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THE GENIUS
QUEEN
Wo
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Switch
Will Start A Revolution
By JOHN WREN
Belgrade. economy will overnight, at
N the heart of Marshal the touch of an electrio
jump from back
boldest and most visionary wardness to the 20th cen electrification project of the tury.
Milk will Hir electrically century is under way - and
and bottled: pasteurised
exe Britain is playing a leading and pl output increased by part in it.
modern electric methods; easy- One of Europe's most to-cell early vegetables emun backward areas, where life by "artificial sunshine." Electri- has changed little in 2,000 lty will even speed the aging of wine n air-conditioned years, is about to be com- cellars. pletely electrified
EL is an experiment planned United Nations inodel, all- and financed Jointly by the Yugoslav Government and the electric farming community.
Л Ня
heud
It will be a showplace for Nailon, but it has at its British electrification the world's undeveloped expert. For Britain is regarded countries.
internationally as a leader in the field of rural and farm electri-' deation.
CHOSEN COMMUNITY '
I was Mr Gilbert Print, of
Villagers who today have never seen an electric light bulb will, in a few months* time, be using electrie Portsmouth, a rural electrifica». washing machines, irons, tited Nations from the British tion expert on loan to the
Electricity Authority, who told More important. their me in Belgrade something of whole archaic agricultural the project he has como to
Yugoslavia to supervise,
cookers, refrigerators.
OF
MARY
(By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
was apparent.
The splendours of the Corons. tion were all too soon followed by the mistries of the first World War in 1914.
Canada or the United States as.) her contribution to Le dollar
in this way.
was on exhibition In While Ontario a school teacher wrote
recoller uses and all they contain comforts for the wounded. pul years of happiness as a devoted el. so, you see Her Majesty
to become one of
19
UEEN MARY, the great- ly loved Queen Dowa- ger, has passed, but
Juollee the cannot imagine her as dead. the need for drastic economy George V, Queen Mary ascended, memory of that
the Throne for which her long superb pleture of the Queen.
Her remaining happiness was to her that a pupil. Johnny So much has she become part
To secure it a lengthy absence training had se supremely tel of the very fabric of Britis abrand was decreed, and the her.
then destined to be of short Kearse, after being told of the duration. Too soon its end came. work that had gone into the life that she lives on, and will
Princess May. when sixteen
In the big house of that same carpet, had said: "It ali shows a half years old. live on, in the pages of hidory and
went..
Sandringham estate where she what you can do if you keep yet to be opened.
to stay
trvo ter nearly
went as a bride she was by her agoin"," spiration and an ideat,
years in Haly, where study of its artistic treasures
husband's, the King's. bedside
Queen Mary's secretary re- It is a loss almost beyond developed that love
of beauty
She organised at Buckingham when he died. It was January 21. plied: "Her Majesty is louched mourning. But the shadow of 4
little Johnny Kearse's re- in design. particularly
in old
Polace the work of providing 1036. The end of a reign of nearby
mark. How wise too. Queen ly 20 years and of more than 42 will be lightened by
blessing it which was tion of the divine
working on another ting herself at the head of a co- was that this truly great woman her most
hort of women from the time should
have
continued to teristics.
when, directly after the retreat exercise her influence until shoe
at he: "ecmingout," from Mons, Lord
Kitchener wns a still energetic,
very Ye!
which cccurred shortly after begged her to let him have wise, and
wery sweet
the family returned to Eng 200,000 westers and the same years old,
land in 1885. she made 4 number of pairs of socks within mental stocktaking. "I suddenly two menths of her queen discovered I was not educated," The 25 years ship seem focussed now in the
who she wrote, and thereupon set ploture of a royal wife never left har husband's side, herself to the task of reading of a royal mother bringing up for six hours every day. her children In the virtues of her own faith, and of a very nowhere royal Indy who was
welcome than in the more poorest homes.
charac- memorable
wife.
SEPARATION
is
And
50
she
on
The
Closen
community, Gornju - Jasenica, consists of three closely-linked villages of Song 550 houses and 3,000 In- habitants, and 1es In rien, fertile farmland 60 miles south
of
Belgrade,
Among the highlights of the Gornja-Jusenica Itural Electri- fleation Demonstration Centre" will be:
Dalry Farming-A TD-free, high milk yielding dairy herd be imported from Denmark. The
animals will be text on clcetrically-dried, higher nutri- uve value grass, and milked electrically. The bottled milk will be sem lo Belgrodo hospitals, currently lacking sup- piles of TB-free milk.
Electric
to
export drive. It earned £35,354 movement of villagers' existing fances will control
catile and do raway with the reed for herdsmen, Milk will be for local use, and Pas-eurised electrically made into butter and cheese.
Poultry-There will be an all- electric he tehery and rearing New strains will be im- [unl
ported. Flush lighting will be installed, on the British model,
stimulate egg production
electrical Glasshouses With soll
worming and artificial *sunshine," out-of-xzson tema- tees and lettuce will be, grown keeping again
good prices in city did, with her to fotch
Cultivated flowers, magnificent vitality almost uh-markets.
the end. She including carnations, at present impaired unill
keeping
unknown in Yugoslavia, will be Loidest sout, the King Edward that bleak Februiny day when grown far city livia,
WINDSWEPT AREAS with the Queen and the Queen Mother, she stood outside
Although the model com- Westminster
will be fed Hall as the body munity "I need not speak to you," she of her son, our late King, came existing electric grid some ten miles away. for demonstration wrote once again to the Empire, to the Lying-in-State. "of the distress which is a What memories must have purposes a 100-kilowatt wind Luxuries at the Palaes were mother's heart which I think that crowded upon her then, of sor-generator will be res up, at
cut DIT. comforts my dear son has deemed it to be rows, of triumphs, of a long
These
generators were deve gradually curtailed, and teetotal- his duty to lay down his charge itfe of gracious giving, sustained luped in the Orkney Islands and JER intensely hoppy marriage ism eventually enforced.
a well-known After the war, when the wire-Icommend to you his brother, by faith, and clear of all are made by
manufacturer of British jet air- We see her, as we shall al- to the future King George V
tragic personal less was beginning to bridge the summoned so unexpectedly, and reproach,
circumstances so painful, to In her youth
she had been craft.
In windy areas-and ways see her who saw her then, followed
fond of quoting this verse: State episode. In Lost her engagement gaps of space and station,
much of the hilly districts of the superb figure of
Yugoslavia are windswept-such occasions, simply but Immacu- to the Duke of Clarence, eldest was the first Queen to broadcast, take his pince."
A long separation between If each man in his measure high son of the then Prince of Wales and millions of people heard her
modern windmills can supply lately dressed, whi n
was volee for the first time when she mother and son, which was so
Would do a brother's part (late King Edward VII),
the electrical needs of a largo corsage collared with diamonds: (l
To cast a ray of sunlight
village. and on a fine day outdoors al- announced. To some extent this named the present great liner painful to her, was ended when,
Into a brother's heart, and was an affair of State politics, Queen Mary at the launching in as Duke of Windsor, he returned a toque wearing
How changed would be carrying a long parasol-every- and.
poor country, where, every time. and every
How changed would be
pobr,
ways
Inch a queen.
HAPPY TASKS
ND we see
In
TRAGIC EPISODE
ILS
11
Later this was to prove but a
drop in the ocean of the supplies which she inspired the women of Britain to provide with their un- 'tiring hands.
subsequent events 1934.
proved. it was believed her:
heart was elsewhere.
once
she
before the date SHE INTERVENED
ESS
a year later her was VIII. abdicated in favour of his brother, our late King.
again to meet her in the autumn of 1945 at Mariborough Hause, and she had the greatest tribute that can
come to any woman, whether queen or peasant: "Her children rose up and enlled her
Five weeks fixed for the wedding the Duke of Clarence died. "Princess May" went into mourning and retired to a new play was one blessed."
of the chief of her delights, for the time from public life.
Even when she was little more During the bombing of Lon- her the woman Two years later the "Sailor than a girl King Edward VIII don she was with dificulty per happy about the occupations Prince" the younger brother of delightedly referrel to her as suaded to live at Badminton with which delight the best of the late Duke of Clarence
"our dramatic critic," and that the Duke of Beaufort, but took proposed
the bereaved our women, happy in the marriages
this pleasure remained hers al the first opportunity of returning of her children, her own you Princess.
most to the end was shown by to Marlborough House, and to and renewed in grandchildren,
Since childhood they had been m
the renewal of her theatre-go- charitable and social netivities, agnin
great-grandchildren, each other's favourite cousins.
undiminished in- after the war,
and showed ing with planning her home, and visiting. The proposed union met
To her religious conscience terest in all that went on around as she often did quite informni- great approval, and they were ly, some antique shop lo find married on July 6, 1893, at the may be traced the cause of the her.
only occasion in which she is
Her Both birthday. on Whit beauty for is
adorn Chepel Royal, St. James's.
known to have intervened per- She decided to have nothing sonally in offleial processes. To Monday of 1947, was to have been celebrated quictly at a fun- in her trousseau that was not
Buckingham choon party al 2011- They had been rightly Queen Mary was born on the he product of the British Infer this three men owe their lives. stroke of midnight on May 26, All the silk and cloth shall vleted of the murder of 1 Palace, 1807,
nt Kensington Palace in come from English coms: all Brighton chemist. The case from the same room where Queen the tinnnel from Wales, all the Victoria had been born. Her weeds from Scotland; and from father was the Duke of Teck- Ireland all the poplin and lace her mother a granddaughter of she decreed. King George II.
more ment.
Queen Victoria, who Boon came from Balmoral to see the baby, described her in her journal as "a very fine one, Mith
features, and pretty little quantity of hair."
EMPIRE VISITS
its ethical aspects created much THE PEOPLE'S CALL controversy at the time, but a reprieve was refused. Then on
the very eve of their execution DUT the people who loved her their sentence was changed to had other ideas. Scores of penal servitude for life. The
thousands of them on that holi- King had told Sir William FOR-Hicks, then Home Seemy afternoon stood in front of years the newly "The Queen does not think that the Palace shouting: "We want
the Queen Mary." "FOR Some
married royal pale settled three men should die for
murder of one."
When she appeared on the bal- Christened with the names of down to a comparatively quiet The King's grave illuess in 1828 cony with the King and Queen Victoria Mary Augusta Louise lite. The first of their six chil- brought weeks of anxiety to and other members of the Royal Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, dren-now the Duke of Winkler Queen Mary. Undoubtedly he Family beside her the crowd she was for over 25 years nowa —was born about a year after awed his recovery then mainly sang "Happy Birthday to vilicially as
Victorin their marriage. In succession to her devotion. The perfect wife and cheered her with a warmih Mary. and affectionately by came the children destined to became, as she would do, the kindled by memories of all her the public as "Princess May." be the late King, the Princess ministering angel.
Royal, the Duke of Gloucester, the late Duke of Kent, and Prince John, who died in 1910.
Princess
ECONOMY
regal years.
You"
She left his bedside only to
American newspapers, record- take hla pince at Stale functions. but found time to reply like this Ing the ovation, declared that it After the death of Queen to a letter from a loyal subject: was unprecedented, and halled HILDHOOD days were divi- into public life in the important camphorated all when the bron- way of civilised liter
Victoria they emerged suddenly Rub your husband's chest with her as the symbol of the British ded principally between the position of Prince and Princess chial signs appear, a While Lodge, Richmond Park, of Wales.
very
entry
into
thing I
always do.".
"
SILVER JUBILEE
necxile-
There are, Americans-largo sald the numbers of them,"
"who are in the summer, and Kensington They paid official visits +40
Washington Star, Palace in the winter. With her Australia and India, and tools
grateful for the example set by Queen Mary- confident affirm brothers as playmates she grew part in innumerable functions up in a very happy family at home. But from the
ation of loyalty to things benu tiful and good." circle,
the atmosphere of which beginning of her
She was an ardent T the King's Silver Jublice in was Inter to be reflected among public life the future Queen her own children.
showed that while she upheld May 1935 the positiori she woman, and in January 1950 For a time she experienced the dignity of royalty with a held in the people's hearts and offered to the nation a corpet, comparative poverty for one in natural distinction she found the part she had played in shape the making of which had been Informal ing an ora were recognlied by her chief relaxation for the pre-. her station of life. Financial cir- great pleasure in cumstances due to the extent of contacts with ordinary people, the ovallons she received every vleus eight years,
It was her wish that it should charities her mother's
2104 Оп May 0, 1910 King where from the vast crowds. For
exhibited and sold In drained the family pune, and Edward VII diet, and with King many thousands the abiding be
our
from
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Experts in many fields will study closely the results of the experiment. Records of its pro- gress will be made available to B UN And then might Merrie Engin raising the villagers' standartl
countries. If It
succeeds
land
Deserve her name once more.
she
Such was the precept fulfilled in her life, and such
the message she leaves to us.
of living, the Tito Government will similarly electrify other areas where communities in
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