Mystery 1.
It was in the Virgin Islands, cannot remember which one, when one day in 1972/72! when I was taking a break from marketing Australia built Mini 'Mokes' and shortly to go on to Barbados, where there were a number hired out to holiday bungalow operators. --- One client, the Levi family, who later purchased for Mr Levi's Mustang Ranch- interesting man.
As I remember it was in a small bar, I met a young man, who said he was looking for a place for a recording studio. Apparently the big boys in the USA and UK prevented him recording space. anyway we looked at an old Banana storage building which looked promising.
He was a very pleasant chap with black framed glass's, the order of the day. 70's. We went our separate ways.--Virgin Records. Was it really a young Sir Richard Brandson, I had met.time blurs thing's, he did well didn't he. I believe his first publication a a magazine "Student" helped by the authur of Ring of Bright Water. One Kevin Maxwell, I think of the Maxwell Printing Family
Should Sir Richard Brandson, read this. then he might remember :
NON FATVVM HVC PERSECV TVS IGNEM - off the fire place of Maxwell's cottage in Scotland.
Mystery 2
World, nearly--London to Sydney Marathon 1968
A recent meeting with a garage proprietor, reminded me of that event a long time agoe--He had recently took posession of a Rootes /Chysler Hillman Hunter car, model he had always wanted but could not afford back then, the1960's.
Goodness, the memories came flooding back, in my slightly fading memory, that I ended up as the owner of the winning car . As I recall I purchased the carcass for Pound Sterling 286. the last time I drove it, was giving a young man a ride, a resident of Rainbow Lodge near Coventry- a special home.
The car was lent to dealer,after dealer---In time I forgot where it was and it disappeared.!.
My garage man, told me there had been replica's made, so they must have seen the original vehicle.
So begins a search for the car and retreval one day. It is some where in this World, it has to be.
Hope on.
So begins a search for the car and retreval one day. It is some where in this World, it has to be.
Mystery 3
Vietnam
The most disturbing story for me, fortunetley it has a reasonable ending.
I first met Vietnam from the air. As I remember on flights ,Bangkok to Hong Kong, we flew over the war zone, high enough to be out of range of ground fire. The pilot would announce our passage and add "An American fighter would come along side, in a few moments" and one did and too damn close. The pilot would wave and then was gone.
Once when going in to land at Saigon, the pilot announced. Hi folks I have to land as quickly as I can to avoid fire from below (Never was) . Goodness he pointed straight down then front up and bang we were on the ground.
I was at the "Majestic Hotel" in Saigon city. The one they used for the film 'Good Morning Vietnam staring Robin Williams, and was partly destroyed during my visit - The French style front cafe.
One evening I decided to have short walk, up to wards he old Palace when I must have been hit from behind because the next thing I knew, was that I was on a boat, being interrogated by someone using bamboo spears to my right leg. Was I American, repeatedly asked--Australian ?????? No I said English, on business. As I remember a senior man can along and I must have lost conciousness.
It was an early morning when I came round, a ditch, looked at by concerned passers by-- bugger, out again. Waking this time in my hotel bed - I lived! but never to forget. The distributor contacted HQ in Birmingham, who contacted the British Government, who apparently did not want to know
They said "We do NOT have any agent in Vietnam. I have always wondered, which CABINET MINISTER said that as there were no North Vietnamese operatives in Saigon at the time. How wrong they they were.. It was believed to be the Minister TRH Doughlas Jay!.
Of course they were correct, I was just a Runner instructed by someone else people unknown, and my employer.
I was never debriefed or helped in an way. I went home married the next year and that was that,Many years later Patricia and I were in France at a country market and at a book stall. There were two books that caught my eye, "Going to the Wars by Max Hastings and the one that proved without a doubt, that the Veitcong, were in fact, in Saigon, hiding in Temples."Amazing Grace by ? At the very time I was abducted and left in that ditch.
Around the year after 911, we went to France via Saigon, yes the Majestic Hotel. Where we crossed that six lane road to the Saigon river, you simply step out slowly and cross-no one will hit you. We did it at night after dinner and the beautiful sound of the Vietnamese Xylophone. Two ladies in traditional dress, two sticks in each hand - Still have the recording I made.
I asked the guide (Minder) if we could visit a Temple which we did, as he was very kind. But could not tell me when we visited a market,where I spotted a lady with a nasty mark on her neck showing under a scarf. (I guess an Agent Orange Burn) The defoilant chemical. .The Americans also used flame throwers-ghastly things.
We arrived at a Temple to the sound of a very heavy bell - Gong it went, operated by a lady. Then the keeper of the Temple at our request, said a Prayer for Peace on Earth ,Gong it went again.What it did for me was Reconciliation and Peace of Mind at last.
That was not the end of the story, For in a local village in south west France we met an older Frenchman who said he did not like my cap withe red star. He had been in Vietnam when under French occupation.and he had a story to tell.
With his best French and my best English, we got through his story. It seems he was one of the Brigade who were abandoned, when the French left Vietnam As I recall it was Dien Bien Fu?. He had some how got out through Russia, The Balkans to France and home.
At this stage his daughter came and tried to stop him telling his story---One hour and we were done, so ended two stories.
It is quite interesting, a Frenchman and an Englishman, with common association with Vietnam, should should both be connected the Austin/Morris (BMC) Company, one a dealer and the other a world representative, whose father helped the resistance in WW2, I still have his Cross of Loraine badge which proudly wore.
My Notre commented later and told me that it was probably the first time he was allowed to tell his story and he would advise people interested of this brave man. This man who also did not know the identity of the person responsible for his situation in Vietnam'.
Peace at last for us both.
Mystery 4
Gaza-Israel
The International Court put out an arrest warrant for the Israel Prime Minister, nothing yet. I X'd that someone somewhere, had been given the go ahead to arrest him, by any means- But who and or other persons unknown. The Israeli Prime Minister must be aware, that he is a targeted man and it is only a matter of time to when he makes a mistake. and travels outside his safety zone.
I have also suggested that President Trump, puts out one of his Executive Orders, with the scribbled signature to show the World his call for that Prime Minister to be arrested.on entering the USA. Some hope Mal they tell me, Hope is a good one for someone responsible for the Death of some 50,000 souls and there homes destroyed. The people their Children and there children's children, will never forget , just like the Israelies them selves after their experiences in Europe etc.way back in the 30'a d 40's.
The Mystery is why did I have a nightmare last week------ I was talking to a Jewish friend when that man turned up with heavy body guard. He looked at me with that disturbed wicked look of his. The bodyguard sensed I was going to make a move-------then they were gone.
Why did I have that dream and who was my friend,
As always my stories are based on facts, as I remember them
Malcolm E Mason
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www.thinktrue2008.blogspot.com
masonedgar@gmail.com
This Grain of Sand trying to gt his voice heard, against the winds of a Desert------That's me
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