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By
WILLIAM BARKLEY
MERICA'S Constitution minkes her incapable, except in crisis, of performing the function of leadership which is being thrust upon her, It is one of the misfortunes.
We in Britain forget that America's is a Revolutionary Government. It was born out of revoll against what the former colonists regarded as the dictatorship of George the Third.
No more dictatorship! That was the motto of the Founding Fathers. They set out by checks and counter- checks to deny absolute power anywhere.
It is difficult for us to grasp that the American Cabinet is not elected. It is appointed. Their Cabinet is not inside their Parliament, like ours, but outside it and at constant war with it.
We
That is why to us America so often seems to speak with two voices. I mention these differences so that may take 2 more
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1947.
By Low
It really is fantastic. Here is the Government talking big about de- veloping the African Colonies. On a huge scale they are going to grow ground nuts and maize and other feeding stuffs and encourage tobacco Lo some extent;
take
ELENA LUPESCU,
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BORN
Juliu Maniu, a friend of Carel, came into power in 1920, but it was bt: two years before Carol could persuaded to leave Lupesca and ascend the throne. Soon after his coronation in 1030, however, she re- joined him'in Rumanin.
VERY newspaper office son of Carol and Helen, was made keeps a reference library King, with power in the hands of a known ភេទ a "morgue regency council. which contains particulary of the lives of people who figure In the news. The information, usually collected over a number of years,
covera sometimes evon the most personal details, unearthed by painstaking re- porters. Hence it la unique that the age of a person has been in the limelight for a quartor of a century should still Bave not been conclusively ostablished. She is reported to be about 50: In a new blograph. ical sketch compiled by the Associated Press she is listed as: Elena Lupescuj born-?
who
Sometimes. known 05 Magda Lupescu, she has been the mistress of ex-Caml of Rumania for 23 years and is now his wife. She and Carol In were married a few days ago
do their palatial apartment in Rio Janciro's van Copacabana Hotel, where they have been living since 1940. A vletim of' pernicious angemia, she was lying dangerously ill in bed and was reported to have been only semi-conscious during the wedding ceremony.
"Considering her condition, it was doubtful if she realised she had ot last become the wife of the mon who has been her unswerving lover since 1924," the report commented,
Strong Opposition
For some time, she lived largely . seclusion. Rumanians referred to her as "Madame X." But later she took a more active part in the
social ife of Bucharest, giving way
parties in her mansion and "freely
MME. ELENA LUPESCU
accepting people's partics. In time, Rumanians
Invitations to other
grew used to having her. around,
And what happens if they do grow]
The love story of Elena Lupescu It? Apparently we cannot take the and ex-King Carol II, who preferred this titian-haired beauty, to the produce unless
equal amounts from the U.S.A. which we Crown of Rumania and his royal con- and her position was unofficially ac-
Fort, flourished in the face of family cepted. and political opposition.
wve
can't buy because we won't have the dollars.
Again, such conditions might not have been imposed except that the could not American Government otherwise have got the Loan through
In 1940, however, the Nazi-
In 1920 King Ferdinand signed a decree taking away the right of then aliated Iron Guard had grown 20 Crown Prince Carol to the throne, strong, that it started revells all over
the There was a report that Queen Mare the situation, Carol gave the country. In an effort to took her son severely to task after
SAVO
pre-
Congress. It took then six months the Grecian princess Helen, whom now Ion Antonescu, then re-
anyhow after the President asked it "promptly."
had
he married in 1921, had disclosed
As the most forceful
figure. in Rumanin. that he had discontinued
The after he took
day relations office, Antonescu held in interview with her. Helen divorced Carol in with the German Ambassador and then summoned the king to appear
This question of discrimination 1928. rises up 08 another unexpected abstacle. Obviously we cannot on like this,
Reciprocity
before him. go
IN contrast, an extraordinary story of American discrimination against us is told by Sir John Hay at the annual meeting of the rubber company, of which ne is chairman.
of
To maintain synthetle rubber, the U.S.A. imposes an extreme forma restriction on the use of natural rub ber and pn the quantity of
soc that any consumer may hold. Yet America would buy our Colonial rubber at fair prices we could, he says, thus secure as many dollars as by all the United Kingdom's ports.
Mr. Clayton looked
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But for what America buys she pays only 1 per cent above prewar prices while our dollar loan is being devoured in buying American goods which have doubled, even trebled, in price.
Equating the prices Sir John Hay says that in exchange for 1 lb. of rubber we get today only 4 ozs.
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tobacco from America against @ ozs. before the war. We got 11 bushels of wheat before the war for 11⁄2 cwt. of rubber. Now, we get little more
with genuine tears in their eyes not now active in it, but he and when it is the confusion of his family are reported to hold Their policies which is putting 40 per cent, shares in the com, than three bushels. the squeeze on us..
pany which made £8,000,000 The conclusion will be that last year after paying taxes.
I believe that many of the leading members of the Ameri-
What then made um paie can Government at the time British Loan wis when the
and haggard? He had been in negotiated were men of broad Geneva on the initiative of the vision with a real desire to see American Government to nego- free trade among the nations. tiate the elimination of Im- They could not call it free
Maximum multilateral Perial Preference and a reduc- .trade.
trade, it was.
They could not be more frank because their sols have to be .approved by Congress, which is defend elected essentially to
bew another
cause of one restriction or we are making a miserable bargain all along the line.
Today we can do nothing until the Geneva talics are concluded. Next we shall wait the outcome of Marshall offer. That is put to us as
the
another unsordid effort of the U.S.
tion of tariffs when suddenly in Government, Washington the lower half of Congress doubled the American tariff on Australian wool.
Mr Clayton returned hot-foot and champion local industries to Washington. Now he comes back. The President has voto- and interests.
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Why must we always walt to be saved by others? When are we go ing to strike out as we used to do and save ourselves by our exertions?
No foresight
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which Mr Oliver Stanley WAS of whom he negotinted. It
:
the
There were strong forces working against Madame Lupescu withm Rumania, but this moneylender's
:
Escape From Rumania
daughter, who at 10 married in Carol foresaw that he would
officer in the Rumanian ampy, held
be
her influence over Carol. It was asked to permit Nazi domination, said that she exercised an irresist and in the early hours of the next ible charm, also over most people morning he and Madame Lupescu that she met, even winning over bil- left Bucharest.
ter enemies.
over
Iron Guard members attacked Sometimes known es the "un-
their speelal train as it sped crowned queen" of Rumania, she was the border into Yugoslavia. Amid a the reputed leader of a coum group they wanted to
rain of bullets, they shouted that remove Lupescu, that controlled public undertakings and directed appointments and pro- but the train sped on without stop- motions in the hrmy and govern ping...
ment.
Remained Faithful
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Carol and
their Lupescu made way to Spain, where they were for a time detained by the Franco Carol has
to government-Carol said, upon remained faithful
ders from Hitler. But after six this woman whom he met at a mill-
of virtual captivity, they tary ball in 1924. He was said to months have fallen in love at first sight. made a spectacular dash by motor Tall and slender, she had then soft, car into Portugal, where they took reddish brown hair with a
Their application
ship for natural wave. After her divorce from
to enter the United permission the for
States was refused, and from Cubà officer, army
she resumed maiden name of Lupescu,
they went to Mexico where they Rumanian version of the
remained for more than three years original before inoving on to Brazil, Gorman-Jewish Wolff.
her
the
In 1925 they left the equntry, and They have had-a- plice-of honour together they spent the next five in Brazilian society, although she years away
recent marriage from the homeland. was until their They wont to Italy and then to openly described as his mistress, France. When King Ferdinand died They occupy an entire floor in the in 1927 his grandson, Michael, the million-dollar Copacabana Hotel.
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MOTHER'S LOVE
BEAT WEALTH
Mother love beat a husband's, wealth' when they clashed at Eccles, Lancs, magistrates' court recently.
WEALTH, in the person of Ernest Hatton, Southport manu-
NIGHT CLUB ton, so por m
GIRL'S DOUBLE LIFE
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of
Kay Ann Foster, a 30-year red-haired woman, Roland-gardens, South Ken-
company.
a
a week in football pools, applied for the custody of his five chil dren..
His wike from whom he was!
coparated, was "dirty and unkempt"
and a bad manager, said his counsel The chlidren aged 13, 12, 11.8 and 2-were not well-kept.
The father, counsel went on, a year; on sending, the four elder children to a. boarding school in Scotland.
Foster-parents would be found for the youngest child.
wanted to spend 2800
"Nécessary"
MOTHER-LOVE, claimed Rutb Tännekt · Hatton, the wife, was'n'
outraged the feelings of those from those whom they intend to who survived a hellish ordeal. destroy.
It is not a question of ven-
How it can be possible to geance, but one of stern justice. Quite apart from the atrocities extend mercy to such cannot be
understood by those who suf- old It was quite impossible for ed the wool tariff, although it is THE Government has this fine now perpetrated against the inmates fered but, by the grace of God,
of prison camps, there wero develop programme to
Burvived.
sington, had a double life. these ideas to succeed in Con- touch and go whether his veto Colonies. Yet the need could have horrifying instances of the tor-
The man she lived with knew gress. And the main advocates will not be overridden in the been foreseen two
her to be a dance hostess in two years ago 20 ture and killing of Chinese
elvillans, who, at times, · were: now. Ex-
London night clubs. seem to admit it
dragged into Shamshuipo Camp,! PART from the housing. But her fance believed her false Treasury Secretary Fred M. Senate. In any case the Presi- years ago. Vinson has rotired from politics dent must face an election next It seems that before we can
crease the preference on African te poked at with bayonets, thrown
problem, about which we story that she was a secretary, in s into a judgeship. Acheson is year. America may have a baces we shall have to denounce the wounded into the harbour, and have learned much during the Both men gave evidence at the necessary part of education. retiring into law. Of the three new one who will not veto such American Trade Treaty of 1938 then potted at by grinning week (and, thank goodness, the Hammersmith inquest on Miss Foster, She said that the break-up was
the Loan Bills.
guards who jeered and laughed. unofficials did stick to their who died from taking too many due to the husband. "big champions of
He had allowed her, until the Agreement Will Clayton alone
sident of the Board of Trade. By like the fiends they were, at the guns!), there is the question of sleeping tablets. An open verdi birth of her last baby, only £4 Furthermore, Australia President
it we agreed not to increase the pitiful struggles of their vic- the totally inadequate salaries was recorded. continues forward in his politi-
of Holm- weeks, and had expected her to pay Sidney Pax Gavurin, cal course.
wants a reduction of the preference. We promised to cut it tims to keep alost. These hell-paid to many of the white leigh-road, Stamford Hill, N., the him one guinea rent. American wool tarifl, quite as soon as we could, and cut it we i spawned demonstrations were collared class in the Colony to fonce, sald Miss Foster had been He was able, she said, to spend apart from no doubling of it.
apparently for the edification of day. As far as I can gather, distressed because, she told him, her! £6,000 a week on football pool per..
brother had been killed in Palestine. mutations. Mr Stanley apologises now; "Those prisoners of war. Is it a won commercial firms do not come, How can negotiations succeed on WAS shocked when it was causis, ne we to aban who considered the possibility of ader that men's stomachs and in for the same criticism as does Government, Mon, and reported from Washington don the miserable little bit of Im-large increase in growing tobacco in souls revolted?
Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland Of those who survived, there women, too, in cortain 'depart- that Clayton, after his long perial Preference we enforce now in when I was at the Colonial Ofice had arguments with Congress look the face of such lighthearted fun?.
not fully foreseen the gravity of the are some who today are men monta, are grossly underpald, No wonder Dalton writes off these problem of the American ex-tally and physically afflicted as and it is about time that it ..the direct result of Japanese should be appreciated that there talks. "Only time will determine change.” - For this courtly and distin- whether anything will come out of
Had not foreseen Dear, dear: one inhumanity, and never again is little chance of the exorbis guished figure is the most them, he said ten days ago.
would think it would be second will enjoy health
tant cost of living decreasing as man and wife since list August, sleeping tablets from Miss Foster serene and unruffable man you it is beloved that Dalton will take nature to foresen, and to foreknow It is, however, especially The two dominating factors in Corner: How did the carn her who hid been depressed, but could can Imagine.Starting ke the chance, to, revisg/one of the can and presumiso also that the Colonies those who suffered tortures the successful running of any lying? I used to give her money hot and poor boy on a farm, he built up dillons of the Leah under which the should be developed by the British the beastliness of which puts department are officiency and when I had it She was a night (A police witness said Min Foster's Was brother Waal imaginary, Holwas the biggest cotton broker's increase of our trade with our own, every bit as much as Texas or Iowa
nodorhid Mecklenburgh. bullpens in the State Colonies is regarded as discrimina by the Americans or Azerbaijan by the Spanish Inquisition in the contentment. One not post Mecklenburgh adid he had tried rural Gavurin had no solowledge
the Russians."
abado and suffered until death aible without the other to take box of 100 tion against America.or
Once serene
ed "palo and haggard:"
did,
After tospecting photographs of *100 Tablots
the boarding school, the magistrates: dismissed the application, the chair- When he visited her she was man paying considered the interesta
"We have hysterical and seemed to have been driniding. She said she had broken of the intant as the first and a promise not to take sleeping tablets, paramount, consideration."
Reginald Arthur Mecklenburgh said he had lived with: Miss Foster!
club hostess.