1956-09-29 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

1956.

Page

THE

William Hickey

COLUMN

THE PRINCESS TO

FILM TOUR WITH

P

HER OWN CAMERA

London. tamt Burney's houro in Carlton House Termee, within a short flight of Trafalgar Square.

RINCESS MAR. GARET, who set off on her four of East Africa last Friday, packed a cine camera as one of her most important items luggage.

of

all

She will herself film the highlights of the tour in colour. Her lady-in- waiting, Miss Iria Peake, will take pictures of Princess.

The pigeons perch on ornate Regency pillars,

10150 their families on the parquet floor of the former ballroom, scuttle in and ou, of blitzed bedrooms and cerynna qua beru.

Sir Dennistoun, who designed the R100 airdip and now lives in Belgravia, is happy about the Pigeons.

He told me: "The house was a invety puce while we were

We converted the hear

Enough film i being taken to make a 45-in nute picture-reel. This will be shown to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in ti private cinema at Bucking. ham Palace.

Ms Peake told me: "I hope I do better then on the Catal Icon

The only thur

wes Like An et, we photogr the homesta.ng of the Pri

at London Aupert. 1 10:44. edjur the foru, and it came t ar blur"

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NYE by WINSTON

WOULD you like to hear a

Churchli story?

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slove and bying path,

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Princes Morgere. Tid

THE MOUSE MAN

I WENT mouse-spotting at sin

exhibition

of paintings

کو نوٹ

her 48-year-old. Térence Cuneo, Ils

mother dil the evoking. The trademark is Queen and Princess Anne ladd

Most of the paintings showed

the picnic table and sel ut the men at work In pickel mills.

food

But always there was H mouse Fahnburgh in the picture. K!

RIVEN

The Duke

Ile wo- arrived hungly fried snuges, pouttoes and h coffee.

SOLDIER'S WIFE!

f

Mr Cuneo is best known for painting of the Mansion House lunch for the Queen after her Commonwealth tom.

Even in that there was a small Molise on the top table raising a tiny glass

Princess Margaret once spent 10 minules trying to find loyal mouse. She falled.

that

Said Mr Cuneo "A maker of Furniture used to carve a small mouse on all his pieces. I got the idea from him. Now al- ways Include the title fellow in "It's all my pictures."

MET Lady Templer us her husband, the Chief of the

Staf, Imperial General

was opening a "British Soldier" ex- hibition in Albemarle Street,

Sho

nursing Vas "slipped dise in the neck," the result of a taxi accident. She was wearing a chin support. She told me breezily: the latest thing in necklines. But don't ask me if it's comfort- able, or i'll as it's the acme of cosinesslike Hell"

I HEAR THAT....

ROCK 'N' ROLL

Werdet Corpurght by arrangement with the Manchester Quardian

Both the Korean and Indo-China settlements owe much to Menon's talking. But neither was, in fact, a solution. The principle of “peaceful

his stock

co-existence,"

in trade, cannot offor any solution. What, then, is on the Suez dispute? the impact of this man

there to make a

弦 there was

Night after night he set forth Menon was iron his Kubby

#peech; wherever single room

crowd

In Camden Town and wandered the streets, setting down his torp box wherevey the mood struck him.

In his incredibly ancient over- cout and his ult with frayed cuffs, he may have made, at det eight, a pathetic spectacle.

on

millions of Indians, who did not

even have enough to cal, on the 14 stree! corner, trupplags of diplomacy. No

Kaishna Menon stupped to doubt Nehru ordered him to do But Krishna Menon did not harangue them.

ubject.

His two most regular causes Library the St Pancras

were

He was certainly a saccess as and Indian indepen-gh Commissioner, yum dence. And he so combined them that the citizens of St Pancras, whom

provided TROUBLE he

became with more books, also champions of Indian indepen. dence.

But he espoused his various CIAISU-ranging from beller library services to the wicked- news of Hitler with a fervour

He might, however, have and conviction which made his remained 14 merely listeners somchow believe he curiosity, but for one thing.

SHOOTER

VEN the late King George VI found him a delightful con- local versationalist and was reported to have enjoyed fils visits immens- ly. The fow, matters of dispute between the British and Indion governments seemed to melt away before his cloquence.

There is no 1000rd of my problems actually having been solved. But nobody recrned very much to press their point after Krishna Menon had talk- w it to death.

THE MAN WHO

LOVES TO

TALK..... by Les Armour

T

HE success

of.

if himself controlled the future of you will, the failure the world.

HE full-length bronze statue

of Krishna Menon They listened spellbound, and is dependent almost many voted for him year after of Dame Margot Fonteyn by sculptor Maurice drew at

Lambert entirely on one fact he year even after he had split the Royal Academy-loves to talk and he would with the official Labour Porty. will go to Covent Garden Opern walk House In October. I have to with my head in the air." There's a soldier's wife!

She said she is looking for a hat to match the flesh-coloured plastic support: "It must b High becausa

POSH PIGEONS

It will probably be placed in But it will remain property

the of

Royal

the foyer. the Academy.

The Annigoni pointing TOW where do you think the

Morgot returned by Trafalgar Square pigeons the Academy last week to Dame go these nights? . I found out Margot's

home in Thurloe the other day.

Place, Kensington. It will hang the They live

elegant in

in the drawing-room. bombed-out chell of Sir Dennis-

I

(COPYRIGHT)

CHARACTER-CHANGE

AM

ON HOLIDAY

By SHIRLEY LOWE

about to go on

I never

at

do any painting home but I do quite a bit on holiday.”

fortnight's hoйday, holiday during which, 1

JOHN BETJEMAN, who had know I will go to bed early, get up early, cat enormous two weeks in Cornwall

breakfasts, go

"I play tennis, which usually for long bores ine. I window-shop, something. I wouldn't normally

EVELYN LAYE

walks, and go fishing.

tr

None of those things do I ké, dream of doing has not been

don't

It was, of course, not a very difficult job. The British Gov- ernment, which had granted India independence, was not in a mood to pick quarrels or even to try to intervene on matters like Kashmir, which were really its moral responsibility since they concerned the partition of India cffected by Britain.

13 he

Minister

days when in tho Back

Five years later, Krishna one indu Nehru was merely

Krishna Menon was called home to be Icader among many. Menon had championed. him Nehru's "Toving ambassador." without question.

Oficially,

such draws He led the India League in without Portfalo, Londen and, through it, in- no salary. Unofficially, he is

the same time, flucaced

of trouble-shooter-in-chief. rather

thousands talk than do any But few, at the

hed very much affection for Indian students who flocked to

He lives on his expense ac- thing else in the world.

him, and certainly none pitied London, He saw to it that they

no of count and charity. He has championa him. There was an arrogance went

And he stil urge for wealth. a tall, ascetie, starkly in his voice and in his words Nehru.

carries no money in his pocket. the arrogance of the intellectual who melancholy creature.

believes firmly thai ho

ho For the last four years knows infinitely more than his

has talker, talked, talked. audience.

The silent Krishna Menon is

But engage him in con- versation conversation on anything and he imme- diately melts. A great smile curves around his mouth; his vast, dark eyes to gleam.

homo

A FORCE

Both the Korean settlement THUS he was really a force in Meny, in fact,

feared him, THUS and he never became Mayor of of his recurrent feuds with the

India even though-because and the Indo-China settlement owe much to his efforts. But it St Pancras mainly because too British Labour party (mainly characteristic

of both that meny people feared he would over his occasional desires o they are not, in fact, solutions.

and begin become a local autocrat. He did form a und ed front with the Katana Menon

not take kindly to opposition.

British Communists) he never merely talked so long that the got beyond the borough counell, peales to the disputes, decided

to stand where they were,

The man is transformed. He exudes char.n. The listener is almost unable to resist the conclusion that whatever is being talked about must be the most im-

portant thing in the world, and Krishna Menon has do voted his entire life to mas tering every possible aspect of it.

SPELLBOUND

mind difficult to match among Certainly, he had and has a contemporary politicians.

FIRST LOVE

In 1947, when Nehru tople over India, Krishna Menon bo- came his country's first High Commissioner to Britain.

othera

THE TECHNIQUE

His friends and followers THE principle of "peaceful co-existence" is, in fact, his much because HIS father was a lawyer in gasped--not so

they were surprised at his sale item of international trade. Malabar and he set out to sudden elevation as because they It never offers any solution. It follow in his footsteps. He studied

were surprised at the way he merely requires that, right Presidency the

reacted to it.

wrong, all parties to any dis School of Economies and. Law

pute ought to stand their Madras

He bought a fleet

of ground, graduation, worked for a time limousines, a massive house in

át

in

und nfier his

Or

for a newspaper owned by Mrs Milioniro's Row." He Blocked Little wonder: that, in the

ARISTOCRAT

which

The Menon technique is all right in cases, lice Korea and

Annie Besant, the founder of the High Commission with

ith cold light of day, suffering from In fact they are what I most

the Thecoophist Movement. rostly furniture, rugs and ching the moral hangovers. avale all, he year round. Bul Ion

holiday yet:

when I go travel SOMEONE once said, that That did not satisfy him for all chosen with Impeccable omlet participants at interna enjoy them for that fortnight. --

conterences, both his rough.

When am working.

ho must be the only man for the University Holidays are great character-

long, however, and he set of see as though he had never Lional travel in great comfort.

of London, ceen the inside of that dingy friends and his enemies should changers, Lounge lizards head never want to piny cards in the world who can make where he studied arst at the room in Camden Town.

concludo that the much vaunted. for the open pisins. Busing go at home, but I play a lot of the drainage system of St London School of Economics

moral leadership of India does aheadies sit back and relax, No- poker on holiday.-I

not amount to much. Pancras sound Infinitely and then at University College. gooders do good,

know anything bout gerðuning, Gering transformations, every and I don't want to know, but more important than the At the same time, he read for one. I asked six well-known on holiday I and myself the atom bomb and infinite the Bar and won admission,

TE discarded the old overcoat. Indo-China,-where- both pirtión propio if they over took them weeding." selves by suprise on Holiday, BARBARA GOALEN, after a ly more interesting than Polllies, however, bes Hand he frayed sulb and feel a little, gully and where the possibility, of winning come his first love. He was 9. blossomed forth in ults which everyone is begiming to doubt sind

they all sold: yes, ces monte day time is the one Ume 576,000 on the football milltirabelalist,

Holiday

and he delighted the eye of the edi or the morality of his position. #HUMPHREY LYTTELTON, DEVE put on my pearls.

abandoned the prospect of h of Tallor and Cultor, Usually, I wear them every day pools.

prosp sous legal career mi order pick

But what will happen on und feel completely lost without

to devote himself wholly to Menon the humble prophet alour-cist incas?/Or whatwikke Iceal pollties and to offering had become Menon, the aristo", happen in a caso Kio Suez, them,

whore both sidor, really sent to 1947 Cameon

believe that, lisey are absolutely

Who Went to

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carriages, and the sort of “But on hõridis

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