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Hongkong Society for the Protection of Children. Women's Auxillary.

Dear Sir/Madam,

On Saturday, January 31, 1953 the Women's Auxiliary of the Hongkong Society for the Protection of Children will once again hold its Annual Flag Day sale to raise money for its three Centres for Hongkong's needy babies,

We are sending you a special Appeal for financial assistance to this cause. We shall be most grateful for any donation you feel you can make.

To those who give regularly and to those who will give for the first time, we offer our grateful thanks in the name of the needy and suffering.

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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1953.

When a Baroness Speaks Up

By Nancy Spain

NCE upon a time there "Oh, yes," said Zain, wearily. was a dear little girl, always changes for dinner. Even "She's quite impossiblo, She called Agnes, who was born in Paris in 1874. and her daddy was one of the rich. Не ost men in the world. owned most of the coast of Mexico.

So begins one of the most fantastic true fairy stories of our time, retold in "My Dear Marquis" (John Murray, 21s.)

For when liite Agnes grew up the married the Chamberlain to the Czar of all the Russian- and she was known as “Auntie Ag" in half the courts of Europe.

Auntie Ag took part in egg Queen and spoon races with Alexandra and Queen Mary,

was invited to see Queen Alex, andra start her processional tour of London on the first Alexandra Rose Day ever, and so witnessed the distreming scene when the Princess Victoria turned faint.

the best, as was usually the case

when Agnes de Stockl look part in some privileged occasion.

03 trains I have known her stogger along to her, sleeping berth and then sweep Into the dining compartment in resne tremendous éreation..."

I did not believe a word of it, and said so.

"Oh yes I do, my dear," said the barones, "I still charge every single thing. Right down to my very stayTM”

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT lancasteR

“Deviationist 1 **

The Christmas

Princess

➜RINCESS ALEXANDRA may alter them. After some But everything turned out for ways took at the rather odd efforts she Is ON HER EIGHTEENTH world through a first-class evolving a style. window now. That is one of BIRTHDAY Alexandra (born

25,

will 1930) The procession was a triumph-the advantages-and the December

the crowds sur penalties of her position as visit Queen Mary and be given of the splendid a royal princess.

If her mother, the Duchess of Kent, gazes

a little quizzically, Alexandra faces, the future with a smile.

ant success; rounded Buckingham Palace.

Stayed to tea

Agnes and Zola (her grown- up daughter) had stayed to tea,

out

Indeed, her New Year should be happy. Soon will come the

ermined cloak.

One the Renterica of the Coronation, her coronet, and her

the

household suggested that Queen should show herself at the window. "I have done nough for today," said the Queen But the crowds con- tinued to cheer.

"Suddenly the Queen said, 'Zoia, my cloak and her are iving on the sofa. Put them on and go upstairs and LOGUE handkerchies. They will never know the diference....

And so it was.

I met the fabulous Zola and her equally asipnishing mamma. Zola is 00. Baroness de Stockl still resembles un exquisite plece of jewellery.

She Coltage. A COBY, two-storey dwelling originally intended for the Duchess of Kent's butler on the Coppins estate at Iver, Buckinghamshire.

now lives in Coppins

Nowadays Henry Bysouth, the Duchess's butler, lives in the middle, separating mother and daughter, two masterpieces of the late European civilisation, When I arrived Bysouth was washing his car,

They all have.cars.except. me." said the baroness (I thought uttle wistfully). "But I don't mind losing all that a bit, really. They have television, too..."

Rasputin

too

HER PART in the Coronation: History records no example of an in-between Princess, old to be dismissed as a child, too young to be treated us an

her portion royal jewellery,

At twenty-one Alexandra gets her first tara. Queen Mary has already chosen it.

★ ★ *

RED-SITTER

A Princess's

Is

the

and

school for the last Ume, there will still be some studying for. Alexandra in 1953. As a mem-

RUSSIA'S NEW RULING CLASS

By Victor S. Frank

HERE is no process decades at least, has been" the hunting, barely concealed threats which aro formation of a and denunciations more fascinating to emergence and

the distinct class with a very definite strange bed-fellows with watch for a social class consciousness of its own. generally prim and "nice" historian than the It is this class which now runs feelings of the heroes, with their with their birth and growth of a new Russia, even though the Party social conformism,

inndeenee, But the point I want leading class. In the USSR rules the country.

The whole complex machinery to make is different. this process is now visible

The novel show us the lives of the tightly centralised in-

of to the naked eye.

a group of young dustrial State is operated by ex-

middle-clas I do not mean the Comperts engineers, munist Party as such. The scientists, agronomists, The

Soviet

50119

and

managers.hughurs of handmastra, factory

"Party" is socially a fairly actual power may be held by the

a worker top leaders of the party, but the one of the students is a formation, Recing wheels are turned by the people vague

by origin and It is significant that it now numbers nearly with the technical know-how that he is rather a vague figure. The whole of their activities-not inillion full and hat is, by the

only their studies, but also their probationary members, and telligentala."

social life-s restricted to the that the members can be

middle class miller.

One

chapter of the anything from "activists"

seven

"Soviet in

FLATTERED

more and.

of the novel deals by the students

one of

(1.c., full-time administra. TUE Party has come to depend with a visit bald

more on them.

to a

a factory club where they mix tors, efficiency experts or The intelligentsia is wooed and with the workers. The tone of

to propagandista)

pro- faltered. Every

hun- this chapter your

reminds forma Communists who dreds of millions of roubles of Victorian novels in which some reasons national income are distributed well-bred young ladies visit the join up for career

In the form of slum them Among

slums and and out, to their sur- or because it is the thing "Stalin Prizes" and royalties. prise, that the poor are human, What is more, members of this too. Very much in the same "done." No, the Party is a

social class are political, not a

well

"intelliguents" aware of their way, the Soviet collective importance. Individual- discover, much to their surprise, phenomenon.

ly, everyone of them is, of course, that some of the workers have But many Party members at the mercy of the Party, but actually heard of Mayakovsky's

they

now verse and are even able to com- belong to a very definite social collectively

ey are by formation, the "Soviet fotel indispensable. They know full ment on it.

that a return to the anti- ilgentsia," which is a far wider

wider well concept shan the Party. This

This intelligentala course of the late "Intelligentsia" is very different twenties is impcrsible. its com- in its character and

Like all now classes, this new extremely self- both from its pre- formation

narclssic in Its

Csionary ancestor and from conscious,

ern counterparts,

PROSLOYKA

AWARENESS

Dre

a

an easy,

mony

VEN the language used in the novel by the members of the new middle-class and the private apart-

Western Ite

In tendency to preen itself in the workers is different. The intel- It is pink, cream, ment.

literature. As the

ligentsia speaks But what sort of a life will chintzy. There is a portrait of fact, in the Soviet jargon, the mirror of

make of ? Here her father, Alexandra

in naval uniform, tum "intelliguent" (with a hard rising bourgeoislo in the Low modern Russian, with

allusions

and puns. The workers on the last Countries

seventeenth so In the fragments of her beside her divan bed.

"E" and the accent

school ย

use a tougher, harder and duiler of future which point the way. ALEXANDRA finds boys of syrable) is applied to anyone century created

few and the peasorts that her own age "rather juvenile," not earning his living by manual visual art reflecting its life, so Idlum, and

class crop up in the novel aro but was fond of going to Eton, labour. Thus, a humble Junior the rising Soviet middle

Is doscribed

in exotic terms as in the backwoods has created a literature which is something quite cutside the ken which is

near Coppins, and accountant

an__"intelliguent," written primarily by members of

and, for that 'meeting the school friends of kolkhoz is

while a well-paid Stakhanovito the intelligentsin, for them and of the heroes her brother, the Duke of Kent

ALTHOUGH

hos left bricklayer is definitely not. about them. Soviet literature matter, of the author.

There given up the

great has long since

is novel to the untenable

of being pointers In this protence proletarian It is quite frankly American-style life of the new

rich-jazz musle

coming from ber of the Royal Familly, she is NOW in Marxian sociology, a a middle-class literature-It has rich-1

class is a clars because of its to be, if only from the angle of ratio sets in smart Pcbeda motor expected to have an especially

a luxurious flat of the will be a train-bearer.

thorough knowledge of history, special relationship to the process salesmanship.

production. Since, "iha

factory manager's, five hundred PRINCESSES DE not pre-political economy and languages, of

NARCISSIC They do not

a class That Alexandra is so well elimination of Kutaks us

offers of marriage received by sented at Court.

girl whose portrait appeared on debutantes.

18 versed in these subjects already In the early thirties, so

Com- the cover of a popular months, when she is of full age is due say her family to the munist pundits say, Soviet soclely HERE is the famous according to royal law, pitence of Mr Wilfred Edwards, does not contain ay ang tao order" which oil art hay to obey, ife of the poorer members of munist phrase about "a social There is also the other sidechy: exploiting classes. Alexandra

In fact, will take her place now a retired schoolmaster, who

be classes

the idea being that literalure the same middle-class; the kettle the Queen's party as it as lives at Iver,

are suppobed to which in existence

Soviet

for tea tucked Union and art in general have to carry with hot water sembles for one of the Courts at

in the

bed to keep it warm The out, consciously or unconsciously, away In which debutantes are presented.

are workers and peasants.

the communal referred orders given to them by this or (because of As Queen Elizabetli leads the

intelligentsia is never formal procession through the

that be true, then kitebon!); the University pro to as a "class," not even os í sloy that class. It Apartments, Stale

Alexandra

(stratum)

(a Soviet Illerature mest certainly fessor living "very comfortably" prosloyka (a

Issued by the in one room; etc. will walk behind, and this will

thin intervening layer, something works to orders A novel in be her official debut into society.

But overriding all these dis- verbal

adult, at the Coronation of

Alexandra

Queen. Prediction:

become

in

in

* ★ ☆ THE PRINCESS will not be

rich.

The £167,735, most of it in trust for his elder son and the children't education.

Duke

left

Her favourite book was also Queen Elizabeth's childhood favourite: "Black Beauty."

PRINCESS

Mary is a theme that has run all through her young life. This is returned in great measure. They are close friends.

*

◊

but as a

Com-

or

card; a

owns Coppins and the small country, her success must dependinidic. After all, the Action of very the Soviet Intelligentsia, leading part will be translatect

fine managerial class. spread)- ALEXANDRA'S Ïike sandwich deep affcclion for Queer it twinction, carrying with Soviet Russia is successful only inctions of income is the feeling of all If it manages to present some of collective awareness Implications.

the these young people It suggests, first, that this

who know problem affecting

Novels or plays that it is they who run the quito category is numerically Insignificant which is untrue: dealing

workers and together with the dependants it.

it peasants do appear, but they still country, and who, with a naive pride, set themselves apart from

two public with a higher the numbers something like tem

officially victorious appeal to a milor. It suggests, educational standard than that of classes, the workers and the But while Alexandra will play twelve

peasants. The Duchess has the income a considerable, and increasing, secondly, that its place in the the heroes they deplet

is somewhere in the A recent Soviet novel reflects It is impossible to say when from a few investments, She role in the public life of her arma

clearly this narcissic at and how this, awareness of the proletarian dictatorship own on the secret of her

In maintained.

reality, this Artistically, it

rather into political farms..... But personality, a personality which the independent idens of her category forms the apex of the mediocre, frankly autobiographi- translated it will be sooner or social pyramid, even if there are cal first novel by a young author, later. We know pitifully little Telsonov-Studenta." It of the political and social aspira- as in the English middle classes Yury allisorts of sub-divisions in it. with the lives of a group of tons of these people: but there But if one disregards Marxian undergraduates at a teachers' can be no doubt that they differ verbal taboos, one begins to see Institute in postwar Moscow. The widely from those entertained that what has been happening in plc is trivia, but in parts by the present basses of the Russia, throughout the last two revealing: political ... witch country.

estate around It. In addition she receives an undisclosed sum indirectly from the Civil List.

There will not be a lot to spare for Princess Alexandra. But Queen Mary has promised that she will never suffer in comparison with other royal children.

Yel "all that" has included

with un encounter

Rasputin ("Two eyes met mine, two dark, sinister, piercing, almost hypno- tic eyes, that stabbed the soul ...I lay back, exhausted, cold, and clammy"), state concerts in the entourage of the Grand Duchess George ("Something envious. Alexandra casts long- happened which it is difficult for ing eyes at Princess Margaret's me to explain, but it sent Prince white. Dior evening dress..

into convulsions Christo

of of "Quite, quite perfect," she

EVEN A PRINCESS can be

laughter") egging oh Prince murmured when she first gaw Christopher to propose mariage į it. to the Grand Duchess Olga-

being caught out (because

of her beautiful-speaking voice) when visiting a Worth collection incognito for payment for an account rendered for £100: swore that I would never talk again."

זיי

·

* WH

A

But, unfortunately for us all, the baroness can hardly stop talking for a single instant. She is small and full of powerful | Alexandra vitality.

pre

mother have notably induénced

That is the foundation upon which the Christmas Princess, alone, must now begin to build her life.

D.E.

has to be titude of

Д }

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

น

de-

"Marriage ollen teriorates into glorious battlefeld where you hovo father, mother and each member of

the family seeking to dominate each other."The Rov. Lewis Charles-Edwards, vicar ol

St. Martin-in-the-Ficida.

ULKY Mabel Hates her

mother.

THEN ALTERATIONS

complete, the Duchess of Kent and her children are to sulte in Kensington have Palace. This may corce about come thine in Coronation year.

The splendid ancient palace will be a lovely background for when she "comes Until then, Alexandra will play the part of Cinderella By the end of ten I too had at Gocial functions, She will Mabel, Ilved in Arcady, seen the Bolshave to leave early for that long de Boulogne filled with carriages drive to Coppins, in Bucking- from and to end, heard of the|hamshire. death of the Grand Dukes and

AND QUEEN

THE

THE the assassination of the Czar DUKE OF EDINBURGH plan and (such is the baroness' to give a ball at Buckingham spell) changed every night of Palace for Alexandra. my life for dinner,

ARTIE'S HEADLINE

President.

Women's Auxiliary, Hongkong Society for the Protection of Children,

3rd Floor,

Bank of Canton Buliding,

6. Des Voeux Road, Central...

Dear Madam:.

Enclosed is my cheque of $

Assist in your

Society's work of maintaining centres for Hongkong's needy babies.

(Bigned)

-- Membership $30 czasu - Membership. Jun;

**Pirmas strike out which "are not, appliced

* Whoje, bright, iden, was “li, tu” haur « circus. B

Sullen Raymond hates

his Dad;

Raymond, hate each other,

Each believes the other

mad.

Father talks of Liberalism,

is

MULH TRAVELLING arranged for Alexandra this year. She is to stay with ro latives in Paris, Munich, and Athens. Her mother fools that this will put a polish on har education.

Last year. Alexandra stayed in a small village near Grasso, In the South of France.

What did she do? Speaking perfect French, she went for bus rides, bought lots of nougat. and guided a party of American tourists who were lost and who wanted to get back to Nice.

Ma private parties has been

[OST-FREQUENT ESCORT

Prince Nicholas of Yugoslavia. This : dark-haired, sophisticated 23-year-old is her cousin, and an Occasional escort of Princess Margaret.

THE DUCHESS OF KENT, und to make all her own hals.' Alexandra has Inherited tit fair She ́ ́accumulates ~~ hör meiber's old hate so... that ...the

Right Wing Mabel, shakes

her Ast: Mother is a Floating Voter,

Raymond is a. Communist. Sulky Mabel. wants a pro-

gramune

Sullen Raymond turns it

Mother's mad on television,

Angry father stays to

scoff..

the blance to the McCarran Takes the poker from the and embraced the PLW,

fender,

it can't mystery was solved: He was quizz of seamen, Swings it thrice and socks hit by fumes of garlic strong helped.

the lot.

enough to siun an Italian pea- Bank.

As his family lie unconscious Father switches oit the

blues, Lights o pipo and als

Lented Waiting for the football

nows,

coni

Social outcasts

FOR

The PLW afterwards · con. fessed that since reading about garlic being a certain in- surance

colds against winter she had been using garlic in further all the cooking, Sha confessed that, with her usual enthusiasm, the had used iwice the normal amount;

Wak

some time your Unclo

Her third confession Not and his Life Partner, The Plucky Little Woman, have that she had just swallowed a wonderoll

why friends and nut of, the stuff because neighbours have passed us in hat heard it was good for sick unclo bad bden nervous dogs. Your

the streets with ding us in particularly. zenaltive

smiles instead of

don,

she

to the

animated conversation at windy smell Because he had been-cat- corners in a bowling gale. Ing garlic-free meals in Lon-

Some, once so friendly, have risked death crossing against the traffic lights so that they can wave at us from a safa

distance on the other side

the street..

of

.ac.

We would now like to in- form everybody concerned that we are cleansed of vur anti- social vice; that, nobody neet! The normal number of in- fall under a bus on our vitations to Christmas and New count, and that If anybody Mother likes to hear the gos Year partica nover arrived. cares to fraternise with us they Even our cat mometimes turned will not catch a single whiff Father wants to hear the away from us with' an expres- of garile, though, they might

DEWE;

catch our first winter cold,

Mabel

switches o

··blues."

Raymond reads The Dally sion of nausea.

matter, WO Discussing the Worker;

the asked each other if the coun- caught the current try. had American hysteria and that "Sulky Mabel hits her brother, some local McCarran had put

Bullon Raymond hits

har the political anger, on us for

back;

subscribing more than we could Someone "hits bewildered afford to the All To Russla Fund during the war at the mother,

a lump of nutty urgent request of Mrs

chill

With

slick..

"When it is that angry father, Roused at «last:/with: tem-

per hot,

Gubbins askn

Stalin-

Act bo

|_ Are you '(#); un "'. £mbécile, (b). a bigamist, (c).a Com- munjst7-

It

you are a Communist, are you willing to tesilty be fore the committee (on, American activities? :m:

Do you want to overthrow the constitution of the United States? If so, stato how. And Whe

peaceful

you bellévotni (a)

co-opertilion be tween the West and Russia, (b) in Father, Christmas,- (0) in fairies?

What le your favourite bedaldo book?. (a) Das Kapi= Vital,, (b) Lady Chatterlor's Lover, (o) The Three Bears? Have you pold your in- dome tax?

What do you think of the modern girl?

What is your favourite colour?..

What are you hiding un- der that moustacho? Is it (k).- animal, (b) vegetable, (c) mineral?

How many beans make Aver

Oh!

CHE looked like the eternal mother."Michael Wild- ing' description of his wife. Elizabeth Taylor,

for after the birth of their,

FTER the questions put to the or will not Chur-A Stalin by James Resten, nurse the baby, because, she is diplomatic correspondent of to 1 mart 1, slming ferin The New York Times, here are The Brothers: Wem,; Val some questions for Stalin put as Boots ono avening when by this undiplomaile correspon News item uncie returned, fram venga denty, if they breng