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CUTTING A DIAMOND FOR THE PRINCESS
AN ENGLISH GIRL
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VISITS
'ARL JOHAN'S GATE-
Oslo's beautiful, úvenue- like, main street
was. bubbling over with life: large streamlined ears and rows of busy, pale-blue trams, shops full of nice clothes and food (I even saw rich, pre-war cream pas- trics in one window), and smart, attractive ́ women everywhere. As far as I could sec, Norway's capitul showed no scars-no re- minders of the recent war and Nazi occupation.
NORWAY
In Norway, as in most other European countries, the war-and the German occu- pation has left many shortages in its train, notably of houses and food, but RUTH WALSHE, who recently visited
found that country,
the level- headed, freedom-loving Norwegiana were steadily solving their difficulties.
the
surements of the sea current, tem- weather-beaten faces, partly hidden. perature, and so on.
by old, dirty caps. They live on "Sometimes," Henken told me, the outskirts of the town, and some "wo are on the sea for ten daya of them are supposed to be quite anywhere. We well of. They are great patriots, without landing have our own food with us, and and during the war, many of them manage, quite all right. Then, in belonged to the underground move- the winter, we do all our calcula- ment, and were constantly watched by the Nazis in order to prevent tions and experiments."
them from escaping to England.
Fish, Wood, Paper
BY GERRY HILL
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
IN a small unpretentious room in the centre of
Hatton Garden four men are today cutting and polishing a diamond whose value one day will top that of the Hopo diamond,
The diamond, a wedding present to Princess Elizabeth from the wealthy. Canadian, Dr John Thorburn Williamson, was 54 carats in the rough and pale pink in colour when it reached this country, Todný, a third of the way through the cutting process, the brilliant là 35′′ carats in weight, dirty and unimpressive to the casual observer, but to the expert-n stone unique in colour, size and perfection.
The cutting of a diamond the size of/Princess Elizabeth's is a highly skilled and striking busi- ness. One slip in the angle of cutting" would result in a loss of thousands of pounds. Only men with 25 years or more experience to their credit are allowed to handlo such a stone. order to yield the biggest stone possible, cutters have broken away from tradition and completely revolutionised diamond cutting, For the first time; in the history of large stone cutting, the
the camp-togther with all the Norwegian students, did everything
In
Lentiro cutting process from be- ginning to end is being done by polishing. A long and tedious job, which in the case of Elizabeth's stone will take three months.
If the cutters, are successful,
in his power to give us a good time. critics estimate the brilliant, 20 Ile organised beautiful excursions by carnts in size, each carat worth boat and by bus yes, and once between £1,500 ($6,000) and evon by 'plane. And, as we foreign | £2,000 ($8,000), will rank as students did not pay very much, he one of the world's great stones. raised £650 to cover the expenses. The probate value of the Hope
One day, I met Christian's charm-diamond is £1,000 ($4,000) a ing wife, Fru Ottosen. She has a carat. tiny flat in the country--just one kitchen. But as she room and a
"Not even Dr Williamson
is expecting a baby soon she could have known the true priority for n bigger flat.
value of the stone" commented ane diamond expert
is very "In
"Our housing shortage great indeed," she told me,
spite of all the wood we have. It's because of our labour shortage and transport dificulties.
Housing Situation (PESIDES, we have first to rebuild "Bour northern towns, which have muffered for more than the rest of the country. So now we are only allowed one room for cach person.
The
HUNDRED RISKS
of
one the
there are
a hundred risks in- volved in diamond cutting. Tho most important factor is the choice of the shape and style of the diamond. Designs were submitted to Princess Elizabeth, each accentuating one quality the brilliant shape and the cutting stone. Finally the Princess hit on began. Normally, the stone is at "There is a strict requisition con- irst hacked into a rough shape by trol which con Just place another saw but even this customary step
the was dispensed with ond
of couple in your flat, if you occupy polishing began. Slowly the dents
Job more room than is allowed. You
sharp The
angles would then have
erased. kitchen and
were worked out with the aid of tools but the facets by eye. For six hours a day the cuttern worked two the brunt of the work fell on Belgians, Mr. J. K. Boudowys and Mr. J. Everaerts.
to share your also give the new-
comer some cupboard space,"
Oslo-like Stockholm and Hel- sinki-is a very modern town, with fine houses and large blocks of flats. In days gone by, near-
One day, Henken took me to his ly all the buildings were made
OWI1 little island, "This is our of wood, and so whole parts of house," he said, pointing to a small Oslo have periodically been wooden cottage, and that one over
there belongs to my aunt outs UR life is pretty hard," a Asher- burnt down and replaced by all. My father himself planted all during the season, we only get an man once told me. "Someilmes,
To my surprise, I learnt that Nor- more and more modern houses, the pine trees you can see about average of two hours' sicep
houses; way has no prefabricated
very I helped him to night for intance, after Christmas but many of the dats ere Now, they are mainly built of twenty years ago.
manko the paths, and my aunts are when the herring-season starts. modern, with electric cookers, re- granite rather artistically,
responsible for the lowers."
Then, we go out in a whole fish-frigerators, and any amount with blue or yellow-painted
Ing-fleet, and we form hugo circles electrical labour-saving gadgets -to enclose the fish, which Is The rent is cheap-ranging from £1 balconies, lined with plenty of
caught in blg, round nets."
to £1 10. a week. flower boxes,
Rather Leftish HENKEN-who loves
awimming And skiing is also very interes-
land."
women
ini
Dur
Parliament. representative in the
years. But
Prices High
of
were
SUCCESSFUL MINER
orc
The diamond is held over a skivą, a round machine like a phonograph: turntable, by a lever called a "dop." A special mixture of diamond dust and olive oil, cutters generally have their own formulae, is impregnated Fish is one of the most import- "What about your food and clothes in the diamond is soon a mass of dirt and oil, an ugly looking rock. The day after our arrival, we ted in Norwegian literature and poli-.ant export-articles of Norway; and rations?" I enquired.
so are wood and paper. Ship-build-
Not many people would guess that were all whisked off by our Nor- tics. His views aro rather lefilsh.
"The food situailon, which was it is worth a small fortune. "Tell me a little about your Par- ing is another vital branch, but wegian hosts and guides to the Bament, Henken," I once naked him, through the very heavy losses dur during the last year, Fru Ottosen very bad, has greatly improved international student camp at "you have a purely Labour Govern- ing the war it has suffered severe replied. "Milic is no longer rationed, Milde-near Bergen-on the ment, haven't you?"
blows which it will take time to
Arst experts feared the stone west coast. Here were the
far ns I could and we hardly ever have to give "Yes, Out of 150 representatives recover from. As
now. We would change its colour as the most branches of industry up coupons for bread, world-famous Norwegian fjords, there are seventy-six Social Demo- see, with their hundreds of rocky crats, eleven Communists, and sixty seem to be at prewar level ogoln get half-a-pound of fat and half-a-rough was polished away, but for islands, surrounded by moun- three members of the Opposition: with the exception of the north of pound of sugar a week-but ment. Lunately this wasn't the case. The Liberals, Farmers Norway. There, the devastation is cheese, and eggs are very scarce. stone retained its watery pink colour
Tea is unrationed, though frighfully and its flawless appearance. tains and vast woods of pine Conservatives,
expensive-iwenty-one shillings a Visitors outside the diamond and birch trees. Perhaps it is Party, and Christian People's Party." still great.
"Have you any women in Parlia
When the Nazis knew that the pound, ́ and our weekly coffee industry are few and far between. this romantic scenery which ment?"
just three ounces. We Princess Elizabelh spent an hour "Oh, sure. There are altogether game was up, they destroyed whole ration is helps to make the otherwise so
towns on their retreat before the only get a pound-and-a-quarter of and half visiting the cutting room. level-headed and well-balanced nine
advancing Bussians, carrying off cheese, and fifteen eggs. But ex- Cutters on other stones looked up the entire populations with them. pectant mothers like me get priority for a moment and then continued Norwegians a little dreamy at The woman
To build up these towns again will, eggs and milk."
on their respective jobs. No special times, and almost lyrically- Government is Mrs. Aslaug Ans-
no doubt, take many
police precautions token. At minded: in my opinion, a really Our visits to Bergen-the second
the Norwegians have made head-
night the brilliant is locked up with their precious and largest town of Norway-were very
semi-precious churming combination.
enjoyable. Tao town dates nearly way. 900 years back in history, and it is grouped artistically round its hur bour which, unfortunately, is still was mainly NORWEGIANS are genuine badly damaged. This
children
the explosion of of nature, and caused by fundamentally dislike all big German ammunition ship in 3044. cities. (Even Oslo has only
After the great Gre of 1016, many about 300,000 inhabitants.) modern houses and courts were Those who have to live in town built, and these form a strange
During the Bix Jong winter Bergen's ancient Han-
Fru Ottosen wAS a student of manage to spend at least their contrast to
The man who gave the brillant Bummer week-ends and holidays seatic houses, in narrow little back- months, about 100 young farmers
nick alghteen to forty French before she got married, and yards. in a country house, probably on touch each other,
The opposite reefs nearly ranging from
she is still intending to finish her to Princess Elizabeth was and there is years of age-study there: not farm-
studies soma time later on Now, named "White Man with No Luck" luck changed A lonely little island.
of sh every ing, as you might assume, but all-
sho penetrating smeli
Is busy knitting her baby's, 1941 when his where-for, now, they
general are mainly round
knowledge. All
Wool and *napkins are with the discovery of the Tangankya triinc. Soon after he was offered Look, for instance, at Henken. used as fish warehouses and offices. students live in,
and they only outfit. 25 a month--the rationed, she told me, but there will 20 million dollars for his "And" but His homa is Borgen, and yet he Bergen has a university college, have to pay
school
he laughingly refused saying, "What spends the greater, part of the sum- which will soon become a full unl.
being subsidised by the be enough.
that mer elther on the sen itself or on versity.
atate. Norway
altogether. Only since the war did the world the Hell could I do with all his snug little laland-not for from
twenty of the Falk High Schools for fully realise what a brave, demo-money?” our camp. Henken is a scientist- A sight well worth seeing in Ber farmers, and two for town workers. cratic, and freedom-loving people More like a professional gambler
the sh-market. Some of· -The
miner, school in
Perhaps the than an oceanographer. So, in the Ano gea is
the Norwegions ard.
a successful weather, he, with his professor, and the fish to be sold is still alive, and home, where we spent a most won- greatest compliment I can pay Williamson Is often kened two of his assistants often go right you can just pick out the one you derful fortnight. The food Was them is the fact that all the time Ronald Colman. But unlike Ronald out into the North Sea--as far as want. I often shook hands with the excellent-and thero was plenty of I was in Norway I felt absolutely Colman ho has remained a bachelor the Faeros--to make their
strong fehormen-with red, it. And Christian-the leader of
Children Of Nature
mea-
big,
↑
Life In Camp
PRU Ottosen told me that there are plenty of clothes now, and, "al- though everything is rationed, shop
for
stones in a safe.
No one knows what the Princess will do with her diamond. Whether IFE in our student camp in Milde keepers do not always ask
or not she will use it in a pendant But prices are very high: or plece of personal jewellery or Was one long day of debates coupons.
a ready-made dress costs £12 10. park it in one of Buckingham and talks with the Norwegians and all the other foreign students. We and coata vary from £15 to £20. 1 Palace's show cases, remains to be
that noticed
Norwegian women
seen. But from May 3 onwards the wore housed in a beautiful, modern
dress well and simply, and use precious stone will be on view to Folk High School.
very little make-up.
has
Milde was
our
at home.
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till now.
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