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WHISPER CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUSSEIN
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DANGEROUS slump threatens the young King Hussein's newly- acquired popularity, the bazaars, in mosques everywhere, in fact where meet -- Saudi-paid ugitators are busy question- ing whether the King's re Inval of General Glubb from command of the Arub Legion was not just a clever stratagem worked out with the "cunning British."
They criticise the King for his refusal to attend the Camo con-
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Jerence with the three Western Arab alates They at- tek hun bitterly for meeing the "Bish olive" Nuri Said,
Weswan Premits of Iraq, DECE desert rendezvous with his cousin King Feisul.
Above all, they are trying to rakse popular feeling agalist him for hus refusal to accept prof- feyva tauteui and from Egypt
Saudi-Aruba in place of De Brillat subady.
Fantastic ruitiirs are going around that the Secretary of the Arab League, Anand Shuketsi, now as Anuman, has brought with hin an offer of £15,000,000
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year for 20 years, and that the Kang turned it down because he
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Britain and Iraq.
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nouncements.
11121 stuled that King Tuzem wouki startly gang of a tour of Arab capitals,
The list TEANIA THAT
(wo slugs would be Nasser, capitar, tato and Kala saud's capital, Hiyad. The steam was a long policy declaration by Prazer Samar the Jordanian that the King determined on a
of Arab punlay utily. and means to keep free of a Martialerul commitment either of the two camps inly when the Arab world now Sub-Nasser's neutralst
graj Vi Null's anti-Communist Bagh- 4. 11,
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Jordan is commilled by sung_military alliance to Iraq and Britain, so whether she Kutnally joins it or not she is 101 the Baghdad Pact as long as she doesn't repudiato those alliances.
Arub uid? Delighted ceive any and every aid which her Arab brethren may like tu give, always providing, of course, hat it is additional to the ald from Britain and not intended to replace it.
KNOWN POLICY
And so the Government state- ment goes on, explaining once
inine the main points
of the King's and Government's known policy.
Will the King's proposed tour and so far it's nothing nwro than
proposal-and A
the Cabinet's declaration achieve their object In the face of the new flood of underground polit cal warfare let loose against him
Irum Calro?
A lot depents on the Army.
now that he himself has
And
got rid of that old trusted
guarantor of the Army's loyalty. General Glubb, it i
is Impossible
prodlet the Army's reaction
to
with
the
same certainty we could only a few weeks ago.
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All right, MacBurger. I'M watching the senior typist's room'
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THIS CINDERELLA HAD NO FAIRY GODMOTHER
THE POT-GIRL
T
WHO BECAME
AN EMPRESS
Moscow. The male prisoners wire port Los work as com- nam labourers, herded about in a sort of mobile come tration camp, never to meet their women-ofic agam. The women
appro- priated by Russians of all ranks, to be swapped, sold or bargained for.
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His fits of royal rage were a
General Sheremetier wopt HERE are still girls who cherish the hope of meeting a dashing young prince. Though today such dres MAY ht modified slightly to nccept the pussi bilay of someone not of the blood royal. someone with perhaps just a little loss than a million in the bank. Even so, the basic Cinderella dream persists.
at his loss as Menshikov creasing. Clearly something had be done: for when Peter consolidated his
victory by become really angry und putting Martha into a car- his eyes began to roll-then ringe and heading straight heads were likely to follow suit.
No celfies for home.
decided Moushikov.
10 100 great,
were
Martha Lound herself
the pro- perty of another sergeant, whu
The original "Cinders," finally Hold her unloved daughter of a baron, for rouble to rose to fame and fortune by his
commanding
this is no
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old
way of a fairy-golinother's general, wand. But Russia (and war horse of a neo-Marxist in nobleman, Shere. vention) can boost of a girl metiev, Дн his who far outshone Cinderella housekeeper
she and all without so much found herself once as a transmogrifed pump-
more in the kin.
kitchen. But the general was it IL old man. One day he was visited by Menshikov,
one
Martha the pot-girl. born in a Lithuanian peasant's hovel, became the first Em- press that ever ruled over who was not only Russia. To the end she re- iL prince (an mained almost illiterate and upstart one to be without political ambition; sure, for he began yet she was prodigiously life selling ples) extravagant, ancommonly but one of Peter shrewd and constantly good the Great's most influential matured.
No Magic Wands
MA MARTHA Skavronskaya, born in 1683, was or- phaned within a few years and taken into the family of Pastor Gluck, Protestant superintendent of the Marienborg district of East Prussia. There she learned to scrub floors, polish furni-
drudge deprived of any form of education, or love,
ndvisers.
Catherine I
of Russia
Prince Menshikov was 'de- lighted with his
new dis- covery. Not only did she decorate his home, entertain
One of the World's Strangest Stories
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She accompanied him on most of his campaigns and was with him at the fateful meeting with. the Turks at Pruth when his completely cutnum- ury Was bered. Catherine is reputed to have bought their freedom with enriloads of her personal jewel-.
jery.
Martha finally became Cathe- rine after the birth of her first child. Sho was re-baptised into the Orthodox Church and her step-son Alexis (Peter's her) stood sponsor. Finally, in Feu ruary 1711, with Eudoxia safely out
'the way, Peter and Catherine were officially marrica in St. Petersburg amid wild, bacchanalion eclebrations. By that time Catherine had borne him two daughters (Azna 1700; Elizabeth in 1709) and twe suns who died at birth.
A Play-actress
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1717 Enter and Catherine visited Germany, and there
Wilhelmina, Slying he broached the sub- nine-year-old
Mons and her sister of Frederiek the Great, Ject of Annu
precociously in her diary: abrupt departure, leading on to wro the subject of Martha's charms. “Tho Tsaritsa was a little stumpy Finally Peter asked to see the body, very brown, and hoch ziri whose pamo was now a neither air for grace; you only twusehold word wherever vodka needed to look at her to guess towed.
her low extraction.
Peter the Great was sitting in
an armchair in front of a roar
trace of shy-
"With her huddle of clothes she looked for all the world in Ore when she
came Jike a German play-bctress; her
in straight from the kitchens and dress you would have said had
མས stood before her ruler in, her been bought at 4 second-hand apron. Without a
shop: all was out of fushion, act ness she recounted her life story with very pour little diamonds, while the flashing ad her eyes of the smallest possible cost and and her dark, shining hair cast very ill memted....All along a spell over Peter- und gibute the facing of her gown were over Menshikov.
little things of metal;
a diezen Orders and as many portraits of The glasses were refilled time Salate, od relics and the ilke, and again. Night drew on. Peter so that when she walked it was stood up and yawned. "I'm with a jingling, as if you heard going to bed," he said. He turn- n mulo with belts to its harnesa. ed to the girl and spoke the The Tsur, on the other hand, casual words which were to was very tall and might be call- change the ocurso of history: ed handsome," "Take the candle and show me the way."
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Bogus Marriage
Martha- now nicknamed Catherine-became Mistress
shared her
both Peter some time
In 1722, by imperial ulcase, Peter proclaimed that the next sovereign should be whichever person he named as his succes- For, Obviously he was paying the way for Catherine over on his death,
to take
of Russia. But, oddly enough, she
Two years later, on May 7, nifection between
Was crowned and Menshiitor for 174, Catherine
mt Empresa-Consort in the Uspen and neither seemed
Cathedral in Moscow. She sky to mind. Ultimately, of course, travelled in a gilded, carriage the situation became intolerable and wore a crown studded with
it was ridiculous that the Arst 2,584, jewels, topped by a ruby
minister should have a
upon his masta's dévourite,
call
the size of a pigeon's cgd....A far ery, indeed from the kitchens
So Peter the Great gently re- of Frau Gluck at Marienburg. minded his friend that he was
his
ed Russian noblemen.
Not Faithful
But I can say that in all the political conversations I have ad with Army officers during the last few days, both Amenan and up along the laraeli frontier, 1 have found them un equivocal in
hardly doing the right thing by. in their support both of the King and his policies.
fiancee, Darin Arsenieva, Meanwhile,
Menshikov took the hint and understand Sir
Unwisely, Shoromotiev be his friends, but sho helped married Daria carly the Anthony Eden has changed his
follow- mind about recalling those 15 ture and run errands a gan boasting about his to increase Menshikov's own ing year. Peter attended the PETER the Great was not total- Arab Legion officers. The only
Martha - "so lively, officers being recalled to Britain
so prestige. But that was not wedding with Catherine, whose ly faithful to his wife-and
position was already arousing
Catherine hemelf was no better. merry, like fire. A girl in a the end of Martha's pro- the ire of the more oll-fashion- Her chief adviser and confidant now I gather, are the original
thousand." eight unit commandeis, who were
was one William Mons brother They The years went by and, of deprived of their commands by
objected to her not on moral of the discarded Anm. the King during the first 24
course, there were no magic Sho was sent for and
Peter the Great, the in-grounds but because she Waa In 1724 Peter was in one of houri following his sacking of wands, no glass slippers for Menshikov recalled Inter: credible ruler of Russia who both a nobody and a foreigner, bis, rages and vented it on General Glubb.
Martha though she grew up "I was taken with her from, tried so hard to emulate the
But Catherine was having a Mons. Ho want to the block and with a pretty face and an the start: not that she were milltary feats of Genghis remarkable effect on Peter. Only Peter, suspecting that he had enviable figure duly resented some kind of
painted Khan; was at best a difficult she could curb him in his violent been Catherine's lover, thought by the "ugly sisters" of the beauty, but pleasant, with a man, Menshikov, his trusted
a`nico touch to bava Mons' Va and keep him COM- it. family,
ringing voice, bright eyes hireling, know that all was
And it seems that the head pickled, placed in a glumi bla wito's in love with Beter, jar and act on and curly locks. Then he not well. Peter had turned Tenisully, he was not free to mantelpiece; But it was no shining kissed her. "That kiss burnt out his latest mistress, marry her,
wife, since his
Bub the end was in sight, Qn prince who whisked Martha me, I couldn't think of any Anna Mons (for being un Eudoxie, was will very much the afternoon of January 27, out of her latchen. Johan thing else, My blood raced faithful), but he Svendsen was a sergeant in in my veins."
was still. impediment is but temporary for writing materials and at 120, Petar lay dying. Ho called unhappy.
banished Rudosia to tempted to write a will, but feli vent for life and procialmed into a coma. At two the next a and it was Inevitable, per- hops, that he should mooto
morning Catherine closed his bg sent out who havò not 'didn't. ́· hat:`, within six step up the Indder of society. Martha on one of his periodic
had, in duct secretly eyes for; tio list timo,
undignised *** experience,
burg in 1700, only a few months wits) public desimation Calhare After Medoblikova Wedding. The trial period of this bogus, anar appointed Hage lasted for five years, d. the fist ever to rule (RÍA,
AS INSTRUCTORS
For the remainder, all the British Government is insisting
on now is that none of them aro
to hold an executive command in the Legion in future. If it can
is to be purely that of advisers
be arranged that their function
and Instructors, they will be
Mind you,
Jemain-ik they the
allowed choose to
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for ever
ever mild
Swedish Dragoons. Martha was an immaturo
The moment had come for
ever. Only until fresh officers 18. And the marringe Martha to trike another big
can
was
but for a Tour, such an
boon trough the unpleasant and months her sergeant had "Give me that girl," Mon visits to the home of Prince married Catherine in St Peters yoshikov nited, swiftly and }
was a British officer a falò during
which fled before the invading
• Memalilloy. It happened in 17 shikov commanded. You de iberesbouts, whom - Mar can have my palace, my last was a voluptuous 23. The dorsti
the arly hours of the Club Russian Army....
drome who they were confined. under-nervatumasESPANDI Martha was taken pri- shirt ... You cantamburare: boerted ampwor WW Ling #in"KWhluk: Peter Doula bava di
quarpellingsoner with thousands of her And, Fender bu athu dhe caktimi
fellow poor
ma 'to “who
KRO other divilians and joined, have a wife and childrens
in the long march back to like ?htud of you BA
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