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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1955,

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THE ROYAL SUCCESS STORY

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NLY one person in the lanc stands above the Law-the. Sovereign. All others, even those closest to the Queen, are her subjects,

bound by the statutes of the Realm.

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In considering the position" occupied by the Duke of Edinburgh in the two years. since the Coronation, and the major contribution which he has made to the. work of the Royal Family, we must remember that he is simply one of the Queen's subjects," with no particular privileges.

his

Of course,

heig also the.. Queen's husqund, and here lies true välue. Ee is in મૈં unique

position, being boin an ordinary man who can mix. freely as he wishes with the

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public ut yow! ut large, heuring its views and knowing its opinions, and the only person who can'talk as freely with the Sovereign complete privacy. He alone can penetrate the remoteness which i believe it is important for the Crown to retain,

"Done very well"

You

OU will often hear it said of the Duke, "He has done very well," in much the same way as we speak of a man who has tackled a new career and is making a go of it. That is what Prince Philip has exactly accomplished, and without pre- Eminary training.

True, he was of royal blood," but his upbringing, was that of many other young men-public school, Bartmouth, and the Hoyal Navy.

The

LIFE IS A CHALLENGE TO THE DUKE

Though he

man,

may

entirely

Lighter touch

en-

its human problems-throughout COUND INS concerned,

the

Duke invited a group of trade union leaders to Buckingham Paince

discuss

him

question with

the whole

privatey,

ignoring tre criticismi valced

To

terwards.

When the committee formed preserve the old clipper Cutty Sark met, the Duke took the chair. and by his pointed suggestions about quarters from which financial help should come, produced Jarge part of the money needed.

When agreeing to open the 1953 Motor Show, he reserved, as always, the ri

right to prepare

occasion

When the heart takes

a downward

plunge.

by DENISE ROBINS

important

the

THE most

news to a million men and

in women

his awn speech, and used the the compliment tu motor industry on its export other day's newspapers was nchievements, but at the same called quite simply, The time to criticise the lack of

attention paid to the driver's Danger Years. comfort

"Way,

is it," he asked, "that marriages end in divorce... there always seems

the years. (according handle or a knob fust opposite official figures) when hus-

to

be

the driver's right knee?

And

The years when most

to

thebands and wives are 80 to Surely a little research in wind-tunnel would do awar 34 years old.. with the piercing draughts from

The years in which the heart a window open à quarter of an can take a sudden downward insh?"

kimiaf plunge and the brain register that awful, if fleeting thought: "We are not getting, on very well

mis-

Genuine interest

QUCH occasions have given the But I say that news is

Duke the opportunity to leading. There is NO special show that he intends to use his group of danger

years. ALL position for the public good, years can be dangerous. whatever criticism he may incur.

He is genuinely interested In

The causes

the things that interest the man MARRIAGE is dangerous at

in the street.

the beginning, in the mid-

I know from personal experi-years, and even towards the end. ence his curiosity about the technique

INFIDELITY: And the main

of broadcasting and divorce: his delight in shaping a care- fully prepared occasion is suit himself.

cause of that lies in no attempt being made to replace He will turn suddenly

from

the first flush of passion with the path, of an official inspection deeper love and 2 sincere and ask to see a building not triendship./ included in the programme,

and

There is lack of effort by the on at least one occasion, at the wife to retain her glamour; and National Physical Laboratory atcr. the man's side, to be the Teddington, where the scientists lover. So they turn to a new were on the look-out for a royal love. limousine, he drove through the gates in a small family almost unnoticed.

has been felt more than

"First, like

some sm

What the

figures show

mare

that THE fact

marriages are dissolved when husband and wife 120 ared between 30 and 34 than in any other are combination is noted in the Registrar-General's figures Just established In England. New divorce petitions totalled 30,342 in 1953,

Most popular

age for marriage in the year's total of 344,991: For men, 23; for

girls, 21

Most popular month for marriage was not June. It

March, with 56.840 weddings. Aurust next with 38,255, Novem- ber,

had least popular,

can

15.475.

of doubt.

WES

or

I am convinced that half the marriages that break up could be saved it only husmands and wives would treat marri... age as they do their new cars -with respect, rushing to re- pair the

thes damage wher slightest thing goes wrong.

uf course, some people

women

particular-don't

they apply for a divorce until have let things go to such an extent that it is too late for repairs,

The. rot has

rust, t metal

can

set in

ext

away

the

I say: Look out for the first rust spot, and so minimise the chance of a wreck.

•

The fight

NE elderly coupie

ONE

I know suddenly decided at the age of 70 that they could not stand living together..

They had been putting up with each other; putting up a good fight, you might say..

But what is the use of moments

trying to live with someone on of distlusion. Think of the main causes

It is pretty bleak. The sensible ones get over sufferance? these moments and, because and lonely.

each other,

And the worst thing of all is they they love"

Before it the way some

people sit analyse the trouble.

grow any bigger, they their grievances-walt t the analyse the antidote.

trouble is past hope: then rush It's the foolish and the care to their solicitors and say: can't stand it a moment less ones who are too impatient tion to stop and review the situa- longer.”

better to reach that They press on-only to find pitch straight away, with the added thought: "I can't stand that what

little was once a cloud has become a sort or it as it IS, but it might be to But it ought not car, when you think how much in spiritual smog, in which they better if I could find a way to

lose themselves love they were at first.

and happiness alter it."

The for ever.

bride The real danger is in dis- THAT downward plunge of

THAT regarding that first moment of the heart....sometimes at warning.

and sometimes as the When the first spot of bother very beginning.

think:

I know of a case in which comes when first

We aren't getting on so well the warning fash of danger then there is danger BUT NOT Laminated the very church in INEVITABLE DISASTER.

100

mucn

be 50.

have not

Even now,

two years after However much the Duke may The school was run by a man realised it, he was destined to the Coronation, when he de- regret the necessity of being and determined ideas become the Crown's public rela-clared his homage to the Queen what he believes is a passen- of new among them that all his pupils tions officer on the highest level, and took Communion at her ger," the events of the past two should learn to stomach defeat the ordinary man walking at the side, he sometimes reveals in years have shown clearly enough as well as to enjoy victory. The side of the Sovereign. .

public that the old Lieutenant the importance of the role that

I have made no mention of FINANCE; Lack of money........... curriculum included a great deal

Mountbatten is still there just he plays. Ke.. Is a constant

the Held in which his influence both husband and wife un- of practical hard work.

Apart altogether from the under the surface. Speaking to source of strength and

any-willing to pull up and cut their training syllabus of Dartmouth mutual love and trust of hus- the Home Fleet this spring and couragement to the Queen, par- where else -aviation.

cloth' according their means, and the Navy is known to thou- band and wife,

declaring his love of going to ticularly when she is engaged on

Here, again, he has used his or "It's true that long tours and repeated public

money-when factor which it would sea, he added: sands; development of character, private

personal inclinations to tha

they are 50 busy spending it willingness to be impertinent to discuss, yense of duty,

the being a passenger all the time is appearances:

He told the that they common

have no time for have shoulder responsibility are pre- Tuke may well have been ap- rather deadly, but one can't

Royal Aeronautical Society: home or children. prehensive about his new posi- everything, I suppose." And on dominant.

mall boys

who

TEMPERAMENTAL It would be hard to over- tion. He waa an immensely another occasion, when address-

wanted to drive railway

engines

DIFFERENCES: Well, these estimate the value of these active

accustomed to ing factory operatives whose

wanted to By. Second, are pretty hard to get over and rently THERE is an old-standing pro-realised wherever qualifles when brought into the personal freedom and initiative skill he admires, he

men were

ought to be thought of befare, Royal Family circle by a vigor and given to blunt specch on described himself as twiddling tocol

such on

occasions bound together by common ties and not after, marriage. ous and outspoken young man occasion,

his thumbs.

which

But is much overdue for revision.

and aims; there develops a cer-even that can be got over with It entails incessant tain sympathy between them tedious

tolerance presentation of Particularly is this true of air-So, you see, it seems that the people of no great importance, men. and I thought that if I begin to understand some of The Queen herself would not the demands on, and the diff- dream of interfering in these culties of, pilots."

for she has arrangements, accepted the principle that the Sortegn must carry out the tasks did down by tradition. But the Duke

may be in position to recommend changes

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GAINST considerable oppo- sition, though not voiced by

to lighten his wife's burden and the Royal Family, he learned to to modernise the "drill"; mean- fly. Then be turned to jet air- while, he is there to share the craft, and when the Government work.

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the film records of the cual control Journey must have noticed how often an unexpected gesture by the Duke, a smile or a joke with some bystander, lightened the formality of the occasion.

In the chair

He has been a pioneer of the tomumon use of the helicopter of getting about quicker and doing more work in

as

means

try

you

4

70

which

a young couple were The rot

....being married.

She had never seen the best NOR it is then be sensible man before. She fell in love couple set to work and ask with him when she walked up themselves: "WHY?" It is then the aisle and saw him standing that they

beside her bridegroom She to put things was too afraid to draw back right

It is like having a new car. She ought never to have of married life.

When the first small thing allowed herself to see the best be too careful.

goes wrong, it can be quickly man again. But she did-and All the time that men and put right-and the result is per the result was catastrophe,

Yes, it can almost be said women spend together, the red rect performance again, light of warning is apt to Aash. Ignore it and you are in for that

danger of "divorce begins from the moment the Byen for the happiest couple it serious trouble later. can show a flicker.

IT'S THE RUNNING RE- clergyman.

those words Jaya They will And it hard to PAIRS THAT ARE WANTED “Dearly Beloved"—and only swear they've never had their IN MARRIAGE.

enda with death itself.

You can never

the

AMERICA'S BIGGEST CIVIL

DEFENCE

EXERCISE

New York By JOHN SAMPSON moved to safety in three hours the course of a day; and when THE biggest civil defence

THE

test yet undertaken by

the time taken between airports

off in the Palace garden.

With a purpose

minutes.

under ideal conditions.

About an eighth would go out by air,

rest would be moved by road.

те

be

hirl, took to gham Palace irked any nation is being planned me into shelters for 15-20 train and lake steamers hint, took to landing and taking-for this country on June 15. Taa test, planned for nearly a Civil defence official Eugène On this date Americans will all divided into two planning to do is evacuate 15,000 catches the country while Sleevi, explains: "What we're NY man who brings informal- Aity and outspokenness into a

be expected to imagine no schools of thought those who people from the northwest less than world where rigid custom has

51 hydrogen want to spend money on shelters sector of the city. They will be ruled for so long invites criti- LL this has been done for a bombs showering down on and those who believe the caly, taken out in private cars, buses and lorries over three highways cism, and the Duke has not purpose, not just for amuse-half the principal cities of hope is in evacuation escaped this. As long as it is ment. He must have first-hand the country.

designated as "escape, routes." Actually Civil Defence Ad- All incoming traffic wil directed at him personally, at knowledge and experience; he The "enemy," sweeping down ministrator Val. Peterson 15 stopped. an individual and not at the must understandi the subjects from Alaska to the Panama urging both courses. He is ask- Throne, he does not much care about which he speaks.

Cahal, will drop theoretical Не

to build backyard ing citizens enjoys the freedom of the

Life to the Duke of Edinburgh bombs ranging from the "baby's shelters of concrete reinforced. subject and has no intention of is a challenge much as it was that fell on Hiroshima in 1945 with steel and covered by three losing it, and is quite content to that Prince Consort who came

The evacuees will be taken to to one with a potential destruc feet of earth, while at the same reception centres in the country that the rule that "King can from a foreign land a century tive force of five million tons of me he is pressing cities with in the morning, given a light do no wrong" does not apply to ago to face prejudice and TNT. Advance warning (of ap evacuation plans to try them out lunch and brought back to town

Many of

public obstinate disapproval.

on June 15.

the afternoon. The north- ir. speeches have been pointed and For Prince

Philip there is stin proximately two to three hours) on

will be broadcast over radio and The invested with certain criticisms, criticism, though happily much

television, except in seven cities,e biggest evacuation is wes: area in fact will be so com always well-founded.

evacuated that scheduled for the industrial and pictely. less than Albert had to face, and which will be attacked" by railway centre of Milwaukee, on police are now working on the He believes in getting to the it is steadily dwindling with the bottom of any subject that he realisation that his is a notable. surprise.

Lake tackles, and has consistently contribution to, the work of the refused to grant his patronage Family.

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New York, on the other hand, In Washington 15,000 Govern- the nation will be fixed for the

has been cited as one city where ment employees, headed by answers to many questions, President. Eisenhower,

In a recent survey, of, 810,000 emergency evacuation is impos to scatter to secret relocation cen- people inside Milwaukee and sible. The next best thing, ata

to any society on good cause He is its eye and its ear, and without being allowed to take the despair of those who seek an active interest in it.

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government

ament found will continue,

to take part in evacuation New York at the start of In New York, 23 in most of drills.

hostilities and leave it a "ghost the other cities, streets will be The survey estimated that city until America wins alt cleared, and office workers 300,000 Milwaukecans could be supremacy.

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