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December 12,
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Fateful Abdication
Abdication Days?
or
Family meet at Пoyal DECEMBER 4-Mr. Baldwin, inj Noyal DECEMBER, 1, 1936-The Bishop | "We hope he is aware of his need,,
woman the Lodge, Windsor. Fort Belvedere and of Bradford, Dr. A. W. F. Blunt, in Some of us wish he gave more, the House, says the
King married would necesarily be-] Marlborongh House. an address to his diocesan conference, posliive signs of such awareness."
come Queen..
DECEMBER 10.—The King's ab- Kays! "The benefit of the King's
DECEMBER 2-The Bishop
dication, and the Duke of York's DECEMBER 7-Empire Parlia- Coronation depends, under God. Bradford says his address was not
Mrs. Blmpson succession announced in Parliament. self- Intended as a rebuke, adds: "What' ments summoned.
MAY 28, 1037-Announcement in Lin faiths,
and prayer dedication of the King himself, and I had reference to was the fact that, issues a statement that she is willing
to all outward appearance, the King to withdraw from "a situation which the London Gazette that the Duke on that it would be improper for me seems to live entirely indifferently to has been rendered both unhappy and of Windsor will still held the title. "His Royal IIlzhness," but that the nutenable." the publls practice of religion,"
prefix "ILR.II." will not extend to DECEMBER 3-It is announcer DECEMBER 8-Mr. Baldwin has Mrs. Simpson on her marriage, or that "an acute Constitutional crisis""; his sixth conference with the King to any possible children.
the King's at Fort Belvedere,
JUNE 3-Marriage of the Duka has arisen because of Intention to marry Mrs. Simpson. DECEMBER 2-Members of the and Mrs. Simpson.
say anything except commanil him.. to God's grace, which he will so abundantly need, as we all need it for the King is a man like ourselves--if he is to do his duty faithfully.
KING GEORGE VI YESTERDAY
COMPLETED
Three Courageous Years
Ο
N the afternoon of December 11, 1936, the Right Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M.P., Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, had an audience of the King at 145, Piccadilly,
That announcement in broadcast I have ever heard from a
woman's lips:
Hongkong Telegraph. the Court Circular told the
Tuesday, December 12, 1939. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26635
TUE pronx "Special to the Telegraph" le used by the Hongkong Telegraph" to Indicale news which is sirtetly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni-
"I have, however, a message for country that King George you from the King. He bids the people of this country be of good VI had succeeded King Ed-cheer in spite of the dark clouds
hanging over the whole world. ward VIII.
It was three days before King
cations Ordinance, 1936. Such George's 41st birthday, and he
was the 41st monarch in succes-
"He knows well that, as ever be. Jare in critical times, they will keep cool heads and brane hearts
Even in this swift and crowded
world of to-day we have not had time to forget so entirely the events warmth from this Christmas close at hand.
the United Prem Ausociations, who re- sion from William the Con- of resent days as not to feel an added
bears the indication "U to received in Hongkong on the date of publication by serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous queror. arrangement,
Dear December:
now
TT was unfortunate that the
reign were marred by a cumpaign of One could wish that some of the Privy Councillors to whom at Buck-
Trst months of King George's calumny against his elder brother,
That night King George dined with Prince Edward at Royal Lodge, Windsor Great Park, YOU'RE the last month of with Queen Mary, the Princess the year. but in some respects Royal, the Duke of Gloucester, the first. You must be merry-the Duke of Kent, and the Earlingham Palace he aid: "I have suf- no other month has Christmas.and Countess of Athlone.
anyway.
Yet you're a wonderful month And more wonderful because Christmas is all your own-whether you are decked with poinsettias or icicles. You're a happy month from Greenland's icy mountains to the plains of Australia,
Isn't it wonderful, when you stop to think of it, that happi-
ss doesn't depend on latitude or longitude, on temperature or climate?
fered a very real loss by the decision of my brother, for by his going I am After dinner Prince Edward drove deprived of a close friendship which to Windsor Castle and delivered his valued highly," did not move them- farewell broadcast, and at 1 a.m. King selves more actively to silence that
campaign. George returned to his house in Pic We must be charitable, and ascribo cadilly Later that day he gave hilst to a misguided loyalty, and, let me first audience at Buckingham Palace repeat, an utterly unnecessary up- to Sir John Simon, which was follow-prehensiveness about the Coronation. There is no need to remind readers, ed by his first Privy Council at St. for whom the triumph of the Corona- James's Palace. This was the Acces- tion, on May 12, 1937, is a bright memory, how unnecessary that up- On his birthday, December 14, in prehensiveness was. reply to the Lords' Address, present-
sion Council.
ed to him by the Earl of Cromer, King George sald,
N-the Glorious First.of.June. the King created Mr. Bald- win an Eart and a Knight of the "You may be assured that it is my Gurter. determination to do all that lies with-
Two days later the King and Queen
age
by COMPTON
MACKENZIE
Do you mind my telling you in my power to safeguard the liber telephoned their congratulations to where we would like best to be les of my people and to promote the Duke of Windsor on his marr!- with you?
In the Homeland, their prosperity and contentment.”
On August 1 the King few to his among snow-laden pines, where
It is only when we recall the camp for public seliool and worlding skating ponds glisten and ring pregnant circumstances in which boys at Southwold in Suffolk, and we with laughter, and fireplaces these words were delivered that the were all of us relieved that at last It looked as if his holiday had begun. The rest of the summer and early fuse families into new bonds of stereotyped phrases of royal cioqu-
ence become fraught with majesty, autumn was spent at Balmoral, but cheer and happiness. And, say:
The love of the people of the by October 20 he was touring the If we adults like you, how must Empire for King George VI does not to look at gas-macks at an A.R.P. West Riding, and at Leeds was having the children love you! Frost depend on any words of his, and show, where he was able to tell his and fairies. Reindeer and Infinitely less does it depend on any listeners that the gas-masks in the
words uttered by his anxious ad- war "had pinched your nose." dreams. Anticipation
and visers.
One can imagine what he felt at wickedness on show again, realization. From the fjords
His speech at the Opening of That love came once for all when the thought of all this miserable
of Norway to the veldts of South Africa, glad greetings.
Nazi Confession
arm and
Resort to the air magnetic mines for destruction of merchant vessels is a con- fession that submarines have
those who had any doubts about the quality of his elocution doubted no
more.
queen of Bulgarie
was a busy autumn. The
were received at the beginning of November.
On Armistice Day people listening to the broadcast heard suddenly over the silence shricks and the claiter of horses.
Later that month, on November 16, the King greeted King Leopold of Belgium at Victoria, and at the ban- quet in Buckingham Palace said to his royal visitor, "Your visits to these shores will have enabled you to see for yourself how strong are the bonds of mutual interests and of common ideals which bind this country with your own."
On November 24 he received o number of Italian ex-Servico men and on November 20 he gave a lunch to MM. Chautemps and Delbos at the conclusion of the Anglo-French talks, His 42nd birthday was celebrated at Buckingham Palace by ʼn children's party given by Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret.
On Christmas Day the King brood- cast from Sandringham. He said he could not aspire to take his father's place, but, "as this is the first Christ- mas since our Coronation, the Queen and I feel that we want to send you all a further word of gratitude for the love and loyalty you gave us from every quarter of the Empire during this unforgettable year now drawing to its end."
* ☆
ND then came this unfor» gettable year of 1938, with war clouds gathering all over Europe. In February Mr. Eden resigned from the Foreign Office.
In May the King opened the Glas- gow Exhibition.
In June he and the Queen were on the point of setting out for the visit to Paris when the Countess of Strath- more died, and the visit had to be postponed until July 19,
That visit to Paris must have been a_wonderful-assuranco-to-the-King- and Queen of their personal influence in this difficult time, and once again it is meet to insist on the vital part played by the Queen on that historic Occasion.
Then come inst September and the end of that crisis, when Mr, Cham- berlain returned from Munich and the King led him out on to the balcony of Buckingham Palace to ac- knowledge the greetings of the great crowd below-the first time that any King has shared an ovation with his Prime Minister, and a poignant Ulus- tration of the relief and gratitude he must have felt.
Their Victims
| a man without personal ambition paraphernalia of human folly and Parliament lasted for 13 minutes, and Ash For
assumed the responsibility of the mightiest throne in the world because
he believed it to be his duty.
I
HAD the Honour in 1932 of nssisting ns Rector of Glas-
to University at the conferment of honorary degrees on the Duke and
These occasions are always an anxious business for the chief figures. His Royal Highness told me out
"It offends my sense of symmetry," he said,
Į disappointed the Nazi leaders, Duchess of York.
The facts are grim for them. Air bombing or the use of "pirate" mines is imperative if by asking why there were not the there are to be any hope that same number of windows on one side war on our ships would frighten of the Chapel as on the other. us and threaton neutrals and, perhaps most important, en-
I was unable to offer ony explann- courage the German people.
tion, but presently the Duke discover- Mr. Hore-Belisha recently de-ed for himself that it was due to a buliding on the other side, and I was fined three courses. possible to able to assure him with perfect sin- Nazium. It may try to smash cerity that he knew a great deal more through by sea and air, it may abort architecture than I did.. wait for an allied offensive, It I had the honour of sitting next to the Duchess at lunch in the uní- may try to lure us into the dis- versity after the ceremony, and I cussion of terms of peace. Who think I was never more surprised in can guess all the possibilities of my life than when she told me that 'distracted Nazi counsels?
she had stened to the broadcast of my Rectorial Address (nearly an hour
We must expect to endure long).
stern hours. Grent issues are I realised from that what a paz-
sionate interest she must have in
for decision. The strength of a Scottish affairs.
powerful nation under the orders
And when on that critical Septem-
of men who have declared to ber, I listened to the broadcast specch acknowledge no right but force of her Majesty, I could not help
is arrayed against Britain and the Empire and France. One thing about the future of the conflict is clear and certain. Timo is on our side..
thinking that whatever she meant to the Empire she meant just a little more to her own Scotland.
I sincerely hope that specel will record, for I have no hesitation in be made available on a gramophone declaring it to be the most moving
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RITISH seamen, who face the terrors of the U-boat as well as the normal dangers of the sea, feel they are not getting a fair deal re- garding compensation for Injuries.
Sufferers through enemy action are particularly bitter.
They say that the regulations under which they are compensated deprives them of their rights at common law.
Instead of being paid wages while incapacitated, as any other workmen would be under the Workmen's Com- pensation Acts, they receive merely temporary allowance based on the
of disability..
a
dolat out.
also, that any
disability provents them from getting another ship.
Among the instances referred to the National Union of Seamen are cases from the torpedoed. Athonio.
15. A Wook
One is of a stewardess, who would normally earn about £40 a month. Her disability has been assessed, at 20 per cent, and she is being paid 158. a week.
of the
crow,
A male member similarly asscared, is being pild 224 Od. n
Weeir.
Strenuous efforts aro being made- by the union to got this altered, and it is also asking for a revision of the compensation for lost kit.
Evidence was shown to the "Dally Herald" that to provide a new kit of essentials would cost a deckhand practically 16. just twice the amount he receiver.
Men who aniled before the outbreak of war are particularly hard hitt, as they carried many things they would not have and with them had they known of the danger of losing