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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1980.
THE KINGS OF YESTERDAY.
WHERE
King Leopold" of Belgium
faces the prospect of exile as
a result of recent events in his
THEY TODAY?
ARE
By J.L. HAYS
country. How are other Royal in hotel registers: "Occupation: tain, who carved out for himself exiles faring?
Best known In Britain is tho 32812 | 27-year-old Peter of Yugoslavia, who was forced into exile by Tito in 1045.
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NEUTRALISATION
1
OF TAIWAN
President Truman's de- cision on Taiwan was ex- pressly designed to prevent an expansion of war. motives and hopes of the Nationalist leaders in Taiwan, and especially of the Generalissimo himself, are
The
Не wne at D preparatory school in Britain,, a boy of 11. when he Was recalled to his country after the assassination of his father, King Alexander, in Marseilles in 1934.
Ho escaped from Yugoslavia when the Germans came, went to the University of Cambridge in England and spent most of the war years in Britain.
Wants to live in England
He still
thinks of England an his home, and was recently re- ported to be searching for an English country house.
Although Intely he has sald he had barely enough capital to sup- port his family, Peter was orec one of the richest princes in the world.
His father left him £2,000,000, mostly in foreign currencies and securities abroad,
In 1949 a Paris court awarded: him £20,000 deposited by hisj father in a French bank.
Signs himself as 'Ex-King'
ex-King."
Poorest of the.cxiles is Michael, now nearly 30, forced to abdicate from the Rumantan. throne by the Kremlin in 1947,
ex-King
Europe's nowest kingdom in the turbulent Balkans of the 1930s.
Hoped to return to his throne
"
The Ct. 2in, tall claims he receives no funds from pattern of things to come, invad- When the Italians, setting the the Communists. Last year herd Albania on Good Friday, 1930,
was looking for a job.
Ed Morning
quietly with his mother, Queen). Joanna, in a villa in Alexandria.
The establishment of the Bul-Foreign observers would Uko garian Peoples' Republic in 1940
to know just what Chiang's plans ended his brick-reign.
aro."
So would Chilang,
He was only six when he` suc-i ceeded his father, King Boris, who dled mysteriously after a visit to Hilor in 1948.
His first official engagement as King was to attend his father's funeral.
His chlidhood was spent in vir. With ho fled with his Queen, the former tual Gestapo captivity.
counters courage, his mother defled a re- His personal fortune, believed American-Hungarian
the known as "White Rose of quest from Hitler to become the to exceed £2,000,000, la "frozen'
boy's guardian. in Rumania. His property, in- Hungary." cluding 150 castles, 160,000 acres, the crown Jewels and a priceless collection of El Grecos, has been coniscated.
Recently he refused an offer of £40,000 to write his memoirs, and £250 a week to play a leading part in "The Desert Song" in De- troit.
He worked in car
factory
Michael has found personal, happiness in exile. Visiting Lor- don for Princess Elizabeth's wed- ding, he mat for the first time his tall, slim good-looking · cousin, Princess Anne of Bourbon-Far ma. They fell in love at first sight.
and they
After an "on-off" romance,
by religious complicated
difficutiles, constitutional married in Athens in 1048.
They now live in a smalt house; at Lausanne with their
infant
Now he is settled comfortably enough in Alexandria.
Originally the Communists of- fered the Royal family £3,000,000
But compensation.
as Simeon, Zog hoped to return to his his mother and suite of 10 finally throne at the end of World War escaped through
Turkey and II. But no loyal summons came syrin ii is doubtful whether even from the Moscow-dominated Do a fraction of the money was paid. mocratie Front.
His mother recently wrote to For a time, ironically, his next the International Refugee Or door neighbour in Egyptian exilo
find out if she is ganisation to was his former conqueror, Victor eligible for ald Emmanuel, living as Count Pol-person.
Ienzo.
Country mansion
home
It now looks as if the Reds be frustrated in are going to their plans to Korea.
I suppose learner-drivers must practice somewhere, but there's so many of them around at the moment that our streets have become "L" let loose.
Last
.
month's figures showed another record trade balance for the Colony.
Much more of this and tho Stock Exchange might as well close down altogether.
•
displaceti fate of the Irish."
from
to reports According Geneva she has been told to file an application for ald.
Zog's title-in-exile is "Chief of last 6 Rome court the Sons of the Eagle."
He first lived in a rented castle near Paris, but spent the war years in a 40-room mansion in Buckinghamshire, England with his Queen, five glamorous sisters and the Crown Prince Leka, now aged 11.
During the war the eight-strong Albanian community in Britain
"The thema of the song la the
Boots, boots, boots?
Local Intelligence,
An "English lady widow" is advertising for a job.
Yet, strangely enough, In June decreed that Joanna, the former Italian Prin-
No, Myrtle, these Free Czechs cess Giovanna, should share in
hear about are not being four-fifths of the confiscated pro-you
of her father the late given away by the banks. perly Victor Emmanuel.
The British Royal
family
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Manila bans export of strategic goods to Hong Kong, except those sanctioned by the British goverament
Good heavens-do they think The Scandinavian monarchies anybody here would try to sell
Netherlands them to the Reds?
daughter. Another baby is ex called on him "to give up the and Julinna of the
own
ho
But Tito stopped his £10,000-pected later this year. quite the opposite. Here lies-month, tax-free allowance, con-
State Treasury" to finance resis are held in deep respect.
And the British Royal family, the root of the trouble and of seated his property, and depriv- Michael had an English tutor, is tunce In Albania.
flies his mechanically-minded, ed him of his nationality.
linked
the to
Commonwealth still greater trouble to come
saved only Zog claimed twin-engined, four-seater
wreck of his peoples by well-lested constitu- unless the position is handled
Now he is looking for a job. plane. Once he worked in a car £30,000 from the wisely and firmly. It now
He flies his own plane, and enjoys factory in Bucharest. He travels personal fortune. But in May this tional practice developed by An- chests of gold, worth glo-Saxon political genius, have forms the centre of a bitter tinkering with cars. He travels widely, with his passport made year four
hearts of widely scattered mil- from their controversy in the United widely with his young, pretty out to "Prince Michnci of Hohen- £1,000,000 reached him safely never occupied surer places in the
Queen. the former Princess zollern.".
lions. Greece. States.
It is unfortunate that it should have arisen precisely at this moment, when all of us are watching with hopes and fears the struggle for the bridgehead in South Korea. Nor is it strictly necessary, at this stage, if only the Na- tionalist would accept the de- cision laid down. They have no role to play in the world crisis other than a purely defensive one unless or until the Peking Government turns to an openly aggressive and provocative policy. Then, and then only, would interven- tion be justified.
Alexandra of Greece, and their five-year-old son. He lives mostly in Paris and Monaco,
The Communists describe the Royal pair as Mr. and Mrs. Kara- signs himself georgevich, Peter
Central People's Government as the legitimate Government
of China, and, as such entitled enjoy the rights of
to Chinese State.
the
"Formosa 15still de jure Japanese territory, and there
no
Government of Formosa
He is held in honour because he organised, from his Gestapo- encircled palace, the coup d'état which smashed the Nazl hold on his country.
Veteran of the ex-kings is Zog
wartime
cucho in
Succeeded father when only six
Youngest and
|
most tragic of
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The thought occurred to me: A man I'd like to see
In the field of dentistry
Is Phil McCavity.
雕
case
of cruelty from
to
Flagrant children
Now reported Jersey. Tech-age kids were
A local cinema
to burn the place
As a rallying point in times of barred from stress and sadness, the British merely because the little fellows Crown has never been surpassed kept trying in world history,
And never has there been a
down.
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Myrtle's grandfather says it the exiles is 13-year-old Simeon surer shield against tyranny and takes two to make a bargain, but
injustice.
only one gets it.
of Albanta, son of a bandit chief- ex-King of Bulgaria, now living
Men, women and memories
Those who feared that Field-
Marshal Smuts would prove a
as such. On the surrender of hopelessly intractable patient Japan, the Chinese Government are astonished at the progress
SHE
By
Atticus
of the day assumed, with the he has made in his convales- Morrison, fungus in the earlier. consent of the remaining Allics,
Chin-
Government of China, at the Aush of returning vigour, and the Sandhurst tradition
sent
оге из
Formosa will be decided, as has sold his the other day.
the
Among those I know who have accepted this invitation from dead man are Field-Marsha) Lord Montgomery, the Earl of Lord Killearn. Athlone, Sir Ian Fraser,
Clue to Clerihew
As the author of "Trent's Last Case," Mr. E. Clerihew Bentley the has earned well-merited fame. He has also acquired an Internation- form of al reputation for the rhymed jingle now known by his
accond name.............
the provisional administration cence. For the first time in his decades of the century as Peking: of the territory, pending the life he has willingly obeyed correspondent of "The Times" and nnal determination of its status doctors' orders, and his patience; a learned and wise observer of the The initiative and the res-
has been well rewarded.
revolutionary pageant of at a peace settlement. ponsibility should in this res. "Not all the remaining Allies He is allowed, I hear, a daily ese history between the fall of the
have pect be left wholly to the
recognised the
the Central walk in the fields round his farm last Imperial dynasty and People's Government Da the at Doornkloof. His face has dawning of the China we know Peking Government. Nobody
and for filled out again; he has a healthy today. can prevent it from plung- this reason, and
-nature-
re of the Ing China into war if it
pre- eyes which once earned him the provisional
administration
Seeking to solve the mystery of Steel" of Formosa
sobriquel "Grey wants to, but so far it has
Although a magazine describe It is the hope of HM.'s Gov- plerelig 13 over. "I am
deter- the "Sandhurst tradition" "I nak him as the originator of this form shown no such intention.
ernment that the disposal of mined to
Lieutenant-General get completely
well ed
Bir of rhyme Mr. Bentley has at leas. Measure the magnitude of the
and back into the
Frederick Browning, now Con- ono predecessor. On December fray"
troller of Princess
cess Elizabeth's 21, 1817, Scott, having Anished always been contemplated, in he stakes, the rise and fall of
old frield, Mr. J. W. connection with
peace Mushet,
household, M. F fortunes, the size and morale
old, for his own version of "Rob Roy", sent the fast sheets -settlement with Japan,"
Mr.
Mushet was
as of his manuscript to Ballantyne' a privileged the incident in 1920, when of the two sides, and the
President Truman's state- caller. There is
adjutant he startled onlookers by with this jingle: a atern "No
of diplomatic alignments, and
the see where the choice of element to Congress on July 19, Visitors" notice on the gate of the riding his horse up the steps
at the RMA at the farm, And
discipline is strict
old building though specifically designed
close enforced within.
parad passing-out mentary statesmanship and to meet the crisis that arose
"Bay"
Browning Laugharne When Mr. Mushel left, calculation lies. It is not
with the Korean conflet, was Field-Marshal rose to accompany tradition. For all
had no thought 01. starting simply a choice between not inconsistent with the him down the drive, His nurse might well have been done before, seems an excellent example of the In my iminature judgment this Pandit Nehru and the Gen- status of the island as laid intervened. "You must say good- but my own reason was quite clerihew. Mr. Bentley's
here, please!" she said firmly. eralissimo, as one New York down by the British Govern-Bushet, knowing the danger, di simple. It seemed rather an anti- however, rests secure. He has paper puts it.
That alone is ment. If anything, neutrali- thwarting his Chief, expected an climax for one slicer to be left popularised the clerihew, as well a considerable choice. But sation fortified. that status. outburst, But Jan Smuts laughed. alone at the foot of the
while everyone there is much more in it than President Truman said that "My le is one of tyranny, you that.
scel" he said wryly.
into the buliding.. his action on Formosa was aj Let
the
*of
the
SIT
I know it
With great joy.
sand you Roy.
"Twas a tough job."
But now we're through with
stops as giving it his name. elsa disappeared ----
"I was riding a horse called The and I asked Sergeant-
us be quite certain matter of elementary security. Christopher! Buckley | Pearson, who marched im-
about one thing. The West cannot turn back the clock in Asia. The direction of the tide is clear enough. With wisdom we can guide and channel it. Without it, Asia will be driven into the arms of the Kremlin and even trade will go the way of the former political domination which survived the first world war but vanished in the second. If a "colour" conflict is super-
imposed on the conflict with Communism, which is what
"The peace and stability the Pacife area had been vio lently disturbed by an attack
The of
death of Christopher Buckley, the "Daily Telegraph" mediately in front of me, to hold correspondent in Korea, deprives a lump of sugar. The Vicar took on Korea. Attacks elsewhere Fleet Street of one of its most the bribe, and climbed the stops In the Pacific would have en- scholarly, courageous and kindly without any hesitation." larged the Korean crisis, there- | men.
I asked General Browning.
United
by rendering more dificult the His was the rare case of the man there were any offelul repercus- a reminiscent carrying out of our obligations in this instance a schoolmaster siens. He gave to the
"I" wall remember the —who turns to journalism relative- chuckle.
• Nations in Koren.
ly late in life and makes an out- Commandant, Charles Cochrane, "In order that there may be standing success of it. I often coming up to me afterwards and
he became no doubt in any quarter about met him abroad after
saying
Géorgo, old 'By
boy, our intentions
foreign correspondent. With didn't know you were going to do portable typewriter cluched that. But the didn't seem to mind. the United States has no ter in one hand, a small bag in the I think he was chiefly relieved ritorial
ambitions whatever other, ho would peer amiably that it went off without a hitch.” concerning that faland, nor do
regis
Formosa, I wish to slate.
We
seek for ourselves any
him through his
no detall of
the Kremlin seeks, civilisa-special position or privilege on with fall,
י,
Formosa. The prosent
neu- ing Agure, precise.
Ing
tralisation of Formosa is with- voice; and an engagingly
* United Nations.”
Can
After 10 years.
In his will the late Sir Abe Balloy asked that his fabulous home, "Rest and Peace,” near Capetown,
tion will go under, and all maps will have to be rolled out prejudice to the pollucal minded manner he was as unlike should not be sold for 10 years
the traditional war reporter as he
after his death. That decade end- up.....
questions' affecting that i was Uke an Oxford don, Our desire is that
ed recently, and ◊ bear that ar The longer It takes to settle
questions affecting Formosa be
Imagine the surprise
of the rangements are now being made the Korean problem the settled by peaceful means as PRO at an Army headquarters in for the
salo of the house by auc- more serious becomes that of envisaged in the Charter of the France in 1944 to whom Buckley tion Taiwan. Hitherto it has been
complained angelly that; * con- What it cost Abe Bailey har handled unilaterally. That is
Nobody seems to know ducting officer bad not allowed never been disclosed. When ho commissioned Sir Herbert Baker being remedied by the con- when a peace treaty with him do to Buckles always to design if he told him "Spare
wantert to pra-] sultations now about to take Japan will be arranged. rerred foxhole" to GH4 no axpense."One of its most res
Meanwhile
markable features-is" some interim ar-
6 Areplace place. The British' view; on
Jan Morrison Talwan
inlaid with allver! the status of the island was rangement about.
Ian Morrison, killed with him, The Bouth African millionair given by the Minister of seems necessary to complete alan came to fourmailen by an spent his last years there, moving State, Mr. Kenneth Younger, armed neutralisation with academic path. This slim, fait from room to room and along the in a written reply, in Farila corresponding political mea-haired, pleasantly diident young wide terrace in a wheeled chair
a Professor of English
his logs had been all fisted. ment to the question how far sures The three Western recognition by the British Foreign Ministers are to meet loan at the Imperia Une grace of the house's archie
Hokkaido, bofore Government of the Central in New York next month for
"The Times" as special cortecture and "the": nuperb view People's Government of this and other purposes, and respondent in the rare Eesti Ho the whole sweep of False they China extends to recognition the meeting will no doubt was, however, newspaper, men gave him the rest and peace he Aby Paraved In His Wilshe laked-htt of any rights of that Govern bring the Pacific, and Euro in every
ecutor to invite people in praby te to stay there so that the
ment in Talwange
** pean Issues into proper focus. Hat, Government have red in what le, after our globa
he
bott
foma,
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