1954-11-25 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL," THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, - 1954,

THE QUEEN MOTHER HAS MADE A LOT OF FRIENDS

T

COME AGAIN

AGAIN SOON AND STAY LONGER

Ottawa, Tuesday,"

I

it all up Bum evaluate the Queen Mother's

Conadu und

States as one

vikit to

the United

of the most

successful royal. tours of all

lime.

1 hope that doesn't

sound pompous.

meant to be.

It is not

1

DON

IDDON'S

DIARY

accept the appointment, she will do so. It is her life's work and longing to continue

the British Commonwealth.

The Queen Mother docA not like gush, but she is very human, and when Canadian reporter turned to her impulsively the other

said:

If "Your day and Majesty what a wonderful hit you've made," she smiled and said: "It's because you ure all so kind."

Thit

<21

of

Elizabeth gracioux

#boatload of is with stapkanals, public relations ex- perte and plenipotentiaries. She and charm. radiates kindnes She is Elizabeth the Good.

She leaves inultitude of frands behand, and the memory of this visit will be green In Canadian and Americon ninds for a long line.

Life's work

10 GOTV

wil establish

not

#

is the oppointment made then Canadians hope that the Queen herself and the Duke of Edinburgh permanent residence in Canada and spend some time each year and here. There mum be more more visits

of

The editor uf the Torontu Globe Mall says: "What is de- sirable and what appeatA to be happening is that members the Royal Family should visit Canada fairly frequently, some- times in official capselty and

mometimes sometimes not, and inixing the two."

I think the Queen Mother en- joyed her few days here in the Canadian capital as much as any she hon spent, though the THE THE title of "Britain's First weather has been raw and cold Ambassador" fits the Queen after the sunshine of Virginia, Mother snugly. Whether ahe and a ceremonies have been will become Governor-General little stilted and formal.

is not certain, but uf Canada what is coral is that she would carry out the office with sure aki and grace.

After visåling Confederation Square the other day she turned

to Prime Minister St Laurent and said; "I shall never forget daughter my last visit there 16 years ago who Canadian with the King." Nu and the Ministers decide to ask her to wa there ever will.

it her believe

the Queen

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Far 40 minutes-ycs, 10-the King and Queen Ungered there literally enguked by soldiers in their purple berota.

No one was hurt or crushed, although the King and the Queen were separated, and from a distance looked as if they had boen swept off their feet. The King and Queen mingled with

talking the soldiers,

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Her memories

No wonder the Queen Mother Nalled

as she agalu

Shr visited the famous square. will remember many happy incidents about this visit ulo

the the message of thanks from American photographers: "Your Majesty, you are the tops"; the hundreds of letters from Ameri

orid Canadians saying: "Come back again soon and stay longer."

Cur

1 think the Canadian visit Was the most thoroughly or- ganised. The Canadian officials

Press everything Kave the

wanted.

we

There is thing stuffy about They enjoy giving Canadians. out Information and have hand- ed out sheaves of it, I Ilke

par- ticularly the booklet entitled

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AT HIGHBURY

ROW

OVER RUSSIAN

REFEREE

"Now that tension is lessened, perhaps we might have a top-level meeting to call off sporting events...

WHEN

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London Express Service

COMMONWEALTH

MEET

FRIENDS

By PATRICK GORDON WALKER, M.P.

HATEVER the and to win sympathy, if Commonwealth not full support, for their Prime Ministers idens. dicuss in London Britain is

"Visite au Canada de sa Majeste next January, the import position to bring about

in Reine Mere Elizabeth." which has pleased diang.

the French

Cana-anco of

I would have

Kept quiet

one another.

of

of

of

are

KASHMIR

Finally, Pakistan

may raise

Echoes Of Flageolets, Mandolins

By James Wickenden

F

London.

the medieval castle the

palo young man in green tights tuned his mandolin. Outside, snow fell on un- fenced fields. Beyond the untamed forest'a edge, 'B. wolf howled under the moon..

On 'moonless nights, It was whispered, vampire bats also lurked. Witches mouth- ed spells of life over leather bags which rose and flew to milk other men's cows.

The young man shivered fa the rushlight's leuping. shadows. His vivid imagination preferred. to see dummer's freedom. Then, somewhere over grassy hills, rode black-plumed knights in glinting armour.

Not like Sir Gawain of the castle who thank God, had gono 4o the wars. He was (always shont of breath, ha dented armour creaked and he bad frequently cuffed the young man,

Sir Gawain was not romantic. Fortunately milady was;

also hoped for a champion. His pennami trailing from a keen lance would be bloodstained in her

In- honour-but his own Juries would be elight,

DOUBLE MEANINGS

Afterwards she would nurse him to health in the walled mee garden. Until then she could dream wistfully listening to the young man's song.

radio

Now these gongs are coming back. The minor revival in music and poetry of the Middle in

London. Last time the

and Prime Ministers

paper-backed could hardly records get from their hotels to No. 10 books show it may increase, Downing Street because of the It is becoming necessary in fog. So perhaps it might be London's regency drawing agreed that the

conference rooms to know of flageolets and should be held from time to time minnesotig plainsong and in other capitals.

tobors..

Even so, this new British tion of realms and republics, all He strummed his mandolin,

must

and gugenient

affect the recognising the Queen as their his voice rose plaintively, balance

Commonwealth Head.

the words had double meanings. strategy. Like other members, The timing or, the conference Long practica in other castles in a special Britain has now committed the itself naturally imposes its own told the troubadour how far he a bulk of her forces to her own *tresses. Winter in England is could go. With milady it was

And their meeting is closer approach of views regional security,

this midsummer

protty far. in Australia and makes it more vital than ever clear,

about Asia's problems, for that the other Commonwealth inry sessions and recesses never mediaval

New Zealand, and Parliamen- Such "WDS one kind of demonstrates It

once she belongs to two separate members tako over burdens of

music; intimate, I still think

Except defence and the Common- groups within the Common- been a good idea for the Queen again that

conscription more

for grave subtle, and more important in emergencies, January

is about lonely centuries than Mother to have spent a day wealth nations so value the wealth. With Australia, equal to that which Britain has the only month that reasonably

assumed.

Other songs, crooning today. two

French in Montreal in

unity and intimacy of the New Zealand and Pakistan,

sults everyone. Even so, this perhaps in chorus a duet, in- Canada, but she did the next

that

there Fourthly. their she is a member of SEATO; problems Imposed by the H- and New Zealand delegaten, for oddities.

the puts a burden the Australian cluded bird noises and other best thing by crossing the river Commonwealth to Hull in Quebec and mingling Prime Ministers come from India and Ceylon are not. bemb, and its significanco in they have to sacrifice part of with French Canadians, who the ends of the earth to On the other hand, Britain Commonwealth strategy. Linked their summer holidays. dearly love a queen, and por confer as friends who trust and the Asian members with this are the possibilities Furthermore January is an ticularly this one.

have recognised China's Red cul co-existence, and abominable month for meetings Ages has only started. Sales of

perhaps, a meeting of the Big Cenada itself, and particularly The conference agenda government; the other mem- Four. the capital, is in a happy state itself is very flexible; it is bors have not. of mind--and pocket. There is booming prosperity here. The fixed by agreement as the Secondly, there is the Canadia dollar,

worth date draws near. now

And it equally vital problem three cents more than the must be remembered that Britain's commitment American, is going up and up,

the Prime Ministers do not four divisions and part of meet because of some the RAF in Continental two Internal Commonwealth specific problern-like the Europe. This accords with questions. recent nine-Power confer the established principle of It may wish to bring up the ence in London. Their talks Commonwealth defence: Kashir dispute. A problem of are a regular part of the that each member has A decline to agree to the matter machinery of Common prior duty to help preserve being put on the agenda. For for autonomy for his province wealth consultation. They security in its own part of the rule at nothing is discussed

gather every second year or the world.

unless all agree to do so is ines- Both men have kept quiet so to achieve and main-

capable in Commonwealth of Thirdly, there is the fact sovereign nations. No such during the present royal visittain that intimate meeting that Britain has always ac- nation can be forced to discuss holiday, although there is an im-of minds that underlies the cepted the Commonwealth any matter against its will. portant election for mayor com- Commonwealth's working.

obligation to give aid to Perhaps, as once before, there Ing up next meeth,

any other member needing may be informal talks between a number of Prime Ministers military assistance. Linked outside the conference itself. If with this is the question of the Kashmir issue is to be consul in Bilbao received an co-ordinated plans

is to be hoped that all unexpected caller, a Mile. for the raised, it

difficulties will Andree de Jongh, otherwise This who

time, however, defence of such arena as the the procedural

be settled before the Prime known as Dedee. needs a several pressing problems Middle East, the Indian Ministers meet, so as to avold

are likely to be reviewed. Ocean and the Far East tho embarrassments that prose "I have come from

Brussels," Firstly, the Far Miss Whitton, can, shout all

East. all of critical concern to the at the last moment in 1951.

she announced may also wish to bluntly. "I've brought you the men down when she wants Here, there are differences Commonwealth as a whole.

ralse the question of its con two Belgians who want to 10, which is frequently.

of opinion between Com- It is because of these plans tinuing membership us a re

The that Britain has reserved public along the monwealth members.

the lines of the fight for the Allies and Tho Queen. Mother and

its agreciment reached in 1949 re- Scottish soldier who was master, "opposed to war Prime Ministers the right to withdraw mayor have got along very well, various and Miss Whitton says: "I have beas proud to meet one of the Will be eager to explain their forces from Europe to meet garding Indfy. This should cause captured at Dunkirk,"

no difficulty, because the Com- motives to their colleagues an' overseas emergency. monwealth is now an associa- world's great ladies."

THE politieni crisis between Prime Minister St Laurent and the Premier of Quebec, Mau- rice Duplessis, over Duplessis' bid

reems to have,subsided.

and politics have taken 11

The present Mayor of Ottawa

is the 08-year-old spinster Charlotte Whitton,

who will

probably run again and win again, despite the people are crying. "Ottawa

business mLECT."

PROBLEMS

procedure would arise if India

Pakistan

DAVID LEWIN PROFILES A KINGPIN BOUND FOR THE VALLEY OF KINGS

Mr Legend Makes Sure Of The Name

THE GIRL THEY CALL CYCLONE

By JAMES LEASOR

NE August' afternoon the British

On 1941

4

The consul, was surprised,

"How did you cross the Pyrenees?" he asked, suspicious

ly.

Gestapo and a plump, unknown English maiden lady faced with internment.

Thereafter all

her energiea and those of her friends were directed to escape.

They were an unusual 'bunch. There was Elvire de Groes, newspaper before the war who had worked on a Belgiant.

and was a mother with two children.

There was Paul, Ithe school-

my favourite dish is herrings and potatoes," he would say. He. was a simple man who ended with a price of a million Belgian francs on his head.

There was Florentino, "We walked," replled Dedce, Basque, who guided the segret And went on to outline atravellers to Spain.. scheme she had for, establishing

an escape route for British and Allied "soldiers captured in France

and for airmen who, were shot down,

From that small beginning there grew what became the Comet Lino..

TRUE GREATNESS

Today In his little house over- Luz decorations awarded him by looking the Bay of St Jean da four countries for his work aro displayed in frames,

All these people ordinary folk, the type, you would, moet. on any direct--were. captured by the Gestapo," tortured, and suffered all the humiliations of captivity? A

Cairo, Wednesday. Bigness, Bluntness,

and return." As one of his staff said: answers him back. The rest "If the old man had fasted the trually say "Yes, sir," even THE Cecil B. DeMille Baloney.

waters of the Nile' when he was before he says, something. caravan is on the move As benta his station, here 30-years ago, he wouldn't

B. also stands for Baloney, again today. The Exodus la DeMil'e does not move into have lived to talk about it....".

"Deden Jongh created I-the DeMille

has ordered his own busiest escape route in all the

But their owner can no longer over and the extras have

a hotel like his stars and I asked Charlton Heston, who doctor to give his crew injec Resistance Movement. In its march the mountain roada. Ono been paid off, Now DeMille

to mim up the tons technicians. Ho has a flat plays Moses,

daily to keep them At three years of life more than of his legs was broken by. 15.00 and his general staff are on on the banks of the Nile approach. Heston sald: enough to stand up to his 800 Allied airmen and coldiers German bullets and is shorter

their way to Luxor and the large enough to accomme enormity of what he is perpetrators altogether and only on a travelled along it to England lo

"DeMille le not worried by the pressure. There are three doc- were saved from captivity, and thap the other. 25.00 Valley of the Kings to carry date Mrs Harper, his ing. Lesser àirectors would be' DeMille picture could a notice fight another day.

on filming "The Ten Com

(and "social awe at the responsibility daughter mandments" there.

secretary"), her husband, pending 8,000,000 dollars," Already he has hopped and two children; his per- I watched the DeMille legend sonal secretary; his valet, operating on the set. He.frod 10.50 up Mount Sinai

and his doctor flown special his pistol into the air for

That, work was recognised by "action". A quarter of a mile back of a camel and is pre- ly from New York. There away some unfortunate assistant

dor writes its story and that of offelal honours, King George VI 5.00 | paring to visit the Red is also a roof-top swimming director, got.

Quite CamBen

naturally DeMille at Dedon who, because of her, gave Dades the George Medal," one of the highest), awards. DeMille motioned- to "milike home lives in a street named Immenso enthusiasm; her energy. boy" for the microphone and after him, and not in one house and her unflagging courage, whe posible for a civilim roared, "Whoever that, man is but two connected by a glam known to them all as "Elite"," But their real reward ~ helis dismissed. Dismimed on corridor, For a quiet week-end Cyclone.”

the spot. If he is an American he has a 1,300-acre ranch where Sho was a Belgian Els legend! travels Hollywood big names, has Destilla, în, zaypt be prepared he has long journey home, he can lead the simple life on a

sunt luxury, level.

father had been Ithapi 24.00 perfected the art of make. a. Pre statement which in Bls for Bluntness,

The calculating

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the

4.00 & 5.00 Sen to cope with the cross pool.

1.00|ing there, „And all the time. 450 | DoMillé is giving the proof 10.00 that he, alone of all the

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