William Hickey
NAPOLEON GAMMANS FACES AN UNSEEN FOE ...
London.
WAS terrified. I had been invited to go to # party which WAS to launch a new Journal, Com- munications and Elec- tronics.
"Boom!... Boom!...
siven him another chance.
hos
But you never know these days. Supposing these magicians of the modern world drelded to make all the politlelans of the world disappear....
Now I don't know what is. electronics MCANA. I know in a vague way that tens of thousands of people are in "the electronics industry."
Wouldn't it be terrible? I don't care what your answer
Law of the fido
council of Pieter-
THE city
maritzburg in South Africa,
the
1190 of aquatungs in swimming-baths.
That they make TV sets and read, has been asked to ban radar sols. And, I suspect, most of the equipment of guided missiles.
Silent microphone
I stood in a corner and felt very humble. 11 wasn't for me
to interfere with conversations that were all about cathode tubes.
aro
Same people. it seems, fraid that young men will all n the bottom of the pool and watch the girls diving in.
I am indebted for this piece of Information to Neptune, the new magazine of British under- water swimmers.
My only reaction is that
at any man in misguided enough
t was just an ordinary to sit at the bottom of a pool chap Trying to pick out the to watch women swimming smoked salmon sandwiches well, he deserves all he gets...
un the plate.
An umurant seri of Follow
Then
#n
who
David Gammans, Ahl-tmnt Pestnutes «General,
six ke
He had miere phone in front
him.
It wouldn't work.
plesverl
cheese sandwich by mistake.
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I think Camionus was de- lighted himself i think he was inting at over lls Ice] consin't see because i hadn't | 1:0 a radar et with me and he said. "I don't believe there
rapple person in this for who can make the microphone work."
'Boom!
Boom!
It wir th that I am sure cape of those eles the brams took ever... one of these terrifying machines that tell you what the temperature will be in 2054 ...
if I cared! And
electronte the
brain
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1954.
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CAMPAIGNING CLEOPATRA COMING TO HONGKONG
E
of
GYPT'S Mme Doria
Shank, Doctor Philosophy, learned to speak English in
a month, writes poetry in French and has helped to launch four magazines in
Cairo since the war.
These are just 21 few facets of the career of this working through the microphone 35-year-old fighting femin wonl "Boom! Boom!.....est, who is also the wife of a Hem!
But Gammon was brave In the face of the unster for.
"I know nothing atxnit the technical side of your industry.",
the rald.... "Doom!. went the microphone.
years,"
Boom!"
"At the end of three salld eurs he added. "I know less i morted." when
Bon!"
than
"Boom!
Cairo lawyer and mother of two daughters. It ix I career crammed with colour and variety.
Just now she is winging her way around the world as her countrywomen's un- Her the official said
ambassador. tour programme, in
which man she explains their new He doesn't look an herole figure. role, takes
in eight coun-
microphone in
Gammars Is
But
disgust.
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at that moment he was a
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Napoleon, a Caesar in my eyes. tries.
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BY DOROTHY BARKLEY
DORIA SHAFIK
After the meeting, which lasted an hour and a half, she did not appea in the lenst red. She straightened her hat,
pulled on her gloves and weat
the House of Commons. There she studied the per- formance of Britain's women politicians,
en Industry of electronics Before returning home Here he was talking without the to Cairo in early January.
microphone. And, inore, beling far more she will spend a month
States audible than most people who the United use that instrument.
const-to-const trip from New York to San Fran Later she told me: "It was chasco, giving 25 lectures a great thing to visit Britain's and broadcasts.
She will Parliament. My life now is de- voted to working for the poll- visit Tokyo, where she ar
tical rights of women. Naturally rives on December 17 to I want to ace parliaments talk
"Women and everywhere."
After us speech I wanted to go and congratulate him.
But there was no sign of the Assistant Pustmaster-General,
1 begniti to be mixious.
By the me I had searchce the room thoroughly I began to be desperate
"Where iammans?" sat! to a colleagiar 12301
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don't know," WHIS
the
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of January.
She
Her fight for political equality has earned ber the nickname of "Campaigning Cleopatra." It has won the admiration of women all over the world, and And so to politics. Journalism ful, secluded life—will soon be the respect of men
liko Lord brought her into contact with long to the past. Nowadays, she Pethick-Lawrence, whose wife women who shared her views, can choose any of a number of was one of the frat British They wanted political equality caTECTS,
can be doctor, suffragettes. In London ho for women. They wanted to see lawyer, engineer, agricultural described her as "a most gifted women in parliament in Egyp. research worker. The day will and courageous women." They believed with Mme Shalk coon came when she will be in
Mme Shafik could retire that when men make the laws, parliament, too.
her work sometimes they are not right for
gracefully, thinking Mme Shalk believes Egyptian was completed. But she wants women,"
successful Jo women will be
to go on fighting. She is will- parliament. They possess, just ing to become one of Egypt's us much is men, the qialitics frst women MPs. "I will pre- :equired of 2 politician, she sent myself as a candidate," she "Every educated woman asserts. They can "make quick says. decisions, be tectiul, dynamic und -must do something for her active."
country."
In 1947 they founded a poli- tical movement, called the Asso- ciation of the Daughters of the Nile, which now has 7,000 mem- bers. Preparing to fight for political rights for women, they chose on their slogan "Equal Rights For Equal Responsibl-
Titles.
They started by using shock tactics reminiscent of the fight- ing spirit of Britain's suffragettes, An Mme Shank explained: "Violence was necessary at first, to move the public conscience. We had to prove that what we wanted was essential for women
--and not just a joke.”
Hunger Strike
in 1948, the Daughters of the Nile stormed the Egyptian Par- liament, marching through the streets carrying banners La- scribed, "Down With the Parlla- ment Without Women.
were
1 Islam," Hongkong (four Mme Shalk came to politics
Last March, Mine Shafk, and i days later). Calcutta, New by a roundabout route. Her
a dozen followers went on an conservative in Delhi, Karachi, where her parents,
the eight-day hunger strike. Exist S&W NO ing on a lemon-and-water diet, wherwer
to have trip ends at the beginning Egyptian tradition, "He seems
reason why their daughter disappeared.'
er she lost 22 lbs. in weight. They Already she should choose a life different
joined by
visiting "What have you lone to has touched down at Rome, from that of Egyptian women Wes
American Journalist, who Gommans?" 1 asked some of Paris and London.
for centuries past. A political
www.thised
with their cause. the electronics engineers.
futuro didn't enter into their
tele were encouraged by plans.
grams from all over the world, Including one from Dr Edith Summerskill, British Labour And they achieved what extracted wanted-they
But they all professed Ignor-
ance and siled away.
I believe they had spirited him away I believe they had transformed him into a series of quadratic equations and fed him into a cathode tube.
Widening horizons
the
Event-packed
Dorla, however, had other ideas. At 16, she put her foot down. She insisted an being Her two days in London sent to Paris for a French they followed the same event- education. There she went to from the government the pro packed pattern. She address. school, and then on to the Sar-mise that political rights
women
would be included in for her doc-
new tho
constitution. ed a meeting of business- bonne, to study
terate of philosophy.
now being drafted.
recep-
I could see the story of a new women, attended a strip cartoon in the making. tion given for her by the
"The Mystery of
Postmaster - General" Egyptian Ambassador, tour- "Gammans, whero arted the House of Commons. At the House she paused
Assistant UT,
thou?"
Controversial
for
This is
Shaik While Mme
and Egyptian women now wait for "equal political rights," they proving that they
aho
Can
"the Arst sub-
Mime Shank, firmly
I could see Cabinet meetings long enough to marvel at 11? my big dream to be a ties." As
"It was how do you say shoulder the "equal responsibili- being held Jeet on the agenda is dammans. the library, listen to a de professor at the university in points out, "In wirming rights, Har
someone Invented a death-bate and dine with some of Cairo," she told me. "So I took we do ray?"
my Ph.D and, for my thesis, I dutics." And the second subject would the Membera.
mado a study of women and Islben."
Ayomen
undoubtedly be, "Will this affect
In Britain, where European rearmanent?”
to myself, politicians may be neat but not Of course, I said Dulles will have something to fashion plates, Mme Shalk was
hy about all this. He will not unnoticed. probably fly to Bangkok to get
have
not forget we
They are helping to Bight filterdeys working in the fifty Her theals whe controversial. adult schools in Cairo and the does not obstruct the provinces where adult woment progress of women," she argued, receive education
"The true spirit of Islam
"Jalam
She is raven-haired, creamy in it.
a
the latest information on the complexioned. Hor eleganes has is in its favour, It is a matter
dash of Paris. Her London of Interpretation"
dress, high-necked
Controversial through the
Revolution
They help to
run
welfare
subject.
"Mr France will bring up the outfit was altingly chosen ******* Д • matter at the Nlue-Power Con;|black wool ference. He will demand that at the front with a six-inch thosis was, it won her the the mystery of Clammans should deep V at the back. The four coveted degree. Thus equipped, be solved. Otherwise he will lands of pearls, held by a she returned to Cairo with her casociations. Since their part in call in Chenarul de Gaulle and erbacent-of-Islam clasp, the pale husband by then qualled a stopping the cholera epidemic the Sultans of Northern Africa. pink hat and pale pink gloves lawyer. She applied for a post ut in 1944, Egyptian women have.
"The
Russians will doelde
the university, only to be told shown themselver fitted for the sve it chic detail. that thờ` British have copied the
by the head of the faculty; "You task. death-ray that Popov invented] Doubts that elegance docs not are too elegant to be a professor;
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can't accept you." polse I'm afraid
They have opened clubs UNESCO will
Working WORDCI in Cairo and Issue à 10-1 vanished with the talk she gave you volume examination
turned to Alexawirin: Where marebbes C the to the International Alitance: di on
Disappointed, the turried Women. She was chatty but? journalism. In 1948 she helped tunch at half dried. The other "The British Counell send out lecturers to will informative amusing but not to jaurch's magazine, written for half is pale by act
“She had
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Note of relief,
I needn't have worried. The world is still safe: Chimpans la all right. The eléctrónió ens Minoore didn't disintegraté nia;
approach in French Entouraged by its lounge with ramo, Kohéz subject and answered succes, phe, las tince helped to and masstaine stortions to
the point with, fart a children's Journal, a short, tiện Hás, chapter and verse quotations. 12 tory publication, and a magazine samment Durents she couldn't and the
word for expOMM
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