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WOMAN of the WEEK

EVELYN IRONS

London Express Service

Spinster Knows About Children

tivity." "freedom through discipline," are her favourite slogans.

In practice, it means getting children from the age of two onwards to help themselves,

without rewards or punishments, And this must be inculcated Smacking, of course, is banned. Children use special instructive

frame toys, including

with hools, and eyes, buttons and bars, which teaches them to dress themselves without help.

lo

FECHTELER

shows the critics

NEW YORK.

UT in the Atlantic, in an

aren bounded by Cape Hatteras, Bermuda and Cape Race, 100 United States maval veg-

sels, 50,000 Americans in Atlantic rehearsal say:

mon and

hundreds 'If he wore British, they'd be proud,'

of aero-

planes are on a three weeks' mander of the Eastern Sea manoeuvre designed to probe Frontier, is directing the protec

tlon of convoya within the the weak spots, in America's coastal waters. defences against Russlan submarines.

atup

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The war game Wffers from most of its salt water pre

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In supreme command perched decessors. It is no "et plece." It is planned to resemble what glittering pyramid of admirals, is big, bluft Bill America's commanders think Fechteler (pronounced FEK they might face in the first few teller, with the 'accent on

weeks of war. the first syllable), now C-in-C of America's Atlantic Fleet

Six to eight submarines-on tipped for the top job of the admittedly small number, but to the number corresponding combined naval forces in the Hitler sent to this side of the North Atlantle in any future Atlantic in 1942, where they war.

and

most

The war game is the realistic yet' organised by the United States Novy in every respect save one. There is a most unrealistic but determine; effort to keep Russia out of it. name is never mentioned. everybody knows who "enemy forces" really are,

NERVE CENTRE

wrought havoc among .coastal shipping-are operating under the command of Rear-Admiral S. S. Murray boss of the Allan- lie Fleet's submarine arm.

Sensitive to criticisms of the Her choice of Admiral Fechteler 10 But run naval affairs for the com- the bined Powers in the Atlantic,

United States navy men at Nor- folk Navy Yard are counting on the exercises to give their chict a chance to show what he can

MAIN purpose of the exercise do.

10 test the American

Snid one of them: "The Cloud Mullins, the magistrate, ache, und had sacrifice communications systems across

She vast areas of ocean.

critica can say what they like currying her two-month-old son one of her own molars.

about the Admiral's nationality. in sling, Chinese fashion. has no time for old-ladylike

An operations centre has been But they can't say he is not a "That's the way," said she ap- pastimes such as knitting. provingly.

set up

in the sprawling Navy sailor. If he госте British, Although she has devoted 60

Yard at Norfolk, Virginia. they'd be proud of him, and She is Irmly convinced ("I years to children, she has

There in a a series of lofty rooms say he was in the true Nelson know-I don't merely believe,") none of her own; she will solve all the world's rags adopted a child and called him lantic Fleet and the Military Sea that her way of life for children married.

never with great wall maps a move- tradition,”

ment-report centre charts the lens.

But many prob-

years ago she positions of sil ships in the At- International bickerings ("Truman, MacArthur, Chur- Mario Montessori.

cause

great-grandchildren. They go to Another of the principal nerve

AND NO MUTINY

Now 60, he Transport Service and of the FIFTY chill and all that") she waves is her constant companion. 1s United States and Panamian- ** 2 - FIVE-YEAR-OLD Fechteler, huskily-built aside with an imperious grandchildren, boys of five and flag shipping.

$100

without being unusually tall, bas amethyst-ringed hand. Mussolini four, she considers to be her

been a full admiral only a little closed her schools in Italy be

more than a year. But he has of her pacifist views:

a Montessori school in Amster-centres is in a series of rooms had a great deal of experience, Hitler suppressed them in Ger- dam. But they can tearn high above the roar of Manhat at the desk as well as on deck. many and Austria because of nothing from great-grandmam-ion traffe at the Navy head- their racial and religious toler ma. They speak ond understand quarters in Church Street, New A smiling, open-air type with ance (the founder is a Roman Dutch only.

} York close to the financial the blue eyes and tanned leather Catholic herself).

district's skyscrapers. There skin of the sailor, he believes Admiral Oscar Badger, Com- the sea to be the greatest career

The baby's mind IGHTY.ONE next

August, Dr Maria ALL that is elementary stuff to the Initiales. For them Dr Montessori, ploneer Montessori has something quite of the "modern" new. Her latest project is an system of education which institute in Rome for the study When Italy's entry into the bears her name, is in Lon- of child education from birth to war caught her in Madras she

the age of three.

was Interned as an enemy allen, don for the ninth interna-

Briefly, the new line is - was not released until 1945. strengthen the tie between the How did she get the idea of In the succeeding Pestalozzi and Froe- Few prophets inspire such mother and the infant.

as this small, modern world the baby is some- bel and becoming one of the veneration

thing to be parked away. Let the three great revolutionaries of stoutish Italian with her mother take it around with her nursery education? black dress, snowy hair, and wherever she goes. The Iden burning brown eyes. Men seems to be that this will broad- and women devotees kiss her en the baby's mind. hand, bow low, hang on her. Mentessori pounced on a picture of medical student Mrs.

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Father disapproved

eyury word. She enjoys it all. Anne Dally, daughter of Mr. she very much.

She speaks hesitant Eng- lish, better French: is hap- piest in a voluble spate of Italian.

There are 200 Montessori schools in England (includ- ing co-ed Bedales) and countless others in most countries of the world. Yet the average Briton, to whom the name has been house- hold currency for years, has only the faintest notion of what it is all about.

Many think she start- ed the do as you like schools. That makes her "controlled ac- very cross:

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weak ending May 5. Other notifiable disparen

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MARIA MONTESSORI No time for knitting

FTER...taking.... her medical degree at Rome University— was the first woman over to

do it; her father dimpproved, so the rien students-she

did

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10 years of JETS

and now what?

WHITTLE the poorest

went to Paris to study mental discages. She

came back 10 Rome to found her first "Child- ren's House" In slums there in 1900.

Since the war she has had her. home in Amsterdam. But she is often away from it, travelling, always by air.

At home she is no example to the young.

She refuses to go to bed until 2.30 a.m. is up and about five hours later: objects because in the past few months her doctor has insisted on her resting in the afternoons.

Her health is good. She en- joys the rich Dutch cuisine, sup- plementing it with her favourite Italian macaroni and spaghetti. She was surprised and in- dignant when sho had tooth-

His world costs millions

From R.M. MacColl

Its chemists are

by JAMES STUART

THE

first ten years of the "Jel Age" have just come to an end.

It was on May 15, 1941, five days after the Luftwaffe's last big scale air raid on London, that test pilat P. E. G. Sayer (killed 18 months later) took - a new, highly secret aeroplane up from Cranwell, Lines, and revolu- tionised nying. The aeroplane was the Gloster-Whittle E.28/39, the Arst successful machine.

In

jet-powered

OUT

10 years the jet engine, pioneered by Sir Frank Whittle, foamer RA cadet, has shrunk the world. With airliners pos- sessing greater speed than wartime fighters, Britain has a commanding lead In Jets; it, will soon start paying off so far as commercial flying is concerned. TWO YEARS AHEAD JO other country in the world N°

-except Canada--has pro- duced a jet airliner.

Our de

Havilland Comet has had nearly

two years of test flying. Several

NEW YORK. ing with foreign nations. Con- ing, which seems to have of them have now been bullt; startled everyone, is that vice orders have been placed from M policy planners MOST of America's top gress, approved it.

exists in the nation's capital. Ioverseas as well as by BOAC STC THE NEXT world pepper would have found it far more The jet engine has added about agreed that the best way to shortage will find the United starting if they had said. It did 250 mp.h. to the speed of the counter the ideological ap- placently.

States Army smiling com- not.

Intercitor.fighter within a few years, ond

Cast enormously peal of Communism is to go working to discover a synthetic

NEW YORK'S. Cardinal borbers have been built. all-out for President Tru- pepper and "with consider- Spellman is one of the best

What

will the next 10 years man's Point Four

able success." pro-

mimics in the country. But bring? This was the question I gramme.

SIX-FOOT Harold

Butler promised I wouldn't say whom put to Mr Wilfred George Carter, who has been designing sero- sformed into a radio station at ho imitates bost This alms at a solid build-up, Winter Haven, Florida, twisted

planes, since the 1914-18 war. He A CRICKET TEAM from designed the historic aeroplane with cash and brains of the the engineer's arm, halt Johns Hopkins University at that was built around the rivolu- world's backward areas,

strangled the announcer, and Baltimore, Maryland, beat, a But, as with much else in forced the station off the

tionary Whittle engine. air team from Haverford College, United States, you

The man who can look back Arst for half an hour. He explained In Pennsylvania, by 64 runs to have to sell it to Congress, that he wanted to deliver a 29. The Hopkins XI included acroplanes used by the old Royal on those carly "fabric and wira"- And Congressmen pre not messego to

the world." They two Englishmen, an Australian. Flying Corps, foresees that the likely to go wild with joy over finally coaxed him into an and a the estimate that has just been empty studio and let him de- Gulona.

player from British next 10 years will bring faster

than-sound fighters into general made by a UNO committee of liver the message into a "dead five economists,

AFTER a period in the -boxing is back in doldrums, With a slap-up scrap

scientists are conservative between while Cartier and coloured men. They know that `new at least 19.000 million dollars markot in the offing, they are Gene Hairston, the other night, designs take a long time to (£9,785 million) a year to beginning to talk about "steal" which was watched by 10,000,- || develop, p... make Point, Four a reality. ensics.""!

000 breathless TV fans, Cartier Mr Carter tol

cannot

that supersonic just won..... FOOTNOTE: Point Four is ITEADING the nation's non-

nicliners would be worth while. so called because it was the flotion beat-seller lists week DUD ABBOTT, has turned Supersante travel neroES the fourth part of a programme" after wook .is "Washington producer. And whom: do you | Atlantic cannot be done econo- put forward, by Mr Truman in Confidential," by two newa. suppose he has signed up to anically, and we cannot go on 1949 – for - Dianocratie: fair-deal- "papes: reporters." Its main" find-' got for him↑, Yes--Lou Costello,, subsidising the airlines for ever,"

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mike."

five (one of whom is

Manches- they had speakeasies. economy at

USE.

· MAY LOOK SILLY

Lewis, profosser of DURING PROHIBITION favour. Reason: a slam-bang, BUT not altliners, Aircraft oliversity) say it will cost new meat shortage and a black Walter

me;"

thrank the world

open to a man of the 20th cen tury, and to command a ship one of the few jobs left where man can really be master,

£

His father was an admiral, He himself put on uniform as an enaign in 1016, and since then has served in every type of ship except a submarine.

During World War II fought-in numerous engagements

he

in the South Pacific.

Fechteler and his wife, the

Stevens, former Goldye

of Washington, lave two children- Joan, 19, and the admiral's step- son, Rodney Dobson, 26,

But Mr. Carter is prepared, if necessary, to eat his words in 10 he years' time, "Of course," added "what one thinks now may look pretty silly in another speaks for itself.

United States navy and loves to He is intensely proud of the needle his Royal Navy friends with "Look at the record-it Not a single mutiny in all our naval history. 10 years."

What speed would our airliners No other nation on earth, In- be able to reach. According to cluding Britain, Mr. Carter's belief, around 500 much." mp.h.

(London Express Service,)

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