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So mother-in-law has caught on at last!

by SHIRLEY LOWE

JOYCE GRENFELL put it this way: "Of course, darling, Daddy and I are delighted you're going to marry a middle-aged Portuguese conjurer. But do you think you'll be happy 7"

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She was being funny, Mra McDonald, of Los Angeles, put it this way: "My little suntanned daughter," and she took Eartha Kift, the girl her son is to marry, into her arms and hugged her and kissed her,

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She wasn't being funny. And I take this as a sign that parents are growing up at last.

After all, no mother wants her son to marry the most exc=" elting woman in the world,

She wants him to marry the most suitable girl in the world, And, to a mother, a girl lifen Eartha-one-time coloured cot ten picker, sexy singer, and autobiographer (“I was aware of the magnetism of my body") --just isn't it.

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With grace

Lately, there have been a lot of parents accepting the Inevitable with a good deal of grace--Instead of rushing of to the courtroom, and calling in the lawyers.

But look at the wise parents. Governor and Mrs Nelson Rockefeller will be able to for- get that daughter-in-law Anne Marie Rasmussen was ever their kitchenaid, because they were never silly enough to remind her of it. "My future daughter- in-law is a wonderful girl," said Mrs Rockefeller, staunchly, "My husband and I are bubbling over with happiness for them."

Lestic Grade forced

his daughter to get court permission to marry, but when she got it he wished her every happiness.

THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1960.

The victory of Roman Catholic Senator John Kennedy in the West Virginia primary election has brought applause from the British people. They see it as a sign that America has become less bigoted about religion. But have we any right to be patronising? Is Britain herself free of religious prejudice in politics: The facts suggest she is not.

ARE WE

AGAINST ROMAN CATHOLICS IN

POLITICS?

IF Senator John Kennedy were an Englishman seeking to become Prime Minister instead of an American seeking to become President, do you think that his Roman Catholic religion might be considered a bar against

him? And Major-General Roland Bennett summed up a parent's duties when his 21-year-old daughter married a 33-year-old

im star with two previous wives: "If they do marry, I shall give

them my blessing. What else can I do?"

With bitterness .

What else indeed? The tragedy of two famous eloping couples was made so much more tragic by the parents' inability to think in the future.

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I think it is very clever. of them. If you say a lot of nasty things about a man and your

When Isabel Patino died, her daughter marries him, you've parents couldn't drop in on the they had bitterly got an in-law problem for life. man

You'll never be able to visit opposed, and see their grand- her without cutting her heart in child. They took the little girl two. You'll never be able to love away. But Jimmy Goldsmith and nanny your grandchildren got custody through the court, When Bobo Sigrist had her without feeling like an inter- loper. You'll never be able to baby, she said: "Everything talk to your daughter'a hus has been wonderful since brand without remembering Mummy heard she was going to (and guessing that he's remem become a grandmother." bering loo) that you once called him a fortune hunter, scad, or wog.

Mummy left it a bit late. She should have known that although it is possible to reject your child, And, if she doesn't marry no woman has yet been able to him, she'll resent you all the give up her grandchildren.

London Express Service). more. Because you were right.

Once every two years or ea Britain has an epidemic of measles. Afterwards it seems to disappear completely until next time. Where does it go?

1.)

The virus must be kept going somewhere, for measles only spreads from case to case. Once you have had it, and the rash has faded, you cannot pass it on or get it again,

So how is it kept alive?

Scientists have now found The answer could be-by dogs. that the measles and dog distemper virus are so alike that some experis believe them identical,

If they are, the virus might pass from puppy to child and vice Pupples can be immunised against distemper.

Theoretically

it should be possible to protect children against measles. But it may not be so simple.

You may say that in Britain religion could never enter into it, On the face of it there seem to be good grounds for this comforting glow of righteousness. After all, Britain, it is said, is the home of religious toleration. For 130 years everyone has been free to enter politics and to hold office irrespective of his religious beliefs.

Gone for ever is the time when Dx Thomas Arnold could puzzle

problems Church and State, and Nonconformists conclude that

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By ALAN WATKINS

might properly be politicians, should, proportionately, be Iri that Jews might not, and that the region of 60. The present Unitarians were really too dif- tolat is only just over one-third ficult to make a firm decision on. of that figure.

We have had a Jewish Prime

The broad position of Roman Minister in Disraeli (though he Catholics, then, is that they are An under-represented in both par- was baptised a Christian). orthodox Jew Lord Reading ties, and especially in the has both governed India and Labour Party. been Lord Chief Justice.

The present chairman of the Independent Television Authority (Sir Ivon Kirk- patrick) is a Roman Catholic.

...And yet, there are nagging twe doupis. is region Trall of no account at all in British politics?

There is the fact that we have never had a Ronan Catholic Prime Minister. There is the fate of the Jewish War Minister Hare-Belisha, who after he was sacked went out of polities like 4 snuffed candle,

Hopeless fight

What is the situation today? is our complacency entirely Justified?

Take, Arst, the position of Jews in British politica. There are 22 Jews in the House of Commons. But only two of them

Yet this would be no more than a useful procedural device. What is needed is a conscious effort by the people attending these conferences; an effort to keep a candidate's religion out of their judgment.

The Ares of Smithfield have 'been out for a long time, It stems that their embers still The Roman Catholic smoulder, in the dusty com- hierarchy

much mittee rooms of local political 13 Very

for the under parties. It is time of aware

this representation. Priests often embers to be extinguished for encourage their flock to go in ever: for local policies.

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And other methods of exer- cising political influence tried too.

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There are, for instance, the Catholic parents' associations. Prospective parliamentary candi- dates are asked to attend meet- fngs of these bodies. They are questioned about their attitude to all sorts of issues.

However, the headquarters of both political parties supply candidates with stock answers to the probable questions. It is thus unlikely that any candidate would win or lose much Catholic support because of his perform- dance at one of these meetings.

Of little value

(Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid But most important of all is to counter and Sir, Keith Joseph) are the Catholic effort members of the Tory Party. Communist influence in the

Both of them are recent trade unions.

the House. Sir additions to Keith was first elected in 1956;," We live four times as long as dogs. Unless we can secureSir Henry in 1955. Before then

It is no coincidence that in life-long immunity, it will not be a good bargain. For measles in there were no Jewish Tories at

all in the Commons,

the same week Mr. Williama' a grown-up is no joke,

Catholic president And it does not look as it Carron, the the present total of two will of the Amalgamated Engineer- ing Union, should abuse Com- be increased. Even those Jews who are lucky enough munist shop stewards, and the to find constituencies and Roman Catholic Archbishop of they are few-find themselves Liverpool should instruct good Catholics to attend union meet- fighting hopeless ones.

ings.

A British Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Jack and Jock on the road.

(B)

7 Ladd confuses Turner! (4)

9 This organ needs blowing,

„of course." (5)

10 Paper money, one observes.

(5)

11. State solemnly. (4)

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the floor, it seema) (10)

15 In so many words? (4)

18 Mostly the broad highway,

19. It's famous for ita bells. (10)

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At the last election, for instance, Mr Peter Goldman, the Director. of the Tory Political Centre, stood for West Ham South, where he was beaten by 22,829 votes.

So different

Remember. too, that

the

Indeed, in at least one trade union--the Clerical and Admini- strative Workers Union - the Roman Catholic delegates to the annual conference held a special private meeting on the eve of the conference,

In other unions, branches where Catholics predominate are

invisible bar against the choction called "black" branches,

of Jews to the Tory Cariton Club was lifted only a few Yet the value in terms of months ago, when R. A. Butler power of all this union activity. The proposed a Jewyr for membership. seems to be very small. There were mutterings-but he Communists are still firmly in was elected.

control of the Electrical Trades Batter late than never no Union. They are still powerfull doubt. Yet the fact that it was in the Amalgamated Engineer-

ing Uniton.

so late is significant.

But turn to the Labour Party and things are completely different. Not only are there

In exactly the same way, the Catholics have hardly any in-

20 Jewish Labour M.F.s. There fluence

on the Government,

ore also former M.P.s like Jan Naturally, on a question lice Mikardo; millionare Socialists Church schools which was Hke Howard Samuel Sidney settled last summer their voice Cohen I heard loud and clear, and the Bernstein, and Lewis whose economic interests, one Government takes it into ac might have thought, lay any count when framing its policy. where but with the Labour It is perfectly right and fair that

this should be 50.

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Other methods

But on the other, wider poli tical issues, it is different. The Church, though It speaks,

All of these, no doubt, are speaks in vain. very sincere Socialists. Even so In fact, organised greene- it is difficult to escape the con- grono activity by Catholics clusion that the Labour Party produces one thing above näi attracts such a high proportion others: suspicion of a minister of Jewish politicians not secret power. And this suspicion because Jews are more Socialist may well be one of the because Jewish Tories Just can badly at the parties' selection than any other group, but. reason why Catholics do go not become M.Pis

Sunconferences.

But consider Roman Catholics and the situation is reversed.

There are close on 5,000,000 Roman Catholics in Britain, It Freckoned that over four-fifths

of them support the Labour ( Party Yet there are only 11 Roman Catholle Labour M.P.. would lessen the The Tories have more, with 14 prefidics could be

As the population of Britaintamou about $1,000,000, and 25 Jhené vozidl TOEC300M.Pthe mumber of his bel Roman Catholics in Parilément feren

But there can be little doubt that the main resa la fiuch more, k unreasoning: profudios,

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ky down this

---(London Express Service).

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Lost in an ecstasy of living Hot,gorgeous five life," With great big roses And furs...

And cars, waiting.

And men, delectable men, waiting • • •

What did she need with the time ?

It was a barrid, precise and completely

detail.

It wasn't feminine...

Bat one man,

Who had the superbly manlike ability,

it wasn't feminine to know

the time

until she had Rolex

He was different from all the others.

He came out of a cloud of admirers who all looked

the same,

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With something new,

A Rolex watch

And suddenly it was a better idea than any the

unnecessary&hers had bad.

To calculate, sometimes, that the thing a woman says she doesn't want is the one thing she does, Brought her a Rolex watch ...

It was more personal than mink-and very beautiful. It was more feminine than cars-even though it

was precision perfect.

It was completely heṛi. And she loved it.

ROLEX

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