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Victoria Mary
SHE was christened Agnes Louise Olga Pauline Claudine, and nobody enlled her anything with hor but May. Life mother and father, the Duke and Duchess of Teck, at White Lodge in summer and Kensing
ton Palace In the winter, was simple, and Princess May had no opportunity of acquiring luxurious tastes.
T HE other day the fan- fares sounded to pro- claim Edward VIII. King of England; and she who for 26 years has been Queen Mary is now the Queen Mother. Her hus- band has laid down at last the burden of duties so long, 80 faithfully performed: that
burden was
It was, indeed, said that after no less hers, and though it is (then Duke of York) found their marriage King George neither her Majesty's wish, some difficulty in reconciling nor ours, that her guidance himself to the simple manage should be withdrawn from kept by his wife at We are fully equipped for any us, her duties will weigh less heavily on the Queen Mother than they weighed on the Queen.
And so. at this time, our feelings towards her must be not only of profound pity for her sorrow: it is a time to con- sider afresh our gratitude-for her work; for we must thank
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her for the life she has lived. Such women serve, not only by
York
House,
That the girlhood of Princess May was simple, is to her mother's
credit and not her own: but she turned its sim- plicity to her own uses. Grave, modest, often agonisingly shy, she tackled the world as a book that cannot be read too thoroughly.
Thongkong Telegraph. practical good, but by example: feeling, that they had been
MONDAY, FEN: 24, 1980.
CURRENCY OUTLOOK
As was to be expected, cur· rency questions figured promi.
and
no wife or mother of drained dry by questions very England could have learned much to the point: and the new King has ruefully confessed from Queen Mary anything but, that, after conversations with that which was honest, selfless his mother when he had re- and good.
turned from travels in places which she herself had never seon, he felt that he had been
hours' reading. a day. At first. unpunctuality, having "seen too it was literature only (she was much of it as a girl." the first Queen of England to receive, in 1921, an honorary HUSBAND and wife took
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published the Blue Books of the time that
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She was, and always has been, insatiable for knowledge. Visitors to the Palace from
up their long life to- overseas have reported that degree from the University of they left the luncheon table Oxford), but in 1888 were gether. It was not for some the future Queen report of the House of Lords' could conquer her shyness, the Select Committee to inquire into shyness that made her back
and her
eye. wayward the sweating system; and from rigid that hour she bent daily a wor- when people were other than ried and angry brow over the natural with her; the shyness social documents of the time. that, if a dressmaker trembled year Princess with fright when fitting a dress May was betrothed to the Duke on her, made her tremble just
future King George: two her blush crimson when, on a months later the Duke of foreign tour, a little boy sud-
was dead. Clarence
In 1893 denly blurted out: "I don't know her engagement was announced who you are but I never saw to the Duke of York, heir pre- anybody half as lovely!" sumplive to the throne.
The Duke and the new Duchess of York settled down
In
her 25th
nently at the annual meeting of NOTES OF THE DAY travelling "with only one eye of Clarence, elder brother of as badly; the shyness that made
the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, at which | TREATY VIOLATION?
in planning their re-armament pro.
open."
This was the early training she set herself her great in terest in the life of the work was to be the foundation of her, knowledge. When in 1883 her family moved, for the sake of
economy
and at
Queen Vic
the
By Lionel Hale
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From this reserve, she suf- fered; and sometimea others suffered, too.
She has been the housewife the. cosmopolitan of England. Intensely inter- Their
children were le ested in her own home, and-in. the home of everyone else, she volatile, more thorough, more
has made the domestic art her staid (though it was of Queen
special province, In. her Mary that Keir Hardle said: painees, in the cottages of "When that woman laughs, she the Sandringham estate, in the does laugh, and not make a con- alum homes she visited, she tortion like so many royalt- showed her passion for the
home:
gratification was expressed at It is now Germany's turn to pro- the success, thus far, of the test about treaty violation, although efforts of the Nanking and the Berlin charge that France is Hongkong Governments to conspirit of the Locarno Pact by ar running contrary to the letter and
It is not for me hero to trol exchange. It is beyond ranging a mutual assistance agree
chronicle her life-the tours to question that the belief prevall-ment with Russia is rebutted by
Ireland, Australia, Now Zen-. ed in many quarters that China the French. There is something
land, South Africa and India. tronical in the German protest when would find herself unable to peg it is remembered that the Nazi
taken when she was Princess of Wales: the Delhi Durbar, when her
currency in the face of powers have treated the Treaty of powerful speculative influences, Versailles with scant consideration torin's suggestion, to Florence to a quiet life in York House, war work and the Spartan re- she was Queen: her unfailing but the degree of success which gramme; for it almost seemed that for 18 months she wore out the to a married life that became gime she imposed on Buck- has been attained is the best Germany placed little faith in such good-natured Duchess of Teek the standard of England. They ingham Palace during those in with her passionate thorough had one strange thing in com; years: her indefatigable chari- answer to the pessimists, protocols. One recalls, for
stance, the secret building of a new
ness for art galleries-for shg mon. The Duchess of Teck had ties. her visits to workrooms, Similarly, Hongkong's ability to German navy. Hector Bywater, in was a lover of art, of music, of been a lively, genial, fascinating housing estates, slums, exhibi- prevent marked, fluctuation of the London Telegraph, recently the theatre, and was later to be figure, as well as a generous tions, factories: her bedside the dollar was seriously doubted spoke of the laying down in 1934, the "highbrow" of Buckingham and charitable woman: King vigil at the King's illness: her
in contravention of treaty, of num- Palace. by many people when the Gov-bers of German fighting craft, in-
Edward. VII. had all the flair care of her children. In 1836 ahe VAA back in of royalty. the exuberant ernment intervened in a difficult cluding two 20,000-ton battleships, London-to make her obeisance presence, situation, but here again the two big cruisers, submarines and
other vessels. So, in Romo ways had no thought to preside-and.
at the Court over which she charm. control appears to be working the German protest over the effectively. There can be no Franco-Russian mutual assistance in her own words, "I suddenly I was not two opinions regarding the ad-greement has ita amusing aspect. discovered that vantage to those doing business plated treaty is anything but a joke.
To Germany, however, the contem- educated." in and through Hongkong of the It was the Franco-Russian alliance She was nineteen. She was present stability of exchange. which, in 1914, caused France to far better educated than most As was pointed out at Satur-mobilise for war when the Crar's girls of her age, royal or com- ies!"). The Duchess of Teck,
commenced to gather be day's meeting, one of the night-yond the Polish frontier and the
moner, but she plunged with her as an old villager of Richmond Το £ Queen of this governess-companion, Madame said, "sort of swept down on mind, many twentieth-century mares of merchandising has Austrian border. been removed. It is precisely Germany to look to her defences in
French mobilisation which caused Bricka, into a course of study you. new Duchess of fashions and customs seemed that made a rigid rule of six York moved softly. She hated deplorable; and her words to Chromium-Plated Steel stabilised dollar have all along the march into Belgium. There is this point which advocates of a the west, and which precipitated emphasised. With the world much in the nature of the German and Russian political systems which depression still persisting, amay give rise to friction in the fluctuating currency must obvi-future, and if war between them
might find herself involved. How- ness man's difficulties and un-ever, it would seem that Germany certainties. But whilst satis-has the key to the door of security. faction can be expressed at the If she does not attack Russia France will remain neutral in any continuing stability of the
war between Nazi and Communist Hongkong dollar, the fact can- regimes, for the proposed new) not be overlooked that all cause treaty is purely defensive, and is born of the Russian, and possibly for anxiety has not been re- the French, fear of attack from moved. This is due to the un- Germany. So long as Germany re- certainty of the future. It is frains from aggression in either now an accepted axiom that direction there can never be a ques Hongkong's currency must bear tion of a Franco-Russian alliance some fairly close and constant against her .. unless, of course. : relation to that of China, and the maze of treaties and pledges the present scheme of Govern are to be ignored entirely, like some signed by these powers since 1919 ment control appears to be treatles of the past. based on that desideratum. The trouble is that no-one can forecast what China may, In
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certain eventualities, do. At present polley is based on main- the moment, however, there ap-taining fairly close relationship pears no ground for thinking with China in the matter of that she will to any marked currency, and although it is ob- extent relax her hold on ex-viously impossible for the Gov- change, and it is therefore to be crnment to indicate the likely expected that, unless an unusual exchange level for the distant set of circumstances arises, we future, something might be may expect to see existing levels gained if it were definitely an- maintained for some time to nounced that this Colony in- come. There is, however, point tends, as far as possible, to keep in Sir William Shenton's appeal stop with Nanking. Beyond to the Government that it that, it could scarcely go at the should, when the moment is moment, for the simple reason propitious, make a clear declara- that there are so many outside tion of its future monetary factors, including America's future silver policy, to be taken policy. This would be of in- astimable value to business men, into account. Nono, the less, The presumption is, as we have some assurance at this stage hinted, that the Government's would be of real utility.
The
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
"Now, there's one catch to this job. We have to baby my
husband a great dem
the unlucky lady who appeared at Court in a gown slashed up to the knee are still an awful memory. She has spoken with contempt of pictures of rich women sunbathing on the Ri- viera.
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N some of the sports King George loved she took very little interest; and at Horse shows in particular she had to fight a good many battles against yawns.
She has lived as a lover of homes, and her home has been England and its-Empire. Just
found
D'H
and
she
to set
as she set in order Buckingham Palace, which she crowded with priceless neglected furniture, passionately desired England's house in order. (She has been known to speak very vigorous words to committees of charitable organisations who... did not do their job.)
Her eye missed nothing in her own home; and on visits to workshops it missed nothing either.
For 26 years she was Queon.. Sho had magnificently con- ceived the spirit of service, and that spirit translated itself into innumerable acta of practical kindness and consideration,
This is the woman who for 43 years was wife to King George; when he spoke of her simply as "my dear wife," we knew it was no empty tribute. And we may feel for her to-day both profound sorrow for her loss and profound gratitude for her: lite.
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