TOUR BY DUCHESS OF KENT

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26855, 7 October 1952, Page 7

TOUR BY DUCHESS OF KENT

(Rec. 12.10 a.m.) SINGAPORE, Oct. 6. The Duchess of Kent and her son. the Duke of Kent, arrived in Malacca by air from Kuala Lumpur today. _ The Duchess officially . opened Malacca’s new airport building. A peat-grandson of the last Malay leader » fight the British in Malacca preheated the Duchess with an ivoryhandled kris as a "symbol ot peace and loyalty.” .... , The Duchess drove in a bullet-proof £ar to the city. Scout cars, manned by Royal Hussars, protected the Royal convoy, and Gordon Highlanders •oarched the jungle and paddy fields 011 either side of the road. While his mother attended the ceremony, the young Duka was taken •wiHunmg.

buro mem bers of the Polit- °* the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attended the opening of Their B .™ !n the Gremlin last night. ofthJ K?K?r an § ? n the Great e Kremlin Palace was greeted The 3 c’nn'ir 6 j eVeral minutes nr 1 r? Congress heard a report bv Centrai°W Malen!{ov . secretary of the v „ the Communist taTmgXrT the Politburo s lead- _ l 3*^ e .^ of the Congress was elected consisting of 16 members inLavr?nti Mr n S{?1 ‘ n - ~ Messr » Molotov. Lavrenti Bena, Marshal Klementi Mr r °N?knl V ’- R £ arshal Nikolai Bulganin. Mr Nikolai Kruschev. and Mr Lazar weS n e°^T h H- 4 all .? olitb"to'members—elocted to the Praesidium. drafHn r <r the e l ea *i° n ot the secretariat. cor omittee, and the mandates Col , Sra;is approved its t®?? da and then passed to Mr Malen,i eport on behalf of the Partv’s central committee. ,