1956-05-19 — Page 5

The Truth

About A Royal Gift

By Peter Nelson

London

NONTRARY to reports

the Queen did NOT give | any personal gifts to the Russian leaders, Marshal Bulganin and Mr Kruschev.

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She gave water-colour paintings front the Royal collection to Sir William Hayter. British Ambassador in Moscow, to present to Bulgunin and Kruschev for Marshal Yorushilov, Chairman uf the Praesidium Supreme Soviet.

the

Three of the paintings (all of which Were mid-nineteenth

century) were

of the Kreinlin.

und the Trent of The old St Petersburg Painces.

uple in Britain for whom equestriana mailers hold an up- pend are to have a chance UT pering ther Cosenek harness which came with the Russiany horses presented to the Queen, The burness is now in the Royal Mewn 02294

Now Royal

harms .Il te made tur The bruses, and will embody the in- Cut The Crown.

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It will be a "twin" to the Queen's, but the Duke will wear the robes of the Qader of 1 Talalle

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don't claim to know so much about Freud

but I do know

a lot about ME...!

There will be those, of course, who say that what follows reflects sadly upon the shallowness of the writer.. but for how many also will it touch a chord of sneaking sympathy?

A

A self-analysis.

by Eve Perrick

igare.

LOT of fuss is being one Freudian theory I refuse to made about Freud this necept is this:--

That to get to know your.cif week

you need third person ferably professional psycho- analyst to do the introducing.

Tve been living with myself for 30-odd

yours toxid

COVLT- #gure I've wish

bes

to mention here and not in any way describing my behaviour patterns). Ity now I can read he like a book.

f

You know the name, or Freud, course-gmund The Great Father Symbol tthat's une of his too) arteri “ the psycho-analysis, whose cen-

fenary

being 18 Duke will memorated by nightly B.B.C. "face" the Queen, and it e green Thulle bes will t blended programmes, special lecture

tila

Figuratively,

a typical Anangou blue sky. The sua will be included in the background, but the famous 1:the- Ammuget pre neck,' embodied in some

tra stetek

sessions.

com-

And, Inevitably, the placing of a place on the house in small detail, Hompstead (where fine?) in

TALE OF TRAVEL

The late Queen Mary. {ind exhibitions, and 1 am sure that the Prom Borse to Helicopter" exhibition to be held in July at Marlborough House. her old

home, would have delighted her.

Some of the finest models

siu

aircraft, azud carriages will be on show. Under the

ebairmanship of the Marchioness of Northampton, the exhibition, witch will also be something of a garden fele, is in aid of the Royal College of Nursing.

COOPYRIGHT)

THE

which he lived from the time of his sempe from the Nazis until his death 17 years ago.

Freud deserves to be おむ

homuured Take away the clap-

I can stand outside of myself, quite dispasstonulely observing myself at work and at play sometimes applauding, often deploring, but knowing full well what I'm doing, why I'm doing it and usually how I'm doing

1.

HORROR!

trap, the mumbo-jumbo, the NEED no trained specialist to double-talk surrounding bis name, caused in the main part ne

everyday routifies of growing up.

What,

for instance, would Freud have made of this incident which occurred during those

tender years from age nought to seven, which he or, his followers, declare to be the crucial ones?

Picture it for yourselves, and recoil in horror.

pening after all these years your proves Freud right. It has had un effect on your life."

own,

even

though he docan't look like Gregory Peck,

THAT women would rather be presented with the cures for their blues than the causes any dayand Freud admitted he didn't know the answers.

"And nonsense, say. I can remember perfectly every little thing that happened to me since I was two and a half years old. I can recall how 1 felt about And for the case-books them at the time. What is the present-day payche-healors, more I no longer have to blush pass on this example of ex- about

them.

I can laugh at perienced frustration. It emerg-

of

them and inyoelt because I've ed not from learned tomes mor to you at 27, or even at 17, has Just found out that what happens deep down clinical research; something I came up far more influence on you than against when I was in Monte what happened at seven. Carlo recently.

Frustration carried to utterest can best be exemplified by the combination of

with

a story to dictate with a telephone

I BELIEVE

the

A

is between those milestones, after all that you're most rigidly fixed to the wall which likely to start a job, meet the ke

keeps on breaking down and on man you're going to marry, have which there is nothing whatever a child, and finally learn some to figgle up and down.

sens

•

crowded hall fled with schoolgirls and their parents, a small child in uniform which Learn too that success or reveals an Inelegant gap be- failure, or a little of each, de- tween lunke hem and stocking pends on you alone and not on top (I was always too long in anything your father said to the leg) stepping on to the your mother in your hearing, platform to receive her prize if not understanding,

when you from the Important Personage were six months old, there,

Froud and

his thousandfold The headmistress, saying as followers can count me out of she does so, in tonen loud and the running. I'll back CX- elear betore the whole; perience against the subconscious assembled school: "And this, my urge any day. lord, is the little girl I was

I don't believe that the way

probe into my psyche to tell ifing you about who can't blow I behaves now was decreed by

the

subconscious causes

her nose,”

by his too-devoted disciples, which led me to take a certain and he is revealed as a kindly direction, And neither, do I Enough, the Freudians would soul trying

to help humanity think, does anybody cise in his

eny, to give a child a complex by excusing or at least, ex- normal senses.

for life. Enough to make her planing their sins. Which is a Because, according to Freud, sub-consciously shudder at the comforting thought and one I'll mine was one of those child- sight of o handkerchief and to thing dec-n't get out of hond. go along with providing the

hods fraught with the then hate for ever after all the could blow their hidden dangers of misunder- people who But that's as far as

standings, lover-and-hate rela- noseS From there on Froud and I tionships, Oodipus conplexes, "Aha," you say. "The fact

our separate ways. For jealousies, and the rest of the that you remember that hap

travel

KD

U MAN HIMSELF

By

IT has got about that this "U" thing - this immense craze for classifying everybody's speech

U (upper class) or Non-U (lower class)

Not sol-

is the literary child of Nancy Mitford. the father has been found; and here confesses.

THIS U business is 30

T

years old: it all began in 1926 when 49-year- old Professor Alan Ross, the Linguistics Professor at Birmingham University, was at Balliol College, Ox- ford.

"I was a nasty little cat in those days," he said. "And I of

went around making lists words people said that weren't

"U Such as calling 'Miss}" for

a barmaid in a pub.”

We were in a pub

He

at the

PROFESSOR ROBS!

Nancy Spain

the

me suppressed longing to shove my sister under a bus when I was five,

So much for me and Freud, So far as the Freudian con- ception of women in general la concerned, this I also know:-

THAT

a cession with a psychiatrist, even though he looks like Gregory Peck, is no lasting substitute for a man of

HE STARTED THE CRAZE AND HE'S KEEPING IT UP

.

The professor gravely gavo a calculating machine to work "It is simply the universal me a copy of "That Paper.” them out. The professor is all habit of philologists (lovers of He is tall (0ft 8in.), wears a day long at his calculator, work- words) to abbreviate to one or beard, glasses, blushes easily, ing out, for example, how often two letters the names of dialects likes Nancy Milford very much.

word "Ginger" occurs, to which they rofer. Thus OF "If she had had a proper educa- unchanged, in how many langu (Old English) is Anglo-Saxon, tion the might have made nges. (The answer is in 148 while BF scholar." He walks everywhers languages. There are, it seems, "Whatever does BF mean?" in Birmingham because his son, 10,000 languages,) We went into I asked, nged 23, has his Land-Rover in the universly for lunch. This "Baltic Fennie," said the Oxford.

was a large pile of buildings, professor, shortly. ""My son did his National something like St Pancras, D

TERRIBLY DANGEROUS Servico with the RAF. in rod brick. We mot his

colleagues, oold Canada."

And what does the professor the professor, quiet men, dressed in navy blue "And he

who hurried

Well, was one of the 10 suits,

nervously do with his spare time? accredited "Ử scholars who away. I asked the professor, as he has travelled in British 'votted my peper. My son tells we were eating roast beet and Honduras and Jamalen, making me that the U words I used in semolina pudding, who was the notes of speech. He has token a Land-Rover up very wild moun- 1920 in Balliol haven't altered most U person he know. at all since 1920,"

tains in Wales, And be has "Everyone wants to know explored thost of the rivers 60 THE LAST WORD

that." he said, with a;eigh. "In mice north-east of Narvik án This suggested that "U" was “U, you see, above á certain Norway, to prove that Others. a dying language, and I said level all people are equal, And, (bo Norte, see coptain) could 80, "Yes," said the professor, Incidentally, in that piece about have taken his long, Hight bonts highly delighted. "Certainly one doctors that Chapman Pincher across country that way.

"Like the Kon-Tiki" I said. of the really safe things in 'U' wrote in your paper I think he's is to remain perfacily allent."

An quite" "wrong, you know,

"Yes. And we too awful The man who knows the last doctors are Non-U,- Why, in because the Birmingham, Carfoe word in D has written at least Ireland, I know a house where Club want to do it now, and I'm 10 books with titles like "The the doctor, the butter, the priest, aure 41'e terribly dangerous," Terlinnas" and "BoermaS of and the vet are all received as But there, you know Others," "The Numeral Signe equals. And all call their host the prođomstor all over. of the Mohonjac-daro_Script" 'Sir!!

has this tremendous ennis- and The Lindisfarne Gospels”

when But the phrase 'U and Non-U, Jasm, And (Anglo-Saxon section).

knowing bas brought time to something there's no Apparently linguistic studies Birminghans

notanobtiali, where it will stop. are very pomplicated and need claims the professor.

(COPYRIGHT)

"TO' AB SAFE IN 'U........., RE SILENT! said

time, in Birmingham, and I watched to see what the pro- fesice would do,

strid nothing-Just Jingled his small change on the counter to attract attention. "I don't suggest" *vettod

paper. My son telis tention. don't suggest," said the professor, that I am the lost word · im Look, I wear (Very Non-U.)

U behaviour.

a sendi flag"

"All that I think I know is the exhaustive list of words in correct U usage. They are all in that peper that I publiation in Helsinki,

which

He

All I can say is that I suffered this and nothing Freud ever did or said or wrate could help me in my hour of need,

(COPYRIGHT)

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