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THIRD MAN IN
HONGKONG
-a genuine flamboyant star!
"UGH. PALEFACE. WAR COUNCIL DECIDE WE MAKE YOU BLOOD BROTHER:"
London Labiata Setati
MRS CURT JUR- Jurgens-thinking like
GENS, wearing her with macintosh lined mink, stepped ashore from the motor yacht "Kon Tiki" on the island of Lan Tao and prepared to climb the mountain- side.
Curt
wife
a gentleman but acting
like a nobleman ..
By DAVID LEWIN
the
buven fear. everyone has u fear of some land"
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נסיון
THE ROYAL FAMILY
NE day in the next
few weeks the white-gloved hands of the Swiss Guards out- side the Vatican will jerk upwards in salute.
The bindes of their halberds will flash in the spring sunshine. And a poised matronly figuro In black cloak and black lace mantlin will pass through the "ateletspalata's bronzé · doors to meet
the son of on Holan prusani.
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother will be in audience with Pope John.
is wife said: "The Aust not betong a Before married Curt I was cigaged to a test pilot in Italy and the fear in him was deep- to deep it got into me too.
"Come now," she said with French practicality, "I wili cook you a special Chinese supper."
We sat on deck and sipped fik nperitif as
went the sun town behind the mountain. Curt Jurgens sald: "I do not like
"I can't let them carry me," a division between private life
end work. It should all merge. said to Jurgens.
the
Jurgens, his
salled over him. "Nel nexisarily in Simone and I fru from Hongkong lo trek up to Suth of France," he said, where
You Precious te lais e 15-room vilih "SJ
must understand the Monastery of the
own Ecst," he said. "If you eluse Lotus, which is some five miles many other people there
Mr yachts that as you arrive they to be carried 33rat
pullan In their climbing. of craggy
the Jurgensis a film star in a style are going up to invite you to chair they will lase face
berty on board and begging you eyes of the other bearers and wutich
unfortunately
The to lose the tu go sailing with them. today, and
face out coming rarer
here is the to be competition among boat-owners word relis was not found in our safari's vocabulary, to ret guests is very great."
There will be he sedan
with chairs
tarry
saich, beurera
Sedan chairs
UN
10
is
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monastery, 11
waiting to The arranged,"
All raw
"That is why I like
Simonis to be along with me like this. day, although she Inoks 10 Su after a while rather than nature that there is time for Lave, anyone lose any face-and
her to start worrying about Welles's remembering Orsin earlier injunction.
These running a home. "J
"She can do all that ater think circumstances
Eke a
she can leave the we gentleman but act Uke a noble but now quayside as
I have a staff decked, the sedan chairs were ing"-1 sank into a chair and detulls to others.
at each walting, and
of my two on to Its no end
the of three ut was hoisted up
homes to take care that." emit when you face a two-ir thoulders of the women.
We went into the saloon for three-hour mountain hike fu
dinner In the middle of the know you can always thumb a
tuble was a copper pot with o charcoal fire underneath and a funnel the centre. In the pat Il is an easy way to go up chicken soup was balling -
mountain path in
made from two chickens plus rocky
I have 10 10 carry us sedan chair, bul
bamico shoots cut thin anu Reinit that the toughest of the mushrooms.
to be On deck, as the temperature How the problem was that the three of us turned out
most terrible thing of all," She is so young-23 next birth-
.. The yacht
We sailed over in that other lift.
standard piece of Ali star equipment yacht which
So we started walking and the Jurgens had hired with a crew bearers with their choirs slung
of three at a cost of £720 while on bamboo poles fell snartly
he is Blming in Hongkong.
bebind us rendy when we wilted.
The toughest
uched the 764m-bombadi-striated chula hohind me was Supon Jurgens who was
loted by we wentechci modern-late the case method
and coffee for 11 a.m. breakfast,” Botng"
Rouch old enough, I judged, to be Paris. "Should a yacht always with being a Am÷keinolker
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On the table, on separute
She actually
walked into small thin places so it nust the way ih bore Totul-be packed up sultis cho Fers of marches leaving frullah Yeak kidney and livet 106_briff-lich-mustard “warned such there was pork, beef bearers trot along behind claim to be able to control chop
All row and you can really carrying her mink as in the sticks when you can
pick up raw liver in them.
Eedan chair.
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The monetary plateau high above the island. By the nee paddles and nyor a pugnda we rat under the shade
whille
of a mandarin 'tree and pleked
fruit overhead the monk brought us tea.
The figure
Just encrenching
moment on Femingscope
for
ে terri-
And soon after that, when wu tory here is a food note:- rad seen the vast bronze Ggare
For this type of Chiness
dinner you plek up a piece of Buddha la a glass case and
merd, Hold It for a hn
few started the descent,
Curt of
boiling Jurgens sald "You know, I seconds in the
soup is cooked have been lucky In this business, until it
and then Into
Ive been sucky all my life. That dip for a moment
is why I'm not, ambitious.
His fear
special stuce..
A
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cooked,
As the meal goes on. more of the meat is .co new vegetables are added Into the bollar liquidi and "At 17, I wanted to have one
finally You Just drink the CLT:
had it.
kat course. (All- At 10, I wanted p to have five cars: I had them, right-food not finishes here. I'm Inzy-so I work hard."
At the end we cork back as Ho paused as
we walked the best salled to Hongkong. In down again towards the little the cabin on a shelf was a golden
ON
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Agure of Budiha looking at us. quay where his yacht was moored, "There is a tear in m and, lighting a leng, thin, black "Curt Jurgens glanced at it of course," said. The fent Menila cigarette,, that the fan mall will one day The Buddhists talk about
he Bald: stop before you are ready for For me life is loving, working. it to stop. All actorS I think cating and sleeping and the
This Hongkong
e.
important thing is to like the
101.
do. Buddha nald: 'To
love life you must lose yourself.
And that is true too
me.
*for
And Curd Gustaf Andre Gott.
by JOHN LUFF eb Jurgen Jurgens went off to
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The noses of Welles
London, Express Service.
Will she have your support at that time?
When Princess Margaret visited the Vatican in 1949 there were objections from the Free Church of Scotland, from the National Union of Protestants. So there were when the present Queen, then Princess Elizabeth,
AND THE POPE
An answer to the speculation that will be aroused by the Queen Mother's Vatican visit
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by namamantag PERCY HOWARD
Examerami
In
authorised to minister to these unacknowledged Catholica utter secrecy,
But what evidence is there that any members of British ruyally since the Stuarts have hud Becret
Catholic Roman sympathies?
10-
mike our Lady's altar look. beautiful for her fenst morrow.
The sacriston said...... “What. flowers would you like?; to which her Majesty answered, 'I ̧ would like roses,'
"Before Queen Mary left, the sacristan, naked, May I know your naine?1 (She explained later that her Majesty's voll covered part of her face.)
To this question Queen Mary doesn't replied, "It merely
But the sacristen matter.' declared, 'I'll call you Lady Rose because you chose roses for Our Lady."
"At this her Majesty smiled In Roman Catholic circles and said, "That will suit me three names are often mentioned,
paid a visit with Prince Philip community among the Queen's The first is Edward VII. The very well."..
in 1053.
Indeed, the very size of that
subjects mokes
Queen the Mother's visit to the Vatican
eminently appropriate.
Inevitably this April objections will be voiced again.
The fears
I do not mock at those who object, Tolerance is a splendid thing Bul so is a faith sincerely held and courageously stuck to 3 those objectors undoubtedly stick to theirs,
Yet. I cannot agree with the objectors either.
Teason
I ask them: Can any Protest- ant advance
a sound against the Queen Mother's visit to the Vatican?
the
Let there then be no fears on pozitical grounds about that visit.
than there Any more ware fears when the Queen
second is Queen Mary, consort of George V. The third is our own Princess Margaret.
Why should these hames be advanced?
Strong views
Dr Fuller was not rector at that time. He tells me that his necount followa "a laborious Toke Edward VII. It is sald process of putting two and two
But I believe bo is that unlike bis predecessors he together."
Though Queen Mary went out of his way to show mistaken. friendship to leading Catholics, is supposed to have made many Yet he also showed unpre visits, I cannot find a single cadontod friendship to the actual · eyewitness other than
the caretaker herself.
herself invited Khrushchey and In Windsor Hulganin to tea Castle three years ago.,
Yet, I agree, there is un- olher aspect to this Vatican visit. It is an aspect which rowing Jewish community. It is said that Edward VII pleased could naturally trouble many French Roman Catholics by. Protestants. It is the religious his visit to Lourdes. Yet ho aspect,
neo played the leading part in the Anglo-French ↓
the refer to
frequent cementing
Rillance against Germany. How rumour that some members of the Royal Family have leanings natural that his diplomacy towards the Roman Catholle chould extend to religious Church, that they could even be matters too, score members of list Church
Once, in Protestant eyes, the Vatican held the same political position that the Kremlin occu
today Once, in the time of Elizabeth
could want to
wielded n sceret such rumours? the Pope
The belief
Could she not have guessed wrongly in her excitement? That is what the people who should know, who were closest to queen Mary. be- Hove,
They do not merely refuse to confirm the rumour. They dis- miss tas utterly laughablo, pointing out that, so far from attending a Roman Catholic church, Quern Mary Wits political authority over thouWell, it is true that
Than it is mid-that-in-the-emphatically Law Church- in --- - ands of the Queen's subjects in Catholic doctrine allows for the teeth of Protestant obiceiions, her bellets,
Edward VII encouraged niece, Princess Victoria Eugenic,
Britain.
But even in Elizabethan times possibility, the fears of a Roman Catholic With column
The Homan
proved to be Three names
largely unfounded, Lord Howard of Emingham, the British admiral who defeated the Roman Catholic Armada, was probably * Roman Catholic himself.
How far more absurd would be any such fears today...
King's
his
Finally, there is the case of to turn Remen Catholte on Princess Margaret. Her bellefs inarrying King Alfonso of Spolu. ere not Low Church, of course, she attended Yet the recent biography of the Last year when Icing's alster, Princess Beatrice, festal ovensong at the beginning It permits a few important puts a very different slant on of the High Church Eucharist attitude to that Conference there wore protests people as It indeed permitted he
Protestant the United Charles II, who was certainly a marriage. Using the Royal third from
Among her religious siccret Roman Catholle while on person the King wrote to his Council,
mentors the Reverend Simon the throne to make submis- Cabinet:
Phipps holds strong Bion or faith in peto. That
High enables
it Church views.
Yet such views need not- coincide with any inclination towards Rome,
Buch Catholles to So far from being a Afth attend other ceremonies with- column the Roman Cathollo cut ever pubilely acknowledging has prove its their true faith, community
They loyalty andˇimportance re- permitted to make inner reser- peatedly in war and prace.
And priests
vations.
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and
that of
conaldera The King wosolutely Lecereaty Princess Victoria Eugenie Battenberg should "sign a paper formally renouncing her English to: the succession Throne, having become a Roman Catholic."
Such words hardly sound like the language of an undercover Roman Catholic.
Why then, it may be asked, should nich rumours peralst about Princess Margaret and her forebeare? Perhaps it would be more surprising If they did persist.
not
The Roman Catholles are a Next take the case of Queen loyal and proud minority. It is Mary The belief that she was natural and human that they inclined to the Roman faith should be enger to discuss any
that depends entirely on her up suggestion
the Royal Loied visits to the historie Family inclines to their faith Roman Catholic church of Our though the Vatican itself has Lady of the Assumption in never voiced the ident London's West End,"
The bistory et tant church by: its present, rector, Dr Fuller, relates:
Among the eminent pet-:\ sone who cante from time to time was Queen Mary. The chutch was of course not far from her residence."N
But it is equally natural if Protestanta comotudo that, in their eyes, the evidence for those surrections is very thiL, Which makes it all the mara natural for the overwhelming majority of the nation to give
κα enthusiastic" support Queen Mother's propősed "vialt. For
aizicere despite the
It continues
One day her Majesty camo obloclors, what a 'blessing it is Into the Church and said to folve at a time when such the sacristancoretaker), 'Are things can happen. How pre- "fierco; narrow you the lady. that looks after forable to the
the Church? Op - receiving a days when faith too often reply my the airmative, she salt, brought hatred and war instead
•Hero›i&B-1/want you” to of peace,
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