YESTERDAY
TODAY
THE GARDEN
EDEN
Paradise
Prosperity
Cummings
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1955.
by Cummings NEW PIONEERS
London Express Bervice
WEAR SKIRTS
K
:
Englishwomen, say the immigration authorities,
are more adventurous than their menfolk
by MARY HEWAT
IPLING wouldn't credit try. Today the numbers are
it.
In-
Englishwomen, say the migration men, are more adven turous than their men folk.
Coward may have just about equat. to change his tune- for It is no longer "mad dogs and Englishmen out in the
"The men,” said one official, midday aun," it is English "want to bo spoon-fed They women. Today's pioneer Em. like to have a job and a home pire, builders are wearing. urranged at the other end. They want to be led by the hand all skirts.
the way, But the women you almost have to force them
Walk into the Canadian Immigration offices in Green
to get all the information they should have,"
Street, Mayfair, London and In the married
group of
you find six, women to every migrants, it is frequently the five men asking about life wife who has talked the family jin Canada.
into moving.
Al Australia House (wo years ago, there were two men to every one woman starting out for life in the Sunburned Coun-
Paul Gallico Now Lives
In Little
TT is probable that some
of you have never
visited the Principa- lity of Liechtenstein.
Liechtenstein
By SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER, M.P.
It is even possible that some Let loose the gods of war
In
With
EL
brought
Principality and that is a Jot of companies.
And there are more single girls than single men looking for a new Hfe.
Looking for husbanda? Don't you beilevo it. I know one girl who has had three proposals
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Sho's a toll (five feet ning inches) slim, honey blonde named Maureen Scorer. She is 29, comes from Birmingham, has worked 45
nursery-school teacher and as a demonstrator for a chocolate firm. Says she: "I think I'm capable of Lokking on any sort of job in Australia."
Family life
The attraction for Maureen is The Government of Liechten- the spirit of adventure. "And stein, however, saw, curtain I'm a sun worshipper. I got a Inst.
British commercialism drawbacks in this. They did great build-up about Australia indignant to the aid of Russian romantic- rot want the Principality to be- from a man met in a trato, of you have never heard but Switzerland is never in glare the sun went down be- igm.
He f Liechtenstein.
Photography was alt very come a mere refuge for foreign who had just come back. All of vnded. Her army is always hind a mountain peak and well but it did not go far to-
capital which might depart sald the
BS
trouble with young which is very sad because ready, and the mountains the temperature fell another wards
as it household paying the
these days is that they came. So they people
not won't leave their home. brought in a law that it i everyone of us, at
was not some guard the passes against all ten degrees.
bills. Why not persuade the
to stage of our lives, has comera.
foreigner live war Switzer-
"I thought he was right. It's Brilish motor bus companies to anough for a "Would you mind," said include the Principality
there for 4 certain portion ΟΙ dreamed of just such a land offers sanctuary to
among the year.
He must take out good for young people to travel. escaping prisoners, no mat- my wife, "if we went for a their continental stopping places? citizenship
And what's two years in a life- place.
papers, Well, why time? I decided to go, because I walk? I'd love to see more
not? There
no harm -in uniform.
know I don't go this year, I We are here--my wife, ter what their
of the place."
having two passports and
won't go at all. swearing allegiance to my daughter and a pretty Spies are ten bob for American girl friend of dozen, but the Swiss are not
countries than one. .hers, and myself on a motoring tour of Europe.
mass
A POET
the
concerned.
anything
a
21
+
A BARONESS.
“I'm
A SHOP
beaten track?"
more
"I've had a wonderful family life. But all my life my family has done things for me, I think it's about time I did something for myself."
"Yes!" said the Principality, "but it will cost you £10,000 or $30,000 to become offcially Liechtensteiner," By which you will gather that the Principality
be romantic but is not a may wholly out of touch with modern thought,
In fact, so up-to-date were
no!
did
that
and who has no need it all to
un.
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go tourist, and there aren't # # 80 D any sleepers on that train."
"Sure," said Paul, cooking the dinner, 80 I So off she went to put her can't be of any use." And case to the omnibus moguls in We have done France, Ger- A SIGHT
off we went. on the
lone Britain. The moguls were not many and Switzerland so
trial, but hardly had we impressed. Their continental
Then there's Janet Marsden, that only Austria and
passed a wooden house itinerary included Ave countries Again and again Hitler when we were joined by a and that was enough. But why
therapist from Wales, who has Italy remain in our sche-
22 year old occupational dule. Then it will be back must have flirted with the kitten that offered to be not make it six?" demanded the
also been a bell-ringer, fruit- idea of invading Switzerland our guide. to London with its mon-
Ін there any Baroness. "You will be offering and attacking the
pleker and a locker attendant at à municipal swimming pool- Allied animal or human or reptile one more than your rivals and strous
in of humanity; armies on their flank, but, that can colupare in neon Llechtenstein is only just off the the ruler himself, the Prince of its waddling omnibuses
Liechtenstein, acquired two
go husband-hunting in Canada. and its sad little dogs being like the Kaiser, he did not scious gracefulness with a
dure to take the gamble. taken for a walk on
She sails in November, with kitten? The games this one Thus did the little Prin- companies with factories in the
Principality.
One was for the assets of tawny rough-cut hair, lead.
invented on the way, its cipality take its place on
the manufacture
of artificial teeth grey blue eyes, a dreamy smile, When you have left the pretended fright, its mock tus route. But the Baroness and the other for making col-
£150 in cash. and A list of. It was
that tall, gaunt graceful, prosperous city of ferocity, its daredevil leaps was
I regret to hospitals.. not satisfied. "We must culating machines.
teeth American writer Paul Zurich it is only short from twig to twig, its cosy open a shop,”
3.
she said to her report that the artificial
proposition
prosper. Her trip involves silting Gallico who invited us to journoy to Liechtenstein, rubbing against our legs to husband, "and sell souvenirs to but the losses were made up by for five days and nights in a Liechtenstein. We renewed and 80 eventually we show that it
was all just the people on the coaches." acquaintance with him at a reached the little Principa fun and he was glad we In fact, at Paul Gallico's house first night in London, and lity and drove up a hill to A had turned up....
that night,
she invited us to when we told him that like hotel as. modern and smart
next come to the shop the the Pickwick Club we were na
morning and watch what hap dollar
Before she leaves for Canada pened when the touring buses
However, you must not think Miss Muraden plans to hitch- going to take to the road millionaire could crave. We.
arrived on their regular summer
that the Prince is solely con- hike to Gibraltar to be a brides- tours. Accordingly. he insisted that we should telephoned Paul Gallico and
we went
matters. maid cerned with mundane
nt_n wedding, and help, for the thero Liechtenstein he invited us to come at six
and walted visit him in
"Can't we buy him?" ask onslaught.
He and his wile ilve in a with the Bordeaux wine harvest o'clock to his house at the ed my daughter. "I'd take
medieval castle with comforts us where he lives,
on the way, top of the mountain, where care of him
this year's calendar. in the
car." Up came a huge omnibus and modern we could swim in the pool What a crazy idea...
stopped in the square right at What is more, they have an art utter
the shop. Out got the pore collection which is one of the and then eat the dinner ly preposterous
sup- grinating Britishers, and into anest in the world. which he would cook for us. pose he would not really the shop they swept like a tidal
take up much room.... He was a successful sports Thus did our car climb writer in America, but at up and up until against the Fortunately the kitten shire, Wales and London creat- heart he was a poet. In fact skyline on a jutting cliff we bolted at that moment. He ed an absolute uproar. he was such a perfectionist saw Gallico waving en had seen a twig move and,
In all the crash and clamour that he went to the altar in couragement. The car made was full of suspicion. Thus the Baroness kept her head like ing of five elected deputies from
Providing that holy matrimony no less than it all right, despite a brawl he disappeared from this Wellington at Waterloo, Her cach. three times. Today all between the left front mud- story and from our lives. good-looking husband did his always vote according to their
is perpetual loving non-traveller by nature, three
best but seemed a little puzzled Whips there memories and guard and a concealed rock
had at the cagerness of the British stalemate which can only be re-leaves for Australia in January The temperature
solved by the decision of nothing more.
the with her husband, an electrical Which is at the side of the road.
to rid themselves of their money. Prince. In other words it might tter, and their 22-month-old probably why he now writes
fallen another ten degrees What a sight it was from by the time we returned to
"At first," she told us, "we be said that in Liechtenstein son. short stories of exquisite the 5,000 foot evrie! Far Gallico's house, and the lone just had things that would cost there is democracy under con-
"It was my husband's idea to start with," she said. "He was below was the Rhine looking asphalt coloured roadway we saw our mistake. They seem
shilling or half a crown. Then dro,
Like many
When all this was explained Iout there during the war with a unused men of sen- ridiculously like an
called "The Rhine" was ob- to be rolling with money. Look
ventured to suggest that their submarino flotilla and ho, liked highway. The sun şibility, he regards food and motor
Parliament was ander the dieta-it. the cooking
thereof as was wrapped in mist and viously settling down for the them!""
night.
But all battles come to an end torship of the ruling Prince something almost sacred. No the mountains were like a
and this was no exception. The and after all he is a Hapsburg doubt his wives did their setting for Das Rheingold.
recall to the bus was sounded "Oh no," came the reply, "It best with all the scientific
for dinner had been augmented and off it went to the accom- is tho Church that decides paniment of shouts and waving n handsome young woman of hands. That was Liechtensiin everything." Baroness Virginia Falz-Fein. that was and the tourists would So we, said goodbye to the Despite her namo she is Eng- hayo summut to show for it little country of chalets, moun- took to the kitchen ken "You will swim, of ish, being the granddaughter when they get back to Manches- tains and history which is still
famour barrister, Sir ter or Wigan, high priest presiding over a course?" said Gallico. The of the burnt sacrifice.
chill mountain summer air, Henry Curtis-Bennett.
A strange fellow, Gallico.
beauty.
are
kitchen aids that American A WALK
ingenuity provides, but he
was not content, So he
to Liechtenstein," he said.
by
But by this time our number
wave. Found notes were flutter- EA STALEMATE
ing in all directions while the accents of Lancashire. York-
her m
no longer cozoned by the After the Hiller war
EA LAW
Now
then the
Better place
Why all this? "Well, there's so much to see in the world," she says. "Will I be near the Indian country in Vancouver?" Is the Prince a dictator? Not at all. Liechtensteln has a Par But it is not only the adven- liament of two parties consial-ture seekers who are off to the
far corners of the Empire.
Mrs Alan Shaw, a home-
*
"We're going now because we think it's it better place for children. The climate is better, and London is cramped. I was born and brought up in London, and I never had much room to move around in."
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ng ho got
Botel, Kowloon, hold of a picture, a Far up on the mountain poule ploce of board, and an applo in
Lourid
"I will cook you a marvel- sun. was already seeping wanderings look her to lous dinner when you come into our homes, My York where she met a band- All this, however, is but a Paul Gallico was no doubt cook quick succession. "You pes. Ha's thoughts were on such In- some young fellow named Baron brave little idea carried out by ing his noonday ment, and per-a real boy. He needs some
He was a.White
A plucky young married couple, haps the kitten had come over room." So it was arranged, and congruous things as a rug Falz-Foin. he booked rooms for us In and a roaring fire. Even a Russian who managed to escape Liechtenstein is remarkable for to bear him company.
These women the new Empito deeper and
"Some day," fundamental
I said to
mybuilders are chalkityt uy another advance at a hotel in the neat whisky would have had from the earadise which Lenin something much
created in more
three Indies. I shall return to score over the men. Not only Principality.
a certain medicinal attrac- and Trotsky had
Russla, He had ono obsession selling of souvenirs.
Mechtenstein."
are they more adventurous will- tion.
photography--but after meet Thus in due course did wo
It has no income tax!
Ing to make a new life in the Read those words and luxum But they did not hear me. In country of their choice--they set off in the car from the
"I don't think we'll swim," ing young Miss Curtis-Bendelt
the don't go back on their choice. tie hat à eccond. The result was alate with me at their simple fact they were studying
as If Liechtenstein "We are Rhineland and travelled said my wife.
senior immigration that tifey married and made charm. No income tax, no sur map through the elegance of really rather tired and it the home' in Liechtenstein. • ¿xcept probably for time raios if being, as it is, a fortress of in- Englishyworten.
tox! Your money is your own just an ordinary state instead of emelni put it: When
decides to Switzerland, where even the would be lovely just to sit where the ruling Royal Family
divkiunikim
through with something she's mountains look prosperous, and look at the mountains." had granted him sanctuary and you had a house, and the cities seem occupied
"I shall return," I mid. But not inclined to change her mind. "What about a nice cold citizenship...
Hor in the outside world proved indiferent to die strac- the honking of the horn drown-If she once desides to go--come
bell or high by nothing but people of Martini?" asked Gallico. “I... At this, alams in their lives the Hon. No Thunchhane (1000 formagn ed, the sound of my voice,
water she's going to
wealth.
can make 'em really cold." dormer
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