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THE ART OF MODERN
KINGSHIP
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What, in the United States, would be termed "special privileges' and' vested interests," To-day, the ataunch "leaders of the Labouritos publicly pay complimenta to King
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George V for His Majesty's protec CENTRAL RADIO
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·ersivo demands of the Conserva-
with the impartint and aloof atti-, followed a different course if Queentives, and the masses are viewing tude of a constitutional monarch. Victoria or King Edward VII had Buckingham Palace, as the resid Speaking plainly, it amounts to been handling the manifold tasksence of their deputy at large repre- this; Al sovereign whose voice is which confronted King George V.senting the vast and heterogene- ous constituency known us the Bri- never heard by his subjects, execpt To one who knew all thros of themtish Empire. This entirely new on such solemn occasions na the, well and intimately, it seems as popular attitude, product and re- ophang of Parliament or the in though the chief asset of the pre-of the Crown, would be sufficient in sult of the sustained statesmanship auguration of a hospital, must be sent British sovereign consists intself to provide an impressive safe- as eloquent and poraunsive in deal. Thir having solved a great puzzle guard for the throne, were it not ing with his ministers as the most which had, remained a perennial
for one dunger—the nights of Great Britain are dark and doggy, and it celebrated of Great Britain's states-mystery to both his gratedmother takes the pioreing eye of a rugged mein And orators; a man whoss en- and father. He discovered the way unvigator to lucate the guiding tire time is being taken up by his of gending the thoughts of that service in the navy, King George star! Possibly because of his tong innumerable social duties must Great Britain which is lying cut develop a sixth sense-n veritable side of the Houses of Parliament, set of antennap-permitting him to and this intuition, so rarely, if feel the ever-changing pulse of theever, to be found in a royal palace, eonhtry while, amiably, smiling at cvorcomes the partisanship of the court receptions and garden par-misistors much more effectively than those venomous letters which Queen Victoria used to addrees to the stubborn Mr. Gladstone or those celebrated and stinging witti cisme dropped around the drawing-raigne involved: rooms of Mayfair by King Edward VII.
ties,
The people say: The King of England is able to continus in office in spite of all troubies and revolu- Lions shaking the world, simply be- cause he obeys the decisions of his government and never attempts to, dictate."
encounters no difficulties in find- ing the nebulous majority, but it remains to be seen whether his suc cessors will inherit this particular talent of the present Defender of the Faith. I would venture no pre- diction as to the probable longevity of the monarchistic regime in Eng land, or in any other European country, for that matters, no one edge of the essential characteristics could without a thorough know- of the coming generation of sove
The people seem to forget that, when dealing with a cabinet mado THE DEPUTY-AT LARGE OF inundation to the rumours which
up of representatives of one party,
the King can never overlook the law of cycles governing polities; a
THE MASSES.
Various Among the party often outlives its popular an-brought forth by the overwhelming beat long before its leader cecken to
comments
but the
WHEN A THRONE. TOTTERS.
"I hope to God that there is no
have it that the Prince of Wales i may refuse to ascend to the throne when his turn comes," said. to me known for his radical leaning. an important British statesman, į be Prime Minister of Great Bri-riumph of the cabinet of National That would be really trigic. It tain, and the King would lose his Union in the elections of October, would be certain to precipitate the
1931, one was missing rather conspiravest national crisis." popularity in no time should be Requiesce placidly and meekly in cucurly-he editorial writers fail-
The gentleman may have under- each and every plan, of the politi to note that the victory of the estimated the capability of the
MacDonald-Baldwin-Samuel ext combination in power....
blog songer brethers of the Prince of proved, frst of all, the political Wales and may have paid too much acumen of King George V, who had attention to idle gossip WHEN KINGLY QUALITIES
foreseen it nine weeks in advance.point he raised was indisputable- WERE NEEDED.
This ability to tune his mind in the chances for the survival of an harmony with the masses is some- ontmoded regime solely depend on The last twenty years in the his thing which his immediate prede-the personal ability of its titular tory of Great Britain provide cessure on the throne did not posleader, and the mere readiness to numerous proofs of the discreetness.
His grandmother believed her obey the constitution would never Leadership exercised by its King. prerogatives were protected by the suffice to keep a king on his throne His dramatic return to London on Almighty. His father never doubt the dynamite-charged. atmos- the morning, of August 3, 1931, ex,the ultimate doom of the monar-phere of after-war Europo. Some- though containing all elements of chistic regime. King George Vtimes-witness the cane of Jugo- a tense climax, should in no way with all due respect to their mem- Slavia an open challenge to par- be considered tantamorat to theories, prefers not to disturb the Sulament and a bold, suspension of birth of a new George V. Long be preme Being or anticipate the all constitutional guaranties appen! fore the world crisis did away with future, but sets the course of the to the masses much more and better venerable traditions and precs- House of Windscr by that fugitive succeed in nipping an embryo re. delts, the King on three important star know as Majority. Not the volution in the bud. Occasions had demonstrated the majority that sits in Westminster
To be continued.) efficiency of his antennae. In the but the majority that lives and troublesome days of the Irish un-laughs and struggles and fights its rest he had put his foot down and daily battles throughout the length demanded of his hesitating minie- and width of the British Isles. ters an immediate settlement of
that thorny problem of the Empire. It is extremely characteristic of In the dark months of 1910, when it the utter abandon of the public. had become clear to him that Lloyd trend of mind that while a detailed George had grown up to be the and highly coloured account of a symbol of victory in the minds of few minutes spent by the Prince of the alarmed Britishers, he was the Wales in a Whitechapel pub is be- nie who insisted on the creation ofing cabled to the four corners of the Coalition War Cabinet of the the world and offered in explana- brilliant Welshman. And finally, tion of the stability of the throne in the spring of 1023, fuced with the of the Windsors, no correspondents necessity of appointing a successor seems to notice that a much more to the ailiug Andrew Bonar, Law, significant, almost revolutionary, he scored a master stroke of politi- change in the relations between ral strategy: ignoring the clearly people and Crown has occurred in indicated candidacy of Lord Cur the course of King George V's zon, he summoned Stanley Bald reign. As recently as twenty-four win to Buckingham Palace, thus years ago, the nation relied upon expressing his sympathy with the the government and Parliament to prevailing mond of the country.guard its inalienable rights against which clamored for a sobar business any possible infringement by the man and minced no words in de sovereign. When the then youthful nouncing the old school diplomats. Lloyd George was denouncing the of the reactionary All fanciful ife of history are interference cursed with sterility. It would be House of Lords, be made no boner idle speculation to try to guess whe- of the fact that he expected to find ther the British Empire would liave King Edward VII on the side of
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