1954-07-03 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1954.

CHAPTER 9

BICYCLE METHODS PERSONAL STORY

AT CAMBRIDGE

T had been decided that

I should go to Clare College, one of the smaller colleges

Cambridge.

Dr Thickell,

young man.

WAR

The

ut inaster, was quite A

1

to specialise in LEW and International Economies. I was to have plenty of time for sport gad other activities, atul ad permission to go up to Lon- don whenever necessary,

1 was ping given the ex- reptional privilege of eng

4 CAF.

My rooms were on the second floor, overlooking the old courtyard.

The living-room 34 235

vost and, as the undergraduate who

had had last

the room mal Lett some furniture behind.

IT' Lor there was no need for provide any

later

I,

cussion and comradeship, later becziDE a member of the Sorialist Club, and must admit that I was rather looked on as a freak.

I mostly went out of college for evening discussions or had Katherings In my own roont. Unfortunately all guests had to be out of Clare by midnight. and no girl was allowed there after 9 p.m.

Many of my students of the of Economics,

friends were London School then evacuated

to Cambridge, and they were gloriously free of regulations In Comparison with the rest of us.

The University Air Squadron, bused just outside Cambridge, accepted me as a member and ocensionally I could sleat a few hours of duni instruction on a Tiger Moth

This was the Arst time 1 had hany tralong for flying onl It was carried out behind the backs of the many people who

fying my were agaland I bought a gown.

the members found that areurding to tradi- cluding tion one always worr 3371 Rown DBSKETS un from Song

unearthed predecessor.

Patat

very old, moth-eaten one left

las one of the cupboards in my by the necomumodating roms former occupant, and proudly

my Arst wore il on uner in Hull.

WANDERED

very

around rather Jke a yoke come to town, The reat number of rules and traditions mado me constantly afraid o! dolog

wrong thing.

the

I did a very "green" thing. I

reactions

a training headquarters at War- My job was to command troop of antiqunted cruiser tanks nilaster, near Solisbury, under which worked well when well- Brigadier Allan Adder.

Unfortunately onc serviced. spent most of the time servicing them. I look part in many manoeuvres and got quite a lot of information about future tank tactical warfare.

It occurred to me that it thing to get would be a line some of our men in Alexandrin to join the brigade in North Africa ngainst Römmel.

Our men were eventually sent to Balfa and trained as occupa- Hon troops. They inter joined in the aperation of the Dorte- eunere Islands.

I was invited to speak at the Defence Conmmittes Juncheon on December 17 and gave a lengthy address on Yugoslavia and her problems.

fu teir addres, King Peer about In 1940

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midde

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my

Government

Whenever 1 hurt 11 chance during week-emis 1 used to go 10 the neighbouring R.A.F. bomber stutions, which had Link trainers, and tried trugh them to get the "feel"

ni n real neroplane,

This

extremely mode good at flying by Instruments, and when 1 eventually started really serious training, beginning 1943, I was conf- pietely lost, for it was quite a different thing.

The

these remarka Yugoslav conditions and early 1941

467 THE Press was not merely controlled. It was wholly rubservient to the official direc tions which covered the least detail of its work. The news

were papers

compelled publish as their own both lead- Ing articles and commentaries sent to them by various Minis- tiles.

this

135

com-

"Puble optman, which and no itself express in the opportunity do

either at the electiotis, or by the printed word, was pletely suppressed. The Budget of a country whose population numbered 10,000,000 was drown up by the Government alone.

Here I needed visual judg ment of space and distance, whereas I had previously Down with my eyes glued

bought an expensive bicycle the instruments,

with gear shift, D dynamo,

powered headlight, and

lock

nd chain to secure it.

To my dismay. a few later, I found that

clays

it

Wos

wos

to

OUR college organised a te nowhere to be seen.

υ ninnage air-raid pre- most upset and expressed my

cautions. Because of my exten- resentment at this theft to a

sive experience with engines and told fellow student. He

me

pumps 1 had the nicest of the not to make such a fuss дя this was quite a usual, occur jobs that of operating rend--he had

Pump motor.

bicycles already.

lost

three

We were both free and he suid

"Come magnanimously! with me and we'll find you an- other one,"

After we had walked around for half an hour seeking re- spectable machine we decided to adjoura bra ber. We were just nishing our secund pint when two other students came int th: bir, and I could through the window that they had left junt the bicycle I wanted on the kerb.

My friend and I paid up and went to investigate.

even

The owner had not bothered to put a lock on the bicycle, so I drove away on it

Ekot my second bike!

By this

generally

accepted Cambridge method i later lost and acquired three further bikes.

саге

the

that

"The people, who had to bear the whole burden of taxation, were allowed no say or super- vision of any kind.

I spent lots of time driving about in cruiser tanks and scout enjoyed being with the cars. mto, and was impressed by the versatility of the noh commissioned officers, who seemed to know more than the officers in many cases.

I

I (cand on the whole thai was more in my element with The tougher battalion of Scots Guards, despite the fine qualities of the officers from the English nobility.

OF EX-KING PETER OF YUGOSLAVIA

We were unrowarding guests and instead of mingling with the others, sal in a corner together, deep in conversation,

011

with parcel

paper "Tigrao,” helping correspondence and scheme for prisoners of war,

Alexandra then went to Nice, We talked

absorbedly, Rome, and Venle until war with people Greece' was declured, when she oblivious of the many

travelled through to Greece in who, anxious to go, had to wait unill we realised that we were a nightmare journey, without outstaying our welcome. We food or water, on the diplomatie arranged to meel again some train with other Greeks leaving

moment. time later, and pasted an egree. Italy at that

Ол able evening at the theatre, Belgrade station, where the train after which we had supper with had a two-hour stop, she met Lady Cholmondeley,

Aunt Olga, Prince Paul's wite.

Once back in her vwn country, Alexandra embarked On a full programme of war work. In the mornings she did hospital work,

often

washing bandaging patients, whom had gangrene.

4

We

THE Princess came to Cam- bridge to do nursery training for the English Red Cross, had dinner together at one of the few places where a real steak could be found, despite

In January, 1042, Uculties with

under Government my Prime Minister Simovitch came to a bend. The members of the Government, fundamentally against hoving A general as Prime Minister, resented more and more Sinovitch's undiplo- the war. matig military manners,

Later we met in London and

tid

many of

She spent many afternoons visiting other hospitals, and three times a week served in a can- teen for English officers. When the Germans marched in she The one most against him was had lunch with my mother. We Greece, with the rest of the

Royal Family, by

an English Minister of Foreign passed the afternoon by going plane in the middle of the night. Alfatra. Half of the Govern- Birst to the cinema in town, and calling at Crete, which was

exasperation, then to a dinner with a private undergoing meat resigned f

terrible bom- altow given and Simovitch got

by bardment, and from there she non-condence.

Alexandra's consin, Prince went to Alexandria, where there Pavlovski,

was more bombing.

Nintcbitch,

vote a

of vincoa

The Government agreed that I should give

mandate 20

Later we drove back to Cam-

Yovanovitch, up to then Deputy bridge with a detective in the Prime Minister.

on same I did this

car, whose sobering Simo- presence January 10, 1942, when

rather spoilt things. I retired from his position showed the Princess round Cam- vitch

bridge, look her to see my rooms A Durban in the liner Nieuw and was put in reserve.

End introduced her Lo my friends.

by

LEXANDRA then salted for

On the same duy Mihailovitch

Amsterdam and went by train was made Minister of War. This

I

fran there to Capetown. While was deeply moved was in recognition of him as the

most of the ladies in the party Alexandra's grace and beauty outstanding guerilla leader most

stayed there, she went on to military

by her life, In- and

which, like London with her, representing our

had been dramatically terests

Yugoslavia, The mine,

and uncles, to affected by the political strife British, too, were pleased

Government. of that had reigned in the Bolkan 213071 us Minister recognise

countries throughout our life- War.

timea

In

TN a speech at the Gulkthall, Cambridge, thanked the people who had made our Anglo- Yugoslav Week possible, and sold:

you of a

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ence more took up work at the St James's Red Cross Training Centre and She was born on March 23, worked also at the American 1921, five months after the death centre, and shc Was thus of her father, King Alexander occupied when I met her. of Greece. He had been bitten

by a monkey belonging to his One of our first acquaintances servants, while rescuing it from was King Haakon of Norway. an angry dog in his garden at first met him on an official Tasos. He got blood poisoning pccasion when he made a strik- and, due to the incompetence of ing picture with his size and his uniform. naval court doctors, after a lot of suis magnificent

"Although masses 01 my people are being daily shot or hanged, although hundreds of villages and towns are being reduced to ruins, although their sufferings are un peakable, my people still do not regret their

cat side decision to honour and freedom on March 27, 1941.

take the

"Even if they had #

of

in October 1920.

"I cannot refrain from telling fering died a most painful death During the course of our con-

vivid contrast that It is the presses on my mind

university picture of our own towns of Belgrade. Zagreb, and Lubljana.

"The universitics and colleges pre closed to our young men and The students Buffer

women.

I had to take

accepted Was atways in a very good meekly the decision the Regency

from the most painful restrie- condition, I remember how one wanted to impose on them, my

ol moverment fund free night the German bombers had people would not have preserved tions

And how Independence, thought. country's

many of already

crossed Cambridge their

have lost their lives when the alarm went, and by Just as Hungary, Rumania, and them

Pulgaria falled to do.

through loyalty? the time that we hnd our puing ready for action the "All Clear" was sounding.

"On the countrary, my people would have been forced today to shed their blood on the Russian front and to fight against Britain and the United States of America; brothers to fight against their hour

and against their friends, agulust their own liberty."

A few times a week went up to London by car, a journey succeeded in covering in o

lime of one minimum seven minutes. I often gave a lift to friends.

my

is

Alexandra Ived until her country fell under the dictatorship of Venizelos adter the unsuccessful war against the

Turks.

am

versation, I asked him how he would like to be addressed, and, Grecce us

heard must of his family calling him "Uncle Charles, asked him if he would like it.

"I

am no uncle of yours, a cousin," he replied. "Call me Cousui Charles

Like, you though I am twice removed."

From then he was known to my fiancee and myself as "the removed cousin."

threa

THUS at the age of

King Haakon has a peculiarly Alexandro, exiled, went to

outlook on life young

which Italy with her mother, steing made him seem of the same Florence, Rome, and Capri, and

generation Us my wife and staying with

Sophla, myself, Queen whose favourite grandchild she was.

Queen Sophia was alster of the Kaiser and indeed Alexandra

mother and ber

are the only members of the Greek Royal Family with Greck blood. Alexandra and I are both great- great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria.

in

Between the ages of seven and 13 Alexandra was at school England. She attended Heath- feld School, as my mother had i done.

" often think as 1 sit in my quiet rooms at Clare College of the unrivalled liberties which 1 ronind you of the you enjoy. tragic happenings in my country not to harasa you, but to ax- press the hope that you will preserve the freedom which yours and is su palpable to any une who comes among you." I met Dr Benes, at his Lon- don residence. This encounter

I went several times to the with the wiini heir to Masaryk,

Allied Offeers' Club in London, founder of Czechoslovakio, was

and it was at one

of their tea URING Christmas term there and then, and that is how very cheering one for me just D

parties at Grosvenor House that contacted

20 young then, He was full of optimism

I was first Introduced tu. Yugesinv officers who had position and

Princess Alexandra of Greece. about

German prison prophesied that the war would escaped from

It was my ambi- comps.

Our friendship began casually tew soon be over and

was on to snake

I remember really a

tough enough. months would see me back

commando unit of them, and worrying about the speech that Belgrude.

with this end I invited them up was expected of me, and one of When

to Gransden to give them some

the first things I said to her the following year,

iden of the British training. was, "Whatever shall I say in visited him with his troops at

The majority of them had my speech?" and she obligingly Leamington, I reminded him of

commando

ndo training in Wales and suggested a few topics. his Tariler over op!lmism.

Nevertheless this was a fate- He put his hand on my shoulder. North Scotland and were finally

and when I went "Dear friend," he said, "if not shipped to the Middle East as fui meeting,

while just a few back to Cambeldge the same day instructors, my this year, then the next,”

as parachutists and were trained as

I was already in love.

A inet Alexandra_at later-dropped to Mihailovitch to

1 next strengthen his shock troops. cocktail party given for Greeks always fond of skiing and was During the Christmas holiday, and Yugoslavs at the home of later to win many competitions

in this sport. the suggestion

Uncle the Secretary for the Colonies, of ut Bertie, I spent a month with the Sir Willian Emery, a very good Guards' Tank Brigade at their friend of the Princess.

CLARE was

a very conserva- tive college, and the s udents

to think were inclined rather advanced views In in n economics extraordinary king.

more in

Before the Christmas festivilles Uncle Dertle had arranged that

the should join

Guards' With the more liberal minded, I free and easy тел of the Armoured Brigade In Wiltshire.

however, Economic School,

1 Sir Oliver Leese was preparing found a surer terrain for dis- this brigade for overseas.

At 13 she went to a school in

Paris for four years. Like all Alexandra Was not children fond of school and on one occasion she really rebelled and went on a starvation strike. She was sent off to Switzerland

ber where

customary high spirits soon returned. She was

When war broke out in 1939 worked in Paris with the

she

and we have always been fond of him; ho later proved to be a very good friend

to us.

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knowing much more than he did. became a Canterbury pilgrims went on horseback and through the streets might have Henry looked radiant. 400. were so leisurely about the been done in Canterbury, New

That is more than they could that has just been opened. They before, went to the new librery Pilgrim this week - Journey that their pace was call- Zealand, Instead of Canterbury,

say about Queen and all through a set of ed the "Canterbury galop," Kent. The people have put druthfully

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wore

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the

him go to the front of the class school friend of mine does it wasn't a chup with some bag- Canterbury was and deliver the rest of the lesson with gay-coloured paintings and pipes lurking in the crowd. shrine of St Thomas a Becket, himself without removing the models and calls it "The Living After the last royal dour, I the murdered archbishop, teethi

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the class, who wrote to me out instead of travelling with-the

of the blue and asked if I was same monarch, to a lot of dif- As Henry reached.

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