1954-11-13 — Page 13

William Hickey

NAPOLEON GAMMANS FACES AN UNSEEN FOE ...

London.

WAS terrified. I had been invited to go to # party which WAS to launch a new Journal, Com- munications and Elec- tronics.

"Boom!... Boom!...

siven him another chance.

hos

But you never know these days. Supposing these magicians of the modern world drelded to make all the politlelans of the world disappear....

Now I don't know what is. electronics MCANA. I know in a vague way that tens of thousands of people are in "the electronics industry."

Wouldn't it be terrible? I don't care what your answer

Law of the fido

council of Pieter-

THE city

maritzburg in South Africa,

the

1190 of aquatungs in swimming-baths.

That they make TV sets and read, has been asked to ban radar sols. And, I suspect, most of the equipment of guided missiles.

Silent microphone

I stood in a corner and felt very humble. 11 wasn't for me

to interfere with conversations that were all about cathode tubes.

aro

Same people. it seems, fraid that young men will all n the bottom of the pool and watch the girls diving in.

I am indebted for this piece of Information to Neptune, the new magazine of British under- water swimmers.

My only reaction is that

at any man in misguided enough

t was just an ordinary to sit at the bottom of a pool chap Trying to pick out the to watch women swimming smoked salmon sandwiches well, he deserves all he gets...

un the plate.

An umurant seri of Follow

Then

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who

David Gammans, Ahl-tmnt Pestnutes «General,

six ke

He had miere phone in front

him.

It wouldn't work.

plesverl

cheese sandwich by mistake.

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I think Camionus was de- lighted himself i think he was inting at over lls Ice] consin't see because i hadn't | 1:0 a radar et with me and he said. "I don't believe there

rapple person in this for who can make the microphone work."

'Boom!

Boom!

It wir th that I am sure cape of those eles the brams took ever... one of these terrifying machines that tell you what the temperature will be in 2054 ...

if I cared! And

electronte the

brain

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1954.

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CAMPAIGNING CLEOPATRA COMING TO HONGKONG

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of

GYPT'S Mme Doria

Shank, Doctor Philosophy, learned to speak English in

a month, writes poetry in French and has helped to launch four magazines in

Cairo since the war.

These are just 21 few facets of the career of this working through the microphone 35-year-old fighting femin wonl "Boom! Boom!.....est, who is also the wife of a Hem!

But Gammon was brave In the face of the unster for.

"I know nothing atxnit the technical side of your industry.",

the rald.... "Doom!. went the microphone.

years,"

Boom!"

"At the end of three salld eurs he added. "I know less i morted." when

Bon!"

than

"Boom!

Cairo lawyer and mother of two daughters. It ix I career crammed with colour and variety.

Just now she is winging her way around the world as her countrywomen's un- Her the official said

ambassador. tour programme, in

which man she explains their new He doesn't look an herole figure. role, takes

in eight coun-

microphone in

Gammars Is

But

disgust.

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at that moment he was a

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Napoleon, a Caesar in my eyes. tries.

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BY DOROTHY BARKLEY

DORIA SHAFIK

After the meeting, which lasted an hour and a half, she did not appea in the lenst red. She straightened her hat,

pulled on her gloves and weat

the House of Commons. There she studied the per- formance of Britain's women politicians,

en Industry of electronics Before returning home Here he was talking without the to Cairo in early January.

microphone. And, inore, beling far more she will spend a month

States audible than most people who the United use that instrument.

const-to-const trip from New York to San Fran Later she told me: "It was chasco, giving 25 lectures a great thing to visit Britain's and broadcasts.

She will Parliament. My life now is de- voted to working for the poll- visit Tokyo, where she ar

tical rights of women. Naturally rives on December 17 to I want to ace parliaments talk

"Women and everywhere."

After us speech I wanted to go and congratulate him.

But there was no sign of the Assistant Pustmaster-General,

1 begniti to be mixious.

By the me I had searchce the room thoroughly I began to be desperate

"Where iammans?" sat! to a colleagiar 12301

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don't know," WHIS

the

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of January.

She

Her fight for political equality has earned ber the nickname of "Campaigning Cleopatra." It has won the admiration of women all over the world, and And so to politics. Journalism ful, secluded life—will soon be the respect of men

liko Lord brought her into contact with long to the past. Nowadays, she Pethick-Lawrence, whose wife women who shared her views, can choose any of a number of was one of the frat British They wanted political equality caTECTS,

can be doctor, suffragettes. In London ho for women. They wanted to see lawyer, engineer, agricultural described her as "a most gifted women in parliament in Egyp. research worker. The day will and courageous women." They believed with Mme Shalk coon came when she will be in

Mme Shafik could retire that when men make the laws, parliament, too.

her work sometimes they are not right for

gracefully, thinking Mme Shalk believes Egyptian was completed. But she wants women,"

successful Jo women will be

to go on fighting. She is will- parliament. They possess, just ing to become one of Egypt's us much is men, the qialitics frst women MPs. "I will pre- :equired of 2 politician, she sent myself as a candidate," she "Every educated woman asserts. They can "make quick says. decisions, be tectiul, dynamic und -must do something for her active."

country."

In 1947 they founded a poli- tical movement, called the Asso- ciation of the Daughters of the Nile, which now has 7,000 mem- bers. Preparing to fight for political rights for women, they chose on their slogan "Equal Rights For Equal Responsibl-

Titles.

They started by using shock tactics reminiscent of the fight- ing spirit of Britain's suffragettes, An Mme Shank explained: "Violence was necessary at first, to move the public conscience. We had to prove that what we wanted was essential for women

--and not just a joke.”

Hunger Strike

in 1948, the Daughters of the Nile stormed the Egyptian Par- liament, marching through the streets carrying banners La- scribed, "Down With the Parlla- ment Without Women.

were

1 Islam," Hongkong (four Mme Shalk came to politics

Last March, Mine Shafk, and i days later). Calcutta, New by a roundabout route. Her

a dozen followers went on an conservative in Delhi, Karachi, where her parents,

the eight-day hunger strike. Exist S&W NO ing on a lemon-and-water diet, wherwer

to have trip ends at the beginning Egyptian tradition, "He seems

reason why their daughter disappeared.'

er she lost 22 lbs. in weight. They Already she should choose a life different

joined by

visiting "What have you lone to has touched down at Rome, from that of Egyptian women Wes

American Journalist, who Gommans?" 1 asked some of Paris and London.

for centuries past. A political

www.thised

with their cause. the electronics engineers.

futuro didn't enter into their

tele were encouraged by plans.

grams from all over the world, Including one from Dr Edith Summerskill, British Labour And they achieved what extracted wanted-they

But they all professed Ignor-

ance and siled away.

I believe they had spirited him away I believe they had transformed him into a series of quadratic equations and fed him into a cathode tube.

Widening horizons

the

Event-packed

Dorla, however, had other ideas. At 16, she put her foot down. She insisted an being Her two days in London sent to Paris for a French they followed the same event- education. There she went to from the government the pro packed pattern. She address. school, and then on to the Sar-mise that political rights

women

would be included in for her doc-

new tho

constitution. ed a meeting of business- bonne, to study

terate of philosophy.

now being drafted.

recep-

I could see the story of a new women, attended a strip cartoon in the making. tion given for her by the

"The Mystery of

Postmaster - General" Egyptian Ambassador, tour- "Gammans, whero arted the House of Commons. At the House she paused

Assistant UT,

thou?"

Controversial

for

This is

Shaik While Mme

and Egyptian women now wait for "equal political rights," they proving that they

aho

Can

"the Arst sub-

Mime Shank, firmly

I could see Cabinet meetings long enough to marvel at 11? my big dream to be a ties." As

"It was how do you say shoulder the "equal responsibili- being held Jeet on the agenda is dammans. the library, listen to a de professor at the university in points out, "In wirming rights, Har

someone Invented a death-bate and dine with some of Cairo," she told me. "So I took we do ray?"

my Ph.D and, for my thesis, I dutics." And the second subject would the Membera.

mado a study of women and Islben."

Ayomen

undoubtedly be, "Will this affect

In Britain, where European rearmanent?”

to myself, politicians may be neat but not Of course, I said Dulles will have something to fashion plates, Mme Shalk was

hy about all this. He will not unnoticed. probably fly to Bangkok to get

have

not forget we

They are helping to Bight filterdeys working in the fifty Her theals whe controversial. adult schools in Cairo and the does not obstruct the provinces where adult woment progress of women," she argued, receive education

"The true spirit of Islam

"Jalam

She is raven-haired, creamy in it.

a

the latest information on the complexioned. Hor eleganes has is in its favour, It is a matter

dash of Paris. Her London of Interpretation"

dress, high-necked

Controversial through the

Revolution

They help to

run

welfare

subject.

"Mr France will bring up the outfit was altingly chosen ******* Д • matter at the Nlue-Power Con;|black wool ference. He will demand that at the front with a six-inch thosis was, it won her the the mystery of Clammans should deep V at the back. The four coveted degree. Thus equipped, be solved. Otherwise he will lands of pearls, held by a she returned to Cairo with her casociations. Since their part in call in Chenarul de Gaulle and erbacent-of-Islam clasp, the pale husband by then qualled a stopping the cholera epidemic the Sultans of Northern Africa. pink hat and pale pink gloves lawyer. She applied for a post ut in 1944, Egyptian women have.

"The

Russians will doelde

the university, only to be told shown themselver fitted for the sve it chic detail. that thờ` British have copied the

by the head of the faculty; "You task. death-ray that Popov invented] Doubts that elegance docs not are too elegant to be a professor;

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can't accept you." polse I'm afraid

They have opened clubs UNESCO will

Working WORDCI in Cairo and Issue à 10-1 vanished with the talk she gave you volume examination

turned to Alexawirin: Where marebbes C the to the International Alitance: di on

Disappointed, the turried Women. She was chatty but? journalism. In 1948 she helped tunch at half dried. The other "The British Counell send out lecturers to will informative amusing but not to jaurch's magazine, written for half is pale by act

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Note of relief,

I needn't have worried. The world is still safe: Chimpans la all right. The eléctrónió ens Minoore didn't disintegraté nia;

approach in French Entouraged by its lounge with ramo, Kohéz subject and answered succes, phe, las tince helped to and masstaine stortions to

the point with, fart a children's Journal, a short, tiện Hás, chapter and verse quotations. 12 tory publication, and a magazine samment Durents she couldn't and the

word for expOMM

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