LONDON: Gaekwar of Baroda and glamorous Hollywood film star Carmen Miranda featured in a 500 guinea drama at Newmarket racehorse sales today [Sept 14]. Both had set their hearts on the glossy charm and racing potentialities of a yearling colt by Fairway out of Epona. Gaekwar, who spent £17,000 in Newmarket on Tuesday, was determined. So, through her proxy bidder Mr. M. Miller, was Carmen, who is accustomed to getting her own way. It was a tense and obviously colourful interlude. …

But Indian millions won over Hollywood femininity. Carmen bid up to £11,025. Gaekwar bid £11,050 — and got the colt. Carmen’s reactions, if they have not already burnt up the Transatlantic cable, are not yet available. [Meanwhile, as reported from Berlin,] The … Gestapo prepared for the invasion of England in 1940 by compiling a list of more than 5,300 persons ranging from Prime Minister Churchill to obscure Jewish refuges whose arrest was to be “automatic” upon Germany victory, [said] secret Nazi papers. … The Gestapo arrest list includes all available responsible officials of exiled Governments or National Committees of occupied France, Holland, Belgium, Norway, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Austria.

Published in Dawn, September 15th, 2020