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High life

The four times I have lied in 42 years writing this column

16 March 2019

9:00 AM

16 March 2019

9:00 AM

Gstaad

 
As Emperor Maximilian told his convulsed-by-tears servants as he was about to be executed by the Mexicans: ‘Who knew?’ Last week the owner of the Palace hotel in Gstaad rang me and asked me to join him for a drink with Akira Kitade, a Japanese author best known for Visas of Life and the Epic Journey about how the Jewish Sugihara survivors reached Japan and safety.

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