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By VICTOR
HUDSON
T was six o'clock on a Bill indignantly.
Sunday morning. The Buckingham Palace.”. night shift of the
This is
Buckingham Palace "We know, old boy” said were yawning, easing their one of the officers, "Orders helmets from their fore- of the Duke of Edinburgh heads and thinking that in are to report with helicopter about an hour there would to
secretary, Com-
his
be bacon and eggs-and bed. mander Michael Parker.” Then something appeared
In the sky.
Palace.
The Duke of Edinburgh Is 32 today. This in his latest plcture, taken with Her Majesty the Queen on Coronation Day. They are waving from the balcony
Buckingham of Palace to the cheering crowds below after their return from Westminster Abbey-(AP Picture),
Sustai
The helicopter in the Palace To get funds to obtain open grounds is a proof of the Duke spaces for boys and giriamalia of Edinburgh's flair as a busi- play in and to train the future nesa man. With the eyes of the athletes of Britain, the Duke whole world on Buckingham willingly sacrifices his NOT Palace, what better way of pro- limited leisure. claiming that Britain can still take the lead?
W
He never content to-bers mere figurehead. · If hat takes Any Palace official will tell on a job he insists on, making you that the Duke is a first- a practical contribution, paragrap class businessman. It is a great
asset to the Queen, for che Soon after he becama" Prest does not have to worry about dent of the Automobile Asso the constant problems of her ciation he colled for a report estates. The Duke sees to all on the organisation and maste that,
himself thoroughly requninted with It. And when he took the Perhaps the secret of the chair at the association's ade Duke's quick grasp of any nual meeting, last year, bb situation or the most intricate urged all road users to get to subject lies in his broad cosmo- gether to agree on
practical politan education. He was
at methods to make thei rotay kindergartenin America, at safer. His lead' resulted in a school in England. then at conference of all the organism. Baden in Germany, and anal- tions concerned. ly at Gordonstoun in Scotland.
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What of the Duke ng'a family
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The secret of the latest precedent of the pioneering
The Duke is fond of quoting mant He has very, definite Ideas "What's that, Bill?" aak- Ďuke of Edinburgh, was
Bertrand Russell about bringing up philosopher
children of particularly Prince Charles, the ed one rather idly.
kept until Tuesday when the
in opposing the "No-men Duke sat at the dual con-
He says they are future king. He wants him to England," the men who employ clever be at ease and behave natural- "Probably the Duke of
trols with the pilot, Lt..
ignoranco in opposing any ly in all circumstances not Edinburgh," said Bill
Commander Horace R.
schano suggested by men of an easy thing for a little Boy | facetiously.
Spedding and became the he,and the Queen want to slip The Duke is a fant mover energy., imagination and enter living in a Palaco, the first member of the Royal of for the week-end without he has to be 10 And time for prise, "Look, Bill," said
Several uniformed his tremendous range of ac-
kindly
THE BRIGHT The Duke, although other policeman, "that plane Family to land a plane in any fuss.
policemen will look at their tivity. He hates anything that
time is coming down. It's com- the grounds of Buckingham watches and then start to walk interferes with his swift move and considerate, has no
PRINCE for fools or obstinate no-MED.. slowly and with calculated air ment. He is interested in cars, ing down on the Palice."
of indifference from the North in plones, radio, science, in
Ho has cut out a great deal Instead of telling his nursej One of these days per- to the East Gate. It takes only dustry, photography, ships of
·tó: keep a moment for the crowd to all kinds and sizes and in of waste and Inefficiency in the Mra Lightbody, haps, the Duke will be the catch on. They are drawn like cooking.
the Prince away from people, he Royal service. Around fields and farms of Windsor has given her instruction firat Consort to fly & Queen iron filings to & magnet. of Britain..
Few people know that when gallops the Duke on a chestout let him talk to anybody he He takes a fancy to. As a result Queen. In the Navy the Duke on more belonging to the than one occasion cooketi a réins up at the men at work someone in close
a rattle of the court told me meal for six brother officers, and then comes In Canada he was asked if the quickfire questions: "What-
"That child is tha alcost Queen could cook. He replied that machine? What do you use
It for? Is it a good machinat have met for a long while, and tersely: "We both can."
How much did it cost? Is there I don't say that because he is anything that will do the job gaing to be King some day
Ho is really a bright and tha better and more cheaply?"
triguing little boy. Like his father, you never know. what he is going to think of next
"You're right," said Bill. "It's a helicopter. Some thing is wrong." For on the list of expected arrivals and departures with which every Palace policeman is issued as he goes on duty,
there was hoverplanes.
Eyebrows were raised when
he Arst drove the Queen in car in public. King George VI
of now and then drove the Queen: no mention
THE DUKE'S ORDERS
never
OFF DUTY DRIVES
his
Then the Duke, driving Muther in the semi-privacy of own car with the Queen at his scarf Windsor and Balmoral, ver ride, sometimes with a
fashes It was during a game of bli- in London. The Queen some tied round her head,
Palace Leads with Princz Bernhard of times drives herself on holiday out into Buckingham
emerge the Netherlands that the Duke she was trained in the ATS. Road. Sometimes they
ut by the trade entrance. Nearly got the idea of taking up fly- The Queen Mother does
Ing, The Duke missed on casy drive at all.
always they are unrecognised,
shot. Prince Bernhard, who is That is what the Duke likes himself a qualified pilot, crack- The policemen
drive when he and the Queen are off ed: "It is a good job you are likes duty. the grounds. They arrived
wheel
n sailor. You would never panting as two Royal Navy
It has taken him time to im- flying officers stepped out of
press on the Palace offcials It was the Duke of Edinburgh that he expects to be able to the helicopter. "Do you who showed the Palace police enter and leave the Palace know where you are?" said how to evade the crowds when when and how he pleases.
ran
into The Duke prefers to
himself, and the Queen her husband to be at the when she is off duty.
KUWAIT, WHERE THE POOLS GUSH GOLD
By William Forrest
HEN I asked for a
Problem: how to spend it?
divided
Cinemas are also, banned, and there is no racing,
Kuwait. 105,000 people more than the but total prohibition is enforced British Royal Family receives in by the Shelk on his Moslem
subjects. packet of cigarettes a whole year.
was given a whole carton, for which I paid fve rupees. Ninepence a packet, equally among Abdullak's sub- But I would have had to jects, it would give every man, pay almost as much for a woman and child a tidy £300 a year. Kuwait, however, is not gallon of water.
Utopla.
If the money
My hotel
how WAS shall I say? - primitive.
were
Neither Utopian nor Sybarite, how then does the Croesus of Kuwait propose to spend his millions?
The answer the Welfare
Nor is it a member of the State. Arab League; it could hardly
be so since it is under British School, hospitals, clinics as But when the bill was protection. Abdullah, therefore, fast as they can be bullt:
out made
water to "Gentleman feels no call to help such needy £3,000,000
diatillation Arab States as Syria, Jordan plant, a £2,500,000 power plant. William Forrest" I found and the Lebanon, burdened that in its prices, if in though they are by the Arab nothing else, Kuwait's one refugees from Palestine. and only caravan-serni could stand comparison with the luxury hotels of Cairo and Beirut.
Koran Forbids.
Free meals, free clothing, the free medical services for schoolchildren--though urchins still follow you in the street, begging baksheesh,
GIVES UP HIS SPARE TIME
fouch
the
14
The Duke tries to keep rat Icast crie whole evening a week free to spend with his wife and children. It has not always. make a pilot. You need a good the Queen as Ranger of Wind been posible lately! 47. eye for flying." The Duke took
The Duke's appointment
by
On
it as a challenge. Today his in- sor has been no empty honour.
those occasions the structor, Fit.-Lt. Gordon, says The sallor became former and children, are allowed up for an the Duke is well above average scientific farmer overnight. His extra hour. Normally, they as a pilot within the limits of streamlining of farming methods to bed about seven. Pritice his flying time.
at Windsor Homo Farm. and Charles's toy trains
FLAIR FOR BUSINESS
last summer foldiers are laden Vithe
That is quite an achievement the Great Park"
floor and, I am tolddiki alm. considering that the Duke, who produced a bumper harvest.
cult to tell who is most absorb- was born on June 10, 1921, be-
ed in the games--the Dukos.or gun flying only last year.
To say that the Duke of the children. Edinburgh works harder at one thing than another is' fooilah, And the Duke as a husband? In the Navy, as commander of As we all know, it was a love a small fighung ship, and in match. And 1 canriðj1 duri his present, much more exact things up better than by-re- ing job, he always goes fat out. peating the Duke's own instruc The Duke lives as he drives a tlons to the Roralit, staff The Duke is above average car skilfully but never dan- Coronation time. In-most-of-the-sports he has gerously. Yet his foot-is-al-- taken up. They are many ***** ways on the accelerator ready ski-ing, cricket, polo, yachting, to seize any opportunity to save shooting. riding, swimming, time. even skittles and darts,
am
is, he sald,
the greatest event in the Queen's life. You do not have to wor ry about mo. Forget about me told that he could be an out- One of the public interests If you choose, but you will de Na everything in your power to standing performer at some of nearest his heart is the these if he hatt time to concen- tional Playing Fields Associa- help the Queen, We have trate on them.
tion, of which he is President. got to do that," and an
LITTLE PERONISTS LEARN
TO UNITE THROUGH LOVE
*
By R. M. MacCOLL
Buenos Aires.
children, of vengeance into an alliance of・・ On women: RGENTINE
firm friendships." who are henceforth to A vast new hotel, a modern be taught the basic prin.
instead of the present
I
"Even if a TRR
WHEN one of his British ad- port
visers suggested a loan to the anchorage, now housing estates, ciples of the Peronist doc. children will have this, to con- which always attains für more Klondike had nothing on
Abdullah reminded paved streets-in a land where Kuwalt. The gold rush counted refugees, fortunes in thousands; the all him that the Koran forbids alavery is still legal. rush counts them in millions. usury.
"In that case," said the ad Sheik Abdullah as-Salim 05- Sabah, ruler of six thousand viser, "why not a loan free of square miles of barren, water interest?"
less desert at the head of the Abdullah shook his head, He Persian Gulf, has an income of could see no point in that. more than a million pounds a
"Come back in five years,” I was told, "and you won't know the place."
How Long?
On votes for women It has been sald that the Argentifie woman is not prepared for elec- toral strife. All a woman needs to be fully qualifted toreating is to be able to
is Д rational human Holrig, On international affairs the women possess, above masculine
reasoning powers an intuition-
success than all the achievements trine in their school text. Bider:
"We are friends with all the which men ona boat by m books under a special new order from President Peron, nations of the world. We have
achieved the position of being And on the kiddies themselve will read: "Let all Argent- admired as the defender or "We want the future genera tines bo united through love, reason, right and justice, and tions of Argentinos to learnt how because love is the only con- we have taken the liberty of to smile from childhood.
giving our advice to the world,) structive, element."
advice which is given due at tention in many places". This, however, in a precept weck....
who In fairness it should be sald CAN Kuwait change form with which those grown-ups
out changing spirit? Can indulged in their recent arson
wine of Until about two years ago his that gifts of blankets and food,
Islamic spree in Buenos Aires have royalty cut from the Kuwalt Ol have in fact been sent from the old
Kuwait to the refugees," and morality and feudal relation not, it
quite taken seems, Company-half-British (Anglo- Iranian) and half- American sometime ago the Kuwait De- gs go into the new bottle of heart yet.
Shelk- Western civilisation? Can the man with the Midia touch (Gulf Oil)—was, only a dollar fence Minister said the
escapo the Midos curse? ・・ per 10 barrels, which earned him dom was prepared to mako
loan to Syria if asked.
Young princes and sons of Sheik Abdullah himself,
now drive wealthy merchants though an absolute monarch, is around Kuwalt in aleck Ameri
of almple tastes. Ho man
How long will they uses the ornate:palnes
of his Can pars. Mossadegh, predecessor for official duties meekly forgo the still forbidden all that. only and lives in an unpreten fruits elnema, saloon
dance-hall? asking tious palace outside the town was wall. He is not finicky with his
and,
Moslem, A strict conventional food
drinks no alcohol.
a beggarly £25,000 in 1950.
Came Mossadegh
came
THEN
Abadan, and
And without
even
for it Shelk Abdullah offered the now Afty-afty share.
Hichest.
F
P
As for intomational trade:
to "When, drawing up treaties of men of her song Jonest
principle fa ar
at Michas plot
commerce, Argentina - has 'not, done this for political" motives, to compete with other Another useful
in the bo embodied
to Peron foreshadowed his newest school nations, The purpose was books is: ***The Argentine favour different nations, over educational, step, bęcz dajaMAY economy is exempt from all come difficulties and bring our 1951, when he said: Wetwil
to others of the continue to proclaim; danger. The world problem in people close the economic field is civil war, globe,”
everywhere, principalya schools." the struggle between each other for the destruction of one or the and other!
The women, young and old, go, completely veiled-eyes, and all-and, no man if not of their family may address them.
Of Interest is Peron's state=" ment on "political proceduro": "First of all, depilis 2
lieve we possoms anùng To my mind, the succesful able national, fruth; management of men in polities because we are interpote Tes in avoiding the nocemity of making sure that fullies "Our problem is one of love, giving orders. Procedure should erations will also gourang ofcombined labour, of the be such that when one wants, this truth of ours. Kuwalt's oilfield Is the world's Moreover, he wants to guard
establishment of order and the something to be done,, those who his people as well as bimself But in the bazaars they seo elimination of exploitation. had to entry it out would do so “Unrest among-the-main
• against Western corruption and the emancipated women of the
the result, pt, socia of their own free will. "In the political The minds of ordinary morials uses; his nisoluto, power to that West, in from Ahmedi forå
field
The remedy dõen "Unfortunate is the ruler who colving them, whose solo hope of sudden end.
day's shopping and chatting have established the reign of wealth lies in the weekly
freely, with Tom, Dick and Truth. We have put an end to has to lasup orders, and more them into Kuwalt is dry not only by Harry...
-political","frauds, les, de- unfortunate still is howhows but, by permutations of 12 x boggle at.
magogues and empty talkers orders are not obeyed" the thought of the dividends nature but by law. Christians.
Justice and foreigners-Including: the that await the Shelk.
How long before the wind, of peststeps DboS Brilish and American · familles - Trecklom, blowing
The Argentine, spirit, under This mother went by the board across the 'Here, beneath these arid who live in the air-conditioned desert from the Mediterranean, is lofty lineage, has known how when Peron, recently said: "If all. Arguitini sands, is a pool that pays out bungalow oil-town of Ahmadi,aties the haremir, and, lifts the to convert hate into love, it is neccary to not the tyrant, should be little Peronists... all avery week to the ruler of more; allowed liquor ration, veils on the Persian Gulftako egoisma info generosity, the spirit, then I shan't hesitate to do so,”; right.
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