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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY, 29, 1954.
THE STORY OF MY LIFE
General
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the Royal family, everly him down to the other vault, to sleep there with his Ly
dend forbears. the
After the funeral we returned to Belgrade. Mother, uncle, and I should Parrot decided that
tart immediately with the same system of tuition as was prac- tised in the Belgrade schools, My schooling, however, was to lake place privately in
In
the
their
THE FOURTH CHAPTER
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good marks When I began to Sundare i would go and have an patrol vessels and MTB.'01 day and in home in the even-
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discuss everything from Mickey again when they came to live powerless to defend themselves when Hitler's Nazi trapt Mouse to "why-doen-the-world- In Belgmde. go-round!"
Bofore his marriage, Mr Parrot marched in,
A little before every Christ- He is now a very popular had had a room in the Palace. person and working with the On returning from his honey mas my brothers, my cousins, a and myself, with had Old tropical malário. Miloeer children's party
South African Diamond mines, moon he and "Smutze" went to few friends,
Parrot's while Alexander, flew with the apartment
modern Something only recently been built and wan
help, used to prodtice Palace In Belgrade,
in a very nice,
11 in the 200 and 800 children, imperfectly drained, I spent a
They play to be actor in the einemu elty. between
South African Air Force during bed, and was con-
parents and with thoir mothers and teachers, month in
the war, and is now a pilot with later made a move to a newly room before A deng's decoration, night.
balit fat and later stilt Uncle friends, walked
from all the larger communities valescent for a further month in British Europoon Airways. and
Belgrado. I was never perfect- of the country attended.'
Our plays were either English pulation of Slovenian Stade directly behind the bier follow.
In the summer of 1938 I went Paul let them have a villa, part ly cured, and I still have attacks down to Millocor. I spent a very of the Royal property und oi Yugoslay ones and one Authorition and #1 TRAV by the next of kin,
Christmas we
"The Mad of this lease,
time formerly used by his family. Grent dignitaries came from path
Party," Mr Parrot would be with me Hatter's Tea Very often on Saturdays and exciting and informative
a Nketeli my part of the world to be
from 'Alice in Wonderland Niki the in Thaw cortes,
ge. They had coms
of our Navy, living with lunch with my cousin Niki at regular recruits, and sometimes ing before dinner If I was eating (ethiain)
Alice, WHEN
Tommy wallingly in pay homage lo
ahut modrogeous man.
Mad Hutter,
Andy Tommy and Andy had special manks for their parts and had a very hot lime of it. Another year we did Dickens's "Christ- Scrooge. We had lots of fun its mas Card", in which I played The rehearsals and between them worked busiv polating scenery and arranging props.
Christmas Eve, 1938, "that 13
Sal comedy, and we withrot Firth to Be
prade
from
the
$te kidney-shaped cottage,
The children were chosen by school headmasters for go to school myself i considered this system very unjust, be-
best marks are not always the nicest and I certainly the best marks!
en Aghter against attempls while my brothers moved up to cause the children who have the truncle's house In Rumunska with Parrot (my English tutor with my mother, or he would brother) the March Hare and I
subjugate a freedom-loving the palače.
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a bridge (brother) the Dornause.
My elder cousin, Alexan-
star and cat with me If she was the company. der, was al school in England.
away or busy with I was treated just like any One day, my uncle was hadn't
cabin boy and had to party-a gamo sho played very eclving the new Italian Ambas. other
the well, andor, who had come to present clean the brasses, swab
hammock. We all congregated in the big
"Smulze" and Mr Parrot often Iettern where there was a ballroom,
accrediting him to his decks and sleep In a The band played the position. The pollucal situation This latter was no novelty for came up to the Palace together, stage.
after which
Yugoslavia and Italy me as there had always been welally, and 1 often had lunch Ruvulner" was appoint- National Anthern,
was rather delicate in those a hammock at Bled alung up in and dinner with them. ; Ma Yvzemaja
the garden between two trees. Zivanovic, we sat down, und selected Kit to half of King; George V, King ed
I had discovered long ago the Coral of Humaon, Prince Kyriff and different trachets for every girls came up to my mother and days of the Abyssinian war.
Printe of Badania,
Paul
horen. gret were
The first fled her legs together with
wisdom of getting in frontways was to con- of part of the course
ribbon. The custom whereby the
and face downwards rather than Archduke Anton
the elisses in Serbian children Ile their mothers" legs
sitting, and was versed in Austila, President Lebrun, whet
Mr Yeremia together until they receive EH Frances pot in the affair language (under
NIKI and I, who were in the tactles of curling up small and Zvurewie), madhumalies, Laffy, present is practised all
envelop serpts
Marshal
hummock garden, hit on the idea, letting the Petsom
French. German, history, gen- Serbia un Mothers' Day. quite out of the blue, of playing onecasionally I was allowed to
After this little ceremony thr The Axis Powers had sent the Naphty, natural history, physter,
cominence.! regular programme af Splete representing a physical training
It wird thought that with this with national songs and dancer Ve Tear Emmanuel
privney of tuiskatz I should be performed by high school and General Goering
elde to work through two classes was to confinite with my English
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In the year
with Parrot
Governor Yeremijs Zivanovte tested my Serbia
try poetry readings dust in dietation, which Mark he found unsatisfactory
I Serblin rone Elle aurival of Mi Parrot
Governor For
Tiny years Yeremaja Zivanovic had been a helmaster and was author of The Mailand text books on the Seater front language.
since
He was hord shirt with stiff collier winging out over att enormous すきの
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fet min and wore a
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black
He recked of
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Abyssinians.
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Both
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TS was a great trent for me, to say the 6th of January,"
as 1 was very fond of them the whole, the same as all the In diese occasions 1 en previous ones. My holidays hod joyed her cooking, and being begun a few days before and tronted as a speeinł girenl by this time the main dining room my usually casual tutor.
downstairs was closed to the younger generation.
They were popular In
Yugoslavs to an extent that I would have thought impossible
for an Englishman and a Nor- WE were all very inquisitive, wegian girl.
I was the Negus, while he steer, learning how to keep a hell a huge umbrella, and we steady compass course, both by walked around, chorusing loudly day and by night. The captain Belgrade and became very good children of Belgrade, who also "Halle Sclass!!"
instructed me in the reted hota
and to the children
the Beamanship Whenever we drew near
the com- celestial ef the provinces,
science windows,
horrißed uncle plicated By
where I was On the eye of January 7, the was obliged to raise his voice navigation, Julian calender's Christmas Day.
by my fo mir to cover our words, fearing that giderably helped
"Smutzo" Bad her first child log is cut
the Ambassador
think instruction in algebre. night the traditional Yule
nearby
loved the ships, the sea and early in their marriage, and it forest.
dals a planned affront. from
I did some
was about that time that Mr to the Our log was brought
iked to visit my Uncle and the life on board.
were always
itt training Palner each year by the Guards Aunt, who
this Parrot took it on to himself to very minesweep
me about the facts of Uncle Paul was a time too, and I learned how to inform Brigade and had formerly been kind to me. received by my
life. of lay mines. very cultured man, a lover my father.
The
same year, while at Bled, It was in extremely coll and musle, literature, and painting.
afternoon
aud Kovne windy
collec. Parro!
(my PT. He he very nice art don and it was he who chose instructor) decided that it would oneers of the Guards arrived, I
Boy log and
threw the the paintings that hung in my be a good idea to start a Book
and
Scout camp on the banks of the customary grains
spices father's palace. over them, and they helped me to the fire with the log.
when
the
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They were a very merry band Indeed when they got back barracks.
rome
the
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to-
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year,
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of
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not
play
ZX usual, and three days before Christmas I succeeded
my In ancaking with
cousin Alexander into the courlyord so as to watch the frantie pre parations through a crack in the curtains, which hed been perfectly drawn. They
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In the afternoon ezf the 6th Both toil and blond- the traditionat Budanjak urrived. couple. beauty, galety, and energy. She or all my presents whleb were on my table under was a good sportswoman and an spread out admirable housewife, I had liked the Christmas tree I now only Before becoming Regent he Sava
remember those which I liked her as a guverness and liked her
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yel more as a friend and hostess. best, a pair al skates for Ice which
not with politics.
found 1937 a diffleult school hockey,
advanced 201 he
chemistry appeal to him at all.
and spent the whole of it
ret i England. a never had any interest in sport.
pistol, in the fourth cluss It was the target of my
frotz friends
completo He travelled a lot, often stay-OME
Britannica, and intermedials Envelopaedin Belgrade were invited and "Cut-away" THEY were all blue with cold. ing in England, where he had
umination, the Mala Mature many fine books. Zagreb and jacket or a sult of darkest grey, and hoi plum brandy and many friends and where both some boys from
which I passed in Jine, in spite As the winter was very mild. Lubilans came too. In all ther as did hat wine with honey was hand- his sons were born.
of the inclusion in the exam, of I did not have much chance of air about his during his ed round to the men crowded in -
His daughter Elizabeth was were 12 boys and we
I loathed using my akates. # subject which Yeremija Zivanovic had the hull-way, while tessons.
the men the only one of his children into two goups of six, workin:
and
Aller cosmography (the description
Christmas little
knowledge of anything will outside on horseback
Belgrade:
my mother [ had competitively. burn in outside his own subject and no
universe}, mapping of the
My left, with my two brothers, for drinks taken out to them. Jaundlen at the time I missed Thus there were always two natural dislike of
of the blea at all of how to treat boys.
subject England, where she bought a her christening.
cooks and two cump hends, was further Intenslifed by the house at Grandsden. I continued Be never smiled.
After the
Auni Uncle Paul and to
Olga These positions were taken in teacher, who was known as the itrat year 1 lost my awe of him
my regular studies in the eighth always spoke English when
"death man." Tall, paie, thin, class of the gymnasia public and realising his limitations.
and hollow-clecked, he looked found
It was a custom for a youth to gether. She did, however, learnı
and once again we practical methods of
Serbion very quickly, though We were kept busy, keeping. to each house early handling him.
Christmas morning to give
always
Thursday after- opoke it with a the camp in order, and annuing rather like Boris Karkoff in the cool, and on
Al Funkenstein."
noon, since there was ne sow. ourselves with an English game, strong Greek accent. of the season.
Some time greetings
She was the sister of Princess Attack, usually played with He always carried a smal Ar
during February the representatives of both sur Margaret of Greece, who became counters on a board, but played tree, which he would set light Duchess of Kent, and, like her, by us with humans to the open,
paloce teams played e junior THEN Ilked him a little more, in the Areplace and proceed to
was very plender and of the assem- featured.
finely it is a military game, with the THE year 1938, during which I leam of the "Yugoslav" Sports I did my firth and sixth I had been switched from my re-
Club. aim of capturing the flag. One
I played very badly, as and this liking increased when tell the fortunes
by the sparks he began twice a week to read bled household
of our parties were on the island classes, was marked by alarm- flickering of
from translation
The at his Serbian
dry
Their son, Alexander, then at and the other on the mainland, ing events. It was the year of gular position of right wing to wood.
Ludgrove School In England-- Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer,'
30 another diversion
Anschluss" and the Con- Hundre of thousands
in which was then appearing
This youth, always an army he was later to go to Eton-had build a plank bridge.
ference of Munich, where the beaten 4-5. dressed wrbian peasants,
of a paper endet with us, Would then been my great companion
Western Power? 1:t Czecho- antional cordune, workers from weekly instalments
which he solemnly recctve a present for his pains play, and we were Inseparable
We also played volley ball, slovakia down, to gain what was every industry. in the country, for boys.
and stay to lunch,
and mude when very young.
several excursions believed
Le bre 'peace in our
About this time chat wodem and children, led the wilted,
Mr Parral
The years went on and my used to join my
with day and night patrols, and
Time"
Parrot decided I should start did plenty of
map reading-alt gymnastic lessons. He suggested education continued.
That we should have a com- dancing lessons. A very strict pursuits preferred by R Kovac's
the mon border with Hitler's Ger- old Russian lady was engaged to excursions to
many
ever-present come twice a week to the place threat to our security. The fate and teach me, my boy
friends, of Czechoslovaktin Wild
a few girls yet and
from colect families of us to bear, as we
Belgrade, the trail- harder for
old-fashioned waltz,
allz, tango, were bound to that country by tional
waltz and a traditional friendship, as well English
occasional our membership of the slow fnxtrots to the accompani as by Little Entente.
ment of an ancient
gramopho The old Russian Indy Our younger generation OS ready
to help our
woya to the former friends in in many
She was tiny, century.
with battle against the aggressor; but
and a tight skiri. Her move- the end there was no question curled white hair, a large bosont fighting and the Czechs ac-
ments were delicate, graceful, cepted the decision imposed upon and animated as those of a little
marionette.
We all boarded
The funeral tratt on which we had Junch. At the mese! General Goerizes radicer with displeasure that he was not placed at the Royal table. where Marshal Petam
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They all Unie reversed inthes. stood like statin, the only sign of life beint the tours coursing down their checks,
As pazed upon my fatian, coma it
Meva drament in my life, brul for the firt lone 1 atis ant V.
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Upon leaving the Cathedral,
the coffin was placed on a gun-
carriage drawn by soldiers and anilors. It was preceded by a
ratiway hacks of histori
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florent schools in the should come and take purt,
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One day I went down to take tea with my mother, uncle, and aunt, and found we had guesÍN. S we grow up together I was "beautiful"
They were u porily
a little couple.
talles, bored 8. white sometimes a little shorter than on the man in a splendid should have football games
with I uniform covered
medals be. He was a fat, lazys boy, with week. Two afterttons each
this later took
As un grew u
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We proferred
into the dr 1.
path the King on his hot Journey
the furiosul
was
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to
mountains, which
more positive
of
Was an
down our podgy hands which looked not activities. I remember we made short billiard room, which had been unlike a bunch of figs, and his quite ingenious shelters for kit- as chen oquipment and a kind of in a low of these boys hat emptied and his present for me parents called him "Figgy.
refrigerator on the river. --several magnificent electrte a nickname, because of this. trai neet produced. They were from sever HEN
Underneath the fat, however, Yurived at Miottennvae, my
familles
"bone trians-was set out on the floor. the
We took advantage o! the I was delighted by this array, he was strong and muscular and Lake at Bled for our amusements father's role was placed on a bourgeoise**
rather taken aback by generally got the better of me also, played water polo, and had through motor hears, and we all follow- At first the boys who eunt
were very stiff with me, and I. the warlike design of one of the in any scraps we had. in vars to Topeda, where
If Alexander had
"plenty of diving competitions and rowing which was thoroughly trains, village 1 Turned too, was very shy, but as gDON
the trucks armoured
"brown" Nik, his brother, had regattas. were vut o await the bier
as we got into a good bull gumo ring
loaded with ioniku and anti- more than his share of brains.
them at Munich. In February, 1937, as in 1938, awkwardness We left our ears and nevom all
disappeared ONE
aircraft guns, while anti-aircraft Ho was four years younger than Mr Parrot went off to Norway
Our Governmat, following es panied by the coffin, which was and we began really to enjoy
batteries were set out all around 1, but when Alexander and my for
it was, the
of England became and
Dolley Low carried by the veterans ourselves,
the station. This was how I brothers went off to school, we
and Franes, seemed to be in the to engaged
"Smutze" and After a time there were who in warfare had been
met General Goering.
were often together.
right. married her.
Nevertheless, our people awarded our highest military boys coming regularly, and we
One year we went to Milocer, Even then he WES an ex-
were extremely troubled by tho decoration, the Gargeorge Star, started in
two late in the season, and I con- tremely intelligent and stimulat-
they know that situation, for the teams of seven to our family mausoleuin
the Czechs alone would of ing companion. We used tracted
terrible attack Chapel of St George at Oplanac.
It was there that my great-
great-grandfather, the founder of the Kara George dynasty, fed the people to revolt against the Turks whe hand oppressed them for 400 long years of suffer-
carnest
Will
14
Y Christmas-Ume we had organised two complete foot- ball teams af 11 a-side and had matches each Saturday, and it It was due to his immense was not always the team I was courage and tenacity that the in that wona sure Aign that country was liberaled and be shyness was over, came, after many generations,
we have the In Yugoslavia the trest country it is today. advantage for children,
home.
for
to
The
D
hollday
She was our former governess, to and I was very happy to see her
be
that
of left half.
FT was
We
NEXT SATURDAY: Happy, carefree days then tension mounts Yugoslavia
were
mobilises.
Rediscovering Shakespeare In America
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NE of Washington's cultural institutions Americans can be
By O. H. BRANDON
not uncovered whole new scenes, but he has uncovered hitherto pmitted lines, and clarified the
of words text, the punctuation and the AS Shakespeare meaning of had written them.
In its latest bulletin the Folger Library also takes le with the many curious volumes it
fre
prmembered my father's last words to ine. 1 stuurt to altention Bud felt myself a bug. soldier: 1 wowed that I would carry out his every command.
For three days a heartbroken population Ated past the bier. the morning of the funeral
at justly proud of is the fantastically time-consuming Though this technique did not a way that it was difficult for job.auch a comparative study produce the best results during the printers to make corrections. mother a and 1, escorted by Yet another Kara-Georgevic least of two different calen-Folger Shakespeare Library. would be. To and the corruptions the wat, it does poem to work The presses ron without inter- the rest of the family, wer
went to
bad come b to his ancestral dars, the orthodox Julian And Belgrade Chiltedral, where my
Its chief alm is to provide it is necessary to compare each on Shakespeare's Folios. Over i ruption, and printing time was father's coffin had preceded us. My father had requested
the Gregorian Christmas scholars with all available page, word for word, among the year ago a special machine was often too precious to be in
70 volumes.
bullt, and now Dr Hinian terrupted for the correction of 'There congregation, numb be buried пелт Jus mother Day, December 25, is Mothers documentary materials for to apparently takes one man busily reeping the drifts of his exurious example of how the quently receives denying Shake- with grief, joined in the service, rather thon in the place of Day in the Jullan calendar, the study of Anglo-Ameri: about an hour to compare, letter wartime brainwave.
speare's authorship of the
the playe extreme honour in the upper which has its Christmas Day on can civilisation. Gradually by letter, word for word, one
printer worked was brought to.
democratic part of the mausoleum, which January 7.
it lectures, are the Having worked a year on the light in the third acero of the y was reserved
him. Thus Every year
on Mothers Day it seeks to collect every pair of pages in the Follos. Ht most dogmatle holders of this we, the closest members of his we usód to give an enormous significant book which In- could only work about four in collating 39 of the First Follck referring to Desdemotta, there opinion. It is they who sheer
fluenced the English-speak hours a day before fatigue and Behind a double eye-piece he says that what now is swoot to at the butcher bey of Stratford,
westrain would overcome him, ing world between 1500 and Therefore to collate each of the can bring two books through a Othelle "shall be to him shortly the ignorant clown', the un- 1700.
034 pages in the 78 Follos with focus. With one eye ho can see biber drug well known in Eilza player pretending to authorship. special mechanism into except as berba coloquintida fa exiucated yokel, and the upstart The Folger Library is more than 60 years. And one page in one volume with the bethan me).
master copy would take one
For the author of Hamet to named
have sprung from the Stratford after its founder, it is doubtful whether cho men other the same page of the other
Grammar School offenda", the Henry Clay Folger, a Stan- would want to do such work for volume. A slowly moving light.
fastics from one aldo to the This is as the bentence stande sensibilities of Armoricans who dard Oll tycoon, who in his lifetime.
other. It takes only seconds to in tho Quarto edition. But boast that the author of the life time amassed a collec-
Identify any differences between "cert at it happened so ofta. Gettysburg Address was born th tion of 70 copies of the
the two pages, 20
with Shakespeare was a new a log cabin and learned till he First Follo of Shakespeare's Faritiuatély Dr Chariton
Of course, Dr itinian did not, word of his and the Folio print law by reading in front of
originst er, copying either a Quarto pinecone fire. They also start be plays. Altogether 288 First min, a research fellow at the poet to find the Follos are known to exist. Libery, got inborstod in this Shaloespearian text The This edition of some other text was making a mystery about the collation problems Just Before the Folios were published in 1829, tumped. He probably thetight mysteriousness of Shakurpesce, There see all sorts of private war. As a Naval Intelligence seven years after the writes that "aces, must baya Bonanserting that nothing know theories of why Folger specialis officer during the war he had a death, and while some were sot mistake and replaced it with the about this man and his manu ection the Follos, but one at lot to do with aprial photo ro- from Shakespeare's inknuscripts, word "bitter," Strangely nonal cripts have never been found, hap it to say that they were werd only. Indirectly not even the Oxford them certainly seems to have connaissance, and it was this offe
found acerbin
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