POCKET CALLOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"You like to see lovely cheap bayonet guaranteed to fit lovely Belgian rifle ?"
Sir Percy of M.I.5 will sell sweets
SI
By JAMES WYNTER
HR PERCY SILLITOE.
buster, x-gang
spy hunter, and The Man With All The Secrets as former chief of Britain's M.1.6, has got himself
a new job selling sweets over a shop counter.
He is opening a sweet shop in Carlisle Road, East- bourne. Sir Percy, the square-jawed, commanding Sir Percy who bossed the Secret Service, will be there to give his own service.
THE
FABULOUS MOUNTBATTENS
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, 20, 1854.
the German, *Prince did the
They Tang dway 100 years ago,
With that sentence our story of the fabulous Mountbattens, began. We have followed them through stirring times and troubled times, good kartune, and bad. Today, a a Mountbatten is Consort tö
his Queen,
to the Throne. And the story of this remarkable family continues to ̈un-' fold us part the everyday lives öf US all.
our
son is
heir
The First Gentleman
URING a
visit of oficials near Salem by mock- inspection by the ing openly the goose-step- of a Duke of Edinburgh Brownshirt parade.
to Malta at the end of 1952, IL news photo grapher took a picture of him striding off the nerd drome with his uncle, Earl Mountbatten, who. a a Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Flect, hud been one of the official party there to greet him.
Doctor Hahn set out to inte grate his charges into the fe of the local community,
They were 'sent to help the and work in the blacksmith little boat-yards along the coast, Thoy assisted the Coastguards turn, and learned to rail. In boys from neighbouring fatni- Iles were invited to take part in their games and sports.
FINE TRAINING
19
in
the
akin to the Something Scout system of awarding fielency badges was Instituted for various pursuita, and those who showed themselves parti- cularly capable at seamanship, of whom Prince Philip was one,
allowed to take dinghies alone into the waters of the Firth.
Boy pro-
out
choppy
admirably and one with
They looked more like brothers, their cups set to the same jaunty angle, their Bame firm faces set in the
thoir naval expression,
iden uniforms clothing an tical masculine robustness.
of course, Prince Phillp. fair and Eari Mountbatten dark, but they have much common. The same voice, the Some laugh, the same charm
what amel,
is more, similar
It was a training minds and the same fresh
Ruited
boy, to any to the roach
world and is unique for a young man citizens.
sich a destiny as Prince Philip. In Prince Phillp, indeed, the Is mani- Mountbatten destiny fest.
A
For the gure due to toom ever larger in the decades before with the us Is a Mountbatten, promise and qualities that nume Prince evokes and young
Charles, we may be sure, al though he will bear the name of the Royal house now assumed for him. will be brought up in the same atmosphere.
wero
Here he overcaine the dis- advantages of his Royal birth," as it has been said of him. No prince or consort in our history has ever spent his formative years in such close contact with the people of this country 50 integrated or in a manner with his fellow human beings.
cop-
Ho was good at games, becoming in due course tain of both cricket and hockey without and a useful student' being brilliant. He became in most in spite of his royal con- nections.
So should you be passing THANK HIMMLER! the end head of the school al- that way and drop in for a hox of chocolates or 14lb of bull's-eyes, just think of this:-
THE EARS that listen to your order have listened to the top secrets of Britain's
SIR PERCY
Hching to get behind the counter
Military Intelligence Secur- ity Branch for seven
years.
THE FINGERS that punch the till have signed orders that storted counter-espionage coin- paigns
cloak-and-dagger
hunts all over the work.
THIE KYES that smile B "Thank you" over the counter are the same cold, blue eyes that set Glasgow gangsters quaking. when Sir Percy, then police chlef, earned the reputation of Britain's No. 1 gang buster.
that's all, of it, Just think when you walk out with your bull's-eyes.
fat in
In his comfortable Carlisle Road, 60-year-old Sir Party stretched uut his carpet- slippered feet in front of the lounge fire and told me how ho came to be interested in the business of selling sweets. retired from the business of top secrets last September.
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"Looking round the town it struck me that there was no high-class confectionery business near the Wish Tower, which is one of the most popular parts of Eastbourne promenade," Sir Percy suld.
For His Son
And as he was already looking for a business to start for his ox-Merchant Navy son, 38-year- old Richard, he decided to open
a sweet shop. The shop would
be Richard's,
"But you will take some interest in it, I expect?" I asked him.
Immediately all, Sir Percy's training as a keeper of secreta came to the surface. Ho hosi- inted,
But Lady Sillios did not. “It know him you won't be ablei
to keep him out of that shop)"
sho said. "He's just itching to
get behind that counter,
With a sunile Sir Percy, now freed from worry about the Mau Mau atrick Greffondrag
diplornata, sold: "All right you can say that I shall be there helping, Richert to serve and mujali am hoping tp, mpet a lot behind 14 that
It is an intriguing thought thut the British have Heinrich Himmler, of unpleasant mem- ory, to thank for the emergence of the Duke of Edinburghi one of themselves,
215
For it was in Germany in the year that Hitler came to power that he started оле of the major formative perlods of his life-st tho school of Doctor Kurt Hahn.
There was no room in Ger- many for a liberal thinker like Dr Hahn. He went to England, where with the help of friends In the summer of 1934 he set up his school at Gordonstoun, In Morayshire.
more
Perhaps reaction against his birth resulted in his display- ing
Individually than discipline. He had a great pen- and chant for practical Jokes, Doctor Hahn was called upon at one time to remark "wildness and recklessness."
on
'NEVER NASTY'
his
redeeming
But there was feature. "Often naughty, never musty," his headmaster express- edit, noting with prophetic in- sight in his final report.
Prince Philip is a born leader, but he will need the exacling There, after a family con- demands of a great service to do ference, The
Prince Justice to himself. His best is young Philip was transferred. It is outstanding, his second best is also said that
nol good enough. he had Incurred the displeasure ut local Nazi
Al
It Was to the Navy that Prince Philip went in 1930 the age of 18.
corting knack of saying, "What is your telephone number?to someone whore Views goem portinent and worthy of further
Macussion.
4 And when the, call comes
ipke him back to Londo would, through, as likely as not ho will have to be "rix, drinks late."
They even relished the story of # minor car collision at Hyde Park Corner with Prince Philip at the wheel and Prin- cess Elizabeth at his alde.
At the beginning of 1052 the Duko and Princess Elizabeth travelled to Nairobi to spend a few days' holiday at Sagona Lodge, which had been the
rather
be on the line himself than leaving the inquiry to an equeITY.
He has gauged his public position in the Queen's com pany to a nicely. He is always there, half a step behind, never obtruding, but always at hand with the right word or gesture.
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tory of Kenya.
It was there that the blow feil. On the night of February and the Princess, in slacks, the Dulte, in old clothes, sat up all night in a tree top hotel in the African forest watching big game. At dawn they clambered down the ladders and homo to rest,
An hour or two later
went
On
It is not an easy position to
spirits and a lively Intelligence, but his manner both sets others at their ease and allows self- him to be contentedly elfacing.
Only in the privacy of their home does he come into his own as master of the
house,
keeping a firm hand on the up- bringing of the children and laying
equerty woke the Duke and told being particular stress on their
him that King George VI had been found dead in his bed that morning. The Duke went in to bresk the news to his wife, who was now Queen. new reign hand begun.
CONSORT
had
A
The Duke
become the fifth consort to a queen in Bri- tish history.
as little spoiled as he was in his childhood.
With the persuasive insight he has inherited from his markable family, the Duke has set himself the resounding task of arousing the country only to its peril, but to the
Its measures essential to covery.
not
re-
The target is always the 121 Fame, a relentless insistenco the need for an industrial naissance, discarding of obsolete methods, and the direct What, then, have we learned and
application of the Speedy of the personality of the young discoveries of science to
who που μι commoner-prince,
needs of industry. stands in this exalted position?
Within a year of his wife's His outstanding characters accession, Prince Philip had
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the
is
or
HIS HERITAGE
tho
For
Д
ile is that he is Д perfectly grasped the opportunity to ust normal and thoroughly typical his special status within the British naval afficer.
monarchy as a means of en English, completely
revealing co
ing couraging the most vital factor no trace of a foreign accent in the country's welfare, intonation in his speech. His
fifty years the Crown had in- whole attitude--the gift of un- creased in stature as its prero- derstatement, the dignity which gatives shrank.
not aloofness and the frank- ness which is never fomillar- la typical of the Royal Navy.
He rotains
passionate Mountbatten interest in all naval, the sea is in mi his not only
through his grandfather, but from the Vadngs from whom he des cends on his father's side. He is tall, strongly built handsome without any of insipidity that the word often implica these days.
The firmness of his Jaw denotes
of character, family strength but one suspects that his good bumour is not altogether ever and that, however well it is controlled,
there lurks a quick temper and an occasional un- public was well acquainted with disguised dislike perhaps only the Duke of Edinburgh.
a youthful intolerance.
The Duke in the uniform of Adimiral of the Fleet.
and
the
50
sald of him It is certainly that he does not suffer fools gladly.
to
ho
Little personal incidents had displayed a temperament eqd able, a character Arm
and
an attitude SO well attuned the new world of which was a part that he was clearly going to be an important factor In that adaptation to the mood of the times, which is one
of our the main props
In the meantime he had be come completely absorbed into the British side of his family.
He had often stayed with his grandmother nt Kensington archy.
of
mon-
Palace, where that stern rc- presentative of Victorian tra- Britain had enjoyed the story ditions had not infrequent of like farewell party to the occasion to rebuke him for local akittle team at Corsham's some of his more uninhibited Methuen Arms a few days be-
exploits,
One resounding reproof was administered when he climbed on to the roof of her apart ments
and
dared the police- man who told him to como downi to come up and felch
him.
It was at Dartmouth that Prince Philip first became really acquainted with his future wife.
This meeting led to the be- ginning of cousinly corre spondence which was to last right through the war.
DASHING FIGURE
In spite of the disparity in their ages, the high-spirited young man must have appeared a dashing figure to the Prin cess, and from that time on she was often heard to talk about the relative she had on active service.
2.
Prince Philip's war record and subsequent, developments dre too familiar "to need counting. On June 0, 1947, the formal announcement of his engagement to the Princess wog "made in the Court Circular.
The day before the wedding
Lieutenant Mountbation waa ..created
Finburgh,
Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich by the King.
foro his marriage.
SAILOR'S GRIN SAILO
ila-has retained the comthon touch, and with It Introduced a new factor Into Royal life.
As a result of his normal up- bringing he speaks the lon guage of the people prince has ever been taught to
do.
as no
On all Occasions he is refreshi ingly himself, in fact, almost too much for many profes sional advisers of royalty who
9 regarded the aloof regality yesteryear as an absolute, can flash a sailor's grin at a crowd of enthusiastic girl factory workers and has an un con- fettered command of naval Idiom in male company.
People appreciated the au gestion made by Don Bradman when the Australian Test team was in England in April, 1948: "I have detected in films that he has a perfect action for a right-hand offspin bowler. I submit that to the English selectors for their serious sideration."
at
They had chuckled, in spite He has some attractive giftă of some official tut-tuting, of gesturo. There is a quizzical account look in his eye and a lively ex- the highly informal Prince Philip gave in Edin presadon on his mobile face burgh of a very good dinner" when his head cranes forward with the Lord Provost, Sir to engage in a conversation he Andrew Murray when they has found particularly interest- decided, that the train did; to ing. He harjan, himfost discòn-
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By LEO ANDERSON
Carterville, Illinois, EING à "square"-square dancer, that is-is becom
the ing more and more, fashionable all over nation.
A southern Illinois square dance, expert, Joe Hanse of Carterville, said that city dwellers began taking an Interest in the square dance about 20 years ago, and Interest throughout the nation has grown steadily since. He estimated 1,000,000 persojia have taken up équara dancing.
The ceremony at West
Huase is one of the few professional square dance minster Abbey on November teachors in the U.S., even though she said="two 20, 1847, provided a splash of years ago, I didn't know my right foot from idy left."- -colour, and' tradition! amid the
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Now, in the new Elizabethan Age, a dynamic consort is in process of ranging its Inumerise moral authority behind campaign for national efficiency and the integration of science. technology and.. industry in a great new forward surge.
We find personified まず tho Duke the traditional Mount- batten passion for: technical achievement, combined with the flair. courage arid method, expressing itself now in terms of a nation's future.
that
At an age younger than at which any of the other four main personages in this study it has had made their mark, become his destiny to play a role even more pregnant than theirs. not And Such a heritage will him wanting.
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