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Malta, with its companion islands of Gozo and Comino, remains as friendly to outsiders as when, in A.D. 60, St. Paul the Apostle was shipwrecked with a few adherents and found that "the barbarous people showed them no little kindness." Today, in the capital of Valletta, which was founded by the Knights of Malta to commemorate their victory over an invading Ottoman fleet, sailors find a paradise of bars, cabarets and girls. In its "fiveyear plan," the island has already built a gambling casino, and next year both a Sheraton and a Hilton hotel will rise over Malta...
...make their homes where birth or the spirit of adventure placed them-on an entire continent, on great islands and pinprick islets, in obscure deserts, tropical jungles, foam-flecked northern fishing villages, places with exotic names like Zanzibar, edible-sounding names like the Cameroons or Tortola, improbable names like Gozo or Piddlehinton, famous ones like St. Helena or Piccadilly. No man among them can fluently speak the tongues of all-Urdu and Sanskrit, Dutch and French, Hottentot, Greek, Turkish, Cockney, Twi, Gaelic...
When he was Lieut. Governor of Malta, at 52, Sir Harry Charles Luke swam five Mediterranean miles from Gozo to Malta in 4 hours 48 minutes, "and at the finish showed no signs of fatigue." Until he resigned as High Commissioner for the Western Pacific in 1942, Sir Harry spent 34 years in the British Colonial Service learning about seas, islands, and evil men. From his London retirement last week, Sir Harry spoke on what to do with Axis chiefs after the war: "The ideal place of residence for them . . . would be Falcon Island in the Pacific...
...More cautious than many of these priests, the Archbishops of Malta and Gozo declared in their joint pastoral letter (TIME, June 16) that it would be a "grave sin" and the Vatican's White Book says that priests who exceeded this limit have been "recalled...
Acts cited include the Pastoral Letter issued early in May by the Archbishops of Malta and Gozo in which they declared that the Government of Malta was "in a state of rebellion against the word of the Pope" and announced that "Catholics, therefore, without committing a grave sin, may not vote for the party of Lord Strickland." As a result of this pastoral the Governor, General Sir John Du Cane, postponed the election indefinitely...