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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 0, 1949.

Good

THE ROYAL MEMOIRS Morning!

By

H.R.H.

THE

Road To

DUKE

OF

The

WINDSOR

Throne

With my grandfather's death I coming "By the Grace of God, of -for the dirk and white patch of g sacereded to a number of titles, of Great Britals, Ireland, and of the midshipmzan.

Ann and Brian, at the

Kattan, Kerbau, Singapore, on the 39th March 1949, a yon, Brian Jonathan,

iny progress

in

"The trees are just coming out and the place looks lovaly.

carry

and

How can the raina be coming when we haven't had our annual "Save Water" campaign yet?

From behind the bamboo cur tala comes the rattling of a "March On" gamo in progress,

Franin local company's report It would seem there is money for new rope available in Hong Kong as well as the usual money for old rope.

A

On the road to Mandalay

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There was plenty hell to pay. Now It's not a whole lot brighter In "China erorat the bay...."

A Singapore lawmaker has pro- poned

"to rollove the housing shortage by the provision of new houses.

Now, why couldn't one of our

which one, Duke of Cornwall British Dominions Beyond the No cadet yearned for this proof Rode before breakfast immediately became my new Sean, King Defender of the of muccess more than 1.

with Major Wigram, Bertie, rame, the one to which iny cor- Faith, Emperor of India,”

Now, without warning, camo a and Harry. ..I helped Mary respondence was addressed and Butore

I started back to Dart-letter from my father explaining By a patent kite.. MIMID All news contributions to betu which 1

answered on parade mouth, my father told me that that sines I would naturally be told me that Papa had arrang- and der

since the time had in the classroom.

come for me obliged to play prominent role od that Lord Revelstoke should classmates However, my

con- to learn something about politics, in his Coronation In June, I

coronel at the tinued to call mo Prince Edward, he had arranged for the study of would have to forgo the training

Coronation. Whereas my other titles civics to be aubstituted for some of cruise in North American watera

Windsor is a lovely place, with carried neither income nor duties, my.c engineering classen,

pon which my hopes were set. one of the most beautiful views of Cornwall my becoming Duke of

My old tutor, Henry Poter

returned conferred immediate practical ad-Hansell, who bact stayed on with that I was with a heavy heart all England, looking out over the Thamen to the Naval woods and fields of tho vantages.

the family to teach my younger College to say goodbye to

the Valley. Created six centuries ago for brothers,

Ilarry, George, and officers

and carlets of my term, with Mary

I bicycled happily and,

incidentally, Black Prince, the Duchy in John, felt that

for the Arst in the grounds; I studied the personal estate of the King's this new field would be further time, to take the leading part in read under the trees with my local foglalators have thought of

of which it I were to read more eldest son, the income

serious publie function.

Butora; and in sight of those that! the tabloid than serves the purpose of making him newspapers

A silver oar, symbol of ancient ancient grey walls, quite without which 1, in comman with the rites of the water of Dartmouth, realising it, i arrived of the end Anancially independent.

its boldings included securities, other cadets, devoured from cover had long been deposited with the of my boyhood.

of Cornwall; and it was Duchy valiable London properties, and to enver,

Accordingly, he consulted one Mr. Peacock's sentimental fought Chandn

Weat of acres in the

of the Dartmouth masters, a Mr. that I Khuld

In June give it back to the Country

I was caught up in The greater

lown in a the not Cookson, part of inconsiderable revenue

TV-

described in Deciding that the Times-organ 1 subsequently ceremony which the sequence of splendour leading Coronation and, fnther's nay to nay cons

the of Invested ki

British

diary of March 20, 1911, my last shortly Conservatism—was property,

lenner afterwards, residue passing to the Duke of probably too stuffy for my taste,day at the Naval College:

occasion of my investiture A "it was Cornwall for the maintenance of they worked out a

daily reading

very and saying

Prince of Wales, his household and establishment.

plan, of which 1, in all inngeuner,

farewell At 6.00 I left Mr. Here was the Arst stendy in hastened to appraise my father: the bathing stage in a steam-

some that I had ever received

"Dear Papa

bont with the captain, Bertle. for except

the weekly is of pocket money doled out at naval teollege.

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POWER POLITICS

the

whs

Sull, 1 do not reenit that this

Wealth new

Kave ring 10 nay particular sextisaction AL int

Those who doubted that the Chinese Communists would time.

War

T

acupt totalitarian Marxist The discovery that little could tacties must have had their be done without money

(served for a later stage of my option shaken yesterday advention, the news of the ultimatum to

the Nanking government de- King's elites: manding its immediate sur render.

Contrary to popular belief, the

does моп

not by right become Prince of Wales.

the King should decide that his first son was unfit to bear the

he title. could withhold it.

And in point of fact, my father, a suckler for form, did not create

died.

On my 16th birthday 1 was summoned to Windsor Castle from Dartmouth, and in a con- but Д minute, versation lasting

assume

As peace talks were in pro- gress, the Communist radio also let loose another bitter attack on the Nationalist me Prince of Wales until some leaders, claiming that they six weeks after my grandfather were standing closer to "the Chiang Kai-shek war criminal bloc and their master, Ameri- can imperialism."

This bludgeoning war of my father informed me that ho

drenied

me worthy to nerves has become only too the title of Prince of Wales, familiar a weapon of modern

day Next

the Archbishop of dictatorships, and the Stalin-Canterbury arrived, and, with the "Fight the Good ist uses it with even greater choir singing

Fight,"

confirmed in the the Hitlerite. than Kusto

private chapel with my parents. The petitioners arrive, cap

my grandmother, and other rela in hand, to speak to the great res as congregation. dictator, only to find there My life now stretched like a is no calm discussion of straight road before me,

Nothing, save death itself, was terms but a brutal atmos- phere of noisy intimidation, ikely to prevent my one day be coupled with terms so harsh

honourable person.

was

motor much

come bricklayers or mechanics, where so money can be made without paying tax at all.

AS PRINCE OF WALES I had to appear more and more in public, On this occasion I accompanied my mother la her landau.

I

inke In the Morning Post and the Westminister Gazette, as both Mr. Cook- ron and Mr. Hansell came to the conclusion that those were the best twô for me to take in. By this

means, have both Conservativo and a Liberal paper to rend It is over 10 much more Interesting for me to follow the political proceedings no' that I have been taught some- thing of

the country's Con- stitution.....

! Changed

But,

for a

son

been

been

Prince, oven the

next

"I wan

ая

Hansell, Mr. Peacock, and Home officers and masters for the Dartmouth Pontoon, to present a silver oar. On arriv. ing I shook hands with the mayor and others, inspected the guard and proceeded carriage to the subscription TOOMS, There I said a few words to the mayor and gave the

This was my first ar. function and I think 11 went off very well.

Menn-

My family had moved while into Buckingham Palace and

them there.

The Garter

the

Henceforth the demands of my inheritance would presa upun nie ever more fiercely.

my The Garter ceremony was Introduction to the orderu of chivalry, and at 10 I took the business in my stride:

ал

June 10, 1911.

Mother

".... Father and

went into the Garter Room, I waited In the Rabens Raam My Uncle Arthur (Duke of Connaught) and Cousin "Arthur came for ste. Between them I wa

walked up three the

the great room, bowing

times! Then Papa put

Garter, Riband, and Star on

me, and I went around the

段]想。

table

bandy Klinking

with

rach knight in turn, I kissed both both banda....

Papa and Mamu'a

A

Manila writer says

that scandals in the Philippines are popping up like mushroom, after

heavy rain of dollars,

An Olymple woman sholputter and discus thrower has become a concert planist. The audience had better applaud her, or else.....

In any case, Myrtle, there never was nny suggestion that the Politburo was a Polite Bureau.

Couldn't happen here.

New York authorities decided that their road signs were too varied and wordy, such as "Drive carefully-narrow bridge," "Cau- tion-roadway narrows," so oMeinl devised a single sign to replace

the others, It read: Squeeze abend.

ДП

Today's trying times are to morrow's good old clays.

"If he had a fault,"

япуз д wrltor, "it was the unnecessary Estrength of his handshake," Sounda

more like a více to me,

"Married life," Jones com- mented to a friend. "Isn't so bad,

"Oh," came the reply, "it's all

get to bo right after you trusty."

My father's Coronation took place д fortnight later-surely is it?" one of the most splendid spectacles British history, with 60,000 troops in full-dress untform lining the route.

in

1

Buckingham Palace.

June 22, 1911. "Papa's and Mama's Cor- cnation Day. Papa rated me midshipman. I breakfasted Mama and carly and saw M by

Papa at 0.00 and then dresse in my Garter clothes and roben and left in a stale carriage et 10.00

the with Mary and brothers. We arrived at the Abbey at 10.30 and walked up the nave and choir to my weat

peers. in front of the

"All the relatives and people were most civil, and bowed Then to me as they passed.

Mama and Papa came in and the ceremony cammenced.

"There was the Recognition, The Anointing, and the crown- ing of

Papa, and

and then put on my coronet with the peers. Then I had to go and do hom- Papa and his throne age to and I was very nervous,

"Then Mamn was crowned, into We got rtago and had a long drivo back. My coronet felt

very heavy, and we had to bow to the people as

went along....

the Next morning there was

t-breakfast summons re- usual post-brea

Finch, my valet.

แรม

My futher

in the gardens behind the Palace and warned me that the happy obscurity of the naval cadet was You must begin to give

position," to your

over. thought Bald.

he

My father was not an eloquent Just man and he never defined what he expected

But of me. before the summer Was out understood

ת

Are

to

After the cramped rooms told by somebody that Bertie was which I was accustomed. Bucking- In the habit of treating him with ham Palace seemed onormous and famlilarity

I shall tell him this, pervaded by curlous, musty as he should not mix with

terms odour which

sails other than his own."

term

ת

our

WE

My Oath

ear-

Kneeling at my father's feet. swore:

"Benjamin Smith decided his bed would be a safe place to re- lax one afternoon, but awakened with u start when a bedspring snapped, pierced the mattress and alnobed Mr. Smith in the middle of his nap."

An inch more to the left and he'd have been, a gʊner.

mony was its revival by the Welsh Liberal leader, David Lloyd few years only George, whe before had shocked

my family with his famous Limehouse speech which attacked inherited privilege.

With an

to oye

what would please his sentimental consiituents. LG" proposed that the ceremony be transformed into a spectacular Welsh pageant,

My

father

agreed.

Mr. Lloyd George became my coach in the Welsh language, and

I still have, written

in his own

hand, some of the Welsh sentences The

Ono

те

to speak at that

"Mor o gan

moaning

4

3W

#AI

me

Cymru

! Byd," Wales in a sea of song."

Mr. Lloyd George made repeat these over and over again, saying with twinkle: All Welshmen will love you for that." Out of these meetings, despite our differences in years-and, I might add, in politics-grew a friendship that instąd until his

death.

as to be unacceptable to any uphill road to climb, says the most cautious foray into contened ther took me for a walk

courage. There is still a lóng

It is believed in Shanghai Chancellor, and neither the porary politics was fraught with that the talks are facing com- all-powerful trade unionist or hazard, as shown by my plete breakdown as a result the vanishing middle class letter to my father:-

Dear Papa. whose vote is wanted can be of a series of entirely new

"I have changed the papers conditions set by the Red pandered to in any material

as you wished and Mr. Cook- leaders. They insist on ro-way. The crushing purchase

quite agreed, and said tribution for the Nanking tax remains without altera-

tant he thought the Time- put everything clearer and students and soldiers clash, tion, with levies up to 125 per

more to the point. So now I the handing over of Shanghai cent on what the Socialists

take in

In the Times....: and Nanking, and an outright regard as luxury items.

parded swiftly My Lant term declaration by the National- Smokers of all classes will too swiftly.

May April and

lovely Berlie had ists against the Atlantic Pact, have not a penny of relief, and

My brother

mean- months in England but for me in thus broaking ties with the their matches will cost more. while

transferred

from

1911 they wore kind of mis. The fantastic level of income West.

Osborne and in my diary 1 place! hour. alluded solemnly 10 his lack of The We are not suggesting that tax will remain, proving to respect toward a senior-nothing first two weeks of April

In Buckingham Palace, My the Nanking government is the professional and commer more, probably, than come impul room was on the third floor, over-

I. Edward. Prince of upright or capable or deserv-cial classes that they would sive, lonely gesture that breached looking The Mall.

Wales, do become your lege ing of much support, but it have been wiser to have be-Dartmouth's stern code:

mon of life and limb, and did make the first move tq.

af earthly worship; and

But that was not all. falth and truth I will bear wards peace-recognising the

The

coromony I had to ge inevitable. It seems certain

unto you, to live and dic, against all manner of folks..

through with, the speech I had that they are being refused

to make, and the Welsh I had to So help me God," The duty on spirits is un- negotiation. The Communists

Half-way through the

I was never happy there.

When my father kissed my ordeal for anyone.

speak, were, I thought, sufficient would be glad to accept com- touched, but a small sap is of both he and I fuil victim for, the

tumultuous and friendly cheeks his emotion was great as plete surrender, but not ex-fered in the way of 2/- off condo in our lives to a severe congestion of York Cottage, dis where the

epidemic or meanies which put appeared within its stately rooms These affairs reached a climax production, even partially, in any

of the cadets in the and endices corridors and passage- for me a month later with my language, strictly prohibited. pecting this, they intend to a bottle of light table wine.wo-thirds use a refusal to put the blame and a penny off a pint of beer hospital.

ways. Hanzell came down from Lon- It was something of a for continuance. of the war on both beverages which have their opponents. The peace shown an alarming falling off don tnd took us away to Cornwall merely to reach my author's room, aspect of

We used to say that we met cach delegation is faced with two in trade recently, customers equally

other only by appointment, alter-just not having the necessary undesirable

Then, as was the custom in the natives.

purchase price. The further report that the

Strong protesis can be ex-we were joined by the Secretary, we all moved to Windsor. Reds have threatened to drive pected from organised trade Walter Peacock, who, hoping to of the Duchy of Cornwall, MT. across the Yangtse on April unionism regarding the slight stimulate my interest in business period of sadness. My Dartmouth 12 may therefore be taken raising of the prices of meat, affairs, condusted me in my ducal form-mates had sailed off in the seriously. It looks as if the cheese, butter and margarine. espacity around some of my pre-cruiser Cornwall, and fragments

British prices and world parties.

of their marvellous voyage came war is coming to the South---

It was while I was in Cornwall back to all the remembered dis- and after the river there is prices of such essential. com that my first serious ambition was

me in their letters. Yot no barrier before reaching the commodities being given

modities have no similarity. blasted.

appointment I find today that my Canton

The goal of my cadet life had diary during that period was a wholly uneconomic cheap-been the final training cruise and actually fall of sunny, and intimate ness by virtue of subsidies graduation that would qualify me details:

BRITAIN'S BUDGET

obtained by taxation from the despised persons carning.

to convalesce,

Goodbye

In that lovely part of England

KNOW.

YOUR

HONG KONG?

On may weep for the Bri- tain that has gone, or one may more than the union wage. DO YOU rejoice in the onward march There, will be no reduction in of Socialism. One may rebel the enormous subsidy of against all the Puritanical £405,000,000, but in spite of austerity that Sir Stafford rising prices it will not be in- Cripps stands for, but no creased. honest critic can deny him the It is a grim picture, but al- courage of his narrow-mind-though one may not agree ed, State-controlled convic- | with the new economics, tions. He is symptomatic of there is no doubt that the the new ruling class which | budget has a cortain, if miser- despises the Britain that grew able, soundness. There, is, to greatness through the dar- however, no intention to re-

* Can you re- ing of unshackled adven-duce government expenditure ongnise whore turers, and intends to build a and the dollar deficit, al- 'this' ploture was nption not of shopkeepers, but though vastly lowered. com- taken? The ans wwer; Main-Page of shop assistants and shop pletely nullifies any attempt stewards" 44 Wishes to Justify Socialism as having Nevertheless, the budget solved the grave problems of announced today does show | post-war Britain.

me when

ever I

I enter its portain.

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