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THE, CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY - 6, 1958.
HOW GILES SPENT IT
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6.
GILES, recovering rapidly
from pneumonia, thank. you, thought you might like to see how hla' sickroom tooked for Christmas. Here is a key to the carryinge
1 Healthy friends who heard i was a little better called in to drink my health with my. Alcotch.
2 Batch of Christmas xunta
discussing sliments.
3 Grandma.
4 Another batch of Christ- mas aunts ·discussing allments.
5 Healthy Cousin Andrew.
who has a theory that the only care for pneumonla is to get out in the fresh air and shoot something. 6 Anti-social Christmas aunt discussion.alimente on her own.
Bush, who ought to have the same theory AN Cousin Andrew, but haan't.
8 Georgie, who has a theory that the more penicillin he pumps into the twine in advance the lens chance they've got of catching pneumonia.
9 Me getting a little better.
A plague on your Merry Christmases.
London Express Service
The Queen and the Monarchy-Chapter Two
THE SOVEREIGN'S-
ROYAL POWERS
HE British Constitu- tion, as we have seen, is unwritten. which means that if
By Sir Charles Petrie
ch
the '52, and Lord advice of the outgoing Premier. wrong."
It is to be noted, however, that
it is to work properly there must of necessity be 4 certain amount of give and Government, usually take in the relations of those concerned in its work- ing, not least between the Crown and the Government of the day.
It would surprise a great many people if they were told what the Queen can do without consulting Parliament, and consequently without acting in any way Megally.
this advice cannot be given unless it is asked, and it is not
asked. always
For example, when Gladstone resigned in 1004 he meant to recommend Sir wom Harcourt
Palmerston was Elizabeth's initiation will be the same as they were when Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror were crowned in the 11th century.
Having come to the throne 80 young Queen Elizabeth II will in due course acquire that same experience and breadth of view.
The main task of
essentially
a
as
the crowd at a medineval Coro- nation.
This will be dono four times, to the North, to the South, to the East, and to the West, while the the Archblahop, presents
Queen to the assembled com- pany, who will
greet her with acclamations, crying out:
"Ccd save Queen Elizabethf” .......
There will probably be some- thing in tho" neighbourhood of 5,000 people at the Queen's Coro- nation, and they will be os re- presentative of all classes 'and callings as can possibly be.
The Coronation is not, appears to be supposed in some our new quarters, Just a public spectacle his Queen, however, will not be to like the Royal Tournament or the auccessor, but Queen Victoria did defend the prerogatives of the ceremony of Trooping the Colour, not ask his advice and sent for Crown, but to act DS the It
religious Up to this century the atten- Lord Rosebery.
guardian of the Constitution, and service, and is conducted by dance was socially somewhat to see that it is observed in the the highest dignitaries More recently, in 1923, Mr spirit as well as in the letter. Church of England, which is the included representatives of the of the restricted, but King Edward VII Bonar Law, then Prime Minister, Whatever may have been the established In theory she can declare war
church of was too ill when he resigned to case in the past, the Throne is or make peace, and annex or
country. surrender territory, without the discuss the question of his suc- not now a donger to, but the consent of Farliament; but in he sent a message advising him
cessor with King George V, but protector practice her power is limited by to consuls Lord Balfour, which the fact that only the House of Commons-can-impose taxationeault that Mr Stanley Baldwin was accordingly done, with the and sooner or later any policy became Premier, calls for
expenditure money.
an
of
field; while both he and his successor, Anne, took the chair at meetings of the Cabinet.
İlberties.
of, the nation's
Above Parties
the county counells, municipalities, trade unlons, and friendly societies,
The great officers of State who assist at it are but servers and Of one thing we may be sure, acolytes to the archbishops and and it is that the Coronation of bishops. It is the finert, perhaps Queen Elizabeth II will be more. the only, mediaeval pageantry in dignified than that of some of patriotism transfused with re- her
her predecessors. At the crown- the ing of George IV, for present age,
r instance, the Chapel of Saint Edward came to resemble a ennek-bar, for the altar was covered with plates of sandwiches and bottles,” and int
Still Human VET throughout the elaborate intervals in the service the King used to repair there for solld and ceremoniel there runs 庭 recognition that the covereign, liquid refreshment.
it but a little lower than the
All the same the theory s isIE King's (or Queen's) Gov- ligion that survives
ernment must be carried has a free on," is an old constitutional adage. At the same ilme there has that the Sovereign
If Mr and there have been times when been no legal limitation to the hand in these matters.
were to resign
the the Sovereign has personally had Folge of Willkan III at the end Queen would presumably send to ensure that this was done. power of the Crown since the Churchill
as things are at Such times may come again, of the 17th century, and that for Mr Eden King led British armies in the Present, but she would be quite
her rights If she asked Perhaps the role of the Crown or Sir was best defined by that very either Mr R.A. Butler
So recently as the Coronation David Maxwell Fyte to form a experienced wearer of it, Eliza angels, is still a human being, of Queen Victoria the Bishop of Government.
beth I, when the sald: "To be with personal feelings, opinions, Bath and Wells by mistake a King and wear a crown is a and predilections, and subject to turned over The Queen would only be ex- thing more glorious to them that the commonest
two pages of his weaknesses of copy of the service;
the_error og her powers if she up see it than it is pleasant to them humanity, that is to say its was not noticed until the Queen pointed someone who could not that bear it. For myself, I was tempers, whims, and capricca. The
had retired to her waiting-room, get the backing of a majority in never so much enticed The House of Commons.
to return to the glorious name of or Rogal
King
Thus these who are present at When she had authority of a queen, as de- the service next June will hear the ceremony was transacted.
throne while the omitted part of lighted that God made me His professions of humility on the Instrument to maintain His Queen's part as well as anthems
any
This latter practice was not abandoned for
political reason, but because George I dil not understand English. Queen still retains the right to veto a Bill, even if it has been
Parlia passed by both Houses of ment, but this has not been done since the days of Anne, and drastic action of this sort would
IN THE MOUTH. ̧·
normal circumstances.
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Important Part
the
King's Champion
A
CHILD SOLD FOR 50 DOLLARS
By
Jack Clark
London.
THE year 1841 was
THE
鷂
joyous one for Britain.
For, on November 9th, the baby destined one day to rule na King Edward VII, "the Peacemaker," Way born. And in the same year, another baby-this time a negro piccannini--- was born on an Alabama plantation. He had scarcely been laid in his cradle when he Wod sold for fifty dollars as an infant slave,
The other day, at the extraordinary age of 111, that one-time slave, Jack Riddle, died on his Tallageda farm. In view of his amazing years, we may as- sume that Jack Riddle was fortunate enough to enjoy kind masters before Abe Lincoln's rise to the U.S. Presidency brought slavery In América to an end,
Yet it is a shock to think that, even today, & man could live who was born, sold, and raised in bondage. It makes one realise just how far we have travelled in so comparatively short a time.
Certainly, Jack Riddle must have become so used to new rarvels that these eventually ceased to thrill. Had men succeeded in reaching the moon
in his lifetime, he might well have taken this achievement the most phlegmatically of all,
Probably the event that made tho biggest im- pression on Riddle's youth- ful mind was the birth - in his own coun- try of America of the modern oil industry, in 1859.. For oil brought in its train a whole breathless 'spate of Innovations undreamed of in pre-petroleum times, and revolutionised, in fact, the world's whole conception of life.
As a man of the soil, he
*háve
In stared: must astonishment as the first oil-powered machines in- vaded the fields and the cotton crop began. leaving for the warehouses in lorries Instead of creaking wains
And the drone of the Best acroplane must have sounded even more incredible. The shat- fering roar of some
supersonie jet plane smashing the stund barrier cannot scund any more sensational to us than did the mutter of those early bi-planes to Jack Riddle, nearly fifty years a.go.
We may wonder what ho thought of the advent of tho motion pictures as he saw Holly- wood recreate dramas of that Civil War through which he lived and which, won him his final freedom. And the an o'd of nearly
When eighty first World War ended, what were his; thoughts then? Could he possibly have imagined that. ho would live through a second
men
clearly never now be taken in can thus be seen how im- truth and glory, and to defend' of praise to her glorification.
portant a part the Crown this kingdom from peril, dis
Above all, there will be an in- plays in the working of the Con- honour, tyranny, and oppres
sistence that she must bind stitullon, and how the Queen, In sian."
T one time, too, there was a herself by oath to her duty and banquet in Westminster Hall- the event of a Prime Minister
towards her after the Coronation, which the dying
suddenly, might
We may be sure that the great responsiblity be
the people Sovereign attended, and where THAT, then is the Queen's fraught with the most serious where in
called upon to make a decision Queen's successor and namesake country; to govern
regards her according to the laws of the land; the King's Champion appeared on Wetive power today? part consequences to her subjects both duties in exactly the seme Ught, and to execute justice with horseback to throw down, the
mercy: prayers of intercession gauntlet to
who would from what has already been at home and overseas.
The Crown is above the parties will also be offered up that she challenge the recently crowned mentioned her prerogatives are
and. It is the may be strengthened for the monarch's right to the throne. One of the great advantages of and their strife, the dissolution and convocation
a republie is responsiblity of each succeeding fulfilment of these obligations. This banquet, however, was dis- of Parliament, the dismissal and a monarchy over
continued at the accession of selection of Ministers, the crea that it ensures continulty, and so monarch to aco that it is kept
The Coronation, in fact, will Queen Victoria, as it was felt to there. the risk of violent tlon of Peers, and the nomination reduces
be of the nature of a solemn be too much of an imposition on to official appointments.
change. Ha Edmund Burke so well put it: "People will not look Coronation Splendour covenant between the Queen a young woman after a service such holocaust or see the dawn. and her people one of When, for example, the Prime forward to posterity who never
which then lasted four hours, 1- Minister resigns the Sovereign look backward to their an- VER since the French die her part, ond, In return, of devotion to their well-being on
One wonders, and millions will calls on someone else to form a cestors," and of this national carded their monarchy, and loyalty on theirs.
wonder next June, what, is the tradition a hereditary monarch there has, in consequence no is the outward and visible form. longer been a king of France to
feeling of the central agure in In several places in the cere all this pageantry when it is be crowned at Rheims with the mony are to be found survivals önce over, and when the return Queen Victoria; for instance, time-honoured ceremonial of from an cariler age; one of them to Buckingham Palace in the old owing to the accumulated ex ages, the Coronation of the recalls the ancient principle of Stato coach of glass and painted perience of so many years, was Beltish sovereigns has become popular election to the Throne. panels, drawn by the eight bay able to exercise very 'consider-
in the ablo influence over her Minia an event unparalleled
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From paraffin to petrolankt onward to nuclear energy-Jack Riddle watched the world pro gress through the smoke of his corneel pipe. Semé inventions must have especially Impressed him. The spread of electricity: the coming of the then
of radio, then television;
the advances in Certainly Queen Victoria was medical technology; the case E Archbiship of Canterbury majesty. When she got back to
not puffed up..., with her own and speed with which people could travel across continents or wensing a cope of white and the Fance she heard in the hall send a message to friends on gold and accompanied by the her favourite little spaniel:bark-
the Lord Great
the other side of the globe theso Chamberlain, the,
are things which, while now whereupon she cried out, Oh taken for granted, must have. and Carter King at Arma pii There is no ceremony for the their respective robes, will, stand age Dash, and without wat appeared staggering to someone exaltation of man or woman in beside the Queen and addressing ing to take off the crown or
born in the very early years of When Henry Campbell highs onico, that surpasses in the assembly, in a loud voice, will purple mantle she picked up the modern umes. Bannerman,
man, butor Prime Minister, solemnity. [and,' ''pplendour was Souetary of State for War rituni the crowning of the sover. Ellenbeth; the undoubted Queen No doubt it was reaction from
of say, "here" prosent unto you do in her arms, in the ninelica my scheme to gn of England in Westminster of this Realm. ho took some Army Abbey Queen Victoria for her approval,
personal ex-
In the latter part of her life sho this solemn rite is once again could quote.from
performed, it is safe to say that perience precedents relating to it will attract to Lendon tens of
events that had occurred before thousands from' the ends of the Lord Chance Farl Marshal, w with joy at the sight of ho
some of them were even bort, cath And this gave her, an enormous
advantage in her dealings with
In answer there will come), a and explained that it was an Down, the, ages many changes tramendois shout, "God, pave entirely new one "No, Mr. have been made in the constitu- Queen Elizabeth!" led by the Bonneman was the Queen's tonal form of the British móti boys of Westminster School, who reply Lord Palmerston proposed archy to At the circumstances of for many genions have in exactly the osme thing to me in the ago, but the ribs of Geranion thig provido played the part of
perhaps one even now. lying Supporo some other "baby, the strain of the almost un-nugly in its cot in somo local endurable •splendour of the
nursery, "Lives, to be as old as Coronation
the ex-slave who has just died, What will ho find. In the year 20027 The answer may be almost frightening--but time alone will give it,
Tomorrow? DISPENSER OF JUSTICE,/
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