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TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1936.
TO-DAY'S BIG DEBATE Whilst it is not to be expected that the vole of censure being
A KING
INDEED!
by
COLLIN
WHEN, just over a year a great regard for tradition and
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ago, wo-were celebra- respect for fitting ritual. But ting the seventy-first birth- he has shown that such a regard is not incompatible with the day of King George, we little keenest appreciation of the faci, thought, that that devoted litics and amenities of moderni- monarch was so soon to lay ty. down the sceptre.
His use of the aeroplane and A quarter of a century had of the telephone and his adop made him one with all his tion of ordinary habits of busi- peoples. The younger genera- ness in the transaction of the tions could not recall the time royal duties mark him as onc when his personality was not who treasures that most pre- part of the national life.
cious of all gifts-time.
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new King, with that I may seem a little thing that OUR
intuition which is one of his when he wishes to pass from most enviable qualities, realised the palace to the Savoy Chapel when he ascended the Throne he walks democratically to his that for many of his subjects it objective. would be a matter of time before
It may seem a little thing that the word "king" connoted in when he strides along the street their minds the "man you have he carries an umbrella as non- known as the Irince of Wales' chalantly as some remale ances as he described himself in his tor might have carried a clouded first broadcast.
cafe or a sword. Rich in the memories of the But these things as indications father, the nation has been quick of temperament are not little. to realise the kinglihood of the They are important. song,
They mark in the King. a kin- King Edward VIII is already ship of habit with the ordinary more than a king. He is, in the man that translates itself as a phrase of Emerson, a representa- ready sympathy and a full un- tive man.
derstanding.
His, education, both formal. His devotion to duty is not and informal, imbued him with paraded; it is assumed as casual-
NOTES OF THE DAY
It has often occurred to us that
ly as any other man assumes a similar devotion to duties less
romantle or less ornate:
His fellowship for his people a lot ostentatiously displayed;
BROOKS
in a crisis of the sort now facing it shows itself with the utmost Great Britain it is unwise to mix naturalness.
H.M. THE KING AS COLONEL-IN-CHIEF OF THE SEAFORTHS, politics with the pudding called; These things account for the THE FIRST BATTALION OF WHICH REGIMENT IS DUE IN HONG- diplomacy. We appreciate that personal popularity that brings KONG NEXT OCTOBER. the suggestion may be untenable, enthusiastic and embarrassing
where a 'nation's life and death
Those faplish things-Fox Trot
Roy Fox & His Orchestra. The touch of your lips-Fox Trot
-moved in the House of Commons Ray Fox & His Orchestra.
to-day will cause the defent, of Indian Love Call-Fax Trot. Roy Fox & His Orchestra. the Government, there can be ......Roy Fox & His Orchestra little doubt that the views ex- Rose Marie--Fox Trot Let's face the music and dance-Fox Trot
pressed by those supporting it Roy Fox & His Orchestra. will, reflect the opinion of a But where are you--Fox Trot Roy Fox & His Orchestra large section of the British Wah-hoo-Fox Trot Roy Fox & His Orchestra, public opinion, irrespective of I'se a-muggin'—Fox Trot......Roy Pox & His Orchestra. ¡tarty feeling. Arising from the And so to bed-fox Trot
Governtnent's decision "To" lead Jack jackson & His Orchestra. the way in the removal of sane- You have that extra something-Fox Trot
tions against Italy, the Labour Jack Jackson & His Orchestra. Party will, in its motion, de
clare that the Baldwin Admin- I'm nuts about screwy music-Fox Trot
The Ballyhooligans.istration, through lack of a re-
but we would urge that in matters-mobs about him even when resting mental and physical ments his thought. All his people, from the humblest I got Rhythm-Fox Trot
The Ballyhooligans. solute and straightforward for- may be concerned, where a deel- he seeks private relaxation, for They man a nerve strain that householders with whom he
sion' one way or another may it is his fate to suffer.not from Goodbye Medloy-Fox Trot The-Ballyhooligans.eign policy, has lowered the
niean ultimate var or lasting enemies, but from his adulators, can hardly be realised by those mixed so comradely at Glas
10 gow The Ballyhooligans. prestige of the Empire, weaken-peace, votes of consure and votes Oriental Medley-Fox Trot
those whose place The hero-worshippers of the who have not to bear it," ed the League of Nutions, and of non-confidence, and all the rest King have no mercy upon him. With one in the very flower in the social perspective brings. imperilled the peace of the of the paraphernalia of politics, A monarch's task is many of life, who has always been at them within his sphere of
might be forgotten. world, thereby having forfeited How can the Government
For instance: sided. The mere office routine pains to maintain the fine phy- genuine personal acquaintarice, Ltd. the confidence of the House, juncture pretend that in that this is enough to appal anybody who sical fitness of athletic, youth, it have the same impression of There can be no shadow of doubt support of the constituents who is not, as the phrase runs, "a might be expected that the in- him-an impression of drive and
heritance of such, a burden consideration. that the Government has.com-main planics of its-platform-was |
elected it, seeing that one of the glutton for work."
would be followed by a kind_of Red tape goes at the demand pletely changed the policy which the defence of the League of Nn-
dumb revolt against so many of his efficiency; conventions that impede the progress of it so loudly proclaimed at the tions Covenant, the maintenance BUT that office routine is only claims and chains.
business necessary
are dig. of penalties, and the acceptance of an incidental. The careful General Election namely,
responsibilities arising therefrom? care and thought of policy (a
carded; one thing and one thing Since the Opposition forces a divi- king is always in office), the KING EDWARD VIII, far from only seems to matter to him. the sion on the issue, the Whips will study of so many phases of the
showing, uneasiness under the good of the people through the nyo, and the Government's national life (the king is always bonds which hold him, has bent right performance of the Kingly porters will rally and role-not for or against a policy, but simply in many offices), and the con- with energy to his manifold function. for the Government. Would it not stant contact with a medley of tasks.
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SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
"It is now that the statesmen
journeys that he took as Prince of Wales.
There is nobody in his service who has had anything ap proaching his experience of the varied races that comprise his Empire.
steadfast ndherence to the League and the system of collec- tive action thereby implied. When, some months ago, the Hoare-Laval peace plan was pre-
be better, in order to ascertain the mon, each of importance to the He has a mind which thinks with whom he has to work are maturely divulged, there was an
true feelings of the people, that realm-these things mean un clearly and will which imple- gaining the fruits of those many Instant chorus of condemnation every member of the House on the part of the British public, Commons speak his mind so that
Government should not blunder) which was in no mood for con-
into some commitment which has cessions in Italy's favour. Since not the approval of the majority then, Italy has decred Ethiopia of British people?. We are not hers a much more serious de- Baying the Government is wrong in dropping sanctions. That is not velopment than the Hoare-Laval the point. The argument is simply plans and yet, we have the spec- that a matter of much consequence should not be degraded to the level tacle of Britain practically con-
of party politics, and that to shout doning the annexation and will "Resign" and "Coward" when ing to remove sanctions applied Cabinet is feeling its way through
a dark and dangerous territory; against a declared aggressor.
only confuses the issue and des-. It will be conceded that if Italy troys any hope of free discussion. was not stopped in her war of Would an Opposition wreck a na conquest the fault was not en- tion to gain a fall from Govern- ment? That, we suggest, would tirely Britain's. Assured of
be worse, treachery than any re- active support by other nations pudiation of policy by a Cabinet -Britain which, after all, may only be doing principally. France
its best to correct an earlier mis- would doubtless have brought
take. much heavier pressure to bear on Italy. None the less, there
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is much point in Lord Cecil's is also point in the argument contention that sanctions have that the Labourites.. who are thus far not been wholly put to now so insistent on Britain standing firm, were in large the test, and their continuance, measure responsible for the plus a refusal to give Italy any cutting down of the nation's financial assistance so long as she fighting services. None the less, claims Ethiopia as her own, the Government's volta, face might well have opened up the will need some explaining, the more so since some of the way to a settlement which would Dominions evidently in
are stop short of the loss of Invour of a continuance of sanc- Ethiopian independence. As to tions. Whatever else may come whether persistence in sanctions out of the new development, the would involve the danger of a British public is certainly in no big world war, that is a point mood to acquiesce in any policy which goes little further than which endorses Italy's conquest speculation on possibilities. We at the expense of a nation which can, and do, appreciate the had pinned its faith in the col Government's anxiety to avoid a lective system and in Britain as major conflagration, and there the champion of that system.
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"Hadn't you better get to bed, dear? You'll have all day to-morrow to get ready for the Reception."
lio, has mixed, formally and informally, with men of all races and of all avocations. He is essentially Rn "ex-Service man with all that is Implied in that phrase of camaraderie and fortitude.
one
There is
other individual (x- characteristle nhout him which plains much of his hold on men and on life.
There was in the Prince of Wales a strong mystical strain: It han mol been subdued in the King.
The Prince who stooped to lay a sacramental kiss upon the battered and frightful visage of a war victim, upon a mask of writhen itesh doomed tod horrible for normal oyes to see, has become the King who feels the religious quality of his office.
The brisk business-like methods and the friendly, democratie miingling with the crowds of the pavements can. not for those about him cover entirely this inward earnestness of daily pur pone..
Across the social scene the King mover, charming and gay.
In the little quietude of private life that our clamorous needs allow him, the charm and galety, one suspects, give place to the anxious forebodings of the mystical realist, the one sinter
Izzet man who must know all Facts give equal weight to all factions be- Soro his own will is made known.
In thoas rave hours of quiet he may guess, perhaps, that the enthusiasm of the cheering and adulatory crowds is a symbol of something of enormous significanco-the rise in men of hier How and vibrant age of Royallem,
own