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"I'm from the Home Office, I just want to show those gentlemen the sort of atmosphere we want in the new betting shops."
LONDON
FASHION
"Who decided to ask the Chelsea Deb Set to give tane to the proceedings?"
NO MORE
DEFENCE MINISTER
"That's all very well, but how are you going to discipline those speech-making generols now ?"
FIVE
THE CHINA MAIL,
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1959.
THE DUKES: A FRESH LOOK AT BRITAIN'S GRANDEES (CONTINUED) "FRED" Gordon-Lennox,
9th Duke of Rich- mond, 9th Duke of Lennox, 4th Duke of Gordon and Duke d'Aubigny in France, is a practical romantic.
A rare combination. But understandable when you consider that the founders of the family were Charles II, who, having come back to his throne was deter- mined not to lose it, and his mistress, Louise de Keroualle, the French woman whom Louis XIV sent across to amuse his fellow-monarch and keep him as a satellite of Le Roi Soleil.
The present Duke is a roman tie brenuse, as a young man, be married the woman of his choice and was more or less. ns they used lu say, cut off with shilling.
A mechanic
a
He fell in Love with the daughter of his tutor, who was preparing him for his examina- tions at Oxford. His father was furious.
But he married the girl and she has been for many years his beautiful and charming duchess,
When he was left stranded Anangialty he became a motor mertíanie.
From that sprang bla great Interests in earn and speed.
Marrying for love: tough, even for
a Gordon-Lennox
by DONALD EDGAR
the
than most employers, the influence of his days has lived on.
duke looks
Perhaps workman
But his position was unhappy. I should say Two heads of the family had after his people rather better died within seven years. Death duties had taken their toll.
So, at the age of 31, the pre- sen chile found he had a job
of work to do.
He has done it with skill and efficienty. The Scottish lands were sold. The 12,000 aeres around Goodwood were consoli- dates and turned into a busi- ness forestry, agriculture, furniture making.
The annual race meeting has been made even more profitable. The motor-racing circuit breaks about even, but has brought money to the district.
The welfare
And, except during Goodwood Week, when the Queen is often
He became a racing driver at there, the house has been aban- Brooklands. and now bandoned and left to the visitors of developed the racing circulf stately homes,
at Goodwood, which at times almost rivals the fame of the Facecourse founded by ancestor,
An
His father Anally relented and the family unity was restored. In 1936 he inherited the dukedams, the estates, and the honours.
The bahrooMTA and surround- ing rooms have been lured into offs. The atmosphere is one of efficient organisation,
The staff of 150 are well Jonk- ed atter. Welfare is excellent. Housing is being dealt with on 1 priority basis.
He spends about three days a week at his flat in a London hotel. The other four he lives at his home on the hill Goodwood.
by
It is a very pleasant, modem home. But no more grand than the port of house prosperous merchants and stockbrokers keep in the area.
of
The are Ave bedrooms, housekeeper and a couple scrvants. There a long, low sitting-room with windows form- ing a wall and looking out over one of the grealest views of Eng land, the Downs slretching to Chichester and the Isle of Wight.
There is a dining-room fur- nished in modern style with table that might seat six
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There are a few family pic- tures and a few good pieces of
nothing furniture. But
very grand.
Alongside is an 18th century slone house which used to have
a very grand banqueting room,
The Duke and his Duchess: His father
was furious at the marriage.
few
Now the Duke has turned it into a studio.
Be took up painting # years ago and is very competent, JUS canvases have the Gordon- Lennox touch
romanile, colourtui.
Traditions
their origin
Arc
His family has preserved, The family is a great one. The probably more clearly than any strains of other, the true Stuart charac fascinating.
like They all look teristics.
They have produced duellers, Stuarts. Long, handsome faves great lovers of women, brave
saturnine expression.
spend- with a
soldiers, Ane statesmen, They carry the Sceptre with twirls and gamblers, the Dove at Coronations. They of the were always Knights Garter unil recently. I cannot discover what rift with the royal family has stopped is Custom
The Duke has a small house
Comwall which be also rebuilding.
He shoots little, He Itile internet in horses. entertains the Quern when she comes down to Good wood. To all appearances, at the age of 85 he lives the life of a fairly rich man who has
bard In to work quile
the
the
All handsome. All possessed of the deadly Stuart charm. But, with the present Duke, it is as if Louise de Keroualle had come out of the shades with all her French acumen to preserve the family at o time of Anancial
The rommage has been there
And Goodwood House, though not an enormous place, con- danger. han tains within its Sussex Bint bul walls a greater Impression of with the Duke. But it happened our royal family than Bucking- once only and Jed to a settled ham Palace itself.
life.
Adventure has been there There are the children of in flying and racing motor-cars. Charles 1. There, in several But it has all been controlled. paintings, is that long, dark face The noble family of Gordon- of Charles II.
the present Lennox, thanks to There, also several times, is Duke, can face the second half of Louise, of the 20th century with con- the opulent body Duchess of Portsmouth, founder ndence... and prosperity.. of the family fortunes.
-(London Express Servier).
office. And yet, of course, he cannot escape all that easily from his traditions.
Where white men live in fear
Nairobi.
IVE Africans whose names are dynamite in the growing racial struggle of East Africa are today living in exile near the shore of Lake Rudolf, 500 miles north of here. And it could be that in that exile they will spend the rest of their lives. Equally they might become the centre of a new storm that could engulf Africa.
Jomo Kenyatta, leader of the bestial Ma
Mas movement, which cost 20,000 lives, is the trus! prominent of the Ave. Greg-Demodex! and ageing, the tmturnt who started it all came
fast April, out of faci
tɗfter serving six years of his seven- I got year's year sentence. remission for good conduct.
The "We
against
defence chler told me:
certainly not Arr
Birt We аге
com- taking
these
possible precaution
renewal of
movements-particularly in the coming months, which are likely to be more difficult."
HORTHS
RUDOLF
| LODWAR
KENYA
.NAIROBI
where his choses white friends
is
TYPIST IN TRANCE AGAINST HER WILL
That woman can be
first medical proof A doctor warns
hor
"But kne
running out
hypnotised against I went to a meeting of thysse Zast. If the Colonial Ofier do white
will as Svengal) .settler farmers on; a riot necept this idea, then we night of torrential equatorial
hypnotised Trilby is shall introduce our own rain such 63 only tropdeal
put on record today by methods.
Dr lan Oswald, an Ox- ford University psychiatrist,
ben will be difficult for the British Government to hold this country beyond the next five years. And five very un- comfortable years they will be.
"We ure committed to struggle through positive action, Not violent at first. But if that is not effective........"
Mr Mboya
П
run the United States informa- shoulders and twisted round his ion services.
countries know.
A hundred were expected to attend But nearly 1,000 turned
Up.
like a
on hypnotism
BY CHAPMAN PINCHER
noi remember what bod happened that she refused any farther treatment. She told Dr Oswald she was frightened of him.
Later
to
have
and
she
be-
From them came erics of "Shoot the lot"..."Leave Until now doctors have denied them to it and let them educate that hypnotism without the co-
can".... themselves if they
operation of the patient could
Dr Oswald made 071 Bolshic
ever be achieved. "Stop talking
excuse to enter the room while or I will burn your beard off."
Oswald claims that, Dr
the girl was being interview- Onc speaker declared
ed by another doctor. He without European influence, hypnotised a 21-year-oki typ!st
attracted her attention and Induced be
against her will 4 still wokad his Kenya shrugged
her Me
to accept treatment she clapped his hands, primitive, savage country. to would otherwise have refused.
We are prepared
Almost finger a gold signet ring on it added:
fight for our rights."
On the In a cultured half-whisper he a tiny map of Africa.
farms which these run, guns
are white. settiera starting to appear ugain in hip- holsters and at bedsides.
There 15 A sudden rew for well - trained demand German police dogs.
So
and both the African white man feels a threat to his future.
from KENNETH AMES
placent.
{"very
We could not Kenyatta. crannate with a permult for one reporter to see him, or
NC-
WC the
but now around
fletal
Visitor"
There were once BB.000 Mau
outlined for me a Mau members under detention,
programme which admitted no quibble over they are reduced 1,000,
remainder its shades of meaning. the and having been returned to the
"We intend to put
an end tribal reserves and resettled
finally fo European domina there.
tion," he said, sinlling across his desk.
Lo
TERROR
detaine The five quint. Isolated life.
lead
Kenyalla Wow banished straught away to an exiled life at Lowar int the Turkan would have the whole of
along with Frederick world's Press, television, district
Biklad Kaggia, Kungu newsreels on our backs, Under Kubi, Karumba, and Paulo Ngel, also the restriction order he is only released after serving sentences permitte<
have tu and terrorist
for Mau Mau
other activities.
FREETOWN
ה
"At the round-table
But
BOLSHIE
the anger
in
As I left, hin office staff were sorting stacks of newly arrived Nothing unusual except mail. that all the stamps, with the head of the Queen, were sluck con- on upside down. That is one of ference in London next year we the protest signs used through-
demand responsible out Keryn. In the dripping, dense forest shali whitewashed at In the row of
the foot of the Alxrdare Kovernment by which i mean
not all elected fully
Legislative the is still Under
huin spcially built for 1949 Orfinance.
them. Mountains, which
the Afncans. Kenyatta and company
ma has two room", a exclusive could cach
preserve of white Assembly, lastead of the present Kenya is being generated kitchen, and a wichhouse for settlers,
Tre I talked with the aid nominated body. spend the rest of their lives in
hulted the family. Wives and children of an intrpreter to a number the the isolation village. paradoxically labelled are living with them and there of men who bace struck terror Freetown, at Lodwar.
is a system of rotation for those into the heart of their fellow having more than one wife.
Kikuyu tribesmen and Euro peans with all the hocus-pocus of black magic, witchcraft. oaths, and bestial blood brgies,
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But Kenyatta is convinced the day will come when once Each man has to report daily more he will lead an African to the district commissioner. campaign against Kenya's white Geoffrey Hill, but this is no
hardship since Bettlers
the exiles
live
in the same compound, sharing And Mr Tom Mboya, sofl the same "amenities" as civil spaken radical leader of Kenya's servants stationed at Lodwar. nationalist movement, old me: "We want Kenyatta to pitend Constitution the tali on th which we are to have with the Colonial Offee in London early next year.
CENSORS
Kenyatta reads five English- language and Swahili news- papers every day. He listens Mill the "Kenyatta is
most euch evening to the B.B.C. news popular figure and symbol of from London
the short independence for a Kenyan
wave, and penis most of the Africans. We shall demand day gardening in extensive
he be allowed his freedom."
CHILDREN
me:
מס
reading and thinking.
They had, to all appearances, settled on sinali, ferille farms, and forgotten completely their activities of only seven Yours ago. Though who can presume to know what is going behind the deadpan frontage of an African tribesman?
on
Any confidenco I had, how- ever. received a setback by a Mile performance when slaughtered
they
and
Д round
n young colf the hot drank
blood from bowl which was passed --apparently normal occur
He also pays some attention, rence on African farms.
It would seem, to his comfort.
Omiclals in Nairobi were
DEMANDS
Nor is one likely to feel more
Mr A. C. Swoon, Minister
Internal of
Security
and staggered recently when they Defence, told
"The received a request from Lodwar parition of Kenyatta and his for the supply of a much confident about Kenya's future
brand of to advertised
foam- after an interview with fellow detainees is subject
that for mattresses review, but the rubber occasional
the outspoken champion of national duration of the restriction brder detainees. Apparently they had independence, 29-year-old Mr used to this form of Arboyo, the kero of Kenyan 1 unlimited.
would be become IL
at Hola camp and in Africans. dyriamille to release these men luxury prior to the constitutional con- gaol and were now unable
sleep properly, without them. ference,"
ما
TO
I altempted to visi Kenyatta The men are allowed to ent fights of In his semi-desert hune which whatever they wish and most of
a screen
adjutants.
non-
two A
of ebony-foged
see him I ellmbed
sleazy stairs in Nairobi back girect--pas) is baly reachable by alr, unless the food is grown in their own lounging Sikhs and Kikuyu and gardens, There Is censorship of you are prepared for at least a
bun on week's satel to get into the all mail und a
visitors ensures they restricted frontier region by official
I found Mboya inore self- cannot, be contacted by Kikuyu road.
leaders, some of whom may well sortive, more aggressive, less u return of modest, and beiter trained in But my pilot was prevented be hankering for at the last minute from talking Mau Mau days.
the tochnique of propaganda and public relations than when
off without permission from the Minister of Defence.
Security officials are increas- I last interviewed him three ingly on the look out for sigını years ago. Mr Bwann explained: "Only of a return to secret societied
the very fewest of permits are which the Kikuyu tribes ade A great deal of his inspiration
givin to visit Ledwar or swe Torid edi
CONTENT · ÍrorŹI“
!press
How is it all to end? Next month
Mr. Join Macleod, the Colontul Secretary, is coming to Kenya on a tour by of inspection.
On how, in his period of immense feeling office, he handles the tense and well Highlands tricky White
situntion, could party
the recent pro- depend whether Kenya goes on majurity of seats would run the farmers over Government, with the Governor posal to open up these rich in peace. är up in dames.
(London Express Beroicat: still having power of velo. lands to Africans and Adians.
"Then
the
with
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a ap the
Dr
'Distressed"
Oswald was treating the typist by hypnotism for norvous difficulty. She did not realise that she was being and went into a bypnotized deep trance.
Dr
To help hypnosis later,
Oswald said: Whenever you sit in a chair and fook at me and I clop my hands you will
return fo immediately
the stale you are in now,"
When she recovered conscious. ness the typist realised she had been hypnotised. She was so distressed to find she could
"It is reported that during band praction, før the recent visit" by Chancatfor. Adelsnut” you” did-
Begay indy, the band's music for Bautechlind. Ubar. Allas
immediately came glassy-eyed and sold her mind was "going queer," Dr Oswald reporis. After two more handelaps she went into a trance. White hypnotis- ed she agreed to continue the treatment, which was even- tually successful.
"This case
the view supports that if such a person can once sub- be hypnotised,
then coquent rehypnosis can be achieved despite strongly motivated refusal by the sub- Jeet," Dr Oawold writes.
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unscrupulous
"This would probably be true
with hypnotist."
-London Express Service),
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