A BANNER AND A STRANGE DEVICE
GULEH THREE LIONS PASSANT GUARDANT IN PALE OR in the official description of the Sian- dard Lord Derby will carry in the Coronation. It means three golden lions on * red background.
By George Tansey
AN with
one of the
M best close-ups of the
Coronation Inside West- minster Abbey on June 2 looks like being 34-year-old Edward John Stanley, the 6 ft. tall 18th Earl of Derby, of Knowsley Hall, Huyton, near Liverpool.
He has been picked for Eag- land, as you might say, by the Duke of Norfolk, who, as Earl Marshal, is the Coronation team manager.
Marching in the van of the Itoyal, Procession to the on- threacment inside the Abbey he wil
carry the Standard of the Three Golden Lions (sometimes knows as Leopards), which are England's
share
In the Quarter- ings of the Royal Standard,
I gather there is considerable rejoicing in the winter privacy of Knowsley over 1 appoint- ment, which is definitely not am automatie honour
the
House of Stanley, though it also fell to the 17th Earl, the present Lead Duroy's grandfather, at the Carnation of King George V.
Significance
car be regarded as havini!
the
Xt
a double significance, partly a Lure to un historie family which has been close to Throne for nearly 508 years, and Partly az no honour for modern Learhire. of
which
Lord Derby is Lord-Lieutenant.
Lord Derby, who is England's Bed premier art, heard the geed news well in advance of sllier northern FACTS,
ted him with
several i Liems.
Orc-the choler of a page to his cernet-was soon carry
ttle. Lord Derby has chosen 13-54ar-akt Henry George Her
Viscount Throwley, the **
of the Earl of Sandles, Lady Derby's brother. At the time of writing, this your
nephew of Lord Derby
excitedly ying to find out the details of his Coronation job at his home in Kent..
was
for that matter, was Lord
THE CHINA `MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1953.
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"Archibald rockons they owe him a pint for the time he wasted in the Home Guard waiting for their fathers
by TREVOR EVANS
London.
EXT month Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia comes to Britain as a guest of the State, For months now resolu tions of protest have been passed in this country against the visit. They have come from Communist Party branches and organf- sations connected with the Catholic Church,
Roman Both are passionately con- vinced that Tito should not he invited here.
Like millions of other people in this country, I am neither a Communist nor a Roman Catholic.
their
White I respect. rights to be anti-Tito 1 re- serve my own to be con-
TITO
REAL NAME JOSIP BROZ, OTHERWISE
SLAVKO BABIC, OTHERWISE SPIRIDON
MEKAS, JUST 'WALTER' TO STALIN
-now that's a man I'd like to meet
Croatian village of Kum- rover, had plenty of cloak and dagger experiences be
Yugoslavia tween
and Moscow as a' Communist agitator after he har finished his apprenticeship ant locksmith as
mechanic.
SUCCES
London Express Service
IT-Football fan, amateus accordionist and dictator
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FIFTY YEARS INTO THE FUTURE!
FLIGHT TO MARS
and charged extortionate fees taunted, after holding a recup- palace, for their experts in the years tion in Prince Paul's immediately after the war — with "living in another man's that Tite and his Cabinet real- house." He says he could put pot so hot at chest. He drinks ly saw through Stalin's plan.
U and lately has taken to stand that..
locking his room in the after- He was out to bleed Yugo- slavia white. He wanted
He gets-up 4 5.30 in suin- pens to plactise secretly on an accordion he received froin State:
mer, 7 in winter, tumb. 20-a-day other satellite
He Slovenia on his 80th birthday. *cigarett smoker, yielding unquestioning.
THE RESOLVE
un-
He was a prisoner of war In Russia when the 1917 Revolu tion took place, though at that tame he never heard the name E did not know Tito or the
H He worked Stalin,
in the Yugo lave. They
the heart-broken, yet resolute. The dreams of 30 years on the wis- dom and goodness of the Krem- lin were dispelled.
Derby himself. Dress precedents wore bring hunted up in the Knowsley archives. As an Earl, vinced that the elementary Comintern as "Walter." Lord Therty could attend in his rights of courtesy from a nome he still has in the Krem- robe flee rows
JI guest
using are not when they are not pre- epithets about him.
ermine host to inst a Duke's four) and his ecronct of gold circlet, ermine, being subotaged by
ght silver balls on points and judice.
strawberry leave. He
could also attend in his
did uniform as Sted-Lit
be
25
Larcashire. He has actually planning to combine the batter with his prer's rebe, bu
Wondering whether he will need something speelal S.a.dard Bearer for England.
Wonderful View "We are awaiting further news from the Earl Marshal about details of dress and re- hearsals," I WAS fold at Knowsley.
Whatever the dress, Lond Derby should get a wonderful view. If precedent is followed, He will hand over his Standard
to a Baron of the Cinque Ports
at the entrance to the choir in
Westminster Abbey and will then move on either to his
peer's seat or a special place chole and the high allar, which is the scene of the enthrone ment.
Tha appointment of Lord Derby lo march for England represents a sparkling linkage of ancient tradition and modern times, with all due respects to Mr Shinwell's point of view
near the "theatre," between the
should carry the banners.
· THE STRUGGLE
were
WOR
using a peculiar pipe-shaped Tito acknowledges that 50
one' - man
con be show. Not even his. Indeed,
holder. He likes meeting people, despite warnings from his om- porty ciula that the Russians have planted berussins in Yugoslavia. Dedijer, the author, asserts that
as prosperity comes Yugoslavin the Communist less Party itself will become und less important.
THE SUPPORTER
HE
buck to
One day it may be part of a
other coalition with
parties rotcerned only with the well- heng of the State and the hap-
hc
of
LTE is a frotball fan, though he has given up being a rabid Ife had plenty of other mes Stalin thundered economic supporter of the Partisans, too. Among them Gligorijevic. annihilation of Yugoslavia. The, which used to be the Arsenal pines of its citizens, So the Zagorac, and' Slavko baux, the West was indifferent, almost club of Yugoslavia, so as not quicker Tito puls Yugoslavia
feet the souper even travelled to France
offend the and contemptuous. Yugoslavia
supporters of on its
importance Denmark on a forged Canadian alone. It was her most glorious, other clubs. But he studies all diminishes the passport in the name of Sp.ri- determined hour.
the football results and would his own party, And he accepts Gun Mekas.
Trobably go, in for the pools if this, which suggests that he is WHICH, of course, brings
Historically,-this-book-iz-im-bevel in this country, a remarkable-politician;----- He adopted the name Titu, portant because it is the first me to the fundamental thank goodness, because it oc- real insight from a top fight question: Should I. as A curred to him at a moment Communist (und Tito is still pretty citizen of this country, ever when fooling the secret police that) of what goes on inside
It is a have been committed by the was his malfi concern. But he the Kremlin.
sordid was enught. He spent Government to being a host years as a ronvict in some of cunning of Stalin to keep satel
ave picture: the scheming and the to Tito? What did I really ffte worst prisons in Yugoslavia. lites at each other's
throats; know of Tito as a man? O: He, farmed Communist "cells" of modern Yugoslavia?
in Best of them.
the refusal of Red Army 001- cers to give up their balmen because their wives wanted someone to carry their
shop- ping baskets; and the servility of the satellites is shown their contemptible refusal 10 khs Index admit the simplest zchleve-
ment by Yugoslavia.
Well, let me be quite The convicts were not allow frank on the last ques ed to speak to each other, 4 tion.
A they devised Anger lgnals. I probably know u
ina would seem to be scratch here about recent trends in anger was spelling out a mes little more than most people, ing his head, but
Yugoslav economics.
safe in morse.
I spent a heart-rending week in Belgrade at the end
by
nil.
They even sanounced, when Tito, devoted to Stalin and football-nad Yugoslavia beat the Kremlin, had become boss Norway by three goals to of a shattering drought in of the underground Communist that the victory was Hungary's! Inuvement in Yugoslavia before October 1950. I spent at the whe started.
day happy
last month aboard the motor vessel Avala, the newest Yugo- slav liner, in London docks.
THE PARTISAN
Hiller's
But I have not met Tito. WITHIN weeks And now, more than ever, I Wattnek on Russia, Tito and
Speaks,"
No wonder the Cominform Communists in other lands, In- cluding ours, are hysterical u their anger to Tito,
the man who dared to disobey Stalin. Incidentally there are plenty of references to Communist leaders in all countries-except Brl-
do not rank even a mention:
THE CARDINAL
that only workers and planners wish I could. For there his comrades in Nazi-held clin. Mr Pollitt and comrades
The present Lord Derby, who has just been published grade decided on their own war
ut the Anzlo "Tito won the M.C. benchhead, carries on his grand- father's public work in Lan markable book* by cashire and maintains the come keen interest in the Turf-but he is a very modern peer Jus the same.
The Red Rose
Knowsley Estate has been im- perilled. The great house open to the pubille again Faster. And, though he is personal friend of the and acted
as host at the
15
from
a
to
of liberation. It become the the re- glorious, herole story of the Partisans. Classes and political Yugoslav politician, Vladi parties were forgotten. Most of mir Dedijer.
the nation was behind him. It hns 11 sub-title which is. signi- ficant,
"His self-portrait troops to cope with the sturdy Roman Catholies are so angry Partisan guerilles. The Ger- with Tito. There are two al- and struggle with Stalin."
man commander offered a re- most casual references to Car- ward of 100,000 Reichsmarks Jinal Aloysius Stepinac, the for Tito "death or alive." And Catholic leader in Yugoslavia. THE LEARNER there were times when he wa One that he sided with
more dead ilian alive, though Quisling Croats during the Nazi he was never in serious danger occupation; second that he be convincing of betrayol by any
gan forcibly converting Ortho- tox Serbs to the Catholic faith. 170,000-word justification starving compatriots.
What help did they get from
But not a word about the promises, cardinal's
imprisonment Or in about strange relations with the
Hitler had to divert 600,000 THE book gives no clue
the reason why the
Queen IT
fr:t
.of
Ja
party Princess Margaret at of the present regime in Russia? None, save tended-alone, he also entertain Yugoslavia. It pretends no un the Red Army came
Impartiality, This is a from the cast to help liberale Vatican. I confess this is
ed 25 Merseyside dockers to a week-end
end at his raclett stud. This same, young man la descendant of a line which has firmly pinned the Red Rose of Lancashire-into the bosom Erlish history.
of
Belgrade. After the war Tito
book written by an ad- and his closest colleagues visit miring colleague, and vetted ed Moscow.
the
thow whether it is accidental
a
mystery, and the book does not
or deliberate.
villa,
What sort of man has Josip
and corrected by. Tito There were incredible all-
night cuppers in Stalin's himself. Yet its restraint situated in a private Broz Tito himself developed in-
the No. 1 Royal, occasions and range BAC it from road barred to all except those to after ciglit pears as the head
庄 starry-eyed with speelul passes. Stalin was of, State?
Birt
Besworth battlefield in 1485
for the Staley was the one at dismissal
when Lord Stanley, later
the
Idolatry.
course, brusque, aftable,
first Earl, grabbed the battered Josip Broz, which is rogant, and insulting in
crown from the, stricken head-Tito's real name,
of Richard III and personally
Jammed it on the head of the 60 years last May, in the
victorious Richmond, who be Came Henry VII, first of the Tudors and the root of the first Elizabethm can.
AF
his
The picture given here is o
.tum an earnest, ford-working man.:
to almost everyone excopt He has been thrice- married.
born Molotov and "Walter" (Tito). Hi Arst wife died in 1938, the But it was not unl 1948, second he divorced after the despite some sharp commercial war, and the third he married deals by the Russians who last year. created a monopoly for them- He is content to live in lif selves of Yugoslav air trans- villa at 15, Rumunska Street. port and River Danube traille, Belgrade, because he was" once"
"Tito Speaks," by Vladimir Dedijer (Weldenfeld and Nicol son; 21x.).
He is a medium tennis player, I, for one, would like to meet
good at billiards, but Tito.
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