1956-06-30 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1956.

THIS IS THE DOORWAY ALL HOLLAND IS WATCHING

THE 'CONSULTING ROOM' OF JULIANA'S FAITH-HEALER GREET HOFMANS. THAT ONE-WINDOW DANCING SCHOOL NEXT DOOR TO THE BOSBOOM BÅR.

FLOCKS of cyclists wheel into a little

street in

For in this

street in the "Gor de Tong Dancing School," beside the Bosboom Bar, Greet Hofmans is "consulting." These pictures OUTSIDE were taken by cameraman Walter Bellamy. Now let's go INSIDE Below is the report of a Special China Mail Correspon- dent who went to "consult” Greet Holmans.

QUEUED

JL up for consultation with 61- year-old Greet Ifat.

mans,

The consultation with the Dutch faith-healer who has been trying to cure the

WHAT IT'S LIKE INSIDE

She ilted her hands unct

praying began

Th prayer Bested one minute

The Miss Hofman opened.

"We have eyes and safe-

partial blindness of Quren in conerntrate all ou lorecs Juliana's daughter, nine.

"Maybe the Brst results will

year-old Princess Marijke. he bail because we are eliminat lasts only a few minutes.

Just

Amsterdam's

busiest street, on the corne! of a tree-lined avenue al ing- side a ennal, I went into a arnell, clean cafe.

I ordered coffee at the counter.

A nurse came over and told me to finish my coffee and put out my cigarette before seeing Miss Hof-

mans.

Then I was told to leave the cafe and take the first door on

L

I found myself in the ante- room of a small ballet school

I went through the door and joined other patients sitting on

a red leather bench. At the end of the room there was a curtain hiding a small adjututing room

THROUGH THE CURTAIN

People of all ages and types were sitting waiting-simple working people and well-dressed men and women

My

turra

came 1

wetl

through the curtain und met the Jar-healer.

Miss Hofman was standing She in a tall, angulur

with silver-grey hair.

Woman

Her face

is pale but strong-willed. She has large, dark, penetrating eyes.

She asked me to sit down.

not the negative elements final

This man is hypersensitive. Mentally, he is in a dark corner. You come back to me on the

GREET HOFMANS

Arat Tuesday of next month and tell me how things are

I told har had not come for Then we will see. I will pray." myself but

on

behalf of

friend's husband who has had a

money

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THE GAY PRINCE

Sefton Delmer has known

Prince Bernhard of Vie Netherlands for more than 20 years. NOW, I a three-part assesment beginning today, le explains the dilemma of Bern- kard Amid the new Dutch royal crtula explains it only 11 personal

S

OME

AK friend cru.

Stockholm

of Prince

Bernhard's friends in Britain as well as in Holland are

vrilicising him.

They maintain that he should not have stayed on in Stockholm to watch the Olympic horsemanship trials while the faith.

She asked no mumes, look no

Vous breakdown,

As I teft I was given a slip "Does his wife wont him to of paper giving me an address healer crisis boiled get beltor MINS Holmans in Amsterdam. I have to write and crackled around naked.

there tu gel

"rotation my Bald "Ye" before umber for the next consulta fueen

throne.

I

couki Say Hofmans supped "Wait."

more

MES

lion.

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RAHMAN'S TERMS

FOR BASES

From RUSSELL SPURR

PREMIER Prince Abdul

Rahman told

mie

Kuala Lumpur that

Juliana's

"This is a serious crisis," one of them said to

Die "The prince ought to have flown right back to the palace at Soestdijk to deal with it."

Well, i certumly underestimate the crisis potential developments.

not

Bul I think the prince vla right to stay on stoically in Stockholm and stick to the which he flew schedule under himself back to Holland after- wards in his royal Dakolu

After all, he was in Stockholms

Britain would only get military bases in independent not just for his own pleasure Malaya if:

(1) The remaining British forces were grouped into a Commonwealth strategic reserve forbidden to support any SEATO operation:

(2) The troops were concentrated unobtrusively in special areas as not to look like "an army of occupation";

(8) They did not at any time interfere in Malaya's internal security; and

(4) They evacuated any barracks, airfields or training grounds the Malayan Government required on payment or replacement.

PRINCE BERNHARD JOKES WITH DELMER 1

FRON DELMER'S PERSONAL

ALBUM

BY

SEFTON DELMER

THIS IS THE TRUTH-BY HIS PERSONAL FRIEND

As ມ German-bum prince

pains which Princess Marijke is feeling in her blind loft esp. When these moods have told of the queen the is apt tọ fura her bitterness against the prince, his relatives and his friends.

For she has been accepting the explanation but forward by Miss Hofmans and those sup porting the falth bepler st Court.

Kive

This is Mus Hofmane fallura, to make good her promise and full sight to the littlo princess's cys to the lick, of Tuith in Mins Hofmans on the part of the "frivolous" princo and his "frivolous friends," In partieulor the prince's frivolous mother.

My information and the prince refuses to confirm, deny..! or even discurs is that the prince

his sido bitterly ments the unjust accusatioty constantly

being made against him and his friends. They are

110

accusations which he has been able to prove in all cases to be completely false and bareless,

Divorce? Don't

believe it

MORE than anything he is, I

Munderstand, deeply grieved

over the attacks on his mother

The American doctors break Bernhard is te one of the world's wealthiest

aware of the a few weeks ago. The queen But In no time at all the news to bim over 12 crowns

doctors' warning against sudden wos fu sing in the most molher- his genuineness, his love of glass of whisky....when he had disturbances, and aware of the ly fashion over Prince Bern- living, and the obviously sincere that particularly bad car crast need to keep the doclors warn hard, who, she insisted had a reciprocity which he shows for in 1837 he smashed, they telling to himself. He is aware of touch of flu. Juliana's devotion to him mut him, a vertebra. As progressive the rich good will it would bring

She was

be indignant that calcification of the body sets in his country and the crown If he the gossip and backbiting.

in the late forties

would neither have his tem- and carly were to be the first royal pilot perature taken nor do to bed. I Princes Armgard who not long nities of 24 man's life that to crush the sound barrier. He

could see no sign of strain ago Was received into the of the Netherlands leading hardening will one day close the usks only one question: "Is the hiween

the queen and her Roman Catholle Church, For his aircraft

pressurising completely elder daughters, but according almost a year now the prince's wound?"

has not visited her what I have heard from mother people who are in touch, they family at Soestdijk. President Kind:berger reas- are said

be taking their Presumably it is this reseni- sures him. Up goes Bernhard father's side most strongly ment over with fest pllot Joe Lynch in a

the "exiling" of his mothta that has mode the trainer F86.

Bernhard's sortie against the faith healer's circle bang

heard

all around

prince take the dramatic step refusing to celebrate his America. Three days later plot Joe crashes and is killed.

the Dutch in their fight against Hiter during the war is brother and cousins served in Hitler's Wehrmacht.

Bernhard

at one

Jumself

Priner' had

tune server Hitler's 5.9. (he was a proba- tioner In Hitler's motorised 5.5.)-a fact that he never

but as the top technical cou- altempted to huch up or hide. troller of the Equestrian Games by virtue of his presidency of the International Federation of Equitation.

Hero of the

Resistance

land.

It was widely reported in Hol- And yet with all these fantastic handicaps he not only wins tho confidence of

the Dutch in his loyalty, he becomes one of the heroes of the Dutch Resistance,

He becomes such a here that when the royal family return to Holland he has the greatest difficulty In restraining a de-

TOREOVER the 25 years mand

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badly

healed

Kap vertebrae and "snuff," that be the end.

But he will

not

talk

DERNHARD accepis

the ver

Is

But these problemz with which

prince" the "gay

bas

12

Not a shadow birthday this year at the palace

of trouble

E all the queen, the two ctcer daughters. and an played some Ameri recently records

A.D.C.

in

of

of Soestdijk.

Normally three to four hun- dred guests attend the prince's birthday gorden party at Soestdijk on Juno Invitations

29-

No

at all were bent out this time. Instead thers

B diet, accepts the order that been faced all through his life

to the nothing

anxiety he must give up his favourite re

ihe activities sports of ski-ing and show which

of faith Hofmans in her jumping, and not Indulge in any heater Greet pastime which could cause him influence with his queen are

a email party for the to fall or

prince at his mother's house, at receive a bump on

known to have caused him.

can

sent Warmelo attended the head.

by.. the only As an old friend I have tried over

Bernhard princessca and the prince's tricity discuss this

sub- Everyb:dy

in thes closest porsonal triends. Accord and the laughter bing to my feet with him.

But the prince Jokes

information. “Queen family and the Government. has shut up like a clam every though there W28 not tho

the Juliana refused to attend. timo,

Yot "simply cannot and lightest shadow of trouble.

But don't for thi roazen

He keeps the news entirely to himself, keeps it secret from his

specialist, who relieves his mind

Prince Joined

In London, two years later will not discuss it, on or off the that the daughters, particularly impending divorce.

there is no doubt that it is the believe these reports about " m M have known him--both be most from the Resistance that however, he sees a top British record," he says,

and gives him many more years. Miss Hofmons herself, I

From other sources, including their father In the fight against of life than the Americans. The been able to learn details which make the prince's anxieties and tension, for the time, is over.

the concern of the Cabinet and the Churches in Holland only too understandable. /'

fore and after his marriage to coup against the then Govern- Holland's Juliana-have given meni, me considerable. respect for the mature judgment of this young man whom the outside world

B

the

The mild, cigarette-smoking Malay prince, who is leading the rubber-rich Mainyan Federation

next year, to Independence Insisted that his countrymen would take nothing less

(Britain had already agrood to all but a few small points of

As man under a secret detail, and a mutual defence pact would be algned later this year.

menge of death from his In March of 1955 Prince Sidd Prince Abdul: “SEATO is a sore palm with my people. | knows only GS "The Gay doctors.

Six or seven years to Bernhard on D visit to There is a lot of opposition to it here. We do not want to enter Prince."

live is all that the American United States is invited by into anything which attaches us to some power bloc on

doctors of Washington's Walter President Kindiberger of the That cheerful American-style Reed hospital allowed him when North threshold of independence."

American Aircraft Hore was a man who took power a little over a year ago, "HI ["- with which he greets his he went there for a check-up in Corportion in Los Angeles to

friends, they easy, friendly man- 1052. who outwitted Communist terror leader Chin Peng.

That's the rame hospital take up one ner, and the ever-ready, mther in which President Elsenhower and fly

of their F80 jets high-pitched lough

barrier. shrewd perception of human is now being treated. fine appreciation of the dignity character and motives, plus a

of his position and its require- ments.

4

4:

节

EF

The bright, air-conditioned office was itself a sign of changed

times. A path led down to it through tennis courts of the old British Residency.

Among

cover

It through the sound

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

prinoce of

The lovely hilltop house is now Princo Abdul's official home.

all the The Malayan Premier was brutally frank. Malaya would nover join with unruly Singapore as long as he had any say in ruling houses I have met Prince the matter. He had enough trouble controlling the immigrant Bernhard is the most modern- Chinese population of Malaya without bringing Singaporo Chines minded, the most genuinely de-

ful words will be a borrbshell to Singapore politicians who hopefully preach union with the Federation.

Prince Abdul dimmimed them almost contemptuously, "My Malay party holds the balance of power in Singapore," That is why Singapore leaders roep coming to seek

ho said

my

The Communists? "As far as I am concerned, the rebellion is over. - We can gelling plenty of co-operation from the public. There is a change of heart all round.”

Politics? "I have more solid political backing than may other Prehler in Asia. Thit the last thing I want to be is a dicintor."*

· Problema” ""'I have none at all. I have to be careful in soolpst that all maces in Malaya, are kept posteful, and contented. But so far tato has been kind to me.”

mooralle, ante feld of human

in

at politient relations.

He has had to bo in order to

carry on successfully the dim-

cult situations in which life has placed him again and again.

Think of him in these situn- flons:

As a comparatively poor* young prince of Lippo- Blemlerfold, marrying the heires.

zlate at

Bilk-robed. Prince Abdul ant back smiling. I am a happy lie had about 415,000 in capital man, Whether things will go on this way of cours I chamot say!!

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atste play the” famitu Techanodika: MADLINE METU · méiltonatrén,

THAT'S THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE MAN PRINCESS HARDA LOVES,,

WHAT? A COMMONER-- ARAGTAIL MAGICIAN-A

TRICKSTER?

HMM-- IT SEEMS HE'S 'MORE THAN

THAT, HE'S VERY IMPORTANT

AND

Princess Beatrix, are backing

The royal family is the have the faith healor's circle.

comertone of family ure in deeply religious Holland, A Maybe the truth is that the divorce would be a body blow

forn between queen in

her at the whole nation: It. strong and powerful devotion to unthinkable. her husband and file-of depres sion and resentment, over the It is a strangely

fate conflicting tragic

of her Hittle picture that la revealed. daughter Marijke.

I cannot Imagine

These moods, from what Rappler or more devoted family than hear, have been occurring more that which I found at Soestdijk and more frequently of late, when I was invited there only possibly as a result of the new

-

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

· NOT IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO

WHAT

DOT SEND WORD TO

WILL

OUR AGENTS. TRY TO

KEEP ME FROM THIS THRONE

-YOU.

SCARE HIM OFF. IF

ELIMINATE? YOU MEAH- KILLT

DOT

THAT FAILS,

AND HARDA!

ELIMINATE

·HIM I ·

'ALL, I SAID WAS --ELIMINATE. LET THEM.

PIGURE IT

OUT,

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