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THE FAMILY IN THE BIG WHAT A HOUSE ARE DOING WELL RELIEF!

W

HEN I was a small boy in Toronto there was big house

the up atreet at which I used to gaze in awe. It belonged to a Dr Moorehouse and, to my youthful eyes, he seem ed rich and powerful. When he went along the street, carrying his satchel, it was if Rockefeller or the Shah of Persia, or even the Mayor of Toronto, had pass ed our way.

0.9

By Beverley Baxter, M.P.

were not much interested in at that lonely, wistful gure, Our town was being hadly him. He wasn't photogenic like and wondered what the fates smashed up. the Prince of Wales. There hold for him, were also Prince Henry, Prince George and Princess Mary, but they were too young to be of

much account.

come

on

One Saturday night, a bomb destroyed the House of Commons. That was That night, unknown to the a bad night. More than three thousands of people passing the thousand people were killed. coffin on its dals, the four sons

mounted Lu uniform

Peace ... guard. Motionless they stood with the hands resting on thele swords, their helmeted heads bowed low.

wrong.

WAR AGAIN

An

ed and waited. And then enmo the news. "It's a boy.' Richi across London and across the world went the jubilant "It's boy" Little girls ara no much nicer, but the desire In king and commoner is to have o boy first.

Not very long ago the Queen came to the House of Lords to As oper her first Parliament.

the the lights went up Ori brilliant coloured scene she en tered slowly with her husband guiding her with her hand in

or at any rate the end of the war. Quite frankly, it looked as it Princess Elzas held high. beth was not going to be a very Her attractive young woman. face lacked animation and the did not wear her clothes part!- cularly well. Actually she was a bit gawky, which is another way of saying that she was

cap

Because she was

not yet tho crowned she had to take Oath of Service to her people. and then she road the Speech⋅ from the Throne.

THE SISTERS

When the war was over I re- turned to Canada and WAI among those who stood whe balcony of the Royal Canadian tho The Moorehouse family Yacht Club and watched

launch

is dond The King Across the buy. were not only neighbours with the Prince of Wales stand- olher King is proclaimed but but a dynasty. Unhappily I ing in the prow. As the launch

never to be crowned,... There dowed

the do not know what happened

is deep, deep trouble irs down he waved to the the Club, lawns, a

Things have gone shy. Big House. to the dynasty. There were people BONA but, like Carthage, shy, diffident wave of his hand

The family went away to that was strangely moving. So they seem to have dis-

of our young men had

South Africa for a holiday, or CHE looked radiantly lovely, many

and to our delight her voice as much of a holiday as Royal- not returned. appeared into the mists.

In his slim.

Ly

that We board had acquired lower notes ever get. Today in London there is a rensitive youth, Edward 'seemed

Corona Elizabeth on the radio dedicating filled the famous place, for all family who live in a big house, to be speaking for the silent ABDICATION.

tion.

herself to the service of her Ita bad acoustics, without not exactly at the head of the battalions of the dead,

There was no question abour people. She sounded almost difficulty. She even made street, but in Grounds of lis

January 1020, From the it-Princess Margaret was be ilke a little girl.

If her sound

Government They are citizens of the decks of the liner Melogana 1 having

in tils really meant business pretty badly In the Westminster and Borough of

A few weeks inter, after they. watched the coastline of Abbey. It is true that her little had returned, there was a gar

new session. As husband, con-

するか no doubt pay rates and taxes to the local treasurer. They are Canada fade from view. Often legs could not touch the floor den party in the grounds of the

in the years ahead I was to the also ch

but that was no excuse for her Big House, and as a neighbour vaters lists for

come back but only as a visitor,

swinging

Intense concentration. When sho the very I went along to see the fun, Parliamentary and local govern- war

that arbiter of human moment that her father and There were all sorts and sizes, relaxed for the first time.

had finished her speech his face ment, although I am not certain

had altere my life. No mother were being crowned, of people drinking ten And And they exercise their right fate.

longer would I gaze respectfully Quite rightly, Elizabeth told stuffing themselves with cakes. With all the pageantry, with very often, if

If at all.

koop this at the Big House of Dr Moore her to

saw the King, walking towards all the colour and pomp My first awareness of

looked as demure as a us with a slim, smort, lovely circumstance, there was one in- little angel, London was to be my home.

#torted swinging again. Forever she was, she was absolute- simple elemental humanity. well brought up child she ought y

of herself, sure

and she to have known belter but, like wore her frock as if it was de- her uncle, she liked doing signed for her and for her things her own way.

own:

them

at

her Iega

port and adviser, the Duke with Edinburgh watched her

family was on an exciting day house at the end of the street. Margaret but then the legs young woman beside him. Who- cident that stood out for

And

ana

the

man

FIERCELY PROUD

After

the

wer

WAS

alone,

4

ELIZABETH

in Toronto when a horse and buggy drove up to our house handed them over to my father just as if it was our very own, instead of

for IS the family at hired for the afternoon. Buckingham Palace was con- being But suddenly my mother came

Coronation the out in a burst of tears and sald carned the daughter, Mary, had

King and Queen vlalted that we could not go driving married, but she lived mostly in Yorkshire and we saw little of had

Canada. Then there was because Queen Victoria

her. The Prince of Wales

les ngain. One day the Queen camo T was Elizabeth. She had gone died. Not to be outdone We

to Oliver Stanley's house to I to South Africa a girl. She five

wept very loud seemed determined to remain a children

bachelor, out one day it was meet u. few members of the had come back a young woman. Indeed. but our grief was not announced that his brother Commons. She said to me: Truly the female of the species unmixed with the regret that Albert-breaking with tradition "Our trip across Canada there was to be no buggy ride,

In a wonderful and inexplicablo like a second Coronation," and affair. The female grows up by -was going to marry a Scolush The years went on

until

girl who had some Royal blood her cyes were r..oist. The the brother

I and Joined

moments, not by years, her velns but was not Abdication had darkened the Queen's Own Rifles, not out of in

you take this "Philip, do people's actually a Royal Person.

hearts in Britain. passion for milliarism or

woman Elizabeth to be Canada had taken them in its lawful wedded wife, to have and your They were married In a any sense of duty, but because

orms. In fact, they there was to be a great pageant church, of course.

in. Westminster married on the Plains of Abraham far, were

and It was quite an far away in Quebec to celebrate Abbey,

The black-haired Scol- the anniversary of Wolfe's de affair.

tish fent of Montcalm. And the

kinsmen

of the bride, every costume.

stood son of their national Prince of Wales, the King Edward Vil

forcely proud at one side of the Londoners. Was

chancel. Supporting the groom inspect us in person.

was the Prince of Wales as best man, and he very nearly stole the picture.

дру

HOW EXCITING

W

to

Д

7HEN we marched past in tine force neighbours at all stood

The neighbours turned out in

and

lot of people who -for it seems that we were

The Prime Minister, a line regiment or something outside..

Law, looked Lord Roberts, the famous 'Bobs Bonar

terribly of the South African War, rode drawn and weary, for

Jadeed at our head, for unknown to my death was already beckoning to brother, or myself he was our him. Margot Asquith cut Lloyd Colonel-in-Chief. In the centre George as they met by accident There wero was the rather sad looking in the doorway.

of Prince of Wales, also

ali sorta

and generals ndmtrals with clusters of horse.

medals-gathered in some... jolly. But how exciting-it-was-to see in the river the grey British old campaigns in all sorts of battleships, a couple of French places.

But on the whole It was not cruisers and one or two white gleaming

The brother American fighting a great occasion,

2 future king seldom in- ships. The world had come to of

if

dames the Imagination Quebec! I wondered day, somehow, I would be able more

on

Rome

any

than a sister of a king.

to cross the ocean and see Lan- Wherever he went, whatever don and perhaps Paris.

unlikely, for my father the Prince of Hearts. sccmed was a philosopher who did vibrate and us

it the role, the star was Edward

to the money modulat

an office boy at three dollars week it was even

NATION WEPT

UT princes and commoners

more unlikely that I would B have two experiences that ever accumulate enough funds. for the purpose.

10 hold.

"I do."*

and

its

It was at the end, when the Queen, on her husband's arm, walked slowly down the steps, and as they wheeled she came ⚫opposite Princess Margaret. They were five yards apart and their eyes met.

face broke into a

it clearly:

largestant only que thing and meant

Slater, you were good!"

The Sovereign and the Prin- cess were, for that spilt second, two sisters and nothing more. We had youth and courage and this girl Queen of ours happinem. It may well be that bring

will

reallly to those words: "Happy and Glorious."

House are doing well. They are In fact, the family in the Big popular with the neighbourhood, and we hope that they will be among us for many, many years. And you must not mind I we

The war the war the The family in the Big war ..

It was just the same service as House would not leave London. when you and the rest of us got

though the bombers came

night. But they

when i got mar- were married, and

Ne ried. When it was over we

chocred our heads Princess Elizabeth

off. They was really were a charming pair, and WAAF or something in uniform. the whole neighbourhood was all get a bit excited about the Margaret was too young to be delighted that they bad had Coronation next year. This much anything. But we didn't pay such a lovely wedding.

altention because there

I am certain Margaret will be much

A year later the crowds wait- much better behaved than were a lot of things happening. ed outside the Big House, wait- was last time.

'TOP SECRET':' YOU BE THE JUDGE

Would this film

・・・ whiola gets its laughs by exploiting

a touchy Irénomadenal situation

outrage you?

HAVE just seen a daring British film. You may decide that it they shore. They come into the is a dangerous and ill-timed world and they leave the world | film too. Somewhere about that time we

when their story is ended, One Its King Edward VII died, but my whe

told us mother did not weep. She was day the newspapers

SECRET. not sure that King Edward had that the King was seriously ill Leen a good man, and in her and then, one night, we heard the sad repeated words of the goodness was the supreme BBC announcer: eyes

"The King's quality. However, human

le drawing peacefully to a foli certain personal pride life that the sad eyed Prince of close."

Almost with a sense of guilt Wales, who had watched us do

ot

or

Д

realised that there

by

LEONARD MOSLEY

The hero makes

you consider

a fool

of

Bays

Cummings

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-inst those quies discus-

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Brooklyn

mero alegru pelena

our doorstep

-peace and quiet at last.

she

AD IN BRITAIN-

I consider this to be a daring film because it has the courage to take a world political silud- tion which, le too grim and too awful to contemplite seriously and makes it seem less insoluble by turning it into fun,

WHAT WIL

HE

DO?

-with American potition.

London Express Bervice

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS

-By-

Chapman Pincher

name is-TOP-

My personal feeling is that so Already, amid the laughs everybody, including Stalin.

long as we can laugh about the

THE RAZOR Does this outrage you? Do cold war, so long win it stay, colt, and cheers with which ̧nu- diences have greeted it at a while we teeter on the razor's bothered about it that the danger- It spalling that It is when we get too hat and couple of "sneak" previews, edge between peace and war

time in

draws near, there have been boos and someone should be allowed to

make a joke of the whole thing? secret" is outrageuse members of in many ways, "Top It spares angry complaints.

no one. Not only Now why, even before Ita

Does it shock you to see Stalin the Soviet Union got-a-satirical official premiere in London next mocked? He is, when all is sald mouth his "Top Secret" started and done, head or a Government going over, but British civil Bervants and Cabinet Ministers argument and disputation? with which we still have normal are turned into comedians too.!

Why do some people say to diplomatic relations.

The film even dares to do the producer: Thank heavens

If the

MERCILESS CARICATURE

EXPECT a lot of people will

patent-

ed by a Londoner, needs. no soap, no brush, no electricity.

When a grille is

pressed against the face an "up-and-→ ·

motion of the down

spring- loaded barrel rotates six bladas, Inventor Stanley Elaky hopes to market it soon in plastic for 259. It worked satisfactorily when I tried it out. It took me more than twice as kerry othe safety razor method, but rate the time well spent. I shaved in' bed.

the March Past, was now the we

was King. To that extent, although passing from the Big House and

from our lives a man, and ba- great distance, I was

king, who had devoted his ginning to know the family.

whole life to the service of his August 19141 The King need- ed us, or, at any rate, that is people. It would seem strange him and his wife what the newspapers said, My not to. seo brother had died or he would driving in their coach on state you were brave enough to tackle While I was watching Top some hilarious sharpshooting In have been among the first. With occasions. A zation is not un- it that way": while others con- Secret" I kept wondering to me- the direction of the Americans. the realisation that the

a family, and our volees demn him as a hatemonger and self how I would feel war like

hushed it one's own trouble-fumenter for tackling it positions were reversed.

CAN IT HAPPEN? - would only be a matter of two were

three months I did not father was lying dead.

at all?

I

CAN! A healthy person really'}" bother to enlist, although it Naturally, the second don

Because "Top Secret” takes the Say, for instance, this were a protest against it. The Combe frightened to death? After would have been fun to have Albert, and his Scottish wife | cold war as its theme, and docs Russian film. The hero would munists and fellow-travellers in

studying the nervous enginoor this country are likely to Govern came to the Big House, leaving something with it that not even then be a Ukrainian

mechanisms which could bo two tiny little daughters Hollywood has had the courage who was smuggled out of Russia furious, for a caricature of one their

responsible for such a catais. at home.

So did the Duke of to attempt yet. It turns the whole and brought to London by our of their peace delegations in trophe, doctors, think that, the Kent and the Duke of Gloucen- thing into comedy.

Secret Service in the Bellef that Moscow is merelless. I do not ter with their pretty wives.

he was a famous scientist.

answer is Yes, think Stalin, will like

his own Princess Mary joined them from

Ho would Yorkshire. The head of the

be invited to 10, portrait a bit.

And I imagine that some people Downing Street to meet Winston

will

against the fim on protest Churchill.

the grounds that it is insulting and mischievous.

What do you think?, You will have A chance to Judge for yourselves, for in to

zeen London at the ment's

expense.

VERY BUSY

THE HERO

IS A PLUMBER VET it was hard to walk past

the recruiting sergeants on family was dead and the blinds

PTUJE background is Moscow and the street "What about joining were drawn. "up?" "It's a man's life, son,” The nation wept for this

the Kremlin. Stalin comes Food

inta With my fellow militia- job for you. man.

the story and is shown He would despise or ridicule "We've got. a "Your King and country need men I had marched past him scheming with his underlings to everything he saw in Britain, you." All right, I'll go quietly. at Quebec, Now as a member gain atomic supremacy and con- and after proving that Winston

bomb.

and the British Army were just alled in the Olymple with 8.000 with the peers a

and commoners

But the hero is 1 other Canadian soldiers and in Westminster Hall to receive

dond body.

mists.

the

The

hoarse

for a laugh.

A

There are laughs over poéca

Curtain.

be

The brain-centre balloved to be most concerned with ́ ̈æmd-) toalled the hypotalamus linked directly with the beart by nerves.

-{

So if it is violently stimulated it can throw the heart into an abnormal type of palpitation which might be fatal.

Dr W. Proctor Harvey, "Bug=" So, after a period of training, I of Parliament I was to stand trol of the big little English a bunch of deits would finally go morrow's China Mai, begin a

the story of "Top Secret"the record of an apparently healthy.. story of the plumber who went 20-year-old woman who" saw, England loom up from the mands of the excorting and played / And every situation is happily back behind the Iron three-day serial' which will tell 'ports this theory with n. case« »

The family in the Big House cers rang out in the misty. petillons and the sort of clothes hope not. I hope that you would, the Russians the first story that palpitation when only

Would that・・offend you? I to Moscow and made a fool of ❘ develops a dangerous all were very busy. The King and drizzling air outside. Silently Soviet women in Moscow wear, sill be able to laugh at it, as dores to make a comedy of the scared,

they carried his coffin into There sky Queen went everywhere

you undoubtedly will at "Top East-West struggle,

But he admits that his theory Siberia.

Secret" couraging the people, but the Westminster Hall.

Is it fun or dangerous dolly? does not explain, Voodoo deathầ Behind the coffin' came the The

dreaded

Intense terror of the medicine young Prince of Wales wis causing a lot of trouble by In- lonely figure of Extward VIII. police are turned into a bunch

man's "block magic power, 19 almost certainly the cutise "at' isting on going to France. His He walked alone because of all of incompetent burroons madly

Voodoo dianth,” but -1- KannadĒJ was the children, he had not taken chasing the English plumber younger brother, Albert,

work, dowe its victim: grodamily Instead of by, sudden attacke

M

joices about

secret

at as with the Fleet because unto himself a mate. There over Moscow rooftopa prid he was a naval officer, but we were many of us who looked through the rule of Merlin,

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