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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1936.

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When, in 1982, she went-to- join her brother (the present King of Greece) at a house party in Scotland, she and her alater travelled third class in Britain.

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which was fathered by George III., was to prevent marriages 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.

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 the

King is "incapable of contracting marry Mrs. Simp matrimony without the previous son?

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1930.

WHAT ABDICATION INVOLVES

As in other matters which have come to the fore in the constitutional crisis at Home, n 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 not. It is, however, usually the result of internal or external pressure 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 he had abdicated and that the Throne was thereby rendered vacant. The Scottish Parlia- ment pronounced a decree of forfeltüre 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

or

Empire

Throne?

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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 the Great War.

moner, spinster or widow. But divorcees are not mentioned.

Edward VIII, came unmarried to the throne. So did William II., Henry 1., Henry III., Richard

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Henry VIII married four

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London, Mar 11

His Majesty the King Informed; tho House of Commons, that he may por- {xibly wed, in a mossage naking for a renewal of the Civil List, wisch stat-

His Majesty, denies that the con tingency of his marriage should bo taken into account, so that," in that event, there should be provision for His Majesty, the Queen and mom- bera of His Majesty's family, cor tosponding to the provisiong___which: The House of Commons has boen will- [jpg to make in liko oireuṇstances in

the past."

Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chan collor of the Exchequor, presented the | meninga, unter which Mr. Will hörne, | Labour M.P., enquired; “May I ask. whether His Majesty, has given any guarantee that he is going to marry?”! This query waa met with kughter. | Mr. Chamberlain gave no reply thera-

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Speculation immediately arosa re-. garding a possible bride for the King. it is mid that the Circek Princes: -Eugonics--a-cousin of - Marins; the Duchess of Kent, is the most probable cholet.

Tire London Star gave the story n front-pago poaltion, the headline to which was only a huge boxxi question- mark, sub-handed:Har Majesty the Queen: United Prresponded.

Hongkong Telegraph March 12, 1036,

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. Her younger Princess nister,

of

Katherine, twenty-three, and was educated by an English governess Bromley, Kent. ・・ She was a brides- maid at Princess Marina's wed- ding, na Princess Irene.

Was

Another of these was the twenty- 'sovon

your old Princess Eugenia, daughter "of Princo George öf Greece. King Edward mat her at a house party in Denmark about. four years ago. She is dark-hair- ed, dark-e y e d. and is fond of outdoor games.

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An unmarried

attractive prin-

ccas is Kyra, Grand Duchess of Russia, who is twenty-six. She

is daughter of

the Grand

II.. Henry V., Henry VII, commoners, Richard II mar- "Yes," replied the Queen. Duke Cyril, "the uncrowned Edward VI., Elizabeth. Charles ried Anne of Warwick, Edward "But I did a

I., Charles II., George III, and IV. was married to a widow thing when I proposed."

more nervous Czar" of Russia. -

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Woodville.

If

it

Slim, blonde more

Sean-

Victoria, our new King's great. Elizabeth grandmother,

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 Cophetun in that pretty choices would be limited to a sad life; she had to escape from Russin in the revolution, and is Of these monarchs, unly Wil- they lived happy ever after very few Princesses, liam ("Rufus"), who was killed, story.

Princess Jullana 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 riage to her consort Albert. She her pending marriage into con sings and is much travelled. marry.

sideration; as heir to the Dutch If Edward VIII. takes a wife When it came time for her throne her husband, if she mar- princess of marriageable age There is only one Scandinavian he must do so in accordance to inform the Privy Council, a rics, will be her consort.

immarried, Alexandrino Louise, with the Royal Marriage Act of friend said: "Won't you be ner- There are three Greek prin- a twenty-one-year-old brunette, 1772. The object of this Act, vous ?"

cesses, Irene, handsome cousin

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BETWEEN THE WARS.

By II. W. Nevinson Hutchinson. 103. 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-is- not so- easy to find as you would think, Indeed, if it were not for such, books as this we might even forget, in an ago full of dull shrieking, that the su, 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," 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 fishwives for dropping columns of type on each other's corns

had to do the "asking."

BOOKS

OF THE DAY Edited by Roger Pippett

RUPENT OF THE RHINE By George Edinger (Hutchinson, 183.). HEN Prince Rupert, the dashing Royalist cavalry leader, rode out of Oxford after his aurrender during the Civi War, to most Englishmen he rode out of history. So anys Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan to his readers) in his introduction to this romantic blo- graphy. And he is right.

Actually Rupert was only at the beginning of his extraordinary career, Maraton Moor was behind him, and Cromwell WES thundering on his hecis-so he took to the sea, fought Blake

sailed the Caribbean and, after the Re storation. be came Lord

It's head was filled, as though he could not quite belleve his cars. His eyes were twinkling with sardonic 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 aquabble 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 fight was no carnestly hopes, will not arise-in-one at his desk again and led the

longer worth listening to He settledigh—Admiral 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 But whilst becomes a reality.

this is so, there does not appear to be any legal power resting In the Parliaments to deprive a monarch of his office against his will.

ather nwny, as chastened as a choir- wy whose wages had been "docked." hen he went off to some incompre- nsible war in which young men were getting themselves killed, .......

As H. M. Tomlinson says, in his finely pointed introduction, this man from another age evades classification. "He is as perverse na was Waterlan of the Wanderings and a likely ride on a crocodile, as wilful and obstinate as Doughty of Arbin, as ironical and provocative, as Samuel. Like. Voltaire, though he bated your opinion, he would die in defence of your right. hold it.

"He has denounced war till he has been mobbed in a London street: and then travelled far and with dimculty that ho might be mixed in a horrible baitia

Butler. Mr. Winston · Churchul goes even further when he de- clares-appmcntly on good grounds—want no Ministry has authority to "advise" abdication. It is conceivable, of course, that the Parliaments of the Mother Country and of the Dominions might consent to a monarch's Ltd.desire to abdicate, even though

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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 This Throne against his own

wishes.

And then you turn to theso essays, published without signature in a review when there was no war to keep Mr. Nevinson busy. With an exquisite irony he touches on everything that is over likely to interest a man with such a delight in life.

Cynles have said that peace is the ime taken by science to And a new gun. But peace must be worth while.. ven to cynics, if it produces, such #25plia_as_Between the Wars.

ALH

-against-the-

Dutch.

"The ramsl: Restoration Court," in Lord Tweedsmuir'a words, "did not welcome one who, like Bir Walter Raleigh,

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of too ardent a spirit for comfort, so, like Raleigh, he turned to' science and dis-

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London.

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Every schoolboy knows him as the man who made the Rupert's drop, but far less fragile inven- tions to his credit are the mezzo- tint, the revolver and the tor- pedo. A

The last ten years of his life weru a peaceful contrast to the restlessness that went before,

an though

head old

wound troubled him and, he suffered from "an Intermitting fever." He died at his home in Spring Gardens in 1682 and was buried in West- minster Abbey the last Elizabethan and the fгBL Whig."

Like Lord „Tweedsmuir______ Alsatred with Mr. Edinger & reading of the Civil War, especially in his estimate of the Cromwell- lana, But he has written a colourful and exciting book about a colour- ful and CX- citing and too long neglected

R.

Rupert the Devil with his demon prodic (from a Roundhead print):

THE ANATOMY OF NEPTUNE * By Belan Tunstall.. (Routledge, 123. Gd.)

THE author, who is a lecturer in History at the Greenwich Naval College, has compiled a fascinating panorama of naval life during the past four hundred years.

Bea battles of the distarit past are described from the viewpolut of those who actually took part in them rather than as historical incidents, and con ditions in the British Navy in its 'carliest days are described with an almost brutal candour,

A chapter-of punishments, nt-ses-- during the seventeenth century makes

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the tortures of the Inquisition seem almost amateurish.

You might, for utance, ba holsted to the yardarm by a rope round your middin and dropped violently threa times into the sen or even pulled right under the ship'a bottom.

Original documents are reproduced In these salty pages. Drake writes of how he is singeing the King of Spain's board. Collingwood reports after Trafalgar. And the last description is by a naval officer of a fight with ban- dits on the Yangtse last year.

A fascinating book. If you are not Interested in naval history, got The Anatomy, of Neptune). You will be then

·CARR“JONER,

-FILM-AND-THEATRE- By Allardyce Nieoll

~(Harrap, 75; 6d:)--

W

HEN learned men examine the cinema without pre-

'judice, we often find some- thing missed by those enmeshed in its turmoil.

thirty.

As Professor Nicoli reminds us in this book, the drama has lived for ~2,500-years-and-the-film-for-only-

But he appends a list of over eight hundred books already written about it. His penetrating analysis of its methods of story- telling is a real contribution to ex- isting theories.

Unlike some writers on the flim; he advances no fanciful or high-flown ideas, and his style is refreshingly free from jargon,

The moral antipathy to the screen which still persists in many quarters can be fairly compared, as the author points out, to similar atilludes to the theatre in Tudor and Restoration days 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 of Hollywood's eleverness la gratifying.

Emotional motivation and other factors which retain our 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 ts mainly an effect of a dramatist and the actors' possession of a stage, the Alm is a synthetic result of vision and sound, assembled, cut and bridged over.. __The_clever, film director is one who. Impresses his skill with many ingrediy ents, of which personality and photo- graphy are only two. He may muddle them and thus defeat their possibili-- tles, but he may alternatively attain a cumulative effect which is more than a substitute for the human magic of the living performer.

1 commend this lucid and easily read treatise to all who have the sense to take the cinema seriously-and this, I assert, includes mkhy who aro primarily patrons of popular entertain- ment.

F. L. M.

LET US FRAY, By John Gray, (Harrap, 7z. ed.).

OR a striking, savage contrast to

all that the City represents tako inner suburbs of London that might be a penny bus fare to any of the drab

...: the early setting of Let Us Pray.

Here, recorded with loss bitterness- than would be justified. is a brave story, of poverty-stricken cripple's Eght against the squalor and suffering of half a lifetime; of a fight against physical disability, environment and the hostility to the under fog which li

rampant. Withal

humanity and humour "

Mr. Gray is of the growing school of proletarian: novelists, "and little 'escapes his observation. But his people; need- riore than prayers.

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