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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1936.

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year 1936 is remark. able for the fact that some time during its course the first of the war-babies will attain their 21st birth- days; a matter of some im. portance, since they present a somewhat unusual speċ- tacle and unusual problem, being unlike any other gen- cration within living mem- ory.

on

They were born with the war taking place practically -

the doorstep, and every family in the country was in volved; consequently they have grown up with their own pecu-. Har handicaps.

This is not merely my im- · agination; because one of the most intelligent schoolmasters

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The babies born in the grim years of the war---

"Boys born in the war are that they seemed more highly completely different from strung. those born before the war and after the war, and we have to treat them in a total ly different manner from the rest."

When I asked him for details Stubbs Road he found it difficult to explain:

exactly what he meant, and took refuge in the generalisation

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, MARCH! 3, 1936.

THE KING AND

HIS PEOPLE

NOTES OF THE DAY

HIGH COURAGE ·

This conversation occurred soon after the war, and since then I have had opportunities of watching various war-babies grow up, and noting the differ, ence between them and their predecessors and successors.

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SI see them, the problem

arises almost purely in the

ense of the boys--for the girls

are as good a lot as I can r member.

It would be absurd to genern- lise about a whole generation; Few people can boast of a devo- but minking the necessary CX- tion to duty surpassing that of ceptions I have never known Japan's officers and men of the such a difficult, temperamental, fighting services. We all have our irritable race as the boy war- national heroes, men' who have led babies. The befores and afters "I am botter known to most forlorn hopes to Incredible victories are very much alike, except of you as the Prince of Wales, or dauntless, deaths. And history that I think boys born after the as the man who, during the war does not lack for tales of gallantry war have more charm because and since, has had the oppor-In other than battle scenes. Science they have been brought up with more freedom. but those born tunity of getting to know the has its heroes; the Church has had in the war seem to be a race people in nearly every country its martyrs: every now and then, apart. in the world in their own cir- as one akims through the pages, some passage stands out as though cumstances and conditions, and

it were in words

of fire. although now speak to you as

natural, we must the King, I am still that same

men. and women also, will do man who has had that experi-strikingly courageous things when ence, and whose constant effort they are lifted up to an emotional will be to continue to promote height. It takes sympathetic and the well-being of his fellow-capable leaders to set the spark to men." These words, spoken the emotion which will erupt into over the radio to millions of some heroic and thrilling achieve people in all parts of the world ment: They, and those who follow them in the accomplishment of by King Edward VII in his Buch deeds, are deserving of all first broadcast as ruling mon- honour.

It is suppose, that

The girls, by comparison, are a dogged, hard-working, deter- mined set, who intend to get as much out of life as they can, and don't mind how hard they work in order to do so. They are invariably optimists, where- as the boys are almost invariably pessimists, with a tendency to complain about the conditions of the world as they find them, and also to proclaim the fact that they didn't ask to be born, though this applies to all of us.

There have been offered var-

a child is usually influenced a great deal more by his mother than by his father.

It is said also that in con- sequence of the enormous war casualties, boys born during the war were more fussed over and were a matter of greater an xiety to their parents than girls, who were, so to speak, plentiful.

MY

k

TY own opinion is that since I boys are

more sensitive and highly strung, than girls they suffered more acutely in their pre-natal period from the anxiety which affected their

mothers.

In those days most expectant mothers lived in daily dread of

By

F. E. Baily

make up their minds what they want to do; nor will they con- sent to have anything explained to them, because directly any such attempt is made they lose their tempers,

The girls seem to have the solid attributes one would ex- pect in a boy, and the boys the hysterical temperament would expect in a girl.

one

As twenty years from now the country will be run by bay war-babies, the eldest of whom will have reached the age of 40, it is very interesting to speculate on how they will do the job. I foresee something very experi- mental and restless in the way of government, and 11 certain excitement in the callings of commerce, art, and letters.

a War. Office telegram regret. At the moment boys appear ting to report that their hus- to be divided into two classics— hands had been killed in action, those with rather erratic bril-

Are the vigorous youth of to-day

of

It is from members of the

arch, struck a happy note-one But take the man who stande ious explanations of the differ- which will help his people every-alone, who is suddently confronted ence between boy and girl war- where to bear in mind the per-with a crisis, involving, the choice babies, It has been said that and there hung over the whole liance and thusc in a state sonal side of the Monarchy and of life or death. We are thinking in their early days the boys country a cloud of misery such complete despair about them- inspire them with the know- of Colonel Matsui, the brother-in- grew up without any masculine as only those old enough to re- selves and everything else.

influence in their lives because-call-it-can-realise ledge that the new occupant of law of the Prime Minister of

their fathers were serving with

There is little doubt that this the Throne is anxious to pre-Japan. There he stood, facing the

the Forces.

anxiety could be, and was, trans- second group that I receive let- serve those ties of personal mutinous officers and men, of the devotion which, as he himself Army who had come, they told I don't think that this argu- mitted to unborn children, but tors saying that the world has states, strengthened the bonds him, to kill Admiral Okada.. And ment counts for much unless it seems to have had a far great been ruined by the, old men, they thought he was Admiral Okada, the father was killed on active er effect on boys than on girls. who have left my correspon of loyalty to the Crown during

The greatest handicap of the dents to put it straight, but · word would have saved him, service, because the war lasted A the life of his revered father. Nor was it by any means certain the first four years of his life be able to stick to anything or the jealousy of the old men, only four years, and during boys is that they don't seem to how can they when, purely from In his last.broadcast message to that in sacrificing his own life he his people, the late King George could

they are kept in subordinate HALVE his brother-in-law. spoke of the public rejoicings There was a chance, however, that

positions which prevent them

during

from getting on with the awful the Jubilee celebra-] by allowing the assassina to deceive

task? tions ns being not merely themselves and shoot him down, respect for the Throne, but as Colonel Matsui' could at least delay a warm and generous remem- the pursuit of Admiral Okada. We brance for the man who had can only guess at what he thought those few seconds before he been placed upon it. The words I are equally applicable to the died. But of this we are certain: that he knew, beyond doubting, that feelings of love and good wishes should he utter one word to iden which have been extended to-tify himself, he could vo. He did wards the young monarch on his not choose to speak. assumption of the duties of his The men who slew him, whether high office.

most-or not they are punished under the travelled ruler ever to occupy law of their land, will know a re- the Throne, King Edward has morse which will dog them to the made contacts with peoples of grave; for they have murdered one many races and climes, and all of the most gallant gentlemen in who knew the man as the Prince Japan's history.

As the

of Wales have the sure'and cer-

tain knowledge that he will world conditions are far from bring to his new tasks all those

composed, Edward VIII stands qualities of heart and mind

which have made him the most as an example of the stability of popular figure in the world. the Throne and the Empire, and We all know how, when the by his first spoken words to the Great War ended, the Prince of Empire he has shown that he Wales, as he then was, declared has high conceptions of his re- that: "In those four years I sponsibilities and of his anxiety mixed with men; in those four for the continued well-being of years I found my manhood." his fellow-men. Under his firm Since those days, his manhood and enlightened guidance, not has been further developed, his only will the Crown find fresh character has taken more de- lustre and glory, but his sub- finite form, and to-day he stands jects overywhere will be able to: as a man who knows his count on a faithful, discharge of strength and his purpose, one the duties of his exalted office, in whose hands the well-being based on a determination to and happiness of his people are serve his day and generation in-safe keeping. Assuming the with all the loving care and high Kingship at a moment when ability at his command.

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SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

Well, it was awfully old, anyway Grandma had it for

nearly fifty years.

As far as one can tell from observation in ono's own small circle, boy war - babies wero- grently over-mothered, and strangely enough this mother- ing business is continued by take the girl war-babies, who up a somi-maternal attitude to- wards their boy friends.

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me this is the most

re-

Trkable feature of & uni-

que generation: the protective Instinct seems to have been transferred from the malo half to the female, so that, instead of the boys taking care of the girls, the girls, by means of a certain amount of gentle and persuasive bullying, jolly the boys along“. and heave them out of the dumps in which they are so prone to settle.

No doubt in the succeeding. generation - Nature' will arrive at a satisfactory compromise, as she always does, because what the war babies' children do not inherit from their fathers, in the way of determination and dogged-as-does-it, they will in-' herit from their mothers.

The girls will probably take -after their fathers, as girls do, and the boys after their mothers, :so that we shall see once more. in the country a race of he-men, admired by a race of charming- ly feminine young women, which Is as it should be in the best. interests of everyons.