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HE TOOK
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, {1052.
HIS BEAR TO
A PARTY
-But the Russians didn't
like the way it played
HEY call Mr Charles Thayer the Bob Hope of the American Diplomatic Service, and in a rollicking affair called “BEARS IN THE CAVIARE", (Michael Joseph, 15s) he demon- strates that even in Russia it can be fun finding out.
He spent two tours of duty in the Soviet Union, and got as many funny stories out of the experience as the real Bob Hope | debe from his army of ៥៦៥
writers,
Ile was acked by the American Ambassador Bullitt to organise a Christmas party at the embassy in Morow; he hired three per- forming seals, but the keeper got drunk, and the seals escaped in the ballroom.
One made for the kitchen and cornered the cook and another flopped amok umang the guests,
Stalked out
L
THE PEOPLE CLOSE
TO THE QUEEN
In estimating the role of the Queen's
entourage let us first examine the part
the Queen herself can play in the
fortunes of her Realm-
ET us make believe. Queen Victoria--and after all, Queen, while accepting the final Let us pretend that the is remembered by many as decisions of her Ministers, "has a living person-was no passive the right to advise, the right to the time hus come Instrument in the hands of her encourage, and the right to when the country, Ministère. By no means. She warn." with the Tory Party still in got some Ministers appointed, power, needs a new Prime got no dismissed, and preven ted the appointment of others. Minister.
views She forced, her
on aspect ct home and
Let us suppose further every that Mr Butler has by then made such strides that the Tory majority in the Com- mons view him and Mr Eden as equal choices. Who shall decide?
Well, the Queen would prob- consult the resigning Prime Minister it would
FOR ANOTHER embassy party Thusan berived by bear from the zon. Racek, the lending Soviet writer Caince ical if she did not act that quidated), gave it champagne would be that. But experts say We wil and it was ik all over the she need not do so. uniform of General Yegorov repent that: she need not do go.
also liquidated later).
And Queen Victoria did not consult Gladstone when she Yejorov stormed out, cursing chore Lard Rosebery, the Americans for inviting
guests in order to get, them
WIGRAM Who will be..
On this basis the royal infiu- ence has been, and can be, con- -stant and pervasive.. Edward VIII's concern for the distress- ed areas made the subject an
ESHER
..the new adoletra y foreign policy. She even frled to Intense political theme. George
messed up by wild animals. A symbol? More control what her Ministers said Ve interest in Imperial
"What is this plzee?" he routed. "An embassy or u circus?
An hour later-In a change of
and
general will
YANYIKANLURKAN...! —uniform.
the came for
by
Bernard Wicksteed
dance.
г
And in
--
con-
slan-
in public, and they got slinging coras did much to spansor the rebukes when she did not like pregrass of Empire. is not to imply that the their succéhes. mind
setting accial Queen could impose her
and -For-the-last few years of dards the Queen's tasta such an emergency-but-
reign 1 close ad- view will be paramount.It Just that her preferences might Victoria's back
can be expected, as an instance, The stronger her per- viser was Lord Esher, who died another count.
conallly, the more they could as late as 1030. He became, in that she will NOT have guilty Court or In the tun, a counsellor of Edward divorcees at Thayer once count. What follows?
VII: and he summed up Ed- Royal Enclosure al Asco!. thumbed а That the Queen is not just a ward's influence as even "grea-
thus The Queen's Influence rid C 1 symbolic link of Empire. She ter and more openly acknow-
M: Churchill, ranges wide. hin
is not just an automaton sig ledged" than Victoria's.
conscious of I, has remarked: sky's personal ing whatever documents are put aeroplane.before her, She could, indeed.
Sir Ernest Cherel, another in- "There is too much care on that Vishin-play a part in the fortunes of timate of Edward VII, helped to young brow." She must, there- fore, in all matters, be help- shape that influence. He was a
fully and skifully advised. millionaire Bnancier and the grandfather of Lady Mount».
Inked with batten, now
the present Queen,
Through Carsel, the King got confidential reports, en Inter- national public opinion. Through Lord Esher he got the gist of private Cabinet discussions. And the King used Lord Esher again and again to bring pressure on Cabinet Ministers who disagreed
y, who
sky. later became famous for saying "No." said "Yes" this Ume.
ihe Realm.
It
Jast
好器 Why, as recently was so cold that even after November there came a striking drinking two battles of brandy jinsight into the influence of the they were still shivering.
Crown. Earl Mountbatten, cou- sin of King George VI and now. "I we don't do something uncle of the Queen's consort, we'll freeze," said Vishinsky.stood before Rotarians in Lon- "Let's box." And without any don and said this:- further preliminaries he landed
huymalker in Thayer's stomach. "When Mr Attlee asked me to
with American replied go to India as Viceroy. I at first told him that my answer was me to the ribs.
no. I said that nobody in his
the
3
The
The poachers right frame
dream
of mind would win him.
fa try to of going out UE MADDEST of Thayer's solve an imoluble problem.
Russian journeys was when "When
found that his
Wrath feared
recent history who believe
THERE are students of more
that it was George V's Idea-
and not Ramsay MacDonald's- to have a National Government In 1931. And MacDonald, it is rak, was the King's personal choice for Prime Minister.
200 diplomats were evacuated Majesty had been sold on the from Muscow by train and golden, and it was the King who nothing to cat for 30 hours.
At last the train stopped in asked me to take on the job. middle of a steppe beside, am sure you will agree that collective farm. The 200 once the King asks you to do a Danger maddened diplomais job, nobody can say no. So I
took it." poured from the carriages and "It is surprising that a mem [cil on the farm like locusts.
ber of the Board of Admiralty, The only man about took and who is also a relation of his look at them and ran. Later, Majesty, should have treated a George V, towards the end of when the driver blew his whistle Rotary Club to an account of h 25-year reign, was sending to reassemble his distinguished the King's participation in a
many a suggestion to his Minis- political appointment which ters by his hearty secretary, Sir WDS heeded. The glorious history of the Anglo- suggestion
King had outlasted mony ducke, potatoes, and lumps of Indian Empire."
political figure; his wisdom was
especled and his wrath feared.
Loved crowd of
passengers, a wild embered onwiftly terminated the long and Clive Wigram; 'and many
dishevelled raders baard with their lool.
Included chickens,
geese,
dry bread. Si Stafford Cripps
was one of the passengers, but
Thayer dots not say if he look
part in the foray.
The mon Bub Hope-like
Look back
*
D
was
The reign of the late King is
adventure in the book was not HE Queen, then, can play a not yet documented, but soon
in
Russia but in Hamburg.
appeared in
written rules, Elery no only much-argued newspapers.
American
L part; but about her powens after his death un unconfirmed There, Thayer hud trouble there ire There, cause ering was visiting, precedenis. And to assess what ·
once the
family who
the
arc room in his hotel There
This suggested that King and the
place
full of his is left of what was was
George VI pressed Mr Attlee to Divine Right of Kings we mult switch Mr Dalton and Mr Bevin strutting henchmen.
So, after he had dressed for ice
backward EwCeping LA
in his 1945 Cabinet because be dinner, Thayer put on the red glance. szsh from his dressing-gown as When we have done that we preferred Mr Bevin as Forelyn though it was a ribbon of come shall know the importance of Sceretary. Order and covered it with tie- thut Inter Circle of courtiers, So to Queen Elizabeth
a medal ecunsellors, and pins, Enfety pins, and that had been won by his dog. will, in this reign, utter the Second. What, in 1952 and the Goering's henchmen didn't werds that may lead to historie years to come, are her political
royal decisions.
powers? This makes lovely ar- think much of the joke.
gument for lawyers, but it is enough
the to note that, la heat of the Ulster crisis of 1013, an ex-Lord Chancellor declared that, the Monarch could still re- fuse absent to a Blli passed by Polament.
Cheer up it's such a help
By CUAPHAN PINCHER
WEARING a frown will get
you down" was the slogan
for 150 scientists nad doctors
about
who are meeting at Cranfield, near Bedford, to orgun' fatigue.
.*
Down among
the frowna. Keeping a cheerful look
on
your face will help you to work
more efficiently.
Right to warn
ΑΝ
ND while no Monarch has dis- missed a Ministry since 1783. "the power" pays an authority, "exisis for wise employment in grave circumstances."
The eye works so well that it Frowning is probably the is almost impossible to tire. It
When all the experts have main cause of tired eyes, Mr It is the muscles which move
finished talking and how H. C. Weston, a Medical Rehove that become fatigust.
is the commonest cause they have talked there ap Council eyo'
rowning oxpart, of
It is probably but claimed. The "trouble muscles," die glare of bright light which pears, in normal times, to be a short answer to our problem. which draw the eyebrows to makes a child learn the habt.
People blind from birth do It is this zether, quickly become fatigued not frown--which is why their
search
if they are held in a state of faces look so peaceful, says Mr That on the course of domes tension,
Weston,
tle and foreign policy the
Who WILL advise? Who will be the Eshers and Wigrams of this reton
There is an Old Guard at Buckingham Palace. the Inner Circle of the tate King. And there is a New Guard at Clarence House, who will be incorporated into the Household.
Next Saturday this page throws a torchbeam on
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