RETURN TO
THE
CARIBBEAN.
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1960.
BUT
THIS TIME THE PERFECT TOUCH: TO BE
THERE WITH SOMEONE SHE LOVES
IT
could hardly have been otherwise. So many lasting tugs of memory stay with those who have been to the West Indies. There is always a longing to re- turn. And for Princess Margaret perhaps most
of all
Not simply for those reasons that seem most ideal and obvious. the warmth, brilliance and sheer escape to
sur, sea and solitude,
Affectionate
There is something more. The people. And the way they live- a harmony of such galety and good marmers the blood of a hundred nations warmly coursing through, them. alive, kind beautiful.
ARTIE...
And if she were not to be remembered as anything else, that lovely name The Dolly Princess would remain with her
And for Princess Margaret for ever funny, affectionate these islands have a special and unceremonious, memory and meaning. Twice she has visited them. Twice they have turned into the most charming carnivals of welcome
for her.
That is what they called her in 1955 when she arrived in the West Indies, a young, beautiful Princess, doing her first royal
tour alune,
D.A. of DEADWOOD
STRAPS on SIX-GUN
Deadwood City, South Dakota.
That first morning when she stepped on to the sunny terrace of Government House in Trinidad and ate a big julcy mango for breakfast while the humming birds flickered against the bril- liant bougainvillea was the be- ginning of so much both for her and the West Indies.
Wearing a steel-grey bathing suit the lazed around the warm, vivid water for hours, doing her unpretentious breast- stroke to save getting her hair wet
There was Freachran's Cove in Jamaica when she dined with Adlai Stevenson, the US. Demo-
PARKINSONP'S SECOND ÉS We're being drowned in
a torrent of words!
HE experiment might well be tried of ordering.
• each Government department to publish next year just half the number of words it issued the year before.
If the results were as satis-
For are places, once they have crat, and Noel Coward, and the factory as seems probable, the same
seen exeltement and gaiety of that sort, ever quite the same? And the people who take part in them? Do they ever really for
get?»
From that moment on the merry charm of the West Indians took over. And to rippling steel bands the serenades began Mighty Panther, sang. "I read the Princess is terrife And, from small, & lover of
music.
And as far as you can 50P Trinidad la a musical country.”
Drumsticks
The Princess with the quick, glowing smile and lively, tapping
feel had found her home.
There was St. Vincent where thousands of islanders crowded on to the beaches and waded in the blue sea, shoes held high over their heads, 10 greet her
first.
waters of the bay were so
clearly foodlit that the tropcal nsh could be seen swimming close to the shore attracted by the lights.
Lovely scented evenings of velvet warmth with, always. the shimmering steel bands playing her favourite music.
Three years later she was back. This time to inaugurate the new Federation of the West Indies. Once more the calypso
singers jauntily singing.
"Come seg confusion in this
town.
The whitewash and paint
knocking you down. They planting garden in every
spot
not.
And once more the tremulous cool music of the steel drums.
order might be repeated the year after that, and so in successive... years until the present roaring torrent had become a babbling brook, and the brook in turn became the merest trickle; and the trickle. became no more than the dripping of a faulty tap.... Drip... drip... drip
DRAWING
LESLIE -BOWYER
No king could have told Newton to discover the law of gravity.
By C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON
213, for no very obvious reason, being worse value (at 28.) than might at first be supposed.
When it is realised, however
Nor was Rutherford instructed to split the atom by a certab date. Discoveries are not made like that. They are the result; as
The airship's construction had become not a technical experi- ment but a political issue. From a fairly early period in the story the final tragedy had become more or less inevitable.
The loss of life might have been party justifled if the right conclusions had been drawn from. the disaster, but the same mistake has since been made re- peatedly.
Many civil servants began their adult lives with dreams of authorship. They saw them- selves, first of all, as dramatists that there may be anything up often as not, of someone wan- Whether the Princess see it or novelists, essayists and poets-to-50 publications fisted on a dering off his ownE line of Lives and effort have been
only reluctantly accepting the
single page. the formidable research, attracted by some repeatedly thrown away, and The more nature pole of bureaucrat
of this 1st becomes phenothenion hitherto unnoticed final success postponed for years readily, therefore, do they plunge apparent,
or suddenly seen in a new light, simply because of information into print at the public expense. Granting an average of 23 Nowadays, when one country services doing the work they are There was seriousness too, For those islands scattered over an It is true that their works items to a page, there might lags scientifically behind another paid to do. area as great as that enclosing must often remain
anonymous be over 5.000 publications in a equally prosperous country the To dispense with information London, Moscow, Athens and but they hope perhaps that the single year. This output implies, most probable reason is that the departments would not only be but! an Marseilles ware going to unite in secret of authorship will leak we learn, a staff of 7,000 and an government has been telling its an economy in itself,
paper consumption of scientists what they are to Indirect economy in other ways. The sunshine out, giving them something of annual a Federation,
discover! This means. In other
SO VITAL money wards, that too much islands were having to grow up. the dramatist's thrill who sees 50,000 tons. But not unless accompanied by his name writ large in hafics.
has been allocated to specific a great deal of gaiety and noise bury" Avenue.
and too little to ab- projects. stract science.
Grenada, where she borrowed the drumsticks from one of the drummers in a steel band, and at last tried her hand at those soft, fascinating. rippling notes of first. calypse music.
The toast
a For every sum spent on named project, a proportionate sum should be spent on science as such--that' a. on university- science faculties which are free to do as they like.
'WHAT'S ON?"
We should be wrong to over- look the value of information centres set up in foreign capitals. These play a vital part-in-Inter-
alional affairs.
THIS OUTPUT Continents are being deforest "Look!" they fancy hearing
the ed: puloing machines worn out, the whisper, "There is Author of Coccidiosis in and papermakers kept working And Grenada, too, where she
The current practice is to make Chicken" or "That man over night and day to keep up with said: "I'll come here again." And
there wrote Expanded Nitrile this appalling output of litera-
these as central and conesous as possible, fronted with plate perhaps now she will
In Government House, Trini- Ebonite for Sandwich Construc- ture.
An ordinary commercial pub
glass stuffed with gally covered There was the wonderful spon- dad, On April 22, 1958, a tion."
Isler will print a spring and
literature and adorned with en- Princess in 3
autumn list, but it is reserved to HE old frontier mining town of Deadwood City, taneity of loudly shouted com- sparkling
larged pictures of the current_ THEO
H.M. Stationery Office to pro-
President or Prime Minister where Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickokliments intended that the Prin- blue and stiver crinoline: raised cess should hear, which she sn her glass and proposed the toast
as well as
The function of the Informa-
The result is that the populace To have written Stem and duce a daily list
tion Services, information upon
can once lived, is again the scene of a bitter fight often did and acknowledged with "The Federation of the West
Bulb Eelworms in Tulips is not, monthly catalogue.
express Its feelings is ja sille. "Dis beauty yuh seein!" Indies." between law and order and the "forces of sin."
Government departments can which vast sums are spent, is to beauty combined with rare From outside came the zipp of to be sure, quite the same thing
vse the same present the public and the world moments of exasperation, smash- ä sonnet be induced to Ins having published freworks and the shouts of a
ing the glass, burning the leaf- favourable picture of lets and jumping on the por- on the about daffodils. Nor would the envelope on repeated occasions with great crowd gathered Savannah outside. The Princess author of Penetrant Methods of but no shortage so far experi- what government is trying to trailure.
Thie spards the windows of This involves extracting from the Embassy itself, which is tac- went on to the balcony to wave Flatos Detection claim to rank enced has ever Induced them to do:
warning and advice.
The hero of this modern-day Dick he was 85 before they Western is a revolute young buried him." district
35-year-old attorney, William Carnahan. He експ wears a six-gun strapped to his hip.
Carnahan's biggest problem has been with the "pointed ladies" of Duodwood. He has chased 20 of them mut of town, closed down gambling joints and bawdy houses.
A warning But with the departure of the ladios the business receipts of Deadwood have dropped £20,000 a month. Traders are anxious. Carnahan has received anony- mous threats against his life.
"But I'm not worried," he says. "Bill Hickok was 39 when he was gunned down. As for Deadwood
GROW-UP DRUG TURNS 'WEEDS' INTO MEN
RAPED increase
of
weight and height in undersized people have been obtained with a new tablet, Dr. Coorge Foss, of United Bristol Hospital, reports.
The tablet which contains the drug reth- androstenolone! has been effective with children and young people. One four-year-old boy with
and flabby appetite physique grew three and £ half inches in nine months. And a 21-year-old accounfant who weighed 7st. gained 151b. In 14 weeks and grew three-quarters of an inch.
poor
Remarkable
Dr Foss tried the tablets on a'
one-year-old girl who had
• never eaten well. "There was a remarkable change in her appetite, "he writes in the
British Medical Journal. "In alx weeks she gained 2415. and grew one and a half inches."
In several patients the gain in *"weight" continued even ofter. the tablets were stopped......
*The effects on the stimulation "af growths,ure Impressive," 'adds Dr. Foss,
mKöndos Ripresa Service,
And he warns grimly: "If any one takes a shot at me he'd butter not miss."
Carnahan found that people didn't lake him seriousty at first when he talked about "cleaning up the town." Sheriffs, and mar- shat had been talking that way for nearly 100 years, citizens said with a grin.
"But now," says the deter mined young DA, "they're begin. ning to realise we mean business this time."
class.
"Yuh only got to heah she voice an' she's got yuh covered (made you helpless).
Swimming
So they would shout to her, amid gales of laughter. It was all the best fun in the world.
QUIET FUN
#
to the new nation that had been high among the detective story restrict the flow of exhortation each department the information. tically sited in. a back street and
born that day...
writers.
inau- The Federation she
It is clear, nevertheless, that gurated is two years old now and the civil servants have their
which may serve to flustrated unrecognised even by those who this favourable view and which pass it every day. A FALLACY
will provide matter for a Press Waste in scienile work is release.
Paragraphs about the fune tional use of plate glass are to the result of control being Upon organisations engaged in be found in the pages of pay excessive, not of its being ab- scientific and technical work the a minor sent.
The modern fallacy is to effect of these demands for architectural journal and this
is perhaps Con information
the explanation of imagine that an elected
Can be expensive what that queer phrase can be servative or Socialist can decide and even fatal.
taken to mean. on a line of research and then Nevil Shute told us, in Slide leave the scientist to work out Rule, how the technicians the details.
employed on the airship R.101 No king or minister could have were goaded into announcing instructed Newton to discover progress and into fixing an early. The cost of health
Man, that's for me. Dat is once moce she is returning. quiet fm, as witness the title of woman an' she so complete. But this time it will be for one publication which reads She got prettiest blue eyes in de. what is possibly the most win-Teachers of Children Who Are world. I know cause I a judge derful honeymoon trip anyone Mentally Retarded,
masterpiece of ambiguity. ever had. of feminine beauty."
And this time she will be The civil servants' temptation doing what everyone who has to write more and more official ever been to the West Indies literature is at least understand wants most of all to do. Taking able. What is disturbing is the someone she loves there, too. mere quantity of the literature
they do, in fact, produce.
In the volume aptly entitled Government Publications 1957, there appear, at first sight, to be 431 pages apart from the index. Closer study reveals the fact that the book begins at page
In Barbados she swam at Heron Bay, the home of Mr and Mrs Ronald' Tree. In goggles, Deadwood's traders, however, fins and breathing tube she are certain that this Western is plunged below the surface of far from over. Some of them the limpid sea and watched the say: "It's politics and cheap tropical fish among the coral politics at that."
'formations. And there was fried -(Landon Express Service).. 'aying-Ash for lunch.
· Anne
Sharpley
BAR
U.S. BASES
We ain't spleen Roney—we're arine disguise für safety till the heart
the law of gravity; for they did date for completion. not know and could not have known that there was any such
w. to discover,
No Treasury" official told Fleming to discover penicillin.
SATURDAY:
-(London Express Service).
DISGRACED' POET
ATTACKS STALIN
WITH
K's APPROVAL
By STEPHEN CONSTANT
AN astonishing poem, published in Russia with
the full backing of Khrushchev, Kas dealt a fresh shattering blow to the memory of Stalin. The poem - which, I learn, was The poet satirises the
the subject of a special meet- who surrounded Stalinge ing of the Kremlin leaders— appeared in Pravda.
Even before be`stártól:
They would rise), Hurray! He will be riitt
The author is Alexander Tvar=" dovsky, leading Russian poet who was officially disgraced a Lew years ago
Why was the poem published? To show that Khrushchev does not intend to consider himself E a new, Stalin.
The pper, "Beyand; "The Horizon la remarkable in that It speaks even more. openly about the dead dictator rhan
Khrushchev
his
famous anil Stalin speech,
Behind the 'Kremlin walla
He lived, and brooded over
···· Like. a+ terkifying, spirit..
The
is how the poem oper
The emotional content of poopla fác -- mos
that snything
published in
again in what he says.
Then comes a subject tabbo in Russia up to now the poverty. and squalor of the people after the last war The poem, ac- cuses Stašin· of not caring hoot about the suffering at his country
Forsaken