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The UNCANNY POWER

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OOK into these eyes. What strango ovl lurked there? What

the secret' of their fatal fascination?

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Answer these questions and you will go a long way towards solving one of the most amazing political mysterics of all time; the secret of the power which the peasant-monk Rasputin had over the last Czarina of Russia, and, through her, of the Imperial Court and all the Russian Empire.

RASPUTIN

What was the secret of the astonishing influence the 'Mad Monk' held at the Czar's Court? Even when they had thrown him, poisoned, shot and bound, into the Neva his killers still feared him.

which were

the Grand Duchesses Czarevitch on many later occa- tions by prayer and his laying on of hands.

It was an influence Was to bring down on ancient Anastasia and Milntza, dynasty, and to set on foot the train of a revolutionary move- ment of which even now we cannot see th end.

Oh what a day of evil it was Chat Gregory Emovitch Ras- putin was born!

It was the year 1971. Life in Russia was til feudal. The pensants hard little or no say in the country's affairs. And away in St Petersburg at the Im perial Court the aristocrney dreamed rather thaus lived away a life of ease and luxury, corrupted by religious doubts and superstitions.

MAN OF GOD

They started talking with him. They were fascinated by bis magnetle eyes. Rasputin claimed he could heal the sick by prayer. Could he, the women asked, cure a

boy suffering from haemo- philia? Rasputin said he could and if this evidence is any thing to go by) he described the symptoms of the disease

saic Ave was betroying Russlo‘a military secrets to the Germani. Enemies of Rasputin did their best to unseat him. Men in high positions vainly sought the ear of the Czarina to tell her the true state of affairs, but she would have none of them. (A picture taken of Rasputin in a drunken debauch at

St Petersburg restaurant only drew from the Empress the order that the man "impersonating" hlin should be arrested.)

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At last what few realists still remained at Court decided that action must be taken. Rasputin must be destroyed.

RASPUTIN WITH HIS FAMILY

with cakes and wine loaded with Czarina and their family were enough cyanide of potassium to doomed to die in the cellar of kill any mortal man severni Ekaterinberg.

not die, haps the strangest murder in times ever and yet Rasputin did

lu fact, except for a slight tickling of the throat, Rasputin appeared unharmed,

scerel

One such mon was the young Prince Fellx Youssoupoff, aristocrat who sot long before had been at Oxford and was himself a kinsman of the Czar. On a night in December, 1910, he killed Rasputin. It was per- So, through her son, Rasputin began to cost his spell on the history. For not only were the Czarina,

We still do not know the real And through her he dominated

If well- circumstance of it macabre, but the weak

of Rasputin's stronge power. meaning Czar and

reached the Prince himself was to tell of

lain, despite all the stories jold

And we cannot be cer» towards the highest places of it-in the witness-box of the government.

Royal Courts of Justice

about him, that he was tha London,

drunken Uebaucher he was made

Remember he Slowly,

It was during a libel action shooting Rasputin art when he cut to be,

hadk inexorably. Imperial with astonishing precision, A Russia was moving towards its brought by the Prince's

wife was convinced he was dead the ny enemies: enemies who sot Onal hours. Come the year 1914 against a film company in 1934. monk suckienly opened his eye him with wine and every luxury women to trap him, and gorged And who could be the boy

trom

The clash The Prince went into the box and attacked him haemophilia at Europe in arms. suffering

to seek his undoing. No 'man None other than the young

of great armies to the Eastern and the following examination monticol finy

was more sorely tempted. Curevitch, son and heir of the front: the soldiers of Russia, i took place:

fed, badly armod, bødly even if Counsel: Did you supply Rus- The Prinet wrote of that Emperor of all the Russias.

bravely

lod,

dying In their putin with poisoned cakes and moment: "I understord and fel hundred and thousands before wine? The Prince: Yes.

In the fullest degree the real hypnotic gifts. Just look at these the ruthlessly effelent GermaUS,

epes again. But how could he It must have seemed as ir

have resisted the cyanide polson. Russia would bleed to death

which would have killed other men in a moment?

And o Rasputin moved to St. Petersburg at a time when the dark clouds around the throne of the Czar were begin- ning to gather.

He was taken to the bedroom If Bure is a destiny which of the Czarevitch. He found the guides the life and death of boy seemingly

Dimos!

dead nitions couit have chosen a with his mother on her jinees

MC propitious nument werping beside the bed. for Rasputin to be born.

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And this is what happened

AL the age of 24 Rasputin then, In the words of Rasputin's appears to have married a girl daughter:

his own village in the

of

province

"My of Tobolsk, away in

father ordered every- Siberia. He was a peasant, the body present to kneel and pray

together while he, son of a peasant, and was un-

fixing his able to read,

The steadily on

child, But in 1904 he eyes saw the light. He decided to placed his hand on its forehead. The Czarevitch gave a litic become a man of God.

sigh, opened his eyes. And in- slend of being frightened by the bearded stranger, he smiled at him, and then at his mother.

It was the sign that the flame of He was rekindled, The haemorrhag: ceased, the crisis was past, and the child re- covered."

According to his daughter's story he saw a vision of the Holy Virgin while ploughing his fields. The Virgin directed him to become a leader of men and a seeker after righteoushers. So away went Rosputin, And the next newa we have of him' is In Kiev.

In the garb of a simple pil- grim he was chopping wood in the yard of the monastery of St. Michael. And staying in the monastery.

il pilgrimage,

The Czarina, of course, wat (what mother would overjoyed not have been) and her grati- tude to Rasputin was over whelming. He was taken int the court, and (if all the stories are true) saved the life of the

And at the same Ume, clan- destinely, in farm, field and mo- try the Soviels were prepark: and organising for revolt,

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Strangest Stories-No. 10

By HAROLD WALTON

He was physically very strong. and he undoubtedly possessed

In 1934 a German speciallst, Dr Erich Leschke, of the Uni- versity of Berlin, offered this explanation:

poisonous

"The It seemed

effect of

As he didn't die, did you power of Rasputin. obtain ย revolver?--Yes, from that the devil himself, incarnate cyonide is due to a great extent in this muzhik, was halding mo to the fact that it renels with

the Grand Duke Dimitri,

Looking back on those tumul- lucus days the historian might

Did you go down to the celler be tempted to wonder if arry-

and shoot somebody?—Yes, Ras- thing could have saved it

putin only, he might say, the Czar Dld he appear To be

dead had been awakened to his real then?--Yes. position and had thrown out

In the end did you use any- Those who were baitening like thing to kill him?--Yes, with a parbeites en his throne things loaded stick. might

turned differently..

in vice-like Angers never to let the acid normally secreted In the process of digestion by the me go."

This forms a highly It seems that even after he stomach,

polsonous partial compound had been shot, battered again

which is Instantly absorbed. and again, and thrown bound Into the River Neva, Rasputin

"In Rasputin's case, however, body was recovered from the Rasputin suffered from alcoholic was not really dead. When is this effect did not occur because

frozen river three

days later gastrius, a form of dyspepsia in one arm was free from the bind- which the stomach fails to ing and

and his lungs were full of secrete acid." But in the way of reform,

Well, this may satisfy the ex- moving through the Court like an evil spirit, his mugnetic eyes the Prince filled in the detalls the malaise

In a book written by himself death, as we know, did not end pests on one point, but it still leaves many questions about secking cut and destroying all of

In the Imperial Rasputin's life unattawered. And The revolution was to these answers who would be rid of him, was Rasputin. At his behest good night-how after inviting Ras- sweep away everything in the know. They died with him in

their putin to his home, he plied him ecurse of time and the Czar and the Neva.

hove

nien were

out

And was the body taken away by your three friends and thrown into the River Neva? water.

Yes.

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relloved of posts, and toadying second- raters were promoted. Every klay he was at the Czarina's akle, gulting her pulloks und thove of the Czar. I was even

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

the sofa with helpless laughter For instance, you arc p- knock the furniture to bits proaching a zebra crossing with with his football boots, Borrow. twinkli beacons, which means

may

bc

Thus ended Rasputin. But bla

that never-to-be-forgotten Court.

we shall never

THERE WAS

WAS I-SO

A WIFE

in an old idea, a slab of toffee that pedestrians have absolute every Ume to be delivered to edge of the pavement is a tee- boy renders, though it has not terer.

LONELY attached to this column right of way across it. On the

arts to cross.

He starts

You

yet been decided who will get stort again. Then he starts across the job of sticking the toffee.

HE announcement that a London newspaper is to publish a children's weekly will make thought ful men and women ask if it will be noticeably different from their daily edition which was once computed to be read chiefly by people of a mental age of between ten and 11 years!

Before this question Is answered

by the first number, a peep behind the scenes, "The get out take him by the serum (Jimmy) Granger took place children all over

world Low Down on Tom Merry and of the neck and hurl him along will be delighted to hear that Co.." or "Dope in the Dorm," the zebra crossing to the other in a house in

the

t won't be your anyway.

again and Uncle Nat, steps and you stop. Then he

wain and again

you start, You stop. He step.

For politically minded boys there will be a stunning article, " "One Dirty Trick a Day," by a Red Boy Scout, for all who love hand brake,

starts. You stort.

Before you go crazy put your in neutral, pull on your

TT wasn't ♫ stylish marriage. Not at all the sort of thing a girl

a dreams about.

The wedding of

Jean open your doo, Simmons to Stewart

their Uncle Nat is preparing a by Uucie Nat's Special Vice In- ctio of the street,

Idea.

wrote a Kiddie's Corner which to knock Leature that is going signals are still ccnsidered more

grown up physically and ment- sults for Imaginative, career when hand moved up and they suld they

Must I advise you again to of the mentality of modern order your copy in advance? children and his original up.

proach in catering for their Safety First

tastes.

There will be, for instance, à

beauty feature for Junior

the

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Best Man

Tucson,

This is the story of a girl who grew to stardom, who triumphed over despair to win hap- piness. It is told By

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building a career in America. Says Jean: "He is incredible. When I visitedi him at the studio he would sit between takes on the film and talk about and show mo colour schemes, bita

of material for the curtains. "He even bought the bath towels himself to make sure I didn't get the colours clashing. At home at night he Would come into the kitchen and cook. And me? I just sat around the house feeling sorry for

Arizona, just before Christ- He does not pretend it is a new girls a hot number called "Being his mind you must make it up a musical-comedy produc- DAVID LEWIN myself. I wanted to work, but Kiddie's Column of his own, vestigator, and for horrid little If a pedestrian can't make up mas, 1960. It was almost

A children's newspaper Beastly in the Brownies," by

by for him. was published when he was One Who Knows the Ropes.

Mint 3. Signals- As hand tion. about 14, Once upon a time he

when I did start working again But the

Jean Simmons tells the story:

the fims were awful." everybody cold, in efficient than trafficators jel day. "Cary Grant and his wife, was read the hopes) not only eluding the parents, will

we went back to the house Hollywood. Is villago where be light you must know all about Betsy Drake, were friends of by children but by people cut-out patterns of Edwardian them. This is what they mean

In: bed everyone entertains ot home. curs at the time and, with with the sick man

.upstales... Mike fumbled with The partics are as predictable Riven correctly:

Howard Hughes the producer, the ring and got it on my as a village sewing circle. The ally.

minded boys who are looking

would arrange wrong hand, Jimmy_ Auffed same people appear and the What he considers entirely forward to the future.

down vertically: I am showing everything.

his lines, We were all rather men stand at one end new will be his understanding

of the down.

"We were flown to the desert giggly."

room talking fillin box-office Right arm raised vertically, and then driven to a house. We

returns, and the women, gossip hand airetched fully, fingers didn't know who owned It, but

And so they were married and hag. closed: 'I am going to stop. we were told the owner was and went into the Arizona,

Right arm held horizontally upstairs, in bed, ill.

desert for their honeymoon at right angles to car: I am "We went to pay our respects Michael Wilding went too--for

The Upswing turning right.

to a man we had never met a holiday, schoolgirls telling them how to THERE will probably be a lot

Right hand held down and and came down again to be fluff out their plaits to make of new drivers on the road roated in anti-clockwise direc- married."

The desert honeymoons was. RANGER found that, set-up a their hair look more attractive, after the Molor Show. Therefore

fun.

It was the lost fun Jean bore. No monster parties for ton: I am turning left. how to steal beetroot from our Uccle Nat, who has driven and b

Sweeping forward

Simmons had for nearly two him-just friends like the salad bowl and use it for motor cars for about 10 years ment of the right hand: You

years.

Wildings, Spencer Tracy, on the road again narrow-minded and is now

Then came the make-up if a

can pass me, course you.

Hollywood Deborah Kerr and even (and headmistress won't let them use himself, believes a few hints from

Usually hand signals, are not

"hell of loneliness. She started this was unheard of in the film.. cosmetics.

him might

be useful even if you given correctly. Here dre som CAID Jean: "A room was filled to make "Androcles, and the village) G farmer or an oil- Another smashing feature have passed the Ministry of that will be observed, with their with flowers.

Then

we Lion"and", after two weeks milk then I found," says will be an article by a small Transport test,

meaninggr probable

found

that Michael Wilding, shooling It was postponed b Hint 1. Concentration. "If you bostess on "How To Frow a

Right hand jung out and our best man, hadn't been told year. Joan Simmons sut at r

Jean Simmons, "that I about Party and Not Frow Up After do not keep your eye ka tho

I was quickly withdrawn: (1)

the arrangements, and home doing nothing.

changing too; In London I had wards," and yet another by an road every second the car is thought of curning right but was waiting outside

A a drug

large home it's the wrong -turning; (2) 1} store an hour for us to pick such a gloom on everyone that few chums.

was been mind about large parties. "Granger's Folly" which American film stor's little girl moving you are certain to be

cast Now I was happy with just a on "How to Get used to New in trouble some day. So it your have thrown away a cigarette him Daddy Every Week."

woman passenger hvites you to

-atub

"Back at the house the even the Ash in the pool gaveIt was all

Sport, I the scenery take no admire.

Righs hand held out hori minister arrived to marry

us, up and died. Says Jean:"I

of growing up, de retice. If she does it again think zontally with left trafficator Everything was set and

ho was alone, moping all day and "But my ambition was biting, of an offensive remark and make also out: Guals where I'm asked if either of us had been angry with Jimm

with Jimmy in the evon and although things at home going.

married before.

Ings,

were batter I sili nagged about held Right hand

Wimmy, sild, ho, had. "Ah," The usual Hollywood answer my work-even on · pictures and rotated in a' clockwias

ckwise said the minister, then I can't to that sort of problem is that were not worth while direcion; Hooray. It's stopped marry you right away. Better

separate, simple:

Howard But the down-beat-period raining,

come to the church and talk it Hughes her fist Hollywood was nearly over. The up swing

by began with some advice from www.then vertically, ant Wo

to her about when you Vivien Leigh which changed, in both directions: the minister wanted to know are divorced Not completely Jean Simmon's out- am making & speech to why Jimmy's first marriage (to mind you: "when That was look on life, and finally made, (1), making day hate why. Jimmy marriage (to mind

to Holly of her a mature young woman who know exactly where TOAD wanted to gara

There will also be New Look Fashion Noles for the under- eights by The Tiny Tots Dior.

For the boys there will be a it i loud

ud voice. If she does it Tirosome Tricks column tell a third time stop and sling her ing them in detail how to in- out at the same time don't furiate their parents in any bolber to stop... given circumstances at any time If she wants you to look at of the day or night, with holiday snaps while, you sections giving examples. of driving the obviously insane,

That Madden Daddy"! Questions

ard dangerous. Stun hér aminési and "Questions That Maddon diately whenever kept Mummy

long list of han. Observe You may

for pitpor forribly funny back answers,

Every week there will be a sometimes avoid socialista by the collection of corny gagi, suply intelligent, "" dbservation o24 £50 Kandedly dies". guaranteed to enoverents and pediostelera and Funke may minali: boy double up on by taking appropriate action.

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Fight arm flung out horf avere wont to the church ander, hardly, helped -

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Madero Athena broken up. I thought Jimrow>Wood

as would blow his top. But he was. But the Granger marrings you are trying to: paar: You very pallent, and explained is stuck. They moved house, ware haven't a chance, This in a 25 than the ministen, wald. home while his wife mayed at hamo dictory){eign:

"would, mary" is after all, Sq. Granger was working every day,

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SEE TOMORROW

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