THE HONGKONO TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1980.
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DEATH.
4
a.m.
The King they
took
THE Greeks like us. Just
THE
now they like us very much indeed.
-Nearly all the countries of the Mediterranean put their faith in Britain's might and Britain's rightness. Most of all the Greeks.
In Athens they say to English- mon:. "Tako our, harbours." Use them. Do what you', like with Greece."
They are talking about the Mediterranean situation now.
They have settled down to the King who has come back to them. He has put the political leaders of Grecce out of the picture. There is only one man who mat- ters-King George. And after him the hair to the throne, Princo Paul, his brother.
Now that the flash and smoke of party strife is over King and Prince leave the palace almost every day. The King visits his army, his navy, inspects the artillery, drinks wine with of- ficers informally, goes to
con- certs.
away at January 31, 1936, at his residence No. 8. Broadwood Road, Hong- kong, Amaro John Iteed, L.S.O., aged 71 years. The Funeral wii! KING'S EMPIRE TOUR pass the Monument at 6.16_p.m.- to-day. No flowers by request. (Shanghai and Manila Papers please copy)..
NOTES OF THE DAY
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, JAN. 31, 1936.
SANCTIONS DELAY
We must suppose that the powers which direct the League of Nations are satisfied that they have accomplished some- thing by the sanctions imposed;
The suggestion that, the crown ing of Is Majesty King Edward VIII next year may be made the occasion for actual coronation ceremonies in the capital of each
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back is
town; Stephan Vlastos, popular 'bachelor, gourmet, causeur. En
Society rarely speaks Greek. Conversation is usually in Eng- lish, French or German, It is bad form in Athons to appear cultured,
No mention is ever made of classic tradition, of the ancient Greeks. Jokes are usually poli- tical. Chlef butt of Athenian wit la Tsaldaris, former Promier, elderly, clever, wily,
settling down
ATHENS
news bulletin
but' a man con- stitutionally in- capable decision, of
of
making up his - mind. Tsaldaris, like most political leaders in Greece, suffers - health. In his case it is blood- poisoning, causing at times lose of memory, lassitude, fatigue.
Which brings us to the wait ing rooma of Ministers one of the sights of Greece. Few poli- tical appointments are ever kept with the result that hundreds suffers acutely from asthma, re Kondylis, who succeeded him, struggle for admittance to rooma sult of war wound; his voice is where Cabinet Ministers arc
busy signing papers, talking to hoarse; at times he can hardly
.speak, journalists, expostulating with constituents, shouting at func- Demertais, the present Pro- tionaries, drinking coffee and mier, a giant of a man, has bone old smoking cigarettes all day long. enlargement; he cannot walk without dimculty. Streit, coun- sellor of the King, is a sick man.
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Prince Paul visits the friends he knew at the Naval Cadet College twelve
A THENS straggles Its ugly ago.
Levides, private secretary and He goes to the cinema, breadth over a lovely land-
friend in exile of King George, I saw him at the premiere too;
scape. "Midsummer
is ill, tou. Veniselos suffers of Reinhardt's
There is no town planning, no from heart trouble I could con Night's Dream."
tinue the list of political "patients" Indefinitely. Most.
wears
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the Western world rambles its
war-or
.Ray Noble & His Orchestra. | against Italy, as an aggressor nutumn of 1937, and that his touris no man in Athens with more changed, the civil servants,
.Ray Noble Orchestra.
"BROADWAY MELODY OF 1936"
Broadway Rhythm-Fox Trot
On A Sunday Afternoon-Fox Trot
state, and by way of punishment
to,
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The King is short. Prince suburban housing scheme, no Paul is extremely tall. Both supervision of private villa building, with the result that the wear monocles. The King is
Only two men at the head of usually dressed in officer's khaki, city which gave architecture to Greeks I have met lack health.. Prince Paul in naval bluc.. When they appear at State func- Way outwards, ugly, hopelessly affairs radiate youth, strength. energy; the King and the Crown tions togother the heir to the jumbled, confused.
Prince. Houses and villas are built throne towers over the King.
anyhow, in any style, facing any THE Court is run on military direction-north, south, east, AFTER London, Athens is the west-just to suit the fancy of best-dressed city in Europe, lines. There are no secre the owner without regard for smarter, more chic, than pre- tarles. Audiences are arranged
sont-day Paris, Vienna, Berlin. -civio-appearance, civie-pride.” ~
The men are over-dressed. I mention this because the by men in uniform: generală, colonels, adjutants, officers of the royal guard, quiet, efficient, higgledy-piggledy collection of but the women are extremely Athenian smart. Black is almost univer- courteous men, wearing swords, individual tastes in boots and spurs. Their khaki suburbs gives clue to the charac- sal-It is a uniform-no woman uniform are gay with scarlet ter of the Athenian, the Greek, weara anything but. black, ex- which is selfish, individualistic cept, very occasionally, dark and gold.
brown. of the Dominions, and that some
The Court Chamberlain is to the core,
As with housing so with You' rarely see an Athenian of the other unita of the overseas Count Mercati, a tall, grey- Empire may be visited by the haired, handsome man with the politics. Each man for himself. Bociety woman twice wearing monarch, will arouse, the hope in long, lean face of a soldier: he The neighbour is always wrong. the same clothes. Make-up f There is no give-and-take in more pronounced than in Lon- a morning coat, a pink
don. Nearly all wetmen have Hongkong that His Majesty will carnation in his buttonhole, and Greek politics. It is be able to include this Colony in an Old School Tie,
rather civil war-to the knife, dark eyes, raven hair. brother He looks more English than father against son,
I asked one of my women his itinerary. Although the report
In his state uniform,' against brother, monarchist friends in Athens to reveal the of the intended tour is described as Greck. premature, it is thought possible carrying the tall wand of office, against, republican, Georgist extent of her wardrobe. The following list, she said, is a mini- that the King will participate in he is an awesome figure, remote, against Veniselist.
In the past when Governments mum for a winter season:
To be smart, to be a member great Durbar at Delhi in the austere, but among friends there
charm, with a more winning officers and officials changed too. of society, an Athenian woman various parts of the Empire smile. Twice married to wealthy Party feeling invaded adminis- must have fifteen hats, ten will last nine or ten months. If American women, his son, good- tration all over Greece. The evening dresses, nine afternoon this programme is carried out, it looking Leonardo Mercati, secre. King faces feurful odds in keep frocks, six sports dresses, six would be easily possible for His tury of the Athens Golf Club, ing the balance.
Oxford in So far he has been successful, Majesty to make a call at Hong- seems kong, either in connection with his speech and manner than his but for how long? visit to India or to Australia.father. Those who have memories of the The waiting rooms of the FASHIONABLE figures in palace are filled with peasant Athens are: Mme. Thierry, King's visit, as Prince of Wales, women in black, up from the daughter of Buron Henri de seems to us that we can recall a in 1922, will pray that the tour
She must have, as jewellery, country with a bundle, to pre- Rothschild, and wife of the will permit of such an arrange-sent petitions to the King. French Minister in Athens, at least five rings (one emerald, suggestion, made some months ment. It can certainly be said In Grecce, if you have some- perfect complexion, vivacious one ruby, one pearl and two dia- ago, that an embargo on oll that our now monarch would nothing to say you say it to the beauty, grace, charm; Countess mond), two diamond brooches,
bo more warmly might effectually check the rush where
or man at the top. Any farmer or Theotoky, wife of the former two diamond earrings, two pearl than workman can welcomed enthusiastically of Italian armies upon the
sco the Prime Foreign Minister, equally popu- pendants, two diamond bracelets.. here in this easternmost possession Minister; it's an old Greek cus- lar with the Court and Ministers, one pearl necklace. Ethiopian people. And if we of the Empire over whose destinies tom; petitions must be presented witty, kind-hearted, blue eyes, recall aright the reaction to that he has been called to rule. It is in person; otherwise they are of curly hair; Princess Ypsilanti
and Countess Capodistria, oldest LIVING in Greece is very The number of cheap. suggestion was fairly favour of interest to note that King USP
Not everybody can see the and proudest names in Greek following the able and optimistic. The latest Edward will be
King, but the Little Man and his history; Mme. Zalokosta, best well-to-do families is proportion-
woman In nows is that the studies of the example set by his beloved father wife can get into the palace and dressed
Athens: ally larger than in other cities. experts who are examining the if he visits India, for it was in state their grievances to glitter- Alecco Matsas, best-dressed, Many Greeks divide their time
1911 that His late Majesty, ne-ing aides-de-camp.
wittiest young man about between Athens, Paris and Lon- possible results of such sanccompanied by the Queen, went to
don. There are many Greek millionaires. tions are being reported to His Delhi for the memorable Durbar Majesty's Government by the then held there. This, incidentally, Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, was the first occasion on which a As far as we are aware, apart reigning British sovereign had from the diligent efforts of personally visited one of the over- these experts and the periodic seas
possessions, The present attention given the subject by King, however, can claim to be the that busiest of Ministers, Mr. most widely-travelled of all British Eden, this is all that is being monarchs; there is scarcely a part
for her conduct in Ethiopia. Were they not satisfied, it is to bé supposed they would hasten Richard Himber & His Orchestra. to correct the situation, and to use such pressure that their will would be irresistible. It
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done about the oil embargo visit as Prince of Wales. It would of the Empire, which he did not
Meanwhile, Italy's armies of
bo appropriate and inspiring if aggression march on Addis
Hongkong could be included in his Ababa and the atout-hearted triumphal tour next year. Ethiopians, fighting a courage- ous but losing campaign, are still | waiting for the effect of the ears to the cries for succour League's daring discipline to from this nation, which is one have some effect. The purpose of the members of the League. of those sanctions, we believed, We will make one last observa- was to hamper Italy's campaign. tion on this subject. If, indeed. They have done little that, we the League intends to take steps can perceive towards this end. to stop this war (and to that They have merely served to dis- end the League is pledged and turb the relations of the Great for that purpose built), it had Powers, create a strained atmos- best act quickly, else the war phere between the signatories of will be over and Haile Selassie's the Locarno Pact, and make talk nation, conquered. It is one of a European war a common- thing to forbid the entry of an place on street corner and, in aggressor power into coveted salon. This, then, Is the Lea- lands, and to prevent it; it is gue's accomplishment. We are quite another, and more arduous not proud of it, who ard, friends task, to eject the victors after a of the League. It would have conquest. And that, unless wo been less distressing, and equally are much mistaken, is the res- effective to have pleqvi quz augi Loan Jhilitat the Lagana nav bal to the horrors of this Ethiopian called upon to faces within a campaign and to have shut our twelvemonth
even more
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SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
“But doesn'tit munka me look too much like a bank
wife or something?"
angar?
coats (including one astrakhan
and one full length, ermine opera cloak), four morning frocks, two sets of silver fox turs, one silver fox cape, three dozen pairs of stockings, four dozen pairs of shoes.
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Social life in Athena is pre- war. Nowhere else do men and women pay so much attention to convention as here. A man can-. not take a woman friend to the cinema unless he is (a) married: to her, (b) engaged. He cannot ask a woman out to lunch at a restaurant alone. It is custom- ary to invite relations as well, or friends...
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Tongues rule conduct, rule out. frankness, simplicity, natural- ness, cause hypocrisy, jealousy, fear.
The Greeks seem too intel- ligent to be happy, but not in- telligent enough to be natural. Their social lives are spent very busily doing nothing.
Life is a round of continuous panties, and receptions at which the same people meet each other In a rigid atmosphere of empty repetition, bure of joy,and
Not so the poor. See them in their thousands on the slopes of mountainaldes on festival days, and the old simplicity and beauty of ancient Athens lives agning":0
Sco them as they dance, hand in hand, before some wandering musician, singing old Byzantino melodies, embracing with religl- ous fervour the image of some fortune-bringing Madonna jor. saint, lighting thousands of candles to darken old church: walls with smoke.
The glory of Greece lies in the countraide on feminitio toga..
Pembroke Stephens
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