THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1959.
THE MANY FACETS OF BRITAIN'S FUN-LOVING PRINCESS
QUESTS were tumbling wearily down the staircase of a night club ir
Gr Rome. It was five o'clock and the street lights had turned in for the
day just ahead of the morning stars.
There was that curious simmering down of sound that precedes Royalty, and Princess Margaret appeared looking quite astonishingly fresh.
Her face was cleared of the strain one sometimes sees in it nowadays: She was radiant, triumphaut, relaxed.
At last, one felt, she had gol to an end of that vast store of energy would make her a remarkable young woman by any standards. -
that
She had spent the day on it in-life that is occupying princess was very cross in- her feet. sightseeing. She her. She is living it to the deed. hud danced all night (a full. Without gloom and Yot encounters with her fumiliar phrase, lait how with all that astonishing can be very light-hearted many of us have done it?) energy sparkling she ia Indeed after the formal and next day she was to busy being a princess, and pause of waiting for the be sightseeing again. Be- quite happy, with no im- princess to speak first. In had been fore the five-day visit was mediate idens of marriage. Maurition she up she would have danced till dawn again,
Diverted
After all it is quite fun bathing in a bay protected being a princess the way by # coral reef. On the Princess Margaret goes other side of the reef, I about it, anyway,
was able to tell her, had been basking sharks.
time com.
By far the most mer To watch the princess curial member of her "Goodness. I must write neatly. endlessly, detached family, her face quickly re- and tell Mum about that." ly dancing with a rather flects what she is feeling. whe said. Another
were all antiseptic, choice of part. When she is amused her when we pers, usually members of whole face lights up and plaining about how tiring her own household or you think she is the a tour had been she said she British official in the prettiest girl in the world. was considering making a Country she is visiting, is When she is bored-she gift issue of sticks for us the quickest death to koks, frankly, bored, romantic hopes for her.
But unlike what most
all-including herself.
Snapshots
One photographer during
“Why don't you get her people suppose she is not a sunk charming young men split-personality, u princess to dance with?" I asked in in public and quite different her last trip to the West Indies had been particularly Brussels as she took the in private. She is always persistent in trying to get a middle-aged a princess. For the training pictures of her in a bathing official beyond rumour, re- of her family is that you Huit. He did in fact get a never conse to think of
flour with
prouch or runiba-ing.
answer.
IN
be one.
whole reel of them by "We were tokl very yourself as a princess, or hiding in the bushes all specially not to.” Was the in a subtle way you cease to night; but the police had found him and those pic- It understandable if
tures are now in the prin- you take a small step back-
Cess's snup-shot album instead of the French. magazine for which they were intended.
Stricken
ward in time-and apply a I remember the stricken point of view that a roman young man in East Africa tie novelist like Sir Walter who had failed to pack the Scott would understand. princess's personal standard For Princess Margaret the to fly over the rough important course of love thatched cottage she was han been, perhaps tem to stay in overnight at the jurarily. perhaps per game reserve of Amboseli, manently, diverted.
There were only the rhinos and the Press to see whether the princess's flag
Later in the tour the photo- grapher was taking a picture of the princess on a tour of a hos- pital when a piece of his camera equipment fell off at her feet,
an
The princess gave him anused look, stooped, and with a smile of blinding sweetness returned it to him. "She made
afterwards.
But she is a person who has always loved life, particularly her life. Now was there or not. But the feel a real heel," he said
Just Tang Thắt
Fort Bragg, N. Carolina.
COLDIERS schooled to opérate an guerillas up to 2.500 miles be- hind Communist lines are being trained by the U.S. army. It is revealed bere, They have already mapped out sections of Russia and China which they would infiltrate in the event of war. trained in the customA, Some of these units have been language, economalo, calture and terrala of Commpalat territory for more than six years.
Lo
It is the fri tinge in American history that a specific train-
querillas has
standard ing course for
been added
ihe programme.
Colonel Everett N. Smith, assistant -commandant of the special warfare dentre, sild:
Humour
Although her delivery of speeches is the same silver monotone ts both her sister, the Queen, and her mother, the Queen Mother, the lime she did drop that elegant vucal barrier was unforgettable.
The Biggest Story in
BY
Britain ANNE SHARPLEY
She was leaving Tanganyika where she had become great
Lady Elizabeth is one of those friends with Tanganyika's huge
combinations so-English
of and jolly Governor, Sir Edword
and utter charm gawky looks and she bent her long neck for Twining, now Lord Twining.
She spoke in very simple ward, blinked, and said "Well, words about what fun it had
know, it's always bean (It had) and as she spoke fun.....” one emad see her regretting
"There is no adequate defence against well-fed, well-again stand up and pretend organised guerfila bands.
We believe that wherever Communiam uxista, there
elvillan unrest. We plan to exploit that unrest.”
you
such
that she and "Twigs" (Lord And when one hears, as one Twining's nickname) would not sometinies does, а clear voice to singing pop tune out of some conduct their tune (4 very Government house or other; or seatchy march past of the Easi sees a group of people round the Africa regiment called Ngoma princess laughing with genuine,
not embarrassed, had captivated everyone).
humour at that the flow of comic something she had said; comments of her elbow-it was watched those light, tireless feet
two-way
transmission-had skimming on and on....
No other American servicemen are trained as completely that and as arduously as the soldiers who volunteer for these special: And detachments.
And the men know that once they are "committed," they a will be "stationed" in enemy country for the duration of the now to end. fighting--whether it is six months or a decade,
They have been trained to live off the land, whether it is desert or jungle, frosen tundra or mountain fastness. They are trained in all weapons-including the bow and arrow.
Fly by luxurious
first-class or tourist.
DC-6B Service.
-(London Express Servic#},
I once asked the princess's lady-in-waiting, Lady Elizabeth Cavendish, how she could stand the late hours that the princess kept.
of
It just about sums it up. Fun
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ONE of the extraordinary facts about the middle of the twentieth century, along with rockets and spaco travel, in that a human" family is still the biggest story of them all. And what must be very surprising to the rebols and free thinkers of the fast contury it is a Royal Family that still beats every other topic to the headlines, front covers and nowzreele of the greater part of the countries of the world. The British Royal Family in fact-have gained- in position rather than lost in the great changes that havo come over the world in the Jast fifty years.
Why is it? What is it that koaps a monarchy alive? And what are the real personalities of the people behind this ancient belief in 'kingthip?
To answor these questions, the China - Moll today begins a four-part assessment of the Queen, Princo Philip, Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother. First: Princess Margaret.
(Lendan Express Service).
CURIOUS CHARACTERS: No. 11
Wife's Embalmed Body
In Dining-Room
STRANGERS stopped and stared at the house of Dr Martin Van Butchell, just off London's Berkeley Square. For there, although he had a rich practice, Dr Van Butchell sold gingerbread, apples, cakes and nuts to children.
Dr Van Butchell had a protestations were brushed long. tangled beard and a aside. Dr Van Butchell was wild, mysterious manner, essentially a kind man, but Every day, he would study he could not bear to be the zodiacal signs, then crossed. ride to Westminster Forum, haunt of atheists, and solemnly read aloud a chup- ter from the New Testa- ident. His audience never polite.
was
write's death, After his visitors to Dr Van Batchell's house were horrified to find ber embalmed by vrominently displayed in the dining-rogaEM
Yet, fostered by sirungą ad- Another strange thing vertisements, Dr Van Butchell's about Dr Van Butchell was practice flourished. In fact, ho lis taste in dress. He wore was a good doctor and brought
off some astonishing cure. a kind of over-all-a one-
piece, all-white, form-fitting In his old age, his only re- ensemble of shirt, waist- creation was riding in his all- white costuine on a white, pony coat, breeches und stock which he had painted with ings.
purple and black spots.
Forced
With an ass's lawbone in hi belt, he would ride to Hyda Park and, at a spring above the Serpentine, add medicine to the water until it turned white.
Thus trenied, the water was have amazing supposed health-giving Qualities and crowds clamoured for roa
As If that WAB not enough, he forced his second wife to choose, once and for all, whether she would wear all-white or all-bluck. Her dost.
the Venoms
-TO SHOOT A CAMEL
frontiers of friendly Arab trouble-maker rulers.
and,
after
ما
-TOM "POCOCK-- Tells of a forgotten war in the 'wilds of south-west Arábia.
crow room for a sortie may 1900 In one hour as much us seven pounds in swral
On
an averaga ther each drink 20 pints of water or "Jungle juice" lemonade a day.
Another hardship fa lack of due warning, the Venoms sleep. Without pir-conditioning
restful sleep In impossible will appear over the village none of the pilots has an- nir- Only now that there are and knock it down with Intelligence maps of rockets. southern Arabía un the
walls of operations rooms. Anti-aircraft fro has been
"This is how we work,"
conditioned bedroom (although
all could be so equipped for total outlay of £1,000).
in Moscow and Cairo and in getting increasingly curate Avoidable THE brass plate the Yemen and Saudi Arabia and the Yemends have mounted
Russian-made medium guns screwed to the door is their work more neces-heavy machine-guns along their
frontier. "Office Hours: sary than ever before.
There Is another equally aveldable risk. One map of the In their own-operations These an only be attacked unruly Western Protectante 13" room at Aden I met a quiet when they violate the frontier, Ingely coloured red to reste- But this is a joke be- and rather impressive wing which is dimoult to prove, as the sont the 80, per cent of its plea cause the dozen or so commander called Cyril first a British pilot may now that cannot be policed on sho
of this is the jolt of a direct fit. ground. young men you may find Hunton.
Airerafi have also been Once upon a time there, ware behind the door do not work in an office and Hunton,began. "If a friend. damaged as high as 3,000 by five helicopters standing by t
chips of hard volcanic
rocis Aden to pick up pilots forced ly sultan, emir or sheikh thrown up by the bursting of down there Two months aÉO their hours depend upon reports trouble we show their own squqiron's rockels, these were grounded us thaşa- the behaviour of a the flag by loy firing over,
vicentile. million volatile and the dissident area. If sometimes wild human things are worso we issue Impossible beings who live in. and an ultimatum by leaflet.
"If the ultimatum fa around the 112,000 ignored we
send over must fly town deep wadis in The reply from Whitehall haki square miles of the Aden couple of pairs of Venoms high turbulence or must pull out been that two wrekhibe spit out Protectorate.
and shoot their cattle, of a frig kun almost vertically home time in angust: Unless it "was /on, cesorgrencý, část – Myhich camels and goats. Nobody to avoid dit face.
enso they might be sent aDOEVER. The job of 'No. 8 likes doing it, but it's effec-Thun pliots are picked forth this wijarki Janviess-place Squadron, RAT has ro tive."
their acrobaticoidal They must du miruses on mean the differ= minined essentially un- Another punitive measure have, beminn as well because, cuce between life and death. Se changed for 30 years. Theirs is the taking out of single pat now the elimats at Asten in it metály depends upm what you is the task of enforcing the houses. Intelligence will no 'hot and immid that a pilợi teks by an arrgency.- laws and maintaining the pin-point the house of leaving the cool, air-conditioned --(London Kepenen Servies).
.
Tu reach some villages pliels
A penior officer told me that an urgent request for replace- mont rescue Hellcopters and been made to the Air Ministry