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Coronation Slips
By
J. W. TAYLOR
ho fell and
rolled quite down... when he attempted to reascend the steps I got up and advanced to the end of them in order to prevent another fall."
HE Bishop of Bath and Lord Rolle
Wells will be one of the two Bishops to "sup- port" the Queen at her Coronation in June, which is as it should be, for the
service will have its roots in
that used by Archbishop Dunstan at the Coronation of King Edgar in Bath
additions Although certain have been mande and certain medieval features, such as the
banquet and the entry of the mounted Champion, have been discarded trough the years, the and ritual re-
basic ceremony moin.
of
Since 1189, when Richard I
the Bishop was croated, Bath and Wells has always been
AL
one of the two Bishops
touch
ceremonies
With no uniform to protect them
THEY BRAVED GRIM ENEMY VENGEANCE
London.
·N all theatres of war, thero were many civilian patriots ready
ing-a
"prematurely aged acquaintanco
cain!", "a an
A. J. Forrest tells what our escaped described her."
repay.
those
to shelter and help airmen are doing to
who risked torture, degradation
shot-down Allied nirmen to escape. They were con- temptuous, it seemed, of the Gestapo's inquisitions
and death to help them to safety
1
in
she was rescued, hy the
Whenever possible, she turns to her fancy needlework and cats a few much-needed francð. "I
Among many Kind
friends," she says, cratefully. The ighted her with a math dona
Escaping Society recently de-
lion.
Historians add that the Queen extended her hand and so bow ed her head that the infirm and 82-year-old Peer could
There are different ways of the crown in homage without or Japanese tortures. further exertion.
Through its efforts to re-
repaying debts of honour, as the father of another New Zealand Ancient Rites pay their sacrifices, the But when brought back, fortune,
Amerl- flyer, Squadron Leader Bennett, Escaping Society barely alive, from the con- alive, was cans.
discovered when he called in Although Coronations have R.A.F
Patis on his son's wartime de been associated with Westmin- surveys a little proudly to centration camps, it
Less fortunate, though hardly liver Mills Yvette Croquison. worse maltreated, were sier for 900 years, before that day many staunch friend- found that they were either
the He asked her to state her diare tha Sovereigns time
were ships formed, not only with co maimed or ruined it was comIn the Commonwealth but health ever to work effect- parents of 16-year-old Habarte est wish, irrespective of ex crowned wherever
Warnie when Gestapo agents potse. She plumped at enco venient-as, for instance, wher
swooped on their small prasant for a Corgi motor cycle, form pt Ftscamps and found Edgar was crowned at Bath in between members and their ively again. · 973 and Edward the Confessor alders in Europe, North
The postwar world pro- there a wounded New Zealand Arlenished but undeterred, he at Winchester in 1043. Yet the Africa and the Far East. mised little relief for their pilot,
Gabraitho Hythe of spent his remaining francs on the Queen's Corenation will include Each year, this friendship who
Even Christchurch, hidden in a hay part-purchase of such a bike. and have the right to "support" the various riles
And, happily, on vialling London, circle grows wider and more orphans or widows. harking back beyond there
their An Governments, rick. Immedi Sovereign and stand
be found in the Escaping Society Influential. latter dates.
notably these of France and atoly at his or her side through-
an ally for his scheme. Henco to- w! Her crowning, fowever, they
disclaimed In Faces Smashed day Mille Croquisen hools as out the service, because
Few outside the initiated, Belgium, the senior Bishops
be 38th pre-
the
of Coronation Sovereign to have appreciate what sacrifices several cases responsibility, sent in 1169, and no one has reigning
right to taken place at Westminster since were made. since disputed their
As Sir Basil because they aldel
CHOUTING insults, they ham- the Norman Conquest, and the
but foreign mered the couple mercilessly: be there. It was
28th to have taken place with- Embry, the Society's Chair- compatriots
and C-In-C Fighter ers.
they smashed their facey and Wells who caused a muddle at
existing Abbey church, man
kicked them in
Too often, though, the story of the stomach addition to these, Prioce Command- himself a dare.
It was in 1946 that Vis before dragging them off, with ald, vallantly given to Bomo The Coronation of Queen Vic- toria.
Lave Henry, the eldest son of Henry devil escapist from his Nazi
face further fuglive aliman, plunges into He. appeared to have
brutalliles. Roberto never saw tragedy. A 16-year-old girl, turned over two pages of his 11, was crowned at Westminster captors when shot down count Portal of Hungerford, the airman, to
Al-
then Chief of the Air Staff, her parents again. But she is Madeline Neubergh, whom the - Бауб to over France in 1940 Service in one motion during his father's lifetime,
not live that the cere- though he did believing
formed the Society and aware of their fate. Her father Exceping Society brought se the Throne: and of the escape niders: told the succeed to
concentration camp
to England for
a fort ony was finished,
have Queen so, and she retired to eleven Queen. Consorts
War Charities Act,
and her mother, though re-night's holiday, recounted the mostly and, women,
covered alive from a similar circumstances of Ker Edward the Confessor's Chapel. been crowned some years after These were ordinary men registered it under the 1940 died in
father's inferno, died soon afterwards of arrest, when the Gestapo inter- their husbands within the same
assuming humdrum folk,
TB in a sonatorium reserved rupted a party celebrailog her Abbey.
who had no uniform to
for French concentration camp brother Henri's baptism. protect them, nor were
victims nt St Gall, Switzer they under any obligation
WETG
order of
a Bishop of Bath and
After a discussion, she had to be brought back for the omitted part of the service to be held.
Wrong Finger
In her published diary: "My Coronation." the young Queen refrained from mentioning the incident. She made but a pass-
This Ing reference to another.
concerned a last-minute dis cussion about which ring finger should receive the ring, and the the Archbishop finally chose wrong one and literally forced the ring on to her fourth finger, pain causing her considerable because it had been made to at her Hittle Anger
Queen Victoria's diary entry read:
the Princesses avent about half an hour before did; the Archbishop had put ring on wrong anger, and the was that 1
dimoulty had the fake it off again which I at inst did with great pain. ..."
Yet another Incident
away
the
the
to
at this
ng drought a diary com-
from the young
Queen. The aged Lord Rolle tripped or he mounted the steps to the Throne for, the Homage. Wrote
Queen:
Four
the
་་.
old
In the
In
POCKET CARTOON. by OSBERT LANCASTER
***Now there's nothing organically wrong, Com rade. Zhdanov," I said-
it's simply a case of what we doctors call night starvation.*"*
a
Un-
Blue Tie
not
fand,
furiously as anyone in and out of the Fork tram, deriving immense zest, it seems, from her lively "escape bike."
"They took him away," sho Faid, unemotionally, and soon to go to the assistances of AT present, just on 500 air.
All the time, Roberte carried afterwards, he was hot at the men or ex-airmen, who on bravely, managing the frem Tir Nationale, where hundreds the R.A.F. The penalties
single-handed, Shop of resistance men were machine- they braved dwarfed those encaped or evaded capture work after
in ty after the war's coming down
end, how gunned, usually in batches of facing the uniformed
one faithfull horse ten." enemy-held territory, wear ever, her
died in its traces. With in- its distinctive blue tie with sufflelent money to buy another, golden eagles caged in by Roberte fell closer to despair any time before, A
man,"
alr-
Certain Death
THEIR risks, if weighed up, amounted to almost certain death, preceded in most cases, by degradation, starvation and torture in concentration camps,
Providentially, her
His Cover
jagged lines that symbol than at.
wock later, however, her ise barbed wire. All are misery changed to joy.
SEVERAL gallant families im
poverished themselves by at serving or ex-members
wounded buying black-market foodstuffe of the R.A.F., Dominions Air Forces or those Allied a Hythe, revisited her, to keep their airmen hidden or to
his Through
the equip them with civilian clothes, Air Units enlisted under British military authorities gave maps, compares and other es the RAF's overall mand.
testimony.
com- her an immediate award of cape aids. A typical Tempy-help
Off she went to efželė pavolved round the Mar- 78,000 francs. the local market, and returned tinez householt In the ple heme riding astride a frisky turetque French village of St Yet, time and time again, cided to admit as associate spent.
Recently the Society de- new carlhorse, her gratuity Jean de Luz, near the Spanish
bazier. they reacted with valour to
members cecapers and the needs of British, Do- evaders of World War I More
the R.A.F. recently,
M. Martinez, a jobbing builder. minion and Allied airmen The first man so honoured allke of the girl's courage
Ercaping Society, appreciative used his everyday livities
and over to his wife's øyaling (ex- "on the run.”
"handed peleas. Mounted on her wus Sir Thomas White, the te parents sacrifices.
With it boneshaker, often with forged
sioner.
A minority admittedly eecaped the final vengeance frustrated
of
î
enemy.
Nathaniel Gubbins
A woman aged 25 admit- ted in an interview that she had been a member of the Communist Party since she was three.
three
only half a doctor but some joints or gnat ble drug
overdose - of
ផទ
Australian High Commis. her a cheque for £25.
she fulfilled another keenly falt documents, identity cardo and
Captured by the wish; she ralzed Turks in 1815, he showed viene to her his enemies a clean pair of village church. heels, and escaped across the Black Sea three years later.
or were
E memorial
parents in the
Not Enough
kavel permits stuffed into the cost, she scoured the country- side, ostensibly in search ot food. Her verret mission, though, rated of exorting escaplag
men, gruggling them. by secret paths into the upper parses, where trusted mountain guides Led them on to safety. Altogether, during World IF the Society had £25,000, in- Th fully's dangerous game of
stead of the few hundred bleste bluff was 'nover point of resistance against There
called. are half-consumed War II, some 2,000 Allied
pounds it raises through mem- disease in mid-January will be bottles of medicine that might airmen in Europe alone berg subscriptions ahm well- Hardly less intrepid was the alad to hear that their old have been
for Influenza
snatched from the wishers' donations, It still eculd Count Antoine d'Ursel who, un- friend and hypochondriac, Un- faundice, and pots of olnument enemy's hands to fly again. not be enough for people who der his resistance code-name of cle Nat Gubbins, who is not that could be for
ΤΟΥ swollen
risked, and. In many ch923, "toques Chatier," Loft his Many in Malaya, Ico, owed jost, everything even their chatezu near Namur in Septem HEN I was only times only half a columnist in As on
is thoir escape from Japanese families in their efforts to be: 1043 to crcort a party of 10. three,
my dear, these days of restricted space, belleved to bring on the cam-
prison camps to civilians conceal their hunted allies. Ba and one U.S. almen di- is prepared for the worst. plaint It when I was only
Intended to cure
gulsed as peasants and gm- the P.L.W.
The numbers 80 has warned the help.
In toms instances, the cames. Wizard that one night, in a fit rescued eccstituted & emigration 10 Commonwealth of absent-mindedness, he may powerful striking force, cne countries of children, orphaned He led them safely to the ha been Pyreneer. There, Just after the To his already formidable swallow the contents of all the which played no small part by these sacrinces,
old bottles and
sponsored by ths andy had brawled through pill-boxes,
AUTOIVEEİVİTE, the American powders guaranteed to stop smother himself with the oint-in piloting the Allied air men their parents saved.
stumbled and disappeared into anything from gout to beri- meat, and wake up with gout, fleets to anal victory.
personal the swirling river Bidonssa. The influenza, berl, he has added packets of brositis, neuralgia,
grotllude 10 A French boy, Count, a middle-aged man. patent foods full of vitamins jaundice, ond gnat bites.
Henri Guernerle of Alencon, plunged in after him, but was To That is, it he wakes up at A to Z guaranteed build up the body against
in- all. When I was only three, my fection and to stop. anything
dear, I grew to hate my toys; from scurvy to
to senlie decay. Discussed the revolution with Indeed, his work-room is so
some forward thinking boys, full
bottles, pill-boxes,
You couldn't tell me much about the filthy hour- geoisic.
From Engels and Das Kapital
I'd heard about the scum Reminding ne of rich Aunt Maud and selfish Dad and Mum.
stock of medicines, piils
from
We talked of exploitation of the cartons.
workers and their brains
And told
of
cure-alls,
packets,
wonder eye-drops.
kays
astonished dustmen
Lon'cs, they were cailey slaves in and chains.
My
When war only three,
dear, I stripped, my dollies
bara
Of all their silken finery, and
cut their golden kalr And naked in the nursery I put
them on a charge
and oia
Hie
Joke over
Brave Women
personally
Because of his
the rest. him up
31 7
swept
Carried On
a.
who saved him, from capture a few weeks before the Normandy a death merits, surely, a citation cway and drowned, Such Invasión, an Australian airman ordinarily reserved to men who WOMEN, no less stout Warrant Officer A.W. Matthews
themselves under heartedly than mén, of Balwyn, advanced the lad 78 distinguish
percent of his passage. money enemy fire. "I try in vain to be enter- joined in the underground 10 Australlo. The -Escaping taining about lie things that
The liberation movement. Until Society pald happen every day and seem amusing at the Ume. But
the Gestapo caught her, Australian set bore only
my "hurband ** audit Woman Writing
columist. Jeanne Macintosh, her language teacher in a school in
Victoria. NUCH a funny thing happen- father Scottish and mother
THE majority of stories about ed.today.
Now Henri, doing splendidly escape-aiders impress one, I Belgian, led numerous
well by all accounts, is studying in find, by their family clément. R.A.F.
men to
his spare time for a relence Love of liberty and herolem organised escape route ra- degree, and bis fances will
seem to be inherited qualities. from France. diating from Brussels. She soon join him
For instance, when the Flierin lied again and again to her The couple should undoubtedly colleagues. The Gestapo their adopted country as
fino contribution to femy of St. Omer lost their make a
New, parents-the father was trans- flung her into a hot airing Australians.
ported to Buchenwald-the two cupboard for twelve hours
datighters and small son carried on the escape work unmoved by the Gestapo's watch. And when their home, was liberated in
Yes?
Well, it made me laugh, any- way.
Did (?
Да
pamphlets, workers, ear-drops, that his Plucky Little that all he needs now is a conical cap studded with silver paper stars, and a pestle and mortar to turn him Into an old-time alchemist or The Wonderful
Wizard of 01. Morcover (sho
As I was getting on a bug bottles.
complains)
and ran into little Mra X, You pill-boxes and patent foods have now begun
egun remember little Mrs X7
No. I don't to appear in the dining-room and kitchen because the Wizard cannot bear to be parted for
And I said to her, I said: o to, soften her before. more than a few minutes from "Oh helle, Mrx X. Fancy see-cross-examination. his magic potions, and has not yet acquired enough energy What did she say? • from the vitamin foods to run upstairs and get them.
Of wasteful unproductiveness, the
'subversive sabotage.
When I was only three, my
dear, I told our Jolly char That then the worker's day should down she'd be a conte, mizsar
That Daddy who exploited her would spend his life in pool And Mummy would be on her Jenees with scrubbing brush and pait.
Oh, but you must, I said I don't,
Ing you
After
Still Burning
that, still trying to break ALL over Europe the laniys of 1045, this young frie actually her down, they kept her in. A courage, lit by wartime had a Carɛdian airmán, safely She said: "Oh, hello. You golitary confinement for five aiders, still bum, dimly perhaps, towed away beneath their liv- are a stranger.”
weeks. Her worst moment but unquenched. Madame Odilo ing room's floorboards, What happened then?
Hochepled of Paris ("Mammy" Then I fald: "Where are you came when a Nazi, thug to some thirty winged types Much indeed is owing to such going?" And she said: "Char dragged her naked across a whom the helped to escape) was peeple. To aid the postwar re- no you're not. You're going to Ing Cross And I said: "Oh, stone floor and whipped her. arrested in December 1043, and hibilitation of survivors, the Chelsea."
Finally, Jeanne was con- for the next 10 months shared RAF Escaping Society has demned to death In Brus- the death forments of Ravens raised pearly £5,000, to dale And was she?
bruck's Inmates. The mark of Each summer it brings hity to Yes. The bus was going the scls in August 1948, Yet, that captivity weighs her down sixty young
young members of
of alders
When I was only three, mil because (1) some of the bot
She is also getting nervous dear, they laughed at what I sald
tes in the kitchen are marked They thought me such a clever POISON & DROPS ONLY, and
girl with 100 much in my
may got into the cooking when when Head
she has mislaid her glasses; other way. and (2) the Wizard has ac They never guessed the notions and
cumulated so many bottles of
of a little child would thrice
¡St. John Ambulance | And still seem smart and clever medicines and boxes of pile on a bus she thought! was go- | td," but; transported, along or times even in moving the seruido. Anfield villisto
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at the age of twenty-five.
•
Wizard of Oz
form a
Why? Was the driver drunk? 197 some reason. unknown now. It is inescapable. With families to England for a fort- Of course not. Minor to her, she was not execut her weak heart, the has dimeully night's holiday, if possible, by
Her pennon of 12,000 francs a local RAF over the years that he doesn't ing to Charing Cross, but was with other girls, to Wald. year, ahout. £ 12, awarded her by highlight of their holiday. With know now what they are
buy members scattered heim Prison in Saxony, the French Goverment, can buy going to Chelsea. There Bro little roly-poly Perhaps she was drunk? Fill like yellow comfts that Don't be allly.
There female SS guards, her few comforts: Neither do the Broufoland
by savago "citations, which she greatly serves as a challane,
zather than accompanied Aleutian dogs, whipped her treasuros, from the British and a barrier to kecop alive the American Chiefs of Staff help to friendships between escapers again. Yet from that helly, restore hoe hearth. Yet she to- and their patriol-hetpers" whoso to her unbelievable. good maine cheerful and uncomplain- courage, gave them freedom,
may or may not be sleeping When do we get to the fun- ANONYMOUS Henley used on to make my part
doctors · frequently quoted ed in quarters like tiny shot. That was the funny.... part. in the newspapers as saying cross buns that may be for Onjena de that we are all at our lowest gout, Abrositis or Deuralician
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