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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 1318, 1983.

NEW BOND OF. UNION. PRİNCE ON EXCHANGE OF UNIVERSITY · STUDENTS.

The Prince of Wales was present recently, at a dinner in London in connection with the American University Union in Europe, And, in responding to the toast, of his health, eulogized its great ideal of drawing closer the bonds between, England and the United States.

His Royal Highness said: When I see all the harm the war has done to the world, iris a real relief to come in contact with which owes its origin directly something to the war, and yet has brought civiliza tion nothing but good. Your Union came into being in 1917 to deal with a situation which war had erosted. But for the war

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"Cox & Co. How many ex-officers, writes Mr. H. D. Grime in the London Even- ing News, will read of the great change in the bank's career without a stab of affectionate memory Some had other agents, but for the great majority "Cox's" meant during the war something much more than a more banking institution to be found in Charing Стозу

The

name is indissolubly associated with the thrill of those great days.

Cox's

meant the wonderful Cave of Aladdin where one found wherewithal to savour a life that might not be long, but assuredly was destined to be cheary. were the people who looked after baggage when you were

Cox's

its birth might have been long delayed, and | your front line or Manered post-

the English-speaking race would have benn all the poorer in consequence. It would have been the poocer by a war child which is growing up into a great power for peace..

VALUE OF TEAVEL.

Secondly, I am much in sympathy with the main object you have in view. You aim

haste to the

It was a abort, name, but it meant to the serving officer perhaps more than any other in the whole vocabulary of

Bligh time.

And were

one "Car "Except. Panty'

there associated in idens. There is,

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izdeed,

the story told of the subaltern who his kit on the taxieshy at the station

Cox's

especially at giving your young men the paid "Drive co

double benefit of a University education and of overseas experience. That in principle has |beca my own education,

tion, and well do I know its worth. I did not, it is

is tree, combine the two things simultaneously, as your students do. went to a University and then rounded off what I had tried to learn there by

Arrived there he told the driver to wait. Drivers in those days being almost as wary and certainly as basy-as-now, this one, demurred in forceful fashion.

"Well, old fruit," was the bland retort of the youngator, in khaki. "I haven't bean, and until I talk nicely to Uncle Cox most places in the world. you jolly wall can't have one. Compris

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It was in the later stages of our ac The men of this generation in your country quaintance with Uncle Cox, however, that

got country have to

But, mon of the world in the true sense of the actually, we know the benevolent old gen

learn to be these, pleasant interlades occurred. terro. We have got to cure ourselves of any tleman of Charing Cross before ever we don snall feeling of remoteness from our fellow ned our new Sau Prawne belts or learned men across the seas As that great Ambasto tako salutes without a blush

Your outfit allow said the dazzling sador and great gentleman, Walter Hines

has been credited Page, once said, we have got to drop that to you at Messrs. word "remote from our rocabulary and official letter that converted civilians into from our thought. To this end nothing Army officers (Temp) in away 1014, 1915. will help more surely than the system which It was all a dream at first, linked to your union is building up.

reality only by the magic word "Cox" Some of us were youngsters who had never before handled a

cheque book: To My old friend, Dr. Maclass, whom it was once my privilege to transform in the space sume of us 18-year-old warriors it opened of about half a minute from an American others it seemed marvellous that by merely undreamed of vistas of prosperity; 10 doctor into a Welsh doctor, has elsewhere writing one's name across those nice green spoken of that sys As the anchor windward of civilization." I ans going to slips of paper life offered its choicest and

fullest delights for one's attainment. hig

naval metaphor and go one

Alas! I am afraid that the lure in I нау that want that system to

to

come. provide the world with a great land-locked some cases meant wrath

as it were, in which international fact there came day in 1918 when the young gentleman with the Cox's and

international progress may cheque became a music hall joke be ride for ever in peace and security, no mat ter how storing the weather may be outside. loved of George Robey; when the nice It is my firm conviction that the foundation green slip drew a smile for the man who your branch bere in London will prove in offered it but it was all very good humour- of the future to have been of incalculable im- portance to the English-speaking race as a whole. Seven years ago one of our greateste statesmen wrote to Mr. Page::

take up better.

bation

Ib

I have now lived a long life, but if I have been fortunate enough to contribute even in the smallest degree to drawing close the bonds that unite our two countries, I shall have done something compared with which all else I

ed.

In

How wondrously efficient was Uacle Cox! never seemed flurried, never abrupt; always sunvely benign and ready to help where possible.

modest demand. may have attempted counte

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I I remember calling on bim very late one winter's night en route from France to Burma. The tired, fine-drawn man behind the green

uhaded lights attended to my

" he said.. don't in my eyes &

sa nothing.

led to help you follows at ally?

apologise," Those words suggest an ideal which I can

Lour.. How are things over yonder 1" assure you is a very real thing to all

Considering the vast number of people generation in this country have had with varying scales of pay and allowances the privilege of seeing your armies in mistakes were astonishingly few. France and your citizens at home. That they were always found eat Uncle Cox

mot quite

fow of your students from the friends I have met I feel that over here. From what I have seen and thing or two-and be needed the

knowledge! ideal is no less real to our contemporaries on the other side of the Atlantic.

Wo

shall

have many opportunities of furthering this

but we must. lose ideal none of there, but here ready to hand in this union of yours

is an opportunity which has already been seized, and which is rapidly becotning " great power for the good of us all. I know enough of our Britisha Universities to be certain that whatever the graduates and undergraduates you send here may or may not learn during their residence, they will at any mata learn to love those Universities and will, I hope, think not too badly of the land which instituted the accumulated correspondence of them. And when they go home they will,

weeks, the interaval during which we had been lost to the world after know, not forget it.

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But we were treated as olhicers, and gentle mess-room yarn of the subaltern who finished his a argument at 16, Charing Cross with the threat. "If I have any more trouble with draft" you, my dear sir, I sball withdraw my over‹

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Some of us knew the helping hand of Cox and Co. far away from home. At Cape Town, for instance, we cashed a welcome cheque in the shadow of Table Mountain in Bombay we received with glistening

tin

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