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More people than coins land in Rome's
Trevi Fountain
By WILLIAM SUNDERLAND
United Press InternaKoval
Rome.
HE lovely, gurgling fountains of Rome
THE
are
used for strange things. Some people throw
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1960.
The no-fuss Queen who
THE ceremonial that surrounds the arrivals and
departures of royalty is a scene that London knows better than any city in the world.
The paramount rule is that royal arrivals must be grandl. An official show of protocol at its pouter- pigeon best. Red carpets on station platforms. Top hats. And, behind the scenes, a mountain of royal luggage.
This is royal travel, British style, And so used are Loudon- era to this spretacle
that, to
them, it seems impossible that royalty could travel
other fashion.
in uny
This may be why, one day in
May 1940, no crowd gathered to
coins into them. Other people throw themselves me the train that had into them.
Actually, it has happeard so 1 nchiesNS
让 while until
often that it is acting a little han levers ont together enough
pased to go swimming in one of money to pay the line, the i masterpieces. And the famed Fountain of That is strictly the the touists, youths,
Trev!?
Ther
were
arrived from
Just
South Coast
port, A train so ordinary that
clearly no passenger ranking
high than a backwoods prer
could prcibly be on it.
Without ceremony, a mixidie-
British tourists, digod woman stepped from that als
pacicling mand in the fountain not ions Following the romantic him alterwards when the police ar- Three Cols in the Fountain," .ved. They were charged with unauthorised which publicised the idea of tussing
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ine coins into the Framtigiar of pubile spectacle" and the judge
opped pretty heavy fines Gust- Trevi, it became known of the walis
Roman
water than.
s
In many touri-kot get quite shock when they see the actual for the thirst time, In fountan the Aim, and spreceding that have shown Trevi, it looks as if it is set in the dille of the huge Piazza del Po
(People's Squaw with a couple
uf deres of sparv arota $1.
Of entiras there are the pub- eity stunts at the fountain.
A low years lock one shapely actress tassed her monkey into the fountain and then went herself to rescue him.
Fr
She explained she was broke and because she didn't have the Traditional coin to throw Into
PERSUASION
1
To meet her, there was only handful of people. Her daughter, her son-in-law, and a few gentlemen.
was
he
the of these gentlemen infest, And it was whom she greeted first.
They shook hands. He kissed Fresh, ther talked together for five minutes,
In
WILHELMINA
broke
all the rules
by DEE WELLS
another. "Do all those people pil pony, Holidays were spent rally belong to me?"
with stodgy rekølives in minor, rustled German States.
tar
...
Actually, it tuckert ek in Trevi, she had let ity the mon-her on both cheeks. Then, in hits it"in a cage." An only the nearest train bearer.
key and then became scared he
une
of the other sections of Rome and there is hardly room. witinul 113 taxi for
让
would drown.
H
TAMA
Wihelmias in 1886.........s' giri osoa to, become a quien
In the Holland of post-World War I, these mild excursions were considered highly uncon- that ventional for royalty.
the subject must
Was only rain, Her erat Bad been in an
first-class sucker, absence of glitter everyday
he wore it may blue trench partly due to the war,
and Krey
For such an arrival was very
"No," said the sensible Queen In the background unworldly woollen lookings. Iler only
the kind that
Queen Emma, "you belong to them." relatives bang-bonged away at eat, a drab skirt,, Ingage --twu battered card- much
Wilhelmina would have chosen.
It ass n short, crisp lesson. grouse. And in the foreground, beard Sulleres.
Despite being both a queen and one she never forgot.
gil corins giggled and kept the richest woman in the world
At 18 Wilhelmin became her company. latest estimate of her personal
Nineteenth century Court lite Queen. fortune: 210 million) she had
"Alone, except for her train- is, almost unbelievable today. always summed ostentation, bearers, she stood at the top Were ex-Quern Wilhelmina In her 40-year reign, she had, of a palace staircase, and look- not, obviously, one of the most early on, pred ceremony to the ed down the Ministers honest wonen in the world, it bone. She always dressed courtiers, and clergy gathered would be difficult to credit the simply. The stunt brogues she blow: And, she was terrified. sernes she describes. One of told the authorities that I should present a united front to their hat on that day in May were
We had to descend the them:
like to visit some of the people, Bul high simply her everyday shoes,
staircase.
Jiv that
had dinner with old houses too, and I made the still be a tender one, for neither
enter the faith-heuler nor the prin Wilhemina siffner in which one could have 1880, when
condition that I should I addressed Grandmother Schwarzburg unaccompanied.
cess's blindness are mentioned was born, royalty livedts she heard a pin arop,
All in the medieval dining room,
in this book. so far, Mr Grovestins? and many ancient customs were
However, the great quality of child, she was constantly shield right,
The my voice was observed.
LNGTINQUE ed from any glimpse of the What a relief.
this pal autobiography is not glasses. HEGTE
or its style. The come trumpet Excellent,
Its content. world outside that eage. In the still there!
three feet high, were brought
former is often dull, and dated. His French was 30 great fullest meaning of the phrase the answer,
champagne, for the
and
The latter, to put it kindly, for the Actually, it is a little more shake. But he got his message that she has chosen
The young queen successfully out
Half those who were, present for the
amorphous. But this book does Litle of her life story, published negotiated the staircase. compleated than just heaving a
have worthwhite qualities. enino Trevi. The Idea is
recently she was LONELY, BUT an hour inter she dedicated her first time received
But Wilhelining was not easy
It has obviously been wiltten that you are leaving Rome and
of NOT ALONE (Hutchinson, 30s.). life to the people to whom she wooden block round their necks,
on top of which was it a large to thwart in the and she got hy ex-Queen Wilhelmina her- belonged. Not until half a this is the good luck charm for
the her way. She became the most reif. It took her four years to iter, cuntnery
when
heu inade of gold from she returning,
Schwarza river. abdicati in
tto. And there is no whiff of a of het favour
The head of popular monarch Holland But, according to the experts,
Biru aur his wife and
deler daughter, Juliana, did she relax, the hen was then removed, and ever had.
Once she had cracked the ghost-writer anywhere in it. From chlidhood, she
the new guest had to drink from
It has the homespun excel- tie P the coin (t
oesn't make any children, ton, very much want-
stop her. mined to get out of the enge As a desigling queen, Wilhel- it and finish the contents if he ge nothing could
tence of being the uiterly honest daughter, her Mutuma in the heart of the difference what kind or how led her to stay at their home.
In the new arrival And to be less feeble than her mina gave the take bars some could. Fortunately, this was not She emolied
Leyden md slinple recounting of on much) has to be thrown over Gradually.
#bakes. good
Mother" expected of me.
woman's fa. After dinner Princess Juliana, section of
Only once did Wilhelmina sound quite so popular for the beach your left shoulder with the right was presied. She kissed her times whed to allow,
21 ude, but
ald-
we all signed the historic book University. There, the princess xtremely good
a strange hand. And the important thing daughter, shifted her extra coat
of the obvious fashioned one, who had never rst the Schwarza hen... Va
lived in a girl students hostel. Refreshing sounds Is that the coin be given to you to her other arm and directed fall into one
That break with tradition has word to use about the autobio
Wilhelmina's grophy of a very old queen. children cage-took
The a back seat.
HER FREEDOM ·
been passed on.
Bul that's what it have always pure in the Fountain of Trevi ne fond on the past cut out that the cardboard suitcases be ever proceted and chic questioned the authority of the
grand-daughters of a pocket the spur of the placed in the gentleman's car. over-protected royal
Daglish governesses, the dron- from the deserted must be highly susceptible. Phen.
schools. They Refreshing. 10. Her ing
teachers, were had was when she was
blcycled, tution where her antivul
The mechanies of the heavy attended local just more. Like Queen Victoria, the lock of wood round the neek? have always had catred no str, the Queen of father, Willem 111,
Wilhelmina. - AS heir young queen walked softly at The royal authoress doesn't accompanied, to their classes. Holland with the uniformed died.
George VI, apparent, was led on to a palace Arst--but she saw to it that she elaborate. Klog are gentleman,
to acknowledge the walked alone. Buckingham Pa balcony
But, even with semi-inde- at the sea pendence, her life still sounds at her bo dull and Telous as that of a
running over the feet ul a few
tourists. But the Berning foun- crowded for space or bot tuin still is a muslerpiece.
must 01 Bernini' Another beautiful works is the Fountaia.
Rivers in of Four
set, however, Protmbly
30-
any
Rome, This
the most
fountain--wi
Federico Fellini's
isn't
famest
1
masterpiece, "La Dolce Vita." (The Sweel Lite) about Hane's night righ noblilty and their genas on.
Swedish actress Anita Eke
gown, dressed in a low-cut
dawn a went wading at
camera flowed. The
waters
filmed all
But the first the Miss Ekberg
Foun went swimming in the
tan of Travi was a low years back and it won't for a ramera Iεll i lithe just scene. She
Warth.
This spring so many
people
took dips that one Home news- paper sarcastically
suggested
that maybe they ought to clear the trade areuil the fountain
50
beach umbrellas esaldi be
sel up and the daily tide levels
for the fountain printed.
the
Along thase hauled out
two
ان
fountain this spring were lovers. Latin-Americans
They told police and the judge --that h their hearts were beating for the some girl and they had decided on a duck.
Their duel was to see who could
spend the longest time
in the Fountain of Trevi and
thais get the hand of the girl
It was a tie, brought about by the cops. The girl suffered
Sonar is developed
for frogman
SONAR
San Diego, Calif,
tho electronic
equipment used to detect submarinos, soon may pro vido underwater eyes for the U.S. Navy's famed frogmen. the Stromberg-Carlson and Navy
Laboratory. Electronics report that portable sonar unita, powered by standard flashlight developed batteries, have been for use by the frogmen in de- tealing cubmerged objects in murky water.
The unit in only slightly basketball and larger than
en-
weighs 20 pounds. It lo closed in an aluminum caalox and has grips on the alde for the diver to hold→→
The 10 Earphones attached
the unit provide
underwater swimmer with information about objects delerted by BOUDL wever
Stromberg-Carlson plans doll- vering 10 prototype units this
year under a contract awarded
of
by the Buredir
WingtonUPI.
Ship in
moment.
across.
Out there WIN plenty pooni.
Non-it would be no incon- venience at ull.
TERRIFIED
All this leads to the most. swimmera in the napablicised Pomain of Trevi, These
in drove ofT to the young boys who early the morning go skindiving to lace. And to nearly five years crowd below.
exile from her She looked down get all the money that has been juf war-time tossed in during the day. "Nazi-verupied country. But the of faces. And then up.
seen
no
1
$
heavy
ONE SORROW
in
has
Lan-
God
Wil-
TALKING
POINTS
19.
Deep, devout belief in has bezn the greatest single
ex-Queen On this same trip, when she influence not the Schwarza hen, she also helmia's Hife. Now nearly 20, mut her future husband. With and in retirement at Het Loo, naivete possible only in a the spacious old house where of her child- cage-dweller, che
describes the spent much
the world's richest her courtship in one sentence. hood,
and. dc- "We enjoyed the walk and the woman lives sunply,
much that picnic itself so
we votes much of her ilme to her began to consider the idea of religion. walking hand in hand through e marred by only one whatever happens to be in
In recent years hor placid life opinion.
life."
He never
great orrow. The apparently style.
her blindness of Her next meeting with Duke incurable Hendrik van Mecklenburg, was youngest grandchild, Princess Fat Aunt Lily's house in Konig." Marijke,
chooses an
He just wears
--TOLSTOY.
★
Some say it was under the I expect that Woman will ... we spent a few days talking quietly.... On October old queen's influence that Queen be the last thing civilised
In the faith by Man. 12, he came to luncheon. After Juliana calice
Greet Hoffmann. 10 the meal the others withdrew healer, and left us alone, Ten minutes trent Marijke's blindnes later we returned and announced UNITED AGAIN ·
OBT engagement, The die was
COAL.
What a relief that always
is on these occasions!**
However I was, the Rasputin-
of this
-GEORGE MEREDITH.
*
The most onerous slavery
is to be a glove to oneself."
.
-SENECA.
*
Everyone lives by selling
It sounds an anemic court like, growing influence ship. But together, Wilhelmina aith healer on Queen Jullana and her
gradually was widely criticised and almost consort attained her greatest aim-free caused an open rift between something.
Juliana and her disbelieving
The way
she accomplished husband. Prince Bernhard.
The rift is now healedt, criticism. caused much
dom from the cage.
this
She simply insisted. And went Although sadly, the little prin-
condition Is "orss's eye
not. Rumours of Juliana's abdication
BRO
on insisting
希望
"Well-there's two Antonios, who have no doubts about whether the British Team girls are girls or not"
"Lundón Bingen forzien.
-ROBERT LOUIS
STEVENSON. **
Man's best possession is
when I wint to inspect or divorce have been quieted, a sympathetic wife.
I and the royal family once more
new housing developments,
Village of former
sends exhibit for
-EURIPIDES.
ghetto fighters
Eichmann trial
Jerusalem,
THE first exhibit sent by an Israeli village of former ghetto fighters to the so-called Bureau 06, collecting evidence against Adolph Eichmann, was a can of Zyklon 11 gas used in ex terminating hundreds of thousands of people during the Nazi conquest of Europe.
STALAK GLUTA
the Nazis in
The can of gas come from a battle against Germans in the of revolt against
ontabushed as a ghetto in 1943 which ended in forest and town, as well as of of the Jewish soldiers in the various Allied memorial to the victims of destruction
Nazi tanks and armies, The museum also has Nazism. The shipment also in- Aghters by
a collection of neo-Nazi litaras clixled grains from which the artillery.
ture from 1943 to the present, gos was made.
But the most horrifying aspect
Breaking his customary reti- cence. Zukerman said that the Eichmann, a former S$ colonel capture of Elohumann was ex- accused by a conspirator in the tremely important from a histor- of this oblong alone building It would just a few yards away frova an death of six million Jews, was ical point of view. talcen in Argentina and brought clarify many obscure points of old feman aqueduct consists of
polley the Nazi
to annihilate objects graphically reminding to Israel to face trial..
Jows, and perhaps lead to the the visitor of what Nazi ruto
of additional meant to Europe's Jews. The village in which the mus apprehension soum is located is called Lo- former Nazl leaders, he said. Personal effects of death camp hamel Ha-Ghetizat - Ghetto
BUSY
Inmates, modela of gas chambers,
children Fighters. Of its 170 inhabitants, Trevi Shenner, director of the drawings by el but five are survivors of museum built on a knoll from nased, newspapers Nazism. They are formor gh which one can see the hills of in the hellos, desecrated ritual ters in the various ghetto rebol alder, is now extremely busy articles and handrode of photo, Hens of Eastern Europe, heading a team to make all of graphs are among the collected partisans who atlocked the the institution's documents and articles.
Since the news of Eidumann/e bates deep in exhibits available to the polico Germans from the woods and the survivors of investigators of Bureau 007, capture, visitor to the mapeLEKCI Nazi death camps.
The museum, catalogue lists have multiplied defly, more than 10,000 aparato llems.
One of their loaders is 44-yone old Antok Zukorman, survivor
later
Dublinkini
The building cost the village of them, 000 are Naal propa- nearly HK$1,500 million arsa, the of the WATERW ghoito revolt ganda books. Additional work upkeep, research and archit
Zuker consist of the mentoles of former work connected. against the Germans, men, commanded the Jews who ghetto underground fighters and museum cost another Hisar
wind on a house-to-house. Those who raised the standard 'a'yai --UPL
withi
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