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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22,- 1952.

A STORY THAT HAS NEVER BEEN

The Man Who Gave

T

TOLD

The Queen

A King Will Bear

The Power To Speak

HREE days after the day of the King's lung operation a type written note came to It said, with stark, shucking brevity:

me.

"The King will appear to be making a complete re- covery but he is not likely to live longer than about 18 months.

"The end will probably come muddenly. The opera tion was six months too late."

By

*

JOHN GORDON

(Editor of the Sunday Express, London)

permanent

Deep gloom

In an adjoining room, for the hour before the broadcast, the King, the Queen, and Logue mat; together. Hatening to the fadio programune sweeping round the Empire, waiting for the moment | of ordeal.

►

know

The Arms

Of A Man

By James Leator

THE QUEEN is above all the rules of heraldry.

It had been suggested by Thus she adopts the arms of But it was still for from The sarcastic comments of bottom to the top was hely

Was the these who at did not Inability to to be a slow ones too slow for casy. Always there his tutor on his

the confidence which the King the reigning Sovereign- solve as simple a sum as that, the money he had behind him. fear of the utter breakdown,

At public functions Logue now had in himself that the the shield supported by a and the titlers of the boys

dis speech should be recorded in lion and a unicorn -- with- So with the confidence of a

No around him, left a

enough case there was an embarrassing out any change at all. man supremely sure of himself would stand or sit some mark upon him.

the tence away; but near he decided to go right to

Queen has borne them since for the Duke to draw confidence breakdown. top at once. He rented a cure from him.

"What do you thlak!" the the days of Victoria. sulting room In Harley-street, The Duchess would sit by King asked Logie.

Usually, a woman plays her arms not on B shield but on a lozenge, a diamond-shaped heraldic device introduced long ago because women did not normally carry shields.

HE

Bever

her

and a house in Bolton-gardens, E became more and more shy South Kensington.

and dildent, His nervous- time he did not have a single leaving him, her hand stretch- ness increased, and much of his patient.

marked by early youth was solitary hours of deep gloom, in which he wrestled with his growing doubts that he could ever conquer this curse which he came to believe "God had put upon him,"

Final move

was p

Alam against it," Logue ne

At that her husband, her eyes

ing out of difficult times to plied. "Because once it is re touch his, always pouring corded in advance, no one will strength into him.

Then came the day Fate lift. ever believe that you delivered it, even if the recording is not the Throne. ure." ed the Duke to some follow. The man who only a few years

said the King, Australians, for Australians before found public, appearance of agree,"

toon met

people. He on Indnite ordest, and public There will be no recording." are a gregorious

man bubbling with speaking a torture, now faced Ils marrloge to an under vitality and personality. Those a life in the public gaze, and a standing girl who

him. whe met him remembered him. lifetime of public speaking, deeply, and whom ho in turn And that was how Fate made adored, helped him through this her final move. difficult time as nothlig

An Australian who had met could have.

Logue met soon afterwards tremendous royal equerry who was looking one

Together a little worried, his fiction in private. Olten could

loved

Plac

+

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Re

mari,

gress.

lle could never have kniwn of the shadow that lay 1lm.

over

Just one thing vexed

him:

Did the King himself know that? I do not think so. To the last hours of his life he was telling his friends in conversation and by letter how surprising a he was making recovery and how thrilled he was by IL.

He talked and wrote with the joy and buoyancy of u

made very happy and confident effort after another.

Lought The handwriting of they

have to go to the United be seen States to see if I can bring over the letters he wrote in the public and in

the Queen last weeks was bold, and literally suffering with him and a speech-defect expe look

of

the firm, with no indication of infusing her strength into him, at the Duke

-Yet he made very little pro- equerry explained,

It's "But fatigue or fear.

hopeless!" he Then Fate began to move added. "Nine ex- her pawns, in Perth, Australia, perts here have him already. of young scent. there lived a man middle age who was achieving Every possible remarkable results in the our treatment

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the huskiness of his voice.

ing speech defects among, been tried. And the children of the town by

one not system of diaphragm breathing been

has least

It

with which, of course, the doctors disagreed.

successful.”

was Lionel Logue.

sisted since the operation. Ho was confident to certainly tha time and effort would put right again.

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or He died a happy man,

Certainly he that I am sure. deserved that crowning mercy. For although he found deep

manhood, happiness in pecially in his family life, he also tasted much sorrow

and

suffering in his all-too-short

years,

Hesitant steps

His name There's a

which

to

young Aus

Australian just come over. Around the Christmas of that He seems to bu year before Wembley, was lo prove so fateful for the good. Why' not doctor try him?" sug- future British King, a

Aus- gested the friend and Logue decided tralion. take their families away for a

Next day the holiday together.

saw.. equorry Logue at Harley- street. His judg- ment of him was favourabl Logue was asked

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Ready to go

E morning ixed for the start came The family had their bags packed.

The cor

was at the door, when suddenly the telephone rang.

was the lives "Sorry," he said, "but I can- destinies not go with you. A friend has fas fallen l. I have to stay with

TOW Fate shapes the Hof men and the

of countries is always cinating study.

The pages of history will tell hew King George, though not bom to be King, and dreaming that he would be King, suddenly had ship thrust upon him.

never ever

him."

"Well, that holiday is over," said Logue, to his wife.

But he faced it now with con-

No hitch

other-the most

dia-

When the Queen was Princess Elizabeth her

arms were displayed on a lozenge surrounded by the Garter and supported by the lion and the unicom.

* *

fidence. The nervousness had o the three sat together wit been beaten. He was no longer very anxious hearts, in spite afraid of people. Speechmaking of the confidence they tried to

cach had lost most of its terrors. The give

had powerful King in the world, his hard work of the years been crowned with the Elory Queen, and the man who a few years before had landed in the of achievement.

a single

As she was a woman Yet still much more had to country unknown to

The Accession cere soul.

no bearing arms she had and the Coronation be done. monies

Of all the romantic scenes that helmet above the shield, no brought most dirult problems

AB that Royal crest, and no motto. with them. Well have been, set in

legend and Palace, rich with as the King now romance, there can

have been Queen, her arms bear all spoke, the words

more re-three. had still to be few more moving or carefully selected markable than that. to make it easter

The moment came, and the from for him.

King and Logue walked out of! Не could

the room to the broadcasting never, for exame: room, leaving the Queen clone.

Bay "King" with case.

MONEL LOGUE in the dem of his greatest achievement, «

if he would see the Duke and de- cide whether he could do any thing to help him.

First patient

ple

ways,

;

The motto is a survival the days when the knights gave some rallying cry on going into battle. Many people belleve that Honi aoit qui mal u pense is the motto of the royal house. It is not. It is the The motto of the Garter.. royal motto is Dieu et mon droit - God and my right.

AI- Those who recall the slight therefore, pause before the broadcast be when speaking gan may remember hearing the in public of his faintest of whispers in the un- father it. was mistakable voice of Lorie say "HIS

Majesty ing "Now take it quietly, Sir." or "My father"

It went without a hitch. The But the Ac-

and moment the King concluded, the Coronation care door opened softly and in steppedIn the

the Queen, tears shining in her are fixed by tradition. No happy eyes. alteration of the words is possible. day after

CA

monies

It

SO

Was

Always there

was the Accession Declaration, But In recent years the King

in

day the King

the King at overy Christmas and Logue carried on the and OR -time Logue was bealde

task, breaking less, gruelling down the difficulty into simple broadcast (incidentally, although city, conquering what must go all the pletures taken of the the King for publication with these "Yes," said Logue. "But he often have seemed to be docter.

Christmas broadcasts show him unconquerable.

almost sitting at a desk, in fact he al- must come to me here. That

Sometimes

There ways broadcast standing). imposes an effort on him which is essential for success. If I despairingly impossible. see him at home, we lose the

audibly had broadcast alone. That was value of that."

which had to be said by the Sovereign.

the full proof that he had com- """" do solemnly and sincerely pleted his cure, dar beyond even the presence of God profess, the highest hopes he could have October testify and declare that I am a held when he left that Harley- Two days later, en

went furhful Protestant; and that I street room for the flat time 10, 1920, the Duke

He was the will, according to the true in with the promise I can

which you" ringing in his cars, "No," said Logue. "I went to Harley-street.

first patient ever to enter that tent of the enactments East last year."

secure the Protestant Succession Realm, to the Throne

of my

Bard They talked for an hour and uphold and maintain the

enactments to the best of my a half.

powers according to law."

How Conversation, was very diff-

many people with nor- that cult. But at the end of the hour

speech could repeat and a half Logue said, "I can without faltering in a moment

of high emalion? cx- cure you, but it will need

tremendous effort by you. With- out that effort it can't be done."

King

"But you need a holiday," she replied. "Why don't you go East by yourself."

not tell

"Then why not

Colombo."

is What they will

how, the fascinating stery of Lut for a sortes of trivial hap- penings in the little Australian

"Well," said Yogue hesitante, town of Perth 28 years ago, it might never have been possible if I went to Colombo I for him to accept the respon- would probably want to go to sibilitles of Kingship when England." Fate beckoned him.

"England! Why not?" And that in tum might weil claimed Mrs Légue. have meant that the new Queen we love so much would never have been Queen.

The never-before-told begins in the year before

the world to Wembley.

Lucky man

room.

whom

I

he left you

mal

Friendship

cure

Logue

first and fourth

"quarters" of the royal arms, thres llons stand for England; the lice rampant 'In the second quarter represents Scotland. In the third quarter, the stringed harp symbolises Ireland.

When the King died Prince Charles became the son of the Sovereign. As such, he is once entitled to the badge of three ostrich feathers. They are

at.

© Princa

·Charles well! adopt the armle of every other Prince of Wains -last used by his great - uncle, the

011

Duke of Windsor,

and he and To the

remained on terms of deep, the badge of the heir apparent to the Crown, whether Prince loving friendship.

of Wales or not..

I think that story of the King is more vital to a true under- standing of his ebaracter than anything else in his reign.

to

t

He was a man seemingly born

suffering. He conquered

determination,

and

ceaseless effort. -How many of us could have done as well?

World Copyright-

. His motto is Ich dien--I serve. When will Prince Charles become Prince of Wales?

Says C. F., J. Hankinson,

Duke of Windsor was 16 whmi he became Prince of Wales--- but whenever -his mother decides."

The King and Logue wrestled it for what must have an eternity of time. And As Logue said later, "He

it never seemed to come right. came into ray room ú slim,

But

when the moment came when the gade mntist have seemed editor of Debrett, "Not neces CHE took him to the tele- quiet man with tired eyes and story phone and he called a all the cutward symptoms of a to hopeless, by will

habitual, the King, slowly and deliberate upen the friend who was head of a ship- man Empire Exhibition which drew ping agency. "Can you give speech defect had begun to set ly, said it without a mistake. And at the end he looked to me two cabins to England?" he the sign. When asked. "One for my wife and could see that there was hope wards Logue, sitting some dis tance away, saying with his King George then Duke of myself, and one for my two once more, in his heart."

eyes. as clearly as a man ever York had recently married children."

Seven months Inter the sald anything: "I've done it." the girl he had loved · since'

alone. made. childhood, and was taking his The man laughed. "Don't be Duke, standing first hesitant steps in public silly," he said. "This is Woms with very little hesitation, the bley year. There isn't a cabin speech that opened Australia's free in any ship, and not likely new, Parliament at Canberra.

Bevon months TH What those to be."

tele imposed on the Duke Logue put down the phone. Within half an hour it and effort has never been ade

⚫ understood For the Duke had carried, rong again. It was the shipping quately sinee earliest boyhood the bur-man. Very exclied, den of an acute speech defect which made speechmaking, and he said. "Two cabin bookings even conversation-two quali- have just been cancelled. You lies most vital to any man in can have them. The chip mil public life so -Intolerable In ten days." torture as to be almost impos-

life.

in check"

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THERE was the ordeal of the Coronation itself. Perhaps the most trying ordeal that could be put upon a man who had carried such a disability as the King had carried.

Responses couched in lan- guage that was terribly difficult for him. Microphones around OR an hour every day he and him which carried his words to Logue literally sweated in probably the biggest world au- dience that had over listened to closely

work concentrated an either

Harley-street or any man,

"I'll tell you in half hour," replied Logue.

"I's this minute or never,”. sold the shipping man.

Logue's wife nodded

in Bolton-gardens.

A

And all to be done while the King must inevitably be moved snobbish deep emotion by the

eurt many.

Incidentally. neighbour one day sent message to Logue directing him her to instruct his visitor not to

IN one simple sentence, spoken head. And Logue'said, "Right park his car outside the neigh above him-close enough to ex-|

to a fow friends years later, we take them,"

our Queen of today. described his plight more movingly than

little work

anyone else will ever do: A little v

"I

child in my cot father conding to Buy Goodnight to me, and ho couldn't,"

bour's house,

L

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an change

occasional couraging glance at Logue, for the first time tho. When Loque replied politely decoration of the Victorian Or that he would tell the Duke of York that he must put his ear der Which the King, had band

end HEX landed in London on newhere else, the neighbour ed to him casunily at the.

March 1 Logue had almost collapsed in confusion of their rehearsal in the Palace. anying. £2,000 in the world. And tour and said with the

previous night, ureatest the to keep en it, in the most ex amiability, "Oh, no, don't u "Wear this tomorrow.

As we all heard, the King Riquette demands that when pensive city, in the world,, until be delighted if the Duke will

continue to leave it there." did not falter. It was the anyone is presented to royalty, ho could make good,

proudest triumph of his life. royalty: must open the conver- He knew nobody in the An hour's work with Logue

of malloh. The young Dutto

whole of Britain. And he car was followed every day by an York, too often found that em- vied only one introduction. I hour and even two hours of barrassingly imp

Impossible for him to do.

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'I agree was to me. We have remainot equat, effort at home, The Duke

tume of close friendship never let up for a day B. mother that day.

frem the day he delivered it.

UT ono ordeal piled

upon

fol

...through

In his Arst When a cedot

He settled his family In And always with him in Coronation ceremony was term at Dartmouth a tutor, not

encouraging. and lowed by the almost equally realising the seriousness of his lodging in Malda Vale and spiring, defect, suddenly put the quen- went round the local schools simulating, was the wonderful emotion-stirring drive

led streets to the tion to him in class: "What is offering help in dealing with wife who made all things pos- the crowded. the balf of a halfti

their children's speech defects, albla for him. Soon,

workto As soon as he was hack from And, then, with tile rest be

Canberra the work, beɛmi tween, the King once more had soon, he had a little work

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