1955-06-04 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, "SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1955.

RICHARD DIMBLEBY, the man who has enjoyed unique opportunities of seeing its first two

first two years unfold, reports on

THE ROYAL SUCCESS STORY

Our Young Queen Has Done Her Work Wonderfully

T

WO

the world! It says years ago, on govern the United Kingdom about that rainy day in and t Commonwealth ac- nothing of the tremendous June 1953, I sat in cording to their laws and responsibilities of State that Westminster Abbey customs, to uphold Law and the Sovereign must bear: and watched the splendour Justice

Merey, to of the - self-sacrifice and

I"gaw

with

demanded of a

of the ceremony of Corona- maintain the laws of God, ceaseless devotion to duty tion.

Her Majesty the 'rotestant religion, and that are the Queen sign the only the Established Church. written contract that exists

Queen.

It it a brief enough docu- Nor is there any reason why between the Crown and the ment, this Coronation Oath, a should. for it is in the royal people, the parchment Oath to cover the governing of tradition that the children are

which she

swears to millions of people spread ught from their earliest years

in

THE DAY OF DEDICATION

ود

that they

arc the servants of Their people, and that they must give their whole lives to service."

Now, two Years after her Coronation, faithfully

We can see how the Queen has done her work, how clearly she has fulfilled the wish that she ex- Day pressed in her Christmas broadcast

from Auckland, New

Zealand, in 1953; "I want to show that the Crown is not merely an abstract symbol ol our unity. but a personal and living bond between you and me."

IN PRIDE

OF PLACE

is not easy to express the I.

feelings that we have for the Queen of the part that the Monarchy plays in our daily lives.

Love, admiration, loyalty, re- spect; these are the obvious emotions shared by us all. But behind them there is something deeper and more mysterious that it is difficul: to put into. words.

AND THEN DAYS OF DUTY WITH A SMILE

together the Queen.

nations that make up the Com- holds the world-wide family Annigoni explained: "In monwealth family, to each of which she is as much "our"" Queen as she is to us in Britain.

SAND, SUN, SOCIETY-AND

29,000 ROOMS

By Jacqueline Engert

H

New York, millions dredging swamps, creal- of silt hom ENTRAL Park has final- ing firm land out

the bottom of the neighbouring ly burst into a green bay, laying out streets. He bullt Spring bloom. The benches three hotels and launches ..an are. back again in Rocke, immense advertising camp

campaign. feller Centre where secre-

multi-million dollar in vestment paid - move and taries and tourists compete more hotels sprouted ne more for a place in the lunch-hour and more visitors streamed in..

four new sun to watch the crowds on This year,

luxury hotels Fifth Avenue. The smart

swung open their ricors. The ultra-luxurious Fominine- set is back from Florida” bleau an enormous Surni-

circular while concrete moister

# was a long cold winter with 363. roma cost $15,000,- But even while the New York

Rates 533 a day to $200 temperatures hovered around a day for a penthouse sulie. fressing point it was fashionable The nearby Golden Gate cost to have a suntan. Snobs bask- $6,500,000

It has decking fact-

ed secretly by sunray lamps in mies for twenty private yachts.

their centrally-heated apart-

ments but the authentic glow

m1438.

Attractions

came from Florida. During the cold months. It was a society Florida's attractions besides warmth, parties and familiar Socialites fed from the bitter faces deep-sea fishing, hunt- winda which whipped along ing, horse and greyhound rac- the city sidewalks. With their ing, concerts, water sports and Frail poodles tucked under their. card shops. Entertainment pro-

migrated. Ingrammes are elaborately they ams hundreds to the "unshine state neda

millionaires winter Florida 15

axi the

playground. There, cafe society assembled and gossip columns

celebrities

fut having Trolle by the brisk blue ocean and the palm trees.

plan-

network of which cover waterways

3,805 square miles and include 30,- bubbled with the names of .000 lakes. The watery "ever- andglades" in the south form one of the most exotic spots if the people know their way in the west swampy labyrinth. Boating visitors are warned to take charts. Fitting on the water and in the trailing trees are are and

colourful birds. Wild white beaches are

lovely senttered with

sea shells. Red mangroves grow as high as 80 feet

Swanky hotels and night the States. Few clubs, did a booming business. Millionaires new extravagant parties for friend in the me of sweet charity. Sectal gatherings wore atended by the Puke and Deness at Waldror, Hollywood Alm stars. the giantcrcus, the wealthy and the hangers-on.

Gold Coast

The swamps are dotted with little islands of sawgrass And tropical trees, clumps of pines, papaya and wild rubber and salt prairies. In the waters are

fish, alligators,

OC-

Eatches of little businessiner Focodiles, and in the

took off for Florida tho-10 do business with 35 many tycocks and relaxing executives the luxurious

is they could find softened by"

winter sunshine. Along the "gold Miami and Miami Beach Lake best 20

the very pose. the till of her head, and the richness of the The Royal Tour undoubtedly Garter robes I tried to convey brought Britaia into closer and all the regal majesty and dignity more sympathetic contact with of the Throne. But that was the Commonwealth and Empire not all the picture had to show. Furthermore through news I wanted to capture in her the papers,

television, and spirit of youth. It had to Glans, razio, it brought those countries

of a beautiful portrait, too. closer to us.

young woman.”

I wonder if it is not just Her Majesty's personal qualities that affect us. but the realisa- tion that we of Britain and the Commonwealth have preserved our security and our freedom throughout the centuries under

To see the Queen acclaimed

A great deal is written about royal government.

over the world, to see her the Queen's all..

"private life" that When we look at the Queen agaist the splendor of moun is unworthy: the Reyal Family we $60, in

the tain, desert and prairie, of new is subjected to torrents of sent- fact, Sovereign who.

changing cities and rich farmlands, all mental inaccuracy, indeed sheer

her human form, has guided and within personal domain. Action. guarded our affairs for 900 years, was. to realise more vividly ever before how vast is assessment of the two the family to which we belong

Any

in

"than

I have attended scores, per- royal years since the Coronation and how important to the pra haps hundreds of royal and must give pride of place to the and prosperity of the world. State occasiors in my capacity Commonwealth Tour.

magni-

15 a commentator, I have struggled as many times to find.

the right words to describe the

ficent in conception and unique

in its compass, for never before ROLE IN

bad

true meaning of the Sovereign cumnavishing Sovereign cir- THE FUTURE

to the nation.

Her very exister.ce is a guarantee cl strength and solidarity, not just to us at home but to the several separate

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beth tried twice to start the

long journey as a Princess, being prevented Arst by her father's illness and second by his sudden death.

When finally she reached the Commonwealth peoples she was Queen, and Queen of each country in which she stayed.

THINK there is no secret in the fact that the unparalleled success of the Tour led to dis-

hunting

undergrowth bears and snakes

In this strange

region live 650 Seminole Indians in quaint straw huts, called "chickees." ecust, They support themselves. inde-

pendently fishing, visitors of the gold and polling most

about the water resoris. Miami has spinning

canoes. wilderness in shallow seven miles of ocean beach. It

These Indians waged, a feren has a special following of old

winter and relentless war against the people, who sit out th in the sun year after year and whites early in the 1800s... trail northwards with esminst of spring like birds.

tape

migrant

News Miami sitraction B a $1,250,000 aquarium am The truth is that Her Majesty❘ merhead sharks, sailfish and has lite or no private life as other ocean creatures wallow we know it. She carries a per-deus of Occos water is channels through which petual "responsibility to which she had dedicated herself.

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Their War

A group took refuge in the Everglades and refused to re

ognise the United States Gov- crmment, Until recently-until tourists penetrated their terri- tery-they lived undisturbed. Shortly after the United States

declared war so, they

the "playboy.

did

Hitler as a separate nation.

Florida,

But

pumped per minute. (Celebrities we admire her devotion it is can go deep-sea fishing them our duty to see

a day,) to it that the selves for $40 to $60 a few moments of privacy left to

Miami Beach

is claimed to be state", is growing up. Industry the world's hotel

its her are respected.

is moving in among the hotels. capital eight square miles provide 29,- Huge new housing estates are hotel rooms. was de going up for workers, and

from

of Americans are unknown thousands

swamp, moving south to live all year-

000

Particularly is this necessary

of veloped

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It

the case of the Duke village in a mangrove kussions about the future role Cornwall and Princess Anne. Millionaire Carl G. Fisher spent in the balmy sunshine.

that Her Majesty may play as Charles and Anne shall not be The Queen has asked that Queen of so much of the earth's treated yet with the formality surface,

due to royaltya request which SHOTGUNS GUARD

This she made clear when she

It will not be long surely, be- may be construed as a mother's opened the Australian Federal fore the speed and comfort of desire that her children should Parliament, addressing it "not air travel will make it possible not be spoiled. as a Queen from far away but for her to have a home in each

as your Queen and part of your of the Commonwealth countries HELP AND Parliament."

•

EACH IS INDEPENDENT

(and, perhaps, within the Colonial Empire

also)

which INSPIRATION

she can visit regularly. It will

be our loss, but knowing the full

to

It would

DIAMOND MAKERS

From RICHARD KILIAN

cal,"

THIS much we can do to lighten meaning of the Queen's presence the Queen's burden andi

New York, that its research laboratories with us, we can hardly begrudge

a had created diamonds--but pro-, v her to maintain the TWO selentists, working in

between her THE "Australian Prime Minister the other members of the family to help

barn on an isolated farm duction costs were uneconomie; THE

life as the Sovereign and her near New York are making At Spring Lake Dr Tamarkiza and well-being life as a wife and mother. had the same thought in their share of the comfort and delicate balance

sense of pride mind

in his speech at Can- that she brings.

diamonds cheaply by chemical and Mr Vilella said their pro berra: "The moving truth

be a practical way process, And they never move cess is already "highly economi tonight has nothing to do with Second only to her outstand-

service high pomp or regal splendour ing

to the Common- of expressing our gratitude to far from their gems,

her for all that she has done

Rifles and shotguns are loaded Who are these ment it is quite simply that you are wealth in the past two years 1

in the two years since she took in your own country and among would put the success with

the Oath and signed her con-night the barn is lit up by flood-came to the U.S. from Paris and ready for instant action. At

DR TOMARKIN—he is 59 your own people,"

which Her "Majesty has com- bined the roles of Queen and tract with us. nother

She has contrived to We

in 1940 to organise a scientifia leave it, perhaps, lights to discourage intruders. We at home are apt to lake

may her arduous

that master of simple, for granted the co- fulf

For the two men-Dr Leandro congress. He stayed on, too much

programme 19 operation of ne

Sir Winston Tomarkin, from Switzerland, and forthright speech, Common- of

too (often far of engagement

MR VILELLA is a graduate wealth, We must realise that arduous) and her daily work on Churchill, to sum up all that we Marlo Vilella, from Puerto Rico of San Juan University Puerto the days have gone when documents

-have worked out the formula and State papers feel, in the words which he used

making diamonds from Britain laid down a course of while still remaining a young when addressing the Queen at for

dinner at No. 10.

They met, discussed their action, confident that the Empire unspoiled woman and a devoted his farewell

ordinary carbon, Downing o

Street:

ideas, raised some money, and " countries would follow suit au- parent.

should like to ex- The success of the new, pro- bought the farm at Spring tomatically.

cess is the result of five years' Lake, One of the Ginest royal por press the deep and lively sense the hard fact is that traits ever painted that by of gratitude which we and all work

at the Today

farm at Spring They installed 3 300-ton each

hydraulic

which of the Com Annigeni (and 1 country

am insular your peoples feel to you and to Lake,

press

gayd The secret can be revealed them the high pressures needed monwealth is an entirely inde enough to wish that we had not His Royal Highness the Duke of

Tomarkin and Mrs much because Dr tree pendent unit,

to follow been forced to go to Italy for a Edinburgh, for all the help and

350,000kb. a we receive in our Vella have been granted policies, it it so desires, that work of such calibre), has cap- inspiration

square inch, and which spreads conflict with ours, to form tured this combination of youth daily lives,

They heated the materials WEL alliances and enter treaties with- and dignity."

growing strength patent, Now they are planning

necessary by electricity-as high realm to move into larger quarters, throughout

the British out reference to us.

They are not the first to pro as 6,000 degrees Fahrenheitin The young Queen, in her and the Commonwealth and

duce diamonds-an international a small, aluminium cylinder, · Each is strong, wealthy, and Garter robes, gazes steadfastly. Empire."

sign of wealth-in a laboratory. And after years of patient, immensely proud of its indie- proudly into the future, the

SATURDAY: THE Last February the General lonely, and devoted work they pendence. Yet each acknow- symbol, as the artist said, of the NEXT

CHALLENGE TO THE DUKE Electric Company announced produced a real diamond ledges gladly the one link that new Elizabethan Age.

*

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

“Madam.

·THAT WASN'T ACCIDENTAL! ALEZNA PLANTED THE THOUGHT IN YOUR MIND-~|

WITH TELEPATHY.

SHE

HADN'T THOUGHT OF ALEENA

THAT'S WHY

CAN M THAT?

YOU OPENED

-HOW STRANGE! MANDRAKE

FOR YEARS. IT ALL

STARTED WHEN 1

PICKED UP THIS ALBUM WITH HER PHOTO IN IT.

THE ALBUM.

ever

SHE CAN DO ALMOST ANYTHING! SHE HAS VAST

POWERS BUT I LOVE HER **AND WANT HER, TO LOVE ME.

By Lee Falk, and Phil Davis

SHE WONT, UNLESS WE CAN MAKE

HER FORGET MANDRAKE. THAT'S WHY E

CAME BACK, UNKNOWN TO

HER, WONT

YOU TO HELP MEI

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