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↑ THE CHINA MAIL,"

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1959.

Let's give the Queen

a Holiday Isle

London.

THE summer holidays have begun, and all round our island grown- ups and children alike have been revelling in the sight and the sound and the smell of the sea.

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I dare say thousands of happy people are hoping that The Royal Family will be able enjoy their holiday as much as others,

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But will they be able to?

When The Queen and Prince Phillp carne back from Canada and started their summer holi- days would they be granted the biotute zeclusion for which they mit both be sighing? The answer regrettably is Na,

Balmoral is now very far from belog that tranquil escape that It provided for Queen Victoria,

Oggling

by Sir COMPTON MACKENZIE

and eyes

clicking

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You may say that there is no tingle place on the British main- land where privacy could be guaranteed that cars and nutur-coochies can get anywhere,

You may be right. But why restriol the March tu the mainland? Why not pul aÍ their disposal some

an-

inhabited island where the Royal Family could really feel at peace?

Twa years ago the Queen and Prince Pilp, with the Prince of Wales, Prineres Anne and Princess Margaret, visited the Outer Hebridis and it would not be presumptuous to suggest that this tour was one most enjoyable they ever made,

feet.

But the tacl must be faced four bens of over 2,500 that they do ile out in the Rum has splendid fishing and Atlantic and at the mercy of plenty of deer. wlid Atlantic weather.

Regretfully I Abandon the nollen of u holiday retreat on one of the Outer Ishxis no

impracticable.

Taken over

So from the Outer Hebrides I come to the Inner Hebrides or they are some- Small Ides an times called.

Canna and Bigg have beauty and interest but they are both in private ownership and there of the is a small croting population

on both.

four. I.

Today the road outside I is for 100 often thronged with hundreds people eager to get peep at or perhaps even 1 had unly one règrèt in read- a lucky snap of the Queen and ing about that royal, Prince Philip with the royal had felt sure that an oppor- children.

tunity would be taken of visit- ing the fate of Eriskay, where Prince Charles Edward landed at the end of July in 1745, G that another Prince Charles could walk up that white strand and pick one of those big con- volvulus Bowers, the first seeds of which had been dropped by his predperssor over two cen= turies before.

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It seems to be no mure appending to people not to intrude upon the privacy of a royal holiday than it is to appeal to them not to leave litter behind them in lovely places.

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The behaviour of the litter. bugs is inexcu-able, but we muz not be tax, censorious of human curlsity and admiration, We do all wer

1) feed the Tomance of royalty and We cannot

ittut expect

kood munners will always

be good cough to resist peeping ย! royalty if the chance occurs,

Seclusion

But would it not be wonderful

if somewhere In these British Isles a place wald be provided where the Royal Family could have complete' and utter seclu- 99007

And when, with that pic- ture of Erinkay in the mind's eye, I read of traffic jams on ile roads of Great Bellain i wonder if it would not be a tood

Idea to present the

Weal where she could enjoy a

Seeta.

What about Rum? (Not. repeal humm.) Rum has been taken over by the Na- (ure Conservancy prople, and there is n iion,

Rum has eight miles

Rum hng a large house and what used to be a magnificent garden. Rum hea sheltered tle harbour. Rum is an onay soa journey from Mallaig. Hum has been closed to visitors for meny year, and it is a minia- ture of the Highlands as a whole.

A rumour

The Nature Conservancy could continue with their researches, and although rumour In the Weat says that the missile wallaha have their sights on Hum do not believe in the existence of such a dark plot......

Surely we should all rejoice to huar that the Queen and Prince Philly at last had a playe they can

tize enjoy holiday privacy to which they are better entitled than anybody

in which crofting popula.

a large house and wide. Tam $125

in the country.

London Express Service),

Geneva.

Queen with an island in the THE Khrushchev-Eisenhower meet- complete rest from her sub-ings are of immense significance to future world peace. But to whom does most credit for this first news belong? Not to the President. Not

But which island? I, yield to nobody, lu devotion to the Outer Hoodies-thore inlles of white beaches on which the ocean is never silent even on the stillest day in high zuumer; those miles of TRSS above the beaches,

to Mr Khrushchev,

This is a signal and magnificent

uvered with Rowers; those grey triumph for Mr Harold Macmillan,

A place where Prince Charles Atlatle szals: those sad Princess Ane could enjoy waters whose azure will not be

holiday like thut of other matched until the traveller be- buys and girls, miles away frum holds the waters of the Aegean.

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Just Fane That

CHICAGO. SIAMESK princess is finding her title a serious handicap in Anding a job here.

She is Princess Hudlyoravan, granddaughter of King Mogut of The King and I fanie.

The priners-known as "Rudy" to her friends-worked for eight years in Washington as translator, announcer and pro- grame planer for the Voice of America, before deciding to live in Chicago.

"I want a job-any kind of a job," she says, "In which 'I will be with prople.

"But I n. that as soon as people learn that I'm a princem they are hesitant to hire me. I don't know why thing should be."

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The Ice-breaker

BEHIND THE GREAT NEWS

MACMILLAN'S SACRIFICE

by Douglas Clark

who fust decided that personal contacts must be made at the very top.

That there must be an ice-breaker. And he was the man who broke the ice.

And he did so In the free of the utmost scepticism-from both Russia and his Western

allies.

Vicious attacks

A few days before Mr Macmillan arrived in Moscow last February Mr Khrushchev mode a speech heavy with mistrust. At Tula he declared "If the Prime Minister is coming here to make reconnairance for the Western Powers he might as well stay at home,"

In Washington, Paris, and Bonn the visit aroused equal suspiciun. The fear was that Mr Macmillan was going to sell the peace. That be

whs too soft towards the Russians. That his object was to offer terms of friendship which might indeed win a British election--but could also lose the pesce in Europe.

This unworthy fear has lingered in some Wertern quarters ever since. It has produced curiously sarcastic comment from such intelll- gent politics lenders as M. Couve de Murville, the French Foreign Minister. It has provoked i whole succession of vicious attacks on Mr Mac- millan by Dr Adenaues. Chancellor of West Germany. It has seriously embarrassed Britain during the Foreign Ministers Conference in Geneva.

silent.

Through it all Mr Macmillan has remained

Until recently.

For it is now clear that, with their persistent belief in the value of personal contacts, he and Mr Selwyn Lloyd have been on the move again,

It cannot be doubted that behind the scones they have actively helped to promote the big news.

Consider the sequence of events,

Until a few weeks ago Washington would have laughed at the suggestion of a Khrushcifár visit to the United States this September.

But after the Foreign Ministers returned. 10 Ceneva last month the Americans found themselves across a barrel.

President Elsenhower had repentedly said in publle that he would not agree to a Summit unless the Geneva talks first "made substantial progress."

And still, na the conference went towards Fis closure, no progress was made.

What did this mean? Failing Summit, meant that Europe this autumn might once more be exposed to some sudden, direct action by Moscow. Perhaps a separate peace treaty with the East Germans-to be followed by a new Berlin blockade.

It was urgently necessary to keep Mr Khrushcher tolking.

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I join the Life Guards o

TALK

TALK about the Lord Mayor's Show!" said Corporal of Horse John Gilliland, late of Knightsbridge Barracks and the Old Kent Road, from the turret of his Ferret armoured car.

the Dhala run...

By TOM POCOCK

The procession to which he refers is not begin.

urid valleys

their

Ber-

are

A party begins in the Beer cans geants' mess. punched open and John Gilliland and Corporal of Horse Gibson: are re-Hving their recent battles In the Oman mountains.

Outside in the darkness there is a spuiter of ride fire.

of the Dhalk ran is about to nes dismount. hitching

crea-belts on to bore shoulders, and begin tolling up the steep, the Lord Mayor's Show From this fort to Dhuals the narrow road and scrambling

"Don't know what we'd do but

over the rocks, another "public way lies through

without the Mounties," grins an duty" in which the Life and boulder-choked river beds lo

the spectacular Khorelbah Pass Gland trains his machine- Infantry sergeant, pointing at Guards regularly take which reminds old soldiers of gun on the clift-tops and while Gibson and winking at me. Genghis Khan- The Knyver. 11 runs through wiki his eyes rove over the rocks he "Him ond part.

country entirely controlled by says: "That Lord Mayor's Show, they're like brothers." hostile tribesmen who have been I love it. It's better than the

DUST-COVERED

armed by the Yeinen

VERY NOISY

escort Jebt we ge in the Mounted Squadron. You dress This morning 30 thres-lon up in period costume like Boer lorries are going to Dhalo and War troopers or something and Outside the Bring is louder It is the convoy that leaves their escort amounts to a dozen you enjoy it as much as the and there is the rapid beat of n Aden once a fortnight for the armoured cars, two 25-pounder crowd."

machine-gun. But the Life mountain garrison town of guns, about a company of Bri-

Guards are talking about Lan- Dhula un the unfriendly frontier of the Yemen.

The convoy has halted beside a little Beau Geste fort to take

up battle formation when the Life Guards arrive in a swirl of dust.

air

Ilsh and Arab: infantry and a A dozen tiny ligures appear don. slanding patrol of Venom jet on the cliff-top ond. the fighters.

liaison officer is saying into his "Give me beer from the microphone, "Gloworm enlling barrel and Fulham and I'm Yenansh Gloworm calling happy." Venomsl"

IMAGINATIVE

leutenant-colonel

Then

re marker

"Oh, that," says Gibson. "We any notice of the sound effects unless the -bugler

Outside the camp, Aring seems flag general. I ask if anybody else The column rolls forward. In No Londoner who has seen my Land Rover 4

magnif- appears on the cliffs, and he can hear it, too.

adds, "Okay, it's friendly troops, Corporal of Horse Giland cently moustached major nurses The high pickets from Dhala." don't take Jogging down the Mall in the a hair-trigger sniper's rifle be- full panoply of novereign's tween his knees and an Imagine- escort would recognise film now, live,

of But later there is shooting sounds the stand-to or rome- stripped to shorts and caked with cavalry says: "What billes to do We have arrived, witlin the thing coines through the tent." this with lancers and pack stone, zandbag. and wire ram-

He passes mio another ean of mules. And a Gatling gun so I parts of the camp at Dhala. It

Arab lavies beor. "Good old Fulham," he Already his troop-known to could order 'Mr Smith, Ba good is dusic and the

drumming and pays. "Give my love to Ful- the Infantry, as the Metal Box enough to take the creat with begin their

dancing, while from the lenta of hem?! Company has crossed 50 mllos your piece!' *

this Warwicks an amplified

Here Kipling would feel al

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dust.

of desert in billows of mind that

can, bo as fine as flour, or

The mountain walls close in Bhirley Bossey is belling out, tome. gritty sa iron fingr. Now the and then we are at the bottom "Elas me, honey honey, kiss second half, the dangerous half, of the pass. The young infantry- me. . . .'

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Now observe the interesting change in the. Geneva performance of Mr Selwyn Lloyd. After the Foreign Ministers came back, he playe new role. He chummed up extra- ordinarily with his more inflexible allies--even avith the West Germans. He softened his pressure for on early Summit, As I riported At the time, there were evident signs of change In British tacles.

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Now we know what the change was. Brl- .tain had at last deelded to write off the pro- spects of a major success at Geneva--and con- sequently of an immediate Sutmail to follow.

Instead, she was advising an alternative the renewal of top-level personal contacts with Khrushchev, which Mr Macmlilan had begun. In February.

The world's debt

I do not suggest for a moment that Britain has made up President Eisenhower's mind for him. An exchange of visits between the two top men of Russia and the United States was bound to come sooner or later.

But Mr Macmillan's Influence can be seen In the circumstances and the timing of these invitations.

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And say that the Free World in 1959 owes a great deal to his wise and imaginative diplomacy.

-(London Express Service).

Mid Week Selection

by Friell

GENEV FOREIGN MIRE CONAUTAV

"He's a trier ; 'I do believe on a fost desperata rosoft

ho's going to try out the Nixon-Krushchov razamatazs,"

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Public School Boys Must

Go Out Only

with

College Girls

By Order

If you are really stuck on those two profects you'd

change clothes with us lika, a shot."

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--(London Express (Servier);"