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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1949,

THE ROYAL

By

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H.R.H.

The President of the

ROYAL MEMOIRS

THE DUKE OF

WINDSOR

Undergraduate Days

Repubile

docorated me with the Legion of Honour with death," whispered

"the only

Escofrenchman cannot

|escape."

other thing

hope to

I really learned a good deal

France; about

In any case, enough to love it.

At the same time my tour was memorable chiefly becaues of my 18th birthday, occurring while I was there, which brought coveted privilegen.

A Car

two

Navy

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My father, following the rule for young officers, had fused to irt me smoke until 1 reached that age.

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COAC

thu

Then a birthday gift from him

cigarette ment is announced between in the form of a

roult Indulgo in Christina

younger signified that Joyce,

wished. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. that habit if

18 brought me to Macintyre Brown. Abm Hong Kong, and Stanley threshold of that magic world in Benjamin, oldest son of Mr. which I was free to drive a car.

W

Lacke, C. Mrs.

Encouraged by some Glasgow, Scotland,

young French friends, I was soon speeding along the rites nation- ufrs to the terror of Escomer, who, beard flying, clung by his evelids to the back seat,

A REMARKABLE SPEECH

A speech, remarkable on every count, was made in New York a few days ago. The speaker was General Omar Bradley, the outstanding Commander and Chief of Staff of the United States Army, who pronounced the essential corollary to the Al- lantic Paet. General Bradley's speech comes from a pro- found knowledge not only of his own countrymen but also of the European men tality. Though the speech was frankly inspired by the desire to Administration's persuade. Congress to give swift substance to the Atlantic Pact, there is no doubt that

of

my

I returned to Britain in August, and that was the end of the Entl

Chestor.

14 was The year 1912, and Oxford loomed before mens # dreary chore to be finished with the least effort and as quickly as possible.

From my point of view as a human being, the easy conditions under which I took p residence October certainly At Oxford In

con-

were a vast improvement over those inid down by the Prince | Consort for my grandfather sonie

50 years before,

To

his possible prevent lamination from too intimate asso

undergraduate ciation with the enmmoners, my grandfather was obliged to live apart in a rented house, to ent his meals apart with

own staff, and to Wear B his

altended gown when he pecin lectures,

Hio cinssmates hind to rise res-

it expressed General Brad-pectfully whenever he entered ley's own deep convictions.

"Hal" or a lecture room. Fortun-

General Bradley flatly reject-ately for me, all that had passed

when my turn came,

Way of Life

1 took my place freely among

circum- the States

undergraduates-

wan halled by the stance which C

Press as fresh evidence of the in- the British nate democracy of monarchical system.

But the Socialist son of the Glas- gow fitter who sat beside me at Jectures would scarcely

have

agreed that I shared the common

ed the argument that it will be impossible to stop Russia from conquering all Europe and that the United

lead should eventually counter-attack to liberate the Continent. He was perhaps being a little sentimental, but he graphically expressed the French recent saying of a

Western that statesman Europe cannot afford to be liberated again. What that country is that if a

believe, the first private under- means

graduate bathroom to be Installed knows it must be overrun

at the college, as well na a fine before effective assistance can

one of view of the tower that is ben brought to bear, the com-

Magdalen's

Finch. I had as fort to be derived from the

I had a special glories, weil my personal tutor Henry possibility that an aggressor

instigator of will ultimately be turned out Peter Hansell, the again is strictly limited. Gen- this, who occupied a room direct

ly under mine. cral Bradley would put, in the To initiate me into the

Jot.

1

I

I had, after all, special rooms in "Cloister Quad-not to mention,

ken, of the 10th Hussars,

more

Finally, Sir Herbert Warren, the President of Magdalen and the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, made me his special charge an atten- then which, before long, I would gladly have forfeited.

the United sophisticated amenities my per- military sense, States frontiers on the de-sonal entourage was augmented by the the addition of an oquerry, fence lines of Western Europe: hard-riding Major William Cado- It is a conception which will make all the difference to the effectiveness of the Atlantic Pact. Everybody knows that special courage was required on the part of certain States to sign the Pact. What Gen- eral Bradley is asking is, first, that America should be the arsenal

Democracy. of Secondly, he asks that the as- sistance from the New World to the Old should be funnelled to the ramparts of the Old World and thus halt an ag- gressor in his tracks wherever he may strike.

con-

Yet all those advan- curn my tages could not nostalgia for the Navy.

All around me were young men united in friendships formed Elon, Harrow, Winchester, Char- terhouse and ail the other public

at

school acutely lonely and I was under the added disadvantage of being something of a celebrity.

A crowd of reporters and photo- graphers descended upon Oxford to record for the popular Press the more intimate aspects of my ud- justinent Oxford life.

to

PUNTING on the river was a pleasant diversion when I was #1 Oxford.

dua aspects of British literatura propared at his order.

These little meetings were my introduction to serious literature. and

I approached them in awe. Compared with most of the people I know, the president was

Д

man of vast learning; and it

Was therefore a dailiusioning

blow

|

Good Morning!

Hong Kong now to go on the list of haz-beans?.....1,500 tons of soya beans have arrived.

•

Why are small taxis barred

from the Hong Kong aldo?

Becaues they occupy too much parking space.

Because there is no room on the streets for them.

Bocaues It is well known they cannot elimb hüils..

Because they are too expensive per mile for the public.

Because

local philanthropists

to my sense of values to discover prefer to lose money operating big that the thing he appeared to volus gold-dollar bought vehicles for

the good of the public. most in the world was his con- nection with an obscure nobleman, a fact which he managed to Insert into every conversation.

On Learning

it was generally suspected that he was obsessed with the idea of Alling Magdalen with titled under- whenever he graduates: hence beamed upon me i was never quite it was with a carlain whether

from benevolence

Leacher'e

П

or

collector's secret satisfaction with a coveted trophy.

In any caso, he struck us being a bit of a snob.

G*

Yet, despite this formidable out- lay of intellect Oxford falled to break down the resistance to learn- Ing that was the legacy of my un- Jookish ancqaters,

And, as if to save his venerable

from one day ben

Institution blamed for the absence or higher Intellectual qualities in the heir apparent. President Warren - lished, on the occasion of my leav ing Oxford, a generous but some-

The Indonesians think that the Dutch Foreign Minister, Mynheer Dirk Stikker, sounda like the nort of chap who might have a stab at thom.

The fifth freedom-no control

over kay money.

•

I think that I shall never ace

A poem lovely as a tree;

A tree on Nathan Road

Pruned by the Forestry De-

partment,

And gradually whittled away, More and more cach day, Till I shall never sec

A tree.

A large robed chair" is pro- mise by a certain religious sect. Couldn't And a Shanghai tailor, we suspect.

+

And why not move the Nathan Road Folly to a field where it could form a fence, which would form a lyphoon-shelter for long

what apologetic report upon hyang's new trailer-homes?

progress:

Bookish he will never be: not a Deauclerk, stili lensa Briush Solenton." he warned, adding, all the time he wes

· however, ". learning more and more every day of men, gauging character. watching its play, getting to know what Englishmen are ke both individually and still more In the mass.'

to its raputation as a

of men"

Was a

The gods upon Olympus Are not the gods of old. Today they just take orders And do as they are told. Aye, even Zeus trembles, Nor dares he answer back, Those edlets out of Tokyo Made by Almighty Mac

In Washington, El Caudillo is getting his whitewashing done.

The cold war, geeting chilliar all the time, has now reached

"learning by car President Warren had in mind that along with English literature and constitutional law, there bright leavening of fox-hunting Iceland.

of game mild bengling, and a roulette, Oxford certainly lived up

Britain's newermen are being teacher.

radio, Smele-communica- the Riven While there I rode with

tlons t South Oxfordshire Hounds, beagled with the New College, Magdalen,

Fifty per cent of civil servants and Trinity pack, and got to know in the US, zone of Germany are Home young men whose upbrlaging said to be former Nazis. But what hart been a good deal lass strict

alse were the denazification courts than mine.

for but to change them into good

le democrata?

Gay Suppers

It would be wrong to give Ox- ford credit for teaching me how to drink.

Ali the

game,

•

One of our respectable matrons was dragged out of bed the other it certainly fur-night by the insistent ringing of about 2.30 a.m.

nished me with opportunities for the telephone tentatively testing the art on my

sol,

"Ish that Nieksh place?"

en-

as well as for observing the quired a heavily alcoholic voice.

dubious progress and occasional disasters of others.

"No." shc returned sleepily.

"what number were you want-

"Excuses for celebratlon were None of your damned busi-

seldom lacking.

If the college eight had "bump-ness," inuttered the fellow at the ed" itself to a higher place on the other end.

River Isis, the Oxford stretch of

And as the lady told it to me,

the Thames, during Eights Week, there was, really, nothing for her the feat would be celebrated with to do but go back to bed.

A gay "bump supper" in "Hall"

that would climax with a bonfire Gunstone, known to Magdalen men Inside the walks, fed with furniture as "Gunner,"

tossed out of the fooms of under-

We would listen to his rough

graduates who had incurred their stories and watch his sleight-of-

classmates displeasure.

TIO

hand tricks before going upstairs

Whatever the occasion, Mag-

All 21st birthdays by custom 15

drink too many glasses of Augusta' (the Grand Duchess I VISITED my mother's 'Aunt

called for a party, the ceremonial "black strap" port wins which pro of Mecklenburg-Strelitz) and helped to celebrate her 91st

smashing of glasses against the duced hangovers of incredible cam- birthday by putting on full dresa naval uniform.

fireplace and, eventually, the plexity. "school and Dartmouth. The College, taught mo constitutional carrying out of those who could

longer walk by thous who dalen celebrations always ended boys talk of discomfort, but in law. their dormitorios they have

the same way. From Mr. Charles Grant thought they could.

And on certain Sunday nights

World Copyright reserved. Re- cubicles and they sit about in' Robertson, later Vice-Chancellor studies all day. Their fe is not of the University of Birmingham, everybody who counted for some production, even partially, in any

I as strenuous as it is at Dart-Inqquired some grounding in thing repaired to the small office language, strictly prohibited.

of the steward of the Junior Com- Exclusive rights in Hong Kong mouth, and we were more cen-Napoleonie history.

plump, rod-facod, by "China Mail." tented. There can be no better The famous Rev. Lancelot Rid. mon Room,

old scump

named (To Be Continued Tomorrow) education than a naval one. "ley Phelps, later Provost of Oriel bald-headed

College,

talked to me voluminously Indeed, verging

and no doubt from vast erudition on political economy, while press-

helf

"Dear Papa.

N

on the disso-

....I went to the Bullingdon ing upon me the dullest books ever Club dinner. It lasted twe hours written.

and there were about 60 people. My Studies

Most of them got rather, if not

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My study of the French langu- to any very, excited and I came age continued under M. Berthon. back

carly.

And Dr. Hermann Fiedler, who "There was a good deal of later became Taylor Profesor of to in- champagne drunk and that ac German, was brought in Their vivid accounts in turn

counted for it. It is interest-crease my command of German, ing for me to see the various stimulated a rush of tourists and

Finally, President Warren, an forms of amusement that under-authority on English poetry, in- for days I hardly dared to go to

graduates indulge in... .” derlook single-handedly 15 Are my the window lest i find myself the

To lead me with all possibly interest in the humanlifes. object of their concentrated gaze,

As a mark of his Nor did I wish to be seen near celarity into the higher fields of

he in- favour Addison's Walk until all the learning, Oxford generously gave cluded me among half

n dozan publicity died down, for the local mio access to its best brains. proteges who foregathered in Bla Sails from Kong Kong 8.30 a.m. Friday

One of Britain's most dis-book-lined study once a week to galdes had spread the story that

· Soula'l clam and comment, essays on varl-

SPECIAL EASTER SAILINGS

PEACEMAKER Despite the flood of demnation from various quar- ters there is no doubt that the United Natlong has some very real achievements to its credit. In less troubled times people would be falling over themselves to find adjectives the college dear park had been tinguished Jurista, Sir William read to him, der his direct criti- Sails from Macao.

Warden of All extravagant enough to praise restocked to enable me to do a Ana

little stalking when my studies the body which has helped to

palled. save peace in India and is All this vulgar commotion with-

more

undergraduates, who showed their displeasure by em- ptying pitchers of water upon the Inquisitive sightseers' hands.

The plain fact is, of course, that I was pretty much of a problem to Oxford.

KNOW YOUR HONG

well on its way to producing a in Magdalen's ancient precincts DO YOU settlement in the most politi-irritated the dons, but no cally, explosive part of the than the world-the Middle East. It would be foolish to ignore the restraining influences of the United Nations during the re- cent critical months and in

To be auto, I could box a com- particular the remarkable

pass, read naval signals, run a work of conciliation achieved

the officer of the watch, by Dr. Ralphe Bunche

But these Palestine.

accomplishments, Without patience and skill it is difficult which the Navy had been at such pains to teach me, were manifestly

in

his

packet boat, and make cocos for KONG?

to see how peace could have without significance to Oxford's been secured. Dr. Buncho's learned dons, moral-"You used pens, not

Can you

cognise where

this plature 'whi

taken? Tha, an- Moreover, “ms --the-fallowing awar is, In. Pagy

not force. And you reached diary excerpt indlostes, I fudged Seven.

'Effete'

swords. You applied reason,

Oxford = lilla anataz

It is amusing to see the difference between an ordinary |

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