1957-03-07 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, MARCH 7, -: 1957.

HOW THE PATTERN

WAS SET

TT is the nature of the relationship between the нехев that no woman who is truly and deeply in love with her husband can fail to be changed and influenced by him, no matter how superior her powerful more position in the world may be compared with his.

or

an

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по

He

much soverer than I am. thinks I should set an example of propriety."

to

She was amused, but refused Interfere, when some of her courtiers complained that Albert was poking his nose too closely into the administration Palace.

of the

Economy

an

TOR Albert had វា modern

mind, and be WES

for change and enthusiast progress. When he was first married, he discovered that often fires were not burning in the Queen's private apartments. and

A reigning Queen different in his respect from lier ordinary wella. Ministers toy warn her to hold herself aloof Her Palace visers may Counsel her keep away from politics

ud-

to

tairs of State in her marital conversation.

it

But when

gives wonun her heart to her man she gives to him het eer and her mind

too, even though sho be Queen and he be a mere Consort.

Dominated

Victoria

Suffer

الف

found herself,

bitense inner, struggle, growing increasingly under the domination of Albert, And liking it, moreover,

She admired ness and

his thorough Germanic melency, She discovered that he was one of those are beings who prac-

tised what he preached,

And

she allowed herself tu

be

awayed by his principles,

Victoria loved dancing,

but

Albert did not. So, except when stale

made Occasions

It

"The Prince,"

"is

necessary, she did not dance,

she said,

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When he asked why, he dis- covered that one department the was responsible for laying

for lighting fires, and another them.

the Lord

with Rome It was the

The Palace windows. Chamberlain's department cleaned the inside of them, the Office of Woods and Forests the outside, which meant that they were rarely clean at all.

und There was an enormous wasteful expenditure

on wine and candles, and his ruthless economy

campaign won

Court, many enemies pecially among those who were getting hetty the purchases.

commissions

him

-

on

He saved the Queen a lot of money and earned the sneers of the Court officials.

They 1elf me," said one of them,

that he even looks in the cupboards." To such remarks Albert, even had he heard them, would have remained impervious. He took of the his position as husband

with great Queen

seriousness and was not to be swerved from his ideas by criticism.

At a time in the history

of Britain when the

rich

were

to

some of which may still be seen in Battersea Park.

she must make. When he was away, she pined and tretted and postponed decisions.

LODGE decided to vote

with on suos

DON IDDON'S DIARY:

IS DULLES

TAKING THE

RAP FOR

DULLES

* An abstension wquid · have contented him.

IKE'S FRIEND?

HIS is crisis week in men" who killed the old League for performing on the Florida Mim Taylor is on top of the

the United States. There have been huge crowds at the United Nations day after day and thousands of people have been turned away.

80

Yesterday I had to take my place in a long queue, despite my police Press card. and the delegates' loungo was crowded that men were lined

the up three-deep at

bor- where

drinks are the

the She allowed him to ease out biggest in New York and the Lehzeu, prices only the same as in any her private secretary, and henceforth he drafted algin mi along Third Avenue of

All she

saloon off Broadway. her important letters. bathrooms

was did

correct his clumsy of German Idiom. translation He was present at all her inter- views with her Ministers.

the Duchy He took in hand

for his eldest son. of Cornwall

with its the Prince of Wales, vast and valuable properties.

He actually had installed in the fats, in un age not unduly noted for its enthu- siasm for the external applica- tion of water.

fu an almost uncanny way, hu resembled Prince Philip today

getting richer, but preferred to Ignore the sufferings of the workers who helped them

anch stuff their bank accounts their stomachs, Albert caused a flurry by taking a stern interest

of the in the plight

lower in orders.

his for new

"He is King to all intents and purposes," commented Greville,

The Queen's Consort

by Leonard Mosley

driving

HEBEARCHER JOHN CRUESEMANN

enthusiasm Clerk to the Privy Counell, and In the ideas. When the there were murmurings

he urged Cabinet that he had altogether "I conceive it to be a duty," Crimean War come,

vlows about the he wrote to the Premier, "lo the establishment of a huge too strong

South of England positive position the Crown perform towards the great mass

becambe, in time, should take in politics. of the working class, which will

"I hold he wrote to the not allow one's yielding to the

"that the Sovereign fear of possible Inconvenience."

He it was who thought of and Premier, So he sat down and designed designed the Victoria Cross. He has an immense moral respons- modern dwellings for artisans, wrote treatises on the design of bility on her shoulders with re-

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gard to her Government and the duty to watch and control it."

balls for muskets and problems of transporting horses by rall.

This was an idea which par-

now

He even suggested to the Admiralty, which thought him ticularly falled to commendet mad, the building of a sub- self to Palmerston, the Foreign ho which could Minister, especially marine of sorts

the Queen attack the coasts of the Crimea realised that, while held by the Russians.

was reading the private des- And all this time be was patches, her consort was lean- Insinuating himself into the ing over her shoulder and read- mind as well as the heart of his Ang them too,

young wife, so that soon she not He had frequent quarrels

only madly adored him but madly admired him too.

With the money he saved her by his Palace economies, he bought Osborne, close to Cowes, on the Isle of Wight,

£26,000.

with Albert, and the Prime Minister complained: "I have

as Broadlands. tried to pet (Broadlands Was Palmerston's country home; it is now, by a for strange coincidence, the country Oskorna was one of the homes home of the Montbattens, where of the Navy, and Albert guces- the present Queen spent part of ed that his action "will be well her honeymoon.)

received by the Navy, with But as the opposition of Press, whom it brings us into constant people, and Government built contact, and it will teach the up, the Queen's implicit trust in Prince of Wales the nature of his judgment mounted too, this glorious profession.”

in trusted him

sho had a criticism of him, it was, per- hapa, his enthusiasm for large: familles. (Victoria gave birth to nine children.)

He bought Balmoral calate She now and mado the plans for the everything. present castle. And later, from the increased revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall, he bought Sandringham.

IT"

Fretting

1

She wrote to her uncle, Leopold family, purileularly to the country. Mon neverthink, nt.. least seldom, what a bard

"the inconvenience

of a large

Us he had the pattern, of task it is for us

the royal year for a century, thro' very often women to go

10 come, Just as Prince Philip But she did not tell Albert of may be said to be making the this. She gladly let him run now pattern of royal living her publie, as well as her today.":

private life. And under hia guidance, despite public, disap Bines Albert was so success-proval, England's policies were ful in the management of her shopoc personal affairs, can you blame And in only, one thing did the the Queen for feeling that he Queen's husband come con would also do as much for the siderable: cropper--and that was Haion of State?» Som his! kioan about the education *? So now:non consulted him on of, his son, whithe hein to pythe all the most important decisions. Throne,

Eisenhower

While President and Secretary of State Dulles have been taking a hammering in Washington, Mr Henry Cabot Lodge Jun. has gone almost unscathed here.

Handsome

mould. is the chler U.S. delegata to the

peace organisation

runk of has the

of Nations and broke Woodrow Wilson's heart. It would be Ironical if today the present Lodge helped to preside over the funeral of the United Nations,

his Lodge seems happy in work, if others are not so happy about It, He says: "The U.N. Is the

place feunt frustrating there is."

now

gold coast,

ogo

Hollywood heap.

Gallant

for cancer

-The news from the film city Is that Elizabeth Taylor, who is 25 tomorrow, will have a very qulet Party at Palm Springs with her husband Mike Todd, HE two- most gallant peuplo who expects to make $18,000,- Tn Hollywood are Willam 000 from Around the World in Powell and Zaru Pitts. Fifteen 80 Days, Miss Taylor, who was years ago Powell had an opera-

the

of tien Д performer

and ho beat three, u star at 12, playing the liness, He talks quite mature roles at 15, said: "1 am openly about 11, and is a leade The American air is heavy trying to recapture the years I ing organiser for

for funda with crisis talk, and New York, missed as a child."

cancer research. always highly strung, is

Zasu Pitts is similarly frank Her back still troubles her— There are pickets with tenso.

had she placards parading outside

a crushed disc, which and equally hard-working. the

Since

Humphrey Bogart'a headquarters on can be excruciatingly painful- Russian U.N.

there has been пот Park Avenue. Squads of pollen but the doctors say the injury death have been stationed there day

with the violet doctors, and English girl

a leading maga and night

the since DVET

who was married at 18 to zine has offered to pay $20,000 slaughter in Budapest,

Nicky Hilton, the hotel-owner's into the cancer fund if Lauren There are police reinforce- son, and whose second husband Bacali will write an articio on

outside the

Michael Wilding, who is her life without Bogey. Egyptian was ments

claims to bo She herself has given a large headquarters at 79th Street, and twice her age,

Todd, alice surpassingly happy with

dollars Madison

million Square last night In

was

who mass

also twice her age. Bogart left her to help fight tho Garden there

Todd says: "They tell mo scourge,

A

will not be permanent, The drive to provido funds for

of the

emergency rally for Israel.

Elizabeth Is spoiled, hol- Footnote: From a letter to The big hall was hung with tempered. diffeult, but she is the Wall Street JournalTho

"No

Ambassador.

und

No

Raintree County, known as the Ordeal.

MR LODGE, who looks like banners: "What price morality also deeply loyal and devoted. Roosevelt Administrations were sanctions against Russia So she's spolled? What mon known as the New Deal, the an aging leading man in

No wouldn't want to Indulge a girl Truman Pidgeon for the rape of Hungary.

Administration as the the Gable-Walter

India against

for itke her?"

Fair Deal. Now the Eisenhower sanctions

Kashmir. After defying the U.N. on

her performances in Administration is coming to be anci sanctions against Egypt for Giant

of blockade, boycoll, and wields

An American guide-book worns tourists visiting England: Shall we now other U.N. decisions.

joln with Russia, India, and Egypt In Imposing sanctions on Israel?"

He is a big handsome man, and order, in flagrant violation of,

U.S. representative

thon power

as more delegate.

The

any

that

crilics here say Lodge must accept much of the responsibility for splita in Anglo-American polley

the series of

Gloomy

and that he has fallen short of being A truc partner to his British and French colleagues. Turbed and the President

has

THE home front is also dis-

Dulles has taken the rap, but is being blamed for living costs Lodge, given sweeping disere going up for the fifth straight tionary

und often month,

unemployment powers. made the decisions.

mounting to nearly 3,000,000

of Many people.

DON'T BE A SUCKER

IT

Mr

ABOUT MONEY

By EILEEN ASCROFT

is always amusing to see ourselves as others see us.

I have been browsing through an American guide-

"It Elsenhower's mast strenuous book for tourists coming to England and am fascinated

told at the U.N I am was Lodge who made the decl-

now

*

woman,

all

advised

with dark hair and

are with some of its udvice. sion to line up with the supporters in the election

pinning the label of US.S.R. and vote against

"Heaven help the female who kind that goes clunk when it

the Britain and France in the Suez "Inflation" on him, and there is

gloomy

second flounces through talk that this

hotel hits your stomach." uffair. The President and the

In the

wore dress the Eisenhower term is beginning to lobby

One of the calls that Secretary of State would have

resemble the Presidency of Ist Tuesday" is lis first American visitors are with on been content

absten-

General Grant.

warning to wemen packing for to make is on Lodnon'a shop- tion by the United Sates.

the trip.

ping queen, Grace Slater. The spending goes on and on.

"Don't be * sucker," it "She's savvy," it declares, Lodge la close to Elsenhower

cautions about money. "Play I called on Gruce myself and and it was he who flew to Paris

Florida is having a scason

Give the

her walter, the found to persuade the General to run

men call "the

tall, attractive that hotel

big fair.

and text-driver for President and who organised gest ever." The hotels and shopkeeper Citizens for Eisenhower groups motels are so jammed at Miami square deal; if he tries to gouge blue eyes. across the country,

Beach, Palm Beach, Fort Lau- you because you're rich, splt thing you want in London," is

her motto. derdale, and Key West that tensin his eye." was given

keep "Always

duplicate + of thousands of people are

"Socks, laundry list," it says. beating in the election of 1952 sleeping In hotel lobbies and,

will by Jack Kennedy Mr Elsenhower lounges, powder-rooms, In their shorts and handkerchiefs

soon dwindle if you don't." repaid the debt by sending own cars and even in gool cells Lodge to the U.N., and he has been there ever since, flexing his muscles and exercising his peculiar brond

burly of diplomacy.

So

when he

Happy

Henry Cabot Lodge, sen.,

П

grandfather, Senator was the famous isolationist who led "The Hulle group of wilful

And the boom shows no sign of casing off.

Tasteless

"I cen find any

"Most of my requests are for

she told me. Recent have been for thousands of pounda

worth of Georgian diamond Jewellery for four elderly sisters from And as for food-"Improving the Middle West, 300lb, of alightly, but still the most stone-ground wholemeal flour Today Miami is drawing as

tasteless of any land you'll for

for a diplomat going to Turkey, many bly Hollywood and Broad-

visit," says the know-all gulde,

e, and an

veli antique wedding as Las Vegas. The national indifference to for way names

Swis millionaire's Night-club comics Martha

Raye,

the preparation of food is daughter, Jerry Lewis,

Durante, Jimmy

traditional..

meal is "American husbands must be Libcruce, Tony Martín, Johnnte

cab- the most indulgent ka the Ray, Joe E. Lewis, Eddie Cantor, complete without bolled

bage

pr bolled potatoes, the world" says Grace, "Anything George Jessel, Danny Thomas,

their wives WANT they must * Temple Fielding's Guide to Danny Kaye, Sid Caesar, aro week

HAVE." getting up to $20,000 a

Europe.

A

LET'S MEET EACH OTHER MORE THAN HALF WAY?

Cummings