Guarding The Royal Family
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By J. W. TAYLOR
NOME of the best-dressed ranks of the Metropolitan Police Superintendent Clark men in town are the Force.
unce pounded the bent as Police "shadows" around the Bri- Constable 240., and was known fish throne the detectives to his pals as "Nobby." who guard members of the
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The prime qualification for a Royal Family. All have the Royal guard is quick-thinking quality "f self-effacement in an emergency, like that and the ability to melt un- casion in Malta when Super- tenderst Clark, The Queen's chirusively into their back-
"shadow, Inspector Frank ground; always on hand, yet Kelly, the Duke of Edinburgh's ant Potier Constable guard, never notiend
"Reg" Summers, watching aver the Royal children, saved their charges from what might have been an uncomfortable Justling
Such Hayat guid as Super- Clarks The interredens Queen's deterive until recently. bal
Superintendent Albert Park. t
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The Dake had driven Queen and the two inddren off leaving an affal alone after perty. As they were leaving The ear. which had potted up in a narrow alley, they spotted by an exeiled Maltese rowd, who hurried towards the
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house, Lore Through the back and out of the front and eathe face to face with the advancing Maltese. Pornag an perturb
de barrier nerest the alley, they the gay, laughing crowd mek of time 11 met the faces
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The Royal Family is such that retous surprise Trouble is but there extremely unlikely.
nad irresponsible cranks ps types aboat when could be troublesome, and the guards are prepared for any emergency such
cold create. persons Although
clothes spreially sautered to hide the lige at the weapon, each of the guards has an automatic pistol Holstered beneath his well-
The
These custodians of the Royal ng jacket. safety, however, are not chosen beemise of sartorial perfection. All are specially selected police- men who have
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Great Friends
The Royal guards their 20 ripse renate
Chief Super- eyal
charges ntendent Hugh Cameron, who was that bodyguard to the inte King when he was Duke of York 24 years ago, was a great friend of the Royal master, and re- mated with hum until the King's death. Often when the King werd to Sandringham, Cameron could have taken a holiday, but
be There he preferred to
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No candidate is drawn from guard, even when the party only two or three close the Security Service (M.3.5) or comprised
from the Special Branch, but acquaintances. The two men had from the
uniformned become great friends. ordinary
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"FACE"
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1955.
IMPORTANT OBSERVERS
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WORSE THAN THE
BLACK FROST
T really
began on the BOB RIVETT, 42-year-old skipper of the morning of Sunday, Hull trawlar Kingston Zircon, brought back January 23, three days the first full account of the Black Frost after my birthday.
which causod, two trawlers to sink with the loss of 40 men off Iceland at the end of For the first time since we arrived from the Hum January. And here is the dramatic story→→ ber to fish 60 miles off Iceland's North Cape the night had passed without a gale warning.
Weather was quite good).
Lorella 181341 Roderigo, the Iwo trawlers that were list, were about 30 miles from me. None of us
would have been there in the old days before the Iceland Government began to claim the whole sweep of their big bays as Territorial waters; ww would have teen much closer in, nearer safely,
Gear lashed
UITE
By BOB RIVETT
as told to FRANK COLDSWORTHY
The ship became heavy to
AL 5,2 Roderigo reported handle, going over sometimes to Listing heavily to starboard." 30 degrees.
In three days in the wheel- house-every window was coal-
and we ed with ice
could see oul Only through
the Cast-
My
radio log shows that at
PARIS... NEWSLETTER from SAM WHITE
M. MALRAUX TAKES FRANCE'S PULSE
A
his hero de Gaullo
when it comes to suggesting a
Chain-smoker
MAN who exercises self-inflicted humiliationg of hia as much fascination country.
Then following his denuncia- for the younger tion. comes the anticlimax: generation of Frenchmen ae Mairoux displays all the weak→ - Lawrence of Arabiä did over nesse of young England in the 1920's
solution. and 80's has just published a striking denunciation of the political system which, he says, has reduced his country to the level of second-rate Power.
is the He
prodigious 58-year- old Andre Malraux, a man who la both France's foremost novelist and a living legend as a He is not only regarded as a man of action. Ex-Communist, French T. E. Lawrence, but he ex-cloak-and-dagger man in the has frankly confessed its hero- early social convulsions of China, worzulp for him in a book pub- ex-air force commander on the liahod before the war. anti-Franco side in the Spanish The two men had never talked Civil War, ex-Resistance leader together, although they once met chance in England and ironi- and brigado commander under by
TN vague, metaphysical phrases he hints that a dictatorship tempered by vigorouss local government can provido - solu- tion Malraux is a man of strik- rely malevolent handsomenem, and a chain-smoking intensity.
other.
de Gaulle, he has been since the cally falled to recognise each liberation General de Gaulle's firmest end and his most eloquent spokesm n.
Paralysis
\X/RITES Malraux in the most
B
Three times married, he lives with his third wife, the widow of half-brather, idlled by the Nazis, and with three children in a large house outside Paris. It is elegantly furnished in a quoted article of the week; modern style and decorated with "France is a country suffering treasures discovered by Malraux from political parolysis. Le in his wanderings in the Middl us not worry Ko much about East and Far East. whether it can rival the He enjoys good food and wina interest in them twentieth century's world but
if the Powers. Let
ask quickly 115 merely why France
toges
of interests him. is incapable
conversation Something of 'a
building as many workers flats reclure, his only relaxation is-- B9 Holland and incapable of talking. creating an army as strong DE that of Yugoslavia.
ONE
A Dior recruit
NE of the most important women in the Paris fashion the business has switched jobs. She
"France above every counity
the
France world? No. lower thon Switzerland. That 5.8 it Wos dark there would have astonished after about 3 p.m.-George) Swise of 1910, Leadley repented four times "Roderigo calling. Going over."
A 5.0 he said seven times: "Roderigo calling, right over,”
All this was by voice, but his vulce was kelting more and more strained. And at that moment believe his vocal cords just gave out. He turned the switch. And now over the loudspeaker in my whothouse came morse instead of a voice,
We logged "505 Sos sos 505 Roderigo going over," nine times; t space, then it An American rescue aircraft boga again . "SOS SOS SOS which had joined in the radio Roderigo going over.” link ked Roxterigo and Lancella
At 6.12 t censed. We heard "What are your intentions?"
spinning circular windows which is top weight of ke, replied
At 5.3 Rederigo, listing with no more.
I wrole in are kept clear by centrifugal forço had three hours sleep.
I tell you this to give you în idea what conditions must have suddenly the wind been like in the Roderigo and nearer to the go up.
We Just managed Lorella--much
higher winds, and to get our gear lushed before ice pack, in we felt the full force of a gale, faster-freezing spray, with visibility between all and
30 yards. Now there is only ung thing
to do in a situation like that, when, there is no chance of reaching shelter. Wo
By radio
trawlermen call it dodging-E first heard that they were moving slowly ahead into the Win trouble on Tuesday night, at the end of the third day of minutes before
wind.
We could not turn; to be dodging. Ten broadside in such seas would midnight
I heard the Lorella
incan capsizing, Go too slow and Roderigo talking to cacit other by radio-telephone. Both and wo would lose steerage way; go too fast and we would weather and were having to go said they were encountering bad increase the spray and waves full speed into the wind to re- pouring over the ship.
tain control. .
In the лек thres days, The next day, Wednesday, my though I was using enough en-
the eastward had gine revolutions to drive the edging to
me to rather better Zircon મ
knots in Zood taken
the Lorella and weather, I moved 80 miles and weather;
Roderigo were 100 miles from most of that sideways!
me, nearer the ice
The Lorella and Roderigo were forced to steam directly Into the wind, getting nearer the ice.
At 2.10 that Wednesday after- noon Roderigo called all ships, asking for a reply on the same frequency.
"No
Over
my log: intentions. Going further operators worthy of the
Gotug further over."
praise."
At 5.3 Roderige reported "We are still going further to star board and cannot get righted."
is. Greek-born 47-year-old "Is It not Intriguing that Madhme Lilian Ralli, who has
could not present-day France have built Chartres Cathedral left the fashion house of Jean Deses and joined Dior, What of being and that it is so far from being is the importance
build a able to
Versailles Madame Roll? She is a sales- It
even woman with a cannot Palace that
a string of royal afford the upkeep of the pre- and rich clients who are also her sent one."
personal friends, Then comes the crux of his These include the Duchess of bitter denunciation, "France is Kent, Princess Olga of Yugo
Royal Buffering from a national can sinvia, Luxembourg
cer which has two symptoms; a Farally and Modamo Lopes contempt for all productive Onassis and Madame Niarchos, work, and a profusion of
Ralli acts as a personal Madame mi middle-men. To the French fashion scout-and adviser to all mation the State is an imposter these worpen,
15
ין
to be regarded either with hate Blondly, slim and spectacled,
by the Communista arul fellow-travellers, or with Ironie Madame Rail is the wife of n
the rest.
wealthy Greek grain merchant Add indifference by
who lives
permanently in Communist to the six million votes the millions who abstained Switzerland, from voting and you have
"Both
highest
majority of the French
hostile to the State."
I thought it was the least I could do.
MISS KITT
She sang her, way to £100,000 a year)
YEARNS FOR THE SIMPLE THINGS
like the theories of Mr. Einstein
By EVELYN IRONS'
New York. You bring her claws out if NE of the fastest you imply that it is in the least odd for a girl who made her
O rising sultry singers name and fortune as
a night- in America is slinky club and revue singer to spend
Kitt.
her off-hours hob-nobbing with (You may
and other great men.
Now I am not sure whether
The Roderigo's operator E be culled Black this should Frast; it was something wore I know now he was 37-year-old Eartha than the black frost, worse George Leadley and lived with have heard her records of eminent scientists than anything I have known in his wife and nine-year-old son Santa Baby and I want to "There's nothing unusual
only a few doors from ma in Butterfield Ruid,
25 years in trawlers.
Usually Black Frost is ported: freezing fog, constantly positing loe on the upper part
de-
Hullre be evil, I want to be bad.)
about it," she snaps. "I wanted to meet Einstein because he
1
nation Quote of the week:
"Gina Lollobrigide,
And so the articlo continues From a Unitech Artis's Press
on a note of the bitterness felt release: "
by
a French patriot by the Italy's claim to world fame..."
Eartha Kitt
She has caused quite a stir in means so much to any think made a lot of money," she said. and read and read and rood." "Ono aerial down. Working New York by dropping in on ing porsom, I wrote to him and "It's true. It's also true that I That's what I do with the Attĵo (by he invited me, and that was pay 81 percent of my money to spare time I have. Try to learn of a ship. But it comes usually one side of span as emergcacy. Professor Albert Einstein
the Government in taxes." So as much as I can. in moderate weather, and you Weather very bad and freezing.invitation) for a Sunday cup of that."
ten and
a chat about the fight it with steam pipes and Stand by on this frequency."
universe. So I dropped, In her.
BMCS,
But for three days we word
in winds up to 100 miles Ar
hour, with never a single lull.
Spray froze
'May Day'
that weather you would never I 2.35, the Lorila called up days off. see him again.
with the send :p sign-Mav Dati, Maj Day." A minute "I often go to the United after that her o operator, Nations," she said. "The other George Hobson, aged 20, whose week I met the man I admire wife and two children lys in most there, Dr Ralph Dutch Claremont Avenue, Hull, re- lunched with a Korean dele
gate to talk over the Far East pooted "Heeling full over."
situation. Night clubs? be sily. "I haven't the time."
GOOD FRIENDS
what? I don't care for money., "I d the life of Einstein,
"And there's "na glamour I read James Joyce and Jacques about a stage career. I'm like Prevart, Just now. I'm reading
MAKING UP ..
And it turns out that this On her visiting list for the any other actress: I work hard Emerson because he writes temperamental brown splifire of "future are Prime Minister 805 days a year and I have had about nature and that is calm. and simple, When I am in tha If you sent a man on deck in TIFTEEN minutes later at a girl Just 27, has other un- Kwame Nkrumah of the Gold no holiday for three years."
expected ways of spending her Coast and the Aga Khan, both Mins Kit madė nearly mood I paint--not well, just sill
of whose sons, Ali and Bad- £100,000 last year om night fo studies I like doing. ruddin. are, she says, good clubs and records, although only felends of hers.
four yours 150. she earned Others of her race have found 232 weckly. Eartha Kitt so cold and hard There was allenco while she and snappy that Ebony, the jabbed bobby pins into her strat I write, too, when I feel like Negro magazine recently ran a urchin hair, cut for her stage it.
The other night I started to article boldly hendect rwby
got home from part to a poverty-stricken child write when Eartha Negroes Don't Like
18 living in a Negro shack the theatre and when I looked at time it was,,ning, in: - the. Negroes, say she Ignores them and dreaming of life as a great the lady.
morning.... I'm about half-way. and cultivates whites. To this
through xuy autobiography). No; Bantha answers, "It's true that t
ghostwriter for me. That's A lot of places I have been a
SLACKS AND BOOKS: Eartha is not an easy girl to where other Negroes have not,
horrible, it's diahonest.
THE decks were kept clear by waves. But everywhere else the spray froze as it struck.
Aerial wines
as thick as pene.
It was the last we heard of the Lorella.
Within an hour there was ells became tuber of ice six crisis in the Roderigo. At 3.33
inches in diameter.
7. George Loadley called up all shipa. "We are taking heavy
fummel there was a six-inch togter now." 'coating of ice.
BITING
Don't
of
H
"Floods of letters come to me. She would like to marry. But odey. very day 1 the pours scom on the gokalps Fght who link her with this or thất Those actor or "mocialite
In
On the weather aide of the water. We are taking heavy tolle to, ne I found whois I WRED but this has bee, becaino of 115.
At 4.45 she asked other salpa round to her dressing-room at lack of inhibitions and becaure démánking to take bearings on her the staging har fat I do not carry my face on my demand Our lifeboatin disappeared 4.50, George Loadley sold: "We play In America, play a shoulder
Het 10 minutes or bement Inaldies 1oo cocoonkam
could do with someone up here strango and wlid as she is her- now. Having
in self, called Mirs Patterson. For the fret 10
our conversation I did not like demande! They never stop. The radar tower became a
But Another pause.. She has a niall round; £uco. Karthi za Kitt either, SEL. makoruering." solid block of loo.h
sistor ship Her body is as nous as a gradually the rodmena and I HAVE AG SAG AWAY
broke,
SALONGATLAN appealed: cat's.."And like) the {two";^esta) anteronism' which is the armour (2DEN
On the open top bridge the Lanta
"Come safety rails are about an inch, thick and Faina apart. The ice entered in our radio, on Chara Thickened until it join, minike: Inter
coming to you.
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