THE CHINA MAIL," TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1956,
STRANGE CASE OF THE HAREWOOD BROTHERS?
F
OUR
London.
years ago the
second of two cousins
By JAMES
of Britain's Queen muste publisher father, Erwin, married outside the tight from old Vienna. circle previously prescribed for heirs (in fine) to the Throne.
Ther
Bul in the lives of this lusy, profesional couple there is 10 time for Society with a capital S. Like minde gother their Orme House dinner parties (with the Earl serving from the buffet)
You
say, In fact, that they have become a kiri Inyalty in their owni worki.
When near-royalty goce out เมเ such a mb, there Musi have been difficulties,
Young Gerald Lascelles, nuk graulson of George V, mar- ried, like his brother, 171 unknown girl who had never Palace or been inside the ever expected to be.
How have the husborule of Mis Marion Stein and Angela Dowling fared in this dramuntie bring with tradition!
report that the marriagOS watched with everything frum berdicism to plain envy nem 16 1 working but distantly well.
In fact, ably hacked by her "commoner wives, the brother have smashed eenigh traditions to horrify (or elelight their
el ancestors,
t
14.
The Earl has
A of world cogniset lendire wheeler of the Royal
of
DOW
Among
tho abdication memarios and the conventional stuffiness of the Windsor house, Fort Belvedore, his wife's first decision was:
"I'm having no trays carried by a crowd of servants here."
A new kitchen was built next to the dining room, a food un connected to the nursery upsivirs,
They went out into the garden to do much of their own
digging. And they went round bidding at sales för fullurg to All the place.
But there is one feature about the strange caso of the brothers that to some people will be the oddest thing of all:
They and their wives-share a full family relationship with their Royal relatives, visiting and being visited regularly.
The breakaway hasn't upset any pedestals. The close-knit family loyalty and affection of the Royal Houso absorbs tho big change without a ripple.
New Approach Fabulous Palace
T!kufn-1(sc1
intellectual basi- utes doesn't mix with a squire's life and the Princess Royal now lives mors by alone al Harewood Howe, and does the teal toure.
Hut this she is happy to do. friends say. To she Fenight for her sons right to be free murry as they chore. And the visita both h daughters-i- Family, with its country stulty w regulety. Tradation, 105 sver stepped
Covent Garden
The country folk around the young Couples age now an purely seen. Recently came of ummis- takable sign of the Earl's new to fe He decidedi approach" nt to enter his rom for Eton.
15
That Drained A
Nation's Wealth
By H. GANE
Paris. the pages of France's part, with DROVE up the Avenue the bronze equestrian figure of St Cloud to the Place Louis the Fourteenth dominat
Ing them all.
my
A decto of Covent Gar- cien dan head of many theatri-
But though he has opted out | d'Armes Io renew vul ventures, he gets a constant of the Reynt routine, feelink
nequiæfnłance with the sle of composer. (long- ho cho dù much for Britain in haired and even foreign) at his
wondrous Palace of Ver- big own particular way, he mocks fases One Square, fully
conscious of the responsailles and learned, in They wenfer Leviton 02 10
Callithes of his peedtron.
cidentally, that it is closely file servants amid to protocol),
Hoked with American and Often they brek lus advlee And 1 the air struggling, they get
German history as well as "g-re
French fand not merely be Pestles "ฟ'
mvilen
of the Treaty of Musk Clubs secretary-typist to
Versailles which was signed And Tris given up her
ying
World here in 1919 after War 1).
the
first-rules brinut up he children
The Earl's forays info tejevs =
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Penta
AL the Lords debate 021 hanging he was there-voting. it may be added, against capital punishment.
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And what blend the younger 1 rother Geraki, the actress. 11x your psát, sendor, who married at she might have thought into the fringe of Royalty?
After che fully inhabiting a in Bays- "poky jựtle would have
by grandfather, did water, they have gone to Fort
11lvedere that
royal certain unhappy The young man the resips userl to say was 90 fond of night-clules is rarely seen in town these clays
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Look ирет the glorious
Palace itself, with a frontage of 1,900 feet where it faces its magnificent garden, and you see the symbol of France's former greatness and a memorial to the fantastic extravagancs
that brought about the ruin of
D
dynasty.
The garden, CT Hifle park, lald out
Notre 113 by Le terraces, parterres und alleys' and actornod with a profusion of sculpture, is three miles ing and two milles broad, It in
part
For here was signed another treaty
which
Britain
0 larger park, which recognised the independence of
some 20-25 miles in creuil, and the United States of America it contains a mile-long, 200- In 1783. and here Wilhelm the foot-wide can the Grand First of Prussia had himself Canal, with bob in the time of Emperor of Louls the Fourteenth used to Germany afle
triumph Hiv
be dotted with over the French in 1871.
craft,
CrWzYed
Stand in the Cour d'Honneur,
ste
fer of ik famous neon-lighting one of the principal approaches
looking and living to the Palace, and you
other well-to-do that great courtyard the statues
whose names embellish
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CAUSES, PURPOSES,
AND HOPES OF NATO
66T
By LORD ISMAY
SECRETARY-GENERAL OF NATO
problems, and a
new challenge
to the free world."
The ministerişi meeting this
Jest
month took recognition "further by setting
up a new Committee of "Three Wise Men," the Foreign Minis
away. Their task is to explore The problems, and the methods, the which might be used to bring
HE accusation has been made that the Atlan tic Pact is aggressive and will bring wat. My answer is
thet opinion in be tree countries may be raised in the Council, tes of Canada, Italy, and Nor- that the absence of an
It is among shaken the "coup
other things, was rudely Atlantic Pact did not stop d'etat" Prague
February,
forum where the larger Powers war in 1914 or 1939. If a 1848.
policies to This was soon followed explain their Venetian pact like this bad existed, by the Berlin blockade, when medium or smaller Powers and about closer economic and poli- the beneit of their ties co-operation between the gundolas and other cramental and a potential aggressor the Soviet tried to cut off two receive
had known what he would and a half million people, drive views This aspect was greally member countries of NATO. In
Allies Western
out
developed in 1955 with regard de
Council the
DI have had to
to the two Geneva meelings.
undertako face, those Central Europe and deny their
meciing agreed periodical examinations of the freely Was a have been rights in what wark might
There is therefore, a degree of t
political aspects of economic avoided."
negotiated settlement,
combined and agreed NATO
problems; also to strengthen this is foreign policy and Soviet polley was to talk of noteworthy advance in unity. I
ecome co-operation between others and
member countries, to seek to peace
say a degree because what has UGT the being war-mongers, and ot
been achieved in this held is eliminate conflict in their inter- national economie polices, and to same time actively to promote
it has VOTIN only a beginning, But
of stability and unsettlement, hate
been significantly developed promote conditions
and well-being, and finally to during the past twelve months.
instruct the permanent repre- to sentatives of the counel examine economic problems in
FOUNTAINS PLAY
Scintillating foumalas play
in the garden, cascading water that has been fetched by * system of channels nearly hundred miles in length,
36
This is what
Mr the late sald Ernest Brevin
whe Foreign Secretary, he intro- com duced in the House of Com- For
motion approving North Atlantic
Treaty,
water was scarce at Versailles mons Hself when the Palace and its the grounds were created. The soll That was on May 12, 1949 In the so-called "tle park" the motion was approved by 333
multiplicity of pipes, votes to six. vaults and aqueducts,
covers a
Then there is the renowned "Orangerie," with
1,200 its orange trees so tamilar to the
suspicice
ull
of
round, (Under the smile, cannot we detect the mischief at work
same subtle today?)
Self-Defence
It was in
Seven years have passed aner North Atlantic then, and the Tranty, and the Organisation sel
this situation that up to carry out its provisions,
and neighbourly luckless Maric Antoinette, to have fully vindicated the faith, ke-minded gether with the two royal courage and vision of Ernest nations, whose institutions were for destruction, fe marked down out in 'country-houser'
the Bevin
the and
other
come logether, not to attack tinguishort stabesmen pack of Versailles--the Grand
Winso
anyons but solely
self- for Trianon and the Petil Trianon,
negotiated the treaty,
and the defence. If the Palace itself
Parliaments which approved it were splendour not
enough far by such large majorities. spendthrif monarchs and their quens.
स
The Council also
ad- hus ministrative and financial ros-
for the
addition
Бате
to
ponsibilities. It has a budget the light of the ideas...and it properly brought up during the civilian authority;. has to pay for the Supreme meeting.
for the Military Headquarters, subordinate commands and for "Infrastructure" the COMMON
which is required for the effec-
Nothing Changed
tive operation of modern armed Russian smiles have not been forces, and which hus to date matched by any practicable or
All cast a sum of £700 million.
acceptable plans for disarma- this le contributed
all to by
settlement of countries. Afteen
The small mentor for the
all the German problem. Indeed, naturally, cannot in Asia and the Middle East, B much
the the Soviet leaders have returned Aliles. The
Council larger answer can
to cold war tactica. Nothing of therefore, has devised "burden-sharing" formula which substance has been changed In
Soviet policies, each lays down the proportion partner should pay to the com- mon fund.
What is
of the countries, the purpose North Atlantic Treaty Organi- contribute
The
be sation?
The pre- given in four words, servation of peace. By the terms of the Treaty the partners are attack pledged to regard upon one of them as an attack
The situation m Europe has been stablised; the Sovlet The Palace was begun in the
leaders, who understand deter reign of Louis the Thirteenth, and developed to fts
mination backed by power, have of the full amazing
been induced to make a show of slature by Louis thing whe XIV.
fabulous who discussing the problems which so established
that
Versailles as
divide the untappily centre of Court life in France. Those are positive gains, and a their individual and collective great advance on the situation capacity to resist aggression: and to co-operate in the politi- we had to face in 1949.
cal xconomic and social fold
In the Paince I marvelled
once again at the State Rooms. the great "Galerie des Glaces" or Hall of Mirrors where Wil-
the
world. upon them aM: to build
helm the First celebrated his The Background
coronation
German
Em-
checked.
up
13
s
NATO's tatik
therefore more important than over. It must have its ground divisjons to protect the NATO area and Is vital air fields, just as it neods its bombers and the vast rudar and communications net- work which was manctioned by The top civilian body
the Council in December. It NATO is the North Atlantic
needs all these things so as to Council. It is a Council of responsible for seeing that they be strong. A strong and of Governments - not
receive the men, equipment and ganised Atlantic
pressure.
of
The Future?
Needless to say, the Counel has considerable responsibilities of to the military. It must give them political guidance; it 19
peror; the apartments of the Although the reasons which French sovereigns the room
led to the creation of NATO are dividuals and through it Gov- mirastructure that they require, withstand Community can known as the Oeil de Bocufi
well known, I shall venture to ernments discuss, negotiate, and so far as political and economic. The U.S.S.R. respects strength. (The Bull's Eye), so-called
recapitulate them here since take decisions on any matter from its ovaj window, which
they do show how Soviet affecting NATO.
The Council considerations allow to defend But it seeks out the work the NATO area. This is done by places. Our unity is, therefore, was the ante-room where ambitions in Europe have been meets all the year round in a continuing process known as our most precious asset. May
their courtiers kicked
heels*
Paris through the medium of the Annual Review. and
1987 see the resolution of prob retailed scandal till their
Ambassadors specially accredit
lema which one at present in dis- king rose from his bed in an
After victory aver Nazi ed to NATO who are called Then there are other questions, pute between some member adjacent chamber; the private
Western Permanent
nent Representatives and for instanco Civil Defence in all theatre, where was held
Countries of NATO; and may.it the
that peace who
their Ces trusted
Govern- e aspects and the maintenance find the Alliance vigilant, re banquet to the Gardes du
would be assured through the menta
Seve101 Corpa OT Royal Bodyguard Unted Nations, and unlike the times a year they are Joined by of the morale of the civilian solute and above atte
population, which the Council
wo deserve to Soviet Union, disbanded their their Foreign Ministers, and must take into account, and Only the car
our heart's desire the armics. Then began those
other
Ministers, where its role is to aid govern- those for Defence and ments on whom the respons- preservation of peace. But the Council has bility resta) by suggestion.
or without ordination.
the
tember
which
provoked the riots that finally drove Marie Antoinette and
trom Louis the Sixizenth Verenilles forever.
of frustration and disappoint ment through the Soviet use of
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After that, the Palace shunned and neglected for close
forty years, when a equivalent to £900,000 was spent on restoring it and con** -verting It Into a national his-
torical museum
OTYO
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Its artistic
Jesty
163 A
whole.
the veto in the United Nations, the same powers of discussion initiation, elmulation and co-
with and decision The West was faced with a Mindcters, grouping of nations in Eastern Europe, under Soviet Com- mist eegis, which Was the are deliberate step taken to
divide Europe.
萨
Consultation
The NATO nations also have essential tasks to the economie and social spheres. Recent developments in the international situation have made co-operation The Council is not a supra in these felda between
attain
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANGASTER
the
While America, Britain and national body; there ino Atlantic Allice more important other democratie countries tried majority vote, and problems them ever before.
!
two
other
on working through the have to go
to be brought often of There is not a Palace in the Uni Nations machinery, course by compromise to a This then, in broad outline, `is world that can compare in country after country
This what the North Atlantic Council was unanimous decision, splendour with Versalles. No being made subservient to Soviet method may take time, but I is doing. What are its tasks for
immensity. view its
The the future? has never yet fafied. Russia. The promises made at treasures, the ma- Yalta and Poladim were con- times a week-once in regular NATO as it approaches the
Council meets
or three of its grounds, without femptuously ignored.
the stsalon, experiencing
of awa
fimes end of its seventh your, is faced and wonder at the 'enormous The trugle case of Poland is enerally in restricted or In with two major developments. wealth which it shained from a well known. In Romania, the private session, when the bum- One is the altered diplomatla nation's coffers. And yet few Governmout
of advisors are reduced to approach of the, U.S.S.R. the was swept asido a minimum.
'substitution of the smile for the people with a strain of the end a now and unly regimo in- sentimental in them can help stalled In Bulgaria, despite .. Much of the Council's work of now weapons and the increase feeling that there is a hollow promises of proper treatment
la done through committees, on in the Soviet Union's ability to ness if its stupendous beauty, for the opposition, thedr Toaster which all member countries are make and use them.
Perbaper: some such feeling was killed and Communist rule represented. They work day was in the mind of a courtly made completa, In Hungary, in, day-out, with the
inter
At the last two "ministerial old. Frenchman of Royalist steps were taken to undermine national staff, on the multiple meetings of the Council the leanings who once said to me: the non-Communlit party which aspect of the Council's work. fidisen parizers have vigorously! || "Yes, Verwallies is sumptuckis, had won the elections bish so frædiocribably ad-like the same final remit, par
What is the Council's work? and unanimously one over In the first place it is political, diplomatic tactics "coupled with to days of grandeur beyond Then followed another ruth- All pollllent questions, dirially a continued increase" in Soviet recalib
Iako mert, this time po nega home or Indirectly Brecting NATO, military capabilities, created own..
all great places which belong Bea
with
, snarl. The other is the perfection
affirmed their
......
Well, we can only hope that the Foreign Office has |gos “a butter, crystal ball › than the one on the Air