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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 192–1958.
HE sudden illness from which Sir Winston Churchill hus HOW minde such I gratifying recovery, raised for IL moment in many minda an acute problem: who, if he had been forced to resign through ill-health, would havo succeeded bim Аз Premier and leader of the Tory Party?
Happily the problem. Is no longer one
of urgency, but its Implications, and certain mis- conceptions about it are worth examination.
It does not, as most people Imagine, depend upon whether Mr Eden or Mr Butler or some- one else is the most popular figure in the party.
CHURCHILL
HAD
QUIT
who would have chosen the new Premler?
'Bir. Winston as long ago su 1942 recommended Mr Echon as his successor..He would certain. by do so poln.
Rumours about Mr Eden's prostige declining among the rank and le of the party or among his Cabinet colleagues
may be true or false. But they
What makes a Great Detective
By MILTON SHULMAN
“UGENE - FRANCOIS fought 15 duels, carried on VIDOCO was the first an affair with a married great detective. Per actress by being disguised
haps, too, he was the only as her maid's sister, beaten great detective. Since his off with a warming-pon the ore quite irrelevant to the quas- tion of sucesssion. That resta death in 1857 the detective advance of an elderly house- with the Queers and Bir Winston business has certainly gone keeper. Churchill, and no one into a sad and slcady else has any rest say decline.
An accident of Illness could alter the course of history
by ROBERT BLAKE
in the mather.
Thore
is, however,
that, even
Before he was 20 he had been sentenced to eight
one thing
With the possible excep. Yours in the galleys for for
gery, Sir Winston annos tion of Pinkerton, there are times from the police (once had escaped three
slo. The British Con- no Kitution does not ad- mit of A Interim
It would
Mr Butler example, to make Prime Minister on condition that he retired in favour of Bür Eden
ble health
other internationally
or famous real detectives. This by sleeping with two girls may be because a fine art who thought he was a nun), for has inevitably deteriorated bud become a hero of the
French Into a civil service.
underworld, and had had affairs enough to Literature has, however, defeat the recording efforts come handsomely to the of the most determined blo- rescue of what must be re- grapher. Then experiences No strings can be oftached to garded as a singularly un- admirably sufted him for a the ofion The Crown cannot talented profession. Sherlock Job as a police spy. make conditions.
Holmes, Father Brown,
Curzon, both seemed to him to party can scarcely tail to endorse as soon as the latter recovered have serious, defects.
In the end he chose
the appointment.
The case of Lord Rosebery is not the only one to suggest that the oxistence of this prerogative
may on occasions make a real difference.
In the disastrous event of Sir Winston retiring from the scene while the Tories are still in power The wholes of Izig
The King was compelled to successor would rest not with seek such advice
as he could the party, but with the Queen, from elder siptesmen of the
Moreover this is
is one of the party. very few matter upon which the Baldwin. Queen does not have to act upon Sir Winston Churchill describ- ministerial advice. She has a ing this episode in his "Great In 1945 the King quite cor- genuine choice, subject to the Contemporaries" has questioned restly sent
ngo Sir Winston Imitation that she cannol select the desirability of a procedure soon as Sir Winston
for Mr Attlee as a few weeks
Churchill had been obliged to resign, while someone so unpopular as to be which in effect obliges the resigned.
But it is for from Mr Eden was still out of action wat Crown to choose the leader of a corlain that Mr Attlee, whose a curious situation might have party without
any means of stock was not high at that time, orisen. knowing for ertain that the
been the party's would have majority of the
Mr Eden might have missed party are in choice in the event of A free favour of that chosee.
for ever bis chance of becoming alection.
Prime Minister, and Mr Butler "It costs nothing," writes Sir
Indeed we now know that a who is clearly next on the 1st Winston, "for the Crown to wait
hendind by the, would hoyo ruled in his place. The classic instance of this claims to settle themselves.
few days and allow disputed movement,
Professor Laski, was The ogreglous
There are plenty of examples $15.00 choice being. exercised was in crown would then act upon as- put In train to persuade. Mr in our history of politicians who, 25.00 1894 when Gladstone resigned. certained fact rather then upon Altion to refuse office until the with far luse bility than Mr
Queen Victoria. who deeply
party had had a chance of de- Butler, have risen in this accl- 35.00 disliked "this wild fanatical old an estimate however well in-
viding upan iis lcoder. Mr denis way to the top, formed."
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Ilia audacity and energy Vidocq's own memoirs and scen brought him a record novels did much to establish number of arrests. A good. a tradition in which fiction deal of his information was far stranger than truth. came from fellow-criminals He himself was half-man, who wanted him to help them cut somebody's throat. half-legend.
And there were the mis- tresses of suspects who were available with onewa in return for Vidocq's at tention. Duty always pre. vailed over his.scruples.
Immensa power
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MANILA
A Queen's great-great and the troubles
THE longend that royal
T
birth brings health, wealth, and happi-
ness dies hard. But in this generation the
finally been' exploded.
hns
tale
Direct descent, Britain's
from even most respectable
By Charles
daughter who married Frederick. Emperor of Germany.
the But
they
Wintour
Too many lies
Mr Philip John Stead's biography of Vido e q (Staples, 12s. 6d.) has tried very sound, and clues such as His daductive processes were scrupulously to sort out the prints of nailed shoes, a But too ́horse's, notebag, a limping man, nature from art. many lies have hardened a torn letter, would lead him into facts and the sifting siting to his prey.
Although ruthless, he could be process is often beyond him, The most unreliable witness sentimental, too, Biorating in on he sp surprised the of all is, of course, Vidocq. a thier,
Before he was 16, on bis thief's pregnant, wife that it birth of her precipitated the own testimony, he had child. He rolled up his sleeves, helped with the delivery, and became the infant's godfather.
grandsons run into
Like ex-King Peter, Michael
from Is descended
Queen Victoria's second son Alfred,
Like Peler, he is without a
Like Peter, he lost his own
worst of Peter's Uttle Queen, Victoria, has proved no troubles is that he has
Although his father throne. fortune estimated nt
insurance
against serious money. trouble-in-grappling with the left a
His fame
The increase in crime and the need for a central organisation for the pursuit of criminals led to the formation of the French Surete, equivalent to our Scot- head. Land Ward with Vidocq as its
that he had not been blesed ,with royal blood, and could live his life without quite so much
His fame was such that plays public attention to his activilles. were written
about him, he died with the great, and was a
Vic-
Of course many other great great-grandsons of Queen torla may curse the accident of their birth.
They are scattered across the world, from Ban Francisco to Turin, from Estoril to Sussex.
close friend of Balzac.
When Jealousy and a change of Government drove him out of the police service, he set up as a manufacture of paper in only ex- which he employed convicts. After this failed, he Some of them live in palaces; went into the private detective But for Michael there Is some in flats. Some seem rebusiness with the motto "Hatred easier days conclled to status as commoners, of rogunet Boundless devotion Before the separation Peter's some prospect of the plight of three great-great wife was reported to be working ahead. His father is reputed to some sit on thrones, and some in to trade!" grandsons of Queen Victoria.
have left a fortune of £5,000,- exile still nourish vast hopes of for a dress house no o "social
000-and no will. mannequin,"
harsh realities of the day-to-day £2,000,000 he cannot gain con- fortune to the Communists. world,
Just consider, for a moment,
There are said to be 102 great-great-grandchildren al together. The unluckiest of
trol of the money.
This adventure, like most of them all is certainly ex-King earn a living, came to grief.
the royal couple's efforts Peter of Yugoslavia.
Only Intely
astr
have
10
The battle for thint fortune has now begun.
On one side are ranged the lawyers of ex-King Michael.
Testoration.
At the age of 70 he set out to with a per- conquer London |sonal appearance and an exhibi- tion in Regent Street. It con- tained his privato “collection of paintings, a buge usortment, of of models of tropion) fruit, and of relies of fampus crimea such on
Among these must be associa=
On the other are those of the fod two great-grandsons former Madame Lupescu, for
Vladimir to assassinate "Louis-Philippe.
the
'Sole' heirs
in he was trouble again. At the Marquis
whom Carol forsook his wife Quoco Victoria; Don Juan de Cuevas publicity party in
There was trouble over Blorriz he was involved in an
2 and his throne, and whom he Bourbon, Count at Barcelona, the braces of the man who tried Puris, cheque
and the married unpleasant scene with a
when he believed she and the Grand Duke
of Cyrillovitch. were seized for who claimed to be King of Ine- queen's furs
was on her deathbed, to be acht. Later the court returned If Carol in fiet left no will The first has a claim to lund. The police had called, and the pretender was them on the grounds that they Michael as his legal heir should throne of Spain: the second is escorted away.
did not belong to her husband. be entitled to a large shore, of the present head of the Russian Few of his difficulties
The royal pair humledly left the money.
royal family. teen resolved so quickly and so And a Paris hoteller sald: the lawyers have corted out the their suito at the Hotel Georgo But it may be years before easily. For his misfortunes have extended to the dynastic, "We have had certain difficul- tangle,
ties with them ourselves,” domestic, and financial fields.
-The ex-king still has hopes of securing what he may reason ably regard as a rightful share of his inheritance.
An
There is another great-great- grandson of Queen Victoria who is in a different sort of plight..
Even at 80, Vidocq had not Only the first of these iwo, lest his liking for women. To with his elder son, another show his gratitude for their
has "doubla
much attentions he would give them
will, duly chance of success.
signed and wi- nessed, leaving them everything On General Franco's death he had. When he died at 82, 17 a regency council will nominate of these young ladies turned up He has lost his throne, and
bis successor.
claiming to be his pole' heir. there is little prospect that Tito'
Agreeable, thoughtful
There was, however, a twelfth will ever give it back to him. young man, Peter, without his He is the Marquis of Milford It is quite possible that the mod vaild will.
Recently he seemed well on royal rank, would probably be Haven, best man at the Queen's council will decide on Don Juan the way
to losing his wife, a successful engineer or a busi- wedding.
or his son.
Mr Stend has treated Vidocq His troubles Aro Queen Alexandra; for he op- ness executive. His tragedy is
mainly
with almost avunculor concern. I can see only one pronched his lawyer, regarding that he was trained to be a king domestic. While he is constantly
factor He prefers to believe the old fitting about which might bind together those rascal was fundamentally honest. divorce proceedings. Now there and when he grew up there photographed la talk of a possible reconcilla was no kingdom.
Europe with the twice-wed great-great-grandsons who ard and grossly misunderstood.
out of Another ex-king who is sock- Hungarian im ton. This is a
other Mias curious situa❤
a job or in some The both greate ing to win control of his father's Eva Bartok, his wife,
difficulty.
I tion, for they are
prefer to believe that Viideg They mostly need the services lived up to his own philosophy great-grandchildren of Queen wealth is ex-King Michael of fortner Mrs Romaine Simpson, Victoria,
Bumoniu,
is suing him for separation or of good lawyers.
when he wrote "The best things Peter
descended from With his attractive wife and divorce in New York.
It would not be surprising if in the world kun to water with- Miss
band out charlafonry.
It
the Queen Victoria's second
daughters, he is now living Bartok says of the marquis: some of them decided to the Duke of Edinburgh, who quietly at Ayot St. Lawrence, "David is a wonderful person. together for the purpose of touchstone of success." But, in married the daughter of the the small Hertfordshire village I have never met anyone quite obtaining legal assistance. They either case, Vidocq was the only
which gained fiseting notoriety like him."
would not be the first profes-rest detective that could have Russian Czar.
Alexandra is descended from during the last years of Bernard All the same the wonderful sional men to form their own looked Sherlock Holmes straight
in the øye. Queen Victoria's first child, the Shaw's life.
manquis must occasionally wishs protection society,
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