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IMPERIAL CROSSROADS

of

nu-

The pronouncements statesmen in Britain regard- ing colonial policy are

urally read out here with vidity, perhaps

more So

than ever during the Social-

his

|

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1940.

THE ROYAL MEMOIRS

H.R.H. THE DUKE OF

By H.R.H..

WINDSOR

Ambassador At Large

My letters to my father had In short, I was required to

one theme: Let me take a more active part.

show myself to the British people in order to maka my character No doubt to quiet these com- known and at the same time to Wales's tradi- plaints, I was sent for a spell of the Prince of duty to Second

rolo Division Heaa- tional

of

of the leader quarters at Bethune, only tive accloty miles from the front lines. From

The Prince of Wales has more here, after my first trip to the liberty than the King; he can front. I in obvious excitement move around more, travel, mix wrote:

freely with all kinds of people, and in general act as agent for the monarch.

At mg

I father's suggestion ban to visit the great industrial of Britain-the factories

March 1. 1913. Dear Papa.

Here the Germans are rather close so I didn't go into the front trench proper, though I managed to nee the enemy's (sic) trenches as well as a lot

I spent of the of their dead,

ien grand

minutes spotting through my stallong glass for who had his rifle icer nimex un a cerum spot in German trench whero men could be seen frequently pa sing and standing.

an

ZIZL

Whenever 1 saw a man

cities

and slums of Glasgow, Birming

Plymouth, New- ham, Cardiff, castle, the East End of London, ·

How different was this other world from Windsor, the Norfolk fens, the

Palace rooms, Alately the Cairngorm Mountains, and the Bath Club.

For

thene fral hard looks at Britain's strength

me to say that and shame fired my social con- immediately would be That came later with

science

fuld hin, und he fired I never pretentious and further enlighten-

saw one drop, but the bullets much have gune fairly close for the men used to disappear * hurriedly!

Su I spent a moat wonderful two hours this morning;

two hours that

shall nover forget. Hardly Just I removed my eyes, guratively speaking. from the fascinating

framed panorama within the lens of my stalking gloan before I was whisked back, by Sir John French's order, to the safety of St. Omer.

The battle of Neuve Chapelle It was, in was about to

to bugin: the Headquarters view: no place for the Prince of Wales,

I wan

WAN nearly 25 when I returned to London after the 1914-18 war, and the time had come for me to set up my own establishment,

Giving up my room on the third Noor of Buckingham Palace, moved into York House, one of

uf old the picturesque group buildings at the foot

This

ment.

The

procepts of my upbringing had been toe firmly Axed for me to feel that poverty and bad housing conditions called for any spectacular or creative action by either my august father or my- nol.

No Politics

We could by all means evince sympathetic concern Over such

stressful conditions,

But these were matters beund up in partisan polities, and it had been drilled into me almost from my first days in the little schootrooms of

of Marlborough House Sandringham that while I and was free to think as I pleased, If idena touched politics they my, must be

be kept to

myself.

WAH

Britain it

MY TRIP to Canade and America in 1919, was the first of my travels around the world. This is an often published picture of me that the Duchess liker best.

my own wedding."

had it started to thrashar

Good Mo

When they call it "gold yuan” they must mean "gilt yuan-un- less they are referring to what was extracted from the publle in exchange for the new notes

Wanted to rent Hong Kong hotel room which does not håve the maximum possible amenities for which increased chargon Are allowed under the new hotels control (7) ordinance.

The USA and the USSR havo ngreed at Int. They will both veto the proposed 15 nation radio agreement.

More American troops urgently Politicians wanted for Europe

вуче

of course, have to keep zri

on the feminine' vote.

Red ditty.

When Chlong Kai-shek has

gone to réxti Then China can be free. Why doesn't he just give it best And take off like TV.

1

Incidentally, one will get you

10 that the great leader will.go to Taiwan shortly. Curiously,' in. Chinese "it's too late to be sorry now" is also "Tal-Wan?"

In the next war it is probablo that India will be more interested " in turning a rupes thap making whoopee.

•

As the Communists get closer to Nanking they also get closer to an agreement with the Nation- nlists.

Bulgurls' is now considered" to free from capitalist infection since it was pastqurløed.

B

An American woman-has writ- ten "China Changed My Mind," She is we hear, minding ja

lot of can change..

Communism

is said to offer Ja-

ponese youth; "a concreto golur tion." Seams they're all set for

the Russian bloc

·

Cigar companies want women

to relate the to help them popularise their pro- over the duets, Myrtle says that as far

[This picture was taken at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1919, by the Just actul photographer of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association. us the Duke, then Prince of Wales, was about to sign the book meone in the crown cried.: Look out, you're signing the pledge."

The antle that was recorded becaine, world samous.) Yet I had been too long re-

that those who were clonest were for the Duke of York'n wedding, moved from Palace restraints and

My father loved already

too much a part of only trying to shake his hand,

These mea incant

no harm; confusion.. that came my iconoclastle generation to fit of St. readily into a cautious and sub. they had merely taken advantage embarrassed envoy when he re-us she is concerned they havana Jans's-street, known 43 St. missive role,

of an opportunity which the War piled: "I am the Duke of York. liope. ist regime. It gave many James's Palace,

Office had al; unconsciously given and it is important that I attend As I moved around our little dawned on. me people to think, therefore,

meant leaving

them of laying their grievances that the country before the King in person,

Hittle on the cynt although it had was

discontented, restless, and when Sir Stafford Cripps family circle.

It has long been my impression of my own, n The only danger was that his that just before the Bolsheviks cal side maybe, but more that dlaillusioned. There said that when he thought pretty much disintegrated by thon.

was rising horse might become scared: and seized the Czar my father had knew the answer of the British Empire,

unemployment.

The Servicemen

Wound not yet dis-

Jize that dense

personally planned to rescue ilm head was bowed in shame.

crowd with a British cruiser, but in some charged were angry over the

sonicone olmost certainly would

the It has always been

blacked in steeped on

clumsy demobilination programme;

plan was in such Way been hurt. And those who had been demobilised ehnsked axiom among the Socialists

atmosphere were disgruntled over the lack of might then have happened.

anythingPolitical, effcies, that the Empire was built

In any case, it hurt my father been the order ander which he mpat jobs and hones, the disabled were

Fortunately the police

were that Britain had not raised a hand vigor the beal and years of his life, up by cruelty and bloodshed,

bitter over inadequate disability

able to extricate us, but the mob to save Uncle Nicky. and that it was maintained

Ils many visits to the front, ponslens.

was still milling around in the Those damn politiciana," he combined with his tiroleas and by the same methods, in the

were strikes and de- Park as we rode back to the used to say, "If it had been one interests of capitalism. Some

of their kind, they would have

foat Acted went so far

-enough. But merely as to suggest

because the poor man was royal..." that the armed forces of the

And the troublo had Infected After my father dismounted Even after the British Govern- Crown were merely a form

the armed forces, leading the looked at me, remarking: ment had recognised the U.S.S. of police whose purpose was

Those mon woro in a funny it was quite a while before he could emper." to guard investments,

bring himself to receive the Soviet And shaking his head, as if to Ambassador. of

vid himself of an unpleasant memory, he strode indoors.

It was all nonsense, course. .If we needed D proof of the beneficence, on the whole, of British im- perialism, we have simply to compare it with Russia's to- day. Russia has expanded by deliberate policy. Bri tain, as Sir Jahn Seeley said, acquired her empire in a fit of absence of mind. Usual- ly, trade did, not follow the flag. The flag followed trade. The most obvious example was the case of India..

But if we acquired the Em-

WHEN THE A.EF. went into Germany the great Billy Mitchell took me flying.

Only my slater Mary, today the Princess Royal, who had worked through the war in hospitals a

nurse's aide, remaining at home, Bortie, now the King, had trans-

after the Battle of Jutland and

long spells on the sick list in the

Navy.

There

monstrations,

have

nothing big ar Palace. dramatic, but disturbing in their

froquency and prevalence.

small. local, Socialist-Inspired mutinies at certain supply porta.

Discontent

My father first came face to face with the new discontent one day in London.

The War Office, hoping to calm

dissatisfaction the

of

Worried Him

the disabled soldiers, protecting cushion

Tho

their

mon,

الم

and so on.

a

A Gulf

Ideas and notions that

My father, on the other hand, much the King, wholly the Victorian and Edwardian traditions that had

had

sympathetic sounds of the mili fory camps and defence plants at home, had endeared him to the British people and impressed them with the sincerity of his character. At the same time the had come to know batter

them

My 'Bowler'

1

Innate good divided us then would, if I were production, even partially, in any

World Copyright reserved. Re to repeat them, soom of little consequence how; for I was cor- | language, strictly prohibited. tainly no cosmic thinker, with

Exclusive rights in Hong Kong a blueprint for remaking Britain.bu "China Mall"

More than Prince, I was a

product of the war. with ideas! (To Be Continued Tomorrow)

For a while the exact meaning My father and I had many Yot the strange new concepts of all this turmell puzzled thom talks about the changes that that were beginning to permisste Island and the seemingly at the Palace; isolated as they were obviously at work within our were to some extent from the the pollileal and economic struc-| reckless desire for chalige in harsh impact of events by the ture not only of Britain but ol everything both puzzled and of Cabinet) the whole world; and the mors į vexed him, the more so, becatin naked my father to attend

Minlaters and courtlers, much of we discussed them the wider grew his oldest son soomed to share parade of some 10,000 of those what was going on in Britain the divergence of our view-points, many of these peculiar notions.

To the end we were the best of men in Hyde Park, Blounted and seemed remote and unreal.

For one thing, there was the This and other episodes could friends: this quif therefore was business of wearing a top hat In uniform he rode out from the Palace with Bortie and me to be conveniently explained away not of the heart but of, genera-the silk topper of pre-war formal

as the unfortunate but probably tons.

dress. ไท

The plain clothes, inevitable result of the post-war review them.

divisional let-down which the were drawn up in formation. At first glanco every sense of the British people would thing appeared in order, the presently have under control. troops at attention, tho bands But I had seen enough to con-

vince myself that

the social pire in a fit of absence of ferred to the Royal Air Force any men wore on their lapela unrest was related to the slaugh mind, we have begun the process of sing it in a what

the Silver Badge," signifying ter and the misery that the first honourable discharge Ler, "people" war had inflicted upon seems a fit of derangement

Harry-the Duke of Gloucenter wounds or other disabilities. the whole population. of mind, bom of infatuation

- "gentleman cadet" at the But there was something in the

Than

the Russian revolution with doctrinaire politics. Royal Military College, Sand air, อ Bullen unresponsiveness

Of 1917 with the murder of the Socialist MP's have plamedhurst, had by then taken the which all three of us felt in Czar Nicholas and his family themselves

first step in his Army career. stinctively. My father, steady as had shaken unctuously

my father's conf- George the late Duke of Kent

rock, rode

down the front no. dence in the Innate decency of their success in disintegrat--was in his first year at Dart

there was Suddenly ing the Empire, little realia-mouth, standing much

higher in

at the rear, and, as if by

was a very real bond ing that when an imperial the order of his term than either prearranged signal, banners with between him and his first cousin power is on the retreat, trade

Bertio of myself ever had. And slogans that had been concealed Nicky; they corresponded with my youngest brother, John

John, had were defiantly unfurled. still follows the flag. Like

each other regularly; both wore With cries of "Where is this boards of a distinctiva character, the flag, it disappears, with

Our old tutor, Henry Peter land fit for.

herocal hurling and as young men they had grave consequences. to the

Hansell, his long and painstaking back of Lloyd Georgo's famous | looked much alike. home economy.

task completed, had retired, election slogan-tho mon broke although I saw him occasionally ranks and made straight for the thereafter.

King who WILD quickly sur

When, as Czarevitch, Nicholas Finch, my valet, followed me rounded and cut off from me and came to London in 1803 for my to York House, as major-damo. | my brother, by. A sòlid mass, father's wedding, my father, was

afterwards a step which he was

For a moment I feared my mistaken for him by # well. heard to describe as the bogia-father would be borne to the intentioned diplomat who anked over especially ground. When I saw, with relief, if he ning of his education.

on

Up to a point the Socialists seem to have been forced to think again. They have been obliged to repudiate their past in the case of Malaya. It is superfluous to emphasise the commercial importance of Malaya to Britain, and the Home government have ap- parently decided that must hold it in face of all

we

died IL few months before.

My Job

My return from the war meant helping my father in the business of kingship. He had a perfectly

clear idea of what his expected a

me,

Communist trouble-making. It was that a should stop with Or rather, the planters and out delay into the customary

duties devolving

Hair- on the

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A gentleman just return- groups and assuming the hono- ed from England remarks, rary chairthanalilps of worthy that the people there, knowin charities and other institutione".

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