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THE CHINA MAIL, - TUESDAY, MARCH 15, · 1957.

The Prince of

Monte Carlo

finds his love

ORCED by public concern about his future, the Prince, was at last forced to broadcast to his people.

With the world listening In he said, "The ques-

which tion of my marriage

HO rightly preoccupies much more. Though you, interests me, believe me, this question has a political aspect which is far from leaying me indifferent, it also has a human side which I hope has not escaped anyone.....

"

This statement satisfied the Monegasques, for a short while. At least it assured them that their handsome Prince had not made a vow of celibacy. Quite unobtru- sively, Rainier went on with his chosen pastimes. At the Villa Iberia, he cleared an acre of garden to make room for an entirely new and much bigger private zoo; he now had a collection of 128 animals. At the Oceanographie Museum he spent many hours discussing modernisation plans with the curator.

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But whoever mentioned the name of Rainier really thought of marriage and one day April 1995.

The Prince fold a determined Inquirer that in his life companion eyes the idea! should have "blue eyes, air we hair, a sense of humour, a love of animals, an Interest in ul- for door sport and a fondness children" Asked to say whether he had found such a mate. Rainier replied with a curt "No."

Grace

3

Had he been asked again week later, the answer would probably have been yes. At the Cunnes height of the annual Film Festival, the Prince was invited to a party in Room 857 of the famous Carlton Hotel at Cannes, Present were Olivia de Havilland

Ludmilla Anouk,

Tcherino, Michele Morgan, Cary Grant and many other well known fim personalities, French actor Jean Pierre Aumont enter- ed the room and announced, "May

Miss Grace

Kelly?" Kelly?

introduce

the

The Prince was standing by

overlooking the window thronged Croisette. For a second he turned his head and his eyes met Grace's. A friend who was there says, "At the time it did not register very much with me the Prince but

noticed that suddenly looked pale," Rainier hand, Grace Kelly's shook offered her a glass of champagne and watched her drink it. Grace Kelly chatted easily, mentioning a little French. that she knew

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Even the slightest cold

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possible this beautiful talented girl who had so quickly cap- The tured the. Prince's heart. answers filled him with plea-

sure, Grace was a Catholic, the daughter of a self-made million aire builder of skyscrapers in Phitodelphia, Her brother had once rowed at Henley. 11er

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RENE LECLER

of

heirloom ring with a knot diamonds and rubies. He wanted it altered to fit a certain Anger, and on April 17, 1956 they were married, with all the pomp and magnificence this great occasion,

merited by

The Monegasques were danc- family was well known, happy ing in the streets that night. and united.

The foreign warships in the scandals, no divorces.

harbour нето lit up to match the myriad colour-

lights 16,000 red-and-white flags that

hung in the

to

of Monaco and the

The rest of this love story is well known: it belongs to all the people everywhere in the world who are happy in a man and a woman's happiness. After

streets in homage an other meeting with the Prince to the Prince and his lovely at the Palace, Grace returned to

EDcansort. In the Palace square the United States, But in the months that

followed, letters there were thousands of happy "I dare you." Rainier laughed. from Rainier, large square enve- people.

the Royal cheer She began to say something in

the equple in their first public up- the halting French but soon lost herpes with the crown and

And over two interlaced R's on the back pearance. The Prince way.

laughed dap reached John Kelly's man-

Eurovision network, television heartily and sald, "What you need

sion in 'hiladephia and Grace's earried the scenes to the twmes Is one of those lule

blue letters, long

envelopes of millions of well-wishers all multilingual booklets we give to

addressed in French to “SAS. over Europe, visitors In Monte Carlo

Le Prince de Monaco, Palais it have one sent to you."

Principaute de Monaco” travel- Such was the meeting which led back across the ocean. was to change the history of the Principally. The next two days were probably the busiest in the life of Father Tucker, Ho made in- phone calls to America, eluding one to Cardinal Spell- man, Cathelle Archbishop of New York, and sent inquirers to Paris to find cot everything

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Joy

One day in November, Rainier visited a well-known Jeweller in Nice with an old Grimaldi

Cummings

The Prince and his Princess returned to the headlines again in August. In a personal state- ment over Radio Monte Carlo Rainier announced the nows his subjects had longed to hear: The Princess Grace was expecting o child in February.

The personal statement was in accordance with a centuries-old Grimaldi family tradition that important news, whether good or bad, should be given by the reiguing Prince himself.

At the end of last October, Palace was closed to Monaco the public after its most fabul- ous season (more than half-a- million visitors since April) to allow work to be carried out on the nursery.

Hope

As the long shadow of French Conscription or taxation seem-

ed to recode at last, rejoicing Monegasques eagerly awaited

the arrival of the child which, whether boy or girl, can succeed to the Throne, and looked for- ward to a pure untroubled also by family difficulties, The Grimaldis seemed

have assured their future on their lovely rock.

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A Grimaldi of Monaco and a Kelly of Co. Mayo, There is something peculiarly fitting in this union; the son of pirates who made themselves princes is bridging the gult of protocol, precedent and usage by marry. ing the daughter of a bricklayer who made himself a millionaire, The golden haired girl, known as Princess Gracia Patricia o Monaco, has done more for the Principality than keeping it free: she has already brought gladness and vitality into one

of the world's oldest monar-

CAM GANUTE

COMPLIMENTE

GERMANY

WEST LEADS EAST IN THE ECONOMIC STAKES

A.N. PARKER

A British economist who has made a special study of multilateral trade and monetary conditions within the Soviet orbit.

A

boen

Before the war East Germany

T the end of Chou En- economy, but to a certain by the requirements of East lai's visit to Mos- extent, the case of West and derman Industry but by the Mr East Germany is something Soviet bloc as enforced by the general economic polley for the cow recently, Khrushchev once again pro- of an exception. Here we Soviet Union. claimed his belief in the have a country which since inevitable ruin of the the end of the war has been exchanged Its products, many of them consumer goods, for capitalist economy-that it. split in two, and one part raw materials and other goods to say, any economy not has

to from the West. subjected closely modelled on Soviet the full impact of the chies; she has

The scarcity of straight-jacket of economic now saved its lines.

an hier economic information about and social Sovietisation. Mr. ruture by producing

The and has

Increasing Integra- transicemed an aloof, Communist countries make Khrushchev. has said that

tion of the East Gerinan the by building Socialism and

the Soviet blue economy inte unhappy young man into a gay it difficult to compare

of development a Communism in the Soviet and the demands of the satellite Prince and a gay father with real

future as golden as the sun- | totalitarian and a free bloc, the final downfall of countries created fresh prob.

Satellite DIETE shino bathing his tiny realm.

capitalism would be hasten- lems.

concentrated on basic material

goods, ed because, to quote his and investment

and words, a good example is a prohibited them from Imperting of foreign exchange

Integration Kills

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were

great force. How good has

consumer goods. East Germany the example been? The was driven to a foreign trade publication by the Economic programme and degree of its Corinilsson for Europe of self-sufficiency ill-suited to

highly

West Germany did ments since the end of the not have to contend with prob- war is particularly timely, lems of this kind. Her exporta and her trade surplus werw und it 1.rovides Some

rising and she could freely buy

materials In Interesting answers.

a study of economic develop structure." specialleod productive

"accumulation"

that મ

Now

foreign

the

The accret weapon of the markets.

The wide differences in Soviet type of economy is con- sidered to be its high rate of economic development of West that and East Germany lend no sup- to Mr Khrushchev's part of the national product port

forecast about the which is set aside for capital pessimistic formation. Yet since 1951, at future

non-Communist

Tho

of

But it does of the

provide

Impact

of

long-term economies. beginning of planning in East Germany, the evidence rate of accumulation was 10 to political and social factors on 12 percent in East Germany Bconomic

to and 20

percent in Germany all economic measures West Germany.

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Aid v Reparations

While West Germany's invest- drom the ment had benefited

action. In East

are determined by Communist Party policy, as formulated in

Fixing the Moscow.

the

share

DO

must

of low level is a of wages in the national

which workers decision

can

especially from 1948 to 1950, quanlity and a fall in the

accept. They only express very large volume of external aid,

Kopposition

quality of their Eust Germany's investment, up products. In West Germany to the 10 end of 1953, was limited the workers, through their trade by the deadweight of repara unions and political parties, can tions. Moreover, West German and do press for wage increases, Investment was spread over and in support they can use almost all sectors of the the strike weapon. of this

while

for by economy,

the freedom of economie and social In greater share of East Germany's action, denied to the workers Investment went Into now the Soviet bloc it can be sald projects for heavy Industry, And (to borrow Mr Khrushchev's their

economie foundations phrase) that a good example “· Wero not primarily dictarea can be a great force.

Me and

STUDENTS SET A PUZZLER FOR THE PARTY

Throughout the Communist world the university student is boing closely watched, for more than ever before ho is thought to be a potential source of political unrest.

Years of Stalinist doggia, police terror, phoney idealism and ruthless double-think in Communist countries have failed to prevent young in- tellectuals from thinking clearly and for themselves. It is not surprising that the Communist Party is brood- ing on its failure to indoctrinate young people.

Communist regimes have always felt have Whis way about students. They always dreaded an outburst of intellectual curiosity among their young intellectuals. That kind of curiosity can always spill over, into politics straight questions 'might be asked and straight answers demanded. But the regimes till very re- cently had their own way of stifling

curiosity..

In Stalin's day the secret police was happy to act as a thought-police. Tamo

“Damned automation, that

by Julius Gould

professora spouted Marxist dogma at end- jess

of COUTSCO

political education. Students who survived these dreary

bo courses could

wearied further by planned fatigues on factory or farm. Carvers depended on the good opinion of the Party, and so it was wise to suffer In silence and graduate in comfort,

These weapons of thought-control are still at the disposal of the Party leaders, But since Stalin's death; since the Soviet Communist Party's 20th Congress; since the events in Poland and Hungary nothing has been quite the same.

Countless reports tell of student unrest as a major problem throughout. the Soviet orbit. The trend is widespread and in two key areas the Soviet Union itoelf, and East Germany her most exposed puppet-zone.

In the Soviet Union, the heartland of the Revolution, after decades of "party- spirit", the universities have cheated the

PIRITSIN RAILMAVTE

SIR

GOBERTSON

WANTS YOU!

regime of success in its master-plan. To 白 recent article from a Soviet quote educational

the journal,

university teacher must get students "to adopt a Communist outlook on the basis of the knowledge they have gained"

Course

"adopting a Communist outlook" means cheering the atrocities of Soviet policy, and the "knowledge gained" is (as was admitted by Mikoyan at the famous 20th Congress) partial, distorted, and often fraudulent. It is small wonder that Soviet students are now resticas and dissatisfied,

As early as November last year, Party boss Khrushchev himself, in a major speech, warned the Komsomol of the dangers that could arise if "mistaken. views" went uncorrected and "unhealthy phenomena" went unrebuffed.

Typically he waved the big stick-- hinting broadly that, it atudents thought too much and too freely, they would be diverted to less gentle work on the industrial front.

All the same it doesn't seem that the students have been completely over-awed.

* Naturally the Rector of Moscow University has broadcast, for foreign consumption, that all is quiet on

the student front. The facts, however, speak otherwise,

From Moscow. from Leningrad, from the Urals, from Armenia, from Lithuania, have come quite recently repeated rebukes to student · groups.

Beyond question there is a general weakening of the bonder which connect teachers, students and the Party. The "transmission belt" between Stute ‘and university is ereaking under the 'strain.

Of course, the students are not in revolt, Social pressures and common prudence keep criticlem within boundÍa, But criticle there Island, above the surface 100-strong enough to rate con- stant attention from the men on topi

As Eastern Germany Jurches, under a hated regime, into a bow economic crisis, the students come in the foreground of the newE.

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Will_these trends contime? : Or will the Party regain control of a fluid situation? Will the shocks not up by Khrushcher's “secret”, apbéch: die out? Will the Polish formedt,, the Hungarian tragedy coases to concern, the flussian or East German student?: N

· No one can be sure what the futura: kolds. One thing alone is clear, Yoors of Staliniat dogma, police terror, phoney idealism and ruthless double- think "have falkodí.

-Young, people, tinder the most adverse, conditions: try: Bard to thing clearly and for themasiva,