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Gold v. Guns
A REPLY to a question in the
House of Commons would
indicate that Mr. Chamberinín
is awaiting a propitious moment to re-open trade negotiations with Germany, These negotia- tions, it will be recalled, abruptly
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In other words, Mr. Chamber- lain still hankers for "appease- ment."
He would place his trust, not in the British navy, army and air force, but in gold.
Trade negotiations at this stage would aid Germany much more than they would nid Britain. They would help her
overcome some of her economic difficulties, which means, in effect, to increase her
war resources.
to
..
Britain should do nothing which would enable Germany to do this. It should rather be Mr. Chamberlain's policy to increase those difficulties and diminish Germany's power to wage war.
As Mr. Roosevelt said recently, there are many ways short of going to war by which aggressor 'nations can be countered. They should be adopted against Nazi Germany.
dirt
The United States set excellent example by putting heavy anti-dumping duties on subsidised German goods.
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HITLER: "You are absolutely encircled-menaced on all sides!"
Rough draft a play, to
for a
written
50
years hence
AURENCE HOUS-
MAN'S play "Victoria Regina" truces the
life of Queen Victoria in a series of some twenty dramatic episodes.
This day another great Queen is in our thoughts; it is the seventy-second
Queen Mary._____
birthday of
by
GORDON BECKLES
be
"What ward is that?" she asks, pointing to a closed door.
"Those aro-er-those are special cases," hurries the doc- tor.
"How special?"
"Well, ma'am, they are rather bad facial cases, and we didn't think that you.
The Queen of England enters the special ward.
JULY 1934. A sedato and. apprehensive audience sits in the stalls of the rose-covered royal box at the. Palladium. They look sideways now and again to see whether or not they should applaud.
And now a broad comedian,
fore the footlights,
What can
There is a knock at the door. the greatgrandson of another one Billy Bennett, has come be A man in a frock coat enters. son of George the Third. "Doctor?" says the Duchess
a Queen know of fish and chips, of Teck, springing up.
It had been quite a quiet landladies and kippers? affair in the little Chapel Royal, "I knew a man," bawls Ben- "Madam," says the doctor, "I but when they came to drive to nett, "who had a hair on the end Who doubts that some Hous- consider that your child has Liverpool-street Station man of the future will wish to passed the crisis and should their honeymoon at Sandring- time he sneezed it cracked like for of his nose so long that every write an episodic play about the soon be out of danger." Consort of the late King George
hum it seemed as if London had
a whip. the Fifth?
suddenly gone mad. MAY 26, 1873. A little It was no public holiday, and flogged himself to death."
"He finally caught a cold and girl dressed just like the Tenniel there were no decorations; but Horror! But look at the
Her life has been no less drawing of "Alice in Wonder- the crowds in Piccadilly and on Queen-she is rocking with romantic and far richer in land" has come back from her the way to the City were said laughter, shaking with dramatic incident-than that of afternoon walk in Richmond to have been bigger than at the robust humour of her paternal Victoria, and she has been wit- Park. ness to social and world changes
Queen's Jubilee!
ancestors.
::
the
long has sat propped up in a Now there was this bundle of chair before the window. A fow
for
of far more sweeping a charac- She has long fair hair, nearly Every one wanted to see the ter than those seen by the Vic- down to her waist. Her jacket marriage of the Princess who JANUARY 1936. It is just torian reign.
is trimmed with fox fur right was known to every one by the after midnight. The only light One episode in such a play up to a pert little bustle, and name of the lovely month in in the room comes from the might spring from those touch she carries a demure muff in which sho was born.
flickering fire. At rest now upon ing moments in the Abbey film front of her. Her eyes have the But that was a year ago in the bed is George V., who all day at the moment that the Crown gaiety of her gay, pleasure. 1898. is placed on her son's head; and loving father, the dashing Duke clothes who was going to be moments ago the King breathed later on the balcony of Bucking- of Teck. ham Palace.
christened Edward Albert Chris- for the last time. Life at White Lodge, especial- tian George Andrew Patrick, Stage directions would have ly with all the dolls of a birth- but known as "David." And the world has curtseyed, and she to Queen Mary-to whom all the to read: "The Queen is seen to day, is very pleasant. be in tears.".
Of bearded young man se strange- no one since two other Queens Here are a few other random tions: some of them nice, others twenty years later to write haired man' at her side and her- course, there are all the rela- ly like the proud father-was had died-turns to the flaxen- stage directions which might quite frightening. come in useful for the play
wistfully from the Palace in St, self curtseys. "Mary Regina.”
Petersburg: "I look back with The little Princess Victoria such pleasure to those days King!
The King is dead, long live the (they also called her Mary, at Marlborough House JULY 1868. The plump now) likes her grandmamma, Georgie's wedding Duchess of Teck is sitting at the Duchess of Cambridge, She christening."
and the MAY 1937. The Queen sits a window of Kensington Palace, had known George the Third,
at hor writing desk overlooking Sho is alone and silent.
and could talk about the Napo fond of Georgie and Princess House which she know as Prin- The Czar of Russia was very the lawns of the Marlborough Upstairs ther daughter, the Princess Victoria, read about in her history books.
one-year-old leonic ware that the Princess May.
cess May. lies dying. She has caught Lots of funny people came to
She is reading her morning NOVEMBER 1, 1901. There letters and answering those that typhoid from the stagnant pond White Lodge. Only the other is rough weather in the Chan- need answers. She writes with day her elder brother had re nel, and for days the liner Ophir a swift and flowing pen, abbrevi- The Duchess did not wish her ceived a nice knife on his birth has been battling across the Atating "your" into "y." Most of Germany. Let German ships daughter to be called Victoria: day from a funny old man with lantic in the face of gales. -arriving in democratic ports find Mary, for instance. But the
there were several botter names painted checks called Disrnell.
her letters are signed "Ever The Duchess of Cornwall yours sincerely." Hor plump mother stands in she will soon be the Princess of that labour declines to handle grent Queen had said: "I am her the background at the birthday Wales--is coming to the end of paper than most of the others: There is a letter on cheaper their ships. Lot all Germans godmother-my wishes must party, shaking her head at some a long journey round the world. it in a letter written by a Mrs. in democratic countries be asked
of the little guests.
On her desk lies an open McComber, of Acacia-road, Wood The little Princess who was to to apply
"There are far, far too many diary. One page starts: "I am Green, inviting her to come and for naturalisation become Queen Mary was a grown-up children to-day," she a very bad sailor and if not look at the decorations in her papers within thirty days
beautiful child. The deepest laments to a friend,
actually ill have a constant district. politely told to
blue eyes imaginable, a tiny Jeave the
headache-a great loss as being. at sea is one's only rest," country."
Still more radical suggestions were made recently in a letter to the London "Times" by Sir Alexander Roger:
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That afternoon the Queen...... drives through castorn and northern London, and makes a
rosebud of a mouth (the sorrow- JULY 1894. A funny little ing Duchess recalls her own bandle of baby clothes is being Those measures, adopted in words), a pink-and-white com- held in the arms of a bearded AUGUST 1916. The Queen point of passing Mrs. Mc- all the countries of the peace figure.
ploxion; and a most perfect young man so like her own bus of England is at a hospital in Comber's house.
band that Princess May marvels North London. For two hours front, would bring home to the
A man on the "cornor of "Eshort-coated her quite that they are not twins, she has been talking to the shabby street takes off his but German people the detestation friends. She looks a perfect month she--the granddaughter losing none of her dignity yet
early, the Duchess had told her Just a year ago this very wounded soldiers, chatting gally, as she passes. folt by the outside world at picture in her frocks and of one son of George the Third essentially a jolly sort of wo by
"She's a Queen," he says, "and Nazi methods.·
-had been married to George man."...
doesn't she took a
Baghes."
Queen'