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THE CHINA MAIL
TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1955.
Says Kolarz: "
Hussein's Bride-To-Be
Is Lovely, Intelligent
Cairo.
IVER since her engage
Ement King Hussein of Jordan, Princess Dina Abdel Hamid hus bean exceptionally busy mark. ing 400 examination papers. This bonutiful 23-year-ok! Cambridge graduate, with soul- tive hazel eyes and delicate oval face and slim graceful figure, is not the post of girl to leave a
unfinished. She hopes Job
פן
carry on her post as Lechner of English Literaturv
Cairo
University until the end of term.
Hor students hope
Princces
Dina L
popular and
member บ
so tos thu
met distinguished University's the
women teaching staff. Popular look at she's lovaly because and highly intelligent, with a sense of humour. Di- lively Unguished because she's a mean- ber of the noblest of all Arab familles, the Royal Hashemiles, descendants of the Prophet
Felsal of Iraq are her INJURINO.
about
By ALAN MCGREGOR
Princess Dina
going to Girton College, Cam- bridge, in 1947 at the age of
17.
Sandhurst, and Dina travelled down one chilly winter day to see him march in the passing- out parade. Later they were often seen dancing together in the West End.
Her favourite relaxation ta reading. She likes to travel and has just learned to drive a Email car, a handy size for Cairo's jampacked streets. She can look forward to some fast motoring with Hussein, who is turning
hair poloce officials white by taking his British sportscar up the 100-mile-an- hour mark on the Baghdad road that runs straight for milca across desert from Amman. He Biso likes plloting
Arub on Legion plane round his desert aountain kingdom.
Fine Eyes
She
of
Dino's fine Princess
eyes when we talked of clouded Pulestine
refugees, who form two-thirds at Jor- She was very happy there, more than though she suk
with a laugh: dan's 1,400,000 population. of Mycen "Sometimes Mohamed and rulers of
the examiners is deeply stirred by their plight and Both Husein for centuries.
and i didn't
I and by the general poverty think alike.
lands. would get profoundly interested these Middle Eastern in certain poets and writers only After Cambridge she look a to be asked to write an essay course in social studies at Lon- be don University, un something quite unrelated to
and she'll What
interested me most!" She able to give a tad to the small graduated with B.A, honours,
band of emancipated Jordanian Hussein and she first met in
women who do a great deal for the Jordanian capital of Amman the refugees.
Hussein King
certainly nine years ago, but only got to know each other properly when fortunate 3zı his cholec. No both were in England. After a
Arab Queen in recent times has been so well silted for the job. year at Harrow Hussein went to
wnjoys She
talking literature. world politics, travel, except fuct everything art, in hervell
No Make-Up
"I don't like publicity and really I'm not interesting enough salt she fur 1921 interview," smilingly when I called at the sumptuous malern vills where she lives with her parenta in the garden village of Mundi, on the Nile The
house stands in the
own grounds on a quiet avenue botwani Louthery eucalyptus Trees.
The Princess was dressed in o pale grey tailorded costume. She in two Wears her raven-hair braided plaits knotted st back of her head, She doema'l use make-up, and her skin
the
1
Cir.
clear. Her mother is cassian of that Caucasian moun- tou people whose womenfolk ure famed for their good looks. The Princess' voice in finely modulated and her English that of Cambridge without a trace of an Arable accent.
She was born and brought up in Egypt, educated at an Eng- lish girls' college here
before
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TEENAGE
12
CRIME
WAVE IN U.S.
By KAY MURRAY
week ago a
New York, rather that discharge the young
hoodlums. York -EW
has
Only just woken up to the faet children's court judge said Batly emergency emergency state of
this
is an
that it is suffering situation colling for from
of measures. the
**This is worst wave juvenile delinquency in its siege," he added.
The problem im't confined to 300-year-old history.
New York.
"In that way, you see, vie
DEFENCE
PLANS 1955
build up a powerful deterrent, we and our allies will have tom prid-a-half- times enough bombs to blow the aggressors off the earth. They will have
only three-and-a-half times enough to blow us."
H-SHELTER
a full, rich life to
sow
World Ceppright dy arrangement with the Manchetter Guardian
however skilful Soviet propaganda may be in disguising reality, mora is known about Vorkuta than about many other parts of the Soviet Union”.
RUSSIA'S PRISON CAMP HQ
By Walter
Kolarz
66▼JORKUTA" is one of to Verkula. From this wo-learn those Russian place that it is a "significant cultural names which have acquired contre of the Kom! republie" that it hes four secondary rehpols, a special meaning. If the 17 Ubrerios end 11 clubs, and
| verý mention of Moscow re- that it is the largest coal-mining
calla. the despotic power of centre in Northern Europe. the Communist Party, if Stalingrad stands for the in route and the Vorkuta
But, however akiful Soviet propaganda may be in disguis- known
more
self-sacrificing heroism of about
than about the Russian peoplo, Vorkuta area
many other parts of the USSR. Vorkuta is become synonymous the administrative centre for a
has
with forced labour.
Vorkuta has never been shown
large network of prison camps, whoe0
inmates far outnumber
moment in the
to any of the numerous delego- all the prisoners there were at tions which have visited the any particular Soviet Union In recent years, whole of Tsarist Russia,
Knowledge, and official Soviet sources have never given any detailed descrip- of the 100-odd tion of the place and its signi- and the conditions in them has floance
beer steadily expanded during
about the extent Vorkuta esmps
The latest edition of the Soviet the past two years by the ar“ In the West of former Encyclopedia devotes 20 lines
inmates. 'The latest testimony comes from
is
Street
O
Very, say some; but others diagnose ́
live yet
by 1013 WALTER
SCHWARZ
London. RAVELY the doctors
ABISTROTESEBASTIAN SUALIN
Service we always had a queue of 30 doctors waiting for rooma." Is it time then, to chalk up this patient on the danger-Ilst? I wonder...
rival comp
| American citizen, John Noble, who was releuscit after ning and a half
Russian years in captivity. He made a statement about his experiences to a press conference in Berlin,
BIG STRIKE
In
of
Nable, who had.. been Vorkuta until the middle 1954, confirins # number of points made by other Cyo- witnesses, particularly the two Germans, Frau Brigitte Gerland and Dr Scholmer,
Noble has told ones more the remarkable story of the strike of the Vorkuta slave labourers suminer of 1953. This
in
an
the
a
new
m
has emerged as one of the most momentous events
Soviet Russia since the war. Over 100,- 000 prison camp inmates seem day. Now? Thirteen doctors, to have participated, and several 80-odd patients and not a Dalm-hundreds were either shot or
er in sight."
"disappeared" after the liquida- This man is employed by the tion of the strike by the comp ¡cuscholder. Not only, it is said, administration. to open the door, but to put one
element in tick for every paitent against the Noble's account which
There
might name of each doctor. his
explain how such a huge strike comes in useful. It is whispered, could be organised at all under shake I received a shock on.
their hends
in matters of rent adjustment. Soviet conditions. He suggests Towns la 21 states have a
Up the stairs, second on the that and apprehensively the
officers took hearing that a British ex urfew
some MVD on youths of under 19.
I knocked on one door, about right, is a spruce gynaecologist, change teacher was warned One Southern Lown burred five-guinea specialists apply
half-way
down the Street, on white-coated, "Sit down, he part in it, demoralised, perhaps
by Berla's arrest. their at her school, which is in youngsters between 12 and 18
stethoscopes. The
the west side. It has 13 brass beams.Promise-pot-too-Noble also mentioned rumours of July
patient is Harley Street,
name-plates. The elderly re- my name and I will a respectable suburb, that from the last Fourth
that Stalin's son, Vassily, is she shouldn't turn her back festival, if ever there was une
fireworks display-a children's
Disease diagnosed: National
tainer who opened it, to let me there is a big boom in Harley being held in the Lublanka scope for private practice may in, is a connaisseur of the Street.” on her class in case she got because, said the Chief of Police: Health Service. The symp be so restricted that it may not Street's affairs.
Prison in Moscow. These "Last a knife in her ribs.
of kids toms a bunch
are plain. Unsightly year
"Done the job for 27 years,"
is rumours may be unfounded, but such an arrest would be the kind some pranks
and darn gaps break the trim re- our worth while to preserv played
he reported. In the old days Britain's best economic pointer. of thing one might expect to early blew up the whole crowd."
of gularity
the Street,
one doctor Ilved and practised The here, ran a Daimler, and suw up go the luxury sales. I am happen in the present Soviet They are bombed sites no
tour or five wealthy patients a one of the luxuries, just like TV situation. one has thought it worth
Relatives of erstwhile pro- sels, and cars. I have as many patients now as I had before the mintert people have often been under 10 were arrested for In Los Angeles a 12-year-old while to rebuild.
the Soviet Union POSSESSING firearms
Service. 1955 will be a bumper arrested in und for boy stuppedi
Smug, the baby he was
prosperous fronted "uninwful assembly" for
year for Harley Street provided and sent to camps in and near ging minding and hit it with a rope houses stand empty. They have
Vorkuta. the Stock Exchange holds firm,”
The Polish engineer (Any person
38 end.
been empty for years now. The baby died.
Antony Ekart, for instasee, buy
In Connectiui, 22-calibre
A malignant Jun
rash of business similar
Vanished Without We was published recently. ammunition without so much as reasons, ene agency has entirely premises spreads through the headlog permal). This discontinued teenage baby sit lower rextons. Here is the Asso- number doesn't even lake into ting.
ciation of Road Tar Distillers, Berount those arrested for stick-
In Illinois two teenagers were where once white-coated Involved ups and burglaries,
in an accident withsultants only were allowed. Over their "hot rod" automobilu which there a trade union office- killed two sisters and sent eight that of the actors. Everywhere
นาย other high school kids to hospital. fire
architects,
The facts justify the warning, the past three weeks one buy has been killed and
In
p Aleeman
youthful shot by a gunman. Thirty-four boys agert
baltics. here
Can
over
STATE OF SIECE
10
Judge
FINGER IN DYKE
solicitors,
What is the cause of this accountants. One juvenile court
great upsurge of juvenile crime, Tho Beveridge Report pre- Loose 22 boys, which shows an increase of 64.3 dicted it in 1942. refused to turn
Uilder the the customary tax approach to
Health Service "the possible the fact that there isn't cough percent over 19517 space for their detention.
10-
sead, he called Mayer Wagner and insisted on--and get-space
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are aware, says
The New York Youth Board, recently formed to deal withi the situation, is clear-sighica but pessimistic.
centre
Sure enough, they are saying it today. The Street as a medical
has passed its zenith, (Dr Leonard Jacobs writing in the Prac- titioner.)
"The younger consultants
today prefer the safe salaries of the hos pitals to the hazards of the Street" (Spokesman for the Fellowship for the Freedom of Medi- cine.)
And a local estate
has agen!
the figures, "100 vacant consulting rooma are on our books. Before the Health
SAM WHITE'S PARIS NEWSLETTER
Boom?
"Certainly.
The
Street
nation's business is good:
GOOD MONEY
Jean,
Trace,"
book
TUR-
med thero Svetiyann hachevskaya, daughter of the famous, Marshal Tukhachevťky, niece of
Galina cov
Up more stairs: bespectacled dermatologist, "Sit down," he grunts. “Don't quote Marshal
Chief of but.compared with other the Soviet General Staff during professions our standard of the war, and the daughter of fiving has tumbled right down." Uborevich, once commander of 1. the
Whito Russian military This dermatologists, fees
me,
JAK
THE IMMORTALS GET A JUNIOR MEMBER
would
Paris. As though this, were not time on winning over has stormed enough, he was also a know- actually read one of them."
Said another hostess 10-
"Y the Academy" head- ledgeable critle of boxing, ceaving the news that Cocteau
п
* your."
Executive Director Ralph Whelan admits frankly that the Board simply hasn't the Ainometal resources to meet the lined a Paris newspaper, long before the age of air travel had actually been elected, "Ah, man problem. It merely "has its when 66-year-old play de cucccssfully undertock to go how it ages one."
inger in the dyke.""
"How
that
HARD LIFE
five guineas for the first con- district, sultation and three guineas a time after
have not changed since the war. But expenses have nearly trebled.
"I take £2,000 a year in pri- Life in the cool mines and vate fees. Taxation (It used to lumber camps of Vorkuta is go be £200) accounts for 2060. hard that it might be expected Consigling room rent (wed to to destroy any Intelligent human be £225) is £450, and I pay thought sexd lead to the utter my secretary £400-(Instead of demoralisation of the prisoners, £2241)
But those who have returned But the leandermatologist often bring back a message of does not blame the Health Ser-hope. They have shown that vice. It brings in good money, the combination of Communist Like most specialists he works police terror and the harshness part-time in a hospital, "Just of the Arctic climate have falled like in the old days, only now I to reduce the prisoners to get paid for it around £1,500 animal level.
Thoughts, ideals and hoper The eminent chr-rose-throat have remained alive. Brigitte.
is cry the ground Boor. Gerland told of camp inmates Very distinguished people are who produced hand-written
patients."Don't
the Now copies of the result of a bet,
my name, old' chap. Dr. Scholmer, described Cocteau is ducttante playfully engaged in
I earn around 10,000 a religious services in some of the Danings: year. The Health Service is a coal mines; and Noble, the daren different activities from A "One of the most striking blessing, in disguise for good latest arrival, says that fadih in choreography to film making, superiorities of the English is specialists.
God helped him to, survive. from
poetry to painting. He the way they manage to give a "If the Service kill anyone it The 200-year-old Academy". was -one of the earliest foreigner an inferiority com will be the G.Ps, not us It
and friends restricted to 40 members, known champions
of plex the moment he sets foot in has made „Britain" "Tspecialist=. as "The Immortals," has thereby Ficamo and Diaghilev,
the country" forgiven him for being a wit, an innovator and a thoroughly wi conventional human being. The Dow "Immortal" is unfortunate. ly a little dated, Most of his writings belong to the twenties and are now as contemporary as a ragtimo dance tune,
·GREAT PARISIAN
talented
can you expect high wright, poet and boulevar- mound the world in 80 days as
Cocteau WES morals in teenagers," he asks, dier Jean "when from 12 to 10 members elected to that citadel of of families sleep in just two literary respectability, the
French Academy.
rooms?"
LAX-PARENTS
Apart from New York's slums, which are the worst in the world, more fortunately pincod familles
equally Bevold of a community spirl,
Whelan, Parents, .. should be responsible for their children, at lear In Imowing where they are at night."
19.
It
still
SICK MAN
QUOTES
UTHOR Pierre
Ex-Premier Mendes-Franco
the a skiing holiday in French Alps: "Skiing is the perfect
exercise for, a French
but
his
donacious."
CONFIDENCE
Now a siekanan, Cocteau defies his doctors and refuses to be in Premier. It teaches him how
to fall." prisoned in its country home Premier Edgar Faure on his stamica In the old Street,
Perhaps, after all, there is near Paris or in his South of ch Frame villa. He has
Certainly Lord Howard de only choice of Minister of Post and The Youth Board inelets that
recently recovered from a heart Telegraphs: "He spoke so long Walden, lanford of thout of the this is a long-term problem.
but this has not dect to give it to him." attack,
on the phone that I finally de-
Harley Street medical. len't one person's headache. It
area,
hda vented him from the arduous the
confidence in the future, He a i comimity affair and
on w Painter Edmond Heuze electioneering
not allow the road-ter sections of it must take respon-
involved in being t New - grey-haired
a condidate for the Academy,
Parte dress designers:
Thay
distillers to send, northwards sibišty.
the heaviest
retaining a singularly $ Áhful A feature of this electioners waistline, do away
suppress the bust, lower the of Qu
Queen responsibility lies in the home.
Antin Street, poetors mocking foxpression, he remains Ing is the endless round of din hips without any concern over policy.
with the or nothing,” Teenagers
*****the estate's canvacand in nation-wide
nor parties which candidate the aestheile heresies they are research
14 gennt ; Parisian character, pleaded
ubiquitous as the Eiffel Tower he hopes to win. unanimously: "/"Get tough with
must give for those whose voles The son of a military family Unai American parents stop
rends stop Contests, who simbers admirals As a bachelor, he has called breing” botead of their children and generals amcost his close upon a number of eminenily which they "freely," admijumi.
relatives
fryt startled Paris fashionable hostess to help | over the, čolantrysiönd. Toni' to kanodiately after the 1914-18 him out with carefully or Colonel the Hon, Troddý Now and mean. He strica we will decline hostage. "Yea Inalstad on Binford Cripps: 1 in Paris to galisod dinner parties, Bald Cripps, brother' of the lale Bir SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. LTD. when coperte de in spectacular decadent private talking about him look and advisor famous Paris Tshion
win have a juvenile delinquency is wielding good, lookah
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