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THE CHINA MAIL. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1961.

SHE HAS JUST CELEBRATED HER ELEVENTH BIRTHDAY AN EVENT THAT UNDERLINES THE SAD FATE OF BEING BORN A PRINCESS

....... If you have

diabetes

Why can't Princess Anne be

treated like

her brother?

You do not blame men too Royalty will remala royal much. The privileged always when it goes out u the work. pasune the rightfulness of the But it will develop greater ex- privileges, until sharply chal-perience and greater usefulness. lenged by those whom they, ax People sometimes shake

their ploit,

head at having, a "Scandina- vian" royalty here. Most women

like to be ex- of no fluor outcome. It should I can think ploited. They are glad to turn be out constant model. into domestió slaves, and are resentful if the man offers to there is hossaeworit. Freedom can be qulje p mulance, at phy rato until you experienco it,

INFERIORITY

A SYMBOL

don't be afraid

By Cedric Carne

[R THEOBALD had come to my surgery com

MR

plaining of losing weight despite a tremen- dous appetite. “I eat and eat, but still I lose It will be an excellent thing pounds," he had said. After examination; he was both for Princess Anne and for shocked to learn that his symptoms were dua to the monarchy if this is the last birthday whlek

diabetes. she spend its Isolation.

equality of opportunity," Every plain when their education is Let us hope thint when the

ENDOWMENTS

all

Mive higher up the scale. Taka university education. We Young women do not com-

covalantly talking about

They neglected. clever boy, we say, should he imply plan. A few years as she will be celebrating it ng have Apaniversary best cons round able to go to a university, any sort of job. Then marriage, friends whom she has found in And after that a bread-lick- the ordinary way at an ordinary for life. Suncone Lise to school. shoulder the responsibility and Princess Anne can becoine, in do the worrying.

her modest way, the Byanbol Funnily enough, men narry that this la now a free and A revealing.

maks just as better world for women as well phrase. We loo, Marriage rarely add; and every clever much differches for then. They as men. If she does this she girl too. Even if we add it, too want a home and children. will have performed a valuable We do not mean it. The pronti But they do not plan as though service to the community.

She Look at Oxford and Cambridge. It was the only thing in life that will have opened Q dour

mattered.

through which others can pass There are over 20 colleges for

she did-London Express I do hot think this attitude da men in Oxford, another 20 in will fast. Women too will grow Service. Cambridge. A new college for men has just been founded in up. Then they will be amazed

at the conditions Cambridge, and one in Oxford

of inferiority. also. Both have af once been and neglect which once seemed given, endowanents of millions.

QUOTE

"Did fasul put Like many others, he did Theobald. not realise that half of them right?" diabetes are unaware those who suffer

They are all full of zest, and from leading active lives. Of course, that they have had to regulat: ther they have it.

diets, But one of them hud "I didn't know it was so, com- nich v mild form of dialytes "But tell me, doctor, do all dia- Inculist mon." Mr Theobald admitted that he did not oven pozd For him, injections. beties have my symptoms when aleting alone was offcativo,

"What they finally consult a doctor."

pr 19 The cause No. Diabetics often go to Д diabetes?" andred. Mr Theobald. doctor with other complaints. It is due to a, deficiency of remember опе of my insulin in the body. Insuliḥ Ja patients, Mr Peyion, who com- normally produced by enrtain plained simply of tiredness and cells in the pancreas, an, organ not up to it," he had sald. a feeling of weekness, “I'm just which lies near the duodenum.

A Why the pancreas doma, not urine test find led to the ding- manufacture enough insulin in nosis of diabetes.

some Deople lo obscure. But Then there Wus another doctors do know that diabotes pation!, Miss Flint, who fund # may run in families — and that natural to them.

continual and excesive thirst. it is more likely to occur in The change, In fact, is hop-

"I'm no boozer," she had com- middle age if one is overweight, Oxford has four colleges for poning all the time." Men had

plained, "I just seem to need la women. Cambridge has two. It better make the most of their

drink rints and pints of water," has just started a third, which is privileges. They will not last-by Mr A. M. Hurwitz. She leo was proved to be a having difficulty in raising funds, much longer. And a good thing Recorder of Halifax:-

"I suppose I'll get used to lic bette

the idea of making up y Talk about it being hard for

Yet another patient, Ton insulin

duflélency with injec Why not help a rich man to pass through the along at the top as well as cise-

the change TF I had my way any boy who MacAllister, had suffered from ons," Mr Theobald said.

is bound over should visit recurrent styes in the eyes and eye of a needle. It is nothing where?

After a while, he will learn compared to the obstacles which Princess Anne loss of

It will not make prison so that he could see how from ccensional crops of boils, lo give these infections to

a royal unpicasant It really is.

"I must be run down," he had himself and he will soon and wants a university education. personage to treat her also as a by Sir Winston Churchill in said. But Tom also had an ex- it as easy a routine as clean-

human being.

ing his teeth. With the Insulin In any family where there Her brother has gone

a reply to President Kennedy's of sugar in his urine.

Diabetics were she message on the 20th anniversary to gangrene, diabetic coena, and in every way and will continue once subject Inications, he will feel healthier daughters, you school. She should go also. She of the Atlantic Charter:-

her own

death.

to live a full and normal life, Yet, with our good wishes, there also goes sympathy. It is a sad will find the father working and should move among

scraping in order to give his friends, not always attended by que termis of the Atlantic

"You know, doctor," said Mr But I pointed out to life to be a royal princess, and it grows sadder as the years go by.

Mr Theobold, sons the best chance in the a governess.

Charter of 20 years ago Theobald that, thanks to

"I always tell my world. You will also And him The Press and the public. emphasise the principles which discovery

wife: 'Give me the good old being. equally with the Royal princes, too, have their

of insulin by the days. But I'm glad I'm living expense of should also play their part as then and now guide the policles Canadian doctor Banting shart- economising at the special burdens. Bat they are

humoblest etizen.

his daughters. They, if neces- they have done with Prince of our great democracies, Letly after the First World War, My Grandad might hayo

wow after Banting. becoming less Isolated

The sat fate of Princess Anne vary, cun

university Charles. They should keep out us never depart from them not he could look forward to eduention. They can even stop of the way and allow Princess desist from our earnest cadea- normal, happy span of life. illustrates, I believe, a strange quality In our

the housework Anne to lead a northal life un- Contemporary at home to du

vour to establish them throughs- "Are these three people you disturbed. civilisation. We judge with two for himselt and his sons..

'out the world.

mentioned fi now?" asked "Mr

PRINCESS ANNE has just celebrated her eleventh birthday. We all a clever gin encounters li

well. A birthday is a gay event for her, as for any other

little girl.

rom

the way of the world, Pince Charles

the

normal existence of a schoolbey, Other princes have gone without usa

to university,

Once grown up, they pinage Into the activities. af ordinary people. They

make

They develop individual

terests hacter.

by A.J.P.

TAYLOR

FaceZT

Irtends. Nu shering

values, measure with two mea- sures. We have one standard

for men, and another for women.

Men are now recognized

74

of the extent buiran beinga All have their

ingh growing up should bring rights. Women runnin hemble

i

three

Fer Princes A, it see Need Hy be sc? We have there is to be no such slip saut.chal monarchy its into normally. She frants

My munty. We are all agreed solitary Be. Twa

is stitical selected it pirls are brought proptreasure

value. Most 1 serial value in as her playmates or school- Fige. But can this only bt compankais.

inlained by sherifelng the Imembers of the Royal Family, especially sacrificing

SOCIAL VALUE

girl?

domestle rozments, hardly sup- posed to possess individuality or Intelligence at all.

STILL AT WORK

The man who comes home

little late from the office groans that he has been working all day. He never reflects that his wife Royally has privileges and has also been working in the wider works hard for them. Yet hume and that now, late

Tit circle remains liny. There is none of the

experience when school brings. No discovery of

at

Ure prinets and princesses Rre night, she must work again, first new also horren beings. They dr- to cook his meal and then

friends, made inexpectedly serve to be treated as human wash up.

10

are ons and

milss

the

too.

..

CONCLUDING

the

Routine

had a fine old time, but Pli vote for the Present-Teddy Boys, insulin the lot."

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IN the hot desolation at Jackass Flats, Nevada, they are assembling a strange power mac hine. It is called Kiwi, and is a landmark in Project Rover. It is an atomic reactor-shrunk to fit inside a rocket. It is the way to the stars, To the ambitious space celent- Isi, atom-powered rockets have long been a golden dream. To-

Are

day's chemical boosters heavy, costly and burn too much fuel.

To dispatch really weighty spaceships over long distances requires a more economic sys- tem.

Project Rover offers it.

In concept, a nuclear rockei Is simple. It ha one stage. I uses an atom "furnace" to heat liquid hydrogen: It does not shuck off this powerplant but keops it for re-starting in space.

His task

The front of the rocket con- toins the astronaut's cabin. The iniddie is one big tank of Hquid hydrogun. And this acts as a shield to protect the crow from the radiation Elven out by the reactor in the rear.

A lot of liquid hydrogen

An artist's impression_of_on "pital endeavour." The Intermediate space station stays in orbit around Earth and oeti at a rezilag-point for crows and rocket mechanics, os wali as a spare-parts depot and firing

latform, Banster sections are joined together outside, ace-to-fall, Mechanica moré about with the aid of small rocket "belts." The assembled wacket ja,bonifired off into

deep space.

Destoner to EARTH

300 miles

INTERMEDIATE

SPACE STATION

esbiring Eurthe

SPACE MECHANICS assemble, barten

SAUTOHA

America's boast: We'll beat the Russians

That is

to the tall of the one in front. scientists like Harold Finger to Once orbital rendezvous has say: "I don't know why I think been achieved, the advantages we are ahead of the Russiana

Mr Finger's atonic rocket- but I do." ship become startling.

Confident

And ordinary folk to say: "We can do it. We can got lo the Moon first. This time.”

By 10077

~~(London Express Service).

can be carried. A gallon earth before the 1979s. He told barely beyond the pencil and behind each other and clip en It prompts cold-thinking weighs only three-fifths of me that to reach the planet on paper stage. a pound.

nuclear power alone calls for an

None engine generating 50.000 million The man whose urgent task lt watts of heat,

of them will become really attractive until the now is to turn this dream Inte reality in Harold Finger, director

second "key" has been forged of the Spdee Nuclear Propulsion ANNUAL output Into the Na vous. It has not yet been al- 23 times the total the technique of orbital rondes Omer here. He flanks his in- tional Grid of both Dritain'e tempted.. evitable office Moon picture operational

atomic power Both space powers ceriainly with ones of Venus and Mate, stations. "Besides," he added will try t soon. For it is For they are equally his targets. the radiation shield for that economically irresistible.

There is a place reserved for would also need to be tremen- Mr Finger's nuclear engine on dous."* top of America's Moon rockat Nova for 1907-If he can ready It in- time.

Advanced

All he says today is: "We hepa to have une flying by albut that date. But remember, But lie moes good hope of we are pioneering a now feld." mounting an atomic upper sec- The Inside of his primitive tion on top of chemtest rockets Kiwi grows ten times hatter lika von Braun's Saturn. These than the most efficient' 'com. would if the rentfor clear inercial alom "furnaces." Ils of the mir isyura before it Janka havo lo be sealed down. alerted up.

Doubtful

With no atmosphere to Bratier, or redoct, V′′ ▼ darı- Ligeroda'vaya, a tón os two of shielding would be enough to protect the entire crew.

It calls for putting parts of n

n

"Our preliminary calculations "that spaceship and ita propulsion unit indicate," he explained, into individual orbits around assembled in orbit, could carry one million pound vehicle, the earth, then "maling" and Anally

fuelling them-outalde the atmosphere.

Out there, the power and tuck load needed 'for' probing deep into space, aro but a fraction of those needed to break clear of carth's air.

Startling

Dificult 'Perhaps. But scientists now bellove, the task of accurately "mating” the parts and fuelling, the completed ship To become really useful in

will be äimpler than refuelling A apace, it may have to run for The nuclear rocket is only one long rango bomber in mid-night four hours at a stretch. Mr kay to any moon or inter- from a tankjor airplane../. Finger doubts it will be possible planetary, travel: 1) happen to. There will be no air pockets... to build an alienuolear-rocket be fairly wall advanced, Caliers, or gravity to epntend with.. The to go dirent to the moon from such as electric proppiskopi, are sections should! tit move "up"

a manned mission to Mars.

"To do the same job with chemical rockets would require 10 million."-

He added: "We in this oce lock allend to realistic missions. Tu qux il la equally fenuible to go to Marn na to the Moon. It

11."

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