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PRIVATE SECRETARY TO THE THRONE

FROM STOCKMAR DOWN

TO STAMFORDHAM “MOST IMPORTANT OFFICE" (By J. B. Firth.)

Fifteen thousand pounds is re quired; £3000 has been obtained. | |If 'the £15,000 is' achieved it is hoped that the Government will come to the aid of the historians. Sir

The Government will be invited acted

Ileation of the work.

London. Jefficiency by Sir Arthur Bigge, who THEN Queen Victoris came till his death served his present"

to the Throne she asked Majesty, in the same capacity.

had Herbert Taylor, who

But at the beginning of the Secretary as

the Queen's reign the one indispensable

to

to take responsibility for: the pub- King, what she should do persen in Court circles had been with respect to a Private Secretary. Baron Stockmar, who had first come The promoters of the history be-"Is your Majesty afraid of the to England in the suite of Prince lleve that the Government will make work?" he asked, "No!" was the Leopold, the husband-of-the ill-fated a profit.

reply, "Then don't have a Private Princess Charlotte. When Leopold ascended the throne of Belgium, The Government are open to be Secretary!" said Sir Herbert. convinced.

Those who recall the well-known Stockmar plled all his skill to ad- An effort is being made to per-names of General Grey, Sir Henry vance the prospects of Prince Al- suade certain American Universi-Ponsonby, and Sir Arthur Bigge bert of Coburg for the great matri- ties to lend a hand by undertaking (Lord Stamfordham) may conclude monial prize the hand of the the compilation of certain periods, that the advice was not taken. But future Queen of England.

American research students are for some years, while Lord Mel- When the project succeeded,

a considerable import to Britain. bourne was in close attendance and Stockmar took root at the English

He was too discreet to ba. the Indispensable Stockmar was Court, Your Daily Smile!

always close at hand with good obtrusive, but English Ministers - advice, no official Private Secretary were always conscious of the Baron standing in the shadow of the A base runner who tries to steal was appointed. with the bases full has turned up ini Baron Stockmar is made the Throne and often gave rein to their the American League. Yet they keep subject of a full-length portrait in resentment. For example, when saying that rugged individualism Set of 4.

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in Mr. Paul Emden's new book, "Be-Stockmar warned the Queen that it hind The Throne," which is publish-was indiscreet to correspond-al- Jed to-day by Messrs. Hodder & most to intrigue-as she did with cus-Stoughton (158): The author Melbourne behind the back of Sir you submits to a Stracheyish analysis Robert Peel, Melbourne was furious. "God eternally damn it," he the-friendly in the main but often

wrote, "Flesh and blood cannot quizzical-the careers of Queen Vic-

stand this. I cannot be expected toria's private secretaries, from! The New Member

Stockmar to Stamfordham. He to give up my position in the light; but once the choice is made. Committee: "We wish to make you also gives briefer notices of the

country; neither, do I think that there must be no amber. In the treasurer of our club,"

it is in the Queen's interest that days when Clemenceau Wag Victim: Thanks for the honour. How private secretaries of certain Prime a dissertation-by Ministers, and much is there in the treasury?”

I should." earning the soubriquet of "The Committee: "At present there is a no means so well done-on "The

Yet Stockmar, the Coburger was Tiger" one would buy his paper a deficit but we thought you might Royal Enclosure." That rather right and Melbourne,, the English if one wanted to see the utmost be willing to make it up.”

malicious label is attached to the peer, was wrong. The Amber Light. that could be said against the

coterie formed by the close personal Till he finally quitted England for Government. There was no harm

Modern Politician

Coburg In 1857, to compile '

⚫ his The Traffic Police have at any done, because one could also buy "Yes; he flew over our house this

"Have you seen the candidate yet?" friends of King Edward VII,

An Exiential Office

"Memoire," Stockmar enjoyed the rate provided many hundreds of one of the Government papers to morning and dropped down a lot of citizens to whom presumably the see the other side; or get the literature and threw A kiss to the Secretary is essential to a proper Prince Albert. In any difficulty he

The China Mail

Hong Kong, Thursday, Aug. 23, 1934

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maxim that "time is money" Royalist view by reading a cau-baby." could not be very accurately ap-serie by M. Henri de 'Rochefort, ..... plied with a harmless and in-The essence of the system was Facts You Did Not Know expensive amusement. The cor- that there must be no coercion, nerd of the pavements which no suppression of views or news.

Portable apparatus for: reproduction command a view of the Electro-The public was-left in the post-of sound pictures has been developed maton have been haunted by tion of an English Judge who has in Geritany active spectators with watch in heard counsel for and against the hand timing the changes from accused. The advocate had had Operated by a standard dry battery, green to amber and amber to his chance; it. was not his fault an electric hom for bicycles has been

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public has been established between [France and Algeria,

of the merits of the device and frequently something of an am- Radiotelephone service open to the to write to the papers giving the ber complexion. public the benefit of their obser- The English system during the vations. A less active type sim-same years was different. It

A new screw is equipped with a ply stands immobile, probably was based on the principle that metal cutting tip that forms threads waiting to see a collision, or per- there should be no suppression as it is screwed into metal. haps just waiting. The pleasure or doctoring of the news, How- of mere spectation for its own ever partisan might be the com sake is both ancient and univer-ment in the editorial columns. sal.

In a famous article by a witty

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

The office of the King's Private absolute confidence of the Queen and oracle to which exercise of the Sovereign's constitu- was the

But hé was tional duties. Fox while the Sover the red eign is bound to act on the advice an inveterate wirepuller in the German and the Coburg interest. of Ministers,

this does not preclude him from and while British-statesmen re- seeking from all quarters the full-cognised his great merits, they est and most accurate informa heartily disliked the foreigner's

mole-like activities. tion regarding matters upon

Stockmar's Influence which the responsible Ministers

Whether but for Stockmar the may from time to time tender advice, and upon which it is the Prince Consort might have become Sovereign should form an opinion more English is an open question; to be discussed with the Minis- what is certain is that his influence ters if it should, differ from the in shaping the education of the Prince of Wales was thoroughly tendered advice."

bad.:

Stockmar, happily, and no succes--

It is most desirable, therefore, that the King's Private Secretary should be the right man in the right or in this particular role of family adviser. Queen Victoria had be place. Lord Rosebery, indeed, once

said that the office was. "the most come her own oracle by 1861, and What interests us at the mo-editor of one of the great dailies,

One case of diphtheria was re-important in public service." It was fully mistress of herself. Her ment, however, is the public re- "The Septeman written after a ported in the Colony during the has certainly been held by a succes-complete self-surance developed action to the innovation; parti-general election the writer com-24 hours ended August, 21. cularly as reflected in Tetters to plained that his editorial page

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sion of devsted: and high-minded with the years, in spite of her later men who have given themselves readiness to lean on Disraell, who the editor" many of which are seemed to have had no effect;r. O. C. Dalziel, of No. 10 Sur whole heartedly to the service of was courtier enough to persuade her that his 'counsel. was no more than discreetly suppressed. It is only his readers had preferred the folk Road, was fined $15. by Mr. the Crown, and have won the most the expression of her own unspoken in Hong Kong that the three arguments they found, in the E. I. Wynne Jones at the Kowloon unstinted praise from the greatest thoughts, light system is so new as to ap- printed reports, of speeches, on Magistracy this morning for al-Prime Ministers. pear to be revolutionary. It is other pages. To-day nobody lowing his dog to wander in Em- "Such a combination of tact and in use in many other places, and would read, verbatim reports of bankment Road, at 3:10 pm on temper with loyalty, Intelligence and has of course, become a matter speeches by ordinary and undis July 29, without a muzzle.

of habit to drivers who have tinguished politicians; and it is

truth I cannot expect to see again," wrote Mr. Gladstone, to Sir Henry

grown accustomed to it, as, dri- inevitable that the "descriptive Lau Yuen, a 38-year-old earth. Ponsonby, after his painful fare- vers here, will soon, do. The report or the short summary coolie, was sentenced to threr well audience with the Queen at novelty will soon cease to be an should be more or less suspect monthe hard labour by Mr. E I. Windsor. Disarell's admiration objection. But it is a parable of and as. the..editor: is aware that

comments

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PRINCE GEORGE TO MARRY

Grecian Princess Rumours

"I can only say," he wrote, "that I could not wish my case better stated, to the Queen than the Private Secretary does it Perhaps I am gainer by his to be a guest at the palace hero, Whiggishness, as it makes him more scrupulously on his guard

luela

Bled, Yugoslavia, Aug. 18. The object of King : Alexander Inviting Prince George of England .

it is learned authoritatively, is the

the British Prince and Princess

our modern mentality that so his red and green items are more Wynne Jones at the Kowloon Ma- was equally genenrous spp st strong an objection should be or less abbreviated he has to gistracy this morning for stealing shown to the amber light on the dim his brilliancy to a more or radiator cap from private car argument that three lights are less amber shade. It is still No. 968 belonging to Mr. H. J more complicated than two; and true, however, that his ideal is to Howard, of No. 111 Waterloo that at a busy point where safe give his readers the means of Road, which was parked in Essex ty is the first consideration a de Judging for themselves by print Cresent on July 18. lay of ten seconds may ́ ̈beling all the news he can get, and The R M S. Empress of Eus to be always absolutely fair and Promotion, of a marriage between caused. The thought that it is summarising the better to be delayed ten seconds made by qualified critics. In ala arrived at Yokohama at 5 p.m. in Fedder Street than six months other words he aims at acting as yesterday and left at 8 am. to-day That is a priceless, testimonial. Marina, the third daughter of In the Government Civil Hospital an amber light.

for Hong Kong. She is due here Sometimes the faithful Sir Henry Prince Nicholas and Princess Olga

of Greece. does not occur, And once the It is very necessary to em leave for Manila the same day at the effort of "turning the Queen's next Thursday at 7 am and will was driven almost to despair with

Princess. Marina, is 27 years old.' objection has suggested itself, phasise this in Hong Kong: 5pm.

letters into business-like communi- and is considered beautiful, and a letter has been begun, Though we are a small com-

cations, though Sir Arthur Help there is a resistless current of munity, we contain sections that

COMMITTAL CASE impulse to denounce Govern are of a green or red point of For receiving a silver cigarette who was Clerk to the Privy Cour

REMANDED. ment and Police and even the view on almost all the questions case, which had been stolen from and the Queen's literary adviser, Press with a vigour that rather that are actively agitated in the Mrs J. E. Clarke, of No. 23 Taipo had discreetly tried years before to implies that an electromaton is world to-day. The conflict of in Road, on July 22, Laf Po Hing, improve her epistolary style His

Banishee's Nine new crime. The modern critic stinct and opinion here, and the 20-year-old unemployed, was sen Royal Mistress. Indeed, would

Convictions. abhors the amber light. It is divergence of the sources of intenced to three months hard la-humorously complain that he scold- irksome to be warned to be ready formation, make it impossible bour by Mr. F. 1. Wynne Jones ated her sadly for

to atop rather than to push on to that all the news published shot the Kowloon Magistracy: this and the underscoring

the laat possible yard; it is even be welcome to any one section. more irksome to be warned to be Our readers have every right to ready to go on and not to jump demand that the news received at once Into the highest possible shall be impartially published. gear...

and the source of It

One of the most useful fune but not to demand tions of a well-conducted Press Is shall be suppressed

to tum în amber light on to the lumplessant, de fer that burning questions of the and honest comment

And it is

trariety

orning.

ise, emphasis

The committal case against Chan place words. But, at

here Shing, who was, charg was never ay doubt as to what the turni ntences of two months hard Royal pleasure was.

Impor on Lam: Chan

General: Grey and husband, General Grey, it may,

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