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Soviet

To rxiune va Her policy towards Afghanistan one

ԱԼ look at the operations broadly called "cultural. And even these, though their direc- Un often seems clear enough, have been bettative. There is no Communist Party in Afghanistan, and the Russian hand has re- trained gloved.

One reas KTA for this caution has perhaps been the uncom- promising nature of the Afghans, the who in the early years of the Soviet State made themselves at times more to be feared that Intimidated.

Centra

Pamer dreams f It Asian Foderation which should estst Russlan expansion and preserve Islamic nationalities upholders in Kabul, and found

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as late as

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Afghanistan

The territory of the Soviet Republie

Tadzhikistan

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DON IDDON'S DIARY

BRAVE CHOICE, SAYS

THE NEW WORLD

but now is our f

and "Royn! heart- the New York one of our inval

New York, Tuesday, British, UST when it seemed friend:

saya break, that British prestige Daily News. was suffering and even savage critics. bi today Crown

sympathetic was showing worm and signs of tarnish, the bank.

decision of Princess

light noble Margaret has won the ad.

Most moving

VOTE -

princess and the handsome hero as principal players.

For wecku now American newspapers and magazines and their radio and television pro- grumes have been featuring. ut great length and in most minute detail, the story of the Princess and the pilot.

The entire country has been absorbed by the romance, and since King Edward abdi-

miration of all Americans THEN, perhaps most moving of not and all the Americas.

all, there is the tribute in cated hans the United States the New York Herald-Tribune: been RO fascinated, intrigued, Tinlay. of course. Princess

"It's a rare thing to see duty and, in some instances, obsessed Margaret is the most-discussed placed before happiness. Yet by a drama. Women 11 the New World. In

of But The Princess Margaret every house and omre. shop examples of happiness turning story har beened a fresher, and drug-store, the talk is of to dust and ashes simply became

without

is full the modern world

The Princess and her sherifler." at was pursued as um end in

self. selfishly and

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AmerN ire

an heed to an underlying duty and

to a larger good.

passple rend their

ceasing Soviet activity Mentio without exaggeration,

Afghanistan has not vecurred watay are overflowing without pa tesi from orthodox Muslims In April 1955, IE

D

the

I see the headings over alert from Kabul that Afghan festitorials in front of ine. "Lanes eligions Nedres had expressed For A Brave Young Lady." slys

Haily to King Zakh Shok their grave Heart's

Mirror concern over the Russian inflix.set to be so ferociously unli -

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more fragrant and sweeter tale than that of the Windsors.

Many people today were won-

how

and dering

the Duke Duchess feel as they hea Princess Margaret's decision.

No comment

THE Duke is in Paris;

of

the

Duchess is in her elaborate Bulle in Waldorf Towers, the luxury wing of the luxurious Waldorf-Astoria Hotel en Park Avenue,

sake? Can anyone dinist thei The Duchess, so far, has made Princess's individual lives everywhere will no comment on the be given a new purpose because decision. She has said to friends, Princes Margarel's brave however: "I admire her strength

and

and principled stand?

"The hard thing has been done-done with decency cicuiness, When much else This age hos been forgotten Princess Margaret's statement will live

a reminder that, after the horrors of two world wers and amid the moral dilemmas of the utomle age, the self-denying act of a single in- dividual could still stand supreme."

ONE

IS

. In detail

of character."

Sho herself ใHA enormous strength

but it of character: led her in a different direction. The Duchess's life today is de- dicated almost entirely to enter- talning and being entertained.

The Duchess is exquisitely groomed, a superb hostess, and moves with style and elegance from New York to Palm Beach, from Palm Beach to Paris, from forth Paris to the Riviera and then back to New York, and perhaps to Newport. She dominates her Her wardrobe Is glittering set. immcose, her cutsize impec-

NE American after another sald: "She's done the right

thing. It's better this way!"

Many New Yorkers feel that

cable.

Brooding silences

TISUALLY the Duke, a gentle,

silence, accompanies her on the many trips and to the many parties.

Group Captain Peter Townsend Joindly man now given to has also done the right thing brooding that his part in Princess Mar- garet's decision Was consider- able, and that he, too, chose duly.

The man who drove me work this morning said:

to

"Hey, Pete is this teller behind any good for car seats?"

London Express Service

THE RIDDLE OF MINOU DROUET

AN ORPHAN-GIRL DUNCE TURNS INTO A GENIUS

1

girl

of

By Ronald Pullen

An im- La Guerche, Brittany. poems and letters. NTO the life of this presario has offered £17,000 to

take Minou on a world tour. tiny Fronch village

her But, os Minou hugged has come an orphan white cat in the kitchen of her touched with the Brittany cottage, her foster- fire

genius. Her mother sald: "Minou just wants name is Minou Drouet and to stay here writing poems and

playing the piano. she la eight years old, She Minou plays has lived with foster-parents and dog instead of dolls. She since her Breton parents says: "Dolls are dead.". were drowned at sea' when she was a baby.

her

with her

cat

For it is life and action that fascinates Minou.

Insisted

The last composition she was Now, suddenly, Minou's

asked to write at school wis poetry and letters have about what she had seen on a Not all their lie is parties, made her the talk of France. class visit to meadow. receptions. golf for the Duke,

Hér musical, compositions Minou began: "I saw an 10 cards for the Duchess. They

earried

beast "I'm have tried and are trying have

with green free immense

hair. The beast had two fine glad to see all the nice things make themselves useful, and lessons from French concert curly cars, but teacher, who is being said about the Princess, It's a pity that the Duchesa's pianist Lucette Descaves. always short-sighted, but don't lot's forget Townsend.

от quarrel with Elsa Maxwell Ho suffered too, and he sacr the Duke's latest score at golf Minou Drouot;-

But this is the riddle of they were apple trees.". ficed a lot. They're both nice should be the usual news which

A year ago Tho Was the young people and a credit to

features them.

dunco the

of themselves and their country."

At least it's mate to say that Guerche de I've not som this attitule ex- pressed in any leaders or news the life, of Princess Margaret columns, but I think that now she has. made her decision paper driver, Joseph Photon, from the Will not follow the pattern of Bronx, was speaking for a lot of the Windsors,

his countrymen.

There was a danger, if she decided differently and

that married Peter Townacmi,

might have done.

Of course, the end of the find royal romance has saddened this country, which dearly loves la fairy story with a beautiful

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Of course, not everyone here is pleased with the decision, and

there are many who are critical

of the Archbishop of Canterbury and some members of the Royal Formily for "blocking" the match.

Strong_criticism

class at I Bretagne villaga

Hide-and-seek' school, near St Nazaire. Her Minou's own sight caused

WILD

Wan

when she school

report said her essays, grave anxiety especially, showed she was a six. An operation saved her backwant child.

from permanent blindness. foster inother

When Minou's

Julliard publisher

book Minou's

of disheartened by the report and launched she did not send Minou back poca and letters at a luncheon what to school. Instead 'Minou stay party, he asked Minou

at home writing on & slate, she would like most In the

world as a present.

Maracoa Branit

Two huge hunda colour of brown earth, amell of earth turned up by

animat

the coloured earth,

Acclaimed great Minou replied: "To play. hides

and-seek with you in the altar, written in shells, you, slate pootry inspired by What Minou wrote on her woods."-.

should have thoso words, her hands moving on the piano, slate, has been acclaimed by The busy

publisher up. 'Come; look, listen and

gave

and you Poetry like this French peats, ucademicians, his afternoon and complied. will find Me." and llorary magazincs as great The vllingo priest has found Says her foster mother; poetry.

Minou a dimcult parishioner. "Minou Is a mystery." TERE has been the strong ost

Says Pasteuır. Valery Radot, of Bba toki, him the church was When she saw a plano for criticis of the humbling the Trench Academy: "They too heavily ornamented and the first time in a friend's |way in which the Palace

the They are like · gave no idea of are pure art.

e greainees house, she sat down and made

· ad- Visors handled the drawn-out fresh water to our worn-out of God.

up a piece of music. Now she and delicate matter.

spirit.***

She told him: "You mult, goes to Paris for lessons-but bulld your church high, 01 the only once a month. rock overlooking the 200. t. And although she has a had not, much time a Dr

by' acizam. Madelaine bensud.. - Behind the suffer there must be piano, in the kitchen of her thought, for the part brzom? of 10 & lewding Paris, publikong has a huge window, opening, pet site" foules-mothora a tiny cottage

priated." a collection

Today, however, Ameriband Wem : 10, full of admiration that

Last week some of the poems were wed on the

frightening the silence, Two hands,

in which tes serpenta,

strangle trees,

and divide in t

two the world's forest,

like an overripe melon spitting out ite golden pips.