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MOTHER of the QUEEN

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1960.

THE GIRL FROM THE MANOR HOUSE HAS FORGED

A UNIQUE BOND BETWEEN THRONE AND PEOPLE

fofofof-t-fitat" PART FOUR

The picture that

shocked

a nation

"ING GEORGE had never been a strong man. Even in his early days during the First World War his naval career had been ruined by illness. But ever since he had married, the Queen had nursed, cared for, and protected him.

Despite the intrusion and the

ordauis of affairs of State which

threw a great burden

fral body, the Queen had kept

him going.

Of course, there and her

moments of anxiety-as

Wheat

he had an operation In 1949 to free the flow of blood

right foot.

his

it 1951, however, By early seemed there was every reason to support that he would lead anorinal life and enjoy his full years.

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But real anxiety returned in June. A bulletin signed by four of the King's doctors spoke of a "smell uren catarrhal inflammation." All his engLKO- ments were cancelled for four weeks. The King went to Royal Lodge, Windsor, and then to Balmoral to rest,

Tired

Then. In early September, his doctors ordered an Х-гру. Не left Balmoral for London bad the examination, and retumed to Balmoral.

With the Queen he spent the doys shooting and picnicking anong the bracken; but he complained bitterly that he was always tired.

Very soon, on the advice of his docfors, he once again flew to London in one of the elderly Vikings of his personal fight for what was described

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"further treatment for his lung condition." There was to be a bronchoscopy an operation for The Inspection of the lungs. doctors feared cancer.

After the bronchoscopy his doctors gloom was ronfmed. The King would have to lose his left lung.

Ile was never told he had cancer but he could hardly have been unaware of the drama about him.

Anxiety

He hated the thought of the operation,

by Robert

Glenton

There was no disguising the gravity of the opération.

At 4.30 p.m. the first bulletin was issued,

"Anxiety must

remain....."

was one of its phrases.

A grey January doy. The King has waved goodbye to Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Within a weak he was dead.

happily assumed that the King was recovering tast until an event took place that cast gloom over the whole country. Princess Elizabeth, and Prince Philip were going to Africa and the King, happy in his growing strength travelled to London to see them off.

With their daughter and son- Queen another in-law the King and was

to the theatre to bed announcement: "The King's went condition continues to be as South Pacific.

At 9.15 pm, as the newspapers and the radio utinouncers stood by with thousands of words of solemn ubituary already pre- pared....there

sulisfactory as can be expected." The silent crowds outside the Palace melted away.

For tile while the King appeared to be well again, So well, in fact, that he went to Sandringham and Itved out his favourite rofe as country squire,

al-

He was, and the Queen Mother still is, very devout. Together that winter of 1951 they attend ed church service and, ways, the King's eyes moved round the congregation to sec which of his tenants were miss- ing and to make a mental note to inquire about their health

afterwards.

Recorded

Christras day came and with festivities it all its traditional for the Royal Family.

One thing was constant--the manoeuvring to make sure the King had the biggest cracker.

The erackers on the royal table are splendiferous affairs and although the King always else had insisted that someone

the best he was very put out if he was not allowed to pull it,

And one thing had changed. Christraas His round-the-world Day broadcast was a travesty, The message and the band were of his stili there, but because

voice 11 had been It was Important that he hoarse

and slowly should be more tranquil. Only recorded painfully one person could help and that sentence by sentence during the was the Queen. In the lonely, weeks before, quiet hours together she sat with him.

No one knows, of course, what was mld.

But on the day of the opera- tion the King looked up from his bed into the faces of the surgeons, smiled, and was very calm indeed.

Calm, but not decelved, That Sunday, September 23. 1951, Britain waited just as the Queen waited.

THIS NEW L-SCOOTER HAS DUAL CONTROL

Gloom

·

All the time over that Christ- mus the King insisted that he was gelting better and patiently and sweetly and with an awful certainty that it was not the case, the Queen supported his belief.

The reports from Sandring ham described the King's days in the open air and the nation

RE

Wintry...

With his family he laughed and enjoyed himself hugely

There was only one strained face in the royal party that night and that was his wife's. The artificial lighting and the shadows of the theatre. that night concealed the fact which

was to stun his subjects.

But not for long. The blow came very soon afterwards,

The King went to London Airport to see his daughter away.

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I was a bitterly cold day no day for a sick man to stand in the ley winds that haunt the airport. But the King walled with his bal in his hand until the aircraft was out of sight in that grey wintry sky.

And the

photographers caught this moment, and the next day this picture of the King was in every newspaper. It showed a man who look- ed desperately ill.

The Queen, who was very much in love with him, gently played out the tragedy and still by no sign indicated that any- thing was aroles,

Crying

And throughout his last days her husband believed her.

Back to Sandringham they went. And a few days later he had a perfect day's shooting. He came home contented, full of plans for the next morning,

Late that night round about midnight he was set standing window.

at his bedroom

In the morning his valet found him. He had died in his sleep.

And soon, late at night in a dark shadowed doorway in the

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Abbey, as a nation shuffled past their King, his widow stood veiled and in black, crying not Tike Queen et all,

There are times when Paince protocol is brutal. Titis was one of them.

"The King is desd. Long live the Queen" was the traditional ery. But what of the late King's wife. She had to move out of the famillar surroundings where she had spent so many emotional days.

So the Queen Mother moved from Buckingham Palace to Clarence House. The girl from the countryside was no longer a Quicom.

She was still to have her worries. Greatest of them was to be the moment she learned of Princess Margaret's love for Group Captain

Peter Town-

send. It was a time of discord and family quarrels, It was to her mother that Princess Mar- garet turned each day.

It was her mother who help ed her finally to draw up the publie

that. statement

she would never marry Townsend.

Happiness

But in the and there was to the ise happiness. It was

who was the Queen Mother first to be told by a laughing new love for Margaret of her Tony Armstrong-Jones.

Surely how her life had been Luitel

Paris

"I GOT MAROONED AT THE BRICKLAYER'S ARMS!"

London Express Service,

Newsletter

by Sam Whit

A tramp brings back

Paris.

A BEARDED trump

who sought shelter

in a village police sta- tion near Bordeaux one evening recently has dealt France an enor- emotional shock and revived many pain- ful memories.

mous

the name that

shook a nation

the

The big question posed by the him is to what extent Bordot has succeeded in her firat real test as a serious actress,

The

represents population probably the most energetic section, of the French nation and there is nothing of the decadent colonialist about them;

"We cannot allow his father's The following day, when sins to continue to be visited on the tramp appeared in the this poor wretch," local magistrates court on a

And then, turning to charge of vagrancy, he re- ramp, he said: "Stavisky, we. On this point opinions vary they still have a pioneering

Clouzol vealed his identity 83. are going to help you.”

himself, naturally spirit. year-old Claude Stavisky.

enough, has no doubts, "She proves herself great trage Plotting is done in a variety Stavisky? The magistrate pon-

of bars there is the Cog Hardy INTELLI. Menne," is his comment. INCIDENTAL dered for a moment and then GENCE: Kennedy is leading

The critics degree and one for the more prosperous plotters; The Otomatic, strictly for decided to question

him more Nixon by 96 votes to 88 in of them even writes, "Her face student plotters; the bar of the closely as to his origins. YOA there was no doubt about the the traditional pre-President give her a tragic air. She is junior army plotters and senior

has been cleverly made up to

Alei and St. Georges, for Alexander, fiol olection ballot organised perfect as long as she doesn't

officers, respectively. the most spectacular in Harry's New York Bar in open her mouth,” But

moment that swindler of the inter-war years, Paris. Princess Margaret married, the a man who, from being a pen- Queen Mother, plump andless Russian refugee, became a charming and in comfortable multi-millionaire in four years, and who enjoyed the friendship shoes, was flying out on a state

and possibly the protection of visit in Africa. To the warmth have always and cheers that

some of France's most eminent accompanied her wherever politicians of the day. has gone, sad or gay.

A line should be drawn and there should be nothing else for her but peace.

по

the

she

The girl in the twin-set who once stood in the Hertfordshire wood and accepted a nervous young man is 60 this year, but stili there is no peace for her.

She is the strongest bond of all between the Throne the people.

THE END

and

-(London Express Service).

From LEONARD MOSLEY:

New Delhi.

DECENTLY I heard of a secret plan to end the bitter conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. It would entall a straight-swop arrangement.

India would hand over Kash- mir to Pakistan which in turn would cede the lerritories of East Pakistan to India.

This dmstic exchange of

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a

treaty of friendship between

the two countries.

Opposed

The plan will be discussed when India's Premier Nehru meeti Pakistan's Presklent Ayub Khan next March.

It has still got to be "old"

The Kashmir Swop Plan

they

ing Bengal, would be joining

largely Hindu State. here the situation is different,

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Poverty

But

Before the partition of India in 1947 the territory which 19 now East Pakistan was both geographically and economiculty pect of Bengal.

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OFF-STAGE DRAMA

The plotters all want to be Perhaps the most interesting verdict is that of her ex-husband leaders, with the result that and first Svengali, Roger Vadim, there are 120 different patriotic Algiers add Ho says, with characteristic organisations in niodesty, "There have been two over 60 different ex-soldiers" miracles in Bardot's life. The organisations, first was myself, the second Clouzot, The Arst film she made

The scandal involving the The non-political event of for me was her birth. This one issue of fraudulent Govern the week has been the first is her apotheosis," ment bonds broke in February sign of the highly charged 1934, and reached its peak when Bardot-Clouzot fim, The Truth, Stavisley was found dead In Д

chalet in Chamonix. The police Rarely can the making of a werd satisfied that he had con- Aim have been accompanied by mitted. mulclde, but others so

real-lifo much off-stage claimed he had been murdered drama. so as to silence him on the sub- ject of his cload les with eminent Frenchmen.

Found dead

PLOTTERS'

PARADISE

The city has

been

QUOTES OF THE WEEK— Former Premier Georges Bidault: "I think that Gen- eral de Gaulle has now out- grown the idea that he is Joan of Arc. He now thinks he is God."

to

Writer Jacques Laurent: Georges-Henri Clouzat had a

Here is a brief run down on "All that Franco over nervous breakdown following that plotters' paradise, Algiers, scenes with Brigitte Bardot's

giving America is dollars. America husband, Jacques Charrier, whom he finally barred from trouble ever since Roman times would love to give something Ashen the Romans had a revolt else. France.only takes the the studio. A little later, Mme. on their hands on an average of money. Clouzot became emotionally in large volved and took to her bed.

every 14 years.

The scandal produced scale rioting and even led to a

The Turks found it such a mass mob attack on the Parlin- Then Charrier brawled with

troublesome spot that

they ment buildings.

Bardol's lending man, Sammy built a tunnel, which still exists, Governor's Claude was seven when his Frey, and both he and Frey leading from the

succumbed to nervous break Palace to little world of carriles, luxury downs. And finally, Bardot her Governor could make a safe get hotels and chauffeur driven ears collapsed around him. His beau- self was

uncon- away when the place becarné too tiful mother. Ariette, former celous, in circumstances almost hot for him. Chanel mannequin, fled to New duplicating a suicide scone in

the Alm liscif

discovered,

York, where she worked fớc a time as a chorus giri. Now 54, Now the film is finally out and she is believed to be still alive

one is left wondering whether and living somewhere in the

tho emotional tornado which Middle West, where she Dev married ut American Busines swept the principal people in-

volved was really worth 11. man during the war.

identity.

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by Mr Justice Strenifold, ti The French occupied Algiers the High Court in 1880 and began populating it

tpori DEOPLE are so intent with convicts, ex-conviots and their

Own bassess thas revolutionaries, whom they de-

ther cannot spare a moment's porlod there,

thought for their duty towards their neighbouri

La Gallardo, who is now on trial in Parig for his part in the January Insurrection, is himself

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Claude stayed in France with relatives. At 14 he was placed

the descendant of one of theby Sir David Ecclts, Minister leaders capital. It in a home for backward chil-

the Parly Commune, of Education, at the Scarborough Calcutta was its

Ho worked for mapy

the The earifer, settlers wore Inter local government conference: grew the Jute which Calcutta dren.

The story deals with Ulusionis! the years

WOULD with adventures of a provincial girl Joined by Spaniards, Maltese

not have thought processed and shipped to

travelling provincial circuses, who comes to Paris and is caught and southern Italland.

that world

children today changed his

any more bad mannered thàn Partition cu: East Pakistan off He

name, but up in the Bohemian life of the

The result is a flory Mediter-children normally are. I should from its factories, and markets when he was shown any friend Latin Quarter and St. Germa ranean nichting pot, reminiscent not have thought thuen WAI AKY. It lost its capital. It lost ita ahip ho

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in some ways, because of the waremilugeja port. It lost its livelihood.

When a young man, fatis in conviet background and this East Pakistan has become ut the world believe that and there is likely to be bitter guilty about ii. to the public in both countries told it by force and they feel rural slum, filled with poverty,

love with her she decides alto fierve independence of settlors does not love him and when sto ih Austraila during colonial by Italian architectural disease, and dispair. A reunion Poor wretch"

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British, school { buliding") belpi Nehru, a native

that he no longer loyés Hor, !! J They know Hat only the with Bengal would restore it to

of Kashmir's is former prosperity...

Hla present fragte state,"

The atmosphere is compelling, chibited in Milan Brahmin from Kashmir, has procrastination

The climax.in a court trial in still got to be persuaded.

Hindu maharajsh prevented this One major result of sn ugreN«

territory: both which suggests a story by But influentist officials here predominantly Mailom country ent to avou belleve the plan has much to from opting for Pakistan in India and Pakistan would be Victor Hugo, has provoked a which she tried for the muc hysterical; overwhelming no Tulisperfect Beboel giron

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