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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1959.
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Baudouin: The Sad Young Monarch
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All Europe is today watching a tall, bespectacled
man who is one of the world's most criticised monarchs. He is King Baudouin I of Belgium, who this week faces the biggest erlais of his 28 years. And, for the first time in eight years of aloof, unsmiling reign, he will have to face it alone. For his guide, mentor and father, 57-year-old ex-King Leopold, has finally been forced by weight of public opinion, and a reported Government ultimatum, to leave the royal palace and to slop minding his son's uffairs,
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This move might have delighted some monarchs. Not so golf-mad, sports car enthusinst Baudouin. Seldom in the annals of European royalty has there been such a strong, and consistently criticised, father-son relationship.
Curiously enough, Baudouin's diana began as long ag 1935 when his mother, the beutiful and revered Queen Astrid "The Little Star"—was Bear accident killed a car Lucerne.
Driver of the car was hand- some Leopold himself and- rightly or wrongly--he was held to blame by a fargo Me tion of Belgium's Flemish, and Catholic royalists.
Came the war, ond the un- happy Leopold's popularity sank fightra After even further. alongside Britain in 1040, he ruddenly switched, minde peace with the invading German, and, during the occupation, found London-born murry Mary Lilian Backs, today, at 43, Belgion's violently disliked Princess de Rethy,
time to
Fighting Belgians were furlous "with Leopold's humiliating step- down-so furious that, after the They wear. they exiled, him. allowed blin back after a close for plebiscite (57.0 per cent Leopold In 1950, only on condl- te that he obdicate and hand the throne to his eldest son, 20- year-old Baudouin. Leopold had little choice.
Bitter
Thus ascended Baudouin-*, callow, inexperienced, bitter at what he calls the "unjust treat- ment" meted out to his father, Never has he forgotten the day of Leopold's inglorious return, when tens of thousands of troops, gendarnes, and policemen lined the way from the alport to the royal castle at Lacko, bocks to the read, weapons at the ready.
Το understand today's Baudouin, one musi recall bis background: a life of bereave- ment, war and crises, ele to the throne at three (when his grandfather. Kur Albert, was killed), motherless at five, vir- tual prisoner of the Germans at nine, then for ten years under either occupation exlic-no wonder Belgians say: "le never smiles," The
sunlight only Baudouin's fe has been his family his father, his sister, his brothie, and the Princess de Bethy Perhaps that is why, against the advice of everyone around him, he invited Leopold and his wife to live with him at Ineken,
Sneered
or
In
But the Helgians bad not for- HOLE FONIO's sad frcord
They sneered "at the fact-tha', every morning, balore-driving.te. "fit" "list-floor Brussel Palace office, Boudouln'kissed both his father and stepmother goodbye They sntered at the frut that, nt The family tuble, despite Baudouin's royal posilon, It was Leopold who presided.
To be true, Baudouin had let
"Dear papa, ddar manis, I'm terribly SOFTY. 1 bad to receive the Foreign Ministers
Britain of America,
am
France."
Whereupon Leopold gravely excused him und nodded him to his reat,
Other accusations have been levelled at Leopold and his Princess for what Belglans refer thelr "over-shadowing to s presence."
Hesitated
They are sald to have in- need him against marriage, a subject dear to the heart of every royalist Belgion,
H 82-year-old grandmother Dowager Queen Elizabeih, is re- ported to have told him not so walt long ago: "We
tich longer. The future of the dynasty is at stake."
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We Aren't Paid Too Much, Says Cooper
| AUSTRALIAN_NEWSLETTER_By H. King Wood
FORMER LORD
MAYOR BACKS LATE SHOPPING
Sydney (By Airmail)....)
It could be that soon again we will hear the patter of mighty feet and the yells of kids doing the Friday night shopping round,
There more than an even A meeting of the appeal édm- chance that the New South Wales mittee this week said that the Government will give Friday business was in the doldisims, night shopping a trial and Hollywood.
for and had collected only £28 this kses cime Gary Cooper, miffed at the the same period cut out the year and of thet
on Saturday from ene ble company. criticism of actors' garning of shops
morning,
Since the committee wasap- salaries, has gantuan
The powerful Shop Assistants' pointed in August; 1957, It has £1 back rapped
at pro- Union has asked the Minister collected £258/200 of its ducers, saying the picture for Labour and industry, Mr million quota.
JJ. Maloney,
mokr titis "Promises" made at an ellihu- makers are the ones change.
alpstic public meeting which fund still total While the Government has not launched the writing the cheques.
a decision, it is £94,424. "Aviors aren't hurting the unnounced
Expenses of the committee are mavle business by drawing bur known Ministers are more than
The interested in the proposal. now "practically nil," but it b pay cheques," he said, producers who squawk the most What makes it more likely to to meet soon to discuss an offer are the ones who are most will-huppen is that Mr E. C. O'Dea, by a professional fund-raising member of the City Courell, a company to help get the rest of member of the Upper House, the money.
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But because marriage would certainly have meant Leopold's removal from Lacken, Baudouin 03 an has hesitated, giving excuse: "One day, father, I will And the one I am looking for...1 will marry when wonian as beautiful I meet is my mother."
Leopold is also alleged to have
Prevented the Government from replacing his friend, the Governor-General of the Belgian Congo:
•
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Arranged the marriage at the Vallean
(with no Belgian elvi) ceremony, as required by the Constilu-
of tion)
Prince Albert, Baudouin's 24
brother,
year old to the beautiful Itallan Princess
Donna Paola Ruffo di Calabria, 22. without consulting the
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Government; Approved Die plans of £1,000,000 dower house in the Lucken grounds. Now Leupold is going, at the reported threat of Bls Cabinet's resignation,
Admittedly not for (possibly in the Belvedere Residence, only a few hundred yards from the palice), With him will move the three children of his second marriage, Prince Alexandre, 10, Princess Marie-Christine, eight, and Princess Marin-Esmeralda, two-and-a-half,
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"it the actors weren't worth and one of the most powerful what they're getting don't think Agures in the trade union move-
for one ininute production cam-ment, is spearheading the move On the windy rocky heights
panies would be paying out all that loot."
for the change.
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Besides being more than face in the industrial wing of Australien Labour Party, the Alderman O'Dea also commands
big following of voles which | could be vital at the State ALP. Annual Conference in Sydney
shortly.
of South Head the Navy
La planning to build a chapel which will be the only one of its kind in the world.
It will be built right on, the edge of a cliff with a sheer drop to rocka 150-feet below.
Most vociferous objector to slar salaries is Sam Goldwyn who, hearing that William Holden and John Wayne were drawing $750,000 each for a new movie. blasted actors an traktor to the industry. "Boiden and Wayne aren't 20 years secretary of the Shop The site overlooks the harbour taking chances on a porcentage Assistants, a former Lord Mayor entrance and will den," the rangy Cooper went and chairman of Sydney County many miles uut to sen. on. Why should they have to Council, has for long planned to worry about the fluctuating cur-close shops on Saturday morn chips will be a gleaming white rency a foreign countries and
Emie O'Dea, for more than
Ing.
country? They Agured they
Lax ofct problems in this ★ ★ ★
be Been
By day the wails of marble
Landmark visible to many parla.
The church is to have a cop-
of the city and the harbour,
could make a killing on the pic-Aboriginal artist, Albert per steeple with a 30 feet copper
ture, and I don't blame them.
Nothing to show
"The only people in Holly- woud who are in higher income brackets than the stars are the who serem about very ones actors making too much money. I think actors should eam dil the money they can,
aby
other business- "Lit collecting garbage, for instance a man is able to keep a much higher radio of his earninge.
Namatjira, has left his cross, which will be floodlit at
open-air
prison
night, This will tower 200 teet the above the ous and will be soon Northern Territory and by ships more than 30 miles gone buck to his tilbe away. near Alice Springs, Q bitter
man.
and disillusioned
He was sent to gaol for three months for supplying liquor to a native.
The Government has now offered to help the aging ortist in every possible way.
Ad- The Northern Territory ministration has offered to help out his affairs him straighten
tris Hife. I will at readjust
near Alice offer alma home Springs and will also give him an advance ot money if he
"I've been in this business longer that diinast anyone, and though I've taken in many millions of dollars I have nothing to show for it except lut of good times and á couple of Uscats. "My hope is that I can save cubugh capital to make a pic-needs IL ture some day exactly the way I want to do It," he grinned. "But taxes, are so high the amount I've been able to anve is ridiculously amali.
Fixed price
Albert refused to talk to re- portera when he was released and has maintained his silence since.
Thore close to him say he has been bitterly distressed by the
prison sentence and now has no
"I have a fixed price, and I longer any inclination to carry stick to it. Most of the lime Ion with his painting.
have a percentage of the pro-
*
fts. If other actors have ways Down at Sydney's Cliçülər to keep a bigger percentage through Investments and tax- Let justice roll down as exempt corporations, i say more waters, and righteousness power to them. as a mighty
Thus, 5,000 miles away in Nebraska, U.S.. on his
Arst State visit, hudouin became for the first time sole royal ruler of 1,000,000 Belgions.
The battle bank to Amos 5:24. popularity Ts, however; for In all our relations in life
from won for Baudouin. For
stream
"Actors are more interested in keeping the movies going and. appearing in good plctures-than- they are in money,
100 lonx Has He of our fatica and righteous canonicone ask. his duties with a singular lack should be our passion. We of rusto, Imagination, or even tolerate nothing else friendiluers A royal smile. without making slaves of according to ona
Belgian
royallet, is "a national event.” Perhaps now bitter Baudouin will see his way clear to a big-
the relationship slide out of ger fort, to marriage (numer-
bounds. A few years ago, when
ous princesses have been parail-
he arrived late for a meal, he is ed before blin)-und to the reported to have burst out before his frowning father:
sorred position in which Beiglans Bke to sent their royalty,
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AN American "space physician" pense glamour.
"Receptionette!
is reported to have said Receptionette! What is that
can
ourselves.
Press-Radio Bible Service,
ine Cincinnati, Ohio.
the producers who sold att the movies to television They about the fast buck!" bren't thinking about the actors or the movie business." -UPI
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But all does not go well with the Opera House appeal.
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