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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1952.

Tribute To A Loved And Respected Monarch

GEORGE THE SIXTH'S GREAT VIRTUE WAS

MORAL

By George Malcolm Thomson

ACH successor to the throne of our crown- ed republic is faced

the by

question: What shall be the Inter- pretation 1 give to this august, mysterious and ill- defined office which I have inherited?

Yet the monarchy itself was in- evitably shaken by the circum- stances of his brother's departure

from the throne.

was

If at the end of his reign, the Crown had resumed its ancient hold over the affections and loyalties of the nations of the Commonwealth, if at a time when cvory Institution challenged the institution of chiul part of the credit must be monarchy remained stable, a given to the modest and gentle who wax the titular Agure political head of all the British societies.

the a different Each finds answer to the question, ac cording to the needs of the hour and the limitations set him by temperament and talent.

faithful

It may, inderd, be said that To none of them all the edit should go to can the question have been " George VI. He hud harder than it was to King George VI.

To start with, his tempera

unsuked to a ment was quite

can be agreeable role which only to one who has a good deal of the exhibitionist in his make

up.

He was exceptionally shy and sident. He had, moreover, a flight Lapediment of his speech be em- which at times could

He had not barrassing to him,

received that special training and practice in the ceremoniat and private, role of the British which is, very pro-

monareed for the Heir to

porly, rese the Throne,

Above all,

there were the

crvants both in the Palace and in Whitcha 1. A powerful bord of common interest and outlook united him with the solid mid- dle portion of the people.

the

Above all, he enjoyed sustaining help and comfort of the charming and spirited lady who was his Queen,

.

ALL this is merely to say that the King had, with the help of thee on whom he had the right to call, found his own swer to delica e question with which his reign, like every other reign, had opened,

He had given his own form to the Brilish conception of a constitutional kingship, had eircumstances, painfully melo-

10 done so in a doleate hour anri dramate, in which he under- against certain personal handl-

which anice,

he caps, How had he done 147 did not wish. His elder On

this personal What wor

founded?

an

certainly.

brother had found the pittoons triumphaly it was built on the of a modern kingship intoler- able. George VI was not likely respect which the British people to find them much less unbear- instinctively give to one who is

manfully doing his best in able.

job which he manifestly dis- likes. A

people which has never shown much affection for is always ready to brillance

play.

an

It might be argued that his painful anxiety not to be in the

LEADERSHIP

0

trouble

Was

ODD

SPOTS

IN

THE

NEWS

BURIED TREASURE

ALBUQUERQUE New Moxloo: Buried gold, perhaps legendary,

assertion have been made by perhaps real, has fascinated · a man glittering with genius mankind throughout the een- and personality? He added turles. In the wild mountains dew words of acknowledg-over the Mexican border there ment to the conseless Just such magact. When Villa, the help given him by the Queen. Toystering, Pancho And it was true that in war as Mexican bandit, wts raiding in peace, he had been blessed United States territory 30 years by all that a wlie's grace and ago, he is supposed to have ac-

cumulated and

seven hidden good sense can confer.

in American Peace brought with it a poli-million dollars

Now, off go tical transformation

seven in Britain, students from the University of the forerunner of huge and rapid economic changes.

A

and untried rul A new

ruling class which Arsi lurking power, swept into heated and then cooled. its en-

thusiasms and its ambitions,

In the

Commonwealth over-

Bold.

1

New Mexico, at Albuquerque, armed with an oid map salę to mark where

the dolints are

NO GLAMOUR

JOHANNESBURG:

Teen-afo

tram or bus conductor at a

A

constitutional revolution boys see no glamour in being a orched quickly.

India was

was divided with arbi- starting wage of £48 10s, trary hastean operation over travel and medical attention, a

month plus a free uniform, which the King's cousin pre-

as the last Viceroy of the Sald a

pension Blded

and leave privileges. tramways official: We Passing Empire.

have had only a few applications Burma lef: the

The Commonwealth..

The new India remained within answer to our advertisemen's for 'conductors from. 18-year- its fold. though casting off olds." He suggested that boys allegiance to a monarch. Pakts- do not like shift work and dis- tan and Ceylon became Doml-like wearing uniform. nions, aa Canada and Britaini itself were Dominions. South Africa welcomed the King

anu Queen one year and in the next gave political power to the party that proposed to make the Union a republic.

on

one

----

of

UNEXPECTED PRIZE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA: Not only a trophy, but o kiss, from the town's prettiest teenager 17 year-old Gwen Coyner was the

for peleo

20 all members of Company A in the Cadet Corps at the Thomas Jefferson High School in Richmond, after a

drili competition. But smiles turned to frowns when word came from Gwen's horne im- mediately afterwards that sho had chickenpox.

was

MID such 餌 welter A change, some of it

considered, some of it neodless, many might have seen. only the Image of decay. 'George took a less superficial view. BLACK WEDDING Portrait of the late King, in Garter robos over the uni

"Come what may," he said PARIS: Yolene Bardin's wed- form of a Field Marshal, painted by Mr Maurice Godner

occasion, nothing ding dress was black, with a for the Army's oldest regiment, the Honourablo Artillery

will ever shake my belief tha: black veil. For she was mourn~~ Company, of which George VI was Captain-General. this old country is at heart as ing for the man she WAS was that, young and vigorous as she has marrying. He was buried seven shipman in HMS Collingwood speech. The result

the Iater

of his ever been." with the First Battle Squadron. In

part

months

ago, Yolene is the first Oxunate gastric

to able

The British monarchy had woman to invoke a 12-year-old was he reign,

long geen coursdess comparatively

alterations over | Frenca law which allowed lost diagnosed as duodenal deliver ulcer.

address at a measured pace the years and the great-grand- to marry a dead man. Her son of Victoria, who was also story is the sort of sad romance E became King at a moment

This, though it involved an that was nut 21-suited to Royal descendant of Charles I, put much beloved HE

the diction.

the French, when the social, political and

operation, did not prevent nim

As his kingly title he chose his faith in the future, welfare,

Her flance, Jacques economic fabric of Britain, the pay its Iribute to one who can, from serving with the crew of a

so they Commonwealth and the

World not escape his duty yet shows 12in. gun In the Battle of Jut- the name "George" with prob- where the wisest of his fore posjed to Indonesu was

inficxiblo resolvë in

ably the intention of emphasis bears had put theirs in a planned coded by mail. dis

to get land, was subject to erfarmous stresses.

Atting climax to

national In the

But before the marringe papers. In the charging it.

which War quickly loomed.

education

had ing at that moment the tone of sturdy belief The King's

hord-won con- naval

and even character. After all, he was reached France from Indo-China Naval Commonwealth

uprightness a rapid process

College, moral,

Yolene to his father had himself not a bad embodiment for

countersign, severity Orborne, The man, who would

which of political development went on. ques of his stammer was in it begun at the

Amid the

of the stolider British virtues Jacques Coronation

killad,

ad. Yolene, have

al set. longer experience At home, sweeping changes in self a demonstration of grit that OE

their even if he with all

Ineked the dam- though, decided to

to go on with monarch splendours, war than any British

hos the structura of society brought won him esteem.

the wedding. Now she be new tensions of their own into

since the Middle Ages, was, to medieval discomforts, he bore boyance of his elder brother or his own great happiness, not himself with the ignity and the intellectual eminence of his come Mme. Jacques. Guineau; her dowry-seven months of George VI's reign was a period foreground of the picture was denied a baptism of fire.

as much of the case that this great-grand-father, a positive advantage when it

In 1828 to the ceremony permits to its leading African tour of 1947, the King's moonTo work to have my testing South widow's pension. Her honey- in which every institution and

His marriage life came to the political side of his

Elizabeth Lady

Bowes-Lyon, actor. almost every principle of

health' showed the first

and real husband brought brick task. was called into

daughter of the Earl of Strath- question, There

ap

buried near me at home." The wymptoms of decline. His But no King, however rigidly never a time in which it

more, whom he had known since that the constitutional, has ever been a childhood, was, as it turned out, necessary

and strain which, after a time, marriage is legal. monarchy should remain as a

the deepening shadow of It was hoped he had cast off, SEA-COOK'S ADVENTURES fixed point round which change cumulation of negative virtues. prise of his life.

But

an affection of the log

HARSTAD, NORWAY: How should revolve and evolution, He has, in the

The young couple settled at war, was the journey to Canada country Commonwealth however dizzy its speed, be held leader to his people. Where was 145, Piccadilly, which

A and graver trouble record: of British sea-cook on the safe side of a monarchy. George VI's leadership exerted? fore long, the scene of a healthy that

Last made this who was swept overboard not interrupted for a four-day his lung at was first- housed

Washington and the

the cherished journey impossible, Princess Elizabeth and, four visit to

Arst

This is known to have been once, but twice, during a storm -and lived to tell the tale? It E could not be a political years later, Princess Margaret United States. It was the

time that a British Sovereign during the last months of his happend like this: While carry- figure. He had neither the Rose.

the These years before his father's had crossed the borders of the life, an anxiety and a sorrow, ing a sack of Cabbages desire nor the gifts for a glitter-

to the Crown in Having no particular bellet in valley during rough seas, he was ing social leadership: as tire death in 1930 were passed by Union lost

the busy part at least by the obstinacy his own magnetism, be believed swept overboard, by a monster passed the monarchy was shom the young couple in

to of his distant ancestor, George that the free Commonwealth wave, and then tested on board even the financial means ceremonial life which falls

II1.

could best prosper with a King again. A moment later he was that this would involve, His the younger son of a Sovereign.

symbol swept overboard a second time, The King returned to London as the central human was essentially

meral 1

once more.. lead If the Duke of Yort had little given at a time. when moral natural aptitude for it, his con- in time for Mr Neville Cham and that the King must go but tossed back

efforts to

Others of the crew found him. save the to visit all his peoples. standards'. were zhaky.

The fort made up for this by her berlain's

He had greatness thrust upon unconscious on deck but stil the by of Europe that vivacity and charm. Bui over peace

his cabbages, At public very soon realised

as they diplomate negotiations to which im. But his reign, all too brief clutching of the Royal these events, tedious home life Family had an essential hap- sommetunes were, there did not the general name of "Munich" as it was, showed that he had Harstad he was taken to hospital given. A year later, George the moral courage equal to his where he is making a good piness and sweetness which was yet fall he shadow neither too old-fashioned nor responsibility.

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of kingly

BE father its must at times

VI hurried south from his shoot- high responsibilities. ing at Ealmoral to hold a Privy Council that proved to be the forerunner of a graver sort of cheating,

of his

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In his basade:ct on the night to one who knew something of war was declared, the King told the direction his elder brother's his people to stand "frm and affection was taking. But he

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shone came King George VI irascibility

of the House

forth Da a good and loyal so close to a British monarch. Windsor).

brother, The letters which Buckingham Palace was bombed He was given by the publle passed at that time between on nine occasions, on one

the King and Queen his portion of the admiration "David" (Edward VII) and which

through Д

their window 'of accorded to one who sits on "Bertie" (George VI) glve a one vide

of a happy fireside, pleasant picture of fraternal London house saw the bombs falling that were to wreck the that supreme Ideal of the affection. British.

"Bertie" fully understands Chapel Royal, And so by exercise of many the dilemma in which his elder unassuming virtues, by faithful brother is placed. His sympathy Obedience to the call of duty, never falters. Onerous and ultimately hausting as it was, by display ing that complex of qualities most conveniently described as

cx-

as his subjects, carrying on Nobody can read these docu- TUE King tack the same risas mer, so simple and so sincere, with his work as they did. Ho not have tolerated any without gaining the impression would

After the collapse of France, German onslaught was awaited, plans were drawn up VI reigned ambition of the heir-preamp for the Royal Family to cave

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for Canada. successfully over his people hour.

those of

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KING GEORGE

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George, VI have loti that the man who had been acceding, was to give the ex- Wound Duke of York was not without King antting like as Duke of Brion Parliament, in the daye

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When

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