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FAITH HEALER CRISIS GROWING IN HOLLAND

From ERIC KENNEDY

Brussels, The Prime Minister of RISIS loome heavier Dutch

than ever over the court of Holland. The rifts are widening in the family out nt Soestdijk Palace.

caretaker · Government,

the Dr Willam Drees, tald queen be had instructed State- controlled radio stations not to allow her to broadcast.

Queen

Juliana has failed 40 her to keep promise ப people She 21400 rejected the edvice of her statesmen eous- sellors

le quoted in article of the Dutch Constitution which for- blus the months from making uny politica) declaration with. out Ministerial approval.]

QUEEN PROMISED According 1 the briefing. She has refused to listen to

error, the queen pleadings

Pritice published by of the

had promised to make changes Beinhard, her consort husband

ut courtilminating the pro- Refused to listen to the plens Di Princess Beatrix, her 18-year- tofmans retainers. old daughter and next queen

Queen Juliana has decided

her 81-

that Greet Hofmans, year-old fulth healer friends, in back at court-lo slay.

The result." 4 Government ometal said tonight, "could well be separation and abdication."

FURIOUS

It was the queen's friendship with Hotmans which led to on extrangement with Prince faith heuler Bernhard. Was oled in as "a last report to cure their daughter Princras bind siner Marijke, partially

birth.

The

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Three "wise

were a painted by the queen to advis on means of setting the royal quarrel,

the

Dr Lammers, head of Dutch Government information services, called in editors to ex- plain the findings of the "whee His "briefing" was not

publication. for

inen." intended was for background only.

There have been no changes. For Greet Hofmans there was

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a brief absence from her home converted milway carriage short cycle ride from royal palace. That was to holi- day at the home of the queen's "Lady Chumberlalu,**

She returned to her Uwa bome a month ago and re-

of sumed her "treatment" Princess Marijke.

So Prince Benhard left for t

his visit of two-month etute in Tanganyika.

EXW

Princess Dentrix-he lakes Ler father's ede in the family quarrel-moved out of the roya! to live with a Paluce

court

afficial's family near her univer-

alty at Leyden,

PROBLEM

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"For the queen," one of her in

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"I reflected upon the necessity of earning my living on leaving the RAF. I found myself confronted with the spectre of office life then one day looking down on Africa I'found, it's vast emptiness exactly suited my mood...I decided to travel round the world...This story tells why"

ravel

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alone.

By PETER TOWNSEND

EOPLE say that the world is FO small place. Perhaps it is, if you are thinking chance terms of 21

said, is moeting or are flying from deep human problem.

continent to continent. My religious, own impression, now that I first, have spent some five months motor

1

queen had pro- When

ber svet

"Sho 13 deeply

was the printSD)

relations taken

He said the mixed to

to Hofman the queen making plans to with Greet Hofmana.

was asked to put her faith in round it, is that the world is brleng God. But Dr Lammers's

any any thing but small, was sent out by mistake by the

***A cure clu come at News Dutch

Agency.

days, wecks, months, or time "Since furious queen

queen feels was

The evon years, a asked, "dor's when," she

faith Dutch queen promise anything that should she break

with Greet Hofmans, she may to her udvisers?"

be breaking faith with God."

NO BROADCAST

The

Sald an official: Try to and the man who is willing to play

our que part to Baldwin played to King Edward

The queen wanted to make a the broadcast repudiating the pledge

she was paid to have made,

Vill of Englandi,"

that

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of

having nostalgia I had ever to feel for You feel pleased

aeroplanes, full of arrived at your destination, but those old it does not occur to you at that charm and character, which

had flown earlier on. How could moment that in the short space have traversed of a day you

you ever done your affection for and an aeroplane with the outlandish thousands of miles of sea

and jungle. The

name of Vilde Beeste, in whose

Was a of thousands

notice saying cockpit colour. creed people whose

"this alreraft is not to be Bown 140 at earthly

excess ∞ tongue and

a speed in and problema-are entirely different mi.p.h." to your Own have passed beneath you. You have in fact, been transported from pince to place, but can hardly say you have travelled.

The traveller has both feet on the groun

I must say I find it quite bewildering to leave a city like Brussels on 4 frosty morning, as I did in March I counted myself lucky to be of this year and step out of on this excursion to the Belgian

Govern The Belgian Congo.

invited Inorit the aeroplane next morning

kindly into the hot and humid climate of Leopoldville.

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a dozen military and air attaches to make a voyage d'information of the Cango, 1 was not on the list; I had been before in 1904 on my own. I made the journey then as an extra member of the crew in

Then the Hurricane

and the

Spitfire - they belong to an age of flying

which is past

friends long since departed.

No Reproach

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I reflected upon the necessity of earning

in

what is known

open. I never have; I love it and only feel myself when I am part of li,

Once lite, then, is not form.

My

to

continued As my mind my room in comparative darkness picture on the subject of my future living

Civvy

I could squely

come to the conclusion Street the fact

would

no longer see clearly and had

About that I have better stop thinking never escape never been able to get excited Fortunately the date for my de- about making money. I have no

parture to the Congu was reproach for those who do; it is

approaching.

me

a question of instinct. not of primiple. I have not got the instinct and I am unable to be per. persuade myself—ar

do well suaded that I should In bustriewa

merely Fairchild Pocket' of transport squadron. a Baigium But luckily for

this 07 me,

ог second organised tour, two three people dropped out of the party.

I asked if I might

and one of the vacant places, was delighted to be told that I could.

A Problem

A with a problem. The more T that time I was wrestling

I thought about It the more I despaired of finding

answer.

of

the right

The prospect

continuing in my career

the Royal Air Force was not particularly pro- mising. I had entered It 23 years before at the age of 18, but for the last 12 years or

the posts

I had occupied were not con- cerned with the operation of air- craft. I now felt badly placed threads again to pick up the and try to catch up with the tremendous advance made in flying since the end of the war. Moreover, my inclination 10

lessened by was

do

30

I may find a fortune; I shall never make one.

Ox

There are, of course, openings

side on the administrative business. But, thinking on those lines, I found myself confronted with the spectre of office life. I have never felt anything but strong distaste, amounting some- timca to revolt, for working in an office.

I would discover looking for.

A an

what i was

The other question--when did I first think of the idea?s casily answered, I had with me a book called

On my arrival in the Congo "Le Phenomene Humain." I sat there miles above the earth and I hadn't the faintest Intention of though read for hours as our aeroplane going round the world groped its way out of the efoudy without my knowing the notion wlderness which hung over was dipening within my mind. In Two weeks later, at Eizabeth- enveloped Europe and was the

blackness of the ville I think it was, I was aware starry

clic African night. It was, a difcult that the idea had strucks,

I took out roy, small contained many scientific terms which were beyond my under- diary and turned to a minube standing. Pa subject, however, map of the world. was one which I found absoru- was a Mercator projection, pre- ing-life, that is to sty a senting the world in that nice

symmetrical theologieni and philosophical squared up

most with which

people the mo- thecry on Life, since

on Arst stirred

this famil

of planet hundreds of millions years ago,

il book to read, mainly becaure 1ng which proved it; one

As we made ready to board the aeroplane one cold morning, my colleagues took leave of their

There was ΠΟ Onc ment familles. there to see me off; or rather, as far as I knew, there wasn't,

I

Self-defence

deve

and took

This map

form are

The Route

as

WITHOUT knowing whether

the roads ΟΙ

for that communica- the utter tions, existed all the

way

вед

I tried out various ways

It was fascinating, my mind off the problems which had so recently been occupying a book like this me. Reading have in self-defence

habit of walking gave you the same feeling loped a past people and looking beyond when you look up at the stars them so that I don'

notice and realise how unimportant you getting round the world. I should really are. Looking down next fike. I thought, to see usĽ maný then.

day on Africa I found its vast countries

As it happened, two of my emptiness exactly aulted iny friends were there to bid me

ta towell As I walked to the Aeroplanc passed within three feel of them and never them como,

wands

SJA

to

It was kind of the

after- and when they

that they explained thought it was too late to draw my attention to their presence, i felt they had been rather kind.

mood.

Idea Struck

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was

reasonably

without

possible double back on my tracks make too many sea crossings,

having

10

or

Of course, on my tiny Mer- cator map I could get round the minute mention these things because world in less than

But it took me ‚wecits

asked why I easily.

on

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I rather resent being blamed for it. An airman lives with the and his whole being alements grows accustomed to them, Into

Is his experience

grafied

I am often off am setting

a journey before I began to set it on knowledge of the clouds and the winds. He grows to understand

round the world by car

and route. of earth

when I first thought of the idea,

(World Copyright Reserved. the changing moods

Whole or and sky and sea and to love

Reproduction in Their

Strictly Forbidden). infinite variations.

I think I have said enough to their

It would have been nice influence is deep in him, as it is say goodbye to someone I knew. answer the first question. I can in a sailor or farmer or anyone But I was perfectly happy as I think, in fact, of nothing else I whose life and livelihood depend set off for the Congo-with an wish to do more. I have the on the weather. Some people open mind on the future and chance and I am going to lake come to lose their taste for the a faint Inkling that before long it.

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in

Part

Tomorrow:

EAST OR WEST

THE COMMUNISTS' SHAM FORUM

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end of INCE

the Stalin's rigid dictator- ship, many people in the free world have come to believe that life is now easier for the inhabitants of An Communist countries. argument sometimes used in support is that the news- papers in these countries seem to be encouraging their readers to send in critical letters.

Bince the end of the Stalinist dictatorship readers' lettera published in Soviet and satellite newspapers kava conveyed the impression in many quarters that there is now greater freedom to criticise in the Communist bloo, The author shows that this is not so. Letters questioning the policies of the governments concerned never appear, most of the subjects discussed falling into the “parish pump" category. Although the correspondence columus servo za a safety-valve within their prescribed illis, they also enable the Communist Governments to drive home propaganda pointe and to conceal unpalatable 'facts.

By Graham Eustace

22,

1956,

a

for

If they are not allowed to On January write on motiers of policy, what example, a listener to Wave- do people write to the. Com length 49 is said to have corn- munist papers about, and why plained about the failure of the

Six-Year are the letters published?

Plan. One "of tho points be stressed

pent-up

BULMA

that Recently there have been one instead of producing 100, million or two intellectual grumbles-on tons if coal in 1955, Poland had the absence of reference books, produced only 84.5 million tons. gaps in the educational system, and so forth. But the VREL

Two things strike one as odd; majority of the letters complain

"eltzen about generat llying conditions. first, that an ordinary

should become so upset about a Since it cannot be pleasant to comparatively small; margin be the authorities to publiciso tween almond achievement; shortcomings of this kind, the au socond, that he did not But is this really a sign

logical reason for their doing so mention what must have been nenrer his heart-tho. must be the existence of a dis- much. of greater freedom? Several

content so widespread that they shortage of coal for domestfa things make it seem unlike question of policy-national or into print-such as, for instance, daro not ignore it. The corres- consumption.

Wazyk's international, political or con- Adem ly. To begin with, since titutional. Surely it cannot be Adults," which appeared in the as a safety valve for

"Poem for pondence columns; in fact, act the entire press throughout that in the whole of the USSR Polish weekly, Nowa Kultura, popular resentment.

The wording of the criticism however, enabled the editor the Soviet sphere is and especially the East on August 21, 1955.

Wavelength 49 not only to alr government-controlled, European countries-there is no

public resentment over the lack quen-

This poem was a searing nothing can appear without one interested in similar

of coal, but also to plug the ilona?"

attack on life in Communist the approval of the au-

igures government's production Poland, and how it came to be thorities. This alone more. Yet one never sees

A letter

They also serve an additional and, in so doing, to distract at printed in a mystery, But na purpose: or less invalidates any claim questioning, or even comment sooh, as the authorities, realised ernments

they enable the gov tontion from one of the chief ing on, the main tenets of the

concerned to ram causes of the shortage the fact of Communist newspapers system under which the letter what had happened they swoop- home propaganda points and to that Poland has to export coat to be a forum for free dis- writers live, Mayalam-Leninism ad like vultures. All available deflect attendon from unpalat to the Soviet Union Every yeas cussion.

and the philosophy of the copies of the issue containing table facts. It has indeed been about 10 million tons of Polish totalitarian States, though they the poem were confiscated, and suggested that many of the coal are sent out of the country are the cornerstone of Com the editor of the magazing was lations are directly inspired so on Soviet orders half of it to us to create such opportunities, the USSR itself at one-third of munist existence, are taboo as dismissed. Ag

the world This may well be true. Then there is the subject matters for discussion.

Significantly enough, the few mattor of the letters which they

If anyone is tempted to doubt copies which escaped the hands The questions (and answers) Complaints of this kind-setti print.

little too near the party line this, he has only to remember of the security police are said broadcast over “Wavelength" 49", „Hardly a day phases without the few occasionin orben, somo, Ko have fetched a hundred times Pollan, radio programme de to be the fron expressions of thair normal price on the black voted to enquiries from the unbiased renders with petuloa. a letter in one of the Wertern thing manuinely critical rorai

public, certainly: favour, the Idad, grievance to ventiisia,LJEET ling - with a serious Comniumist - regime has surped machete kerk

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