THE CHINA MAIL, "SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1955.
RICHARD DIMBLEBY, the man who has enjoyed unique opportunities of seeing its first two
first two years unfold, reports on
THE ROYAL SUCCESS STORY
Our Young Queen Has Done Her Work Wonderfully
T
WO
the world! It says years ago, on govern the United Kingdom about that rainy day in and t Commonwealth ac- nothing of the tremendous June 1953, I sat in cording to their laws and responsibilities of State that Westminster Abbey customs, to uphold Law and the Sovereign must bear: and watched the splendour Justice
Merey, to of the - self-sacrifice and
I"gaw
with
demanded of a
of the ceremony of Corona- maintain the laws of God, ceaseless devotion to duty tion.
Her Majesty the 'rotestant religion, and that are the Queen sign the only the Established Church. written contract that exists
Queen.
It it a brief enough docu- Nor is there any reason why between the Crown and the ment, this Coronation Oath, a should. for it is in the royal people, the parchment Oath to cover the governing of tradition that the children are
which she
swears to millions of people spread ught from their earliest years
in
THE DAY OF DEDICATION
ود
that they
arc the servants of Their people, and that they must give their whole lives to service."
Now, two Years after her Coronation, faithfully
We can see how the Queen has done her work, how clearly she has fulfilled the wish that she ex- Day pressed in her Christmas broadcast
from Auckland, New
Zealand, in 1953; "I want to show that the Crown is not merely an abstract symbol ol our unity. but a personal and living bond between you and me."
IN PRIDE
OF PLACE
is not easy to express the I.
feelings that we have for the Queen of the part that the Monarchy plays in our daily lives.
Love, admiration, loyalty, re- spect; these are the obvious emotions shared by us all. But behind them there is something deeper and more mysterious that it is difficul: to put into. words.
AND THEN DAYS OF DUTY WITH A SMILE
together the Queen.
nations that make up the Com- holds the world-wide family Annigoni explained: "In monwealth family, to each of which she is as much "our"" Queen as she is to us in Britain.
SAND, SUN, SOCIETY-AND
29,000 ROOMS
By Jacqueline Engert
H
New York, millions dredging swamps, creal- of silt hom ENTRAL Park has final- ing firm land out
the bottom of the neighbouring ly burst into a green bay, laying out streets. He bullt Spring bloom. The benches three hotels and launches ..an are. back again in Rocke, immense advertising camp
campaign. feller Centre where secre-
multi-million dollar in vestment paid - move and taries and tourists compete more hotels sprouted ne more for a place in the lunch-hour and more visitors streamed in..
four new sun to watch the crowds on This year,
luxury hotels Fifth Avenue. The smart
swung open their ricors. The ultra-luxurious Fominine- set is back from Florida” bleau an enormous Surni-
circular while concrete moister
# was a long cold winter with 363. roma cost $15,000,- But even while the New York
Rates 533 a day to $200 temperatures hovered around a day for a penthouse sulie. fressing point it was fashionable The nearby Golden Gate cost to have a suntan. Snobs bask- $6,500,000
It has decking fact-
ed secretly by sunray lamps in mies for twenty private yachts.
their centrally-heated apart-
ments but the authentic glow
m1438.
Attractions
came from Florida. During the cold months. It was a society Florida's attractions besides warmth, parties and familiar Socialites fed from the bitter faces deep-sea fishing, hunt- winda which whipped along ing, horse and greyhound rac- the city sidewalks. With their ing, concerts, water sports and Frail poodles tucked under their. card shops. Entertainment pro-
migrated. Ingrammes are elaborately they ams hundreds to the "unshine state neda
millionaires winter Florida 15
axi the
playground. There, cafe society assembled and gossip columns
celebrities
fut having Trolle by the brisk blue ocean and the palm trees.
plan-
network of which cover waterways
3,805 square miles and include 30,- bubbled with the names of .000 lakes. The watery "ever- andglades" in the south form one of the most exotic spots if the people know their way in the west swampy labyrinth. Boating visitors are warned to take charts. Fitting on the water and in the trailing trees are are and
colourful birds. Wild white beaches are
lovely senttered with
sea shells. Red mangroves grow as high as 80 feet
Swanky hotels and night the States. Few clubs, did a booming business. Millionaires new extravagant parties for friend in the me of sweet charity. Sectal gatherings wore atended by the Puke and Deness at Waldror, Hollywood Alm stars. the giantcrcus, the wealthy and the hangers-on.
Gold Coast
The swamps are dotted with little islands of sawgrass And tropical trees, clumps of pines, papaya and wild rubber and salt prairies. In the waters are
fish, alligators,
OC-
Eatches of little businessiner Focodiles, and in the
took off for Florida tho-10 do business with 35 many tycocks and relaxing executives the luxurious
is they could find softened by"
winter sunshine. Along the "gold Miami and Miami Beach Lake best 20
the very pose. the till of her head, and the richness of the The Royal Tour undoubtedly Garter robes I tried to convey brought Britaia into closer and all the regal majesty and dignity more sympathetic contact with of the Throne. But that was the Commonwealth and Empire not all the picture had to show. Furthermore through news I wanted to capture in her the papers,
television, and spirit of youth. It had to Glans, razio, it brought those countries
of a beautiful portrait, too. closer to us.
young woman.”
I wonder if it is not just Her Majesty's personal qualities that affect us. but the realisa- tion that we of Britain and the Commonwealth have preserved our security and our freedom throughout the centuries under
To see the Queen acclaimed
A great deal is written about royal government.
over the world, to see her the Queen's all..
"private life" that When we look at the Queen agaist the splendor of moun is unworthy: the Reyal Family we $60, in
the tain, desert and prairie, of new is subjected to torrents of sent- fact, Sovereign who.
changing cities and rich farmlands, all mental inaccuracy, indeed sheer
her human form, has guided and within personal domain. Action. guarded our affairs for 900 years, was. to realise more vividly ever before how vast is assessment of the two the family to which we belong
Any
in
"than
I have attended scores, per- royal years since the Coronation and how important to the pra haps hundreds of royal and must give pride of place to the and prosperity of the world. State occasiors in my capacity Commonwealth Tour.
magni-
15 a commentator, I have struggled as many times to find.
the right words to describe the
ficent in conception and unique
in its compass, for never before ROLE IN
bad
true meaning of the Sovereign cumnavishing Sovereign cir- THE FUTURE
to the nation.
Her very exister.ce is a guarantee cl strength and solidarity, not just to us at home but to the several separate
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beth tried twice to start the
long journey as a Princess, being prevented Arst by her father's illness and second by his sudden death.
When finally she reached the Commonwealth peoples she was Queen, and Queen of each country in which she stayed.
THINK there is no secret in the fact that the unparalleled success of the Tour led to dis-
hunting
undergrowth bears and snakes
In this strange
region live 650 Seminole Indians in quaint straw huts, called "chickees." ecust, They support themselves. inde-
pendently fishing, visitors of the gold and polling most
about the water resoris. Miami has spinning
canoes. wilderness in shallow seven miles of ocean beach. It
These Indians waged, a feren has a special following of old
winter and relentless war against the people, who sit out th in the sun year after year and whites early in the 1800s... trail northwards with esminst of spring like birds.
tape
migrant
News Miami sitraction B a $1,250,000 aquarium am The truth is that Her Majesty❘ merhead sharks, sailfish and has lite or no private life as other ocean creatures wallow we know it. She carries a per-deus of Occos water is channels through which petual "responsibility to which she had dedicated herself.
10
Their War
A group took refuge in the Everglades and refused to re
ognise the United States Gov- crmment, Until recently-until tourists penetrated their terri- tery-they lived undisturbed. Shortly after the United States
declared war so, they
the "playboy.
did
Hitler as a separate nation.
Florida,
But
pumped per minute. (Celebrities we admire her devotion it is can go deep-sea fishing them our duty to see
a day,) to it that the selves for $40 to $60 a few moments of privacy left to
Miami Beach
is claimed to be state", is growing up. Industry the world's hotel
its her are respected.
is moving in among the hotels. capital eight square miles provide 29,- Huge new housing estates are hotel rooms. was de going up for workers, and
from
of Americans are unknown thousands
swamp, moving south to live all year-
000
Particularly is this necessary
of veloped
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It
the case of the Duke village in a mangrove kussions about the future role Cornwall and Princess Anne. Millionaire Carl G. Fisher spent in the balmy sunshine.
that Her Majesty may play as Charles and Anne shall not be The Queen has asked that Queen of so much of the earth's treated yet with the formality surface,
due to royaltya request which SHOTGUNS GUARD
This she made clear when she
It will not be long surely, be- may be construed as a mother's opened the Australian Federal fore the speed and comfort of desire that her children should Parliament, addressing it "not air travel will make it possible not be spoiled. as a Queen from far away but for her to have a home in each
as your Queen and part of your of the Commonwealth countries HELP AND Parliament."
•
EACH IS INDEPENDENT
(and, perhaps, within the Colonial Empire
also)
which INSPIRATION
she can visit regularly. It will
be our loss, but knowing the full
to
It would
DIAMOND MAKERS
From RICHARD KILIAN
cal,"
THIS much we can do to lighten meaning of the Queen's presence the Queen's burden andi
New York, that its research laboratories with us, we can hardly begrudge
a had created diamonds--but pro-, v her to maintain the TWO selentists, working in
between her THE "Australian Prime Minister the other members of the family to help
barn on an isolated farm duction costs were uneconomie; THE
life as the Sovereign and her near New York are making At Spring Lake Dr Tamarkiza and well-being life as a wife and mother. had the same thought in their share of the comfort and delicate balance
sense of pride mind
in his speech at Can- that she brings.
diamonds cheaply by chemical and Mr Vilella said their pro berra: "The moving truth
be a practical way process, And they never move cess is already "highly economi tonight has nothing to do with Second only to her outstand-
service high pomp or regal splendour ing
to the Common- of expressing our gratitude to far from their gems,
her for all that she has done
Rifles and shotguns are loaded Who are these ment it is quite simply that you are wealth in the past two years 1
in the two years since she took in your own country and among would put the success with
the Oath and signed her con-night the barn is lit up by flood-came to the U.S. from Paris and ready for instant action. At
DR TOMARKIN—he is 59 your own people,"
which Her "Majesty has com- bined the roles of Queen and tract with us. nother
She has contrived to We
in 1940 to organise a scientifia leave it, perhaps, lights to discourage intruders. We at home are apt to lake
may her arduous
that master of simple, for granted the co- fulf
For the two men-Dr Leandro congress. He stayed on, too much
programme 19 operation of ne
Sir Winston Tomarkin, from Switzerland, and forthright speech, Common- of
too (often far of engagement
MR VILELLA is a graduate wealth, We must realise that arduous) and her daily work on Churchill, to sum up all that we Marlo Vilella, from Puerto Rico of San Juan University Puerto the days have gone when documents
-have worked out the formula and State papers feel, in the words which he used
making diamonds from Britain laid down a course of while still remaining a young when addressing the Queen at for
dinner at No. 10.
They met, discussed their action, confident that the Empire unspoiled woman and a devoted his farewell
ordinary carbon, Downing o
Street:
ideas, raised some money, and " countries would follow suit au- parent.
should like to ex- The success of the new, pro- bought the farm at Spring tomatically.
cess is the result of five years' Lake, One of the Ginest royal por press the deep and lively sense the hard fact is that traits ever painted that by of gratitude which we and all work
at the Today
farm at Spring They installed 3 300-ton each
hydraulic
which of the Com Annigeni (and 1 country
am insular your peoples feel to you and to Lake,
press
gayd The secret can be revealed them the high pressures needed monwealth is an entirely inde enough to wish that we had not His Royal Highness the Duke of
Tomarkin and Mrs much because Dr tree pendent unit,
to follow been forced to go to Italy for a Edinburgh, for all the help and
350,000kb. a we receive in our Vella have been granted policies, it it so desires, that work of such calibre), has cap- inspiration
square inch, and which spreads conflict with ours, to form tured this combination of youth daily lives,
They heated the materials WEL alliances and enter treaties with- and dignity."
growing strength patent, Now they are planning
necessary by electricity-as high realm to move into larger quarters, throughout
the British out reference to us.
They are not the first to pro as 6,000 degrees Fahrenheitin The young Queen, in her and the Commonwealth and
duce diamonds-an international a small, aluminium cylinder, · Each is strong, wealthy, and Garter robes, gazes steadfastly. Empire."
sign of wealth-in a laboratory. And after years of patient, immensely proud of its indie- proudly into the future, the
SATURDAY: THE Last February the General lonely, and devoted work they pendence. Yet each acknow- symbol, as the artist said, of the NEXT
CHALLENGE TO THE DUKE Electric Company announced produced a real diamond ledges gladly the one link that new Elizabethan Age.
*
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“Madam.
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THAT'S WHY
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STARTED WHEN 1
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ever
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HER FORGET MANDRAKE. THAT'S WHY E
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