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THE
By H.R.H.
Many years later, during an enforced perlod in bed while re- covering from a riding accident, became quite proficient with a erochet needle.
At the beginning of the lost war.
when, attached to a British mission with the French Army, I was obliged to make long motor trips back and forth in the com- bal zones. I returned once again to my gentle diversion as a means or killing tline.
This was during the period of the so-called "phoney" war, and 10*11። understanably discreet about hobby at first.
my
ROYAL MEMOIRS
THE DUKE
OF
Early Schooldays
we
WINDSOR
only did this annoying man cat frogs' legs; he actually preferred them above other food.
I think it was Mary who first had the idea of exploiting Hua's my mother was eccentridity, but Thus, one lay, there appeared | church, and
never missed
in on 12 100. In our midst a very tall, gaunt, that.
Armed with a fino mesh net solemn gentleman, Henry Peter That was the daily round of and a bucket, we sallied forth to Kansell.
my childhood.
the lake in search of frogs.
Bul
пя и the spawning season, we had to content our selves with a catch of tadpoles.
of
A grathate of Magdalen Col lege, Oxford, Hansell was a typi- cal English schoolmaster period which demanded ot Its fashionable pedagogues not only a broad command of the classes and Protestant doctrine, but pro- ficiency in several Joring athletes as well.
Good Morning!
After all, there is a lot of sunns in this new fashion of holding peace conferences before instead of jafter the third war.
Americans gave Czech spies 18 yearn. Czechs gave two Amerleau soldiers 10 and 12 years. Check, Oh Slovakia!
First it
►
was shacks down in Aussie. Now It's Sharkey.
•
Mr. David Because mathematics was not
'The Senate Foreign Relations Hansell's forte, and since it wa These we carried triumphantly Committee is sitting on a red hot also a subject to which I proved to the kitchen, and we instructed report," allergic, bath he and I presently the chief to broll them and serve came under my father's censure.
Thinking
Inaking that Honsell's op-
proach whe too theoretient, my father tried to fire our interest
It would hardly have done for the story to get around that the
He had Duke of Windsor, in the Iniform
played football at
with practical problems of his ot a major-general of the British Oxford, was a six-handicap golfer Army, had been
He thus own devising, such as striking the bowling and a crack rifle shot. scen the roads along
behind
combined the
Tel (1 sgraceful average weight of his "kill" dur- Maginot Line crocheting.
schoku ship
ng the teer-stalking season. muscular Nevertheless. crocheting
Christianity, accented by tweeds Made impatient by our ability and an ever-present pipe. Neod- to cupe even with these problems, less to say, he was n lachelor. bhee engaged a special tutor to teach us nothing bul mathema- Lirs.
me what detective novels do
arl. number
mind
Kathleen, at the Mary
on for Hospital April 3, 1949, dearly loved for statesmen.
It mether of Rosalern. Kaiken
relaxed
my The
provided arte! Etteen
funeral invadentally, per the Monument at of muonymous but not unworthy .. on Monday, April 4, samples for a charity in
wil!
1919
THE COMMUNIST PHILOSOPHY
The Communist philosophy is such that any semblance of defeatist attitude towards the force of Communism is dangerous. Many of the in- telligentsia regard the world and its future today with be- wilderment and anxiety, in striking contrast to the sang froid of a Marxist whose philosophy tells him not only what ought to happen but what will happen. A Marx- ist knows that he is taking part in the forward march of humanity. He is hasten- ing the development that will bring happiness to the world and bring it all the sooner because of his pro- paganda and conduct. This simple and naive conviction is undoubtedly a great source of strength to the Commun- ist movement. It enlists an immense force of fanatical enthusiasm. It captivates
men and women and de-
as
organised for the French Army.
When I was nearly eight # new personality was injected into my ilfe.
with
Save for the sporadie Interven- ilons of my parents, these two
men. Hansel and Finelt, brough! until one by one we went off to me and ny three brothers up
school,
They made a good team, and, of the two, I sometimes think that the servit had a stronger influence, possessing a livelier comprehen sion of a small boy's secret in- terests and of his inhibitions vs well is his ambitions,
Mr. David, a Welshman with knock knees and n taste for
Craven A tobacco, struggled with us in arithmetic, algebra, and trigonometry, during his holidays from Tonbridge School. His gal inst efforts were not utirely un-
rewarded. in the
Frederick Finch came from a line of family retainers service of the Dukes of Welling- ton. His father had been body- servant to the old Iron Duks himself.
In School
There was a "schootroom" in each of the four houses we pres-
Beginning as my male "nanay.") he shined my shoes, nursed me } when I was sick, scrubbed my hands and face, and knell with pied at different seasons of the me when I said my prayers at night,
As I grew older he became my volet-but a valet
year.
Mary had her own governess, Mademoiselle Jose Dussau, and, except when holiday and we joined her class, she did her lessons alone.
Hansoll who played
golf and shot and rode with me. Stul tater, he became my butter.
Now retired, aged 77, he lives #little cottage in Berkshire
more perhaps,
than his
Not long ago Finch told a frien of mine that ns boy I had been
with.
share of memories.
handful or, if I might use the word, a "stubborn" character.
412
He went on to describe occasion when he played the role al "rod and pickle."
| Apologise
M
Evidently, one afternoon, when iny sister was supposed to taking a nap. I had gone into the nursery' and kicked up a fuss. My father was out shooting, and 110 one dared to disturb my mother.
stuall
Í sobbed a long time, and swore to get even with Finch by threa- tuning that my brother would tell father what he had done. my
That night, at tea-time. my mother heart the whole story from Berlie and Mary, and I was sent back to Finch's roo18 apologise for having been such a nuance.
remember. Finch is a man
to
of
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them on toast that evening as a special savoury <lab for the French tutor,
M. Hun was, of course, pletely ignorant of the plot, and com-
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when the time came for the affair. RAVDory, and the footman passed the dish to the frog cater, I saw It seems In a sile glance that all the con- British stage censorship is getting spirators wore an expression of a bit Haya-y. angelie satisfaction.
End of Joke
Of course, I had never been our intention to let the professor eat the tadpoles, but before my mother could utter a warning, he was attacking the toast with knife and fork, and conveying the bail of it to his mouth with a gesture of anticipation,
Mama cried, "No, no!" onl
it was all my stammered that
At Frogmore the formidab Canon Dalton, of St. George'a Chapel. who harch Been father's tutor in the Navy, woubt strble down the hill to lecture 33 the Scriptures in a vatre that on the boamed like Big Ben,
A
•
"Klog's surgeon knighted." trusty lancet.
A
"Fresh Fruits arrive Serpont."
Hoy, that's newn!
012
Sea
Even if Formosa isn't truly "Socialist."
you can at least say
it's been severely "Nationalised.”
These security measures to study means of dealing with would-be
joke, and that his special savoury subversive oloments also give
was not meant to be eaten.
My Impression is that M. Hun would-be subversive elements a gallantly swallowed what was chance to study means of It is fascinating commentary already in his mouth, but pure dealing with the security measures. upon the flexiblity of British hatred was in the glance with
which he swept the table; and The Rangoon Turf Club was society that this man who played su influential a part in moulding with A eurt bow to my mother robbed of an entire day's takings. Wot, no photo finish to convince the charneter of a royal Prince that was like cocking a shotgun. should
the punters it was nft himself huve
the dining- from prostuce: he nounced
board? under the shadows of Windsor
People in Japan will have Да whale of an appetite now.
George Silf:
ALWAYS LOOKED forward to the summer holidays lá Scotland with my brothers-Bertle (now the King), Harry (now the Duke of Gloucester), and George (latag Duke of Kent killed 19425.
Mary loved her governess, who | Castle a son, Hugh Dalton, who was a great favourite with my
was until recently the Chancellor parents.
of the Exchequer of a Socialist Government.
To us boys, however, "Marie moiselle" was a tattle-tale who spoiled Mary and kept us in a constant state of apprehension lest the gave us away
to our parents,
Punctually at nine o'clock, Bertie and I would be at our desks and Hansell would enter the school-
mality.
Frogs' Legs
•
above.
Curiously enough, It is the Pacifists who oppose the iden of a Pacific Pact.
Mao Tse-tung's favourite tune: "One more river to cross,"
ance.
guests to listen to the perform-
My grandfather 'was always polite in his applause, but no more so than my grandmother, who was store deaf; hence I was never quite sure whether either one derived much pleasure from these acts of virtuosity.
In any case, for us children the whole business was a night-mare. "Upon the good education of princes the welfare of the world depends."
Thus expounded the Prince Con- sort in planning out for my grand. father an educational programme which in ita noverity and harsh ness Feemed more appropriate for the rehabilitation of a criminal.
To the extent that the end desir ed was a sober, learned and rigor- ous mind, that straitlased pro. gramme had falled notoriously in
the
Mama's eyes twinkled.
case of my spirited grand. "I am father, and on looking back over afrau, children," she said softly, my first five happy years under my "that between frogs legs and tutor Hansell-happy but curious tadpoles the French gourmetsy ineffectual years-I am forced draw a One line."
From M. Hun my brother and regime had little if any more suc- to admit that by contrast a milder i learned one polite accomplish-cess with me. ment-the ability to recite French.
ما
My lock
of progress - used worry my mother, who once ex- This accomplishment was the claimed, But these children are
And to teach me French, the origin of a novel way of saying terribly ignoranti" diplomatic language of the time, happy birthday to my parents
My father, in his more direct my father had resort to another and grandparents
on their in-way, attributed the trouble direct- of his old Navy tutora, a gentle-dividual birthdays,
ly to my dumbness. man with a bushy black beard,
In advance of the family cele- an enormous bald head, and the
Hun.
My sister's harassed nurse, Lajɔ prives them of their critical Bill, stormed Into Finch's room, faculties. Marx is accepted | crying, "That boy is impossible. as the prophet who had dis- If you don't give him a thrashing.
I will." covered not only the impor-
Finch marched me off to the tant truths but truth itself,
bedroom, Isid me face down on so that all that was needed the bed and, while I kicked and for man's guidance was the yelled, faid a large hand upon power of understanding his that part of the anatomy which exposition. Men
nature has conveniently provided might
for the chastisement of its interpreta- boys. quarrel over tion but
fortunately they have been provided with in-
infallible terpreters as Marx himself in Lenin and Stalin. And as these inter- preters have behind them the drilled power of the largest State in Europe, their ver- sion of the truth is backed
That, at any rate, Is Finch's by material force as impres-
for myself, can only say story: sive and dominating as the
that
I have absolutely no recol- force that the ideas of the lection of the incident, and may French Revolution derived have rubbed from my memory a from the conquests of Napo-scene that I did not choose to leon. This sense of certainty probity; let his testimony stand. is a weapon of some impor- tance in the struggle of ideas in the world. Undoubtedly there is the danger that it
Coming upon us afresh, after that long absence, he was appal- will affect the spirit and con-
led to discover how litite Bertin fidence of the opponents of und I knew. Communism. It is evident I was then seven and a half- had just finished having break-why Hua was expected to succeed
with me.. (they say) that Coinmunism an age which customarily finds fast with us. is the form that democracy families deposited in a fushion- then be let out for half an hour not escape the fate of becoming a friendly man, yet the sons of upper-class English We would study for two hours, like all French professors he dhi is taking in Europe and all able preparatory school, to be of play, with another hour of the forces of Liberalism are ruled by
at the hands of British school- the classics and the work before lunch. destined to defeat in world master's
As a rule Hansell would lunch bays the butt of crude practical
Jokes. where Communism is emerg-education of British Princes had "Mademoiselle."
however, By tradition,
the with us, as would Mary and her
One day, at lunch, when we
at ing as the only alternative
M. Hun Frogmore, semained the province of the prl- On prescribed days only French were to reaction. Anybody who vate tutor: and my father's im- would be spoken at meals. This position of the subtleties of the digressed from a long-winded ex- accepts this conclusion, who mediate response to the nursery was tough on Bertle and me. French indefinite article to
praiso thinks that one by one the crisis was to import without delay since Mary, speaking the language the excellencies of French cuisine, peoples of Europe will follow a tutor of impeccable connections. all day with her French gover- dwelling with particular rapture
ness, was far more practised in it on the succulence of frogs le the example
Czecho- of
than we.
As we children had never eaten slovakia, is really arguing British people that it would
The afternoons were taken up them, our immediate reaction was that mankind has to surren- take them 60 years to pro with outdoor games, an hour or that Hila was making up a good der its most important moral | duce a society which was not two of further study, und of story.
course, tea. conquests because democracy a police state?
But +3 he talked on. his Saturday While the Russian Revolu- cannot live up to them.
was our free day, earnestness impressed us, and Sunday morning always meant finally dawned on w that not
In 1901 my father returned from an eight-months' tour of the British Empire.
An admirer of the Rustion has brought some bene- sian Revolution said it will fits, as a political force it is. take Russia 30 years to reach | now a danger to all the Ideas the stage at which the Rus-that have tended to emani- sians enjoy the rights and cipate man from his worst freedom to which the Bri- passions, and there is. no tish are accustomed. M. reason to believe its power
Vyshinsky said last year that for evil cannot be resisted
there was only one road and with success or that such re- that was the Stalin roadsistance involves the loss of which the Russians have the benefits it has brought. been following for 30 years. That belief would be as con- Thus the Russian Revolution trary to the lessons of his- has to create the situdtion in tory as the Marxist bellef
Yot quite apart from the ques tion of
whether I I possessed the in-
room with a schoolmaster's for-improbable name of M. Gabriel bration, each of us would choose tellectual equipment to make
A stranger observing his do-
Since he had achieved but in-
a poem which we would under- take to memorise, and copy with good student, the circumstances of tached and impersonal air, would different success with my father; foolscap, which were then bound archial democracy to dilute
painful cure on long sheets of my birth combined with the con- Genreely have suspected that he was never able to understand with bright ribbons. At the party slow down my preparation for the stitutional constraints of a mon-
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Can you with the freedom enjoyed by tyranny has weapons un-I sognise where the despised bourgeois Bri- known to the tyrants of the
this picture was taken! The an- tish people. This is the past but it is also true that swar is in Page people the Communist lead the peoples who have onjoy- LIVER. ers describe as the father of od. Überty have not lost its democracy. Can one ima-spirit or the capacity of de [gine Tom Paine telling the fending it.
He was
we children would advance all in a row, recite our little pieces; and
it that these prodigies of memory then present the coples.
My parents usually-so arranged were performed in the privacy of the family.
But at Sandringham my grand-
liked parents
to invite
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