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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1958,
PROSECUTE IF THE DUKE IS AT FAULT...
This was given support when the Duke was driven by Д
But the story was nonsc:1SE. In fact it was the Duke himself
The Duke of Kent had only to have a motoring mishap and the rumours chauffeur. started. One story, which originated in high circles, was that the Queen had banned him from driving. This was nonsense. The truth was that the Duke, thinking he might be accident-prone, had inflicted upon himself the punishment of using a chauffeur-driven
car.
who, afflicted with a feeling that be right be decided to use a professional driver for a wille.
accident PTODE,
Certainly the Duke had been very unlucky with his driving.
His worst aceldent came at 10.45 one moming when he was driving a shooting brake. An-
car
Tha Duke swung his round in a U-turn. His tyres yelped as he stopped hinstfly to nvold an accident.
The Bermondsey Road Safety Committee. with enthusiasm the which far out matched evidence before them smartly complained 10 Royal Society for the tion of Accidents,
tha
Preven-
FIRST CRASII
FROM Kensington Palace....the ofice of the Duchess other brake was travelling to Alone year old
F
of Kent....came the edict: "Please prosecute the Duke if he is at fault." And that is a lot more than most parents would do, even if the non and heir was getting more than the usual amount of attention for his motoring misadventures.
The police investigated. But a nation getting ac- customed to the pictures of battered ducal enrs, of oli- cial bulletins on his post- accident condition even the sight of him being carried on a stretcher, raised an eyebrow.
SIGHS...
wards hlm.
It
No one outside, the immediate HAT concern of theirs
was is hard to say unices police investigators and the two drivers knows what happened. they had exhausted the possi Bolh CHITE were severely blities of Jamaica Roed and dainaged. The Duke was tung nud
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But in this chap- ter of road accidents one thing is certain. 'The Duke could never, even by the wildest gossip. be neid responsible for accident he was in.
And there were sighs for lying unconscious with his head the first the Queen. Poor girl, work- und shoulders under the other He was a year old at the time.
car perilously
near
the
ing hard at the thankless wheels... his feet still in his job of being a monarch, own. and there was her young of the nation's most sensitive the mounting Cornis road casualty figures.
For the Queen cousin stumping on one
Was muttering THERE
about royal privilege. Many a motorist hauled be- court fore a magistrates' remarked with bitter humour that I couldn't have happened to a Duke.
The story was started in the highest circles that the Queen ad taken over the duties of a Justice of the peace and had aned the Duke of Kent from driving,
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He was rushed to the Na unal Hospital for Nervous Diseases where a famous brain surgeon walted.
the
Also travelling fast in a police car to the hospital Duchess of Kent,
SOM
A DENIAL By War Office
A
on
It was on Wrotham Hill, Kent, when his mother Was taking him to Sandwich, Bay holiday.
The royal collision.
for
was 311 க
The Duke was reported have cried a little.
Now he is far more stoical.
to
Stoical about everything ex- cept the public eye.
Ile dislikes attention. Unlike his sister, he has never had tho that upon
FEW months later, 1 opportunity of achieving stormy day, he ran into a royat aplomb. He looks
~MALTA AMTAPLEINENT
THREA
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"Could be just a bluff to make me move—do you think?”
LONDON LETTER
ISIR
ROST
CENTURY
Avedon Lapruse Saree'
by Sir Beverley Baxter M.P.
The question is
can Russia
remember
five little months
after 40 long years?
tree that had biowa down. His pleny with all the supleton HUMAN memory is a curious and selective quarantine for 40 years,
ehattered windscreen hands.
cut
his of a pessimist gazing out upon
A sunny morning. Ard
with
of
But it was not the type
accident that brings a summons
through the letter-box,
Then at 5 o'clock one morn- ng, motoring back to Sand- hurst after a party, the Duke went into a ditch. He climbed ut of the wreckage with cop
and injuries to his
cussion head.
He was even more unfortunate this time, for after he had been
In aut to bed the Military War Academy's hospital the Office blandfy denied that there uad been an accident at all.
INCIDENT
In Park Lane
BUT
as
UT the truth emerged
truth will and what was a simple accident became a minor sensation all through this mili- tary, stupidity.
What, asked the public, was being hidden?
the
end
6. The Kaiser's Germany was finally defeated by the Western Allies.
7. In 1939 Britain and France again went to
war
against Germany, and eventually Italy and Japan, Russia remained neutral, But in 1941 Germany attacked the Soviet and, as always, the Russian's fought courageously. With their instinct for Hara Kiri the Japanese bombed America into the war and the doom of the Axis Powers was sealed,
The are the facts of history, not matters of opinion or legend. Therefore, how in the name of sanity can the Russians pretend
From that the West planned the of Kerensky's brief downfall of Communism so that
the capitalist worlch
could until today the Russians have been fed with exploit the Russian people and propaganda which however false their territory? crest own truth or if t The blunt and cruel truth is along.
thing. It clings to minor incidents, as a interlude scano reason. He photographs miser with his gold, and flings away important very badly. Recull that picture of him at his uncle's the late happenings with the recklessness of a profligate. King's-funeral. That breath-Thus when I went on a Parliamentary mission to ing affliction which caused him Berlin in the winter of 1946 there were three slightly open did nothing to unimportant incidents which I can now recall as enhance the appearance of a if they happened last week. top hat which seemed for large.
to compose his face with mouth
LIVELY .....
Intelligent
too
TUOSE millions who saw him on television on that sad Occasion could not be blamed for drawing a wrong conclu-
sion about the Duke.
In reality he is a young man of spirit, with much intelligence and a lively curiosity.
And he has all the 22-year-
heartedness of life.
has Even this
in its time brought a sad repercussion... an opportunity for at least one And every woman sighed for member of Parliament to attack the royal widow.
the Duke's caste.
For the second time in such a brief period a hasty telephone call had had her rushing to her son's bedside.
And if all these episodes were not enough to set folk chatter Ing there was the case of the incident in Park Lane.
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The first concerned a aurly, stupid
let consists of Krushchev's long Russian
speech
the Boldfer at the entrance, to Session of the the Zone who carefully held Supreme Soviet.
They are tough people, these my passport upside down
What
then
of the
who
Hatened
Soviet
and studied it with marked the speech until my eyes have words? Were there none among busy
*Russians. I have been reading masses suspicion.
Kone
comparison with Eisenhower
IB and 1939-45 were fouglit
done
Polico. Beria die? He wan
executed by order. So the
story goes on and on.
fact the In
That the 1914 and 1939 Ware But allowing for the ignorance were in essence elvil ware and gullibility of the Soviet fought by the Western and masses surely there must be Central Powers. Let us repeat some Russians sufficiently intel- our tribute to the bravery of ligent to realise that Krushchev's the Russian armies once Hitler speech could not have been had forced them in to the war more intentionally false to his but the fact is that the Russian
und rulers Anniversary tory if he had been addressing Communist
U.S.S.R. an audience of idiot children their best to keep out of it,
Just for the fun of it.
According to Mr Krushchev Jil peace loving country in the 10 his years that followed has been building П kindly, in red
sympathy--and them who wondered why democratic, stato with Com- The second
of there are still WBS
6,000 words to Britain, France and eventually muriam bringing happiness to four French, British, come. Only the devil knows America waged war against Im all. But how did Stalin die? Russian and American how many brandies "K" drank perinlist Germany if their real No one doubts that he Whe
in sustaining himself but the purpose soldiers on guard in the totol must have been impressive, munist Russia?
was to destory Com- murdered. How did Chief of corridor leading to a hall How fortunate is Krushchev În where the military ropre sentatives of the conquerors and Macmillan Instead of one THE two world wars of 1914-
It may well be that modera party in power and the other in were in session. Suddenly opposition, the Russians havn by the Western Fowers to prevent selence is rapidly making war uld's yearning for the light the Russian soldier walked one paffy in power and the Germany from establishing a on a grand scale impossible, it over to the American, pulled others in prison or in the grave. military tyranny over Europe. may well be that Rusala, free him to his feet. and then If the Russian threat was not Germany, land-locked nation, from the threat of war, will danced him wildly around so ominous it would be easy to was suffering from claustrophobia gradually develop a system of roar with ironie laughter at the intensified by an imperlatistle society where the people will bo- the floor. After which tricks which their leaders play arrogance which differed only allowed some of the freedoms they resumed their duty. ол the bemused masses of in degree in 1914 and 1939. But which they have not known for
The third cameo is of a hand workers, soldiers and peasants, where could Germany look for years.
Russians rosy Not in the British soldier A famous philosopher once de- expansion? some young Russlan
their reach a point in with light brown anir, standing clored that history is a fable Isles nur in Western Europe, development when they whi on guard at a memorial in Unter agreed upon. If that is true What Germany wanted in both
with ironle laughter at the wheat roar Den Linden. He looked so Mr Krushchev is the greatest ware was to secure
that the youthful and so lonely that we fabler of all time.
fields of the Ukraine. It was statements such as
went to WAY the bread basket waved to him in passing and,
that they Western notions
Kalser's Germany A needed more than anything else. against the an engaging smile, he TN et if the Soviet threat were
ond Hitler's Germany Thus we have two versions of they were determined to des not so serlaus we might history-the Russian and tho I have turned back to theso remember that in the bad old
troy the Soviet State.
If only Chekhov were alive memories because the world to Tsarlat days Russia, produced Western-and since the Russian day is faced with the relentless
Somc of the most brillant People have no access to truth cold war between the Soviet
the theme! But under the and the West. Under the dic- triste in the whole realm of except as it is coloured by the to write a satirical comedy on olicial attitude it might be just paternal rule of Communiam and literature
drumma. It tutorship of one little man, the Chekhov were
as well if we recalled some of there is no place for irony nor alivo todiny brandy swilling imagine what prodigious
he would have the known incltients that creat for unfettered truth.
as it But after all what could Krushcher, the world in hold in done with Mr Krushchev's 40th ed Communist Russia the grip of suspicion and appre anniversary speech
modern Chekhov write that hension. Nor is that brandy.
would compare in comedy with Here In all their sweet Here arc my .sevon the 40th anniversary speech of bottle n mete caprice like simplicity are the words with Churchill's siren
Mr Krushchev af Russia? - suit in the which he began his account of
points: Hitler war. The staff
of the the October counter-revolution
Let me end where I began London hotel where Krushchev
The Revolution that over- There was the stupid Russian throw the Tsars was not sentry who in 1046 hold my ca ho Communist but Liberal. passport upside down
atudled it; there was the comic Its leader was Kerensky Russian soldier who with a who might have guided mixture of boredom and animal Russia to
the different nigh pirits waltzed
hilarious 'dance. future if he had not American in a loyally tried to continue And there was also the gentle fair-haired young sentry, who the war against the smiled in friendliness and wavod Kaiser's Germany.
his hand. Can they be, moulded Into a common type (unable to
It was on a May evening last your when the Duke boarded the Thames passenger cruiser Hoyal Princess. There were hundreds of young guests-the fspring of noble and wealthy families.
As happens on these occasions the proximlly of evening dress and turgid river water became too much. In response to £5 wagers, young men in impec- eable evening dress were BOOD leaping overboard
before the admiring eyes of tho most beautiful debutantes of the year.
very
The river police were busy that evening.
with
wayed in return.
exists today.
A QUESTION stayed during the famous B. led by Lenin and Trotsky which 1. Of balance.......
ما
A
་་
and K. visit still speak with overthrew Kerensky's gentle re- awe of his performance with the volution that had dethroned the
Tear: bottle,
"The October Socialist Revolu- tion la of the greatest Importance MORE was como. The #TE rise of Krushchev to bis in human history," No one will
THE Duke went on to a private present unchallenged post- deny that claims but to go on dinner party. Folk wandering tlon is a remarkable one. Like and glorify abjeet surrender to home along Curzon Street in most dictators he is short, and the Germans which left the the heart of Mayfair late that he believes in his star, yet his fighting to be done by Russia's night were astonished to see a appearance is utterly undistin Western Allies is enough to handful of gay, young sprigs ¦ gulshed. But such Arc his make the gods Inugh. For sheer balancing precariously on
made hypocrisy and self-glorification Z. qualities that he has ledge high above them.
himself into a living legend, I doubt if there have ever been just as Joan of Arc, Napoleon such words mewling and puking and Hitler did. Perhaps in his hypocrisy as these which I brandled dreams he recalls that quote from Mr Krushchev's on- Napoleon died in exile and that riversary speech: Hitler, and the Maid of Orleans "Forty years ago our country; 3.
But tormented by the Imperialist were consuined in flames.
the brink of Next morning when London's
was on we shall let that pass. high society awakened, from the j These introductory comments economie ruin. The policy ef frolics of the previous night, the on my part are caused by the the bourgeoisle and, the land
owners had doomed Russia, to 4. telephone started to ring. They late arrival in my post of a rang and ring.
Afteen-page pambiatoi, pablished dismemberment by the in Englan, by the Press Depart perfallit sharks, to transforma- ment of the Boviet Embassy Intion into a colony of the big 5. London, to bring to us the full capitalist powers of the West. alory of the 40th anniversary: Let us make allowance for the of the October Revolution in fact that Krumbeshow was speaking
The astonishment turned to alarm when out of the starlit sky come a shower of cham- pagno.
TOMORROW: Jazz on a Juke Box
war,
1917. Almost the whole pamph to a people who have lived in
a
an
because
pray? At the end of five months think, to judge, to, dream or to the Communist counter-
When I started to write this revolution led by Lenin London Letter, there was a full and Trotsky overthrew rod zun in the misty slay but in
furned to. hour it has Kerensky's Covernment,
golden glory. Perhaps some day The members of the the Red Dawn of Communis
mellow. 1.stil Royal Family under house may
that arrest were put to death. Kerensky spoke to me when he
reached London Russia withdraw from counter-revolution
Communists. the war.
also
remember
the
words
after the of the
"I gave Russia five months of
Trotsky, who had run freedom. And', 'a' people wha foul of Lanin, escaped to known, even thai, masala Amarica where, after a geodem time, he was murdered.
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