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Ex-Crown Prince of Spain on the
"Penalty of
Royal"
-by
Alfonso de Bourbon, Count of -
COVADONGA
eldest son of ex-King Alfonso, une int exile in the United Staten
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being
TRAVELLED, and than a private citizen would be.
wherever I went just because I happen to be his reporters immediately approach- son, and because I am expected ed me, asked me all sorts of to see that he attends to pay- questions about every possible ing up my obligations. subject; politics, family rela- That is unfair! My life is tions, love affairs, tastes, the just my own. My problema food I ate, the wines 1 drank.
should not be forced upon, my
All this sort of thing is family; it is my duty to face amusing for a while, but it even them alone and to try to handle tually wears you down. You them as best I can. are afraid to move, to speak, be- Both father and mother have cause you never know how the done a great deal for me, and 1 move or the words are going to will never impose on them to do be twisted.
more than they have done. There seems to be no privacy am a man, a grown-up of any kind. It is like living in ready to work and to earn my- a glass house.
self a man's position in this
I
man,
I want to be human, honest, world. Why can't I be given a sincere, like other men, and fair chance?
PEOPLE
F only I were a them, be their friend. I had yet I cannot do it without
EOPLE have often withted to do the things they giving the wrong impression. king or a prince" did, share their thoughts,
wondered what their I have been called extrava- ideals.
gant, crazy, madcap: but what happened to the crown jewels people say some-
widely publicised in have I done that is not done 90 And yet the station of my times--"I'd be so happy! birth didn't allow me to do that daily by hundreds of thousands papers. Why haven't I sold
their valuable contributions and Royalty has everything
man could wish to have
to the publie for their whole- hearted support towards their Annual Fele,
DEATH.
CALDECOTT.-At Worthing. Sussex, on Monday, December 7, 1936, the Rev. Andrew Caldecott; aged 83 years.
The
Hongkong Eelegraph.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1936.
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I can't help smiling at such
ideas. Commoners envy royalty. and yet we royalty quite often
to do
them?
the
Well, the crown jewels exist, with as I undoubtedly. And I have them,
Heir to the throne, for the sake all over the world? But I was of my own people's dignity and royal, and my life, it seems, was prestige I had to keep a Crown 10t my own
pleased. Prince's attitude. afford to be a mere man.
I'
I
couldn't
was when
I have not sold them because
I have'not the right to sell what HAVE met girls in is not mine. The Toison de my life. All men Oro, for instance, is mino as my do. And I would have liked to long as I live, but at my death duty to my people think many a time that those it will return to my father. I
envy commoners! Why is it was ended by their own wish in who seemed to like me did so have it as if in trust. that we human beings can never 1931 that I thought I would because of myself personally, These jewels helped me raise be satisfied with what we enjoy an average man's life. not because of who I was.
I some money which I needed at á. actually have?
But no; even in exile I had to felt that were 1 just a man given moment: they were the face what some people might maybe they would not have security I offered the friend Being born a member of call "the penalty of being bothered to be nice to me. whose signature backed me in a royalty has any number of ad- royal.”
It is an
wwful sensation of bank loan. vantages, true, but then, do
feeling My sickness, which in spite of inferiority that this
Many people do that time and people ever stop to think of all
He can never be time again, and yet no being called by the papers "the gives a man. we have to give up and put up Bourbon curse" is nothing but sure of the sincerity of people even bothers to talk privately with just because of our birth?
an unfortunate inheritance, was approaching him.
about it. However, I am not And then, even in financial one of them, and so I cannot I don't need to look far for widely publicised, an example. I simply take my own self.
L
one
Had I been just the son of a questions. People all over have live my life ilke them in privacy. commoner, my sufferings would their tight moments. There are I am royal, hence "public pro-
instances in life when even the 'perty." have been endured just by my richest man has to face a dif- Young boys and young girls Born Crown Prince of Spain, family and myself. But even ficult situation. I was brought up strictly, as that I had to share with the
may dream of what they call befits a man who some day was work because I was royalty.
"I am not rich,' and I am a the happiness of being royal, to be the ruler of 25 million
man. My father, very kindly, may dream of being a "hand- I fell in love. After all, gives me an allowance. He some prince" or a "beautiful people. It was not until 1931, when revolution ousted me from whether royal or commoner, we does not have to do it, and it princess." But they should that realise that all the glitter and my country, that I thought i are all human, and I have the is only his would be able to face life as right to love like other men. prompts him to do so. He does glamour of royalty's life, hides other men do.
"However, my romance had to as much as he can, and I uppre- quite often the suffering of men
make the headlines in the news- ciate it very deeply.
and women who, yearning to be I hid aways liked people of papers all over the world; again, Yet, when I have to pay human, are obliged to face the all kinds, wanted to mix with just because I was royalty. alimony, I am charged higher "penalty of being royal."
after the Premier's statement on the attitude of the Government in the present constitutional crisis. Alhough still ploughing a lonely furrow, Mr. Churchill every now and then figures in the House in vigorous criticism of the Government. He has, in this connection, repeatedly made charges of lack of expedition in pushing on with national re- armament. His motives may be Sghtened democracy are becom- sincere, disciples of en- partly patriotic, but they are ing a little anxious. The arresting also obviously decidedly political, political phenomenon of the present century is the challenge that free democracies are unmistakably re-
kindness
DEMOCRACY IN DANGER
ceiving from a form of autocratic dictatorship as rigid and rigorous as
Do
Leaders Who
Not Always Lead
By "An Old Slager"
than merely the future of Ethiopia
because it caused pleasure to the spectators, comes uppositely to mind. Was the moral indignation that re- Jected those peace proposals really Inspired by horror of the pain they might inflict on the Abyssinians, or by a fear that their acceptance might
in mind, we must ask ourselves how weaken the bulwark, against
far we may be justified in sacrificing a brave but primitive people on the
altar of European security.
| Mob Rule
future emergency in which we our- selves might be involved?.
1 leave the League of Nations Union emotionalists to answer that question.
The important question is how
any that existed in what we call the of political thought, each with its
To dispassionate onlookers it may far dictatorship's open challenge to Dark Ages, The way in which some, accredited spokesmen and chler seem that we deliberately drove the free democracy can be successfully at all events, of the democracies are reacting to this challenge does not apostles, and, once an election was nails into Abyssinia in panic fear countered by a leadership that chops If the control and inspire immense confidence in the completed, the latter had the shaping that later on we might ourselves be and changes the currents of popu
Is rather beside the point at the direction of the democracles is less probable outcome of the Homerle of their party's policy and the direc-mailed to a milltary eroas. But this lar agitation.
moment, which is the changing atti eficient than that of the dictator tude of our enfranchised heritage of ships, the answer must be tragically free democracy.
certain. What is apparent in this
Eciency will be the final test in country,
And only an ostrich
conflict.
tion of the national affairs.
It is the legitimate boast of the Orders From Below people of this country that Britain
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Recently, Mr. Baldwin. gave a detailed reply to some of these criticisms, pointing out that past delays in the matter of re- arming were largely due to the reluctance of the Government to act in advance of public opinion, which was strongly pacifist in its views. It is easy
Through the House of Commons for Mr. Churchill and for others has been the cradle and remains the who think along the same lines citadel of the democratic idea. But the voting demoerney could still the home of Western democracy, is this struggle. to be wise after the event, but impartial observation compels one retain some measure of control over that the influence of leadership could pretend, by assuming a gro
acrious comment on this claim. those leaders, but the inspiration of weakens whilst the weight of popu-tesque attitude, that at present the nothing is to be gained at this Within quite recent years there has policy came, not from below, but a sentiment gathers momentous democraile States are displaying the influence. The old so-called "govern- more genuine efficiency in grappling stage by raking up the past. It come profound and significant from above.
The epoch of Gladstone and the Instinct to
Ing class,"
"equally divided between with the speelal problems of the is the future that matters. On change in the spirit of our de-
mocratic dream. The most vital of raeli marked the zenith
conserve and the epoch.
Even observers who hate and de- this aspect of the question, Mr.the altered factors is not the exten- period. Outstanding statesmen gave als
of this ambitlen to progress, have practically Baldwin has assured Parliament sion of the franchise to both sexes lead in the country, and, once their disappeared. They no longer exer- test the tyranny and the outlook of cise the old controlling decision in Nazi Germany are forced to admit. that, on the whole, British re-citizen, though that in itself is of almost autocrats of democracy,
and every adult and reputably sane outlook had been endorsed, were the shaping of democratic policles, that the Germans are showing for armament is making good pro- most recondite effect. The vital foe- All that has very largely changed in fact, the episode of the rejected better results in dealing with their gress and that he is satisfied at tor is that nowadays our democracy in our time. Whether because there described as a surrender to mob rule. Young Germany, whilst our youth is pence terms might not unfairly be unemployed youth than we ore. the
in which the in tending to direct its policies as are fewer outstanding
well as select its lenders.
political thought, or because there
In this instance the mob was very being drilled in pure academic Minister for Co-Ordination of
Formerly the working of the de-are immensurably more electors, the likely right in its emotional reactions, pacifism, is being trained to healthy Defences is discharging his macratic system in this country was process has almost been reversed, but it was demonstrably futile in its open-air life and taught, supreme manifold duties. Clearly, Mr. roughly that the electors chose one It is now the tendency, for the logic. We had no right to turn down patriotism. Baldwin can speak on this issue
How is this going to affect things or other of two established schools electors to dietate polley, and for the any peace. proposals unless we were
leaders
really prepared to do something if and when it comes to a practical with a fuller knowledge of the
democracy merely to more to help Abyssinia than express test of the two systems? facts than Mr. Churchill can. In throughout the manufacturing
body would go the long peace pious but meffectual resolutions. Feet of Clay these matters, democracies start side of the Government's pro admiring the Laval-Hoare peace pious but ineffectual resolutions,
The real issue was that of peace terms as an equitable settlement of i with a heavy handicap when gramme. The nation's industrial Abyssinia's ravished territories. But or war. We had either to fight the!. On the one hand we have young compared with dictatorships, but | resources are great; there need international politics is not founded European aggressors in East Africa, Oxford, by no means chanting a solo the task bas to be fully dis- be little fear on that score. But on human equity, and by now it or do our utmost to secure for n de- theme, assuring us it will not fight in charged if democraty in Britain the very vastness of these re-emotional and fanatical supporter of now appear likely to be offered to neither for King nor country.
must be
obvious, even to the most luded Abyssinia better terms than any circumstances whatever, and On is to survive. At the moment, sources maks it urgent that the League of Nations Union, that in those unfortunate people. We were the other we see a virile young Ger- the Government does not favour overlapping and lack of co-destroying that peace possibility we morally criminal if we made them many, exulling in its health and the creation of a Ministry of ordination be prevented. These have hurled the unfortunate Abys- a pawn in the straggle for inter- strength, and dedicated to the de- Supply, but its decision on this considerations, it cannot be inlans out of the frying pan into the national disarmament, which is very fence, and even the aggrandisement,
furnace.
much what we are doing. point is apparently not final. In doubted, are well realised by the IL may have been a very gratifying Government, whose critics may gesture of moral equity on our part,
German Efficiency
the desirability of a division of no slackening of effort until the labour at the head, as well as final objective is reached.
manner
LTD. the course of time, the very
carry out instructions.
lenders
of
whogo behalf it was supposed to be who put down bear-balling hot be the material intercals of those on }- Macaulay's gibe at the Puritans,
{ made. Or, if we had larger Interests | cause it gave poln to the bear, but
of the newly-modelled German Em- pice. There may be two opiniona un to the better of these two contrasting attitudes in human ethics, but there.
ever the two come to the test of can be only one as to the result it
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