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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1936.
THE KING
KING WITH
WITH THE FLEET
Dear Santa,
"and please don't forget to bring me a pair of nice comfy slipper's ! like red."
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"G. K. C."
Sums Up His Friends
THE KING LEAVING THE SUBMARINE NARWHAL.
Mr. 11. G. Wells. A "Permanent Reactionary"
G.B.S. 'GENERALLY WRONG'
Interesting parsuges In the late G. K. Chesterton's "Autobiography," are those in which he cums up some of the notable men with whom he came in contact. Here are some of lts Impressions:- KING GEORGE V
He
"I only met him once myself, ut the house of the late Lord Burnham, where he was shooting... cortalaly did strike me as about as genuine a person as I ever met. But he was genuine in n rather un- expected way.
"He was not only honest, but frank, and so free and easy in his likes and dislikes tlint he might have been called indiscreet. 'G. B. "S.' said truly of his publle talks that they were indeed the King's English, but the private were also decidedly plain English.
"He was anything but the supreme permanent-official-many-eulogies im- plied; he was not like some rellable solleitor in whom family secrets are locked up, or some doctor congested with the silence of professional con- fidences; he was much more like a little sea captain who keeps a cer- tain silence and etiquette, on his quarter deck, but plenty of anec- dotes, not to say anathemas, in his cobin."
MR. H. G. WELLS - ́
"What I have always liked about! Wells is his vigorous and unaffected readiness for a lark... but I have always thought that he, reacted too swiftly to everything, possibly as a part of the swiftness of his natural genius,
"I have never ceased to admire and sympathise, but I think he has al- ways been too much in a state of renelion. To use the name which. would probably annoy him most, I think he is a permanent reactionary.”
MR. G. B. SHAW
"My principal experience from first to last has been in argument with him.... I have learned to have a wormer admiration 3rd affection out of all that argument i than most people get out of agree- ment.
་
"Bernard Shaw
is scen at his best when he is antagonistic. I might say that he is seen at his best! when he is wrong. I might also add that he is generally wrong. Or rather, everything is wrong about him except himself."
MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD
"When I knew him slightly in my youth, in the days when we were all Socialists, he had the name of being rather a cold and scientiflo exponent of Socialism; the more expansive and emotional sort of eloquence seems to have developed late in life.
"When he was still counted a re- volutionary Labour leader with a red tle I heard Balfour refer to him in Parliament with respectful, regret, *confessing myself on admirer of the Parliamentary style of the hon. gentleman, and somehow when heard those words I think I knew that the man with the red tie was destined for a National Ministry, Even then, at least, he looked much more ko hin aristocrat thon mest aristocrats do?!)
SIR J. M. BARRIE
*"There is something in his own humorous self-effacement that seems to create round Him a silence like his Own."
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KING GEORGE V
MEMORIAL FUND
A FINAL APPEAL
Christmas is approaching with its numerous calls for generosity, and it seems desirable to close the King George V. Memorial Fund before it becomes one of too many claims on our charity.! therefore propose to close the subscription lists on Saturday, December 19th, and I ask every citizen of Victoria and Kowloon to put to himself the following questions:
(1) Have
I fully appreciated the nature of the Memorial, which is that the thank-offerings of those who prospered under the late reign will be devoted to the recreation of poor people in crowded areas; so that Hongkong's monument to King George will not be a lifeless statue of him" but a living and permanent realisation of his desire for the health and happiness of his poorest subjects?
(2)
Are the ninety thousand dollars' that have already been raised the most that Hongkong can do?
-(3)
If not, can Ladd to the amount, even though my contribution be small?)
(4)
give more?
Or, having already given, can
A. CALDECOTT,
GOVERNOR.
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