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THE ROYAL MEMOIRS

By H.R.H. THE DUKE

OF

WINDSOR

A Sheltered Boyhood

Good Morning!

According to contemporary yesterday, the s. Noreverett was tanned "while waiting to pro- ceed up the River to Shanghai."-

That'll farn you to keep to the Whangpoo.

For one thing, I never know moulded my outlook. I wan aur. the man who could match his that my father had refused to the spur of competition until

Cheer up! Failures an unlicensed 1|prised the other day to réalisé vitality, lits sheer joie de vivre, let me have a knife as being too hawkers can still enroll as special was Hearly 13 awd had gone to a that despite my having been under While I remember him, of dangerous, that be presented me constables and make a go of naval school.

Hansell's care and toition on and course, as the focal figure off with a great big one, brushing While its absence no doubt made off for 12 years. I could not re- inany solemn ceremonies, I like o my father's protest with To many people an alliance my childhood pleasanter, those member anything strikingly rebest to recall him na presiding "Nonsense, George. I have never All nows contributions to be

formative years were devoid of the markable that he ever sald,

over a well-laden Lable, addressed to Editor-in-Chief,

sudden creative bursts and rang- Advertisements and Business coming interests that are normally in- munications should be addressed spired by the competitive asocia to the Company CHINA MAIL tion of young boys.

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MARRIAGE

Elizabeth, daughter of Mr.

Wilson A. MES. Worthing, Sussex, to Leonaril Jackson, ellest non of Mr. acul Mrs. J. C. Jackson Quemilasrough. Englar. The Supreme Court, 399 p.m. 4 Apr 1949

of

My impression now is that he smoking a Bee Havana elger of was without strong views about Churchillian dimensions, OF anything, and consequently never making gallunt gestures to beau- fred my imagination.

tiful women. No doubt in light of the ro He and my grandmother always Jaid upon the British came to Sondringham for the au iron ring monarchy this was ail for the week of November 1, which was

best.

his birthday.

Festivity

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or heard of boy without a knife." looks an international triad society.

Just For Fun

But, Myrtle, a wailing wall did not

doesn't have stripes on it like My parenta

entirely that.... approve of these boisterous Inter- ludes at the Big House, particu-;

If both Imia and South Africa arly as we almost always got

become republics, certain types honie late for the hard and fast will be referring to us as the half- seven o'clock bedtime.

But

In

my

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London.

50 for another

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Mony a woman who can't add can certainly distract.

A gentleman from Shanghat who was caught with 15 tools of gokt on him plended that he was unfamiliar with the Customs of the Colony

Then, too, the fact that I was destined from birth for the Novy |straints tended to throw around my education.

To have put a Price to the Indeed, about the only condition

grandfather's crown empire. philosophy few minutes more enjoined on Hansall by my father direct, line of surcussion ender the

drunken "She escaped from a should be able to patutelage of a bold and opintomas d Several days in advance the a fun made no difference, and was that I

husband! to a turmoil of adven- WILSON-JACKSON ... Mary the entrance examination for tencher might well have led to Big House would awaken as though we knew a mild reproot

$1 Larca

In- Africa. Including and would be in store for us on our his slumbers the one conflict with which the glant from 1 was naval cadets by the time

British constitution! system can- of twelve and a half yea

bustle with activity.

retsun, the good time we had hat volvement with warring tribes and years old,

aelgar-smoking made not cope.

a meeting with up for it. Because Greek and Latin were

First, a small nrmy of servants

But ahead. Then on

as suddenly

it hat empanzee." My alster. Mary, was our con. would be sent ed for the Navy my (not required

Pardoni fun would stop. the appointed duy

house begun the the

In father saw no sense to my learn-tant compankin during the great-

er part of our leisure hours. would spring to life with a bon-

J dozen coaches and "fourgons” ating them. Nor did I even know

of lights; and those wonderful boks that

Although she was younger than fire blaze

the piled high with baggage, the king my

and their friends friend Winston Churchilt taught both of an she usually had a last erinch of gravel and the clatter and Queen himself to read--Gibbon, Macnu-word in the planning of games, al horses' hoofs would herald the would clutter down the drive to lay, and all the rent.

and bicycle excursions into the arrival of my grandfather with the station, bound for

Silence would descent over the Yet in justice to Hansell, Il countryside.

24 or 30 guests, every gentleman

and coverts; the PLAN FOR ASIA

must be said that he appreciated "She rode better than either of with his valet, every lady with woods

33 House would relapse into dark us; her long curls concealed her personal maid. General (Olympus) Mac- the shortcomings of his tutoring,

For a week Sandringham wouldness, to remain Arthur has so far remained Possibly at the risk of Inding his fearlessness which made us res-

bubble with festivity.

Hew weeks.

A local hotel has posted a sign he repeatedly warned my pret her. loftify silent on Mr. Harold job,

Then shortly before my grand- father that if ever

would Haudreds of pheasants I wa

While Mary dominated both of was to entch

warning residents to beware of am sure it will in no way be shot

the during Stassen's proposed plan for

day, and mother's birthday, Drumber 1,

poison Ink down for rats. Re- up with my contemporaries, with

would be the suma 2 13:1-

sidents the

are to be particularly American Emperor to

whon I would have to compete detract from the prestige of my after dinner there would be cards there take over the whole of Asia in the Navy

kingly brother when I say that net musle and political discus posing charge up the drive, with careful if you have children or entrance examina.

different party of guests. instead of the one little king- tionis, I should be sent to a good when we were young I could 1-sons. If Bertie and I were up

There would be another week school, where

ways manage him. That is, after with our homework (Mary's was of Japan. dom

Knowing preparatory

were allow of shooting

The Japanese patent office is something of the Supreme intellectual development would fall, the tablished prerogative always in hux)

ed after tea to run up the hill which they would all whirl back to return to normalcy. stimulated,

London

for again Commander, however,

another an hour in that Moreover, through long obser- to spend

Now we can expect an entire- My father would not hear wf fi,

we company.

round of public engagements and ly new Int of "USA mode" pro- cannot doubt that he would "Send this buy to a private sclmalvation and experimentation.

of wind-up

the autumn ducts. lot of knew exactly how to make cach Not that we weren't happy at the it he and he will only acquire a jump at the chance

The other angry,

visit to our grand-season. bad habitu," he decin red. be had the

home, but were stire that

bad

A passport to Mary was superior to both of Navy will teach him all that he

us. Backed by her

formidable different world, and excitement my grandparents would be back welded she needs to know."

a would a me as the gaily lighted one more for the great family Axed "madeinoiselle," My father had another

party of the year. our aftoirs. house rose up in the dusk. over tyranny den about my education. It was

If she couldn't get her own way. Inside, the huge hall known that I should not think that as a

Alled Prince I was in any way better the threat, I'll tell Mama," was as "The Saloon" would be

other enough to bring the two of us with different from

around. than, people.

To be sure, by "other people" ho meant that children of the Even a man living in the well-burn. His worst fear WOR sub-stratosphere, however, is that, in an atmosphere dominated not blind to the difficulties by governesses, tutors, and nurses

one

right of way. Remembering how the voters threw him his out when he allowed name to be mentioned for the Presidential candidature. the general is going to take no more chances of losing

face.

or

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of older brothers.

sweet

Country Boy

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Mine, them,

a sheltered boyhood: a country rather than a city upbringing.

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after

animals."

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A few days before Christmas

Franco has red three British couruise

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attractive handsome.

Yuletide

Christmas at Sandringham was people and humming with con versation; and on one side Gott-Dicitens in a Cartier setting.

Since a serious purpose was in- lieb's famous orchestra, imported

into oli injected would

pleasures. be playing Hanseli would begin by explain- from London. soft music and Strauss waltzes to

our

Maybe they persisted in play- Ing bowls whon his navy was parading.

•

"Fog will not affect your lungs, mouth keep your provided you shut."

Wo won't tell a soul.

And since the greater part or/soothe the tired sportsmen and ing to us the religious meaning to be a Conservative, stoutly re- of co-ordinating the Far East. we would turn out to be prigs and the first 12 years of my life was pel the shock of a wad bridge us from Dicken's well knowndenturas under the Health Scheme.

notwithstanding the attrac-nobs; hence he liked to keep us

histicated air of the Court.

spent

band.

at Sandringham, a fußer

to us

An English gentleman, believed

tion of American dollars and in the country away from the nop-description of that large properlying glimpse of the world outside / Summon us around the piano to Bevan get his teeth into him.

war supplies. The claims of admirers that MacArthur

make smile

The

Year 1906

mild

ex-

events leading up to the overthrow of Arthur J. Balfour's

in

our

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household.

Here I caught my arst lantulis- may well serve as a background the somewhat parrow circle of for this story.

cour- tre Royal Family and its Moreover, it was there, much tiers.

In

virtually destroyed,

dalry

way

of

nol

permit

flors of the

heart.

on

entertainment and our occasional

und the

old school

would

from

of opposing partea a

man to

whi

rival.

rever

on

the tenants

loud beating of

gongs

SD

fused to accept a free act of

He said he wasn't going to let

#

all the

Sports

a

we

my

of the Nativity, and perhaps read Christmas story, and Marna would

learn Christmas carols.

And to remind us of the duties Inherent in privilege my parents yells of delight and the din of Under the principle of British has "democratised" Japan politics that the monarch should more than in busy London, that Our own crowded cottage dui would take us on Christmas Eve incchanical toys.

to the coach house to watch the Then, making our way down nry sister, and I genuine democrats reign but not govern, we as a my brothers.

distribution of meat to the em- the hill, we would meet the vil- wryly. Hirohito is family were condemned, in the were most completely under the such scale:

choir, carrying lanterns, of our grand-guests were weighted in favour ployees and tenants of the estate. lage

This an intensely political enchantment

was

on extroardinary heading for the Big House to sing still in his palace, mouthing midst of

of clerics nol be

or my father's Sea- environment, to

scene! about platitudes

merely parents. equality

the white table cloths Christmas carols for the King. There were older and loveller faring friends. neutral, but, if possible, apolitical,

huge, bloody joints of beef, tag- until the time comes again

showplaces

England Hansel abided by this rule and Sandringham, but for ny grand other hand, the company

than At grandfather's house, en the ged with the name

of the re

re* for him to rally the sons of in

I sup. the course of his

Life at Sandringham, father it summed up his idea of include such personages as Count cipients: and the King and Queens

to úg close heaven to their glorious des- cursions into current affairs never the good life of his

near the door to exchange innate desires as the conventions a boy's sitting in Albert Mensdorft time, and tiny; the mammoth combines once hinted to his royal charges

amb precings with another sense it

education of British Torles might be

exemplified that the Br are maintaining. in paint of

uniquely English

life que the Saveral, two

they fled past, the men touching governing the wiser nobler

British Prince would allow. and more mtriotic centred around the great estates Viennu and Lisbon; Lord Salle their caps, the women making a fact, their stranglehold over than the Liberals,

Wr

were all taught to ride at commerce and industry; the

both quick bob. undoubtedly Hansell's restraint was all the an elegant,

pater-bury and Lord Rosebery,

Back at the Big House after early age, and as soon

could jump #1 fence without masses are still held in the more remarkable because in the nalistic and self-contained exis-Prime Ministers grip of transitional feudal- general election of 1906 the struc- [tence, which a quarter of a centies, the just the only

hunting with the West Norfolk capitalism, working long ture of British politics was torturs of progressive taxation has the Derhy from No. 10. Down would herald Santa Claus's ar- fulling off we were sent out fox-

Hounds. ing street: Sir Ernest Cassel and

We would follow him in pro- Lord Farquhar, financiers hours for a pittance, and apart by the Liberal landallde,

who The Squire

same Finch, “The their slave-made products

There Edward VII, relaxed and made and handled immense forcession into the ballroom.

great deors would swing back, valet, saw to it that we learned Lord revealing and Lord Ripon tunes:

to fish for roach with worms Tory Government by the Liberals became the country squire. And Beresford as quick and accurate woods, tall enough to touch the are now being unloaded on

fir tree, from the impaled on a bent pin. world markets.

under Sir Henry Campbell-

the pride he took in his pro- with an epigram as with a gun-

The lake, close by the cottage, Bannerman had produced turmoil perty was in evidence when on fall

grandfather's ceiling, ablaze with candles and men after iny

tranquil

in my mother's view, decorations, and was for us festooned with alternoons Sunday

he would hea

aler

fertile scene view some of himself conduct his house party In my father's

surrounded by snowy tables the leading Liberals, David Lloyd on a tour of

sanguinary These personages would make

encounters the kennels, the

Mary,

Bertie A great show over us, which was heaped with presents, George and even Winston Chur-

We children

and I fought gardens, hothouses, and Hattering and exciting, and some wait to the last, chill, were dangerous, almost su stables, the long inspection cul- times one of them, with a mock an agonising suspense. When at production, even partially, in any

pirates in flat-bottomed boats. Imposed World Copyright reserved. Re. versive characters,

Excited by all the talk. Bertie minting at the stud fast. Wath air of conspiraty, Wezeigt einst Grandpapa signalled to us, language, strictly prohibited.

parade of the famous stallions upon us Alexandra, basket in hand, dis- contribution to our meagre pocket paper and to resound with our (To Be Continued Tomorrow) and the mares, and with Queen half sovereign-a

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These promenades were often And far from being expected) an ordeal for his guests, many of to sit rigidly on a chair, in self- whom had no great the Turf or animal husbandry,

Interest conscious attitudes of unim-

portance, as

the rule they were neces-home, we were encouraged to let sarily conducted at a slow pace loose our exuberant

spirits, to ond entailed much standing romp with the guests, and to around in the winter cold, they pedal our toy motors were sure Invitations to grippe.

ed; honking 1 over the Indeed. It was strongly aus-house. severe attacks pected that

There is no question but that phucumonia which subsequently my grandparents spolled us. And whisked off several distinguished if King Edward favoured mo it contracted while was perhaps because he discern- guests they had to listen to Grand સ, even at my tender age, the issue takes Mr. Stassen to In the excitement of the race, papa's description of how Per-making of a temperament akin to task, declaring that $1,000,- despite liansol's studied nea simmon won the Derby

his own. In the misty gallery of child- for Dulling myself

Perhaps, remembering also lis doubt hood memories the portrait of own repressed boyhood, South China without having the slightest effect except to because he led from the start my grandfather seems bathed in decided that a grandfather's role was to champion a small boy's WAR in line the pockets of the graft-test, for lack of another perpetual sunlight.

his sixties, in the natural interests. candidate championed Balfour.

twilight of his life, when ers. This writer suggests The Liberals

his On my eighth birthday he gave posscssion; turning the clock back by whelming victory, and with the personality, began to mean some me my most prized

bicycle. It was in any into removal of the figures from the thing to me. And I can say in Europeans marching centres such as Shanghai and nursery door politics vanished alt fruth that I have yet to find characteristic. of him, on learning

from our field of Interest, I establishing international set- ceased to be a little Liberal, and tlements again, claiming that Bertie a little Tory.

and I bombarded Hansell with

There is, in fact, a justi- fiable element of doubt as to the success of the MacArthur regime in Japan. There he I had a small, compact nation of people used to brutal dis- cipline. What could he do with the rest of Asia, which questions; and he, obliged to sup- presumably his advisers ply adequate

ate explanation to an ob- must have told him is veryvious controversy, if only to sus different?

tain our curiosity about current Mr. Stassen was very in-vents, finally hit upon a fascinat

ing device for giving us some idea sistent on Saturday

that

of what the debate was all about, America must not give up

A Race China. His speech must have sounded inspiring In the Boston auditorium, but like other politicians and public speakers, he gave no clear indication of what ac- tion should be taken.

A correspondent in today's

At his suggestion, Bertle and I cut out silhouettes of the two rival leaders, Balfour and Campbell Bannerman, from newspaper car toons; according to how they fared in the voting in the different con- stituencies we moved the figures pleture of a ladder on the

schoolroom door,

000,000 could be poured into Campbell-Bankerroan-no

I found

An over-

influences of the

the Chinese would actually. Reaching across the years for welcome such a move, which traces would 'Institule' peace and stability.

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And since

were

that DO YOU

KNOW

pamby have we become that Perhaps there are many of hot even a downright request us, however basically anti-is made to the Chinese au- Imperialist, who would like thorities. They must

run

to see this happen, not only their affairs in their own way in China but throughout the | (until, of course, the Com- East. To come nearer home, munists substitute theirs.) if the British had a strong The clock cannot be turn- foothold in Canton, can any-ed back, as far as the de- one doubt that an expedi-mócracies are concerned. tionary force, with the co-Nowadays we leave it to the oporation of the local inhabit Reds to march in and take ants, would wipe out the over countries. Our futility nests of pirates, now threat- may be maddening, but isn't ening Hong Kong shipping? it a very, very comforting At the moment we are thought to know our hands powerless, and so namby-lare clean?

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