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PHILIP

THE CHINA ṀAIL, SATURDAY, MAY::3, 1952.'

Concluding the seriós

THE PEOPLE CLOSE TO THE QUEEN

What of his influence

and those who might influence him?

ONSIDER the Queen. She has had obvious advantages und not-so-

obvious diandvantages in her

up- bringing. With the result that, at 25, her make-up is a strange synthesis of special knowledge and unworldliness.

She needs to be told little about such subjects as constitutional law; yet she knows little from personal experience about the way of the world.

With a high natural intelligence, however, she is forever asking questions. And she is in a position to get, in general, two sets of answers.

first The set have been dominant throughout her

They come train her mother, a firm, youth. devout, duty-conscious mother, who has implanted a deep religious impulse in her daughter.

Queen Elizabeth the Second was brought up in what the free modern world might regard as

n narrow circle, and the path she was made to frend was the path of Secttish sobriety and strict-

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WORLDLY FIGURES

THE second set of answers are not necessarity different in hasle content; only, perhaps, in undertones and overtones. They arise because the Queen is married, and she naturally Euras first for informal discussion to her husband.

PHILIP LISTENS... a polo field

meeting with the Mountbattena

Philip, though born a princeling, joined the Navy and saw the world. He is, again, the nephew--almost the ward-of Louis and Edwina Mountbatten. Iwo strikingly

the blatting-paper He has a strang me with

sense worldly gures.

he reverca family arid

one when I signed."

Later the Queen broadened elder member

particular. responsibilities until he This is his Uncle Dickie, his

the

Let us first see what powers Philip possesses. The answer is short; he has none. He has the rank of a British priner and the tes Duke of Elin- burgh, Earl of Merioneth. and Haron Greenwich, all conferred

him by the late King. But as the husband of Queen he is still her subject. and he will have no further title or special privileges

lary

what the

As has

of

Louis Mountbatten Was play-friend of the now

of Windsor, a second causin by birth, indeed.

the Duke

naval

and

His wife played her part, too, with the brains of a man and some of the attributes of a debutanto,

• much

There they are now, nearer by their nephew's mar- ringo to the steps of the throne.

It: WRS

Earl Mountbatten

the

1

who may have conceived iden that Philip would be highly desirable consort

for Elizabeth..

When the diMculty prose Just as it had with Albert, that Philip was not British, the cori made the initial arrange-

ments for his naturalisation.

But on the impending nar- riage he would not be drawn. Neither did he take дру fur- ther steps in the matter. De- velopments would take their own pail.

HIS. TASK

FTER the wedding, Philip wag anxious to estabilsh himself as a public figure.

How? His uncle stepped in. He was president of the Na». tional Playing Fields Associa tion. He arranged a banquet at the Mansion House to an- nounce his resignation . In favour of Philip.

Poga 11.

FORTIGH OFFIC

Sincere's

Acestuos

**A message for Anthony. she says. Do you mind asking her to repeat her name?"

London Express Service.

TEMPLER IS THE TARGET

London, Apr. 25.

OW the Socialists have

n

Na new target-Templer

of Malaya, writes the Daily Express in it. editorial column today, They seek to do to him what they fail- Phillped to do to Erskine of Suez.

He handed over to the public task of launching

then

the association's £500,000 Sil Disparage him. Denigrate Edwina Ashley was the ver Jubiine Appeal-and was virtually her sonetary and 51-year-old Ent Motinibateve most intimate

his policies, Sap and destroy adviser. But

watched over granddaughter of Sir Ernest vanished from the picture.

new resolution after his death a private secre- Phillp's youth, sent him to Gor Cassel, the Jewish-born Bnan- The job gave Philip his first the fresh

to the Sovereign was ap- denstown, the Scottish public cler who was Edward VII's wide contacts, his first practice and determination he has pomited for the first time. school, provided the back closest friend. From him she na public speaker, his first brought to the long and

And the official functions of ground at Broadlands and else inherited millions and a teste good-works Press.

bitter jungle war, so ineptly On the accession the prob where for the Confort now, when there is a

Millip's holidays, for royalty. unde- und

of Jem private secretary, are

public work conducted by Mr Attlee's insphed in him a

When

Edvinta Louls and

Pallip's cided. They will, however, be ambition.

married, a formidable combina-

arose again. And again Uncle Government. that exactly

Dickie stepped in. It is said tion was bern. From a fabul that he advised Now nebody is going to suz- Queen

Philip Fert that the car will use a

10 Be- she herself does not confer.

And why? dicatos.

Because Templer lous penthouse in Park Lane

come the "oyes He is not yet Prince

on hi they ruled stedgehammer influence Con-

and cara" of is being Arm. Because he re- the International This title was given to

nephew. STRONG MIND

the Queen. been said, sart.

House the Brock And

fuses to be kind to Communists set, Albert by Victorin in Letters

Philip. Is not a subject for the phily talk was by no means

and their sympathisers. He re- Patent, but 17 years after the

vonfined to the trivial.

fuses to be tendent with thurs WITH all that in mind it re- "heavy father" approach; harringe.

were

e threads

and their accomplices who am- true that Philip the carl-would not lend him. There Even £3 Prince Consort

thought which followed out ex-

bush British soldiers and mur- But he is there, He is there tremist ideas. There was intel- Philip's precedence would have con play a part not in influence self to it.

for Philip to consult

Вла uny Jectual interest in Labour in, 50 to be decided. For Albert died ing a particularly self-assured

young Queen but

He must the Left, and Mussolini and before his wos settled.

speck, breakfast-table discus- kind of emergency. Albert, of course, was noth- sions.

of Right; but not ng like as popular as Phillp

agreement, just when he came to this country, he is a young man of chura- auck the Common promptly.ter. He has not the brilliance

of min which some hova at tributed to him, but he has strengin of mind which could make for an admirable firmness He is not lightly of purpose. swayed.

Annuity

of

suggested cut £50,000 to £30,000.

Victoria, at first, allowed him small part in her formal bus She wrote about

some State papers: "Albert helpo:

ness

G

mains

to

in

therefore be considered.

So let #1

be said at once that

AWARENESS

ย

Mount-

his kind

necessarily awareness.

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of

When the world moved to

HIS VISITS THUS Philip has visited the

House of Commons for de bates, including the Budget, and there the Queen may not go. He der British plantars and

I wives. has attended a dinner given by Mr Churchill at No. 10 to the American Admiral McCormick,

their

In Commons and Lords the

And he can tell the Queen Seelast snipers are busy, as

YOUIS and Edwina

war, Louis Mountbatten stepped what he sees and hears with integer to ge. General Templer male frankness, Nobody else with their words as any Com- He played the into public view. batten were for long

munist would be to get him with colourful leaders of a cosmepo- his part in successive posillons can Philip has studied the life and a bullet.

paramount responsibility, for and of his role history will

judge.

tan zoetely which was lightly of held together by its taste the chic and the chukka,

I SAY MORRISON

ENTLEMEN,

on my right, Mr

Herbert Morrison,

of South Lewisham,

and on my left, Mr

WILL WIN

Aneurin Bevan, from Ebbw Vale.

Those two men are the principal contenders for the future leadership of the Labour Party.

I don't believe that there in any immediate prospect of a change in the Socialist leadership. Mr Attlee's posi- tion is impregnable, and will remain so until ho chooses to retire. ·

ment, and some recent op.

have pearances back-benchers.

leiters of Prince Albert and delved deep into the secret royal archives. He is never, never likely to overstep the ilne in constitutional behaviour.

But when the unexpected happens, in emergency or crisis, he may turn to his uncle for personal help:

SHE INSISTS disappointed

In fairness, however, should be recalled followed Ernest

-on points

again the clash in the Socialist Party was emphasised at Margate when a mass-membership union voted overwhelmingly for the Bevan philosophy. But Morrisan, too, is fasting success in the L.C.C. elections. Where is it all leading?

by EMANUEL SHINWELL, M.P. necessity limited. Only are not too happy about him.

He has somethines Indulged Even the friction within Morrison and Bevan appear in persampt andeaustic com- the party has failed to to be in training for the ments about

the them, and wenken his prestige, or to final bout.

bruised victims he has rubbed of the wrong way will not forget impair his authority.

I have known every

the time of Keir

In the queue

As the deputy leader one the Parliamentary Labour

has

too readily."

They rage and distort his de elsien to punish by curfew and rationing villagers who have harboured, fed, and given re- erults to the terrorists.

the

They want to declare jungle nzu ral, when Templer an-

WXE have, then, in this series of nounces that he will destroy by that he articles, surveyed the range chemicals-harmless to man or Bevin, who of counsel, close and faint, to beast-the cover it gives to the until he became ill fled which the Queen can turn when killers, and that he will spray the post with remarkable she wishes.

their crops as well. The Queen, however, is self-

brilliance.

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Perhaps foreign affairs possessed and of a firm turn of moy not suit Morrison's mind. She reads avidly-news-Milayn? Why do. British plant- training and temperament, papers, books, and ometal

principal pre-occupation has been with domestic affairs, where his abundance of com- mos sense is a great asset,

His

re-fers and mines, wi.h their ports. She will not be put of wives and children, live behind barbed wire, in fear of murder with generalities.

Always she insists on the de- or worse?, talis, the reasons, the motives.

hos Mr Churchill

To keep Malaya fros. And lo Indeed, Like other politicians he been surprised at her grip on keep Brain alive. loves popularity, but

will affairs, both domestic and for- never seek it by yielding to eign.

party clamour, whether from members or the general pub fle; he will always do what he believes to be, right.

NEL

Forcing move --

National the JEITHER

Executive of the Labour Bevan may look upon them

annual coα- the duit a. proity

lot Party nbr

bis ference can interfere with the hardly measuring

oxclusive privilege of Labour M.P.s to elcet a leader,

up

10

men

There are many able

of

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the

of his predecessors since Party, Morrison is in a 03

Hardie, specially strong position. He and doubt whether any of has occupied the post for standard. A fatal error. them has been held in many years, and, was not, among them who are not want-

If, however, at the annual higher esteem., I hope he even challenged at the lasting in courage, as indeed they conference there is open hos- leadership, will long continue to be the election for the office. have shown during, and since, lity against the lender,

On the other hand, Bevan's the war, in the interests of the, the result would be uncertain.

Perhaps they But when he does retire, papularity with the rank and whole nation.

Labour M.P.s could won't succumb too easily

hardly file is exceptional, and

of parliumin- Ignore the existence what then?

never been surpassed-perhaps brilliant feats only once has it been equalled tary oratory. They also have a strong minority opinion in the

strangely and that,

anybody conference, and also in enough, healthy suspicion of

who rocks the boat.

constituency organisations. IN ADDITION to Morrison was by Oswald Mosley,

and Bevan I have heard I shall never forget the oc-

His value when Mosley was several other names men- casion

cheered to the echo at a tioned as possible succes- Labour Party

conference IT is true that the trades unions Hors, umong them

Hugh Llandudno. Dalton, Chuter Ede, und Almost everybody expected tunt election of the leader, but them. Jim Griffiths.

that, because of his popularity, nobody could be appointed who

was in favour with he would replace Ramsay Muc- Among the younger men

Bevan will, therefore, find it Donald. are Hugh Galtskell, Alf And so he might have done, tough to convince them that punch Robens, and Jim Callaghan If he had not become entangled in addition to having a

of -all first-rate.

In the wob of a political doe he also knows this rules.

prin-

Evon Mr. Crossman, who trine allen to Labour'a

ciples.

at

This might force them into submission, and their attitude on the future leadership would correspondingly affected: Such a situation is not impos- sible,

bo have no pay in the ac-

So, I fancy the chances Herbert Morrison to gain a vic tory on points..

What is more, I shall take a lot of convincing that a move of this sort is not in con- templation.

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Union power-

is Mr Bevan's right-hand

His error

If the election were to take THE STAKES are high: in

THE man, can be put among the

place just now Morrison would

the event of Labour's, re- hopefuls...

win

an by WHAT will Labour do at the

overwhelming turn to power, whoever is op- Pitt was Prime Minister' next time of esking? Bevan majority.

pointed the leader would al- Morrison, lio Bevan, has most certainly become the before he had reached the has all the essential parlia

considerable He is

parliamentary Prime Minister, 'mentary qualities.

qualities. He is a sound ad-

The Bevanites are men of 'ministrator, has on unequalled

and considerable Intelligence experience of publ'e

service,

They will and his integrity is beyond re- organising ability.

press Bevan's claims-hard.

The Labour Party has been engulfed in 4, wave of emotion before now. If they can pro- the rank and ate into the anything can

ho is Smo perle seem to dislike "all there," and a deal more: ha Damewhat pontifical manner,

say he is not a Ho people

appears to be Arst-class administrator, but I raying: "Brother, here I am.

Боте

alway

age of 25, but the Labour fascinating debater, carries Party ¡y much too cautious hetty punch, has lots of for such experiments. dacity, and knows all the par- Let not a wrong word bo lamentary ropes. He may not

be everybody's cup

proach.. p of tea, but said of anyone who, aspires in the political arena to be the lender of his party. After all, ambition is not a crime. It is only ob- don't believe this is true. No, trying to, do my best for you Fight temper, jectionable when it fails to here is a man whose talents and the world at large, and if happen

you don't appreciate the fact. Whether the move will ac measure up to the right should not be underrated.

But he also suffers from 9 it is your fault and not mine. tually succeed deponda, in my qualificationa, m

His, short period of office as view and in the final resort grave disability, which may But this is the kind of easily lose him the anal battle. Foreign Secretary was un-on this attitute of the trades contest where the field is of. The trade union leaders marked by substanting achieve unions,

:

There would be neither peace,

own poor

Britain

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It may well be that, sooner Justice, nor freedom in Malaya, than anybody thinks she will or a the of cur

living it emerge as a completely indepen-standard of dent and identifiable entity, a pulled out Queen of this Rentm to whom Tho . British people the advisers will be glad to go through with retreating; through. for advice.

with shirking their duties and responsibilities, They are through with the scuttlera Abadan and all from

their shameful doings. As they were behind Erskine of Suzz, now

This series was prepared and written

by

John Mather they are behind Templer,

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