JOTTINGS OF INTEREST

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21336, 6 February 1941, Page 4

JOTTINGS OF INTEREST

Winston Churchill’s Grandson Winston was the name given to the son of Mr Randolph Churchill, M.P., and the Hon. Mrs Churchill (says a London correspondent) when he was christened on the sixty-sixth birthday of his grandfather. The place where the ceremony took place is being kept secret. The baby was born on October 10. Those at * the ceremony included Mr and Mrs Winston Churchill, Lord and Lady Digby, Mrs Duncan Sandys, Mrs Victor Oliver, Miss Mary Churchill, and the Hon. Edward Digby. The god-parents were Miss Virginia Cowles, Lord Beaverbrook, Lord Brownlow, and Mr Brendan Bracken, M.P. Winston is the Prime Minister’s third grandchild. The others are the son and daughter of his daughter, Mrs Duncan Sandys. Baroness Orczy Missing

The friends in England of Baroness Orczy are wondering what has happened to the celebrated creator of the Scarlet Pimpernel. She was last heard of at her villa in Monte j Carlo. The most recent news of her seems to have been a letter received by her London agent in June. In it she said she had decided to remain j where she was. So far as is known, . Baroness Orczy is still at Monte Carlo. A report that she has gone i to America lacks confirmation. Her | husband is Mr Montague Barstow. ! i Their son, Mr J. M. Barstow, who i was a Professor of English at Lau- j sanne, writes under the pen name of John Blakeney. He is now an officer in the British Army, in which he served during the last war. A Toast Worth Remembering i The following toast, given re- j : cently at an Australian dinner, i , might well form the basis of our ! New Year resolutions:— God’s good luck and good living j in this brave New Year . I Whether you are shouldering a gun, j working a machine, weilding knit- ! ting needles, or handling a saucepan, ! or whether you are carrying responsibilities of our great young nation—hit high; hit out. Let fear I be banished from our minds, and j i knowledge that good will triumph ! reign in our hearts. ; Year’s Fashion Prospects ! Cruiser grey, undersea blue and tide blue, will be among the* first ' favourites of the 1941 autumn wool- | j lens, according to buyers of Sydney ; ! stores. ■ “Runners up” will be regimental i ■ r ed and airforce blue. j Manufactured in Australia, wool- ! i lens will be available in a compre- ! hensive range of colours and i weaves. j Silk and cottons, however, which j are mostly imported, will be ob- ' tainable only in increasingly re- 1 I stricted colours and designs. I Prices for summer fabrics ne. :t | season were likely to rise up to i 100 per cent, said one buyer ! Women in the Soviet | Women in the U.S.S.R. are accorded equal rights with men in all ' fields of economic, State, cultural, ! social, and political life, i The possibility of realising these ! rights of women is ensured by affording women equally with men the right to work, payment for work, rest, social insurance and education, State protection of the interests of mother and child, granting pregnancy leave with pay, and the provision of a wide network of maternity homes, nurseries, and kindergartens. Women Delegates Suggested for Peace Conferences At a conference of the League of Nations held in Wellington last week, it was suggested in a remit presented by a woman delegate, that women be included in national delegations to peace conferences. The : remit was as follows: “That women, chosen for their international experience, be included in the national delegations for commissions (including New Zealand) j to the peace conferences preparatory :to the peace treaty. They should ' have official status.” The mover, , Mrs Denton-Leech, who has been j closely connected with the work ol' ; the League of Nations Union in J Dunedin for many years, in sneaki ing to the remit, quoted the British I Minister of Labour, Mr Bevin, who : said that under conditions of mod- i ■ ern warfare women were in the ! I front line of battle. British women ! were carrying out a wide range of I wartime duties often under severe j bombardment, and the valiant | women of Greece had helped their i soldiers to repel attack by carrying ! heavy stores of food, ammunition j and supplies up the mountain sides, i It was, therefore, fitting, the speaker ! ! said, that such women 'should have j : representation in the settlement of | i peace terms. As women looked at | ! problems from a different angle to j 1 the men. they contributed to more comprehensive considerations of the many problems.