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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 1,′ 1954.

Page: 13

Rome-Europe's Capital City

T

By JOHN WREN

to two-thousand-

HE newcomer's first impressions of Rome. are of bustie, noise,

prosperity, glittering chrome and neon next year-old Roman architectural masterpieces. Rome today is THE capital of Continental Europe. Paris was between the world wars.

It is what

Nowhere do you see such luxury window displays, the streets jammed with such sleek cars, many with high-priced, hand-built bodies,

Everywhere lavish new apartment houses are under construction; even at night work continues at full blast under floodlight.

Houses, shops, cinemas, restaurants are being torn down, and up go new ones in double qaick time. Bars, shops, moyle-houses Fe EA lustre of glass, chrome and fluorescent strip lighting.

Fine old churches have pastel blue neon signs over their main doors, spelling out-"Ave Maria."

But

On the streets one sees poorly-stressed people, beggars outside churches, and on the outskirts familles living miserably in caves, one's main impression is of razzle-dazzle boomtime.

* ⭑

As for the traffic in Rome! Everybody drivos as if he were crazy.

If there are any rules- no one seems to obey them,

It is the law of the jungle, every driver jockeying for best position. The smaller and slower are forced out by the faster, the bigger to The scream of benkos, crumpling of bodywork, shattering of glass,

Roman drivers in their super acceleration cars cusch sixty miles an hour in a matter of seconds in city streets even if they do screech to a tyre-burning halt seconds inter.

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Add to the chaos tens of thousands of Eurque's smallest curs. rushing everywhere like supercharged garden bags, and legions. car-splitting motor-scooters.

One Italian firm has already produced half-a-million scooters. Many rivals are close behind.

With s

summer,

B

que on smoking. pruler

Imported but usually smoke Ooughes bat chraper parket; brands.

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was the opinion in winter. hot dundies Rome is

11 scooterista' nation whee A

Hales scooler wlstime paradise. mment reuds "will pedestriana prgarelles, no longer exist in a few penis" time. This pedeskiten viewing of Hous the daily horlos munt streets, feels that is thost Hkely!

TV is the talk of Stone, TV receivers are at sells A Tow weeks ago there wyfe only 200 TV sels in the cajjal, as the TV service was only export- mental,

Recently 400 sets were

sohl

In one day, following the news that

a regular nightly pro-

gromne was due to begin.

I was given a demonstration of Homan TV.

without

Day doubt, technically the best picture in the world.

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The moruis Watch

maltees are red hot in

Com- Home.

No Phe-like gala Nhows UI sinney magazines,

Although Itorne thumache

attrnets

(f honeymoutiers from all over the world-- you kiss in the streets or un a purk will bench, a policemen is likely to pop up and fine you. Fly leaves historical are being added to

• States which for venerations Feder faced life in the raw.

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Italian *TV is sponsored, under state Progrnitunes, for the moment, will be largely flins. Italian TV Gilbert Harding, Following

Yet

America's fool- in steps, however, it has an animal

is It Torce. Her Kenerous- star, reminiscent of Mr Fred Muggs, the Chimp of Coronation proportioned figure urges you lo Infamy. Meet Joghi, a fut, white buy products from motor-all to

has

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who

anni The pin-up

bespectacted cal

sinokes cough-drops. cigarettes. Joghi (insured with Lloyds of London for £10,000) really

His smoking enjoya

owner found Joghi, when still a kitten, sucking smoke bom # cigarette butt smouldering the gutter.

The Romans C gambling

Housewives cruzy

ut the grocera spend a few pennies on a punchboard which may win SUNIO free groceries. expects Lo win + on the football pools A current radio

them

Everyone

in furtune

Talking of smoking, the nabit, houby or vice, whichever you call it, is increasing rapidly in But the Italians do Italy. not go for pipes. Pipes are for

THE

or the lallery. song hit tells of the lucky whanes of a lottery fortune. A Roman added up the number of letters in the title of the song hit, and bought a lottery- ticket of that number. week his teket won £4,500.

This

H-BOMB

SHI VREME OF THE COMNE ZIED OF THE WORLD, THE CITY COUNCIL WILL NOT WASTE MONEY.ON

CIVIL DEFENCE.

EV OBREN

'We shouldn't

wring our hands

so much, Joe. or they wont be fit to sign anything...

"

OVERSTRAIN

World Copyright by arrangement with jha Manchester Guardian

The Princess Wins A

Battle In Missouri

LAMBIL

guess I'll be a film star.

SNOOKIE

takes ballet lessons

COULD THIS HAPPEN?

I

by

EVELYN IRONS

SPRINGFIELD. Missouri. ducted me politely upstairs to SAW the twins play. the big, homely flying-room of their second-floor five-room flat, ing with their pedal- Mr Patterson has converted the cars in the garden of house into apartments, and the their nice, middle-class two lower floors are let. There Victorian house in this 1 met their mother, the former Princess Victoria Morina of sprawling country town.

Prussia, granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm 11.

Typical American children? They seemed so. Five and a half years old, and blue-eyed.... blond answering to the names of Lambie and Snookie,

But these are very special children. They were christened Berengar Bernhard

and

Her father, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, was a younger brother of Crown Prince Wilhelm, whom Britons knew as Little Willle in

the 1914-18 war.

She turned out to be a strapping,

Orin handsome, Marina Brunnhilde, 36

Oft. tall, wear-

ing a simplo

navy

blue

Adelaide Emily. For years old and although they are the Hon and daughter of Middlong West attorney Kirby Wil- two pleto liam Patterson, Lambie and dress. Dangl- Snookie are also Hohenzol in from it lerna and great-great great grandchildren of Queen Victoria.

Lamble and Snookie have courtly manners, and they con-

RUSSIA TO THE RESCUE

OF

AMERICAN

FARMERS

By O.H. Brandon

was a massive

THE PRINCESS new.. Mr. Pattarwo

Lamble, the boy, is a bit of a comedian. "I guess I'll be a film-star." he announced, "itke Danny Kaye."

He is musical, too, and played us n tune of his own composition German on the old-fashioned harmonium.

Above the harmonium was a

of

fiercely-moustached portrait

his great-grandfather, the Katzer. Other pletures of German royal- ties lined the walla,

The children will start going to school in the autumn. Mean- while they romp with neigh bours' children, wearing feather- vil headdresses und brandishing bows and arrows.

An Anti-Nazi

on

Over ten brought in by the coloured "daily"

A mighty the silver tray engraved with Prussian crown the Princess rpoke of her father, who died- soon after the twins were born, He was anti-Nazi, she said. In August 1939 they abandoned thair home near Frankfurt-on- Main and went to Switzerland, where her mother still lives. index,

the name of Countess' von Lingen.

bracelet with u huge gold £5 piece, dated

"In 1846 I came to America 1887 and embossed with Queen to stay with friends," said the Princess. "I tried to get a job, Victoria's head.

but it was impossible because I "Come In-it's 50 good to seu had only a vialtor's status. After someone from home," she said, a year I came to stay with other speaking with a decided Ameri- friends here and met my hus can and slight German accent. band, who was supposed to be a confirmed bachelor. We got Legally she is plain Mrs

married after two and a half Patterson; neighbours and ****

weeks' courtship." tradesmen called her that. But The Princess has never been she preferred me to call her

England, but

but she says English Princess.

was her first language. She has a letter written by the Queen

for (her cousin) thanking her

death of condolences on the King George VI.

1948

She does not regret the day

when she became American citizen and took an outh before a judge renouncing her royal titles. Still, she was delighted when her husband had litical support. This is a power-her monogram with the Imperial

In

I was shown a Christmas card from "Aun! Ena" (the Queen of Spain) with her photo-

THE other day I heard American official Ray to another that "aid to Pakistan will probably cost us less than a third of our butter."

million worth of maize, and through an American private 40 scala if there were elections the news by watering her gar- What the official meant was that the military aid about £400 million worth fem

of wheat, to mention only two-thirds of America's buttar the bigger items.

ful threat, for ikea popularity, grown emblazoned on the doors graph on it. "I hardly ever go to New York now" sald the as shown in a recent Gallup of their modest car.

Princess, "but I flow there to The placid Middle Westerners see my cousin the Queenof million worth of butter But the mosange for these Poll, is again as high as it was

of Springfold, Mo, took little. (which goes

ranck after agricultural reforms had hardly when he entered the White

while when it House,

the Republican notice of all this until the other Greece when she was there."

would lose day, when the Princess got inta beramo known that Russia, Party In Congress

which the U.S. is contem- plating offering Pakistan would cost less than a third

about One year), £210 Touched Capitol Hil

had offered to buy up today.

surplus and one third of the soya bean supply.

Unique Situation

she

sion, "I love my

yard," explained to me. "I planted all

Very Quietly

the roses myself."

The Pattersons

ilve very But during the drought which now perches Missouri's farm- quietly in Springfield. "I try to Iands it is illegal to waste com Princem.

good hausfrau," said the "Sometimes I go to

bc

under at least the larger part of the Such a purchase would solve

But much will also depend pany water, and a neighbour spurt to hear my husband plead, some current surplus problem, and it on what support he will get who does not care for royalty "I read philosophy when

free will be interesting to ace from the Democrats. A situa-called the police. Brunnhilde

which is unique exists won the battle. and whether the U.S. Government tion

now in the Senate.

Some of these surpluses of the cost of the butter are occasionally sold surplus which the U.S. has market price abronit, boon accumulating in its of it is given away refrigerated storehouses. for school lunchos,

This sounds like a joke, some become a total loss. but It isn't. The U.S. Government today has about 21 billion dollars tled up in farm commoditips

Farm Glut

will accept this deal.

too.

The Iron Hand Queen Victoria's only American

get time off from the children." She writes VOTEDS,

Lambie and Snookie его It may, incidentally, contrl- There are 48 Republican and only bulo toward a lem rigid attitude 48 Democratic votes, and

great-great-great-grandchildren, of the U.S. towards East-West Vloo-President Nixon, with

The former. Princess Cecille of trado if the offer is nocepted. his voto, cap braak the dead- "It 'was ridiculous" sho said. Primia, daughter of a younger My husband, and I had allod brother of Prince Adalbert, -which is more than it is

lock in case of a tie. That President Elsonhower has

In his state of the Union about as narrow majority our rain-barrel with spring married an American interior planning to spend next your shown some understanding message the President present one can have in the Senate. On water we brought by car from decorator and dives in Texas. in foreign aid; This of this precarious situa ed to the country a vast pro- foreign affairs the President the country In old army "But they have no chlidren,"

The

police tion. Whether he will be gramme of which, if he is will have Democratie support canisters. happens because under complicated farm support able to curo the worst lucky, about one third will be on many lewes, but domestically satised I didn't use the oily Mr Patterson, helped his wife

to supply"

to put the twins to bed--la a programme the Government farm glut in American smarted this year. But the the Democrats will be able

blama for this will rest an get their pound of fleats whoḥ Princem dows not approve" "drawer #VILTENEPROE BAYİTU must buy up certain history remains to be Congress, not on the Prosklent, they want, I

Winodem”, methods of bring- gadget which /** designed *** and quantities of these com- açon. The leglulators Care. His leutenantabanta. banelling

"the_Prinoum, KIE= their not enthusiastic about his his publicly extremely well it will therefore be highly a

hell With Mosjons in the offata and modities as soon as prices fell below a certain proposal because it means. He har let it be known this intricate are, which the w ipinimum, pada

that the farm voters won't report we play it will be AV possent the Govern- have it no good" and Comeuners Autaman and oppos Mal sensin yaramain, the next ment and holding #180 fortable an before. PERTEMATON, WUlloan

wore the Princess said.”

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