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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1940.
THE ROYAL MEMOIRS
By
H.R.H.
The happiest hours of all were those in which we wern left to our own devices, and these were spent mostly on our blcycles. The parks and woodlands of Sandringham, even moru then Windsor and Balmoral became enchanted trails for two boys ave a girl on rubbor wheels,
As a special treat we were
THE DUKE OF
Into The Navy
the street, and when we were,
WINDSOR
Good Morning
"Stanley Missing." No, Myrtle,
"Fire on Lighter." Reminda mus, Myrtle, of that double capacity one your mother gave me last
If at Arst it seemed especially It's all right. There's no danger i hard to me, it was because I was of that happening in Hong Kong. caught up, without the previous - We have too many guides, experience of school, in the un- famillar community life of small boys with all of its fierce, subtle and wonderful velationships.
After having Finch to take Christmas, care of my clothes and pick up
Without comment. myself.
It is announced that despite tim And from the comfortable roomafference in time between Hong of our different homes found Kong and Canton, the express myself thrust with some 30 other trains were not delayed over the boys into a long, bare dormitory, week-end...
The orbit of my living shrank
allowed to bicycle down to the polite lifting of the friend, anter the bugle sounded off "Quar- after me, I 11ow had to look after
up the
Mr. Jones
The ink dropped down my the salutation would be a friendly tack, ruling one of the few while wave of the hand, or in the case shirts that I possessed; 'n moment
courtier or family r
hat,
fers," and the sixth-termers danh- village of Wolferton to watch The year 1907 marked the ended away to fall in their rank, leav- the afternoon train come in plek of my cloistered boyhood and the ing me in a terrifying dilemma for
mall, and maybe
I had ever buy start of the career which my father which nothing that
hur! Jeelded was in my best learned under the good Hansell some sweets at the shop.
interest.
seemed to supply a solution. 1 was 12%, old enough for the If I went to "Quarters" drip- to a cheap iron bed and a black
The Jap constitution has re- competitive examination for naval ping red ink, the Offeer of the and white yen chent with three nouneed war. This, the Japs say, cadat,
Day would coldly ask questions compartiments in which to keep is bad for the constitution. The Brat ordeal was an oral which
be obliged to my clothes a tray and I would
A private interview by a committee of stern answer; that would menu telling | till, aider admirals and schoolmasters, the senious.
Hanke!t'a earlier
misgivings One of the questions levelled at And if 1 nited "Quarters" iny about my ability to hold my own me was whether I was scared in name would be put in
the com in the classroom were all bón con the
hnd dark, and barely
mander's morning report, with a vincingly borne out at the end of answered A quavering "No" consequent
mark on my my first term. when t
I was asked
who was my recurs, while my training had favourite author.
It I have never known what it means to be nubibish,
no small mensûre because of the happy
n village {[ example scholmaster, Mr. Walter Jones, teaching who took over NORTH-On April 4th. In Kow-whenever lansell went at
form Hospital, to Eileen, Wite his holidays.
of sub-insp. R. North, H.K.P.
daughter,
Dizabeth.
Christine,
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As the representatives of 12 Western nations signed the Atlantic Pact in Wash- inglon, thoughts in Hong Kong inevitably turned to our own defence plans, which
has little
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SO
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portant to you than the tri- bulations even of kinsfolk
10,000 miles away,
от
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Papil.
My father at Balmoral
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There are many opinions on the Atlantic Pact, mostly conditioned by which side of the iron curtain you live on -either metaphorically physically. But most of the free peoples will agree on its inevitability, however fearful they may be of its possible consequences. They will ap- pliud with deep feeling the Jones, speaking with remarks of Mr. Dean Ache-Yorkshire burr.
pole re son. the U.S. Secretary of moved from Hansell. But Jones State: "For those who seek was rst-rate ainateur natur- peace, it is a guide to refuge alist, and had a wonderful way with dogs and birds, and he and strength, a very present would take us rambling through help in trouble. For those the woodlands and on the mar- who set their feet upon the shes and teach us where to loak
the nests for
of the different path of aggression, it is a warning-that if it must needs species of birds and to recognise be that offences come, then their calls. wee unto them by whom the offence cometh.”
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And, having 'scen
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A few days later 1 was notified been in the direction of support. that I was eligible to compete
the constituted authority the
written examination. Herra stremnstances, a dim Instinct Indeed
was the text of what 1 inclined me to the latter alter had been able to learn from my native, for I wisely reasoned that tutor Hanwell, I crammed far into my punishment at the comman- the night.
der's hands would be as rothing Two weeks later, along with compared to
want the мо hundred boys frum all would nete out It I told. manner of schools In Breat
So I slunk away in the dark Britain, and even from theness to ke clean shirt out of Dominions. I sat at a desk in al my sen chest. public examination hali in Lasndon, and for three days struggled with
There were only 67 plaeen open and I left the hall praying that would not fail.
Passed In
my
After days of MISJIENAG father told me that my prayer had been answered: I had passed into the Navy and In May would enter the Royal Naval College at Osborne, near Cowes, on the Isle of Wight.
to
'Sentenced'
"Being a peaceful nation, Tur- key cannot stand aside in a wor for peace."
Even if not invited to join a paet for war?
The epposition party in Argen- tina tore up the president's con- stitutional reform
proposals, #1 his supporters' threw them benches, and marched out of the Assembly.
It was learned later, from
In
My Progress Examinations came every four month, and marks were posted for everybody to see how he stood
in the order."
However, according 10 nusually reliable source, that they peculiar Osborne custom, we endets were not eature agreement when going on leave were required With the proposals.
carry the college report home in a seated envelops which handed to our parent or guardian upon arrival.
The dest jerm I was not far from the baddon,
not
seniors
ው
Next morning, as I feared, my nume went up on the defaulters
Hist, and was sentenced to spend the leisure hours of the nort three days in alternately running briskly ground the stable yard while holding a rod stiffly be
ween my shoulder blades and facing the paintwork for an hour in the seamanship room.
Another form of "hazing" which caused
ing no te dis- comfiture was mock ceremony performed, if I can rightly recall
A ran from the famous firm of Gieves, Ltd., naval outfitters, by the same persecutors, tame
measura me for my An empty classroom window was raised far enough to push my uniform, the fitting of which my head through, and then bangeri father personally supervised.
I was proud of the
down blue round
A crudo rc- on my neck, jacket, with its brons button and minder of the sad fate of Charles richender's white collar tab, and of
and the
British capacity to my naval cap, and would parade deal with royalty who talked out in it before my slater and brothers. of ten. Then the fateful day of leaving of the
Quite a while
after the soundl arrived, and
may
father took m
retreating ASINOCK"
font- away, my cries aft away to Osborne. Despite my most steps had diel
Д attracted determined efforts to uphold what]
sympathetle раняет who released me, fortunately I guessed must be the traditions
1 left Marl with my head intact. of the Royal Navy,
Yet, aside from these relatively House with tears drench- borough
carrectives, mild Republican ing my new blue uniform.
my The education of a British life at Osborne was no different naval cadet at that time required from that of any other British
one tralaing ashore-twu naval cadet, which, by
with the pamporing that goes on today In the name of progressive education, was a fairly Spartan business.
the feeble
the sons of
two at Dart-
at Osborne mouth in Devonshire,
To make sure that I got started Portsmouth right,. my father took it tr
on the train; and with storica
of his
by:
contrast
At the end
ww
"Chian Heils said to be willing to hold lines,"
But will the fish take the bait?
A ran of 75 led of semi- However, my father bad
starvation with US$500,000 in the complained about the first report: Bay, just goes to show what
bank. He only ate one meat a
take off you in the course of a lifetime.
and so, in December 1987, i bore the second home to York Cottages the restaurants without misgivings.
allion
"I was proud of the round blue jacket, with its brace bastona and cadet's white collar cab
and of my naval cap."
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Pact simmatories were reported as "scrutching their pena acros3 the parchment.
Washington's ball-point mer- chants don't seem to have been on the ball.
Francly speaking, there seems no mystery about T.V.'s trip to France.
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So far 75 applicants to defend Hong Kong have passed the secur- ity screening.
But have they seen the psy chiatrist?
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People going to worship thele ancestors by the way of the Pearl River may meet them on route.
While some call the pact a nilestone, a pessimist. we know thinks it may turn out to be a tombstone.
A diner complained when he was charged more in a restaurant when he had a second helping of
Houp.
The doubts if the management is entitled to make a dopih charge.
The British Foreign Secrę- tary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, point efforts of Bertie and me to play
While I had not distinguished ed out that "while the coun-football with Mary, he organised
myself in any subject, I was not | matics, navigation and engineer- Our Day calmed me tries represented here have
teams among two
conscious of having failed in any ing, the two pillars of a naval been striving to rehabilitate the coachmen, gardeners, gume-
naval life. early
As soon the affectionate officers' eduention wure lost to me. Steaming down Spithead Lo Our term was divided into two homme-coming the world, and to restore it keepers, and other employees of Cowes he fell silent;
salutations Werne My father's remedy for this then just watches: Starboard for the. 10p. The prosperity and sanity,
estate.
master engage a before the launch touchod If royal protocol required that
thefor brainy half; Post for the dumb disposed of, I handed the fateful arials was to envelope
my father, whe, from Osborne, and they have been constantly
ain soon AS dock he said softly, "Now that bells. my brother and I be mained
evincing no immediate interest in Christinas festivities were over, I frustrated in their efforts."
you are leaving home, David, and
We Block 1wo of the Captain that' guaranteed us no This
12 its contents put it casually in his buckled down to work, forgoing, in the going out into the world, always dormitories,
each named for pocket. echoed additional consideration in
the interest remember that I am your
of my survival, a admiral, throughout
which DAL British friend." Common-serimmage.
As there was no mention of my great part of my leave. grouped around the old stables
It wealth, which knows that The point about life at Sand--
marks that evening at dinner
all seemed beyond my custom the new termera of Osborne House, erected by my theringham in that for all the out-aways arrived two
powers, and said to myself, "Thla is fine,"
I fell pray whatever antagonisms
days before great-grandmother.
appalling inferiority complex.
When the following spring I a substantial
took home the third term report, failure that on being summoned ao overpowering was the sense of
the library, and without
fact is
the
wero
Pact may arousc, democracy ward luxury and grandiosity, the the rest of the college returned My dormitory bore the famous
core was
human
The Report
revel.
Finch with a long face and into
Then next morning there was chilling
Kunimons to the cold
to an
is now no longer a series of understanding.
from leave.
name of Exmouth, and the narrow isolated units, but "a cohesive
This interval gave me time to margin by which I qualified as a I used to tag along after my
before the seniors naval calet may be judged by the trganism." The signatories grandfather and my father while shake down
fact that began my naval career: the rounds may not be wholly happy they made
of the appeared.
It was customary for each buy in the Fort watch, Class 3, the {brary, and a minute later tho waiting for my father to speak, bedfellows, but they have tales, discussing general proof the new term to be scrutinised very bottom,
I burst into teara. blems with the agent and tenant for peculiarities in his appoarance, heen forced to action by an
Reveille" farmers or consulting Jackson, and to be asked all manner of summer and 6.30 in winter was
at six o'clock in red cloth-covered walls witnessed
a painful scene.
"Comte, David," he said, with emergency.
the head gamekeeper about the
unexpected kindness, this is no My father locked me in the eye. way for a naval cadet to personal questions his name, who proclaimed on The same argument could shooting. My father felt an able-
A bluring bugle
act, his father was, where he ilval. that made me yearn for Pige "David," he said, "I am sorrystu Besides, you have be used in Hong Kong. Ining sense of responsibility for all
quito a have to tell you that you have a report this time, and I am piesand Forsyth's bagpipes.
good Manutestly all the answers that Major spite of the
these people. current peace
I
musier could not have) A moment later a gong would
bad report, Rand i1," That no one stood on ceremony
with the progress you have made," talks in China or perhaps at Sandringham
been more damning, for, quitsrout us out of hed, and which bore o
It was a curt, eruyl document, was illustrated because of the implications by a little incident that occurred and homes, the fact that I had kneel down and say our prayers to my own appraisal of my effort production, even partially, in any
apart from my royal parontage convulsive motion
relation whatever we would all
World Copyright reserved. Re- of a Communist-dominated one winter on the pond.
never been to school bofore caned
After the minimum time which The sad fact was that mathe-language, strictly prohibited. peace the Colony is facing My father fancied himself 'as
me to be regarded as a freak, potential
In the cadet captain's Judgment mata, that speelte of Hansell's trouble
fast skater and he challenged the inch to
1 in
Erchusive rights in Hong Kong was required for the Lord to near futoring, had in all of its hideous by "China Mail." future. It may not come,
and take note of us, he would sapects pursued me to Osborne. a sharp turn. Finch, noted but if it does, we will fare for his clumsiness, crashed into
yank the gong twice, and, still
And without applled mathe- (To Be Continued. Tomorrow) half asicep, we would jerk to our il if preparations are lack-my father, who went down in a
The privacy of my royal exini-
feet Ing.
ence was rolled up like a curtalu, start brushing our teeth.
and, in a communal motion, The Defence Force is tump and lay quite still. the best answer to this. No As the horrified valet tried to
Within a day or two of thel
Once mort the gong would return several sixth my father's thinking person expects it to
head, my
or senior-
sound the signal for the plunge formers decided his Royal High-Into the Arctic pool at the end of be able to withstand serioustical oath sent Finch fleeing to- sense returned; a nau-
nena Prince Edward would look the hall. invasion, but an efficient or-ward the bank,
much better with his fair hair ganisation could quell in-
dyed red. So one evening before eyes to see again
Today, I have only to close my that pathetic "Quarters" (Evening Parade). crowd of naked, shivering little was cornered by my bettors and boys, myself among them, being made to stand at attention while herded reluctantly toward that one of them poured a bottle of green-tiled swimming pool in the
first morning light.
ternal disorders.
In view of the opposition
On
ralsc
father's
a raco.
'I'll Best Him'
In A Dilemma
the authorities were bound Slowly my father came to his to meet, there was a strik-feet and without a word skatedred lak over my head.
to share, rubbing a tremendous ing lack of propaganda ac-tump on his forelicad. companying its opening
That evening I found him in However, in the early days his study pouring a mild drink. there was a pleasing rush of His eyes twinkled. "You go to
applicants, although it turn-En
Finch, he said, "and tell him DO YOU
there's no hard feelings, and tell
ed out that many were mis him I'm going to beat him to-
takenly after pay, or alterna-morrow." tively, the bright new uni-
I grow up before the age of
forms. Up to date about photography. 3,000 have intimated thoir Wo wera neldom recognised on willingness to Join.
From that number, after
six weeks of recruiting, it is now be joining, from private now learned that 75 people firms and the civil service, have passed the screening but progress seems to be test. Without any informa- slow. Some publicity of the tion as to difficulties met, one right kind is needed. Fur can only describe this as fan- ther, it is very much in the
KNOW YOUR
HONG
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tastic. Just what is holding people's interest that more gnise
Can you re- up the screening of the renews should be issued at re-this picture was mainder, and how long will gular intervals about what taken? The an It take to pass or reject them? developments aro taking web in Int 'Page'
A public statement would place. The Foces is the con- Mine,
seem to be overdue.
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