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worn, blue

In

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teddy-bear, which has had since he was few weeks old and which still sleeps with him.

UMMIE'S coming But it has not displaced

back from Mag- his affection a soft, now rather plol" Everybody he at Sandringham has heard that excitedly-spoken sen- tence during the last few days a good many times.

from

It comes

Every day after tea the two the children come down from

to be with the King nursery

Queen. a gay, and

Charles's high golden-haired boy

with spirits are a source of constant the happy blue eyes Prince delight and amusement to Charles. He soon grasped the fact that Magple was of the Duke of the name Edinburgh's ship, and Malta and Magpie became one and marches up and down. the same for him.

of

Lively, intelligent, full curiosity about everything und everybody, Prince Charles is always talking: Indeed, he is a merry clutterbox.

King.

Then after a happy romp

"Non-Nan" comes

and the curfew of bath and bed.

Prince Charles likes military bands.

When they play he

He also listens to the BBC for under-flyes, programme Listen With Mother, and tries to imitate the animal nolas.

ba

the Long ago he abandoned confines of a nursery play- pen. He races full-steam about

garden-and house and

con- wears out his shoes Vin Eequently, with unfailing rapidity.

Speaks Clearly

ก

For a small boy of only just over two he speaks remarkably clearly, but there is still bit of trouble with "those R's": 50 that the Queen is still "G'annie," the King "G'anpa," and Queen Mary is "G'an-C'an,"

Hardly a day goes by, how- ever, without his adding a new word to his vocabulary. As the result of frequent expeditions to the Royal kennels where ho

made great friends

of the King's Labrador are no longer

has

two

retrievers, dogs

"woofers," but "doggies."

The first

with

thing that Prince

to

But there is one thing he misses in the country: in London one of his chief delights is watch the great red buses hurt- he Ung down Piccadilly when

his walks in Green Park. At Sandringham he looked in vain астова the hedgea and

"Why through the trees.

Nan-Nan?" he Inquired. He had a great thrill on New Year's Day. The Queen held the telephone receiver to his ear and let him hear his mother's voice. "Mummie!" he gasped. "Frwom Mugple!"

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IT'S A WOMAN'S 'WAR, TOO

Pocket pilot in petticoats

By MARGARET SHIPLEY

The world's first woman fighter pilot, widowed Lleut.-Colonel Sabina Gokcen, is on her way to fight with her beloved Turkish squadron In Korea.

This 37-year-old pilot in petticoats, whose during and determination spread her fame throughout the Bal- kans in the thirties, cannot bear to think of the squadron without her.

She is so tiny that the seat of a plane has to be specially adjusted for her. And they call her "dynamite","

The former waif, adopted by Kernal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic, la no mere glamour girl.

Every man, woman and child in Turkey adores her. To every schoolgirl and boy-sho is their pin-up girl.

Her story really began in 1925.

Even then, an orphaned waif, she knew her mind. She wanted to see Ataturic. She stood in the crowd at Brusa, first capital of Othman the First,

ed

Fate stepped in. The great man heard her tragic story-her parents were killed in the war of indepen- denco and decided to adopt her and make her famous.

After school she went to Paris and Vienna. She learn-

English, French, German, Russian. Then flying lessong began in 1935, to be crowned with a first- class diploma air instructress

and later with the rank of leutenant-colonel.

During the thirdca The

came

an

romance. tough Sabina fell in love with Kemal All, har flying instructor. The "fantastic flyer became known to her "Juliet,"

friends as

Theirs was a perfeet marriage until Kemal All died a few years ngo of a mysterious germ.

MacARTHUR

T

Charles usually says to visitors tary

is "Come and see baby," for he

takes

a keen

and

P

who HOSE people

think that General MacArthur is finish- ed

mili- and political figure

по

EL

there are many

and possessive anxious to believe it — are interest in his sister, Princess

Anne, who will be six months reckoning without the Gen-

old next week.

Both are in the best of health and have passed through the

eral and his powerful friends

in the U.S.A.

The issue before history

winter so far without a trace is stark clear. Is MacArthur of cold.

sound like an

a blunderer or a martyr? Princess Elizabeth, when she That may returned found her son sturdier over-simplification, but it and a little plumper than when she last saw him ten weeks states

ago,

the case as "Ameri-

and Princess Anne's cans see it. weight, scrupulously noted each has day by Nurse Lightbody, steadily increased.

'Go out' Cry

In New York I had con- versations with men of high position, who put a startling деж face upon the

It is. Princess Elizabeth's whole matter. I can- my con- opinion that .every mother not reveal should study the individual tacts-or the man- requirements of her child, be-

ner in which my not cause what suits one may

friends acquired suit another.

has their information-

A

A

rule the Princess

always emphasised is "Give but I ask the readera

the

as

BS much open air to believe that the

ing rain keep them in.

Blunderer

or martyr?

Only fog or drly. source would be regarded as these all-too-familiar reliable by anyone of judg- phenomena appear, Charles cannot understand why

When

Princement.

This is the case, they out! make for MacArthur.

he should have to remain in- doors. "Charles go

Charles go Out!" he protests vociferously.

One day recently, unknown

that

1 The General know

China and North Russia,

to the dock workers at King's Korea bad reached ageement Lynn, a small figure in blue that the North should attack the suit and leggings watched wide- South, and that if the United eyed as ships were being load-Nations intervened China would

ed and unicaded. Charles was seeing for the first time how men go down to the 2

BCA.

REPORT ON AMERICA:2

by BEVERLEY BAXTER

MP

THE LONDON THEATRE:

Shakespeare Is Topical

By Ronald Roper

Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon is

some

COG-

London, Feb. 1. THE Old Vic's most am- in the throes of interior altera-

bitious production of tions which will cost

The company, who £80,000. the season, "Henry V," have begun rehearsing, are la "going over big." It fident that the improvements will turn their somewhat grim- gains something from

un- looking building into one of the premeditated topicality on best equipped theatres to be the part of the author. A found anywhere.

The forestage roar of appreciative merri-

enlarged, and accommodation in ment greets the line. by the boxes, stalls and circles Increas Duke of Orleans, in response ed to give the auditorium a total them seating capacity of about 1,400. to "give to advice

A thousand more people a week great meals of beef, and iron will be able to see the produc- and steel; they will eat like tions in comfort, and Mr Anthony wolves and fight liko devils." Quayle, the director,

has

been

estimates

"Ay," says his Grace, that the extra seating will enable "but these

are the company to take an addition- English

al £20,000 at the box-office

this season and eventually to absorb

Admission

will be only prices will

shrewdly out of beef."

And even Henry V sum- the whole cost of the renovations. moned, in addition to

slightly raised, nearly 500 seats few reluctant remaining at 6s. or less, Д

lighting.

heroes,

the id

Z-reservists to the field of

Agincourt.

remote-control Fluellen and panel, at which a single operster

Nym (Wm. Devlin and Leo can be responsible for all the McKern) lend topical comi- stage lighting effects, has been Installed. Equipment on these cality to the rolicksome ele lines was recently demonstrated ment in this piece of Shakes to the press at the. New Theatre in London.'The Stratford players pearean pomp and circum- will also have the advantage of

and

stance.

Alec Clunes, in the name role, at the first-night rub- bed in the topical note with an Anglo-French tribute to "our resident au-

10 new dressing-rooms

"green room."

3

you know your Kipling os

curtain well as your Rider Haggard,

thor's courage in writing a you are bound to notice some similar shortcomings in "Kim,"

followed has play about our present times which

*King for the Festival of Britain." Solomon's Mines" as the big im Besides proving himself at the Empire, Leicester Square. Indians, and Europeans who Mr master of the part,

know

India (where most of the only aim was shot), may also be Arthur the Great. The New Clunes must be the York sallrists st y

he theatre manager (bis own surprised at how clean and tidy the sub-continent looks on the bimself

screen. But they will approve Emperor of Japan. The cynics attachment is the Arts) to

that he be employed elsewhere as of dialogue with a minimum of say it is worse than

The play also American accent and plenty of actor. President of an plans to become the U.S.A., even as the defeated gives Dorothy Tutin, look rousing if not always authentic

intends to crown

that

Hindenburg became President of

the German Republic after the ing even 1914-18 war.

the General

less than her 20 thful Dean Stockwell does

as well as the Irish orphan who, years, her big chance

of France. She staining his skin with walnut It must be remembered, how-Princess

and winding a turban Juice that suck voices are recently did well in the round his head, finds adventure ever scattered and have not

the "earthy" atmosphere of among the bullock-carts of the

village, cohesion of those who support "Bartholomew Fair."

tho processional ele

the city and the phants of

despite pilgrims of the Khyber Pass. Errol Myn, however, de

crimson beard, qualifies

ins 25 1 genial scoutmaster his then as Mahbub All, the wily old horse trader interested In

MUZZLED

If it is proved that a potu

it is proved that MacArthur

out

For the past two or three wecks the Old Vic has been soid

"Henry V every night. looks like being equally popular. *

GM

<

a

more

cians who forced him into Д campaign of which he disap-

hesitates to assess which is the ow by with topleality. proved and then prevented him WHILE Shakespeare can get something more than horses. One from waging full war against 20th century (1006) Galsworthy greater wonder that his pas- sienate moments with bright- China when the attacked the play, presented at the Lyric, eyed bourls should be so strictly UN forces, the tone will change Hammersmith, inevitably dates, rationed in deference to the swiftly.

MacArthur the Blun-but the pathos of "The Silver derer will swiftly pass to Mac-Box" grips the audience for all Kipling text, or that his know- ledge of the great game of spying Arthur the

Martyr

that.

and

tess

At the moment he is muzzled Even Galsworthy could hardly on Indian tribes for the white by Washington, but when have imagined how completely sahib should be so casual.

✰ the

"cease-fire" sounds it may relations between "society" not be long before the General servants would change in opens fire on the Administration than half a century. The impli- ISS Vivien Leigh has been If and when cations of the revolution are at landed with an unenviable at Washington. that happens, I prodlet that the times almost too much for the task by her husband's choice of

visualize trying to

for the Festival of Britain. casualties will be heavy.

His first target will probably what it was like for an honest She is to be Cleopatra both in

charwoman to be wrongly Shakespeare's "Antony be Dean Acheson, the Secretarya Kaenteel" family

of theft

in the service of Cleopatra" and

And what is the American

audience,

1900,

plays

Shaw's

respectively, plays, on

and

Sir

as

of State, who will be accused of

"Caesar

and Cleopatra all crimes according to the But the maximum honours go MacArthurists.

to Kathleen Harrison as the Laurence Olivier himself,

Antony and Caesar Her pathos domia- will rehearse the charwoman. meaning of Nehruism? It is the ates the stage. Frederick Leister alternate days until the shows philosophy that small states, and Marjorid Fielding, as the are given a trial run at Maa- ilke Kashmir and Tibet, have charwoman's employers, vainly

chester in April. In London no rights, and that it is the try to hide the guilt of the son they will be put on at the St duty of the free world to of the house (Peler Hammond). James's Theatre on alternate truckle to the strong.

wesks.

weak point, but assumed that as the Chinese had failed to enter A SHOW-DOWN? the war when it would have been to their advantage, Mac- Arthur thought they might be induced to keep out if they saw no immediate danger to them

Prince enter the war,

MacArthur was against direct intervention by the United Nations in Korea, but Being under the same root

He wanted, Overruled. WES and having more leisure than instead to strengthen the Nation in London, the Queen la foralist forces in Formosa, rearm ever in and out of the nursery. the Japanese and encourage the

Irregulars in China. A Beloved Teddy

war

selves.

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arc

the

to

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IN expectation that its season in Olivier's current play, Miss Leigh A DMITTEDLY the Americana Festival year will be specially admitted to being still addicted she to A are inexperienced in world susceptible

criticism by to Canasta, although," affairs and do not realise the Shakespeare admirers from all added, "you'll probably think me special difficulties of Great Bri-over the world, the Memorial old-fashioned." tain as the centre of an Empire "It was

a bluff that didn't whose distant territories come off" say the New York vulnerable to attack. They can- protagonists, "but it was not not understand why

British policy must consider 2 Because the North Koreans done without a purpose."

opinions and special conditions The Princess has sent to her

drove everything before Now, however, comes their of Dominion and Colonial Gov- son not only photographs she them in the first stages of the most serious indiciment against craments across the has taken, but also many of

the Chinese held back. the United Nations and the

But even if our cousins did herself and the Duke, as well Then came the brilliant Ameri- Administration at Washington, realise the necessity for as coloured picture postcards can landing at Inchon and the They say that having been slower tempo in London than of Malta and children's books. entire situation was altered, attacked by the Chinese, Mac- in Washington they fail Just now Prince Charles joves

Arthur was ordered to fight understand the apparent lack of all picture books.

4 With the North Koreans in

impossible

ble conditions. Hy full retreat, and as, the United aeroplanes could not crom the resentment o

resentment on our part against Newest toy is a beautiful doll In Maltese costume-sent by his Nations troops crossed the 38th

frontier and therefore could not Therefore when the. Korean mother and father,

Parallel, MacArthur issued his bomb the junction points nor

American famous pronouncement that the supply depots. Never in history war is over the

bo home for

was a commander so hampered people will demand a show. At least down. They will want to know by by political control, "home" he meant Japan.) He that is their contention and their the truth about the origin and direction of the struggle In did this with double purpost condemnation.

Korea.

They

will 2011 for first to encourage his troops to

some man to put it into words 80 that all can understand.

That man may be General

If

he can prova MacArthur. that China was committed to make war in Korca, and if he can further prove that China is

boys would Christmas, (Incidentally,

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

the war, and secondly to con-

"what I'm trying to juża58) to Marie Flackenbacker S that while as a maiton werd att frightfully vigored. Chaos.

no longer liveto, on charity, ar taividuals pera whacking: bty food netpák,

„King's Building (2nd Floor) 9 Connaught Rd., Hong Kong Hoking forward & fcra

make an all-out offensive to end HIS CRITICS

vince the Chinese that they were in no danger of being I

attacked.

must not be imagined that the General has no critics his native country.

In

As

5 Russia cracked the whip and

I explained, yesterday; in fact the Far East pariner of the Chinese attacked, for there is the natural revulsion of the Communist Imperialist Axin It was to written in the bond. a nation enduring defeat for the then the

repercussion on Amor-

I have skeletonished the case first time in to history. Then fean politice would be 'profound. put by MacArthur's champions, there

the blinded

Bro

and

but in essence it gives the argu- malmed men coming home with It might well be that the Re-

of unbearable both Houses

publican Party · would capture ment as presented to me

cruel memories

of Parliament as cold, and a war which they do well as the White House. not understand. And, finally

BEWILDERED

E

FRANKLY 1 see one puzzling wonknees in it, nor could my American friends give a satisfac-

tdry Arthur realised the

there is the force resentment THE QUESTION

against the falluro of the other Unlid Nations to send share of Aghting men.

.

their TS General MacArthur a blun

derer or a martyr?. Not only Such bitterness musi nud American polities, but tho of wield strategy danger of Chinese intervention, expression, and inevitably much whole trend than why, as he approaches the of it is directed against General may depend on the answer to frontior, did ho fan out his MacArthur, He la described as that question. troops in a long thin vulnerable a megalomaniac muffering from

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an advanced slago of folie " de London Exprese Service) Merence by depth?

I told my friends that thin

completely-bewildered Another seunt à fan that the the mlillary experts in Britain, spends most of his time being They admitted ibat i was a public relations counedi to Mac-

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