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would wish to lose, and they also have their value as symbols of Imperial unity. But there are sides to the Court which, as everyone admits, minister to so-

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|Labour party would democratise the Throne and surround it with a less exclusive. entourage. is rather more difficult to guess. But it is still fair to say that a wider social background, is desir- able and that a considerable ad- vance towards greater simplicity would strengthen the ties unit- ing King and people, relieve the King of tedious and irksome ceremonial, and add dignity to

|: Hong Kong, Saturday, May 29, 1937. Kingship as well as allow His

SIMPLIFICATION

OF KINGSHIP

Majesty more freedom of per- sonal life. These things, how- ever, depend largely on the man, and Mr. Chamberlain probably represented the mass of opinion in suggesting that simplification The action of the Labour should come from the King's Party in forcing a division in the own inclination and natural dis- House of Commons on the Civil position. The discussion, if a List, which embodies the State's

guess might be hazarded, will grants to the Royal Family, was probably be welcomed by His perhaps dangerous as liable to a Majesty as giving him a lead in good deal of misinterpretation. a direction he will be only too The most important words of the pleased to follow. debate for this reason were those

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of Mr. Neville Chamberlain who M.P.s Salaries said: “I do not take the opposition motion as meaning any hostility

It is just as we

well that the to the idea of monarchy or of Labour Party were not money- suggesting that if we have a grubbing, as it were, in the Civil monarchy it should not be kept List debate, or it would have up with due regard. I take it looked strange to find them on that it is for the purpose of the same day applauding the placing on record a point of Government's decision to in- view." That this was the sole crease M.P.8 allowances by $200 purpose was made clear by Mr per annum. No-one can serious- Arthur Greenwood, who declared that the Labour Party was not Mr. Baldwin pointed out, if £400 the decision. As ly cavil with concerned with the question of was considered equitable in 1911, Republicanism or Monarchy or it follows per se that it is no the matter of economy, but was longer adequate under present appealing for a simpler form of conditions. The value of money monarchy. Or, if it be necessary has changed importantly since to reduce the Labour attitude to realistic terms, the Labour Party have increased.

that time, expenses in every way does not believe in perpetuation of barriers of splendour and dis-

play which, by their destruction Leprosy Perils of the Royal Family's privacy,

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lead to tragic events like the A somewhat startling Abdication.

ment is made in an English com- Warning that such a resolü-ment on the Yeung Kong leper tion was probable was given by massacre – reports, which would Major: Attlee, sitting as a mem-appear to demand. an answer ber of the committee which pre- from the Colony's Health De pared the Civil List, when he op- partment, Revelations made of posed the grants proposed in the presence of lepers in the terms which seemed to show Shamshuipo district, wandering that the Abdication cut deeper to freely about, were answered by the hearts of members of the the medical authorities, or, to Labour Party than it did, per-put it more accurately, by a haps, to other groups to whom Government doctor, who rather the ex-King's democracy caused pooh-poohed the idea of danger considerable offence. That apart, and asserted that infection was the resolution must be looked

ely unlikely in the early upon not as a challenge to the

of the dread complaint. monarchy, in any sense of the English

ment of the term, but as a recognition of the

the reverse. fact that though the institution

Guardian has come through the events of

known that last December unshaken, a sub-lep

tagious in its tle change has come over public early stages when tis hardly, if opinion towards it. It is no at all, detectable, and it is for longer outside the field of critics this reason that segregation has ism and discussion, and loyalty never been able to check the will not now be questioned when spread of the disease. It would suggestions are made as to how appear to be in the public inter- its purpose may be best fulfilled: jest that the truth in this remark- Mr. Greenwood's resolution found able conflict of viewpoint should support only on the Labour sidelbe made known quickly.

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