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IT IS QUITE INADEQUATE TO CALL CONSTANCE ̃ ̃PAUL WOMAN GLOBE TROTTER NO. 1

The Woman Who

Can't

T

Stay Put

By MARGARET COWAN

IRED of the old "I don't just globe-trot," said routine? Interested in Constance to me in the compact Hilo mews house she had de- Timbuktu? Well, get

and herself. there says Constance Paul.

"I ou enough money to stop

investigate something in another Country.

things keep

All you need are guta, work for a while and go and curiosity and the courage to do what you really want— without waiting for the luppening to rme, football pools,

"And of course),

I didn't believe it. The fact

is that Constance Paul makes Doing just that has things happen to her. Sho

landed her a BBC contract strides out and takes those risks of six programmes about and lizards that you or 1 may her adventures, "Careering think twice about,

You can't label Miss Faul, or with Constance." Charming, put her in any grove, however vivacious. Sydney-born, she comfortable, for she refuses, in has been called Woman May there

A succnzstul architect, pamter, lecturer, it was Globe Trotter No. 1.

on one of her lecturing tours in Amerion that a chance meeting with photographer Ansell Adrens stimulated her interest in cine- photography.

A met madequate title, discovered, when I went to in- vouli,gate what this intriguing

worden had lone.

JOURNEY

£5 WAGER

By DUGAL SMITH

take

the

un

10

car.

their

*x-

erleket match in their honour.

Newbery

success

them taking

SPENT ALL HER MONEY

Promptly, between lecturo dates, she went off to Mexico to study Moyan sculptures.

"I spent all the money I had corned, bought a cine-camera

|ind started teaching mywelf-I wasted an awful lot of film and

made ghastly mistaken"

But she

she learned, and has been

a one-women camera unit over

since, chasing the things

thart

catch her interest in every part

海 the world. Rusia and

aya, Yugoslavia and Turkey.

and Egypt, America and

India and every part of

of Europe, From all these places she has

Camera,

01

para-

A week

Indian

entertainers street practised their acts in old vacant iots before going into the crowds: later, they motored the silver market did a

streamed Into Singapore-six months out business; people of London and the first "over-work, buying on the way breat land travellers.

fcsts of pineapple slices and The students returned by ship cocoznut.

brisic

น

London

The two expedition mechanics, trought back individual films. other day rolled two

and Noll, were the vivid and alive, for she has the

between of the day, desert and

quality of seving the heart of wicketstown seven stained cars;

tenaciously to her purpose. further there were to by

payments from

In those 11 including the Prime Minister'sn or village, and of sticking they pointed out,

-for i duck! them, six even more travel- ended in a bet:

"Take Albert Namatjira," sadd be two

one from each televised talks, and articles. years the twisting and danger- stained young men.

A few days later, they were Constance, showing me a lovely The Anal team chosen for the

road would have ous jungle of an epic university, and Arst home was was the enl

to be the winner

expedition, different from the been inundated by some of the rafely through the rebel areas canvas of purple hills and white-

the frontier river stocked sky. journey.

didn't work out flot༢༥yརྗ•པཾ

African squad, was: heaviest monsoon rains in the and forded

Into Slom

"I wanted to meet this abor)- And it was the fullinent of

like that.

It was quite likely, too, Twenty-nine-year-old Antony world.

Soon they were to face the gual painter from the Austra- a Hongkong

Brown. of 25 wager in

Barrington Two years ago, on what they

Cam- that the jungle would have re- nigh. club four years ago

called a "riai run," six students bridge, a scientist, who was to claimed many parts of the road. biggest barrier of all-and then bush, who has started our with his advanced But

civilisation from The Oxford

could hardly give last both

they universities left be the expedition's cumeraman:

For the next 100 miles there work. It took weeks of travel 23, of Their Nigol Newbery, Fur Eastern Expedition was back

Sed- up after travelling 8.000 miles, Alglers for Cape Town,

was no road at all. a year since they left roule

and seeking on camel and any almost

who so, through took

a powerful bergh, York, an economist,

armed with

They spent a week in Bangkok, other transport available, until I London, with a seemingly im-

was to be quartermaster and winch and speciul tanke for 50 sitte target but with tons of Algeria, across to Cairo, through Tanganyika,

Noll, 10.

ey Ethiopia, Kenya,

second mechante; Henry Southern 22, of Rugby, an agriculturist” gallons of petrol atted in each the capital, looking at maps and tracked him down, but it was.

They then worth it." questions. In that time they

+hovels,, crowbars asking confidence.

picks, Northern LET

decided that their best chance through

continued on molored

Sire was the first white Wöran have

who was to be first mechanic, and axes, they the Rhodesia, down to South Africa,

ric Adrian acroverland

way east from Calcutta, lay along a lonely timber track to go into an aboriginal reserve. right

This "Lrial" countries,

Cowell, 22, of Hong-

down which elephants had And this half-hour film Continent,

historian. the Eurasia.

dragged logs, or shape of a race, which the Ox- kong, Singapore-

India business

Constance led me to en pedition's team won. furd from London to

Reason the

manager;

The dißculties of the over- Luckily, the elephants had one of the longest Cambridge team met u truck probably

Pat Murphy, 25, of Chiswick, o

into "be land route who Reographer. economy runs on record and the travelling in the opposite dirte

of films, cutting apparatus, Burma were, done a good job and, although specially fitted little room, with Was ta

spools A they lost their way several

and similar first lime ruch

perilous

101 D

sharp corner of a a navigator, and 24-year-old Tim fortunately, not us hopeless

The one- timce, the team overcame this phernalia. of Cholera, u narrow road, swerved to avoid Slessor.

geogra- they had feared. Jenney has ended in succesI.

Rovers, T Lund two

πανι *Their

official Xouther of the lime military road through the obstacle in one long and tedious

st ran as a narrow

rrow day. The car

Newbery was pedition, painted light and dark blue for calliding with it and plunged

the on

through

The under universities, sonssaulted and landed on its only Oxford member, examina- their respective

44 frontiers

lons ruining the chances

Many of the bridges of growth. crossed

tarmac. desert,

other

candidates

that had long ago been washed away Journey

mountain

by monsoons, but it was then university. Shows, Whump and

Miraculously. there were no From London It wasn't easy going.

the Indla, a lo

dry scuson and

they Jungle

the They Injuries

was not

urge and the cür Often it was dangerous

the cara long way but a route which had managed

through

The <lamaged

selecting Using bern motored many times be- had to ford swift-loving rivers, severely

winch, an essential fore. own

the wobble over shaky bridges and their

students hod no narrowest stretches. Occasional- from Singapore to Calcutta, for,

by now,

had HID THEIR FACES the monsoOTI equipment, the difficulty, struggle through

car. its engine saturated. of their

averaging about 250

broken and a land journey back erd did stall midstream, but the

Romany gipsies in Skopjo, the through Burma's jungles was to East of India, how other team was always able

virtual impossibility.

in Macedonian capital, danced the Back in that knew

Koto in they winch it out,

sotin india, they completed the ex-

trousers, and This

the land of the pedition's other object of irriga-jewel-encrusted Jackets, atid tribesmen. From the experiences gather- jungle ronds onwards to Singa. Nagu

They had

tion research and for three peasant women on the Dalmatian had this

their last headhunting months worked in the cloudless coast hid their faces from the nover run, the students pare

been forced, made

raid in 1951.

ON camera. superheated plains planning the "blg although mudy had tried.

Hor Her Eventually, after several days Northern India, For a year before the

★ ★

of Uitle Up

through the historic treasures culled

from Singapore expedition

followed the ring rivers and slithering Was due to begin, they were

the muddy tracks, the Khyber Pass they climbed and lands,

arrived in Northern then across the rocky roads of

And the BBC serks? arronging visas, studying maps, distant but acknowledged roads two cars

to Istanbul for

Burma They stopped at A Afghanistan and The six students, five from

Persia inte got to make some money to pay Cambridge and ont from

the state of roads, and buying the first three months of their little town called Myitkyina and Turkey

and back across the for the next time my feet begin the Middle for the 400 miles had an ohmy Journey, through their equipment.

Aarrow Bosphorus to Europe, Oxford, have now proved con-

to itch!" said Constance. Most clusively that, except for the

dimcuit vise to obtain Eastern deserts und, finally, out escort to protect them from re- Their Arst call in England? "Why don't you come along,

the and the was Channel

plalas that for entry from the acros

of bels and bandits lurking in the English

Into a pub.

too? Anybody can do the same and

india until they hills Bosphorus, onc cun Journey south Info Burma.

and paddy fields who It was the Pakistan and Asia to first of its kind ever issued! arrived at Calcutta, across Europe

"shoot first and apologise after- Total cost, the students Singapore by land.

There they made further in- wards." £10,000. quiries and were told: estimated, would be

bulldozed through five days But large-scale sponsoring by A road was Arma whose products the ex- the jungle Into Burma

against down" operations, as ess the Japanese in 1944. It took pedition would need, and success

over

un vecasions.

muddy jungle rouds,

Hide,

400 ear, und Rinished in Cape Town Ing

from

ly close to bandit sings Auden's managed to righ; their miles a day and never exceed- (1) only six hours behind the Ox-ult be on their own, for the

they accomplish ford team. to

Aims of the expedition: To be the Arst

run, (2) to this eple overland study Irrigation skvelopment in ed

(3) to delve into and India,

then began effort." mineral advances in Burina,

London

"But," they wam. "toughen up before you tackle this trip. J's rugged."

It began four years ago in a Hongkong night club when two students, one from Oxford and were from Cambridge, arguing about the possibilities of such a trip. The argument

one

on

inquiring at

ever,

The students

embassies about. neros Europe

in securing television and sound a year to build, but since the

ly a

of

10 by

Wa9

Once they had to wait for while

"mopping

the

Burmese call them, went on,

The sludents spent a happy

radio contracts, film, article and ent of the war no one has used time in the town of Kengtung.

book rights, covered £8,000 of it,

Much easier to go by sea,

and

"Six pints of bifter, please." thing,”

DID

home 16 full

HENGOD you?

where they were the guests of

this for them. The remaining The students were dismayed, the local royal family, The

£2.000 they expect to recoup "But that was 11 years

中 MYSTERY OF

OF GRIGORY

風

5. CË MË POST OFFICES.

HỒNG KONG

KOWLOON,

TWO

who men

were

associated with the

Soviet Secret Police chief

Berta and in 1951 criticised

Krushchev's agricultural publicly dis

policy were

graced and removed from office in 1953. They were 60-year-old Mir Bagirov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Azerbaijan, and 56-year-old Grigory Artemivich Arutinov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia.

By MAURICE MANNING

Sixty-year-old Mir Bagirov, Chairman of the Azerbaijan Council of Ministers; and 50- year-old Grigory Artemivich Arulinov, First Becretary of The

Communist Armenian

Party, were publicly disgraced and removed from office in 1953. Bagirov war excouted

as a "tralior" in Apeli 1956. Nothing has been heard of Arulinov, but if he is stilt alive It is probable that he will face trial shortly, Both men were close associates of Berla.

ago,'

young ruler even organised a

ARUTINOV

Party Secretary. in Azerbaijan for nearly 20 years.

Addressing the 15th Congress

of the Armenian Communist

did not conceal the fact that it Party in March 1951, Arutinov, was a sequel to the Beria affair.

It said specifically that Arutinov

up

his earistance.

career

relying obviously on Berta'g

confidenco, in, Arutinov that he Lanta

had failed to carry out Party Support, publicly denounced the to establish farm decrees which in July 1953 had proposal or agrogoroda which called for vigilance after the towns

Krushchev himself had sug- dismissal of Beria.

gested in January of that your. comrades" Like Bagirov, Arutinov bullt He accused

dis- and with Berin's of spreading Gins clear that Arutinov's days ridiculed the idea of and When Beria tell it orienting. Party activista; he farm factual ruler of Armenia towne, wero numbered. When be was hybrids," and said that they supreme Party chlef in Trans were more concerned with, thon with the real ro- Caucasia, Bería had shown such

for a, kolkhoz Bagirov was tried and

entrusted him (an Armenian) village.

Such • challenge to # member executed as a "traitor and

Tiflis, the of the Potiture was quite un- counter-revolutionary in miting terroristic nets against with the direction of the Parly

workers and officials, He was organisation in

precedented, and the fact that Arutinov April 1950. Arutinov will also accused of conspiring with Georgian capital...

́retained his `

post in liquidating threo

After the purge of "bourgeois caused a good deal of surprise probably be put on trial Berla

Party Secretarics la nationalista" în 1997, the Com- Severnl factors suggest that shortly, although nothing Azerbaijen.

die munist leaders in the Armenian Arutinov's herociation with has officially been heard of The carcors of Bagirov and republle were so badly depleted. Berin, lay behind his pubile him since December 1958, Arutinov have a certain that Beria considered Arutinov denunciation. Three long (and when he was relieved of his similarity. Both were Trans- to be the most suitable

passed since his downto41. post

considerable number of years. of the Armenian Communist trial, when it does take place, Bagitoy was accused of per- Arutinov, in fact, was Armenian Party His outstanding record will be but one more, mand secuting Innocent people, extort First Party Secretary from 1988, of longevity in this office was festations of the PIECES ing false confessions of counter until his downdall, The official beaten only by: Beria's other power that is still going, on

was the Soviet Union. revolutionery, crimes, and com- ennouncement off hlawdiegraca! protege, Bagirov,

Caucasian Party leaders: for: #', 'duto: for the First Story: fandi for him, anxious), years hâvo j

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