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The Brussels Post, 1957-09-18, Page 611.21, . . al must have an identification tare hete SOMeWhere." eWeese lrms • de—eSses` sees, Slant On. Her Court A United States Our queen And ENV since a peer called Queen lizahetitte speeches a "pain in the neck" — and got a slap in. Vic face for saying it —s there have been, strange rumblings behind the Eurple Curtain of 'Wash royalty, * s. * Ay TOM A. CULLEN Ni EA Steff Correspondent DIPLOMATIC DIP—Presidents Urho. Kekkonen of Finland, front, and Asgeir Asgeirsson of Iceland frolic in a pool at Akureyr, Iceland. The dip followed the traditional "sauna", famed steam bath of the region. The two leaders were in Akureyr to see the inter-Nordic swimming championships. 4;r4 6aw, Azdttews. dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zeeland and South Africa, these new sovereign states now take their place as members .of the British commonwealtla of Nations. Being free to come and go in the Commonwealth as they like, how much longer will they re- cognize the British Crown? A constitutional monarchy, it is called; yet Britain has no writ- ten constitution in the American sense of the word—only an ill- defined. assortment of laws, cus- toms and conventions, some of which date back to the J'utes, the Celts and, the Picts, No one appears to know for certain which of these laws are usable, and, which obsolete. Take the Queen, for example. In law, Elizabeth II is head of the State, the "fountain of jus- tice," commander-in-chief of all the armed forces, and head of the established Church of Enge land.. In theory, without consulting. Parliament, the Queen can upset all civil government, disgrace the nation by a bad war or peace, or leave it defenseless by scrapping its armed forces, But in practice she acts only on the advice of her ministers, which she cannot constitutionally ignore. "The Queen reigns, but she does not rule," is the magic for- mula w h i c h expresses her powers, and none but the British could have devised such an in- genious one. If Elizabeth does not rule, if she can do nothing without min- LONDON — ( N B A ) — "The greatest show on earth, bar none—" This is one American's static verdict after watching Queen Elizabeth II, a tiny spot of scarlet in a forest of bearskin- hatted guardsmen, at a recent Trooping of the Color ceremony In her honor. The description, if corny, is not a bad one. Viewed simply as a spectacle, the British mon- archy cannot be beaten. For pomp and ceremony, for the sheer splendor of its medieval pageantry, it is without rival in Europe today. It is one of the world's most costly extravaganzas, The ques- tion arises, can Britain afford it —cinch - in - your - belt. Britain, which not long ago asked to U pone payment on the 1945 .S.1.T loan? Is royalty too expen- sive for the British taxpayer? Certainly, the British mon- archy has enjoyed the longest run of any show on record. Not counting the brief interlude of Oliver Cromwell, it has been playing non-stop for 1,100 years. Asiatic Flu. flow It Makes You. Foot What is it lila to get Polan- • Aix? The ocean liner Arose Sky docked in New York, eight days out of Rotterdam,. with one- third of its 067 foreign students (coming to attend high sehols for a year) still down with the new 'bug" or just get- ting over it. Their attacks had. been mild, • they reported, and death seemed far away — then, • The virus had. aparently been carried from `Turkey; 40 Turk- ish students bad been joined ire Vienna by 20 Austrians for the voyage to the IL 5, The Ttirkish students were already ill. At Rotterdam, the ship's doctor re- fused to let them sail, But the Austrians were cleared. The third day out, a few youngsters complained of mild, throbbing headaches. 'It wasn't bad," Wolfgang Steininger of Vienna said, But the- next day he began to. feel hot and, his throat hurt when he talked. The third day he knew he had some,. thing. He felt utterly exhausted, lost his appetite, and was nause- ated. By the fourth day, 200 were in, various stages of Asian flu. Their symptoms varied. Only half of them felt any nausea.. Most managed to show up for meals. But almost all of them, like Johnny Hangaas from Nor- way, felt worse on the third day. "When I awoke I was dizzy and my knee joints were stiff," he said, " and my back ached." In most instances, the victims felt better after four days. When they landed, only 27 were sick enough to he kept in bed. Then, a thin, pale 6-foot student from Athens, Nicholas Memmos, corn- plain of abdominal pain. The height of his attack had come. on shipboard. Thinking the pains might be caused by appendicitis, doctors sent the 17-year-old Greek stu- dent to a New 'York 'hospital. Eighteen hours later he died. An autopsy indicated Nicholas had succombecl to an influenza type of bronchial pneumonia. —. From N.EWSWEEK, vinQgnsQdgruottengheet, ofOtnilee tfl-laettr'y4 linger- . has It that slack rivers'' and law rain- fall keep inland waters saltier than usual, a condition that seems to appeal, to jellyfish. Though, jellyfish are the most primitive form of multieellecl animal life, just one level above sinpgoerlogieostistheyweaarpeotenclw".1"eSdPowttiethd around their' umbrella and on their tentacles are theusands of tiny sees each holding coiled, threadlike stingers. When a thorny trigger is tripped, the coil thread explodes outward and impales its prey, injecting a paralyzing poison, which stuns the victim so the jellyfish can feed at leisure. Lethal to most small fish, the sting of the sea nettle will rarely e cause more than temporary agony to the bather, The large,, almost orange jellyfish (Cyanea) that visit the northern coast pro- duce a fierce burn. The sting of the bluish, transparent Aurelia cluttering New England and Long Island waters is milder. The red or white sea nettles (Dacty- lometra) of the Mid-Atlantic states are more vicious, some- time clutching a panicky swim- mer and jabbing him repeatedly. A well-placed sting (say, on the spine) can put its victim in, the hospital. The great killer jelly- fish sails the Caribbean. This is the. Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia), a remarkable float- ing colony of polyps as fearful as anything in the world's oceans. The Gilbert Islanders in the Pacific find boiled jellyfish a great delicacy (it tastes like tripe), but their economic pros- pects elsewhere are generally nil. They clog fishermen's nets; they eat into the revenue of re- sort operators. But L. Eugene Cronin, director of the Chesa- peake Biological. Laboratory, Solomon, Md., which is explor- ing jellyfish control, raised this caution: "If we ever find a way to eradicate them, we may not want to apply it. Jellyfish eat a lot of microscopic organisms that may consumesoyster larvae by ,the billions," The experts have little 'to 're- commend to the bather. The Maryland biologists suggest soothing one's stings with a bi- carbonate of soda solution, Down East, Leslie Scattergood, Fish and Wildlife mats at Boothbay Harbor, Maine, made what was perhaps the soundest observa- tion of all: "Anyone who goes swimming in water this cold deserves to get stung." — From Newsweek. Add to hot chicken broth along with pepper and salt. Stir until dissolved. Pour a 1/4 -inch layer in a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan. Chill until firm. Arrange slices of hard-cooked egg and tomatoes in any desired pattern over the chilled gelatin, In the meantime, chill remaining gelatin until slightly thickened. Fold in re- maining ingredients. Pour over egg-tomato slices. Chill until ready to serve. Just before serv- ing, turn out on salad greens. Ar- range mounds of cottage cheese and radishes around salad. If you're tired of potato salad, but want one that adds a hearty note to your cold meat meal, try this one made with macaroni. It serves 6 to 8. MACARONI SALAD 8 ounces elbow macaroni, Cooked until tender, rinsed, and drained 1 cup sliced stuffed olives els, cup chopped green pepper 2 cups chopped celery 2 tomatoes, diced le pound Swiss cheese, diced 1/2 cup French dressing 1 teaspoon salt Combine all ingredients in large bowl; mix thoroughly but lightly. ,Chill several hours be- fore serving. 'MODERN ETIQUETTE - by Roberta Lee Q. What would be the correct way for two unmarried sisters to register at a hotel? A. They should register: "Miss Shirley Walton,, Miss Sue Walton, Detroit, Mich," Prince Philip stands by, she of the Midlands. Jellyfish On Top In annual War The annual war between jelly- fish and bathers, which usually comes to a painful climax around Labor Day, gives every indica- tion of ending up in a resounding victory for the jellyfish this year. With unprecedented frequency, the undulating creatures have been shooting their stingers into the unwary swimmers from Maine to Florida. By last week, they had already routed thous- ands of persons from some of Maine's famous coves, from the large shallow bays of Long Is- land and Ne wJersey, and from the usually placid inlets of Chesa- peake Bay. So Severe was the jellyfish, or sea nettle, situation in the Chesa- peake that Sen. John Marshall Butler of Maryland was stung into strong rhetoric ("The sea nettle must go") and resolute ac- tion (a bill for crash research on how to disrupt the jellyfish's life cycle). The jellyfish scourge, the worst in years for scores of Atlantic Coast towns, may well be a direct JUMBO FERRY—Watching the elephants take their daily bath it a prime attraction for, tourists at Kandy, Ceylon. gccasionally the less timid, like this pretty pair, climb aboard the huge animals for a ride across the Ganget, River: QUEEN ELIZABETH AT WORK—As greets her public during a tour In comparison, the British law courts are only 800 years old, while Parliament is a mere stripling of 700 years. It has for its leading lady one elf the most attractive personali- ties in public life today, Eliza- beth II, who can trace her *ncestry back to the Saxon king, Egbert, In the year 829. Her billing en the theatre marquee (if one could find a marquee large enough to take sit) would read: "Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and d her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Common- wealth, Defender of "the Faith." All cf this sounds very pretty, but what 'other realms and ter- ritories"? The truth is that Eliza- beth is Queen of a Vanishing Empire. In the past 10 years Britain has given independence to 507 million peoples, or nearly one- quarter of the human race— while during this period world communism has enslaved an- other quarter of mankind. Since World War II, India, Pakistan, Burma, Ceylon, Sudan, South Rhodesia, Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast) and now the Vecieration of Malaya—all have joined the independence parade. Side by side with the older Yeeees., sse,sed:o _ U.S.RED JETS ARE COMING` The . government has approved a Soviet'request to land twe, Russian TU-164 tWiti-jet airliners in New York in September, the TU -104, one Of Which is pictured above at Le Bourget Pielcl, Paris, France, in May, l957, travels at about 500 tit altitudes up to 35,000 feet., The sleek, XI-passenger airliners Will be firSt RUsSidn .planes ever to land In the United' StateL If you serve hot vegetables with cold, sliced ',meat, there are many ways to make them decorative, For instance, wrap wide strips of pimiento around bundles of asparagus and circle these around your platter. Or boil and hollow out turnips and fill them with tiny green peas and tiny mushroom caps. Decorate mounds of creamed carrots with slivered almonds, Combine green beans with small white onions. Season with butter, salt and pepper and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. To introduce a red note on your platter serve tomatoes either stuffed or on the half shell. For the latter, you simply cut tomatoes in half crossways and place, cut side up in a baking dish, brush with melted butter and season with salt and pepper. Bake at 375° F. until tender — about 30 minutes. To stuff tomatoes, scoop out centers of whole, ripe tomatoes leaving a shell about 1/4 -inch thick. Chop pulp and drain off juice; mix pulp with an equal amount of soft bread crumbs. Add 2 tablespoons minced onion cooked in 1 'tablespoon butter until lightly browned. Season with salt and pepper, Stuff to- matoes and place in greased bak- ing dish; add just enough hot water to cover bottom of dish. Bake at 375° F. until tender — about 25-30 minutes. If you prefer cold vegetables, try placing potato or macaroni salad in a mound in the center of a chop dish and surrounding it with colorful, chilled, cooked vegetables. Green beans on one side, tiny cooked beets on an- other side, sliced cucumbers on another side and sliced tomatoes topped with white onion rings on another make an attractive cold platter to go with meat, * Potato salad is a popular ac- companiment for cold meats for hot weather meats. There are so many variations of this' dish that almost everyone has her own special recipe. A good plan to follow is to get a good basic recipe thaat your family likes and then vary it once in a while by adding some new ingredients. Here is a basic recipe. POTATO SALAD 3 cups cooked, cubed potatoes 1 tablespoon minced onion. 1 cup thick dressing -- cooked dressing or mayennaise 1 teaspoon salt ii cup chopped green pepper 1/2 cup finely cut celery cup chopped pickle or cu- cumber Mix lightly the potatoes, onion, dressing, and salt, . Be careful- not to Break potatoes. Chill until serving time, Add re- maining ingredients and milt lightly. Add more salt and dress- ing, if needed. Garnish with tomato> ve e d gas and olives. Serves 4. e s A colorful mold that tornbints potatoes With ruby red tome, toes will add a bright, gay touch to your, eumener dinner table. This serves 6. 1401Aiit11 POTATO-TOMATO SALAD 1 envelope millaVered gelatin j/j, cup cold Water 11/2 cups hot chicken broth teaspoini ground black pepper' 1 teaspoon salt 1 hard-tooked egg, Weed 4 slides fresh tomato 1 dip diced cooked potatoes' 1 CUP diced fresh teinatees 1 Cup diced celery tea,sPoott Minded olden 1 Cup cottage cheese itadislies fel' garnish Soften. 'gelatin in cold Water. Naval Traditions That Never Die Whateeer push-button innevae Lions arc' in store for the British Navy of the future, its jargon and customs are unlikely to alter Very much, For although the press gang Was abolished nearly two cen- turies ago the modern tar still refers to the Navy as the "Andrew", Thus he cOmmemor, ates the exploits of an old time press gang officer named Andrew Miller, Who is said to have claim, ed ownership of the British Fleet owing to the hundreds of men he had shanghaied! Depite the growing popular.* Of tea afloat sailors still enjoy their daily tot of rum. Ever since. Trafalgar this traditional tipple has been known to the lower deck as "Nelson's blood", For when the body of the famous admiral was brought home after the battle for burial in St. Paul's, the sailors believed that it was preserved in a barrel of rum, and that the marine sentries who stood guard tapped the barrel for an illicit drink during the night watches. In fact the spirit used was brandy. A jealously guarded custom in the Navy allows officers to drink the loyal toast seated. Three explanations exist for this privilege. One is that at the Restoration when Charles II was journeying back to this country in. H.M.S. Naseby he bumped his head on 'the wardroom timbers ,when ris- ing to reply to a toast. Another is that William IV had also struck his head on a deck beam when he stood up while dining on board a warship. The third is that when George IV, while Prince Regent, was dining on board a man-of-war, he said, as the officers rose to drink the King's health, "Gentlemen, pray be seated. Your loyalty,is above suspicion." s But whateveif the true story this custom goes by the board if the National Anthem should be played while the loyal toast is being clitink. For then all naval officers must stand like every- one else. Sailors are less 'superstitious than their forbearers. But black looks will still be directed at anyone who in a warship's wardroom allows an empty wine glass to ring. For he is said to have sounded the death knell of an unfortunate sail!r who will die by drowning. But if the glass is at once stopped from ringing the situa- tion is saved. For acocrding to the old superstition, "The Devil will take two soldiers instead." During the last war beards became all the rage in the Navy. Yet although beards are tradi- tionally associated with sailors they are only a century old as naval facial adornment. The Crimean War, during which many hundreds of sail- ors served ashore with the Army, poularized this military fashion afloat. But at first. it was frowned on by admirals. When Captain Moorsom, a naval gunnery expert, returned from the Crimea sporting a lux- urrious beard he reported, as was customary, to the First Sea Lord at the Admirality. The great man, then Admiral Sir Maurice Fitzhardinge Berkeley, looked up from his desk at the bearded Moorsom and went white with rage. He waved the intruder away with the curt re- mark, "Horse Guards, next door!" Another traditional naval cus- tom unlikely to change is that of using an officer's sword to in- dicate to him the verdict at a court-martial. If he has been found guilty the point of the sword, which lies on the table in front of the court during the trial, is turned towards him. If acquitted the hilt faces him on re-entering the court room. This custom dates from the days when beheading was the method of executioti, leev- ing the place of trial the pris- oner was preceded by the headsman who carried the edge of his axe towards the victim if death was to be his lot, or away if imprisonment only awaited him. Everyone has heard of Fanny Adams, and a popular song; has even been written about her. But the has been Navy gang for almost a century, For in 1867 a nine-year-old child named Fanny Adams was murdered by a clerk, at Alton in Hampshire, who cut up his victim's body and threw it into a river. At about the same time tinned mutton was introduced into, the Navy. The new ration was un- popular, and with Macabre hu- matt the sailor's christened it "Earmy Adams." When a sailor falls for a pret- ty girl he tells his shipmates he would like to give her his "black bag." This is another bit of old Navy jargon which has never died. For the wooden Well sail- or kept his Most preeletts lies= seSSieriS in a small black eativaS hold=all, TO present this td young lady was tariternetint, ari offer of marriage. isterial consent, is she a mere figurehead? The world was given a sharp reminder that the monarchy still has teeth when Elizabeth was called upon to name a successor to Sir Anthony Eden, who re- signed as prime minister last January. Ordinarily the naming of a prime minister is automatic. But Eden's sudden resignation left his party, leaderless and the Queen with the momentous choice between Harold Macmil- lan and Richard Austen Butler. The Queen has certain other real powers which are hers alone. Only she can summon, termin- ate or, dissolve Parliament. Only she can grant pardons or confer peerages and honors. And no bill passed by Parliament can be- come law until it receives the Royal Assent. What would happen if the Queen refused the Royal. Assent, no one knows, for this question has never arisen in the past 250 years, the last time the Royal Veto was used being in 1707. Elizabeth also presides over the Privy Council, which has ap- proved 117 proclamations in the first half of 1957, including the constitution of the new State of Ghana. She can grant royal, charters to corporations, coin money, claim any treasure trove found hi her domain. Infants and in- sane persons are her wards; Also, only she can print or lie- ease other to priut the Bible. A lot of nonsense is written about British royalty. Sorne writ= ere go all mystical iri describing her symbolic role. There is, how- ever, a Sense in which Elizabeth is a symbol of national unity, in whom people of different creeds, races and origins find inspiration and strength. Thus, when She broadcasts to the nation and to the Coltman* wealth at Christrnae, she is list-, ened to as a Universal mother,, the end living link of coreinen kinship and heritage. .