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THE year 1936 is remark- able for the fact that some time during its courso the first of the war-babies will attain their 21st birth- days; a matter of some im- portance, since they present. a somewhat unusual spec- tacle and unusual problem, being unlike any other gen- eration within living mem-
ory.
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They were born with the war taking place practically on the doorstep, and every family. in the country was in- volved; consequently they have grown up with their own pecu- liar handicaps.
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This is not merely my im agination; because one of the most intelligent schoolmasters I over met was of the same opinion. He said to me on one occasion:
toar
This
Year the WAR BABIES
Come of AGE
The babies born in the grim years of the war-
"Boys born in the war are that they seemed more highly completely different from strung. those born before the and after the war, and we have to treat them in a total ly different manner from the rest."
When I asked him for details Stubbs Road he found it difficult to explain meant, and exactly what he took refuge in the generalisation
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1936.
THE KING AND HIS PEOPLE
NOTES OF THE DAY
HIGH COURAGE
This conversation occurred soon after the war, and since then I have had opportunities of watching various war-babies grow up, and noting the differ- ence between them and predecessors and successors.
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their
SI see them, the problem:
a child is usually influenced a great deal more by his mother than by his father.
By
F. E. Baily
make up their minds what they want to do; nor will they con- sent to have anything explained to them, because directly any It is said also that in con- such attempt is made they lose sequence of the enormous war their tempers, casualties, boys born during the The girls seem to have the war were more fussed over and solid attributes one would ex- were a matter of greater their xiety to
parents than pect in a boy, and the boys the
hysterical temperament girls, who were, so to speak, would expect in a girl. plentiful.
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A arises almost any in the case of the boys-for the girls TMY own opinion is that since are as good a lot as I can re- boys are more sensitive member.
and highly strung than girls they suffered more acutely in their pre-natal period from the anxiety which affected their mothers.
It would be absurd to genera- lise about a whole generation; ex- Few people can boast of a devo but making the necessary
known tion to duty surpassing that of ceptions I have never
officers and men of the such a difficult, temperamental, Japan's fighting services. We all have our irritable race as the boy war national herocs, men who have led babies. The befores and afters alike, except "I am bolter known to most forlorn hopes to incredible victories are very much of you as the Prince of Wales, or dauntless deaths. And history that I think boys born after the as the man who, during the war does not lack for tales of gallantry war have more charm because and since, has had the oppor-in other than battle scenes. Science they have been brought up with No. DB-2580 Heifetz and The London Philharmonic Orch. tunity of getting to know the has its heroes; the Church has had more freedom, but those born
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some passage stands out as though. cumstances and conditions, and it were in words of fire. It is although I now speak to you as natural, we must suppose, that
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do
in the war seem to be a race apart.
In those days most expectant
mothers lived in daily, dread of a War Office telegram regret- ting to report that their hus- bands bad been killed in action,
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As twenty years from the country will be run by boy. war-babies, the eldest of whom. will have reached the age of 40, it is very interesting to speculate on how they will do the job. I foresee something very experi- mental and restless in the way A certain of government, and
éallings of excitement in the
commerce, art, and letters.
At the moment boys uppear to be divided into two classes- those with rather erratic bril-
Are the vigorous youth of to-day
old men, correspon-
The girls, by comparison, are a dogged, hard-working, deter-. mined set, who intend to get ns. much out of life as they can. the King, I am still that same 1 men, and women ›
also, will
and don't mind how hard they They man who has had that expori-strikingly courageous things when work in order to do so. ence, and whose constant effort they are lifted up to an emotional are invariably optimists, where- will be to continue to promote height. It takes sympathetic and as the boys are almost invariably the well-being of his fellow-capable leaders to set the spark to pessimists, with a tendency to men."
These words, spoken the emotion which will erupt into complain about the conditions over the radio to millions of come heroic and thrilling achieve of the world as they find them, people in all parts of the world ment. They, and those who follow and also to proclaim the fact. them In the accomplishment of that they didn't ask to be born, all of us. London Philharmonic Orchestra. by King Edward VIII in his such
deeds, are deserving of all though this applies to a first brondenst as ruling mon-honour.
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It has been said that and there hung over the whole liance and those in a state of -where-to-bear in mind the per-with-a-crisis, involving the choice babies. sonal side of the Monarchy and of life or death. We are thinking in their early days-the-boys-country a cloud of misery such complete despair about them- inspire them with the know- of Colonel Matsui, the brother-in-grew up without any masculine as only those old enough to re-selves and everything else.
influence in their lives because call it can realise. Minister of
It is from members of the ledge that the new occupant of law of the Prime
their fathers were serving with. There is little doubt that this the Forces. the Throne is anxious to pre-Japan. There he stood, facing the
anxiety could be, and was, trans- second group that I receive let- senve those ties of personal mutinous officers and men of the
who had come, they told I don't think that this argu- mitted to unborn children, but ters saying that the world has devotion which, as he himself Army
unless it seems to have had a far great- been ruined by the states, strengthened the bonds him, to kill Admiral Okada. And ment counts for much
The greatest handicap of the dents to put it straight, but of loyalty to the Crown during they thought he was Admiral Okada, the father was illed on active er effect on boys than on girls. who have left my
A word would have saved him, service, because the war lasted
only four years, and during boys is that they don't seem to how can they when, purely from the life of his revered father. Nor was it by any means certain the first four years of his life be able to stick to anything or the jealousy of the old men, In his last broadcast message to that in sacrificing his own life he his people, the late King George could SAVE his brother-in-law. spoke of the public rejoicings There was a chance, however, that during the Jubilee celebra by allowing-the-assassins to decolve, tions as being not merely themselves and shoot him down, respect for the Throne, but as Colonel Matsui could at least delay a warm and generous remem-the pursuit of Admiral Okada. We brance for the man who had can only guess at what he thought: ir those few seconds before he been placed upon it. The words
died. But of this we are certain: are equally applicable to the that he knew, beyond doubting, that feelings of love and good wishes should he utter one word to iden- which have been extended to-tify himself, he could live. He did wards the young monarch on his not choose to speak. assumption of the duties of his The men who slow him, whether high office. As the most-or not they are punished under the travelled ruler over to occupy law of their land; will know a re- the Throne, King Edward has morse which will dog them to the made contacts with peoples of grave; for they have murdered one many races and climes, and all of the most gallant gentlemen, In who knew the man as the Prince Japan's history. of Wales have the sure and cer-
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fain knowledge that he will world conditions are far from bring to his new tasks all those composed, Edward VIII stands qualities of heart and mind
which have made him the most as an example of the stability of Ropular figure in the world. the Throne and the Empire, and We all know how, when the by his first spoken words to the Great War ended, the Prince of Empire he has shown that he Wales, as he then was, declared has high conceptions of his re- that: "In those four years I eponsibilities and of his anxiety mixed with men; in those four for the continued well-being of years I found my manhood." his fellow-men. Under his firm Since those days; his manhood and enlightened guidance, not has been further developed, his only. will the Crown find fresh.
ds only. character has taken more de- lustre and glory, but his sub- finite form, and to-day he stands jects everywhere will be able to man who knows his count on a faithful discharge of strength and his purpose, one the duties of his exalted office, in whose hands the well-being based on a determination, to and happiness of his people are serve his day and generation in safe kooping. Assuming the with all the loving care and high Kingship at a moment when ability at his command."
SIDE GLANCES. By George Clark
Well, it was awfully old, anyway. Grandma had it for nearly fifty years."
they are kept in subordinate positions which prevent them from getting on with the awful task?
As far as one can tell from observation in one's own small circle, boy war - babies were greatly over-mothered, and strangely enough this mother- ing business is continued by the girl war-babies, who take up a semi-maternal attitude to- wards their boy friends.
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O me this is the most re- markable feature of a uni-
que generation: the protective instinct seems to have been transferred from the male half to the female, so that, Instead of the boys taking care of the girls,- the girls, by means of a certain amount of gentle and persuasive bullying, Jolly, the boys along and heave them out of the dumps in which they are so prone to settle.
No doubt in the succeeding generation Nature will arrive. at a satisfactory compromise, as she always does, because what the war babies' children do notInherit from their fathers in the way of determination and dogged-as-does-it, they will in- herit from their mothers.
The girls will probably take after their fathers, as girls do, and the boys after their mothers, so that we shall see once more. In the country a race of he-men, admired by a race of charming- ly feminine young women, which is as it should be in the best. Interests of everyoná,