But Shirley is set on the divorce...

• At the American University in Cairo a discussion in the form of a symposium was held, in which three men and a lady spoke on parliamentary life in Egypt and what it ought to be.

As for the lady, she was the woman of letters Amina al-Said; she seized the opportunity and raised the subject of woman's political rights, and she called the parliamentary system existing in Egypt a despotic system so long as the Egyptian woman is not represented in it. In her address she called for the necessity of representation by groups, so that the engineers, for example, would have someone to represent them in Parliament and defend their rights, and the lawyers someone

to represent them, and the doctors, and so on... so that parliamentary representation in Egypt might come out sound.

• The Sunday Pictorial said that the British public has noticed that Princess Elizabeth, the heiress to the throne, acquired a marvelous femininity in the past year, and that she was suddenly trans-formed from a boyish girl into a lady of complete femininity and of great beauty.

The paper believes that the secret of this transformation is that the Princess has become a wife and a mother... and that marriage is the half of beauty.

And the paper advises girls to

hasten to marry, so that they may become beautiful...

• Princess Margaret has been the talk of the American papers for a long while now.

These papers never cease doing much harm to the reputation of the merry Princess with the rumors they serve up to their readers.

Among these rumors is what Magazine Digest says: "The

Princess is trying to influence His Majesty her father and Her Majesty her mother to permit her to travel to America...

And it is said that the man who occupies the first place in her heart lives somewhere between Brooklyn and Beverly Hills..." — meaning the comedian Danny Kaye.

Another magazine wrote: "It happened at one of the parties given by the royal family at Buckingham Palace that His Majesty the King noticed that Princess Margaret had gone too far in her drinking, and he asked her to stop; but she refused, and said that if he insisted on his demand she would not take luncheon with him... and she had her way."

And the latest thing these American papers have written is that "His Majesty King George saw the Princess at one of the dinner parties wearing an evening gown open at the breast in an unusual manner... and he said to his daughter: It appears that you hurried in putting on your clothes and forgot the upper part of your gown... The Princess pretended not to have heard the remark, but the King said to her:

You may go back to your room and fetch the rest of the gown..."

And the English papers are angry at this campaign of defamation which the papers of America are letting loose...