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THE WORLD'S SHYEST MONARCH
ING HAAKON VII,
KIN
the giant 6-foot 4-
inch sailor who is first to occupy the Throne of mo- dern Norway, is Europe's least known, least public- ised and shyest reigning. Monarch.
The only King to whom he had to concede any inches was: his
own
brother, Christian X. of Denmark. With him he shared the reputation of being the most democratic monarch even in a Europe shorn of all but a few of
the glittering royal courts of pre-war years.
When members of reigning houses in
Home parts of Europe never left their palaces without solid lines of bayonets to guard them, Haa- kon of Norway and Christian of Denmark walked abroad daily among their subjects en- tirely unguarded.
In fact, the gigantle stature of the two Scandinavian brothers made them both so conspicuous in any crowd that they were constant sources of anxiety to the detectives as- signed to protect them when they visited foreign capitals.
Hankan. like Christian.
hates the kind of protection normally accorded to royalty and refuses to be guarded when at home in Oslo.
Unlike his brother, however, Hankon VII was not a familiar Agore among his subjects. The reason for this was his lifelong shyness, not any hankering after formality..
BORN a Dane, of the ruling house of Schleswig-Holstein- Sonderburg-Glucksburg which hus supplied Europe with more sovereigns than almost any family except the Bour- bons, Haakon was elected first King of Norway when its tough, sen-faring, moun- taineering people broke away from union with Sweden in 1905.
His unassuming. denwerntie rule embled him, in the face of ocensional awkward snubs from the Norwegian Socialists, to re- tain his kingdom at a time when some of Europe's greatest_mon... archies were crashing or shorn of all but a shadow of their former power.
Was born
un
Was
Was
King Hankon August 3, 1872, al Charlottenlund -Palace in Denmark. He
christened Christian Fredrik Karl Georg Waldemar Axel and known as Prince Karl, His father was Crown Prince Fredrik, after- wards King Fredrik VIII of Den- mark.
As the younger son of a not-too- wealthy family, Prince Karl was brought up In an unpretentious
manner.
His only apparent chance of becoming a reigning monarch was In the very unlikely event of his brother Christian-t110- years older than himself-dying.
Consequently, when he Was stilt a small boy, Prince Kart was entered as a cadet in the Danish navy.
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IN the very democratic life of a Danish warship Prince Karl found that royal birth was, if anything, a disadvan- tage.
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fis fellow-cadets took it themselves to guard against any signs of "uppishness" on his part.
He had to scrub decks, swarm un masts into the rigging, mend 14 own socks and sleep in a hammock wearing nothing but a sallor's woollen striped under- shirt, with his clothes rolled der his head as a pillow.
He spent all his early manhood in the navy and had only reached the rank of lieutenant when he left it to become king.
Is King Haakon of Norway, whose brother is King of Denmark and whose wife Is Princess Maud of Wales.
His son (Crown Prince Olav) was born in England.
In the middle nineties rumour was busy in the courts of Europe, searching for a likely consort for the youthful, still unmarried Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.
By common consent Prince Karl k Denmark
Wha considered as promising a candidate as any and he was shipped off to The Hague to make himself known at the Dutch court.
According
to report, he got as for us teaching Queen Wilhelmina to play chess, but apart front that made no real effort to take him- selt agreeable and came back to Copenhagen without a bride.
The real reason for this back- wardness, however, was that he had already made the acquain- tance of the lady of his cholce, Princess Maud of Wales, youngest and, it was generally agreed, best locking of the daughters of the Prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward VII,
She was his first cousin, since her mother--afterwards Queen Was sister of the
Alexandra Prince's father,
Their engagement was announced shortly afterwards and they were married in England in July. 1806.
Even after his marriage Prince Karl had to live on a very modest scate with an income of only £16- 000 a year.
He met his English bride made their home in a small apartment in one corner of the Copenhagen Palace belonging to the King of Greece..
Prince Kari often spent months at a time away at sea and in Co- penhagen society he was not well known.
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His son, Crown Prince Olay of Norway, was born at Appleton House, 'Sandringham, on July 2, 1903,
IN 1905 Norway after years of discontent, broke
Sweden, away from
with which she had been united under one King since 1815.
The Norwegians asked King Oscar II of Sweden to choose them a ruler from the junior branches of his own family.
He refused, and the Norweglans then looked to Denmark for King,
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By a vote of 259,583 to 60,264 Prince Karl of Denmark
Was chosen to be the first ruler of an Independent Norway for five cen- turies.
The tast
Norwegian king had been Hankon VI in the thirteenth century
When
Prince, Karl took the throne at the age of thirty-three he assumed the title of King Hankon VII. (The name is actually pro- nounced "Hawkon").
King Haakon and Queen Maud came to their new capital-then known as Christiana-ainid scenes of tremendous popular rejoicing on November 20, 1905.
Despite occasional rebuffs from Lite Socialists, King Haakon and bis British Queen, by their tact and generally unassuming man- ner, soon showed themselves to be Just the kind of Monarchs suited to the democratle Norwe rian people,
Although King Haakon was pain- fully shy, especially of women, he made special efforts to visit all parts of his mountainous kingdom. His Silver Jubilee was celebrated in 1930.
King Haakon had a physique to match his right. Ite is rather dark, with a heavy moustache and is Inclined to baldness. As a young man he was considered handsomer
her than most royalties. Throughout his life he has been an ardent sportsman. He hunts, Boxes, plays tennis, fences and Is an excellent dancer. He used to swim nearly every morning before breakfast. He is exceedingly strang -50 strong, fact,
that his friends say he can take a poker in his hands and bend it double,
Both King Haakon and Queen Maud visit England ni least once every year. When they stay in London they walk about the streets without escort and generally quite unrecognised.
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With Hitler VICHY-CELESTINS
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BY W. N. EWER
THAT, I was naked the
Wother day, are the Nazis
doing in Poland? Plundering it no doubt, but what else?
What is their policy? Are they really setting up some kind of Polish State? How are things going?
swer:
as well as national-is in the hands of German offelais.
In both the final power is in the hands of the Gestapo, which ever- rides both military and civil au- thorities at w-much to the. annoyance of the military,
It is the Gestapo which is carry- ing out with lis usual cold brutality the policy of the Fuchrer. And the polley of the Fuehrer is quite simple.
Questions only too easy to an-
stroyed. for there is quite rellablo Information to hand. But the an- swers are grim ones.
that
Poland as a nation is to be de- The Polish workers nud peasants are to become belots serving the German master-race. They are to lew wood and draw water.
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But all authority, all administra- tion, all culture, are to be in the hands of the German taskmasters. Nazism has leapt back to crudest barbarismis of the ancient world. in
All that early pretence of setting of a. Polish State. of making settlement with # new Polish Government, of merely annexing to Germany a few slices of terri tory
might plausibly be argued to be German, has gone,
It was never serious. It was the merest propaganda stunt, devised for the fooling of anybody Allied or neutral countries who could be persuaded into believing that Hitler is not so very unrea- sonable after all. it was just atte munition for that "peace offer- sive."
The reality is very different, Certainly the Westernmost dis- trlets of Poland have been formally annexed to the Reich; while the rest Is "Government-General."
But in practice it comes to the same thing. In both areas the whole administration -- municipal
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The method is us old as the oh- jective. Was it not "Lars Porsena Clusiuin" who gave the tip to "false Sextus" by lopping off the heads of all the tallest poppies in his garden?
If It wasn't Lars and Sextus it was two other men in early Roman times. The Idea the thing: and the idea the Gremons are putting into effect in Poland to- day.
Every leader, or potential leader, of any kind is being liquidated. Landowners. employers,
Trade union leaders, "Intellectuals," minent
pro- body who might conceivably lead officials-every- peasants, fellows. either locally nationally is being "Ilquidated."
or
Some are shot. The total of executions is unknown. Fifteen thousand in the "annexed" areas
a fairly certain minimum. Some are put into concentration compa. Some are deported to districts where they have no in- fluence and are allowed to scratch a bare living there under the watchful eyes of the Gestapo- with the threat of the camp or the
wall ever before them.
The destiny of the Pole is to be
a slave to work for starvation weges, to obey, to be silent. Either that or the rubber truncheon, the torture chamber, the firing squad, If he lifts bis head It will be hit.
That is the plan. It is being carried out with all the ruthless brutality of the Nazis.
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But for all that it is not succeed- ing. The Poles are fighting back defiantly.
In the forests there are stil guerilla Aghters giving the German. troops much trouble. In the towns there
in sabotage and gallant challenging of the tyrants. There are underground nctivities of which it would be criminal to say
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fight goes on. The deter- mination to resist grows stronger Instead of weaker. The last mes-. sage which has come through to me says. "Confidence in the ultimate victory of the Allies has returned,"
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