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WHAT ABDICATION INVOLVES
As in other matters which have come to the fore in the constitutional crisis at Home, a good deal of popular misappre- hension prevails on the subject of a monarch's right to abdicate the Throne. An essential characteristic of abdication is that it is a voluntary act. It is, however, usually the result of internal or external pressure
of
upon the holder of the office. There have been a few striking instances in which office has | been relinquished in the plenitude of power, owing to a desire for the freedom of private life.
One monarch, Philip V of Spain, who abdicated in 1724, resumed his regal functions after his son's death. Despotic sovereigns are at liberty to divest themselves of their powers at any time, but it is otherwise with a limited or con- stitutional monarchy. Accord- ing to Blackstone, no English sovereign may abdicate without the consent of Parliament, given by both Houses. Under the Statute of Westminster, of course, the consent of the Dominion Parliaments is also necessary. After James II fled to France in 1688, he did not formally resign the Crown and the question was discussed in Parliament whether he had for- feited the Throne
had abdicated. The latter designa- tion was agreed upon by a full assembly of the Lords and Commons, it being resolved, in spite of James' protests, that. ho had abdicated and that the Throne was thereby rendered vacant. The Scottish Parlia- ment pronounced a decree of forfeiture and deposition. These, instances are sufficient to show the precise constitutional position in a contingency which has been mentioned in the tele- grams of the past few days, but which, the whole Empire earnestly hopes, will not arise in the present crisis. In brief, the Initiative in abdication must come from the monarch, but, even so, the consent of the Parliaments of the Mother Country and of the Dominions is necessary before abdication, becomes a reality. But whilst this is so, there does not appear to be any legal power resting in the Parliaments to deprive à monarch of his office against his will. Mr. Winston Churchut goes even further when he de clares apparently on ..good grounds—unat no Ministry has authority to "advise” abdication. Et is conceivable, of course, that the Parliaments of the 'Mother Country and of the Dominions might. consent to a monarch's
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reluctant to do so. But there seems no authority for the belief prevalent in some quarters that they can force a ruler to give up his Throne against his own wishes.
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If the marries
King
of the Duchess of Kent, sister of Helen, ex-Queen of Rumania, is thirty-one years of age. She has golden hair (rare in one of her race), deep blue eyes, and has had her portrait painted by Philip.de Laszlo, Sho has a con- . tralto voice and is good at lan- guages.
When, in 1982, she went to join her brother (the present King of Greece) at a house party in Scotland, she and her sister travelled third class in Britain.
When the House of Commons Laughed
which was fathered by George III., was to prevent marringes which might undesirably affect, the succession..
Chiefly, it prohibits members of the Royal Family marrying under the age of twenty-five and without the consent of the King.
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Royal marriages other than of the sovereign must be ap proved by Parliament, The clause governing them lays down that the Privy Council must be notified and that a member of the Royal Family. ILL
King is "incapable of contracting marry, Mra Simp- matrimony without the previous consent of the King signified son?
under Great Seal in the Privy And, if he does, will he be Council books." compelled to abdicate the Throne?
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The King, cannot marry a Roman Catholic under forfei- ture of the throne.
Everywhere, up and down
In custom the King should the Empire, abroad, in high marry royalty, but the Royal places and in humble homes, Marriage Act does not prevent these questions are being haps, it anticipated more de wider choice. Unwittingly, per- asked and debated. They mocratic days. are questions of the greatest There is nothing to stop the international interest since King from marrying a com- moner, spinster or widow. But the Great War.
divorcees are not mentioned.
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Edward VIII, came unmarried to the throne. So did William IL, Henry I., Henry III., Richard
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His Majesty the Klug, Informed” the House of Commone khalche may pos» sibly wed, in a mesesge asking for ai | genoval of the Civil Mint, which wiat-
His Majesty desires that the odo tingency of his marriage: should ba takon into gocoufig, so that, " in "tlist"| evant. there should be provleton for EZ Majesty, the Queen and mem- bore, of His Majesty's family, cor- responding, to the provisions..... which | the House of Commons has bean wifi- ing to mako in Eikö olresinstances in the past
Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chan- collor of the Exchequer, presented the | message, after which Mr. Will Thorne, Labour M.F., enquired: "May I ask whether His Majesty has given: anh guarantee that he is going to marry?"
This query was met with ughter. Mr. Chamberlain gave no reply there- to!
Speculation immediately, prose re- garding a possible bride for the King. It is anid that the Groak Princesi Eugenie, a cousin of Marlo, the Duelices of Kent, is the most probabla choice. #2
Tire London Star gave the story a front-page position, the headline to {whlelt was only a huge bozod questloh- | mark; sub-handed: “Her Majesty.the.
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Her younger Hister, Princess Katherine, twenty-three, and was educated by an English governess
ог Bromley, Kent. She was a brides- maid, at Princess Marina's
wed- ding, 28 was.. Princesa Irene.
Another of these was the twenty- seven year old Princess Eugenia, daughter of Prince George of Greece. King Edward met her at a house party in Denmark about four years ago, She is dark-hair- ed, dark-o y ed. and is fond of outdoor games.*
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attractive unmarried - prin- Kyrn. ccas- is Grand Duchess of Russia, who is twenty-six. She is daughter of
the
Grand
II. Henry V., Henry VII., commoners, Richard III mar- "Yes," replied the Queen. Duke Cyril, "the uncrowned Edward VI., Elizabeth, Charles ried Anne of Warwick, Edward "But 1 did a more nervous. Czar" of Russia. I., Charles II., George III, and IV. was married to a widow thing when I proposed.” Victoria, our new King's great- Elizabeth Woodville. If it grandmother.
Slim, blonde more Scan-
pleases him, King Edward could Actually, even if the King dinavian than Russian in appear- marry a beggar maid, as did desired to marry Royalty, his ance-Kyra has had a rather King Cophetua in that pretty choices would be limited to a sad life; she had to escape from Of these monarchs, only Wil- they lived-happy-ever-after very few Princesses,
Russia in the revolution, and is liam ("Rufus"), who was killed, story.
Princess Juliana of Holland attachment for the eldest son said to have had a youthful Edward VI.. and the extra- Queen Victoria proposed mar- is ruled out even without taking of the King of Spain. She ordinary Elizabeth never did ringe to her consort Albert. She her pending marriage into con- sings and is much travelled.
had to do the "asking."
sideration; as heir to the Dutch There is only one Scandinavian If Edward VIII. takes a wife When it came time for her throne her husband, if she mar- princess of marriageable age. he must do so in accordance to inform the Privy Council, a ries, will be her consort.
unmarried, Alexandrinė Louise, with the Royal Marriage Act of friend said: 'Won't you be ner- There are three Greek prin- 1772. The object of this Act, vous?"
cesses.. Irene, handsome cousin
marry.
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BETWEEN THE WARS
By H. W. Nevinson (Hutchinson, 10s. Gd.)
F the many reasons there are for being grateful to H. W. Nevinson for this collection of essays, the most important is the self-portrait it creates of a ́man who has the power_of_looking_at things for himself.
And that simple trait fa Lot so easy to find as you would think, Indeed, if it were not for such books as this we might even forget, in an age full of dull shrieking. that the still. small voice of truth has a miraculous power to pique.
If it were not for such honest spirits, the modern world of books might be very tawdry, patched as it is with pretensions and strung to- gether with affectations.
Only once have I seen the "Count," 13 Mr. Nevinson. is known to news- papermen all over the world. He was standing, tall and lean, listening to two Journalists berating one another like 11shwives for dropping columns of type on each other's corna
His head wis tuted, as though be could not quite believe his ears. His eyes were twinkling with sardonle merriment. The unruly white hair and sharply clipped beard were in contrast to the leathery tan of his face. It might have been Montaigne chuckling. at a squabble between scullions.
When the angry pair began to add threats to their adhesive words of abuse, the "Count" stepped forward and told them that their night was no longer worth listening to. He settled one at his desk again and led the other away, as chastened as a choir- Jay whose, wages had been docked." Then he went off to some incompre- Pensible war in which young men were gelling themselves killed, 4.
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As H. M. Tomlinson says, i his finely pointed introduction, this man from another age evades classification.. "He is as perverse as was Waterton of the Wanderings and na-likely to ride on a crocodile, as wilful and. obstinate as: Doughty of Arabia, aë Ironient and provocative as Samuci Buller Like Voltaire, though he hated your opinion he would die in Hefence of your right to hold it.
He has denounced war till he has been mobbed in a London street: and then travelled for and with dimeulty that he might be mixed in a horrible battle."
And then you turn to these essays, published without kignature in a review when there was no war, to keep Mr. Nevinson busy". With an exquisite irony ho touches everything that is ever likely to fritorest a man with such a. delight in life.
Be
Cynics have mid that peace in the time, taken by science to find a new -- zun But peace must be worth while, even to cynics, if it produces such : Booksjan Betweeen the Wargi A
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RUPERT OF THE RHINE
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By George Edinger (futchinson, 188.), THEN Prince Rupert, the dashing Royalist cavalry icador, rode out of Oxford after his surrender during the Civil War, to inost Englishmen he rode out of history. Bo says Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan to his renders) in his introduction to this romantic blo graphy. And he is right.
Actually Rupert was only at the beginning of his extraordinary career. Marston Moor was behind him, and
Cromwell was
thundering on his heels so ho took to the sea, Tought Blake. salled the. Caribbean and. after the Re storation, be- came Lord High Admirul against the Dutch.
*The rafish. Restoration Court," in Lord „Tweedsmuir's words, "did not welcome one who, like Bir Walter Raleigh, WAS of too ardent a spirit for comfort, 80, Nike Raleigh, ho turned
to
› science and dli-
in his laboratory in
a twenty-one-year-old brunette, (Continued on Page 4.)
FILM AND THEATRE By Allardyce Nicoll (Harrap, 78. Gd.)
HEN learned man examine the cinema without pre- judice, we often find some- thing missed by those enmeshed In its turmoil.
· As Profosför Ničoll reminds us In- this book, the drama has lived for 2,500 years and the film for only. thirty. But he appends a list of over eight hundred books already written about it. Is penetrating analysis of its methods or story- telling
is a real contribution to ex- lating theories.
Unlike some writem on the film, ho advances no fanciful or high-flown ideas, and his style is refreshingly free from jargon.
covery" London.
Every schoolboy knows him as
The moral antipathy to the screen.. the man who made the Rupert's which still persisin in many quarters Can be fairly compared, as the author drop, but far less fragile inven-
points out, to similar attitudes to the tions to his credit are the mezzo-theatre in Tudor and Restoration.days
tint, the, revolver and the tor- pedo...
The last ten years of his life- were a peaceful contrast to the restlessness that went before, though an old head wound troubled him and he suffered from "an intermitting fever." He died at his home in Spring Gardens In 2002 and was. buried in West- minster Abbey "the last Elizabethan und the first Whig."
Rupert the Devil with his demon poodle, from a Roundhead, prítil),
THE ANATOMY OF NEPTUNE
By Brian Tumsiali - (Routledge, 128. Gd.).
THE author, who ta a lecturer in History at the Greenwich Navai College, has compiled a fascinating panorama of haval life during the past four hundred years.
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Bes battles of the distant past are described from the viewpoint of those who actually took part in them rather than as historical incidents, and com ditions in the British Navy in its cartinat days-am described with an almost brutal candour.“-
A chapter, of punishments at sea, during the seventeenth century makes
Like Lord Tweedsmuir." I disagree with Mr. Edinger's. reading of the Civil War, especially in his estimate of the Cromwell- In an But he has written a colourful and exciting book about a colour-: ful and ex citing and too long neglected man.
R.
the, tortures of the Inquisition seem nimost.amateurish.
You might, for inftance, be holsted to the yardarm by a ropo round your middle and dropped violently three times into the sea or even pulled right under the ship's bottom. :
and he draws a proper distinction between the use of a medium of ex. pression for vulgar ends and the level of its highest achievements,
His
appreciation al Hollywood's cleverness is gratifying.
Emational motivation and other factors which retain dur attention have been excellently observed, and the main conclusion appears to be one which most critics, professional or not, will accept that, whereas the theatre is mainly an effect of a dramatist and the actors' possession of ʼn stage, the film I'd synthetic result of vision and sound, assembled, cut and bridged over. The clever film director is one who impresses his skill with many ingredi- enis, of which personality and photo- graphy are only two. He may muddle them and thus defeat their possibili ties, but he may alternatively attain a cumulative effect which is more than 4 substitute for the human magic of the ilving performer...
I commend this lucid and easily read Treatise all who have the sense to take the cinema seriously—and this, I 1k8ert. includes many who primarily patrons of popular entertain- menL
F. L. M.
LET US, PLAY,
By John Gray. (Harrap, 7). 84.),
OR a striking, savage contrast to "all that, the" Ofty represents taks a pouny bus fare to any of the drab inner suburbs of London that might be the early setting of Let Us Pray.
Here, recorded with loss bitternLÖNE ." than would be justified, is a trave Story of a poverty-stricken ripple's fight against the squalor and sunering of half a lifetime: of, a, fight against physical disability, environment and the hostility to the underdog which is
· still rampant”! Withall Hiyo hast
anity, and humoured 16 Me. Oray is of the growing schoótat. projetarian novelists, and little oscapes/s la observation. But lala poopleinenda. more than prayers. |- ·BERW
Original documents are reproduced in these salty pagea.”. Drake writes of how he is singeing the King of Spain's after beard Collingwood reports Trafalgar." And the test description is by a naval officer of a fight with ban diis on the Yangtse last year. 1, ngada A fascinating book. If you are not IntercitedTM M FULVAN – BALAKOTY, genuin
10, Anatomy of Nestane. You will be [CARR*JONES.
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