Roosevelt drove about Cairo in a special Packard, bulletproofed with sheets of glass that weighed 90 lb. He called it "my county jail." His driver was Master Sergeant Harold A. Crotta, of Butler, N.J., who proudly showed correspondents a little pile of cigar ash on the running board. Said Sergeant Crotta: "Yep. It's Churchill's."

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