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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1955.
EAST GERMANY TURNING Grey Goose Why The Pyramids
AWAY FROM
FREE LOVE
Berlin, July 12.
Communist East Germany is turning away from the encouragement of free love, illøgitimate'
comer, should be addressed to children and easy divorce under the pressure of
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POSITIONS VACANT
Church and public opinion.
A Communist family draft law, attacked by the Churches and public as undermining the family as a Christian unit of society, is to be amended to take into account the public antagonism which it has aroused.
This is the essence of a long divortes being granted frivolous- nliche by Frau Hilde Benjamin,ly upon the husband's claim that the Minister of Justice, published his wife had not been able to in Einhell, a Communist Party keep up with his "social develop- Journal for the Instruction of munt" and was hampering his Party officials.
It is the more remarkable be
published in June last year, was
progress.
PRESSURE ON WIVES
had been
enses of
cause the family law draft, first There then welcomed by her, and pressure un wives to agres to dozens of other Communist a divorce on similar grounds, lenders, us the latest step progressive social reform.
not come For the
she said, in which the alleged A Date With
agreement of the wife was not rarely bought by the husband with promies that he would maintain her."
"On this the process of clari- eight-cation is by no means ended,"
Benjamin added.
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Rolls- experimental Marine Royce
turbine gas of advanced design, and fifty per cent lighter than orthodox engines and taking up twenty-fiva per cent less room.-Express Photo,
Bristol, July 12.
engines A young British Army officer It would be up to the courts is planning to spend his leave flourish of ha woit
the Communist or-travelling alone among the re- ganisations to
bluo-skinned and vell- to bring the moral mote elements of rig, the de-wearing tribesmen of Rio de Oro mans
marital faithfulness, on the African west coast. Frou Benjamin admitted in the common care for the children Amateur explorer Lieutenant maintenance her article that the reason was and the
David Newton, aged 22, of Bri law the
bes aroused un-family into harmony with per-stol, said he will begin Bicudented discussion, encour-sonal desires and the develop-Journey to the Spanish colony on August 18 to check at first aged by the outspoken public ment of the individual."
officials here believe hand the mysterious stories he Benjamin's statements had heard about the region
certain compromise three years
whillo in
protests of both the Evangelical and Catholic Churches.
The Evangelical Church, which clalms most adherents in East Germany, declared that the law would threaten with extine- { tim Christian marriage and
family life.
of the
Church Frau presage amendments dure and the benefits of "wild marriage."
ago
hls
Administrative City In Brussels
Brussels, July 12. Tho Belgian Cabloct
has decided in principle to build an
On Trials
Hazardous
Solo Flight
With
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Were Built Like Pyramids
London, July 12.
Of all the wonders of the Ancient World, probably the best known are the Pyramids and temples of ancient Egypt,
Yet why the Pyramids were built in that shape and even exactly how they were constructed without modern mechanical means, remains to this day a subject of discussion and disagreement among archaeologists.
Now theories on these age- old problems are advanced by M. Samivel, woll-known In Franco as
artist, author and flm producer, in a book which has just appeared here in Eng- lish translation under the tille "The Glory of Equpt pub- fished by Thames and Hudson- 42s).
A no way
ficial mountains. Once this has been sndd, it would seem that one has said, everything.
im- that
"It is impossible to ngine a material form could symbolise so effective- ly, and with such architectur al simpilcity, the anclert
of aspiration
mankind to reach a heavenly abode and to become identified with the STEN,"
M. Samivel le,, as he says, "'in
professional Egyptologist" and only "an amateur
To the Ancients, preoccupied archaeologist.” Ho
and with the freely admits that it may por-death, the world appeared to be
origin of fe,
pre-
the
hops scom "oxtremely sumptuous" on his part, in view composed of three planes: of his lack of professional terrestrial, or domain of the subterranean, be- Hving the qualifications In this aphere, "tolonging to the dead:
and the Singapore, July 12. dare to formulato
my own
sphere of tran- and seven theory on prayer
subject
which has clestial, the
scendant, superhuman personages hours of aviation fuel in his been hotly debated by men of
spirits, gods and demi-gods. tanks for each hop, Peter Pal- great learning and intelligence. Mountains, pointing towards the mer of England, is flying RA
heavens were considered either 11-year-old two-engined Dragon
to be gods themsolves or the Rapide 4,000 miles solo from
dwelling places of gods. From Southend, England, to Noumea
"But," he pleads in his own this, they came to be regarded in French New Caledonia,
defence, it has always been as the links, or ladder, between the privilege of even the the land of men and the humblest among us to submit heavenly habitations of the thor ideas modestly
the gods. attention of the specialist, and
The 29-year-old war veteran and airways pilot, Peter Palmer, arrived in Singapore yesterday, nine days after he had started on
July 2. He Icaves for
must be at his destination within 15 days,
on divorce proce- | Mutenant Newton wants in "administrative city" in the car | Djakarta tomorrow morning and
hey
have
The two-night stop here has Leen the longest of the trip. The aircraft received Its first real servicing since setting out.
particular to visit Rio de Oro'stre of Brussels to house about 10 "But, they say, she has ignored fitle known "Blue Moors," so Ministries in a 40-storey sky- equally vital aspects of the called because they dye their scraper. family law, such as the exclusion clothes that colour and in time
The building, which is to have Is main criticisms were that of the Church as a legitimate in acquire a blucish skin.
นาง the law would make divorce too fluence on the family and the
an egalitarian an underground garage for up easy and destroy the coherence monspaly in education of Com-attitude towards their women" to 5,000 cars, will cover about 12 LATEST LI OPERAS available_ure
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and youth he says.
The men wear the acres and cost an estimated 1,400 Pique Dame, Baltered Saric, Dalf the temily as a basle unit
million Hury The Kes. Wiener Blut, "Anabl society,
vells. Frau Benjanin did not organisations.
francs (2)0 million Mr Palmer docs not relish They fear that The Night Visitors, Girl Fin directly
Frou Ben- the critical
"Their tents are so low that sterling), The Cabinet propose such a long journey solo, but he #zölden West, Tusca,
answer Gioconda.
"buy off" it is possible only to trying to
iencel in
to use 1,000 rooms in the sky- į explained the plane would not Falstall, Do
memorandum of the Evangelient jamin is Pasquale. Travista, Trojans, Turandot. Lit Ves Church, published last October, Christian opposition to the law them and the women perform scraper to accommodate visitors carry sufficient fuel and an fale, Werther, William Tell, from D.
but attacked "certain" circles as a whole with partial conces their dances or their knees,”-- ¡ for the 1058 Brussels World | extra <rew · member.-----China Evas, 4A, Bos Vieux Road, Room 1. 2nd June, telephimo 501CS,
camouflaged in clerical garb" for sions.--China Mall Special.
China Mail Special.
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She confirmed frankly, how- ever, that public discussion in the past year had yielded definite irends in favour of Christian family morals, of which tho State must take notice, 1976 had been "clear and general op- position," she said, to the view P
"life that a
comradeship," as against marriage, was the truly association between Announcements progressive
and Classified Advertise- man and woman, Public
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Hong Kong
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opinion had pronounced Sun- phatically in favour of the legally concludet marriage.
She recalled that the draft granted full and equal rights to illegitimate children But added: "Our attitude 19) illegitimate children does mcan that ኖር approve
law
not
013
or wish to further extra-marita! relations between man and woman. The existence of an illegitimate child has disturbing effects in several ways on the development of the separate
or the
family of the father mother, even when that family not founded until after its birth.
"...a masi welcome handbook for ornitholo.
" means. for example, taking gists resident or station-
I liberal-anarchle attitude to ed in Hong Kong. All their rights and obligations the hitherto recorded when students become fathers species are included; of illegitimate children to such plumages are clearly and 40 extent that extra bursaries concisely described, and for this reason amount to 40,000
a short account is given marks (about £3,300 sterling) a
of
feld
characters,
voice, habits,
status, Benjamin then stressed
at Leipzig University
The illustrations
except for three plates the highly controversial divorce
of photographs, are ali
procedure envianged
under the
by Car, A. M. Hughes, draft law, under which the op- and include four attrae portioning of blame is replaced
tive pintes of the bends
by
judicial ruling that the
of 42 species and many
marriage has put its penst." useful drawings
She said that the present method in the The writer of this couraget dishonesty, perjury
**** | and false admissions. would have
view
benefited greally from
this book when station-
ed in Hong Kong como
years ago,
Even
που,
COURT TO DECIDE
The proposed procedure would nuthorise the court to decide in
na referring to it, some its own wisdom whether "serious
40
unfamiliar species grounds for divorce are present and the court can establish after
on which notes were
made at the time have exhaustive investigation that the marriage lost its sense for
partners,
almost all proved easily Identifiable, D. W. S (Extract from "The Ibi" official organ of the British Ornithologista Walch, British Museum).
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marriage children and society."
Frnu Benjamli argued that the apportioning of blame, often arrived at by false evidence, does not generally jay barn the true process of disruption of the marriage.
She added that the discussion over divorce procedure hed aroused 'particular passions,
"Thus, the demand was raised that divorces should not be granted under any conditions after a certain period. This was often coupled with a demand that adultery should, he neverely punished.
Those views do not only re- flect the opinion of older women, themselves the victims
of adultery, but they are an ex- pression of the growing, momi
condemnation of such busty
which must be taken
In an oblique reference to politics as grounds for divorce, Frau Banjarnin criticoed
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to plead the legitimate benefit Once this conception was es- historical doubt. The tablished in the minds of men, writer, therefore, bega leave says M. Samivel, “It was only to bring forward some logical to choose so mered speculations of his own onplace for the bestowal of their the precise formation of the dead. It was precisely in this pyramids. on the origin of sacred spot that the dead per- their architectural style, and soh whether delfled or not, on the technique of construc- |would find the most favourable tion utilised by their build- conditions for reaching heaven and for benefiting to the gresi- "He considers the key to est possible extent from the
resides this problem
solar of celestial and In the flow symbolism of altitude,
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"It seems reasonable. to suppose that everyone would agree with this very simple definition: Pyramids are arti-play its own important pant in
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Thus, the pyramid came
to
a vast body of religious belief, The artificial mountain-the range of pyramids, which begins where the natural mountains of |Libya leave off, was, for ex- ample, the frontier assigned by
to Egyptian mythology
the realm of the dead.
Morcover all the pyramids are situated on the left, of west,
* on ap-
bank of the Nile—that is, the bank where the sun peared to set, the bank of death and the resting places, Ot dead.
the
The very construction of the pyramid. M. Samivel thinks, supports his theory. It was built not to endlose space, but as a solid volume of stone, that is, it was a faithful copy of a natural form.
To see
how natural, one has only to study one of the excellent, photographs with which this book, is filu- strated a picture showing the barrier of natural mountains standing up like pyranids on the rim of a desert of burning sund, For, ELS the author
there otresses,
are natural pyramide in Egypt which bear a striking resemblance to the man-made structures, but at which few people seem to look:
*They are Toughly. the same height," he writes, "and the inclination of their faces is opproximately the same angle. The first pyramid ever built, the Step Pyramid Sakkara... reproduced
of ancient theme
tho heavenly ladder.
of the
The steps, however, could not be climbed and were therefore Later, the already symbolical surfaces became smooth and |ever shining in the reflection of the sun on their face. Through the centuries, the pyramid be- came a sign to be used on the temple and the obelisk. In fact, they came to symbolisc da magical flowing-down of vele- the stial solar energy towards earth"-in other words, they were mountain-tombs, but they were also axial mountains silu- ated in the · contro of the universe or magically projected from it in a sacred geometrical form."
MEETING PLACE
Situated at the meeting place between the terrestrial and celestial planes, 試 was here that the "metamorphosis of the royal Ka had the best chanco of taking pinov.
It was from here that, thanks to the pyramidal form, the flirt of diving solar Enerty spread in a spiritual and material man- ner over the whole length of Egypt-The nation was tor- ally, incarnated in King- God; it took of the celestfut privileges of his perión, which was simultaneously divine and Hubman."
\To the layman, M. Šonivel's tistory appkure Pogical. Nor is he so inexpert in irrige undient as he would “fave or believ But whatever the exPODLE DI docidal this withor 7ma certed
of ( the