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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1961.

WHAT HAPPENS TO THE QUEEN

IF WE JOIN WITH EUROPE?

THROUGHOUT the debate on the Common Market there has always been a moment when the shrill voices of the propagandists for Europe grow oddly diffident and vague.

It occurs when the word sovereignty is mentioned. Whenever it themselves to observing crops up, they cease to argue. They confine with a wise, sad smile that nations must work together in the modern age.

They remind us-as were worthing that we might other wise forget that

One World

They

were

this is

we

(FTE

brought

pot in case night nachne that the reverse lete that modern

Hare mrmeations everyone closer together.

But there is one aspect of the mauer un which they have been entirely silent. They do not even deal with it by saying that this i: the 26th century or that we mts go forward it we are not to back. They simply prefer not to discuss it at al.

It is the m1

th

suvereignty

question of how ss of British will affect the

British Sovereign.

It is a highly relevant quus-

tjuil.

Bound up

Is

The status of the Queen inextricably bound up with the independent status of Great Bri-

by PERCY

HOWARD

FUTBALPRAZOLANASTASIAC

in. It is no coinckience at all that sovereign and sovereignty are alnost klentical words.

The sovereipi power of the Crown, neting in conjunction with Parliament, is the assump- tion on which British fe act freedom rests.

It is the question

none of the pro-common men cares to answer

very

the

Translated into English that panel which will supply means they must make their head of the. European federa notional lawa on Common, tion on a roster system?... Market matters more Or iesa Or would she became mere- identical.

ly 3 kind of lesier sub- manarch : under an. elected European super-President? And, if that were so, would

At the moment- is true- Common Market matters are

Yet how ould the thought of it seema jo qe And how it stremde the way in which the matique and naglo of the Queen's author- ity could be diminished under the Common Market. Think of The number of Himited to such things as cities times you read that such and and tarists. But only for the the super President be ап ike such a person, having tried all moment,

impartial Head of State, legal remedies, has sent

the our Queen, or an active poil- MA Common Market is to go much telan on the Cantinental pat appeal to the Queen.

It is not always

Idle further than that. Indeed, the terat an

unless it went Royal parilor

is essential

The whole object of

tot all

much

form, of course. The idea of a Market would not really work In any of these cases It is the British Idea of government, farther than that.

In curious way reflects Lord Gladwyn, chuirman of

difficult to see how the British Royal Family Could survive the excellent

principle that the Common Market compaign except on the shadowy basis on whalover the rulea nay

or in Brilpin, has made it clear which the German princelings

terk in our own country

Yetit muy and eventually become a European orders under Dr Adenauer. may sagwe are the mas- that the Common Market willing to their pathetic titles and be said that things. or make Federation.

Pie n change

happen to exceptions in bard cares, just Dr Hallstein, the author of could never

the seleme, has said that its Queen and her family because At the same time there can aim is to create a United States of her value to the Common

wealth. The position of the be no doubt that the vague of Europe with its Washing- Sovereign is linken even more bmage of the Queen as the Bal too at Strasbourg, of course, frody to the Commonwealth. for a arbiter addi enormously to the and Britain as Just another than it is to British sovereign- bundred years. has been the prestige and status vi the State, Bike California or Utah.

such flexible sovereignty has never existed.

Their entire history

as we think 81.

story of one written constitu- Throne. tion beling torn up and replaced by another.

Little wonder that they find 1 cusy and natural to adapt to the complicated constitutional rules of the Con-

themselves

tuna Market.

A habit

tsy habit They can squeeze Into the mesh of conditions and nitations lold down by Dr Hallstein, the German professor, ex- his Common Market

our demo- It has enabled eracy to evolve without any And it written consillution. has worked. It has worked so well

of that dozens

other nations have attempted to perts, linliate the results.

There is one part of the work, however, where attempt hus never been made. In France, Germany, and Italy the dominant nallons of the Common Market-the idea of

arici

So long as it is all written clown in the constitution they

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What status will the Queen Yet what if her arbitration is have then? new reversed by #European court at Strasbourg?

What if-in a matter involv ing British people in dispute inside Britain her decision or

the decision of ker judges, should be overruled by superior Judges on the Continent?

Overturned

It is a question which neither Lord Gladwyn nor Dr Hall- stein has answered.

A panel?

at home.

Quite so. Indeed, I would add that the value of the Commonwealth to the aur. vival of the Throne is quite us great as the value of the Throne to the survival of the Commonwealth.

More than once during this century the Royal Family has

and ascaped controversy

uver.

Is there a hope that France disaster because of the nation's and Germany will somehow faith in the importance of the accept our Queen as their pre- Crown to the Commonwealth, siding Sovereign-as India and Cyprus have already done?

It there is such a hope, it is strange that even the most op mistle of the Common Market enthusiasts have not thought of

The possibility is not far- Already a ruling in fetched. Germany itself has been over- turned by the Common Market council,

of Roms rules expressing it. The Treaty

member Status must

How strange

But what if there were no Commonwealth left as a rest

of the membership

lo

the sec fully prepared Dominions drift away into the strange it would be to reflect

American orbit.

If that ever happened, how

that it came about because of

the policies of a Tory Govern If the Commonwealth were men£ to disintegrale, the Throne's Yet perhaps no more strange now pre- most valuable modern tuncilon, than the spectacio

conted by the Torles as they the chief pillar on which

never. never. now rests, would disintegrate sing "Britons

to bellove never shall be slaves — except too. It is cle!!

Is there a fancy that, to- of our

with Queen Julians. Common Markett

the Whatever they may say to meet General de Gaulle, and alms of the Common German and Italian Presidents, public, the Common Market result than the virtual disinte negotiations."

in our Queen will join a kind of propagandists orc

see nothing odd or unusual in that this

having their own national law arrange the "approximation of gether

overruled courts

the their municipal law" Supreme Court of the Common the Market,

Market.

in that there could be any other with safeguards and after duc

(London Express Service).

private gration of the Throne itself.

Thomas

ISS SUSAN HAYWARD doos

MISS

not live up to her reputation

as an emotional volcano: at any rate, she has ceased to erupt.

in

I remember meeting her Hollywood a few years ago.

and thinking that she was the definitive Hollywood star: her life and career contained all the expected ingredi-

ents,

The daughter of a Cuney island fair- ground barker she had risen to the top.. to winning an Gurur, by way of struggle, divorce, unpleasant publicity, business. sense, amt talent.

Unlike the quiet stars of the new Hollywood, she lived the kind of life her

public expected of her.

I

somethnes,

It appeared 10

have been writ- ten by a rather curny

"cript- weiter it all helped to create

the rund-image

of the star.

But being an emotional

vol-

co can be a tiring business,

and when I met Miss Bayword

the other day

she informed me

1

she had

now settle for

the tranquil te.

After the day's shooting on hor new Πέπε, 1 Thank A Fool was over, Me Hayward headed

straight home

Susan

the

volcano

Wiseman's

LIMELIGHT

simmers down...

to cook a couple of lamb chop

for her husband, Eaton Chalkley.

In the sort of thing that fin Alors are often said to do--by their publicista-but Miss Jay- wari ketually did it. The Jazzy, turbulent le no longer holde much appent for her.

got a reputation for being tempestuous," she sakt, "because in Hollywod if you have red hair yat are expected to be tempestuntis.

it,

"Anyway, let'a fuce publicity of that sort doesn't do nny harm to the box-office, One may not like I but i brings the customers in."

BUBAN HAYWARD

*Not nearly so ambitious *

"My husband,” she said, "is

a rich man and a strong man too, He's led an adventurous iiic. He started in the motor

WHY

MARIA GOES FOR

JAZZ...

ONE of the more unusua! attractions of the latest Pinewood film All Night

Long is Filipino pianist Maria Velasco.

Exotic Miss Velasco plays the part of the wife of

a musician in the film, which is a sort of jam session based on Othello. She was a child prodigy leaming the piano before she was eight and studying under Rubinstein.

At school, however, she found this was not the fashionable sort of music to play. She turned to jazz and a highly successful International career,

Says Miss Velasco: "J

still play classical

music better than

jazz. But Jazz is where the money is." PICTURE BY MICHAEL WARD

able to make me look quite good on the screen.

"I never thought of myself na

a beauty though, so I haven't

business and he became on all that much to lose. Hollywood

FBI agent. He was involved stain are supposed to be so vain

"There was a time, I suppose, in hunting down gangsters like and conscious of their appear- when to win an Oscar was a PRnger.

prolly Impariant aim in my life.

F'd been nominated Ave lines--- and then I got it. So that was

that.

"I no longer toke myscif

Sensitive

"Oh, yea, he's shot people,

or my career so seriously. but if you want to ithew if he

ance.

Delighted

"My own attitude is that if

Aim without make-up, without

STRONTIUM: 90

ME YET UNBORN

"There are no CLEAN bombs" - MR. KAUSHCHEÝ, JANUARY 29, 1994)

London Sagres Saretze

Dr Verwoerd ready

for new victory

They would also be

MOUTH AFRICA will go to the poll next month in the

lint Generat action one bear an opublic offer foie fort of representa I suppose one takes one's over killed anyone you'll have someone asked me to make a work too seriously when one to ask him yourself. It's nome-

and loft the Commonwealth. It is an election which Dr tien to the tribal African and to bring in a form of self-govern- Hendrik, Fronach Verwoord confidently expects, will give mention the reserves :where has nothing else in one's thing he's sort of sensitive prettifying lighting, I'd be de

lighted. It would mean I could life that is worth being about.

got up an hour later it I don't his Government o mandate to press ahead with its granite they live. But taken seriously.

"Now he's in the motor car have to come to the studie to policy of "separate development“ ——— or opoftheid.

And the United Party would "I imagine what has happened buningas, and very successful at be made up

Opposed to Premier Verwoerd porters believe that the Capo lika to see the ban Africa "Of course I would only do it and his Nationalist Afrikaners Coloured people of mixed freed from the past-law restric to me la that I have matured,, and I enjoy being the wife of when she was waiting for her I was about ilme."

a succesfuÍ MAR/"

blood tiene and given a chance to all for the right sort of film, which is the United Party of Sir de European

And other divorce from actor Jess Darker.

should not only have a right to his labour in the best market. Mias Hayward is now able to demanded that degree of realiant Villiers Granit. But in one respect Miss Hay look at her life and say, "I have Normally one mobilged to look The main way in which Sir voin but the right to sit in the The present Nailonalist policy

for Now hatpily married, Mias ward has adhered to her former got what I want. Nothing keep one's best for the camera, and do Villlera's party differs from Parliament which, of present, le bars, non-whites Ilnyward said: "I claim the rules. The qualities needed in

me awake at nights. I don't I try to do that."

the Nellunalisis Inthat, while exclusively white.

Europeans, as they are called in woman's prerogative to change a husband, she once told me, worry about things like getting There was n time when Mies my mind. I have completely were refiablilty, tenderness, aid or losing my looks,

I once said of Miss Hayward wanting to retain white leader- They believe that the 417,000 South Africa) from:mestilled Hayward felt that divoren should changed my mind about almost strength and an equal income,

that she looked like a highly ship, it is plso ready to share Asian chiefly Indians, shold Joka. Non-Europeans, under the of Woxtern ilta have their požilieni status deter- Government aparifield 4 rule, be made a lot easier, and everything.

"I never thought I was polished diamond that was still the benents

nun-whites. The mined and that Africana work must také foba fit m' tower rate marriage mitch more difficult,

very photogenic.. L'always sharp entaigh to cut. I now with

to have lost her cutting edge. black man back to ble reserves, should be represented in Parlia», have few facilities for develop. -Dut-soutshow they were

Bit de Villiers --und-hla sui- mané ou a separate voters' roll. ·ing into craftsmen.

Matured

that people ahould be compelled

Dimeuit no it must havo boen

The

non-

"Now I like marriage. Now for Miss Hayward to find a man ‚ ̈- 'tƉoli terrible › mapakatɛ, have to add that "ake apponia | Nailonaliste what to drive, the; jpg, krɔ the big towns atuh cilles of pay than whila. dsk. They

to wait a year before they could I am no longer nearly so ambi-

get married. This was the time thous as I was.

with an income equal to her,

the has done this. -

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