1958-10-18 — Page 8

The Rt Hon Pillar of the

Establishment

THE LEADER

**Ah, what a wonderful party it would be if there weren't any Socialists in it!”

Nothing too odd to cut the risks

IF you could

look

through the files of British insurance poli- cies you would find that nothing seems too big, too small, too far away, or too odd for an insur- ance policy to cover,

Look at the following list of the unusual insurances which have been handled by British firma.

• Sabrina's bust, the hands

of pianist Winifred Atwell

THE ́ CHÌNA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1958.

The highest-priced fingers on a skiffle washboard ... They are Mare Sharratt's -- insured for £5,000

+19

Should the Queen preside

(VOU should study

your Peerage as you would your Bible," This characteristic word of advice was given by Disraeli to his private

L

over the

secretary, and now the Roger FulfordŘEV

reader, has the chance to meet the editor of one of those gilded books of reference.

Cabinet?

REVIEWS A STARTLING BOOK WRITTEN BY L. G. PINE, EDITOR OF BURKE'S PEERAGE.

in

the

Dowor

structure

of' political has not had the result King Edward feared.

For one thing it has led to the virtual disappearence of the republican movement—a point noticed by that perceptive lefilst, it an a telescope to quiz the has gone wrong. The Amori quickly than in the case of Professor Laski, Hartled members.

cans have lockeyed Britain out subjecis..........The Queen repre- Has it not also brought the Then there was the Litoma or of her just property and rights." sents the very fount of one monarchy much closer to the Ho leaves the contemplation Tibet who, in spite of his divino (That may be so, but is it wize nationhood."

interests of ordinary citizen? of coronets and baronies, of origin, described himself when to say this in a book whose cover, We can suroly leave this sug- dignitles and co-heiresses, of revelling in his capital as "the proudly announces that the gesulan to fail to its own level of

Пtemoval ol the political crinino and miniver for the prince of regues."

author is shartly undertaking absurdity, wider world of monarchy".

with the proposal powers of the House of Lords in The author is capable of pak- Blatos7)

Unded that the Queen, instead of read- 1911 left, the Commons and the ing a conventional speech at the Crown as the two surviving ing some discrect fun at his own profession, when he recalls the "The 'conchler and mladits

Hex opening of Parliament, forces in the Constitution, Since Irish pedigree which starts with five on from two wers to Vox pany in the manner of Gracen power of the House of Commoda should rate the assembled com- that time soma of the political child born to the prophet their Motherland." "The clergy Elizabeth I.

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The result may-lo Use favourite expression of Mr Jeremiah Asquith-maku the reader rub

lls eyes with astonishment.

that

after

lecture-tour in the

an elopment seldom attract attention." (This with the daughter of Pharaoh. reviewer manmired, "How

Ila thinks that pedigrees of sensible."} "Can Her Gracious. Asian potentates are often moro Majesty sit as the ruler of what reliable than those of some of Was once great?" the European ruling families.

He

Prophecy

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been surreptitiously · slp- boned away from it by the headquarter dictatorships of the two large parties,

The author guides us skilfully

These bodies nominate to seata The difficulties enough through the history of

facing # in the House of Commons the monarchies which still sur-

sovereign in the world today are with the ninerity of Lord North vive all over the world. We are

and there the author

large enough without increasing sending a supporter to a rotten Here remanded of the vanished glory seems a shado slap-dish. He

them by roviving archale habits borough, They demolisti the of the old Ottoman Empire in recklessly slaughters the present

foretell the from the time when our consti- career of any independant with the title of the Sultan"Prince King of Norway (whom God pre- extinction of

tullon was in its infancy. the British

a frown; they decide' when they of the Ballovers, Sultan of Lont serve) by stating he died in 1954. Monarchy and secs the Papacy and Soa,"

Very few grandehlidren of King na the

Mr Fine certainly makes one are ready for the Queen to be sole survivor of the sound point, when he suggests they would like their voice to be urged to dissolve Parliament; In the Far East We are Edward VII sill survive-King tradition.

that no more peers (except life heard when she choses a Prime startled to think

the Oinf of Norway is of course one Sir Robert Peel, in a rash ones) should be created, and be Minister. Milcado claims desceat from the and we should cherish those moment, said at the beginning is right in perceiving that the goddess of the sun. We are that do,

of Queen Victoria's reign that virtual extinction of aristocrotic May not the future show the reminded of

Japanese Mr Pine will, of course, re- the monarchy would last four or political power has removed an Queen and Coramang Emperor who took love of bla member that

acting that wise King, five years. Events confounded important defensive screen from together to save the Constitution Bences 41 the opening of Edward III, made it a treason, that great mat. They are likely the sovereign.

from further ravages from the Parliament, rolled up his care able offence to imagine the chase away Mr Pine's gloom.

political party bossca? So let Mr fully prepared specch, and used King's death.

What is his remedy for his King Edward VII always held Pine cheer up for the time may On curreni affairs Mr Pine jeremiahs? He says, "I would that any attack on the hereditary well be coming when-te quote writes with the gloom of a like the Queen to elt in Cabinet principle of the House of Lords Disraeli again the Sovereiga *THE TWILIGHT OF Jehovah's Witness and the with her Ministers as her pro- must tell unfavourably on the becomes "no longer n mere MONARCHY, by L. G. Pina, excitability of mn Empire decessors used

do....the monarchy but In fact the re- pageant," Burko. 18s.

Loyalist. Everything, we feel, Royal head has to think more moval of the aristocratic wedge ---laman Express Service).

WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?

to

Immortality Promised To Cranks In

THROUGHOUT Christianity, men and

women have started the most extraor dinary sects. Soveral of them wore criminal and immoral. In fact, them, called the Assassins, was notorious for its secret murders.

The "Abode Of Love"

one of Self-Styled “Lord God” Lived In Luxury

Spalding. Polyppy was intro-

Gradually Prince's funds dia- When Prince died in 1899, at duced in it, under a theory of appeared. But luck was with him the age of 68, Smyth-Pigott The group

was formed among the Moslems of live in the 1920s, when wealthy London mer eucceeded him. Little way hoard many young women in London' chant presented him with all of him until 1902, when he also Persia in the 11th century. It was stamped out were enticed to join the Mormon his property, and served the began to make claims likte his predecessor. The new "Mesalah” in 1256, but many adherents fled to the mountains Church at Salt Lake, Utah, But brotherhood as a butie.

At Clapton, In North East had to be protected by police in 1833, polygamy was prohibit- of Lebanon and terrorised whole regions before ed by the atormen authorilles London, a branch church was from an angay mob.

Perhaps the most remarkablo established und an elaborate Due to Smyth-Pigott's rela- they were exterminated.

and successful sect to be estab- structure called "The Ark of the tions with women

followers, Histrodi in Britain swere the Covenant" was built in 1803 of there was a culminating scandal "Community of the Son of Man." a cost of 18,000. The pastor in 1968 and proceedings were They were also known as the was another strange man need instituted against him by the Agapemonites, because they the Rev. T. H. Smyth-Pigott, Bishop of Bath and Walls un- lived together in a luxuriously who had also been a Church of do the Clergy Discipline Act. furnished building at Spaxton, England curate. Somersetshire, called the Agupe- mone, or "Abode of Love.*

Their chief, known as “The Hold Man of the Mountain," was regarded as possessing the Spirit of God, and his orders had to be immediately obeyed. Yet the doctrine preached was a mixture of four religions, including Christianity and

or authores Doris Leslie, Ronald Shiner's nose or the Airport to be in the soup at Australia; damage caused legs of ice-skating star the Lord Mayor's banquet hitting alxes at a cricket mulch. Judaism.

Celebration costat the Daphne Walker; a cock in the Mansion House; a 19th hole for golfers who hole in fighting arena in Cuba. female elephant in Brazil one.

Four live turtles flown that parades the streets

which from Jamaica

to London advertising insecticides (in- covered 10,000 miles from Bel-

sured against malicious acts from passers-by),

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Gold mines 5,000ft. below DEA Level In Mysore, India; Charlle McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, the dummies of ventrilo- quisi Edgar Bergen.

• The oldest residence in the United States, dating from 1595, in St Augustine, Florida; ants

eggs and dried flies used us bird and tropical fish food, lowr. from Mexico.

at

A model typewriter valued

£1,700.

equipped

with Chinese characters and shipped to Shonghal,

Carliste which insured itself against the cancellation of a visit from the Queen, "Dry-ice shippert in blocks from New York 10 Panama; Scotch whisky signs at Port Sald.

Lain

A family saloon

Cape Town, via the Sahara, in 24 days; one £10 pair of Britlah hand-made shoei for Ung Crosby.

In Antwerp, the Adamites, or and upon her head a crown of "Brethren of the Spirit," flour 12 stars." She made a convert ished during the 15th and 10th of the Rev. Hugh White;

Who centuries, They preached and was expelled by his own church. practised nudism on the plen that Christ had restored them to the innocent state of Adam.

The sect was started by Henry

and Prince, formerly a doctor Church of England clergyman,, As a crate, he took charge of a parish during the Dliness of him rector, the Rey, Samuel Starkey.

Local hovilgans gave Buchan Lived In Luxury

a rough time by throwing her

the lock or birdnes Crown Of Stars' into the air and calling on her

with

to fly to heaven. But she was a determined woman and, about 50 followers, built a coma munal hours. She promised the

the stock of a birdnest-sou dealer in Hongkong; the South African cricket team flying to Elspeth Buchan, the literate Britain (2200,000 an ane air-daughter of a Scottish innkeeper. plane).

started one of the queerest Bri- Ono 93-year-old iren yacht tish sects, In the middle of the being reconditioned for aa18th century. She had been Eastern ruler at a cost of more brought up in the Episcopal Buchanites that she would be

than £1,000,000.

Church but developed strange beliefs after her husband desert-

• A freak storm with halled her. slones bigger than grapefruit Dally meetings were held in

caused which

one British tent, Buchan declaring that she insurance company alone to pay was "a great wonder of heaven: out more than £170,000 for pro- a woman clothed with the Su perty damage.

Fourteen ilve penguins flown from Montevideo,

Risk of a Sputnik failing.on In Australian store.

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He seemed to have an almost hypnotic power over his con- verts. But he began to have de- lusions and thought himself be the visible embodiment of the

of his illness after reading on Holy Ghost, Starkey was "cured” of Prince's sermons, and he em

For- braced the curato'a secti

bidden to proach in the Church of England, the two men form- ed converts of their own, and so much money flowed in that Several times they climbed they were able to acquire the

taken up to heaven by angels,

great event. But it never occur- a nearby hill to wali for the Agapemone in 1946. red. So they built a platform as

the

Several'ealthy people join- a sort of launching site. The ed them after renouncing whole structure collapsed on world and depositing their

windy day.

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money at the Bank of England The •VOC-FRIQUIORful leader in the name of Brother Prince. then ouaounced that the "elect".

I were obviously too heavy for an

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aroension and undered Angry Mob

| days' fast. This was the last straw

for many followens, who disert- Outsiders blamed the gullible ed the community. Then sud-

denly, to the astonishment of followers who "were simply those who stayed and starved,

Buchan was taken ill and died, mad about Prince and ready to One follower hid her body and fall down and worship him." cut a hole in the roof to "prove"

her ascension to heaven, But the Letters arrived at the house cocyte was discovered. Gradual-

ly the Buchanliça faded away. addressed to "Our Holy Lord

The Mormons

God at Sparton."

One of the attractions at the One strange wet which still exists is the Church of the Lat Agaphone was that the in- ter Day Saints of Jesus Christ, Ity and freedom

mates were promised immortal- from sickness, better known as the Mormona Prince had so much money that Founded in 1830 by an Amerihewe able to live nogully. He Icạn, Joseph Smith, adherente be-

revelation

bought the

Queen Dowager's

lieve in a divine through the medium of Mormon,arriage and four cream-coloured horros, and drova through wwwww.the prophet of their church.

neighbouring vilinges, Outriders heads in the pre- The Book of Mormon is salf bared their

*****sence of "The Lord”

Symbols of daration, (4-5} ipomeining. ' [ម៉

Knowledge

Dedented.

Plundered.

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to record on golden plates the Pride and profanity developed Into immorality, and loweniita lives of certain ancient people against Prince were started by

fellow Agamonites who had

in America. Stitch is supporod, becoma appalled by life in the

to have found the plelea and "Abodo of Love." One trial ex- poned Bow Pri and ils sized magte spigotacles to trase» Benchmen Hgreat into, houses, ***. fonding captive, «lily_women? late the worlding on thers.. Whether Prince prvalskned or

After this, the movement died.

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