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V-Bombers Track "Death Dust"
BY PETER EARLE
London.
A ROYAL AIR FORCE V-bomber force has
been ordered to plot the radioactive stream which is passing over Britain and has doubled the full-out, as revealed recently by Mr Harold Macmillan, the British Prime Minister, in the House of Commons,
Vulean and Victor hom- Christmas Island in the bers fiying at enormous Pacific Ocean. height: are heading de- Hberately into the fall-out "streams" to check their intensity and plut their
courses.
"Planes have been ranging rent distances, at heights which are secret because it would reveal the operational "ceiling" of Britain's bom- "streams" bers.
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The fall-out are believed to have been
cœured by stratosphere de- tonation of "dirty" 11-bombs by the Russians Inst lump.
Hu-
:I ean reveal that V-bombers have been gel- ting radioactivity checks after their training mis slous. and it is this force which has been the muin- stay of the British watch un fall-out.
Great secrecy surrounds this work and the British Air Ministry will only con firm that tests on planes
are also carried out
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Despite the reassurance by Prane Minister Maersillon that, although Fall-out had doubled in the past year it was still well below danger level, no chances are being taken by relentints who are relying largely on the Royal Air Force for help.
A wutine watch is being kept on je de-liners.
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1st February when Itoring 707 developed trouble and dived steeply, it was found when the plane was examined
str active.
that F
Was
radio-
Pasta British Overseas Air-
when ways Corporation spokesman: they have actually flown
"Minute anunts of (all-out
thriagh areas where bomb of a harmless nature have been trials have been held-like found."
THE CHINA - MAIL,
· FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1959.
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Next month the
· Queen goes off to Canada and with her departure begins a busier time for her mother.
Not that life is ever light for the Queen Mother.
Looking at the royal diary of the season, I find that, apart from the Queen, she tops the list with 27 official engagements as against Princess Margaret'e 22, the Duchess of Kent's 17, the Duchess of Gloucester's 13 and Princess Aloxandra's 11.
For, in her 60th year, the Queen Mother is having her biggest public success since
WAL Queen
consort. People Just can't get enough of her.
sh
show
Looking into the whole ques- tion of royal invitation, I And thrives. that each one is a personal offair. It simply isn't a ques- tion of go many hundreds of
| Invitations divided up and given
to who does what best,
Personal
By GWEN ROBYNS
it,
Elizabeth Queen
She may forget a name (and she's heard thousands in the last 25 years) but rarely a face or where to place it.
It's not true olther that the Queen Mother fusses about her curves,
her Only once or twice in whole life has she bothered to diet, Nor does she agree- with Those cosy personal remarks massage or experimental beauty
treatments, that Queen Elizabeth Is 30 famed for are seldom accidental She has only been (wice either. Sto knows exactly in her life and is never put out
what and Insists on by headaches or colds,
In each case, it is a personal what's request. And if one member being well briefed on everyone of the Royal Family can't ac- ehe is likely to meot during the cept for one reason or another day. then the committee has to start again and approach the private secretary of their second chalce.
Talking
official an Buckingham Palace, I was told that each invitation is reviewed by the royal person concerned and her private secretary. The decision to attend is seldom a question of personal interest but how important the event Is.
to
of
And the Queen Mother? I find she's tops with the Arroy, agricultural shows adore her, and her "unsoccharine" charm yet sympathetic understanding are just what are required for hospitals.
As
+
much as possible of the Queen Mother's touring this commer will be done by car.
In her private Ufe, Queen Though she doesn't drive her Elizabeth the Queen Mother is self, she has a Jaguar for long no highbrow. She likes doing journey and likes speeding.
everything thousands of other the faster the better.
On long brandmothers like to do,
trips she will use Herons from Shic prefers
the Queen's Flight ond thriller (Peter Cheyney la her favourite) to stodgy biographies, and finds a good laugh at the music hall more relaxing than
symphony.
novels
Scot At Heart
The real Queen Mother--the one who likes to walk in The raja, make bondres and whistle
Frankly, it's easy to under- is still a complete Scot at stand why everyone loves this heart. extraordinary woman. She is so Three times п weck at Intensely feminine and uncom- Clarence House a piper from plicated.
the London Scottish (of which She's the most serene she is
Colonch-In-Chief) goes 8 am and woman I have ever seen. No there just after one and nothing can fast her. while she is having breakfast.
plpes putside her bedroom
Take that unfortunate scene in Italy when a woman tried to throw herself 'nt the Queen Mother's fool She never tura ed a hair-just kept up he quiet smile to the general pub- lle and immediately asked offenis that no harm come to the woman
The Queen Mother's Interest in people is, almost phenomenal. When other mumbers of the Hoyal Family (und heavens understandubly!) begin
above,
to flag during the season and
And on evenings when she is completely alone at Claretke House, she prefers a light sup- per on a tray in front of tho 1elevision set."
She always has a piece of needlework round about, but it's rarely ever touched. And she
hates knitting.
She does not smoke herself and dislikes cocktalls, though she is one of the most knowledge- able prople in the country champagne.
on
sing at the top of her voler.
On the car trips she likes to
The Queen and Princess Margaret know by heart the old-time music hall songs which their mother has taught them.
When travelling with them or her ladies-in-wolfing, it's invari- ably the Queen Mother who starts off with "Daisy, Dalsy, give me your answer do.....
Nor is she extravagant with, pole clothes. She treats the pinks and blues that she wears in public as her royal props.
Stockings
Нет favourite clothes Are tweed coals and skiris and sample silk dresses. This summer she will be wearing the clothes she had made for her visit to Paris and Italy,
During busy days her maid always slips a zip bag into the back of the car with a change of stockings, make-up and gloves should they be required. While the Queen is in Coñada, the Queen Mother is arranging her life so that she can spend to many weekends as possible nt Royal Lodge, Windsor, with Princess Anne and Prince Charles during school oft-days.
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MEET THE FASCINATING
A BIG fish in a moat
deep in the heart of Westminster has caused quite a stir. among those
FISH THEY
flyeasting philosophers CALĹ
who are by profession members of Parliament and members of the City: and other offices of dis-
By JOHN
‘BIG BEN'
Among them is Sir.MOYNIHAN
Coment. Tory MP for Rutland and Stamford. He
30
ftocinated by this monster that he visits him regularly
every morning betere going telligent trout would soon get to the House..
wind of operations," he says.
Equally Interested in "Bl FASCINATED, too, are those. Ben" City businessmen who willingly Anglers Co-operative Assoola- Cre members of the give up their second cup of coffee at the expense account, lunch and scamper down. The Mell just for a peek at him.
Giant trout
1
FASCINATED ore members
of the Anglers Co-operative AssociaGen who have written to
-magy bazi --"It would soon lead to chave."
Mr. Buchan irvited me plons. to see the ash of the moment. It was the lunch boar, Around. "The "mour, a band "of BowIEF=
hailed businessmen -
poked umbrellas at the greeny, black water.
We saw a number of smaller trout but rainutes ticked by and the fan club began` ` getting Impatient,
Sensitive
been
watching
have done some tion, who Blering work in preventing the pollution of rtvers. One of thom, Lord Tweedsmuir's brother, Mr William Buchan, tells me they bavo asked if they can have houre," saki a voice. "He's Jolly permission for che of their sensitive today. Must be this members to catch the fish with dratted crow
fly,
Mr Buchan says that one selected.
the Ministry of Works asking af member would be they can catch this marvellous creature with a fly,
Locking at their carmitte list, isco such names as His Gance, the Duke of Devanshine,
Marquis president, the
of
Exeter, the Duke of Hamilton, Lord Hollenden and Col. Sår Inti
All this fuss in fact, concerns a giant swinbow trout or rather "Big Ben" as he has aptly been, filenamed, a groud native of Walker Okeover,
and Maj-General the Jewel Tower of the Medic- presidents.
1. N. F. Wilson, chalaman. val Palace ot Westminster.
The apple of Sir Roger's eye de considered to be all at 4lb., which is mighty big for a trout, especially a trout living in fresh water supplied by the fer politan Water Board bang in the heart of grubby London,
Hence the commotion, among ; our lebemöti anglers,
Prince eligible
Vice-
"I've
for
Mr Buchan, meanwhile wis touring bread into the goal. Then it happened. A plece of bread produced a ripple ord then an enormous dah rose up from the depths, twisted for ozie brief moment as it took the
bread in a flash of the blue and ellver, and them disappeared.
It was incredible, spectacular.
It had flood bem o mcamont to remember. Sir Roger's wonder was understandable,
It is'n rKial among fly casters that a 4lb. trout warrants a bottle of sherry L caught. I suggest the man who Annds this prize should be
The Prince of Wales is also eligible, having lined the ass ciation in 1953 as a subscribing member at £1 per annum.
But whoever they choose, i gather the Ministry of Works will disappoint them and allow'
un Sir Roger world like to go "Big Ben to live on after "Big Ben" with a fly but melted among the water is for those who like watching thinks this venture would load so close to the Victoria Tow such beauty, in the big city.
(London Exprean"Service).
woli attei "An in- hundreds of othern,” a spolcos-
to en invasion of spectatoru, and "Ons angter televizion
presented with a crate."
But "Big Ben" is likely to stay on the the most. And that... after all, will, be a good thing
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