THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1956.
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LET THE WALTER MITTY* IN YOU GET OUT
By James Bartlett
Wman who tells his wife THAT do you think of a
after 40 years of quiet married life that he is set- ting out to sail the Atlantic alone in a small boat?
Well, 70-year-old Ameri- can judge Walton Clark is wondering whether he will do it this year.
He left his wife and back grown-up daughter
home in Connecticut a fort- night ago. The next they expected to hear from him Wag when he got to Europe.
But he turned back after 300 miles because of trouble with his gear.
HIS DREAM
THE judge has
dreamed
about this trip all his life. This was his second attempt because he did the He same thing last year. set off in his 20ft, ketch, but had to turn back after a week because the winds were not so strong as he expected.
You might say that there is no foot like an old fool. But I say Walton Clark deserves three cheers.
He has stopped dreaming. He has grabbed his ambition right down from the clouds. So now his every day is illed with a sense of ful- filment,
Can you say that on this particular day of sunshine?
There is only one thing
with the elderly think he Was
T
wrong judge. wrong to leave
it so
late.
Don't make that mistake.
STEWARDS
ENCLOSURE
Show me a Jockey Club rule that says you CAN'T enter an automation horse in the Derby."
WHERE DOES THE DUKE GO FROM
HERE?
If his careER WENT WRONG, it might
DAMAGE THE WHOLE ROYAL FAMILY
T
By Robert Pitman
London. question which will remain
to this What has happened
among the royal
Is the Duke of Kónt peering tradition Dukes of recent years?
into the future to see what Inevitably, with the omrush of it has in store for him? No, democracy. It has feltered,
HIS week-end, when after all the hubbub has slid
the life-belts and into silence.
bottles It is champagne
the question of from that hectic
the what position
young
the It is true that the Duke of Thames party have drifted Duke really occupies in
come Kent's own father was about to far out of sight, the debate State. Soon he will
take up his duties as Governor- What future about its chief guest still of age.
18 General of Australia when he him? planned for
What died tragically (Linong the rides high on the tide. re
Go for your dreams now. Don't let the years drift by while you wonder what to do next. If you keep putting off dreams you suddenly And that they have just turned into grets.
Why do so many people do nothing to get the things they want? I think they keep shuffling their dreams too often 80 that never on top long enough
to stir action.
one
TIME RUNS OUT
ig
You can get away with it in childhood-one moment you are Davy Crockett, the next you are Jeff Morgan, and after lunch you are the shrewdest chief at Scotland Yard.
What part, it is asked, was played by the young Duke of Kent?
Did he as several eye- witnesses report add his share to all that lavish jet-
Bam
in the waters below
Such questions, it might be thought, are scarcely of national importance. Few people would raise shocked hands because the 20-year- old Duke does not comport himself with all the gravity of un elder statesman,
as a young Army officer, ho
is using bicoculars to observe target during gunnery practice at Lulworth, Dorset.
public career is being pre- mists of a Scottish
side. It is true that this post run was partly a cry from the
pared for this lively young man?
THE TRADITION
job.
Scandal alone could tarnish this principle. could incompetence.
mountain- Is it possible that this piece of was then filled by his brother. heart?
the Duke of Gloucester.
Yet the Gloucester story Rel demonstrates the
life of a
the over
the war
is it possible that it voiced an might It inner frustration which subtle some day lead to humiliation for and for the whole change which has now crept the Duke
working Royal Family? Be sure that the critics so garrulous already-- would not keep silent then. Albert Bridge? And did he A CENTURY ago the au- Dulce.
been
Ja Up and down the Empire, swer would have the dreamer into go on to another party in
In Australia durin
and commerce, Q a industry Mayfair and balance, bubbly simple enough. Tradition he walked straight into
for campaign
an thousand exciting opportunities in hand, on the edge of then was narrow, rigid. For Socialist
Governor are open to the Duke of Kent. a Australian-born duke there was
why ko every parapet 7
General. And he found that some Is there any reason of the Sovereign's most loyal shouldn't seize them?
that Dominion not subjects In
Of course, it would be wrong a close relative ot the reserved no automatic
respect for Nor, for the sovereign's relatives. It Queen to risk falling victim to was a situation which a royal the chillter perils of economic Take the instance of Duke, whatover his statecraft, fé But there is no such risk
in the case of the Dulon Frederick, Duke of York, could never hope to deal with. The Queen is already entitled
At home, 100, the Duke of brother of George IV and has been forced hard to make provision for Commander-in-Chief of the
against the fact that things family out of her extra £95,000 British Army for 27 years.
is distributed is never revealed His military skill was well Victoria's day.
in detail, but it is believed that summed up in rhyme:
In the Army there is no the Duchess of Kent receives a longer any room for the Cam- large provision, Her son, bow-
A over,: bridge brand of general
does not even need this
He inherited a priv... safety-net. the modem general is not only
technical expert; he is tangled ate fortune from his father. ceaselessly in political issues. In consequence, unlike his oncestors 102 their ducal heyday, this hard-working and conscientious
TS. 'there any reason why. modern Royal stand of a life spent in member of our Family has found himself edgod into being
foundation stones, ho a feld-marshal for patting
should not be allowed to forge his own career like any other parede ground purposes only,
Tich, and enterprising young
Then it's love and marriage,
napkins on the line, washing-up on the draining board, and - before you know where you are, the future at the top of the hour- glass has run out into the past. You hand on your dreams to your children and hope that they will do something where you did nothing. Just
S your parents had hopes in your ambi- Lons!
How much Dearer to Dbition
will you
month's time? -
Bou
be in one
If you do not try, you never
know what you can do.
Yet the exact details of that gay night have now been raised Into almost an issue of State by the un- precedented release from
of Kensington Palace solemn round - by - round account of the event,
'MISTAKEN'
a
"The noble Duke of York, He had 10,000 men.
le marched them up to
top of the hill, And he marched them down
again.”
And in 1000 one of the most shocking scandals in our history burst upon this royal beat The Duke's mistress, Mre Mary Clarke, was charged with mak- announce in an income from recommend ment, issued seven days in promotions to him.
Called. to the Bar of the
Don't wait until you are 20-THIS
do something about your dreams
today!
(COPYRIGHT)
| FOCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANGASTER
ELGIN MARBLIS
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There are several snet→ bers of the Royal Family who, by virtue of their
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•public duties.
the
after the first reports, Commons she coyly disclosed insiste ⚫ that the eye details of how she went about Who is, of course, James witnesses were mistaken. It her work. Of on applicant for CD candot be expected that Thurber's classic frustrated day-tells us that, though the, a post she had asked: "Now there will be any big official dreamer.
role for the Duke of Kent to Duke
these two Duke, why can't he have it?" went to
Heplied the Commander-in-play in the Army. And there is parties, he did not even see Chicks.
Be patni, deari, he
no reason why we should be
to ashamed
admit, the fact. the wilder frolice which took shill have the post.
A Commons later ob The association, of the royal place.
Little bar playing Dukes with "the" Anny high But, whatever he did or served:
pitch-and-toes no longer cry, command is not one of our most saw, can there be any reason Hoads or talls' bui :'Dukes or lustrou traditions, It is a Yet nearness ( to the Throne why Buch light-hearted dearies."
survival from a forgotten past. me not prevented the Earl of Mra example of
The outlook for a royal Duke Harewood (11 in SUCCESSION) goings-on should be ex- shrined in grave official Clarke and her Duke did not today has utterly changed. So from going into journalism, and
spoll the chances of Queen why pretend otherwise?
broadcasting. It has got pre- prose?
Victoria's cousin, the military Why pretend that the Duke vented the Queen's uncle, thinlod Duke of Cambridge. of: Kent ought to behave as : Hors David Bowes-Lyon, from
be were one of Queen Victoria's workinge, in a firm of merchant Why groom him umilingly taken or from altting on, the
i Boards of 16 other companion. for a public carder which modern what if it were known that eircumstancee will never allow the Duke of Kent, duced the cre and white to begint
satreelaborack of future other other incidents of this sort. Hwkers still not down at us Why expect "him to met # private citizenm of, ble øger : Ke Although he has been given from the swinging signboards of responsibly when we law that would not walter, tr no public standing himself, public house up and down the he can never be given any *! He would no longer be treat- everything he does now re- country. But in his lifetime he responsibility?:
12 we persist-in this kind of gas a junior piler EO of CA The
Błabo.; He would 'no' lórigger, bety flects on the standing of his for almost 10 years ho pretence we may force the Duke public statements Iued about
was an eminent man in his own family
Commander-in-Chief of into a cooks of unreality gheber iömerta.
which he "WELL be cominally Andy voorho That fa what has lent the Army Bika
ader to wel ulcomic) auch Intense Interest to the Andrusen Victoria's over Wempted to burst, svige affair of the two parties, doch k the martial- Duiese sikim me kaller de och of Belag
of Conmuthi, trod in the derive. What to do," he was reported su That is what sharpens the pain
By all means there is reason. Increasingly, over the coming months, the Duke's present half-way status threatens to produco
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