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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1956.

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LET THE WALTER MITTY* IN YOU GET OUT

By James Bartlett

Wman who tells his wife THAT do you think of a

after 40 years of quiet married life that he is set- ting out to sail the Atlantic alone in a small boat?

Well, 70-year-old Ameri- can judge Walton Clark is wondering whether he will do it this year.

He left his wife and back grown-up daughter

home in Connecticut a fort- night ago. The next they expected to hear from him Wag when he got to Europe.

But he turned back after 300 miles because of trouble with his gear.

HIS DREAM

THE judge has

dreamed

about this trip all his life. This was his second attempt because he did the He same thing last year. set off in his 20ft, ketch, but had to turn back after a week because the winds were not so strong as he expected.

You might say that there is no foot like an old fool. But I say Walton Clark deserves three cheers.

He has stopped dreaming. He has grabbed his ambition right down from the clouds. So now his every day is illed with a sense of ful- filment,

Can you say that on this particular day of sunshine?

There is only one thing

with the elderly think he Was

T

wrong judge. wrong to leave

it so

late.

Don't make that mistake.

STEWARDS

ENCLOSURE

Show me a Jockey Club rule that says you CAN'T enter an automation horse in the Derby."

WHERE DOES THE DUKE GO FROM

HERE?

If his careER WENT WRONG, it might

DAMAGE THE WHOLE ROYAL FAMILY

T

By Robert Pitman

London. question which will remain

to this What has happened

among the royal

Is the Duke of Kónt peering tradition Dukes of recent years?

into the future to see what Inevitably, with the omrush of it has in store for him? No, democracy. It has feltered,

HIS week-end, when after all the hubbub has slid

the life-belts and into silence.

bottles It is champagne

the question of from that hectic

the what position

young

the It is true that the Duke of Thames party have drifted Duke really occupies in

come Kent's own father was about to far out of sight, the debate State. Soon he will

take up his duties as Governor- What future about its chief guest still of age.

18 General of Australia when he him? planned for

What died tragically (Linong the rides high on the tide. re

Go for your dreams now. Don't let the years drift by while you wonder what to do next. If you keep putting off dreams you suddenly And that they have just turned into grets.

Why do so many people do nothing to get the things they want? I think they keep shuffling their dreams too often 80 that never on top long enough

to stir action.

one

TIME RUNS OUT

ig

You can get away with it in childhood-one moment you are Davy Crockett, the next you are Jeff Morgan, and after lunch you are the shrewdest chief at Scotland Yard.

What part, it is asked, was played by the young Duke of Kent?

Did he as several eye- witnesses report add his share to all that lavish jet-

Bam

in the waters below

Such questions, it might be thought, are scarcely of national importance. Few people would raise shocked hands because the 20-year- old Duke does not comport himself with all the gravity of un elder statesman,

as a young Army officer, ho

is using bicoculars to observe target during gunnery practice at Lulworth, Dorset.

public career is being pre- mists of a Scottish

side. It is true that this post run was partly a cry from the

pared for this lively young man?

THE TRADITION

job.

Scandal alone could tarnish this principle. could incompetence.

mountain- Is it possible that this piece of was then filled by his brother. heart?

the Duke of Gloucester.

Yet the Gloucester story Rel demonstrates the

life of a

the over

the war

is it possible that it voiced an might It inner frustration which subtle some day lead to humiliation for and for the whole change which has now crept the Duke

working Royal Family? Be sure that the critics so garrulous already-- would not keep silent then. Albert Bridge? And did he A CENTURY ago the au- Dulce.

been

Ja Up and down the Empire, swer would have the dreamer into go on to another party in

In Australia durin

and commerce, Q a industry Mayfair and balance, bubbly simple enough. Tradition he walked straight into

for campaign

an thousand exciting opportunities in hand, on the edge of then was narrow, rigid. For Socialist

Governor are open to the Duke of Kent. a Australian-born duke there was

why ko every parapet 7

General. And he found that some Is there any reason of the Sovereign's most loyal shouldn't seize them?

that Dominion not subjects In

Of course, it would be wrong a close relative ot the reserved no automatic

respect for Nor, for the sovereign's relatives. It Queen to risk falling victim to was a situation which a royal the chillter perils of economic Take the instance of Duke, whatover his statecraft, fé But there is no such risk

in the case of the Dulon Frederick, Duke of York, could never hope to deal with. The Queen is already entitled

At home, 100, the Duke of brother of George IV and has been forced hard to make provision for Commander-in-Chief of the

against the fact that things family out of her extra £95,000 British Army for 27 years.

is distributed is never revealed His military skill was well Victoria's day.

in detail, but it is believed that summed up in rhyme:

In the Army there is no the Duchess of Kent receives a longer any room for the Cam- large provision, Her son, bow-

A over,: bridge brand of general

does not even need this

He inherited a priv... safety-net. the modem general is not only

technical expert; he is tangled ate fortune from his father. ceaselessly in political issues. In consequence, unlike his oncestors 102 their ducal heyday, this hard-working and conscientious

TS. 'there any reason why. modern Royal stand of a life spent in member of our Family has found himself edgod into being

foundation stones, ho a feld-marshal for patting

should not be allowed to forge his own career like any other parede ground purposes only,

Tich, and enterprising young

Then it's love and marriage,

napkins on the line, washing-up on the draining board, and - before you know where you are, the future at the top of the hour- glass has run out into the past. You hand on your dreams to your children and hope that they will do something where you did nothing. Just

S your parents had hopes in your ambi- Lons!

How much Dearer to Dbition

will you

month's time? -

Bou

be in one

If you do not try, you never

know what you can do.

Yet the exact details of that gay night have now been raised Into almost an issue of State by the un- precedented release from

of Kensington Palace solemn round - by - round account of the event,

'MISTAKEN'

a

"The noble Duke of York, He had 10,000 men.

le marched them up to

top of the hill, And he marched them down

again.”

And in 1000 one of the most shocking scandals in our history burst upon this royal beat The Duke's mistress, Mre Mary Clarke, was charged with mak- announce in an income from recommend ment, issued seven days in promotions to him.

Called. to the Bar of the

Don't wait until you are 20-THIS

do something about your dreams

today!

(COPYRIGHT)

| FOCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANGASTER

ELGIN MARBLIS

official

But the

her

have changed since Queen Supplementary Grant, How this

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SURVIVAL

a

men?

EXCLUDED

Is he too close to the Throne? Said

the 1882 Selcot Com- mittee on royal incomes

There are several snet→ bers of the Royal Family who, by virtue of their

position Bear 'the Throne, are excluded

ordinary from

commercial activities and must, of neces» devote their lives to

•public duties.

the

after the first reports, Commons she coyly disclosed insiste ⚫ that the eye details of how she went about Who is, of course, James witnesses were mistaken. It her work. Of on applicant for CD candot be expected that Thurber's classic frustrated day-tells us that, though the, a post she had asked: "Now there will be any big official dreamer.

role for the Duke of Kent to Duke

these two Duke, why can't he have it?" went to

Heplied the Commander-in-play in the Army. And there is parties, he did not even see Chicks.

Be patni, deari, he

no reason why we should be

to ashamed

admit, the fact. the wilder frolice which took shill have the post.

A Commons later ob The association, of the royal place.

Little bar playing Dukes with "the" Anny high But, whatever he did or served:

pitch-and-toes no longer cry, command is not one of our most saw, can there be any reason Hoads or talls' bui :'Dukes or lustrou traditions, It is a Yet nearness ( to the Throne why Buch light-hearted dearies."

survival from a forgotten past. me not prevented the Earl of Mra example of

The outlook for a royal Duke Harewood (11 in SUCCESSION) goings-on should be ex- shrined in grave official Clarke and her Duke did not today has utterly changed. So from going into journalism, and

spoll the chances of Queen why pretend otherwise?

broadcasting. It has got pre- prose?

Victoria's cousin, the military Why pretend that the Duke vented the Queen's uncle, thinlod Duke of Cambridge. of: Kent ought to behave as : Hors David Bowes-Lyon, from

be were one of Queen Victoria's workinge, in a firm of merchant Why groom him umilingly taken or from altting on, the

i Boards of 16 other companion. for a public carder which modern what if it were known that eircumstancee will never allow the Duke of Kent, duced the cre and white to begint

satreelaborack of future other other incidents of this sort. Hwkers still not down at us Why expect "him to met # private citizenm of, ble øger : Ke Although he has been given from the swinging signboards of responsibly when we law that would not walter, tr no public standing himself, public house up and down the he can never be given any *! He would no longer be treat- everything he does now re- country. But in his lifetime he responsibility?:

12 we persist-in this kind of gas a junior piler EO of CA The

Błabo.; He would 'no' lórigger, bety flects on the standing of his for almost 10 years ho pretence we may force the Duke public statements Iued about

was an eminent man in his own family

Commander-in-Chief of into a cooks of unreality gheber iömerta.

which he "WELL be cominally Andy voorho That fa what has lent the Army Bika

ader to wel ulcomic) auch Intense Interest to the Andrusen Victoria's over Wempted to burst, svige affair of the two parties, doch k the martial- Duiese sikim me kaller de och of Belag

of Conmuthi, trod in the derive. What to do," he was reported su That is what sharpens the pain

By all means there is reason. Increasingly, over the coming months, the Duke's present half-way status threatens to produco

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