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A Public

MY STAY WITH THE

WORLD'S MOST FABULOUS

MONARCH. CHAPTER 2

Execution

T

BUT FIRST CONSIDER WHAT IT MEANS

TO LEAP FROM DESERT TO PENTHOUSE

JEDDAH, Jordan.

IIE unending proces-

sion of brand new glant

by RENE MacCOLL

American cars nosed late twenties and Was com reading stopped the executioner and its cargo deposited in a pile. slowly along the dusty pletely composed. street.

bent and touched the kneeling At a signal from the prince the man lightly in the back with his crowd leaped on the stones and to- Anger.

started pelting the woman to death.

The shop windows nearby gether

glittering were crammed with

His hands were clained

behind him walked awkwardly

ankles.

and because

he

of Instinctively the man storted,

America,

East" pleaded nn niriino's travel he loses his right hond, well, poster In a nearby window, he pouses. "Savour it romance, lis colour, its quaint traditions.

There 18 no

drinking of olcohol and no smoking( The crowd wore no longer Frenchman, strolling through alien. The inen snarled and the bazaars of Riyadh with me, shouted as they flung their unthinkingly

cigarette. slones, their faces transformed Instantly, a passer-by stepped Into masks of sadism.

up and gravely but firmly told him to throw it away).

The execution of the moan? Well, let us not forget that it No profit-making on tha was as recently as 1930 that the lending of money is allowed. French held their last public Horse-racing? Oh, yes, at the Execution. And the beheading race-track in Riyadh BOMO

racing was at lonet humanely and splendid

with fine quickly carried out,

Arablan horses takes place.

But the doing to death of the But nover a bet is placed, for woman is something which the betting and gambling are totally handful of horrided Europeana illegal. in the crowd will not quickly forget.

It took just over on hour be- fore the doctor in altendance, who halted the stoning period- ically to feel the victim's pulse, announced her dead.

No appeal

Baked mud, from which Saudi houses were fashioned through many centuries, is today terribly non-U. Cement is all the thing although much of it is of poor quality and cracks badly.

る

However, who cares? have the money-we want to do things well." This was a phrase I heard repeatedly.

HIS

took execution It was dimeult to determine is double

Throw up the new buildings, goods refrigerators and nir- the chains festooned about his and in so doing raised his head,

Install the air-conditioners Jast On the Instant, with a swift how she was facing her

ploce just the other day. conditioners freen

By our and expert blow, the execu- and awful ordeal, since she was Savage, barbaric?

'never mind it they break down tioner decapitated him.

velled in Moslem fashion and standards, of course, yes, But from time to time).

cameras from Germany, electri- cal tings from Italy.

Round the corner plasterers

were hard at work patting the

A

Punishment

ARRIVED at the edge of the finishing touches to a 12-storey carpet he kavell and was lok modernistic office building, one by the police to keep his eyes of scores that are being rushed fixed on the prince's face. to finish all over the bursting, bustling seaport of Jeddah.

But the big and silent crowd had eyes for none of this.

a

A prince, a nephew of King Sauch

sat stern-faced On chair. Before him was a strip of carpet. From a lorry a man was led forward by two khak! clad policemen. He was in his

At his side an official unrolled

a scrol! and started to read

the onlookers.

her mouth was gagged to muffle to the Arabians who have A long, slow sigh came from her cries.

leaped from the eighth to the Lay down the new four-and (Pave- twentieth century in less thon six-lute motor-roads; a decade, thanks to the disnents? Never mind them. No covery of an immense lake of cne walks, anyway.) oll beneath their sands this

Now a woman wos dragged forward. She and the man had together murdered her husband. She too was 30, and slender.

The recital of her crime

former

too

Macabre

was read out as she knelt, ond aloud the man's misdeeds and

then the executioner stepped the punishment decreed by the forward with a

wooden atuve court. The crowd Was now and dealt 100 blows with all his utterly hushed.

strength upon her shoulders. Suddenly the line of police

As the flogging ended the

The sun shone down from a and parted

the executioner woman sagged over on her side, glorious blue sky. A famillar American soft drink advertise- appeared, sword in hand. approached the victim from bo- Next, a lorry loaded with ment showed its gentle blandish

and on tiptoe. As the rocks and stones was backed up ments. "Come to the Middle

under HAD this scene been taking was allogether seemly.

place in the middle of the This was execution. 'according A few weeks desert it would have been grim to Koranic law. enough, but that it should have carller, in this same spot, if been enacted in the heart of men, convicted of theft, had Jeddah's business neighbour their right hands chopped off. hood lent it a dismally macabre quality.

bind

He

CHAPTER TWO OF A THREE-PART INVESTIGATION

Now For The Short List

W

ITH narrowing eyes I pick my short list of the Most Attractive Men in the World. I have brought the whole wide ficld of fascinating men down to five. Each famous name is rated on what I know about him and-far Each is a splendid more interesting-on what I suspect. example of one of the qualities a woman values most in a man ......Power, Wealth, Brains, Breeding, Looks.

arc

the five

Here finalists:-

Nuklia Sergelyich Krushchev. Because he is the most power- ful man in the world, and looks It stocky, muscular, mosterful.

and

Because he has enormous vitality. drinks more,

"Do you show people yourself?" I asked.

Get on to Detroit and order 700 more Cadillacs (at £5,000 a time),

The reason

not mado

50

Is the telephone This is the stern and auto- PUT why matie penalty for thievery in service so bad? Why is the Saudi Arabia. No appent-and automatic system

Why are

fow if you should be so imprudent ovaliable?

homes off private

on the 1010- as to steal a second time,

Phone? comes your left hand,

Again, let 128 not be loo "Well," I was told in whispers, sweeping in our condemnation. "you know, we could have an Within the last century and a nutomatic system in every half, men were hanged in home tomorrow. But at the last England for petty theft - and moment someone thought of a these Saudi Arabians, in apite dreadful possibility. With the of their Cadlilaca, air-condi- telephone handy-the women tioners, and gold wrist wolches, might start persiping among have been flung from the desert themselves, And that would to the penthouse by one of the never do!” most gigantic flukes of modern times.

And as I was proudly assured more than onco, Saudi Ambla

is the most honest country in round the Middle East. If a would-be thief knows that if he is caught

"Oh, no," he said. "I leave that to other people. I wander round selling things ... beer mugs with crests and so on- Ave shillings each.

TOMORROW: KING on a hot tin roof

ROUND-UP

"People are very nice and sympathetic. They come up to me and say, Terribly sorry to Moscow hear about the death duties,

THE WORLD'S MOST

ATTRACTIVE MAN

talks with a chuckle. And everyone longer, works harder and laughs looks at each other with a wild

Be surmise, louder than other men.

lor,

THE Soviet Union, for the first time ever, has announced

igures of infant mortality. Soviet delegates at international health conferences have been embarrassed in the past when they have not been able to provide this date. Now a commenique from the Statistics Board of the Soviet Government gives the following figures for deaths among children under one year for each 1,000 born: 1913, 273; 1940, 184; 1958, 47; 1957, 45.

The abrupt decline in deaths since the beginning of the war Ho is the only man in the duke. How are things getting is said to be due to improved living standards, world I would be eager to have on?'" explain to me all about Zeta,

Other vital statisties available here show that there were 2.5 "And how are things getting births per thousand Inhabitants and 7.0 deaths in 1950. This compares with 24.1 births and 9.4 deaths in the United States, and 16.1 births and 11.7 deaths per thousand in Great Britain.

cause he ignored Elizabeth Tay- what a man... as long as "The principle, Miss Edwards, on, duke?" I asked..

you stay out of his way. Io is to heat the gas to a point But above all because he has could build you

a Kremlin in when deuterons -- nuclei of "Oh, not too badly," said the you know-collide duke, bravely. "I sold a plece o sinister look in his twinkling the Caucasus or send all your deuterium, with one

form of London last week. And a another and blue

morc chemies to Siberia, eyes. And the

heavier nuclei, releasing energy little bit of Buckinghamshire gental he is the more sinister

and some neutrons at the same the week before.” he looks.

up time."

He could. But It's my

bet

he'd have you shovelling

the

"Yes, yes," I'd say, "Go on, Mr Pease," And then pushing

At every diplomatic gathering snow at Magnetogorsk at I've ever read about, "Many a cracksk of a whipsk. wicked smile he smole, And

many a wink he

wunk," while

he talked to them all in riddles.

the

THE AGA KHAN, Into

dnnis because he is a dish. Handsome beyond belief, fun to be with, an athlete, and rich.

Не

Delightful, democratic, ducal, his hair out of his eyes and and oh, sa in debt.

still gazing at me with that remote had more than £2,000,000 death boffin look, he'd go on carefully dulles to pay off. explaining it as to a

PRITES

庭

"The gas is piped at low pres sure into the Torus then 200,000 ampere jolt 19 passed through it and this sets up an

Washington'.

AMERICA is building a super rocket engine that can hurt a

motorcar into space, the US. Air Force announced this week. The new motor will develop well over 1,000,000 lbs of thrust. That is twelve times as much as the Jupiter rocket that launched the American certh satellite,

It is three Umea heftler than Russia's "dog-in-the-moon" actor, rocket, TON NEVILLE, the

because he is near enough Richard Horner, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, tola

I have the handsomest man

Congress that this is America's first engine big enough to bring aver seen, tall, thin, fair-haired,

human space travel into the realm Ure foreseeable future.

Work began on the super engine two years agó. Secretary Horner told congressmen: It is certain that this is the next our future technical logical step in a programme to assure superiority in space."

by ANNE EDWARDS

What other man could throw the rest of the world into such an uncasy Lizzy by talking about buns, bedrooms, and hot air?

He skis well, dances well, and "Hungry men dream of buns," he says with a smile, and the (they tell me) reads Sartre. He ambassadors crowding round is a fascinating blend of the take on a worried frown.

amouldering Enst kept in check by Western upbringing (but "When you do not know not too much). someone very well, you may get

He's a millionaire whọ, into the hall," he says with a wink, "You may get into the unlike most millionaires, parlour or even the dining-room, hell-bent on not making money, it only increases my worship but you do not get into the bed but on getting through it. room."

And the delegates aro uneasily wondering.

electric discharge, which heats blue eyed with an air of brood- the gas and...”

ing, romantic melancholy.

is I know. I've heard him. And

that I don't understand a single

There's only one thing left against him. He's only 21,

word he says.

And because any man with good looks is M his drawn challenge to any woman to make him smile, And I found that so surprisingly easy.

You look surprised" I said "to be on my list."

Already the US, is readying airmen for space Gying. A rocket ship, the X15, la just about ready for testing. And its buccessor, the X158, a sleek, neodie-nosed cone with stubby wings, is being developed.

During the next two years, under present plans, an American pilot will try to orbit the earth in the X158.

Vatican City

the

"Surprised," said the Idol of THE Pope has made a strong plea for greater safety on

ronda. "When Turkey is warm a cool

"It is a terrible thing," he said, "that a person's life can be wind can blow from the Soviet ME RENDEL SEBASTIAN TERORE OF MEDFORD the gallery crowds, roaring with

an casy Analist bo- laughter, "I'm staggered." Union to cool It off," he says PEASE

.. through to the cause I like him for his looks-- And he's on my list because cut off from one moment to the other by the thoughticas action

of a complete stranger. Anals because he is one of the tall, slender, spectacled for he meant it. now elite, one of those brilliant his voice, which is low

"Drivers too intent on getting to their destination in unjustifi- And Is there a man who combines scientific minds of whom W.H. gentle; and for his smile, which the virtues of all there Ave in able haste, or racing each other through the streets in the contra Auden poco sald that when he is crooked and ahy.

of the city; do not gĺvò mufficient thought to the safety and lives of one person? was in their company, he felt

others." You will see tomorrow. But I don't mind confessing

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the lengt stuffy duke in the now, nearing the end of this Geneva He is on my short list because countryant surely the only investigation, that even if there ho is the youngest and certainly one who could give you direc. I'd turn him in for any man who had just one quality--the Leam. Because he is thatched with thick and unruly hair, as saying: "When you come to am the Most Attractive Woman brilliant men should be, and not the pub in the village you will in the World. bald a brilliant · men (unially

the handsomest of the Harwell tions for getting to his hong by ability to convince me that is United Nations Economic Commission

are.

find Woburn Abbey on the left." -

more

When he could with And because he will be so jurice have walth. "When you embarramed at Anding himself get to Woburn Abbey you will on this list,

And the village.”

TOMORROW: THE WINNER

for Europe, states. E that imports of coal lato Europe from the United States inst year were an all-time record at more than 45,000,000 metric tomm an increase of 6,700,000 tons over the previous year's figure.

Britain was the only country among those who import cont from the United States that took low than in 1950, 9

She imported 2,100,000 tons, against 3,200,000 tons in the previous year.

Western Germany was the biggest Importer--10,000,000 SONG arminst 11,000,000 tone in 1950,