THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1949.
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The most astonishing family in Britain
ULIA, the daughter
of Pastor Schweppen- hauser, marri- ed 11 Polish school master and founded a dynasty.
Not that sho thought of it in that way. To loave Rechten, in Bavaria, and become. tho wife of pedagogue call. ed Hauke, in Warsaw. Was sufficient honour for any middle- class girl.
But because
of it, on a
branch of his
family troo
the new baby,
LADY MOUNTBATTEN says a coy goodbye to India's new
Governor-General
Prince Charles of Edinburgh,
One was to sire
will find the name of good Frau a king-to-be, and a Hauke, the minister's daughter. man who
From her happy union sprang eccen. the distinguished, the trie, the theatrically dramatie house of Mountbatten.
To have a king and a viceroy among her descendants must surely have been beyond the ex- who pectations of 北 Woman wanted only successful careers for her three sons.
THE SUPREMO, .. No possibilities are LORI MILFORD BAVEN in a New York, night club with dinner
guests Lunn Merrick (left) and Mary Damon. great enough to stagger him.
It sires kings, sells radiators, boosts chewing gum and makes Socialism Royal
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was to close a chapter of British history. The other was to produce an' attractive model for chewing- gum advertisements.
In the roll of central Europe's plains Prince Louis has seen the movement of the sea.
At 14, a naturalised Briton, he had a British midshipman's. white tabs on his collar.
"Batts," as he was known on lower deck, The circumstances of the quarter-deck and time mudo that easy for her. had a genius for naval adminis The first son rose to be a tration. He was also an inven. general in the Czar's service. bor. It was anid that when he He died leading his troops died he would be sure to invent that Heaven gadget against the rebellious Polea. Kome
A grateful emperor undertook the education of his daughter, another Julia, and in due time
she married a princeling of the
house of Hesse.
The ancients of Hesse searched for a title to give his wife and children. They chose a small scat in Hesse, Batten- berg, Julia was crented Countess of Battenberg, and from 1858 her children were raised to Princes and Princess of Batten- berg.
BRIGHT HONOURS THE race of Battenbergs be-
It
came an intricate one. married into six royal houses. It performed all the gyrations and acrobatics that make genealogy a complex science,
The oak of the family had two stems. One turned enst and withered in the heat of two great wars,
Julia's second son became Prince Alexander I. of Bulgaria. Her fourth married a Mon- tenegrin princess.
The other atem turned west
needed.
NELSON TOUCH WHEN the Bulgarians offered
him a crown vacated by his brother, he pointed to the Whito Ensign on his ship and said: "I think more of that than the whole of your petty States."
It was the Nelson touch, the Palmerston touch, the bulldog breed, It delighted the British.
When the 1914 war came ho wag
First Sea Lord and tho favourite of Winston Churchill. He had done much to prepare the Navy for the conflict.
Then malicious rumour spat at him. He was a German. Could he be trusted to control the Navy in battle against his German relatives? The smear campaign spread to the floor of Parliament,
He wrote to Churchill: "My birth and parentage have the effect of impairing in Home rospects my usefulness." It was a letter of resignation.
He went to lonely retirement, watched curiously by the people of the Isle of Wight.
In 1917, the nation made some rocompense. The British Batten-
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Louis' daughter, Alice, married into the royal family of Her son, Greece.
Was iiz duc Philip,
time to turn to his grandfather's life, the sca, and wed Princess Elizabeth, today the heir to the throne of Britain.
of
At the time of his resignation Prince Louis had two sons at sen. George his eld- est, was a-ileutenant. Louis, to be the great- est Mountbatten all, was a cadet.
What of Henry other Maurice, the stem of the English Battenberg? Countess Julia's third son, he married Beatrice, youngest daughter of Queen Victorin.
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Without doubt a gal- lant gentleman with fine war record, there is much
of the Regeney buck in him. He once ruined a pair of trousers
The object would be to enable in view ot Lady Mountbatten, recent economic changes, to liquidate parts of the trust estates,
To
ensure
this a Private
Bill
and a pair of suede shoes would have to be introduced into riding pillion at West Parliment, Flam speedway.
In America be ex- claimed: "Why can't they leave me alone?" He also sent enthusiastic cables to his Repent street offee, signed "Mil." He told American busi- ness men, "over lunch," what ho thinks οι Socialism,
GAY 'TWENTIES DICHES, estates, social position, the Mountballens hud. them all. They lit the gay twenties and the frightened thirties like jewels.
The fashion pages sald Edwina was "ndept at holding her coats woll." She was noticed peering
tortoise-shell through
lorgnettes
at gamblers in Deauville.
She flew to her husband on his overseas stations,
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She was опе of the first cross the Burma road to China,
do it she travelled and rough ng a coolic.
"Too inany Americans think they are advanc- Ing us money only have it wasted in Social- istic schemes. We should Persla. do more to banish these I an misunderstandings. not a Socialist, but I' think the form of gov ernment Britain chooses is her concern." According to reports, he has now
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Ronson Products Ltd., British-owned sub- become sidiary of Ronson Art Metalworks.
LADY IRIS O'MALLEY Rhythmic exaltation
Like his brother, he became a naturalised Englishman, Less spectacular, less talented than his brother, he died at sea in 1896, of a fever contructed during the Ashanti war.
Perhaps he never knew what Way. Certainly chewing-gum he could not have forecast that his granddaughter would spon- Bor it on New York's subway.
A
ONCE BRIGHT
EFT to the Inst is the Mount- Earl Mountbatten of batten,
of Burma, self-styled "Suprano" S.E.A.C, son
of "Batts." sailor, administrator, but "just an ordinary commando" to his wife Edvina.
The transformation of Lord and Lady Louis, from bright young things of whom It was written the
social whirligig moves less cheer- fully without them," is a miracle of
our age.
The man who was to wear the was once boyishly proud
Henry's son, Alexander, be- cane Marquis of Carisbrooke. He had one child, the Lady Iris Garler Mountbatten, playgirl, sales of a cigarette-case given him by woman, dancer, model, and gossip-writers' dream.
ORDERED TO LEAVE
to Britain, where it grew and bergs, at the request of George SHE is now 29, and Lady Iris
flowered.
a film star.
The woman who was to walk us Vicereine among Indin's turmoil once held the brightest parties in London.
The woman whose "chrysant- themum-flowered .bathing Wrap O'Malley, with hazel eyes, a cet all hearts beating" later wore V. renounced their family husky voice, and an appreciation with distinction the uniform of
the St. John Ambulance Corps. To the first son, Prince Louis game and took that of Mount of Battenberg pride.
The young man with the smart Alexander, and the third, Henry batten, a literal translation. To Maurice, wore to come bright Prince Louis was given the
Hispano-Suiza and "L.M." marquisate of Milford Haven. honours.
"I don't think it
half
number-plate, was to handle deftly the uncomfortable task of severing H.
Indin from the Empire. They built two great families enough," exploded J. and
Britain gave
soldiers, Thomas. "What that man has and play done for the Navy is almost sallors, statesmen, .boys.
beyond belief."
TOMORROW'S MOTOR SECRETS TOLD
TURBOJET CARS RUN
ON PARAFFIN
By CHAPMAN PINCHER --
CAR engines based on the turbojets which power our fastest fighter planes are being designed by several motor firms, Mr James Hodge, jet ploneer, told Government technicians in London recently.
Working like the aircraft
power unit, but without the hot jel, they will make driving cheaper, safer, and more comfortable, he said.
Details are top trade secrets, but Mr Hodge, who was a member of Jot-inventor Sir Frank Whittle's wartime team, gave some perform- anco facts.
Turbocars will be CHEAPER, he
:said, because-------
(1) They will run on paraffin and -diesel oil instead of petrol;
(2) They will use hardly any 1ubricating oll;
(3) They will need fewer replace- anonía and Trepairs,
They will be SAFER because)--
There will be tower controls
to distract the driver. No clutch or
gear-lover will be needed;
(2) Accidental deaths from
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After the American papers had given her the roughest going- over in her life, she was reported to have said: "I hope my family get the right angle on this,"
The right
angle
on his
Lord Louis' naval career was sometimes reckless, but always a credit to his father.
be gallant, would out to estimate. In America, to which she went in 1940, she was arrested for issuing a dishonoured cheque and was released when the debt was paid.
BIG WEDDING
command of a destroyer flotilla, he
history gave naval
Settlements a com-
To aid Dockland
and she organised balls petition in which the winner was offered enough enviare for a life- timc.
The curtain of war shut dowit on that, Her husband, whose talents were parched by peace, flowered. She
Dame emerged frum it a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, the dignified first lady of. India.
Ife emerged as a Supreme Com- mander und Viceroy.
his title will not dlo with him. Though he is_without_a_ron, Part of the letters patent of its creation ensure that it will pass through bls daughter to his descendants.
Never before has there been an - aristocrat so vested with respon
sibility by a Socialist Government: This is regorded by some
De noi entirely fortuitous.
HIS ADVISER AS Supreme his methods were un-
orthodox. No source of infor- mation or experience was neglected. On his staff was a civillan, Peter Murphy, who had known him when they were together at Cambridge.
He worked as liaison between Combined Operations and political Intelligence,
Не Was the taan of whoi Mountbatten is reported to have said: "If you want to know my views, try your ideas and plans on him first."
What else was ho? An Irish- a student of anthropology, a middle-aged man who financed
man, IN
an
Sho was ordered to leave when eple of courage and his friend, a Hammersmith bookshop before her visitor's permit expired. She Noel Coward, the plot for a film. went back in 1947 ao immigrant."
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the war. There was to be found display of Left-wing a large literature.
Murphy is
man of whom one commander in the Far East sald: "It appeared to us that many of Lord Louis decisions were influenced by him."
Ho Is not universal hero. Canadlox spirits still burn resent- Sho was last plctured In Don fully отст Dieppe, for which Pallini's dancing studio ("for a he held major responsibility. In comfortable figure well up in the S.E.A.C. he was occasionally known
with five-figure, bracket")
as "The Glamour Boy." and shapely knee crooked in a
"Vinegar Joo" Sulwell, who led
THE FUTURE position of rhythmic exaltation:
the Americans in Burma, snarled, RUMOURS
That's what makes it so dangerous. Tow the rumours are busy with Even I like him."
"Dickie" Mountbatten again. His marriage in 1022 was the They say he will be the next social event of the season. Hin
haust-gas poisoning will be possible. The .exhaust from 盘 son of the tragic "Batts," suc- wife, Edwina, was not only the Socialist Minister of Defence.
contains hardly turbing 'poisonous carbon monoxide,
Im- EORGE MOUNTBATTEN, first
any eeeded to the title when his father
died in 1921, They will be MORE. COM- FORTABLE because:-
His
third and son, There will be no vibration from Marquis of Milford Haven, is al- the engine. It is possible to silence most as good copy for the U.S. nlmost completely the whine of a Press as Lady Iria. fast-spinning turbine.
They will be LESS TROUBLE- SOME because:-
now
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small banker. At 18 he London as a clerk.
come to
It
is unlikely that he resents daughter of Lord Mount Temple, but the granddaughter of Sir Ernest the idea. His desire to be re-
garded as
the Left" them Cassel, which meant more.
days has been demonstrated by Cassel of Gorman-Jewish descent, deft touches.
his was born in Cologne, the son of a When
daughter Patricia married Lord Brabourne two years ago, in almost royal splendour, the He is short, fair-haired, has
Io had genlus for amassing entering was placed in the hands D.S.C., which he won on a Malta
money, and became a great finan- of the local Co-op. O.D.E. Won when cinl-and social power. His cioso What does the furture hold for enally in cold weather.
A turbine starts up just as convoy, and an
the destroyer Kandahar was bunk.
WAR Edward VII., after him
his granddaughter WDA as "The Boy David." he
If he
regards himself (2) There will be no worries Known about freezing up.
Socialist, which many people think Tho turbocar was best mon to his cousin Philip, engine needs no water cooling sys has lunched with Carole Landin for Edwina brought to Lord Louts he does, he may well be found in a
high place in a Socialised Britain. five shillings in a Kingston store, and an Inheritance of something more tem
As the uncle the Princd The new engines are much smaller has recently returned from America, than two million pounds.
obviously hold thon petrol engines of similar sunoking 'a largo cigar. In a small Discussions are now underslood Consort, he will
to be taking place regarding the also a high position in the social posalbility of breaking up the life of the country. There he has been selling radiators · Cassel Trust, under which Lady
It is a combination, fascinating The only disadvantago is that the and denying rumours that he is Mountbatten and her sister, now to reflect upon, that rarely falls
to the lot of any man.
JOHN PREBBLE
power. A 100 horse-power modal | holder. need be only nine and a half inches wido, said Mr Hodge.
friend
whom
ained.
now engine catinot bo used toto marry Princess, Margaret or a Lady Delainore, inherited brake a car down steep hills.
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