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SHE way, christened Agnes Louise Olga Pauline Claadine, and nobody called her anything
with but May. Life
her 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,
Victoria Mary,
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It was, indeed, said that after their marriage King George (then Duke of York) found some difficulty in reconciling to the simple mosage himself
his wife nt York "kept by
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 cannot be read Loo that
thoroughly.
And so, at this time, our feelings towards her must be not only of profound pity for
hours' reading a day. At first unpunctuality, having "scen too her sorrow: it is a time to con-
She was, and always has it was. literature only (she was much of it as a girl." sider afresh our gratitude for her work for we must thank been, insatiable for knowledge. the first Queen of England to
Visitors to the Palace from receive, in 1921, an honorary HUSBAND and wife took her for the life she has lived. overseas have reported that degree from the University of
1888 but in luncheon table Oxford), Such women serve, not only by they left the
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Thongkong Telegraph.practical good, but by example; feeling that they had been published the Blue Books of the time that the future Queen
MONDAY, FEB. 24, 1936.
or
and 110 wife 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- turned from travels in places which she herself had never scon, he felt that he had been
open."
CURRENCY OUTLOOK and good.
As was to be expected, cur rency questions figured promi-
and her
up their long life to- was not for some were gether. It report of the House of Lords' could conquer her shyness, the Select Committee to inquire into shyness that made her back 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 that, if a dressmaker trembled social locuments of the time.
with fright when fitting a dress on her, made her tremble just as badly; the shyness that made her blush crimson when, on a foreign tour, a little boy sud- denly blurted out: "I don't know、 who you are but I never saw anybody half ns lovely!"
nently at the annual meeting of NOTES OF THE DAY travelling "with only one eye of Clarence, elder brother of
answer to the
the
This was the early training she set herself: her great in terest in the life of the world was to be the foundation of her knowledge. When in 1883 her family moved, for the sake of
economy
and at
Queen Vic-
In her 25th year Princess May was betrothed to the Duke the future King George: two Inter the Duke of months Clarence was dead. In 1893 her engagement was announced to the Duke of York, heir pre- sumptive to the throne.
The Duke and the
new. Duchess of York settled down
By Lionel Hale
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From this reserve, she suf- fered; and sometimes others suffered, too.
It is not for me here to chronicle her life-the tours to. Ireland, Australia, New Zen- land, South Africa and India, taken when she 'wa's Princess of Wales: the Delhi Durbar, when she was Queen: her unfailing
on Buck-
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the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, at which | TREATY VIOLATION? 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 con-running contrary to the letter and spirit of the Locarno Pact by ar- trol exchange. It is beyond ringing a mutual assistance agree- question that the belief prevail-ment with Russia is rebutted by ed in many quarters that China the French. There is something. ironical in the German protest when would find herself unable to pexit is remembered that the Nazl her currency in the face of powers have treated the Treaty of powerful speculative influences, Versailles with scant consideration toria's suggestion, to Florence to a quiet life in York House, war work and the Spartan re-
in planning their re-armament pro 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 has been, attained is the best Germany placed little faith in such good-natured Duchess of Teck the standard of England. They ingham Palace during those protocols. One recails, for in- with her passionate thorough. had one strange thing in com-
years: her indefatigable chari- The Duchess of Teck had ties, her visits to workrooms, pessimists. London Philharmonic Orchestra. Similarly, Hongkong's ability to German navy. Hector Bywater, in
stance, the secret building of a new ness for art galleries--for she mon.
was a lover of art, of music, of been a lively, genial, fascinating housing estates, slums, exhibi- HUNDREDS OF OTHER INTERESTING
as well as a generous tions, factories: her bedside prevent marked fluctuation of the London Telegraph, recently the theatre, and was later to be figure,
the "highbrow" of Buckingham and charitable woman: King vigil at the King's illness: her RECORDS ARE AVAILABLE..
the dollar was seriously doubted spoke of the laying down in 1934,
in contravention of treaty, of num- Palace.
Edward VII. had all the flair care of her children. by many people when the Gov-bers of German fighting craft, in-
In 1886 she Was back in of royally, the exuberant She has been the housewife ernment intervened in a difficult cluding two 26,000-ton battleships, London to make her obeisance presence,-~- the cosmopolitan of England Intensely inter--
the two big cruisers, submarines and situation, but here again
at the Court over which she charm.
ested in her own home, and in other vessela. So, in some ways,
had no thought to preside-and, Their children were
the home of everyone else, she control appears to be working the German protest' over effectively. There can be no Franco-Russian mutual assistance in her own words, "I suddenly volatile, more thorough, more has made the domestic art her
not staid (though it was of Queen wag
province.
her special
In two opinions regarding the ad- agreement has its amusing aspect. discovered
Mary that Keir Hardie said: To Germany, however, the contom- educated."
palaces, the cottages of vantage to those, doing business plated treaty is anything but a ‘joke.
"When that woman laughs, she the Sandringham estate, in the in and through Hongkong of the It was the Franco-Russian alliance
visited, she She was ninetcon. She was does laugh, and not make a con- lum homes she which, in 1914, caused France to far better educated than most tortion like so many royalt showed her passion for the present stability of exchange.mobilise for war when the Czar's girls of her age, royal or com- ies"). The Duchess of Teck, home. As was pointed out at Satur-armies commenced to gather be moner, but she plunged with her as an old villager of Richmond Το
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of -this day's meeting, one of the night-yond the Polish frontier and the governess-companion, Madame said, "sort of swept down on mind, many twentieth-century
It was the
"2 The mares of merchandising has Austrian border.
new Duchess of fashions and customa seemed French mobilisation which caused Bricka, into a course of study you. been removed. It is precisely Germany to look to her defences in
made a rigid rule of six York moved softly. She hated deplorable; and her words to this point which advocates of a the west, and which precipitated stabilised dollar have all along the march into Belgium. There is emphasised. With the world and Russian political systems which depression still persisting, may 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 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 ia born of the Russian, and possibly for anxiety has not been re- the French, fear of attack from rmoved. 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 France-Russian alliance .. unless, of course, some fairly close and constant against her relation to that of China, and the maze of treaties and pledges algned by those powers since 1919.
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the present scheme of Govern are to be ignored entirely, like some ment control appears to be treaties of the past. based on that desideratum. The trouble is that no-one can forecast what China may, in
do. certain aventualities,
At present policy 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 ernment 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 come. There is, however, point tends, as far as possible, to keep In Sir William Shenton's appeal step 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
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SIDE GLANCES
By George Clark
"Now, there's one catch to this Jab We have to baby my husband a great deal."
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- vlera.
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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 as she set in order Buckingham Palace, which she found crowded with priceless and BO she neglected furniture, passionately desired to set 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' mlased nothing in her own home; and on visits to workshops it missed nothing either.
For 26 years she was Queon. She bad magulficently con ceived the spirit of service, and that spirit translated itself into innumerable acts 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 hath profound sorrow for her. loss and profound gratitude for hor lite.