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He dressed up his girl-friend as an admiral
Win Sicily, they were amazed by the huge figure THEN Garibaldi's triumphant revolutionaries arrived which greeted them on the dockside in Palermo. The man who dressed completely
With Leam
in whlie with an immense plumed straw hat. him was an even stranger figure a small and very pretty admiral.
The man in white? Alexandre Dumns, the elder-then in his
00's.
The admirol? Alexandre's latent girl-felend, the netreas Emilie Cordier, just 38 years younger than himself. She was wearing naval costume satisfy her protector's taste for colour and romance.
is
Alexandre had sel bal with the little admiral from France But be In his own schunter.
WHY took part in Garibaldi' wrd the schooner for guna, and helped to Bourbons from Naples.
carrying drive the
Two years ago a short verdon of the extraordinary lite at the elder Dumas opptured English taken from the French of Andre Maurois.
It fold how this son Creole general lived 1e more astounding than anyth in his novels (e.g..
The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monto Cristo). It fold ara fo Parls he built an immerse tolly, which he Alled with animal und lady pets: how he would work on a dozen plays and books at once (visitors would be offered his left hand to shake while the how he right seribbled t);
claimed to be the father of per- haps 500 children; how even on his death-bed, whe
horse
he would ft a between his thighs).
the elder
Dumas the
Then there is Dumas himself.
Finally there Younger. His mother was stal but very unmarried. But Don he was sharing Papa's home and pleasures
later us the
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1957.
MORE THAN THE CHURCH WILL BE CONCERNED WHEN A SUCCESSOR TO PIUS XII MUST BE CHOSEN
Will the next Pope
be a RUSSIAN?
N March 2 Pope Pius XII will colabrate his 82nd birthday and will begin the 20th year of his pontificate. The choice at his successor of the deepest signi- ficance to Roman Catholics and of interest to Christians overywhere—might have such wide political consequence as to compel the attention of hoods of government.
Later the son wrote The Lady the Camellias in which he crew on his own past, passion the tragic, consumptive for courtesan, Marie Duplessis,
As a play-ani opera La Traviata-it establish-
A new Pope is clected by ed his fame. Maurois now tells
a small group of men, the hove, in later years, the young
are the and Cardinals, who mtornist Dumas ured
fervour senior prelates of the denounced vice with a that would make Sir John
Roman. Catholic Church. Wolfenden grow pale.
Quote of
the week
At full strength their number ·
by HUGH DELARGY
M.P.
is 70, but at the moment there an obscure fisherman, he has
are only 57. Fourteen of them, remakied all his life close to purmanently resident In Rome, the working people. are the Pope's chief advisers.
Greville tells this story in his the diary for October 8, 1820:
the
"A certain bishop in Jiouse of Lords rose to speak. and announced that he should divide what hod to say into 12 parts, when the Duke of Wharton interrupted him, and begged that he might be
minutes Ldulged for a few
e no had a story to tell which he could only introduce at that moment:-- told that the chambermaid found him handsome, he found breath to croak: "Encourage her in that ideal"
"A drunken fellow was pass-
ing by St Paul's at night, and heard the clock slowly chim- ing 12. Ile counted the strokes and when it had finished Now the complete version of
looked towards the clock and the full Maurois book is pub-
nil, THREE
'Damn you! Why It is called Dishod.
'couldn't you give us all that MUSKETEERS-A STUDY OF THE DUMAS FAMILY, (Cape, 358.)
It is graphy,
a masterpiece of blu-
at once.
"There was an end of the blsimp's speech."
From A BOOK OF ANEC- First there is the eldest DOTES (Hulton Press, 188.) Dumas-the Creole general, a admirably selected by one of things in the best-read men in Britvárí — strong men who did
stable roof Mr Daniel George. style (clutching a
These men will assemble in Sistine Chapel of the Vatican Palace, ki a conclave so secret that the very doors to their apartment are bricked in, Together they will choose the absolute, spiritual ruler of 400,000,000 people.
An Italian?
And whom will they choose? If they conform with tradition they will choose un Italian cardinal. Is more than 100 years since the Pupe was not an Italian, and nearly 500 years since anyone was cleeled from cutside the College of Cardinals.
Most of the Italian cardinals
already climinated are
by reason of their advanced age, end of the remainder only two are really outstanding-Lerouro and Sirk
Because his diocese has been for years under Communist con- trol, and because of his Immense prestige with the workers, and even with Communist mayors, he popularly referred to 08 "Cordial Don Camillo."
academic
than
15
Cardinal Gluseppe Siri. more reserved and even more his fellow townsman. Unlike Lercare, Siri had had no parechial experience when he was transferred from his professorial chair to E bishopric at the age of 37.
Two years later he was ap- pointed Archbishop of Genoa and in 1953, at the age of 46, he became the youngest cardinni in the Church. They sold of him at the time: "He will cer
Pope the next but tainly one." But nearly five years have elapsed since then.
Cardinal
Agagianian, was born
near Stalin's home. Will he be the Cardinals' choice?
The Lady Mayoress gets
mindful of the reluctance there will be to break with tradition. consider Montini to be the most probable candidate for the papal throne.
But the other tradition is also in danger, and the rumour ta growing that the Cardinals will seriousty consider the appoint- ment of a "foreigner" See of Rome.
to
the
Close friend
Which of the 36 "foreigners" will be seriously
THE
up at 7.30 a.m.
first
TO TAKE THE DOG FOR HIS MORNING WALK
citizencas Most of them wone sent by hate sitting in an airless room.
of London, Lady Trus. friends," she explained.
cott, has one regret about Lady Truscott is just back her husband's appointment from holidaying with her
The curtains will just have to
be cleaned when we leave."
She has also made a gesture
four to informality by scoming 10
as Lord Mayor. The Man- daughters in a humble crofter's use the special .
cottage "miles from anywhere" 1 like using the stairs. It's slon House, she says sadly, in the Scottish mountains, Dul so dimicult to get any exercise considered? has no garden.
the is not intimidated by the in London," she explained. Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop
palatial dimensions of her new home. of New York, përhaps, who lived
EARLY RISERS
Although these two men may be regarded as the obvious
At her own home in Wimble favourites, it by do means Cardinal
Giacomo Lerenro. follows that one of them will in Rome for 12 years and is a don, Lody Truscoit spends most
"Our own house has eight Exercising the family dog, a 66-year-old
ot become Pope. There is an old close friend of the present Pope? of her time gardening "And I Archbishop
don't just mean picking off the bedrooms," sho "he who
sayo. "Living lively Scotch terrier, is an even is Bologne, the best-known Italian saying that
Or Cardinal Wyszinski, the dead flowers" or playing the here is rather like moving into greater problem, "Luckily I'vo churchman in Italy. Born in enters the Conclave 09 Pope comparatively young Arch-piono "for my own
a furnished flat."
found some bombed sites nearby The slums of Cence, the con of usually emerges as Cardinal" bishop of Warsaw, who knows ment."
which he seems to like.
I have unother way of saying that in more about Communism than this particuar race the favourite all other Churchmen?
"It's quite private," she added. to take him out ently before the There are several planos at "No one comes in here Neither
unless tramc gels moving. But for- Jurely wins
five elections during Of the this century only one came as no surprise. In March 1030 the choice of Cardinal Pacelli was
regarded by everyone as certain.
Ile was indeed elected and became Tius XII on the very first morning of the Conclave.
The only one
There are two other prelates who will certainly be con- sidered, although their claims
$1
Her
of these, I think, although the Mansion House but the Lady we invite them. It's just as if tunately we're all early risers in Wyszinski who is esteemed Mayoress does not think she will we were at home."" hom one end of
the family," Boys Lady Truscott, much time for making the Roman have
This is no exaggeration, Lon As London's omelal With one or two differences, don's new Lady Mayoress is in- to the other music. Catholic world may have support in the early hostess, this tall, quiet-spoken In Wimbledon Lady Truscoit atoges of
K the ballot. foreigner" should
Scotswoman wearing a cash copes with the cooking and variably up and about by 7.30.
thico eldest daughters be chosen,
mere twinset, graduated pearls housework with the help of ont have jobs in London. The the choice will be for
and na make-up when I met her foreign mald. At the Mansion youngest, 14-year-old Anne, is more
--Laces an ordless and heelie House a team of scarlet-liveried at boarding school. spectacular.
round of social commitments. Not without some trepidation.
"I hate making speeches," she says.
The foreigner to attract the widest support will be Cardinal Agaglanion. He was born
62 years ago in what now the Soviet Republic of Georgia, not Joseph Stalin. He belongs not to far from -the birthplace of
ORDEALS AHEAD
In the year ahead, she will be sitting through
оле has to
do
flunkeys "I don't know how
Inquired whether Lady many there are, six or seven" Truscott had ordered a pola chambermaids and on expert wardrobe to cope with social life chef see to it that the Lody on a mayoral scale. Mayoress does not stir a house- wifely finger.
do"
social
"I've had to collect a few things, of course. But I'm not
Menus, scating plans and really very interested in fashion, other arrangements for official though I think I know what do not accord with tradition. the Latin but to the Armenian not only
sults me. 1 rile, and never in history has several hundred of her hus events are taken care of by Not since
the 1378 have
"I'm a hopeless shopper, you Pope been chosen from outside band's speeches she will have troop of highly eficient
see," she said. "When I was Cardinals gone outside their
the Latin observance, These to make quite a few of her own secretaries. own college to find a Pope. It
living in Wimbledon I used to Armenians hold the same belief as well. could be that tradition will be
"I suppose as other Roman Catholics and
"They know for more about come up for a day's shopping broken this time.
that and wander about for a few accept the supremacy
and things like of the quite a few things one might protocol Among the 1,500 archbishops Pope, but they have their own prefer not to," she said, almost than
sald the Lady hours feeling ualered. Then and bishops of the Homan liturgy and customs, One
for Mayoress gracefully. "It's very I'd suddenly ask myself: 'What bracing of Visibly
herself Catholle Church, the
nice to be so well taken care does it matter?" And I'd just only one which is that their priests may ordeals to come.
turn round and upon when their choice could be married.
We sat in front of a blazing of," she added.
gu, straight
fall conceivably
Is Glovanni-
Are in the Lord Mayor's per- Still was not surprised ta home." Bouista Montini, the 60-year-old Agaglanian, with his intimate sonal
It's lucky, I thought, that suite in the Mansion And that Lady Truscott, who Archbishop of Milan.
knowledge of Russia and Aste House. This takes up the floor for all her gentleness has a Wimbledon is so near to La The close confidant of Pius Minor, e prodigious gift for of the building--the rest is streak of
that, whenever her Scots independence, don. So XII, he was offered and declined languages, and a long residence used for official entertaining. has introduced a few simplica engagement book shows a blank, most retiring of Lady in accept the cardinal's red hat in Rome which has made him I counted nine vases of giant tions into the grandeur of life this In 1053. New
Mayoresses can turn round end appointments, tomlifor with Papal diplomacy | chrysanthemums dotted about at the Mansion House.. however, will soon be made and and administration may well be the room. Not, however, from "The first thing I did was to go straight home. Montini will be first among the first non-Italian Pope since Lady Trusentt's garden.
turn off the central beating and them. But even though he may Adrian of Utrecht was elected "I found them waiting here throw open the windows. They not be cardinal at the time, and in 1822.
when we arrived on Saturday, tell me It lots in the soot, but I
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