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THURSDAY, May 26, 1930
WHISPERS OF JOINT ACTION
There is talk in Hongkong of a possible three-power patrol scheme in the Yangtse River to protect
The
OUR WONDERFUL
ON this day, 71 years ngo, as A Model Queen
the chimes of midnight were
hushied
halis of Kensington
QUEEN
MARY
By
F. G. Prince - White
Nation's Devotion
eyes have shed we shall never know certain it is she has had
THE sufferings Quan Mary grievous cause for tears.
within these has endured
We see only her triumph over last two portentous years must calamity, and note with almost a have shattered a character less personal pride and joy the un- diminished measure of her state- ly grace
and all pervading. charm, her maternal kindness, and the essential and enduring goodness of her royal nature.
noble than hers-must have sown bitterness in any heart that had not the strength of majesty itself. But hers are epic quali- ties, sprung from greatness of soul.
We see her bowing to her Sovereign son, and smiling with upon
In that dark moment when, in the grip of grief, the people heard the words: "The King's motherly encouragement life is moving peacefully towards the new Queen; we see her with her grandchildren, patting the they turned their
little Princesses curls, and full its close... thoughts to Queen Mary, yearn-
of grandmotherly happiness. ing to give her comfort; women
"Grandmotherly"? That wept for her as for their own
"
hearts: "God
about to sound through the TO-DAY, Queen Mary still, though her crown has passed head, she holds Palace, a Princess was born to a younger there in a room that had been such away in the heart of this mother, and all men prayed in looks a strange word, written of be with Queen Mary. We cannot think of her as one who has reached Queen Victoria's nursery.
that milestone-she is cast so
in the mould permanently
of queenship.
We
nation as no other royal woman their in all its history has been able her." Her parents, the laughter-love to claim.
and her ing Duchess of Terk handsome husband, named her
Buy: "Queen Mary is
does that convey to us? Our seventy-one to-day"--but what
image of her is proof nguinet
The devotion to her that was Her mother once wrote of her, universally revealed so clearly in a letter to a friend, that she at the death of King George seemed, then, to be the supreme Foreign trade. stories appear to have emanated Victoria Mary Augusta Louise was “a model of a baby." Had expression of the nation's feel- from semi-official quarters in Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes- the fond parent the gift of pro- ings towards Queen Mary.
A foreign observer able to the years. Crowned with our Washington and London, almost but from the first hour of her phecy she could truly have add-
In any event, life she was called after this od that the model baby would judge of such matters might affection she remains glorious in simultaneously.
grow up to be a model woman, a have been pardoned for saying: our sight. there is interest in the rges-happy month of May,
mother The heart of the British nation But
mode! wife, a model tion in both those centres,
Princess May she was to the and model Queen,
is full; not more completely, in Sought Wisdom there have been whispers in
time to come, can it show its of 26,
WHAT spiritual alchemy made Hongkong for some time in this world until, at the age
"May wins all hearts" ran a love for Queen Mary." of York:
Queen Mary so verily first it was she became Duchess AL
Thus letter. connection.
line in another
And yet he would have been queen, and armed her so effec- hint, and only when, 17 years later, 12
fore- future already nothing mort
was her
human quite wrong; there
were still tually before time and muta- dropped with a wise nol, that her sailor husband acceded to shadowed. The most
the people's bility? In her youth she did/ "something might be done" the Throne as George the Fifth attribute of queenliness had deeper depths in
affection-and these were sound- what the sages would have us the did she use that Christian name been born in her, and Heavened, as we all de know, when her all do--she sought after wisdom. Yangtse following Vice-Admiral of Mary, as Queen, she was to ruled that time and circumstance eldest son, King Edward, bade She read far more deeply than Sir Percy Noble's departure for make beloved over all.
Then Shanghai some time ago.
IL trifle the whisper became holder, for British diplomatic.
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about British trade in
her-and all of us-farewell.
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most girls cared to do half a
brought her to that exalted state in which she was to exercise it.
If at any time since the century ago, and she grew in in- Through all the quarter of a Abdication you have stood tellect as she grew in beauty. a lingering suspicion that these century she shared King among crowda gathered to cheer
There is no doubt that in those
naval and army representatives / rumours have some foundation George's throne the world could Queen Mary you will have heard carly years the qualities of mind
say: "Here, fail from many a lip this brief were developed which from the of high rank had held conference still remains. Recent discussions look at her and
It can say but all-meaning praise: "Wan- day of her marriage to this have in the House of Commons have indeed, is a Queen." indicated the concern felt by now, and with a more admir- derful Queen Mary!" Britain for her interests in the ing emphasis, for not the pro-
foundest sorrows nature and Triumph Fate could heap upon her have Far East, and the Yangtse trade particularly.
in Shanghai, it seemed, and it was: "Something will be done." Frantic newspaper correspon- dents had exhausted just about every possible approach to the subject and had everywhere met
blank official stares with blunt denials, and had com- menced to think the whole thing was baseless, like so many of
ness.
borne a very real influence on the life and destiny of the Em- pire,
There is every availed to lessen her regal spirit; QUE
UEEN MARY is wonderful-- Statesmen who wore about renson to believe that the same rather have they mugnified it, because she transcends the the Throne whon King George it shines forth now highest conception of queen the Fifth ascended it had early concern exists in other coun-so that Dr
What tears her woman's knowledge of Queen Mary's men- tries with large investments in clearer than ever before.
taf vigour and clarity which the area. What more natural
have benefited a thousand dif- col- than that they should
ferent causes for the lasting. good of the people. Like Vic- toria, a crown was, on her head, a natural-if solemnly symboli- cal-ornament.
the other rumours that periodi-laborate in a scheme to guard GRIN AND BEAR IT eally cause flurries of excite their shipping against possible ment. And then London and interference from either Chinese New York found that the same for Japanese. It would serve the whispers were in circulation and purpose of a rival very well to hastened to flash them across make it appear either dangerous the world-probably to the place or impossible for British, ships of their origin. In Hongkong to continue trading up this great yesterday newspapermen mate commercial artery of China. Noble recently another effort; and again it was Vice-Admiral denied that Britain, France and made a tour of inspection of the the United States were discuss-Yangtse. It is understood he ing plans for convoying mer- has reported its results to Lon-! chantmen up the Yangtse. So don; and he may have made re- it may be that there is nothing commendations. It seems likely that the purpose of his trip was of truth in all this chatter.
to determine whether the river
On the other hand, the close-is unsafe for ordinary traffic, mouthed quality of officials who It may be he was asked whether deal with such delicate matters the Navy could guarantee the is well known; and the reticent security of British merchant- nature of the services which men. It is fairly certain that it But an international might be expected to carry out could.
a convoy of the sort makes It convoy would be perhaps a little; difficult to obtain either con- safer. And whether it has been firmation or denial in that approved or not, auch a scheme,
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The Empire's Wish
IN the last two years sorrow and joy have come to Queen Mary in great measure. She has seen one son so from her aide, and another crowned.
"I need not speak to you of the distress which fills a mother's heart," she said to the nation when her eldest son sail- ed from these shores "The sympathy and affection which sustained me in my gent sorrow less than a year ago have not failed me now, and are onco again my strength and stay." -
Nothing in this changing world is more cortain than that sym- pathy and that affection will be. hora alway.
The whole Empire will most. dovoutly wish for Queen Mary, Many Happy Returns of this. day.