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THE ROYAL MEMOIRS
By H.R.H... THE DUKE
OF
Investiture In
WINDSOR
Wales
But when a tailor appeared to that you should learn their conservative fiduciary institution, | I had a suite to myself far
they thr?
take.
Help Papa
the
I wan to go to Oxford white
nor
| results.
Friends
watched
with an- Sir
Sandringham constant companion George, the last family and later
Foo
Few wasted more than word
on me.
After 12 years of allowlith man to put under what Heaven has Joined, together, the. Philippines House of Representatives" line how handed back the whole thing. lo divine direction.
Storhal.
hi
Disney can't get So Walt copyright on Snow White.
Oh. well, wng
It
pretty Grimm idea anyway.
A
A magzine digest writer pays, Hong Kong a 90-minute vialt on a six-day tour of the world to diagnoze its ulls.
One can only hope this doesn't. lend to in-digest-ion.
Spearmint for speed.
(Typists
cent more chew guin.)
are said to be 17 per emcient when they
The girls the book w01 and the
best
mensure me for a fantastic cos-politics,"
it was the gallant Sir Dighton; his superior to any accommodation 1
Springs Third the occasion,
Says Lever Brothers' represen- beard flowing over his chout had previously known at home. tume designed for
would have Alled the most tax- mantle and as for three yenin.
The elegant bolsele
onlative: Quere is no reason for pès- consisting of a
It was the Oxford part
the that picious investor with confidence.
second Abor exuderl the simism in Far East business clr- coat of purple velvet edged with
Yet it was a matter of painful flavour of le beau molide,
tles. bermine, and white satin breeches, took me by surprise. The promise
And the de Breteuils weekly our family that Sir
For him, of course, there's al- 1 decided things had gone too far.ar travel in Europa compensated knowledge to
I had already submitted to the somewhat for the loss of n naval lighton's cavalryman's bravura, hunch parties were attended by ways soap....
which had contributed to numer attractive womIDA and the mont But Oxford was unexpected for ous dashing exploits during
In France the stimulating minde condoning his- inter dress and robe, for which career. there existed A Lorical precedent; but what the reason that my father, who Indlan Mutiny while he was statesmen, artists, writers, inan
1fnd til sympathy for export-colone) of "Probyn's Horse," when ciers. would my Navy friends gay.
field of hig The explosive atmosphere of saw me in this preposterous fences different from his own, had transferred to the
always taken a dim view or finance had a tendency to produce polities and art peculiar to all
with blow-up college dens and professors.
The French salons is comparable a family
a pretty early There war
mixtio. In Navy fashion, he regarded Charge of the Light Brigade." that sight, but in the end py
Impractical, unworldly
And while everybody was an mother as always smoothed things them
people where Hives and ways were
failingly
the pulite to
young 200 juver.
My father you
British Prince, I am afraid they 24 are aller to his own, mustn't
Wondering,
misgivings while therefore, what lay concealed tet af Sir Man-kam an-1 Lowly ceremony so seriously," she said.
friends will
this understand behind 10 of Hong Kong, and Mr.
sudden
Interest in Dighton created at Sandringham at me down as just another on- cultivated Englishman speaking their lovely language with Morl
that as a Prince you are abliged Oxford. I protested that as I had rostly rock gardens complete with S. Brown, som
will for rustic shelters, all dedicated with
barbarous aregut. my either the mind 1. Brown to do certain things + tid M14
adaration to "The at a universtiy respectful The cum little silly. 18 will be only boofte, ray yours of California, America,
Divine Lady. be wasted. Contrager will take place on for thêe onre.“
"
During this inst I cannot slay in the Navy, 19th
1940
interlude please fet que go round the worlek { ini
my 1
kot
impression, is you "* I pleaded, "andi my although the thought
was never learn about the different countries it one of the
the Duke of Kent. actually put into words, that if and their people frst-hand.
My two brothers, Bortie, today Baked It only did what was would help Papa in his dealings
the King, and Harry (now Duke
M. Escoffier My father was with the difficult Mr. Lloyd George,
and of Gloucester), were both away
nithongh George Now thero caine So on a sweltering suminer day eventually it emerged that Henry at school,
into my life In recent weeks we have
Peter Hansell, my nld tutor, was within
Maurice the
vast grey
was eight and half years my yet another tutor, had quite a spate of visitors
Carnarvon Castle. Before
the villain of the Oxford plot. Junior, I found in his character Escafler, of the Ecole Libre dles the Caluny who have
10,000 prople
Winston was Hansell's idea,” said my qualities that wah
nkin to mySciences Politiques, whose role it wow we Inughed at the
was to teach me alt thinga French, Home Steretary, father, "and you are to go to his own: publicly voiced their opinions Charehill, ILS
thinks.
Every morning he would he Future Engellit-insaly proclainning my titles old college, Magnien. not present ant
That winter that he What I had to say to the pour
ushered into my sitting room, In the toll Yesterday we had
He afterward #roblem
aleared them on the gatiman after I left the brary was than brothers; we became closetail cont, bawler hat, grey glove, couldn't N
Walter Fletcher,
anti shivered Just lay there and cane, with a formulable col- frinter), my father Invested in as
n highly satisfactory friends, ME and Me H. E. Wads
American phrase..-wobody's
"Even your teeth were chatter- busi- Bis death in
ne.lection of books under his nvm. an airplane Hrince of Wales. frotat
eldent during the last war left a My early life seems to haveing. I suppose?" textile experti wh
put
Through My father was then preparlagad in my life.
A forest of progressed Loken Anche de
of prin my hand the Fortunately for us, most of feipality, and into
heen old verge of envernment, and
my middle
gold Binger the
Then, tending me by the band ern affairs, and some of their through an archway to one of the Comments have been material-towers ly helpful.
0
411
1
COLONY COMMENTARY
these observers have
hend жу rummet vapi zus
14
On my
of background, after with experience of Fur Easting of responsibility.
rutn of
(L
Exp
he
battlements, of the prevented 11: to the people of
Waters.
VOLINIJUMM,
Raif fainting of heat and ner
Welsh I delivered the sentences which Mr. Lloyd George, standing close by in the ancient urb of constable had taught nie.
Off To Sea
In the midst of all this com muilon. 1 made u painful dis covery about myself.
It was that, while I was pres dutic bound
Pared to run the
120
like any
Tutor's Idea.
440
oldurate,
brother
we became
Sainte
mere
A bow, a charming phrase, sed art to exercise off they would their powers of losle and expost-
lon with another gified patriot,
M.
Self in 398.P. Daimler.
MY FIRST CAR was a Daimler,
+.
I
I got it in my second year at Oxford. My father gave pie'
Dermimion to drive on my eighteenth birthday,
When he wants things typed
Fight.
Arc those who back the
Spearmint
On the bedpost overnight.
And enev airs two ytpe ilke
ihs
Cn snoo trop benig dmub. If they will only take a tip And get themselves some gum.
"I was so cold last night, I
"I don't know. We don't sleep [ together."
Voice from Beyond.
"Farmer said killed seif."
"Man summonert for bucking don."
That is not mews.
First the boys in Whitehall grant us an interest-free loan for the new airport, then they ap pear to be free of interest in
Impeccable senators often make Impeachable presidents, as we sent to say in Manila,
"Wanted to exchange, pleasant country mansion, Chinese style, at Fenghua, Cheklang Provinco, for modern Amerlenn bungalow, alt mod. conv. (preferably with high surrounding wall) at Palm Beach or Miami, Fin.. or similar. Apply to Yu No Hu.
·
•
•
Under Hong Kong's proposed "municipal council" scheme (the "Mark Time" project)'no_natione... ality or race is barred from be Ing a voter or a councillor. Tho local frozen products nominee tor mayoress is expected to be Es kimo Nella hot favourite,
One can be reasonably cer lain that local industralists, who have had personal dis- ensions with Mr. Wadsworth, will endeavour to put into practice some of his recom- mendations. The higher wagen existing here as com tared with China proper and Japan can, he says, be offset by The use af improved machinery and more up-to-up in my heritage, 1 recoiled from which tended to set me' up date production methods. This as a personage requiring homage, is undoubtedly true. parti- After all, hadn't my father
we that I wha cularly in his own field of drilled into textiles. In this connection. Letter than anybody elet
And if my association with the however, it is to be hoped village boy at Sandringham and that government will take the caslots of the naval collegeS steps to protect the interests had done anything for me, it was of labour in the event of to make me desperately anxious speeding-up techniques. Even to be treated exactly
to leave for his Coronation Durbar | The foreign phase of my educa- beards, for rientior WAH from a purely expedient point other boy of my age. of view, the unwise impost what was going on
In any case, my father, sensing in India, and no doubt wishing totion began in the spring of 1912] 'Leaver," too,"
my mind, make up to me for this quick with a four-month trip to France, And after I had overtohemy tion of little-understood high artared for me to go to sea at succession of blows to my yeath- Hansell, and Finch accompanied initial, distante for the pungent pressure methods could re-ner, as a midshipman,
fui aspirations, he told me that 1 me on this adventure and resorting furonia of the Cepora] cigaretiza" sult in widespread dissatis- More than that. he personally could have the run of Sandring in the convenient royal practice of to which he was addistes, he and
selected the ship--the gual-burn-ham, with its fine shooting, during the incognito, I travelled as the I became great friends,
chateaux and, an a gesture faction and strikes.
ing battleship Hindustan, com- his three-month absence.
"Eart of Chester."
Whenever I got too entangled Hansell's unique hobby, cathe- Mr. Wadsworth also men-
manded by Captain Henry Hervey passed a wonderful
The fact that I had temporarily in French grammar he would drals. tioned our scarcity of cheap Campbell, his old friend and and winter there, tromping the ceased to call myself the Prince take me sightseeing-the Louvre, felt that my teachers enjoyed the
There were occasions when · land for building new fac-shipmate.
fens and marshes with Finch, of Wales fooled no one; but the the Invalides, Notre Dame, the tories, but he tactfully ignor- "The most junior "snotty", in my
Mr. Jones valet, and
the French Government was rell-ved Chambre des Deputes, Versailles, tours a great deal more than I the gun rsum, I served there local schoolmaster.
er having to My grandmother, Queen Alex-due to me as British heir apparent, suspices 1 inspected them all.
British hair annar Fontainebleau, under his learned food, as such did not interen, and onthe aboni the Hindustan,
East andra, was living in the Big and I my cruising up and down the
side cacaped the
whereas Hansell and Escofler Sight Seeing Const
ordeal House, with her unmarried dougn-
loved of having to respond to
to linger at of Britain.
restaurante Along This experience alleat provided ei, Victoria, ur "Aunt Torla" as them.
with everybody else 1 tables over the plat die jour and of deciding that a certain new the climax-a
Elite! Tower and vin du pays. There was, however, no such climbed the slightly delayed we always called her.
the Press;
rude on the roller coaster The great house parties were no reprieve from
at industry is sound, has bene climax-of my four years naval
World Copyright rererved.. No-**** production, even partially, in anj?“ And in in u
company with him, language, strictly prohibited,
Erclusive rights, in Hong Kong Hansell, and Finch; I toural n good deal of France, visiting by China Mail.“ innamberable provincial towns,
ed the reason for this-that government is responsible, by putting lots up for auction to the highest bidder, instead
salumn
צוי!
ficial possibilities for the Co-raining and exactly the kind of more-but I used to walk over in publie life, had begun, and front Luna Park,
He for which. I had been pre-the evening to play cards with | Purls, my second night
pared
lony, and should therefore
and which I quite naturally Aunt Toria and have land at reasonable rates.wished to pursue as a career, grandmother. Despite the occasional, un-
In my diary October 20-the convincing explanation, this day I left and returned to Lantion
--I wrote:
our
attitude has never to. knowledge been justified in the slightest degree.
Another aspect too, which. the speaker might not have known about, is the difficulty often encountered by new in- dustries regarding our all-too- rigid PWD system, whose of ficials have more than once insisted on unacceptable con- ditions regarding factory buildings. When a large, one- piece erection is desired, the petitioner may be told that local regulations walls to be set up after so
the Prince ng God Bless
the
of Wales and Auld Lang Syne, which touched me much. They cheered us steamboat shaved off and no ended uno of the happiest periods of my life...
HC.....
"We drove to Buckingham Palace
And
I saw Davies the tailor who tried on a lot of clothes.. Papa wishes me to get into talls and dress clothes and I shall look an ns. Bist sul. St must be done some-
time.....
Since it was the shooting ret on I went by train to Sandring demand ham and there I learned what my
father had. In mind for me.
many square feet. Only re- Trips Abroad
cently, too, a plan by the
chat with my foreign land. I wrote
father:
Old Lady
She had by then bœcome quite old lady; elegant and grace. u of manner with delicately solled features and high calffure, she was still recognis- the lovely young woman whose portrait by Lauchert, painted at the time of her wed- ding, bangs in the private dining- 100m at Windsor Castle.
D's
LEN
Her charm was irresistible, and Bvercame such serious disabili ties as a stiff leg, acute deafness, and rebellious unpunctuality in family determined
run by clockwork.
to
to my
.There wero a great many photographers at tho Gare du Nord, and they let off a flash light as 1 was golling out. of the trajn. which was
very disconcert Log: They
a great nuisance, and thero werd about 10 on board the slegmer
bul
ате
they followed the whole time one about me. I notlhed on the way from the
Gace
slu. Nord) the chairs and tables in front of the cafes. which you told me about. But an it chaira was very cold, the were desarted.....'
In The Salon
To the end of her life at Sandringham she was attended by her own amell court of which one Mamus de Breteull, who had In Paris. I stayed with the was General Sir Dighton Probyn been a close friend of my grand- V.C., the Queen's Comptroller, a father.
ponlilon in which he had earlier With bin American wife, ho "You must remember, David,red King Edward VII,
lived in a fine house, on the Chinese Manufacturers' Union he began, "that I too, loved the If over a man looked the part Avenue du Bola de Boulogne,: near. to put up workers' quarters Navy, and I am therefore, well of the board chairman of a sound, the Arc de Triompès, in brick and wood was re-aware that what I am about to i jected because the PWDsay will
Characterlate you.".
.
wanted something more per the point. First I must give up
ho went to DOYOU the Navy "too specialised,"
manent in concrete.
Then there is the question. Rocond. I was to take severa of restricted electric pawor, short educational trips to France making it impossible for face and Germany--"very important
tories to continue working.
during the night. Admittedly,
plant is short, but has govern-portance, since the war, the
KNOW
YOUR
ment made any attempt to migration of Shanghal. and HONG
see that the necessary equip- other manufacturing concerns KONG? ment is obtained, to raise here, there can be little argue butput to meet demand? The ment from non-biased sections
old argument is reiterated- of the community, that the Can you can we do not interfere with pri- | official attitude should be res vate enterprise.
examined. In the fact of the taken the ang
"this" picture" WOULDN As Mr. Wadsworth said, the trading rebirth of Japan, and war in jih Page polley here has been rightly the potential outputy atia) thlight nễ, HE, Tel. 3gs to encourage commerce rather stable, China, such a reorien
than industry, but consider, tätign, must be raggided" ing Hong Kong's growing Ime, fundamentally necessary.
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" in Canton."
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