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NOTES OF THE DAY

SAFETY IN THE AIR

Where Are They Now?

Asks Ian Ward

In the News Chronicle

KING CAROD... (RUMANIA)

HMANUEL

RAS TAFBARI

HAAKON, CYDWAY) BORIS (BULGARIA) •

Those concerned with British aviation do not lay too much stress not to speak of Saxony, Bavaria and still got to the open upon high speed and the general and Wurtemberg effelency of neroplanes at the ex-

each was The paper is still there. pense of the comfort and the safety there. Although representa- Braganzas are not. of passengers. The accident tives of some of their houses Agures show that flying is becoming steadily safer in British machines are here to-day, not one single This is true of both the Royal Air house still rules. Force and civil aviation, in spite

of apparent contradictory evidence

The Kaiser was there. He

in recent days. The number of was to be hustled, still pro- fatal accidents to Royal 'Aircraft recorded for 1936 was twenty-five, testing, Into Holland, having

The reasons are practically impossible for a foreigner, for instance, uhleas he be an in- tuitive expert, liko M. Andre Maurois, to un- derstand..M. Maurois récent.. ly mado a very penetrating re mark. He said that one of the reasons why we wore the mos enthusiastic monarchists ir the world wa 'because of the English Consti tution, and he went on to say "the inimitable virtue of the Constitution is that it does not exist." This is perfectly true Unlike that im- movable bogey, the American Constitution, it is resilient, ad- aptable,

Above all, the CHRISTIAHÍDENMARKÜ King is never

held responsible, and is conse- quently outside the ephemeral and dangerous play of, politics. sea. His function is to preside and, The in presiding, to represent. What ho represents. is England. He represents England because he is a man, and not an idea, be- In cause he inherits his position and does not have to scramble' for it, and because he is the centre of social life......

The Hereditary Prince of the Ottoman Empire was there. 1916 he committed suicide.

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THERE were others present involving forty-three deaths refused officially to abdicate. who, although their descendants which Included nine killed in one There is, to-day, a field-marshal still rule, were as unfortunato accident. This is admittedly in Doorn, who dines, nightly, in as any of the foregoing. higher figure than that of 1984,

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IN SHORT, HE is England -the England of charm, of when twenty fatal accidents were his decorated uniform and still attended by thirty-one deaths. has his private correspondence

George, King of the Hellenes, splendour, of duty, of dis- Against this must be set an in- delivered

interestedness. the England by courier. But was assassinated in Salomika, of ton squadrons in the crease strength of the service and the neither the fact that he is now at the head of his victorious that does not make mistakes, fact that the hours Bown in 1995 one of the most expert living army, in 1913. The Hereditary the ideal England. The value, in 1934. It is believed that in no have been appreciably higher than woodchoppers, nor that he pos- Prince of Serbia, later King the comfort of such other air-force in the world is the sesses a private fortune of some Alexander of Yugo-Slavia, met ception is inestimable. It is, so average amount of flying mileage £40,000,000, can change, for this his end quite recently, in Mar- to

speak, the no-knife-to- Force. The aggregate number of that he has

great as in the British Air field-marshal, the terrible truth seilles,

grind quality of it that is BO The King of the Belgians was important. Such a state of million.

killed rock climbing. Tsar affairs could not have been Fer- Ferdinand of Bulgaria was the deliberately, consciously there. luckiest, perhaps. This brilliant structed. It just grew.

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milns ftown last year exceeded fifty under his command.

not one soldier

com-

is mainly concerned with the raising of the school-leaving age from fourteen to fifteen. The full programme requires some statutory changes, and thus the necessity has arisen of introduc- ing a Bill on the subject in the House of Commons. It is an A similar story could be told The Archduke Francis

of civil aviation. In, 1930 there! essential part of the scheme that were twenty-three fatal accidents dinand of Austria was local authorities are being re-to civil planes, including air liners, Proud of his reputation as the ornithologist was one of the odd- Even-then, it could not, in quired to survey their own and forty-eight people lost their man who was putting Austria-est, and in many ways one of the last 100 years, have ever educational fields and co-operate of fatal accidents was twenty-five,

lives; whereas in 1934 the number back on other peoples maps, the shrewdest, though least at grown, had not the astonish- in devising a complete pro-and forty-five lost their lives. But particularly that of the Bosnians tractive, of all modern mon- ing personal characters of our gramme, when it will be possi- here again allowance must be made and Herzegovinians. At the archs. He had such a horror sovereigns made it possible. ble to form an idea of the for the tremendous increase in the same time, a charming man,

of discase the sanitary equip-

King George was, technically, It is mileage covered, by civil planes has the most far-sighted politically ment of Bulgaria was sketchy- without power.

not yet been estimated but there in the Empire, well disposed to that he had all his carriages that he wielded by his example have been increases in air trans- minorities and the Slavs, and port in all directions. In this con- who had the courage to marry

disinfected every day.

was an infinitely greater,' more. nection the record of Imperial Airways deserves special mention. in deflance of the most

Threatened, at the outset of lasting, and more real power From 1933 to 1936 this Company bish Court in Europe. His car he said, "I resolved that if there most truculerit dictatora. Their snob hia reign, with assassination, than that of any of Europe's art education, which forms but carried 129,000 passengers and its went up the wrong street. one were to be any assasinations, I secret is secret police, plus to would be on the side of the as- hysteria. His secret was al-

sassins." He ended his days truism, plus patience.. peacefully at Coburg, in exile, They will fall, and kings who. collecting butterflies and flowers. emulate them will fall, as they Apart from King Edward, 1914. They may do their work, have done, like ninepins, since

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total cost involved. expected that sum will bo required; it is already estimated that £12,000,000 will be required for improvements in technical and

number of miles

flown. The

aeroplanes flow distance of

6,800,000 miles, but the recent day in Sarajevo and had accident to one of its planes of come back, slowly. that had occurred since 1933. Alexandria was the first fatal ono

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one of the eight main plans pro- posed. These plans provide.for the training of the children from Infancy to adolescence. Provision will be made for children between the ages of payable on the conveyance of Russia was there. Brother of THE Grand Duke Michael of two and five years to attend nur-children to school. This refers

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But the power

For:

sery schools and classes. There more particularly to children/the Tsar, he became Regent for these are the kings of to-day's but they do. It the wrong way are at present five thousand living in rural areas where they a short time in 1917. He was ceremony: King Leopold of the and for the wrong reasons. sach centres throughout the are obliged to travel to school promptly murdered.

Belgians, King Haakon of Nor- the country, but these havo proved by bus or train. In this con-

satisfaction of ambition, way, King Christian of Den- for personal rewards. A King insufficient and local education nection it has been suggested King Alfonso XIII, of Spain' mark, King Boris of Bulgaria of England can have no ambi- authorities have been asked to that the authorities should pro- was there. Perhaps the most and King Carol of Rumania. tions, and as for rewards he notify the Board of those areas vide school canteens where chil-romantic figure of all-outside The heirs to thrones are Um prefers to bestow them. which require further accom-dren may receive meals at a Spain. But he did not succeed berto, Prince of Piedmont, the modation. This is the most pro- reasonably low cost. With re-

and

minent item in the programme, gard to secondary schools, the in leaving Spain with nearly as Crown Prince Paul of Greece, There are many people who, as it is considered most impor- maximum limit hitherto placed much money as the Kaiser, and and the Crown Princes of from the highest motives, would. tant that children should be on the number of special the method of his departure Sweden and Egypt. The In like to bring the monarchy to given a good start in life if they scholarships awarded annually was even less creditable. are to profit from the general is to be removed... This is of

fante Don Alfonso of Spain and an end in England. They dis- He did not die, and he was Prince Frederick of Prussia approve of some of the things while there are many

it stands for. Well, it stands poor enable all children of rufficient not properly arrested, deport represent the past. homes in the country where ability to further their educa- ed interned or escorted. He It is difficult, when reflecting among them we shall find fair- for a number of things, and young children cannot be pro- tion under the secondary system, vided with the attention they where before only a limited simply got in a boat for Marsell on these two funerals, not to neas, tolerance, experience, requiro. Another item provides number, whose parents could les. Now, for the man with speculate a little on kingship, respect for the past and ⠀⠀ for the improvement of school not afford the requisite fees, more titles than anyone in the its dangers and safeguards. open mind for the future. buildings. As children are par enjoyed this privilege. More world, there is only the family Of all these monarchies, past These are not bad things. ticularly susceptible to environ- over the number of State at Fontainebleau. And tra- and present, there is plainly one. It is not a bad thing for a mant, is obvious that, in order scholarships from secondary velling. to reap full benefit from a high schools into Universities is to be

which finds itself. in a unique country to have a man in whom. standard of teaching, they must increased by twenty per cent.

position.. Some have fallen, the aspirations and ideals of work amid pleasant surround Fanticular stress is laid upon there. One of the youngest and ome hang in the balance, and millions may concentrate.

King Manuel of Portugal was ings. The worst evils in this the importance of young people

A A few Home continue, as popular as direction are to be found in ele- obtaining the career most suited handsomest of all.

man above politics. A man who mentary schools, and the Board to them. It is obvious that all months later, in that extraor-

is an example of selflessness; is therefore increasing from types cannot be catered for, but dinary palace perched on the

whose, character teaches, in it twenty to fifty per cent. the pre-by the furtherance of technical hills at Cintra, built by a Ger- ONLY ONE IS stronger, more self, one of the lessons that the sont rate of grant payable on and art education much can be man colonel, he left a copy of sure, and more popular in 1986 contemporary world most needs expenditure onelementary done to open prospective careers school buildings. The Board to large numbers whose talents an English illustrated paper than it was in 1836, or in 1914, to learn. A man like King also proposes to provide for an would otherwise never be pro- open on the table, half read, or 1918, or than ever before. It. George V. A man like King Increase in the rate of grant perly developed.

There was no time to finish it is our own.

Edward VIII.

ever.

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