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are
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dreams..
but are they
GOOD dreams?
AN intriguing picture of wide and powerful influence falls suddenly into place with this, the final report oh Prince Charles's future training and a factor the public knows little about. That factor is the Salem Set an incredibly fast-rising educational movement that has sown its roots deeply.
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THE CHINA : MAIL,
WEDNESDAY, JULY
1057.
STARTED to find out what sort of a school Gordonstoun is because I know the influence it has had on Prince Phillp.. ́and becauso I think he will want his son, Prince
Charles, to have the same education.
But now that I have studied Gordonstoun and Salein, the mother school in Germany. Now that I have found out about the branch school in Greece...Now that I know something of the Outward Bound Schools which give short courses in the Salem tradition.....Now that I have heard about the projected Nato schools planned to carry out the same system....
I think I have come across something oven more important than the Fort education our future King might have.
The Salem system-founded
of
by Kurt Hahn and his patron, KURT HAHN...from
Prince Max von Baden-is ko
an onion. You peel of skin
after skin ... you are never
qulie sure you have reached the
centro.
Plato to Power
Take the information about to produce leaders who are
school.
philosophle the Greck
Anavryta, "a
ispoaltion,
The chairman is the King of high spirits, speed, and strength" Greece, His wife is Queen to quote Plato, Frederika..
of Prince She is the sister Georg Wilhelm of Hanover, the head master of the mother school. at Salem, who is married to a sister of Prince Philip.
Anuther brother is Prince Ernst August, who is now claim- ing the Dultedom
of Cumber- -land.
DONALD EDGAR
The school in Greece was founded in 1949. In 1950 Prince Philip and the Queen --- then Princess Eliza- the both visiled school.
The next day Prince Philip went back lo goe the head master. He 15 Jocelin
G.
Winthrop Young, who
has a reputation as a taineer, and was
also a class-
mate of the Prince at Gordon- stoun.
PATTERN
THE Crown Prince of Greece
being educated
THE
Anavryta.
at
1
The pattern at Anavryta the familiar Salem оде alhletics on the Greek model, hockey. initiative tests, an austere life.
It is all the famillar pattern of the schools which Pinto dreamed about for his ideal Republic schools to produce a "Guardian" class of elite who would direct society.
And Kurt Huhn as a young German, studied Plato and ad- mired the philosophy.
When the German Empire wag overwhelmed
the by Allies and a republic was set up it was a time of the great- est humiliation for the, princely houses of Germany.
. It is a little difficult for us
of
in 1957 to realise that in 1918 Europe was still the centre the world.
And that through the mon- #tili of them archies, many nearly absolute, the German nobles bad every reason to be-
lleve that it was their destiny
to control the world,
ari
And Plato, with his beautiful dream-for he was more poel than philosophen-dreamed ideal republic of castes that most people agree today is more Fascist and totalitarian than anything else.
But strip off, skin after skin and always there is the influence of the German noble familles. With an nd. mixture of the big in-
E
whom they dustrialists admit into partnership.
They are all related, theno margraves, sountaine princes, related to each other, Belated to such kings and queens as exist. Is there a pian behind it all? Is there a kernel of embryonic power?
...
Are the international links part of sothe purpose? Are people Bill dreams?
dreaming
Are they good dreams?
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61 WAS NOT BLAMELESS BUT I THINK MOST OF THE BLAME LAY WITH HER >
My Wimbledon row
CONNOLLY : Takah supplanted
my mother in my life.
LEANOR
NANT is greatest
with Teach Tennant
ings. Now, of course, I realise
MAUREEN CONNOLLY-
CONTINUES HER OWN STORY. ~THE MASK OF LITTLE MO"
.
TENNANT I SIN WAS KİWAYS dominant, and`eutspekan.
TEN- In the mind of a young girl and opinions were considerably this was dor from a happy time traught
right and wrong are like black Jess than Blato secrets. the and white. There are no shad- tennis teacher in the world. The fact that we quar- set of qualities relled often, finally split, was. the great and the last Chancellor to the and
longer ara My meeting with Teach was Katser, aurveyed the scene. friends does not part of the pattern of my life, Where had they gone wrong? diminish in the least my part of a curious destiny. If you will. I was 12 years old and It was then that Hahn made respect for her genius on the trail of bigger toanis
Prince Max von Baden, one of
German aristocrats
no
People like Miss Tennant and me with only
She
know what meant to me, but in my career, Teach thought Wimbledon I was stale. Then I developed she wasn't sure whether or not Later Teach chose my clothes,
I should play. a cure 'shoulder.
Teach impeccable.
zent me first to ed her own special and unique was, severu, but
Miss Tonnent had not possess on and off the court. Her taste
she wouldn't Here I must add she was a very soccer trainer who diagnosed the shoulder as fibrositi and have been the great couch she generous woth:12,
suggested Uniment, Then sho There was a broad back took me to a chiropractor who ground Io: my break with diagnosed my trouble as a toro Trach, and, although I have muscle. never studied either paychology or psychiatry, I believe, to come extent it was → curious ccsc of my becoming Tech's
aller, ego.
Direct
his volce heard.
in or lessen the gratitude game. The secret, he said, was education. He pointed to Eng-I feel. land. There a monarchy, German the by origin, was Armly on throne. There was a victorious
one E met at the Beverly Hills country whose ruling class was
driving obsession to win W Tennis Club, where she still respected.
the professional Deeply imbued with Plato, are not entirely normal in was
surprised and awed, who had also constructed hla the accepted meaning of the was
I bad expected someone deal system of educating
word.
her younger. She was then elite when Athens had been
late 40's, a slender, graceful defeated, he argued that a mix-
smooth face and
ar
turo of Plato and the system of Eton would produce an eficient elite,
SPARTAN
race
History's painters, planists.
posts, and generale il lived woman with
tanned ikke old leather
with a burning fixity of purpose, topped by striking diver-grey So it was with Teach, and so it
hair. was with me.
Quarrel
"You must be Maureen?" "Yes, Miss Tennant."
"Let's hit a few. I want to see what you can do."
Direct. No
Refused
Finally she called Perry T. Joncs for help (Jones, now president
Southern of the California Tennis Association, was a long-standing friend of both Little Mo, and Eleanor Tennant.
(He arranged for Little Mo to be seen by an orthopaedie' sur geon on the understanding that the would withdraw friza Wimbledon if the doctor advised 1.)
THIS touched off another row T between Teach and me. She I worshipped her at first. Sho could do
Her thought my whole future would wrong. no opinions became fact for me, be in jeopardy but I could not Her likes and disilkes became tree. My shoulder did not hurt
No girl cow `n
doctor with forehand drive or raine.
I am ashamed to say when I hit
felt as though my very there was a period when Teach backhand but only an overhead more fear or misgivings than I. balance as the hung in the supplanted my mother in myt
distinguished-looking Ito,
I was contain it couldn't be a doctor, a torn muscle.
man examined my shoulder. He was thorough, paineiding, and after an eternity he finished.
However, as time went on my submissive, Trilby-like “attitude changed. I became more domi- nant and headstrong, and in this task force of two there was room for only one field-marahal
Doubted
shot
A sham
lo
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We were having tea in the players' tea-room over the No.1' court at Wimbledon and the "My dear," he began softly, current argument. was about "you haven't a' foun muscle. mixed doubles. I was scheduled to play and Teach wanted me to withdraw. I refused. PRINCE MAX was won over.
The big blow fell immediately The now Spartan
arms around him wps UR quarrel on the eve of my
I HAD T would be creatod-If not in his
preliminaries, TEACH believed everything in afterwards, when Teach
kissing him with wild joy
'ho. completed generation, then In the next.
It was dim- Fixley of purpose. That was my life should be sublimated quoted as having said she was
I was certain He made avaliable large emotionally torn,
A
headstrong, wouldn't listen to der bence. castle cult for a young girl to draw Teach. Unless I had promise I to tennis. However, I liked to washing her hands of me. I was before
nt part of his great.
encountered was wasting her time, and that, forget tennis occasionally, have her advice, and was putting my never charity's veli over bitterness, to Salem. The Salem system was rationalise, compensate and re-
dates and a good time. was worth $25 an hour,
career in jeopardy.
excited patient dr mado clingnosis which was received At that moment I wanted
One incident, seemingly trivial
Now I had no chance at 'with such hysterical enthusiayın. The newspaper stories saying Teach for a coach more than to me, resulted in a stormy Wimbledon, the story went Its influence after only 40 she was wishing her hands of I wanted anything else in the quarrel. I had gone out on a Teach was quoted as advocating I was staying at the White
world
double date, the car broke my withdrawal from the singies, House Apartments in Lon that I was headstrong, years--the future for It mo,
wouldn't listen to her, and now Teath changed my
A down, and we didn't get homo
while, as a matter of fact, only dan, and Teach was... Ulving. looks most promising.".
mixed doubles had been under, there too. In order to svolā ang I said the Salem system was had no chance of winning hurt completely. I developed sound until dawn.
further deeply.
discussion.
"Prom “flarewup? Wỡ atrocca, a power, game, and Ilke an onion,
maintained a sham trues, an Jaier during my career, AE » Then fury, took oven. I had that soured, Teach would bring wanted to break with her bo
bom.
And when one considers
concile.
Strip off one skin and you find what seems just a varia tion of the original theme of the fore, but Mom had always held me back to bario practice and British public school with added us fogether. Now I was through straighten out the shot, emphasis on character building Y am sorry the whole thing initiative, and self-reliance, Afhad to happen, but I no longer praiseworthy virtues.
feel bittertiom, or anger. I am
*
Dominant
Mom accepted my story truth.
Teach didn't.
She not only doubted my
Stunned
T
be moro
.D
I'm sure by than everyone WAS", fod up with my trouble and I
I do recall the confused, and almost on the dinner menu, word, but she was furious ber I WAS stunned, bondered, confined my reading to the Cause I dalied to keep a temals verge of nervous breakdows, the players were a bit cool to date with her the next day. My Eyes during our quarrels theme, and certainly the gallery Strip off another and you feel sorry for Teach, for what she uld TEACH, fa a world in horself, young temper matched hers. thought of going into battle at was againt me," that momvihing has gone wrong to, herself. I think the greater l and like in any other,
Wimbledon without Teach had with, that wholesome vegetable, share of blame lay with her but speciallens gold there aro per There are two versions of my never occurred to In... My <he Briush public school system. certainly I was not blameitos; morality, clumbres. Tor Teach-break with Touch mine and fuel emotion, howeVIE, WAT
that this is the public school reg
This is my story and I anger. What they were inevitable, system/seen shrough earnest. I on the tools court, wonde
shall tell it now for the first drasti admiting you that neverthalbes whint abo bad," made, me,
Moin haid borne the lelephonic cod she was alwys dominent time se I remember H, a got the, docus all wrong. Tist when we pacted and I suočend«, outapolcen, a positive chinkar fue a plan?
Although I was now going the phone – nevete ( stopped) after the - grestess, šitie dat ally ringing day! My mother was da
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