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THE CHINA MAIL

TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1955.

Says Kolarz: "

Hussein's Bride-To-Be

Is Lovely, Intelligent

Cairo.

IVER since her engage

Ement King Hussein of Jordan, Princess Dina Abdel Hamid hus bean exceptionally busy mark. ing 400 examination papers. This bonutiful 23-year-ok! Cambridge graduate, with soul- tive hazel eyes and delicate oval face and slim graceful figure, is not the post of girl to leave a

unfinished. She hopes Job

פן

carry on her post as Lechner of English Literaturv

Cairo

University until the end of term.

Hor students hope

Princces

Dina L

popular and

member บ

so tos thu

met distinguished University's the

women teaching staff. Popular look at she's lovaly because and highly intelligent, with a sense of humour. Di- lively Unguished because she's a mean- ber of the noblest of all Arab familles, the Royal Hashemiles, descendants of the Prophet

Felsal of Iraq are her INJURINO.

about

By ALAN MCGREGOR

Princess Dina

going to Girton College, Cam- bridge, in 1947 at the age of

17.

Sandhurst, and Dina travelled down one chilly winter day to see him march in the passing- out parade. Later they were often seen dancing together in the West End.

Her favourite relaxation ta reading. She likes to travel and has just learned to drive a Email car, a handy size for Cairo's jampacked streets. She can look forward to some fast motoring with Hussein, who is turning

hair poloce officials white by taking his British sportscar up the 100-mile-an- hour mark on the Baghdad road that runs straight for milca across desert from Amman. He Biso likes plloting

Arub on Legion plane round his desert aountain kingdom.

Fine Eyes

She

of

Dino's fine Princess

eyes when we talked of clouded Pulestine

refugees, who form two-thirds at Jor- She was very happy there, more than though she suk

with a laugh: dan's 1,400,000 population. of Mycen "Sometimes Mohamed and rulers of

the examiners is deeply stirred by their plight and Both Husein for centuries.

and i didn't

I and by the general poverty think alike.

lands. would get profoundly interested these Middle Eastern in certain poets and writers only After Cambridge she look a to be asked to write an essay course in social studies at Lon- be don University, un something quite unrelated to

and she'll What

interested me most!" She able to give a tad to the small graduated with B.A, honours,

band of emancipated Jordanian Hussein and she first met in

women who do a great deal for the Jordanian capital of Amman the refugees.

Hussein King

certainly nine years ago, but only got to know each other properly when fortunate 3zı his cholec. No both were in England. After a

Arab Queen in recent times has been so well silted for the job. year at Harrow Hussein went to

wnjoys She

talking literature. world politics, travel, except fuct everything art, in hervell

No Make-Up

"I don't like publicity and really I'm not interesting enough salt she fur 1921 interview," smilingly when I called at the sumptuous malern vills where she lives with her parenta in the garden village of Mundi, on the Nile The

house stands in the

own grounds on a quiet avenue botwani Louthery eucalyptus Trees.

The Princess was dressed in o pale grey tailorded costume. She in two Wears her raven-hair braided plaits knotted st back of her head, She doema'l use make-up, and her skin

the

1

Cir.

clear. Her mother is cassian of that Caucasian moun- tou people whose womenfolk ure famed for their good looks. The Princess' voice in finely modulated and her English that of Cambridge without a trace of an Arable accent.

She was born and brought up in Egypt, educated at an Eng- lish girls' college here

before

Parasitic skin diocase, itching eczema etc.

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""This

is

TEENAGE

12

CRIME

WAVE IN U.S.

By KAY MURRAY

week ago a

New York, rather that discharge the young

hoodlums. York -EW

has

Only just woken up to the faet children's court judge said Batly emergency emergency state of

this

is an

that it is suffering situation colling for from

of measures. the

**This is worst wave juvenile delinquency in its siege," he added.

The problem im't confined to 300-year-old history.

New York.

"In that way, you see, vie

DEFENCE

PLANS 1955

build up a powerful deterrent, we and our allies will have tom prid-a-half- times enough bombs to blow the aggressors off the earth. They will have

only three-and-a-half times enough to blow us."

H-SHELTER

a full, rich life to

sow

World Ceppright dy arrangement with the Manchetter Guardian

however skilful Soviet propaganda may be in disguising reality, mora is known about Vorkuta than about many other parts of the Soviet Union”.

RUSSIA'S PRISON CAMP HQ

By Walter

Kolarz

66▼JORKUTA" is one of to Verkula. From this wo-learn those Russian place that it is a "significant cultural names which have acquired contre of the Kom! republie" that it hes four secondary rehpols, a special meaning. If the 17 Ubrerios end 11 clubs, and

| verý mention of Moscow re- that it is the largest coal-mining

calla. the despotic power of centre in Northern Europe. the Communist Party, if Stalingrad stands for the in route and the Vorkuta

But, however akiful Soviet propaganda may be in disguis- known

more

self-sacrificing heroism of about

than about the Russian peoplo, Vorkuta area

many other parts of the USSR. Vorkuta is become synonymous the administrative centre for a

has

with forced labour.

Vorkuta has never been shown

large network of prison camps, whoe0

inmates far outnumber

moment in the

to any of the numerous delego- all the prisoners there were at tions which have visited the any particular Soviet Union In recent years, whole of Tsarist Russia,

Knowledge, and official Soviet sources have never given any detailed descrip- of the 100-odd tion of the place and its signi- and the conditions in them has floance

beer steadily expanded during

about the extent Vorkuta esmps

The latest edition of the Soviet the past two years by the ar“ In the West of former Encyclopedia devotes 20 lines

inmates. 'The latest testimony comes from

is

Street

O

Very, say some; but others diagnose ́

live yet

by 1013 WALTER

SCHWARZ

London. RAVELY the doctors

ABISTROTESEBASTIAN SUALIN

Service we always had a queue of 30 doctors waiting for rooma." Is it time then, to chalk up this patient on the danger-Ilst? I wonder...

rival comp

| American citizen, John Noble, who was releuscit after ning and a half

Russian years in captivity. He made a statement about his experiences to a press conference in Berlin,

BIG STRIKE

In

of

Nable, who had.. been Vorkuta until the middle 1954, confirins # number of points made by other Cyo- witnesses, particularly the two Germans, Frau Brigitte Gerland and Dr Scholmer,

Noble has told ones more the remarkable story of the strike of the Vorkuta slave labourers suminer of 1953. This

in

an

the

a

new

m

has emerged as one of the most momentous events

Soviet Russia since the war. Over 100,- 000 prison camp inmates seem day. Now? Thirteen doctors, to have participated, and several 80-odd patients and not a Dalm-hundreds were either shot or

er in sight."

"disappeared" after the liquida- This man is employed by the tion of the strike by the comp ¡cuscholder. Not only, it is said, administration. to open the door, but to put one

element in tick for every paitent against the Noble's account which

There

might name of each doctor. his

explain how such a huge strike comes in useful. It is whispered, could be organised at all under shake I received a shock on.

their hends

in matters of rent adjustment. Soviet conditions. He suggests Towns la 21 states have a

Up the stairs, second on the that and apprehensively the

officers took hearing that a British ex urfew

some MVD on youths of under 19.

I knocked on one door, about right, is a spruce gynaecologist, change teacher was warned One Southern Lown burred five-guinea specialists apply

half-way

down the Street, on white-coated, "Sit down, he part in it, demoralised, perhaps

by Berla's arrest. their at her school, which is in youngsters between 12 and 18

stethoscopes. The

the west side. It has 13 brass beams.Promise-pot-too-Noble also mentioned rumours of July

patient is Harley Street,

name-plates. The elderly re- my name and I will a respectable suburb, that from the last Fourth

that Stalin's son, Vassily, is she shouldn't turn her back festival, if ever there was une

fireworks display-a children's

Disease diagnosed: National

tainer who opened it, to let me there is a big boom in Harley being held in the Lublanka scope for private practice may in, is a connaisseur of the Street.” on her class in case she got because, said the Chief of Police: Health Service. The symp be so restricted that it may not Street's affairs.

Prison in Moscow. These "Last a knife in her ribs.

of kids toms a bunch

are plain. Unsightly year

"Done the job for 27 years,"

is rumours may be unfounded, but such an arrest would be the kind some pranks

and darn gaps break the trim re- our worth while to preserv played

he reported. In the old days Britain's best economic pointer. of thing one might expect to early blew up the whole crowd."

of gularity

the Street,

one doctor Ilved and practised The here, ran a Daimler, and suw up go the luxury sales. I am happen in the present Soviet They are bombed sites no

tour or five wealthy patients a one of the luxuries, just like TV situation. one has thought it worth

Relatives of erstwhile pro- sels, and cars. I have as many patients now as I had before the mintert people have often been under 10 were arrested for In Los Angeles a 12-year-old while to rebuild.

the Soviet Union POSSESSING firearms

Service. 1955 will be a bumper arrested in und for boy stuppedi

Smug, the baby he was

prosperous fronted "uninwful assembly" for

year for Harley Street provided and sent to camps in and near ging minding and hit it with a rope houses stand empty. They have

Vorkuta. the Stock Exchange holds firm,”

The Polish engineer (Any person

38 end.

been empty for years now. The baby died.

Antony Ekart, for instasee, buy

In Connectiui, 22-calibre

A malignant Jun

rash of business similar

Vanished Without We was published recently. ammunition without so much as reasons, ene agency has entirely premises spreads through the headlog permal). This discontinued teenage baby sit lower rextons. Here is the Asso- number doesn't even lake into ting.

ciation of Road Tar Distillers, Berount those arrested for stick-

In Illinois two teenagers were where once white-coated Involved ups and burglaries,

in an accident withsultants only were allowed. Over their "hot rod" automobilu which there a trade union office- killed two sisters and sent eight that of the actors. Everywhere

นาย other high school kids to hospital. fire

architects,

The facts justify the warning, the past three weeks one buy has been killed and

In

p Aleeman

youthful shot by a gunman. Thirty-four boys agert

baltics. here

Can

over

STATE OF SIECE

10

Judge

FINGER IN DYKE

solicitors,

What is the cause of this accountants. One juvenile court

great upsurge of juvenile crime, Tho Beveridge Report pre- Loose 22 boys, which shows an increase of 64.3 dicted it in 1942. refused to turn

Uilder the the customary tax approach to

Health Service "the possible the fact that there isn't cough percent over 19517 space for their detention.

10-

sead, he called Mayer Wagner and insisted on--and get-space

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are aware, says

The New York Youth Board, recently formed to deal withi the situation, is clear-sighica but pessimistic.

centre

Sure enough, they are saying it today. The Street as a medical

has passed its zenith, (Dr Leonard Jacobs writing in the Prac- titioner.)

"The younger consultants

today prefer the safe salaries of the hos pitals to the hazards of the Street" (Spokesman for the Fellowship for the Freedom of Medi- cine.)

And a local estate

has agen!

the figures, "100 vacant consulting rooma are on our books. Before the Health

SAM WHITE'S PARIS NEWSLETTER

Boom?

"Certainly.

The

Street

nation's business is good:

GOOD MONEY

Jean,

Trace,"

book

TUR-

med thero Svetiyann hachevskaya, daughter of the famous, Marshal Tukhachevťky, niece of

Galina cov

Up more stairs: bespectacled dermatologist, "Sit down," he grunts. “Don't quote Marshal

Chief of but.compared with other the Soviet General Staff during professions our standard of the war, and the daughter of fiving has tumbled right down." Uborevich, once commander of 1. the

Whito Russian military This dermatologists, fees

me,

JAK

THE IMMORTALS GET A JUNIOR MEMBER

would

Paris. As though this, were not time on winning over has stormed enough, he was also a know- actually read one of them."

Said another hostess 10-

"Y the Academy" head- ledgeable critle of boxing, ceaving the news that Cocteau

п

* your."

Executive Director Ralph Whelan admits frankly that the Board simply hasn't the Ainometal resources to meet the lined a Paris newspaper, long before the age of air travel had actually been elected, "Ah, man problem. It merely "has its when 66-year-old play de cucccssfully undertock to go how it ages one."

inger in the dyke.""

"How

that

HARD LIFE

five guineas for the first con- district, sultation and three guineas a time after

have not changed since the war. But expenses have nearly trebled.

"I take £2,000 a year in pri- Life in the cool mines and vate fees. Taxation (It used to lumber camps of Vorkuta is go be £200) accounts for 2060. hard that it might be expected Consigling room rent (wed to to destroy any Intelligent human be £225) is £450, and I pay thought sexd lead to the utter my secretary £400-(Instead of demoralisation of the prisoners, £2241)

But those who have returned But the leandermatologist often bring back a message of does not blame the Health Ser-hope. They have shown that vice. It brings in good money, the combination of Communist Like most specialists he works police terror and the harshness part-time in a hospital, "Just of the Arctic climate have falled like in the old days, only now I to reduce the prisoners to get paid for it around £1,500 animal level.

Thoughts, ideals and hoper The eminent chr-rose-throat have remained alive. Brigitte.

is cry the ground Boor. Gerland told of camp inmates Very distinguished people are who produced hand-written

patients."Don't

the Now copies of the result of a bet,

my name, old' chap. Dr. Scholmer, described Cocteau is ducttante playfully engaged in

I earn around 10,000 a religious services in some of the Danings: year. The Health Service is a coal mines; and Noble, the daren different activities from A "One of the most striking blessing, in disguise for good latest arrival, says that fadih in choreography to film making, superiorities of the English is specialists.

God helped him to, survive. from

poetry to painting. He the way they manage to give a "If the Service kill anyone it The 200-year-old Academy". was -one of the earliest foreigner an inferiority com will be the G.Ps, not us It

and friends restricted to 40 members, known champions

of plex the moment he sets foot in has made „Britain" "Tspecialist=. as "The Immortals," has thereby Ficamo and Diaghilev,

the country" forgiven him for being a wit, an innovator and a thoroughly wi conventional human being. The Dow "Immortal" is unfortunate. ly a little dated, Most of his writings belong to the twenties and are now as contemporary as a ragtimo dance tune,

·GREAT PARISIAN

talented

can you expect high wright, poet and boulevar- mound the world in 80 days as

Cocteau WES morals in teenagers," he asks, dier Jean "when from 12 to 10 members elected to that citadel of of families sleep in just two literary respectability, the

French Academy.

rooms?"

LAX-PARENTS

Apart from New York's slums, which are the worst in the world, more fortunately pincod familles

equally Bevold of a community spirl,

Whelan, Parents, .. should be responsible for their children, at lear In Imowing where they are at night."

19.

It

still

SICK MAN

QUOTES

UTHOR Pierre

Ex-Premier Mendes-Franco

the a skiing holiday in French Alps: "Skiing is the perfect

exercise for, a French

but

his

donacious."

CONFIDENCE

Now a siekanan, Cocteau defies his doctors and refuses to be in Premier. It teaches him how

to fall." prisoned in its country home Premier Edgar Faure on his stamica In the old Street,

Perhaps, after all, there is near Paris or in his South of ch Frame villa. He has

Certainly Lord Howard de only choice of Minister of Post and The Youth Board inelets that

recently recovered from a heart Telegraphs: "He spoke so long Walden, lanford of thout of the this is a long-term problem.

but this has not dect to give it to him." attack,

on the phone that I finally de-

Harley Street medical. len't one person's headache. It

area,

hda vented him from the arduous the

confidence in the future, He a i comimity affair and

on w Painter Edmond Heuze electioneering

not allow the road-ter sections of it must take respon-

involved in being t New - grey-haired

a condidate for the Academy,

Parte dress designers:

Thay

distillers to send, northwards sibišty.

the heaviest

retaining a singularly $ Áhful A feature of this electioners waistline, do away

suppress the bust, lower the of Qu

Queen responsibility lies in the home.

Antin Street, poetors mocking foxpression, he remains Ing is the endless round of din hips without any concern over policy.

with the or nothing,” Teenagers

*****the estate's canvacand in nation-wide

nor parties which candidate the aestheile heresies they are research

14 gennt ; Parisian character, pleaded

ubiquitous as the Eiffel Tower he hopes to win. unanimously: "/"Get tough with

must give for those whose voles The son of a military family Unai American parents stop

rends stop Contests, who simbers admirals As a bachelor, he has called breing” botead of their children and generals amcost his close upon a number of eminenily which they "freely," admijumi.

relatives

fryt startled Paris fashionable hostess to help | over the, čolantrysiönd. Toni' to kanodiately after the 1914-18 him out with carefully or Colonel the Hon, Troddý Now and mean. He strica we will decline hostage. "Yea Inalstad on Binford Cripps: 1 in Paris to galisod dinner parties, Bald Cripps, brother' of the lale Bir SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. LTD. when coperte de in spectacular decadent private talking about him look and advisor famous Paris Tshion

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