THE QUEEN MOTHER HAS SET AN
THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1955.
EXAMPLE FOR ALL
Firmly She Closed the
S
Door on Grief
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IXTEEN years ago, when King. George VI and Queen Elizabeth were touring Canada, two days
of rest were allowed at the Banff Springs Hotel, which lies in a magnificent position in the heart of the Rocky Mountains.
The royal party and those
Continuing
THE ROYAL - SUCCESS STORY
most
by Richard Dimbleby
the
of us whose humble duty it incident, and even remembered about to retire from public life was to travel with it en at once the name of one of the when she bought a castle in
reporters who had most remote northern corner of joyed complete relaxation in. American
assiduous in his Sectland.. superb scenery and bracing broen.
questions. air.
There, think, lies the secret of the great popularity of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to day the fact that she is always home, always at ease, and always, apparently,
One evening when most of the Commonwealth and Ameri- can. Press correspondents were gathered in the main lounge und hall of the huge hotel, the came v→ and Queen King
the f: and from expectedly joined them.
ex-
herself.
enjoying
Greatest trial
At
A3
an ambassadress she has
no equal I am certain that, if the Constitution allowed it, she would
become by now have Britain's representative in u important
abroad and Post wouta ancharge her duties with brilliant success.
As it is there has been talk of "inviting her to become Governor-General of Canadia for which position she would be Yet I am glad equally iden that she his remained simply the Queen Mother, for she was the Queen and should re- main above any office which can be involved, however remotely, with politics.
she
In any case, there is much for her to do. The success of fer visit to the United States, which was careful to make “official” so that no atten- tion should be drawn to her from her daughter, the Queen, was Arst-class example of her
Instead she withdrew only ability. from the limelight in favour of
The Americans, except per- her daughter, refusing to do baps those who remembered her anything which might detract from that hotel in the Rocity the public attention Mountains 15 years before, were from focused upon the young Queen amazed to find a member of the British Royal Family so <%- There
so happy, was a great deal of gagingly informal, work that she could do as Queen and so easy to get on with. Mother, and she turned to it with decision and energy.
I think she may have remem-
Were delighted
of indo the crowds of
an entirely informal Tow difficult this has been for It was
with everyone. How did in imagine. occusion: changing anecdotes and badl-
time of her life, bred the example set nearly 20 nage about the events of the the happiest
when she and the King had led years warlier by her mother-in- tour. The King was in the nation through the greatest Law Queen Mary, who refused Form as he talked to the Amen trial in its history
to allow her personal grief on the death of George V to inter- can reporters, and they, in turn, looking forward together to the fired questions of every kind at new age of peace, the husband fire with her public work, and him and the Queen, being un- to whom she was utterly devoted continued to labour for the good
who loved her star of the people
·fettered By the formality
10. died suddenly one night
until the day of her death. which we are accustomed
Lively party
and were
He had given his failing strength entirely to the service of his people, thus obeying the royal Tradition of self-sacrifice. Overnight she was no longer the First Lady of the Land but the subject of her young daugh- ter, the new Queen.
Ambassadress
Ir
QUALLY, the Queen Mother may have been conscious of 'that unhappy Queen, Victoria, who allowed personal sorrow to shut her off from the nation for 20 years after the Prince Con- sort died.
THEY noticed how she went Harlem on a shopping expedition, how she stopped to comfort a tiny child frightened by photo- graphers flash bulbs, and how amused he was when one young- her: "You're the Queen Mum, aren't you?"
as, d
The Americans, who can be the most formal of people when ..they think formality is necessary, were surprised and delighted. One of the popular newspapers devoted its banner headlines to the royal visitor: "Wife of a King, Mother of a Queen, Sister of all Americans."
The Queen Mather with Prince Charles and Princess Anne.
CONCLUDING THE THRILLER
AMONG THE
SET
STARS
TICKET TO TROUBLE
By LEONARD MOSLEY
LOUISE FRASER, a young British actress in Cannes for the Film Festival, meets "Jules" in the Casino at 2 am to hand over a mysterious package, containing an address and key, given her earlier by a woman called Elsa. Jules sends her with it to Elsa .... and then Louise finds Eiss dead- The strangler, demanding the ker strangled in her car. attacks Louise. She flings the key into the harbour and runs back to the Casino, Jules and the police take her to Surete. horrified at the loss of the key. "Someone will die to- morrow," they say, "if we don't open the box in time.
Cannes, in Southeast Asia. And HAVE been in racketeers in France would
able to cash in on disaster, trouble ever since I have been at the
All this Jules told me.
with the police, only you will know that there will be A criminal among the guests, and we shall see that he does not get another victim."
Blink-rate Is A Clue In Tests
By Chapman Pincher
SPECIAL laboratory.
A for testing the precise
effects of pep-pills, "truth- serums," and other drugs on the Brain has been set up at the Maudsley." Hospital, South London.
People are to have their Dervous reactions, brain-waves, and reflexes measured while under the influence of
drugs.
the
Оле piece of equipment rearas the rate at which people Bunk their eyes,
ray Cimarred by Dr Cyri Franks have found that it is possible to make people Blizin iher eyes automatically when a certain musical nato is sounded.
The note is sounded repeated- ly while a puff of air is blown at a person's eye to make him blink. After a few trials the person cannot help blinking when the note is sounded with. but the airpuff.
People who are excitable and anxious can be "conditioned" to blink to music far more easily than quiet, cautious people,
Dr Franks has lound that certain kinds of criminals culled psychopaths are extremely diffi. cult to condition by the eye-blink test,
This defect may be largely responsible for ineir criminal behaviour because they cannot easily learn the rules of social conduct,
When I got back to the hotel, STOP-POLIO PLAN FAILS
Madame Durand was valting
for me with an envelope.
*
Inside was an invitation from
UARANTINING of people
QUARANTE NON in contact wit
доб
the British Delegation to the cases of poliomyelitis has the Film Festival to be their guest stopped the disease spreading
at the presentation of the Bri- in
be
ates carried out by the tish film. And standing to one Public Health Laboratory in side was a little man with
England, "note in his hand. It was from
FTER half an hour, and when A the unrestrained manner of the New York reporters had added such zest and gusto to the conversation that the party
The Queen Mother's outstand was becoming very lively ene
contribution to the royal
Perhaps we indeed, two of us from Britain, ing
are more under
the mistaken impression story has been the example she
strained, but in "the deep affec- that the Queen might welcome has set to women throughout
nation feels for Britain and the Commonwealth On the many occasions when tion that the
Jules is an official of the the French Foreign Office an excuse for retiring, men-
who are suddenly bereaved. I have been near the Queer te Queen Mother there lies the Cannes Film Festival-and tioned to her that the lift was
her it is not playing fair to say French Secret Service, charged presentative at the Festival. behind
grief withdraw Mother I have been impressed by understanding that, with waiting
if she and her
normal, active lite to her serenity and happiness. She ready, sincere smile, her keen now that I have nothing to with the job of protecting the Emperor Bao' Dai. Elsa was return to her suite from wanted to
become tragic widows.
seems to have closed the great interest, and her acceptance of worry about, that every one of his operatives.
the
everlasting programme of chapter of her Aide when she public duties, she is serving the thing is settled. For her daughter was Queen, and to have opened nation as faithfully as she has
upstairs.
in their
new one,
Content in her SUCCESS
as
the always done.
I shall not forget in a hurry Her Majesty's reply, in a torgy of
daughter's mild surprise. “Oh, no, thank you. We're enjoying ourselves." CHE might easily have done Sovereign and comforted in the most Not bong ago, in the course of this, for her grief was pro- knowledge treasured by
found,
are and indeed there were grandmothers that they with the Queer a conversation Mother, she reminded me of the many who thought she was still wanted" by the family.
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toll of road deaths,
But how can I stop my- self when that is the way I feel? Last night there was and terror and murder suspense. Tonight there is nothing but happiness.
the box? the key and They came from Saigon' few days ago, by anonymous hands, to provide the French Secret Service with ali the
Ah well, I had better ex- names they need of the organi- sation which is plotting to plain.
create unrest and disruption Southeast Asia.
There was this question of the key and the box. And the
secret of poor Elsa, outside the Casino,
strangled
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said "Welcome to Cannes," the note. “You have proved yourself a friend of France and
The Health Ministry had high hopes that polio outbreaks might be held in check if families with polio cases put themselves into voluntary quarantine,
So doctors tried to control a
we appreciate your efforts. In a small polio outbreak in return. will you please present country district in East Suffolk, quarantine was applied yourself at the shop of Madame Strict Hury on the Croisette and to the families of the first four choose any dress you wish at cases, but tests showed that it our expense? We would wish a did not stop the rapid spread pretty English girl like you to cl the virus--the ultrami appear at her most ravishing at croscopic the premiere tonight."
polio.
germ responsible for
The Investigation was super- vised by Dr Alan Goffe, who
with Dr has studied
Jonas
Dr
2020
Salk, the American scientist T nine-thirty this evening responsible for the anti-polia Tonight," said Jules, "the A walked up the steps of the vaccine, Emperor Bao Dai will accom- Festival Cinema, and everyone "We conclude that the find. pany the Aga Khan and his in the foyer turned and looked ings in the household contacta wife to the cinema for the at me. The lights went on. The suggest that quarantine could I threw away the key when Briüsh film, A Kid for Two photographers crowded round not be an effective preventiva.../ the strangler attacked me. And Farthings.' You know this The flash-lights began to póp. measure in poliomyelitis," that was bad. But at least I Abra?” had kept the address that Elsa
Sir Carol Reed and Sir Alex-Goffe reports in the Lancet, had written. At police head- "I should do," I said. "I am
ander Korda both came up [to] POLIO FROM A MONKEY MERICAN car users, quarters they were kind and the girl who just missed being me and escorted me up the A faced by an appailing sympathetic-so different from in it."
stairs.
22-year-old London my first visit-and we went "We think" he went от
A working with monkeys infect are through the files once more. But that one of our enemies may "You look lovely and youed with infantile paralysis con- taking to seat belts for still I could not trace the make
ar attempt on the make me proud that you are an drivers and passengers.. shaven-headed strangler......
emperor as he goes to see this English actress," said Sir Carol acted the disease and had to a doctor alm. If only we can find the "Next time, I shall see person-be taken to hospital, Meanwhile, they were searchè.
a medical jcurnal.. cutting-room floor."
The man was manufacturers will in the the
English number plate. It whom to arrest."
3 laboratory next few weeks be selling was four o'clock in the morning "But why do you need the There was a disturbance, in technician in one of the tenras safety belts as an optional when a policemar. came in with key?" I asked. "Once you And the foyer, and when I turned trying to improve the vaccine
paralysis (po item of equipment through- the news. They had found the the box, all you need to do is round I saw Jules and the de- against infantile
car abandoned on the edge of break it open. I have the teative wrestling with a man.lomyelitis) developed by out its whole line of cars.
a ravine close to the perfume address," I dived into my hand- He had a shaven-head but no Jonas Salk of Pittsburgh. town of Grasse.
bag and handed it to him. "Who eye patat once the strangler, who treated the mum at Neasden
this time I re-
Dr W. F. Twining McMath, The belts similar to those used on airliners, will be sold in sets of three for the front sent at a cost of about £17 17, If required, the three back-
will also seat passengers
the same price,
A leading firm of caring the town for the car with box and open it we shall know ally that you do not end on the has disclosed., in
was
"
The company says it convinced of the need for seat belts after studying the findings of university and police re- And this is searchers and its own laboratory
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cares about the key?"
only 1, in that crowded Hospital, London, believes he "No one," said Jules, except foyer, knew the significance of was infected through a small cut in one of his fingers while for one thing The key is made what was happening. of solid
is excrusted
examining a monkey which hath can discard your wall calendar, you can forger
beross a rock,
OWN. in the gorge, sprawled with diamonds and rubies.
A voice through a microphone died after being injected with was Elsa's is the personal key to the said: "Please take your places, a virulent strain of poliomyelitis old-fashioned
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"Up germs. is worth-in the stairs came Bao Dat and the The man did not become winds itself with every flick of your wrist. Automati- "The belts are made of cottonmortuary and asked Jules and Viet Nam, and
your money-something
like Aga Khan and his lovely wife paralysed, though, the fingers of webbing with buckles and are me to go and identify her.
They passed into the cinema. both hands became weak. cally, too, the date mechanism changes every 24 hours. Azed to the steel beams under
And he told me the story, £50,000,"
was not given the new vaccine, the car floor.
France, as you know, has many He handed the letter from
I felt a squeeze on my arm which is effective in preventing It's simple, sturdy, foolproof.
enemies today. She has trouble Elsa to the detective. You and I saw Jules. "Go into the in North Africa and in Viet will bring the box here and we film and enjoy yourself, made the disease but not in treating Nam.
will break it open," he said. moiselle," he said. "I am very Instead he was given on to- plot to cash in. And turning to me: "This will sorry you do not appear on the by a group of gangsters, on a be a pity, also. For the box is screen yourself tonight. But do fection of gamma globulin, a of the treasures of the not worry. Some day you will blood extract which sometimes political problem. For here in one Cannes is the Emperor of Viet Orient, of gold and jewels too." be a great star, and I shall be helps to reduce the severity of
in the audience to applaud
an attack, you. of Nam, Bao Đại
He made a complete recovery Meanwhile, please, accept from
after a month in hospital and is Government The French
Govern me the thanks of the Those in favour claim that,
ጀነርን working
monkeya ment of France."
agazin although the belts cannot give anxious for a solution of the immunity in head-on crashes at problem of Viet Nam. But there
NOTE: More than 600 Inidan I turned and looked down the stood up and pulled me to H high speeds, people using them are others who wish to make
"And now you stairs. The police had gone monkeys have died aboard a my feet too;
travelling from will be safer in accidents at low trouble.
must go back to your hotel, taking the strangler with them. German ship
Calcutta to Hamburg. India and medium speeds.
If, for instance, they can kill Mademoiselle. You are tired
Suddenly was very happy.banned the export of monkeyn Those against say that people Bao Dai-well, that would upset
"But tonight, when the Bri- I have been here for five days to Britain after 394- were oc- strapped in may be so jarred any plans the French might
the but it is as if the Cannes Film cidentally suffocated at London that they suffer broken necks, have (together with the Big dish film is presented dislocated spines or other injury, Four) to arrange a settlement Festival and you see me there Festival for me has just begun.Airport."
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