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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 0, 1936.

BRITAIN ALIVE TO NECESSITIES

is

Mr. Winston Churchill irrepressible. There are occa- sions, however, when the House of Commons gets a little tired of his outbursts and of his in- satiable curiosity, as when he persisted in putting questions 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 partly patriotic, but they are also obviously decidedly political

Recently, Mr. Baldwin gave a detailed reply to some of these eriticisms, pointing out that past delays in the matter of re- arming were largely due to the reluctance of the Government

Ex-Crown Prince of Spain on the "Penalty of

Royal"

"I

by

Alfonso de Bourbon, Count of

COVADONGA

eldest son of ex-King Alfonso, now in rxile in the United States

being

TRAVELLED, and than a private citizen would be,

I wherever went just because I happen to be his reporters immediately-approach- Bon, 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 relu- That is unfair! My life is tions, love affairs, tastes, the just ny own. My problems. food I ate, the wines I 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 I move or the words are going to will never impose on them to do be twisted.

more than they have done. I There seems to be no privacy am a man, a grown-up man, 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 want to be human, honest, world. Why can't I be given a sincera, like other nicn, and fair chance?

I had yet I cannot do it without

f only I were a them, be their friend.

wanted to do the things they giving the wrong impression. king or a prince"- did, share their thoughts, their I have been caled extrava-

ideals. people say some-

PEOP

EOPLE have often wondered what

gant, crazy, madcap; but what happened to the crown jewels And yet the station of my have I done that is not done 30 widely publicised in the 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

Royalty has everything

man could wish to have money, power.'..

21

a

Well, the crown jewels exist,

Heir to the throne, for the sake over the world? But I was them? of my own people's dignity and royal, and my life, it seems, wais prestige I had to keep a Crown my own

to do with as undoubtedly. And I have them. Prince's attitude. 1 couldn't pleased.

afford to be a more man.

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 mine as And I would have liked to long as I live, but at my death

I

I duty to my people think

Was when my do.

I can't help smiling at such ideas. Commoners envy royalty, and yet we royalty quite often 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 could 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. 1 some money which I needed at a actually, have?

But no; even la exile I had to felt that were I just n 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 awful sensation of bank loan. vantages, truc, but then, do

I don't need to look far for an example. I simply take my own self.

one

people ever stop to think of all being called by the papers the gives a man.

My sickness, which in spite of inferiority tant this feeling Many people do that time and

He can never be time again, and yet no 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 widely publicised,

questions. People all over have live my life like them in privacy. Had I been just the son of their tight moments. There are I am royal, hence "public pro. commoner, my sufferings would instances in life when even the perty." have been endured just by my richest man has to face a dif- Born Crown Prince of Spain, family and myself. But even ficut situation. I was brought up strictly, as that I had to share with the befits a man who some day was world because I was royalty. to be the ruler of 25 million

Young boys and young girls may dream of what they enll I am not rich, and I am a the happiness of being royal, man. My father, very kinaly, may dream of being à "hand- people. It was not until 1931, I fell in love. After all, gives me an allowance. He some prince" or a "beautiful 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 kindness

right to love like other men. prompts him to do No. He does glamour of royalty's life hides, would be able to face life as However, my romance had to as much as he can, and I appre- quite often the suffering of men

"make" the headlines in the news=clate" ̄it"very "deeply,

"and" women who, yearning to be I had 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.”

other men do.

DEMOCRACY IN

COME sincere disciples of cri-i

S

ilghtened democracy ure becom- Leaders Who ing a little anxious. The arresting century is

Do

political phenomenallenge that free Not Always Lead

By "An Old Stager".

DANGER

than merely the future of Ethiopla

beenuse it caused pleasure to the spectators, comes appositely to mind. Was the moral Indignation that re- Jected those peace proposals really Inspired by harror 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 justled in sacrificing a brave but primitive people on the

altar of European securlly.

Mob Rule".

future emergency in which we our selves might be involved?

I leave the League of

Nations democracies are unmistakably re-

Union emotionalists to answer that celving from a form of autocratic

question. dictatorship as rigid and rigorous as

The Important question is how any that existed in what we call the of political thought, each with is

To dispassionate onlookers it may far dictatorship's open challenge to Dark Ages. The way

which some, in

accredited spokesmen and chief 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, und, once un election was shit Abyssinia in panic fear countered by a leadership that chops Jar ngitation. If the control and Inspire immense confidence in the completed, the latter had the shaping that later on we might ourselves beland changes in the currents of popu-

is rather beside the paint at the moment, which is the changing attt efficient than that of the dictator- tude of our enfranchised heritage of skins, the answer must be tragically free democracy,

certain.. What is apparent in this country.

to act in advance of public probable outcome of the Homeric of their party's polley and the direc-nailed to a military eruss. But this rection of the democracies is less

opinion, which was strongly pacifist in its views. It is easy for Mr. Churchill and for others

conflict.

It is the legitimate boast of the people of this country that Britain

tion of the national affairs,

Orders From Below

has been the cradle and remains the Through the House of Commons

struggle. And only an ostrich who think along the same lines citadel of the democratic idea. But the voting democracy could, still the home of Western democracy, is theney will be the final test in to be wise after the event, but partial observation compels one retain some measure of control over that the influence of leadership could pretend, by assuming a gro- serious comment on this claim. those leaders, but the inspiration of weukens whilst the weight, of popitesque.attitude, that at present the nothing is to be gained at this Within quite recent years there has polley come, not from below, but lar sentiment gathers momentous democratic States are displaying the Influence. The old so-called "govern-- genuine efficiency in grappling stage by raking up the past. It come a profound and significant from above."

change in the spirit of our de- The epoch of Gladstone und Di-Ing class," equally divided between wine special problems of the

The most vital of raeli marked the zenith of this the instinct to conserve and the the altered factors is not the exten- period. Outstanding statesmen gove

ambition to progress, have practically Even 'observers who hate and de- slon of the franchise to both sexes a lead to the country, and, once their disappeared. They no longer exer- test the tyranny and the outlook of and every adult and reputably sane outlook had been endorsed, were the shaping of democratic policies, that the Germans are showing far cise the old controlling decision in Nazi Germany are forced to admit citizen, though that in itself is of almost autocrats of democracy.

In fact, the episode of the rejecled batter results in dealing with their

mocratic dream.

*

epoch.

we are.

is the future that matters. On this aspect of the question, Mr. Baldwin has assured Parliament that, on the whole. British re- armament is making good pro-

most recondite effect. The vital fac- All that has very largely changed peace terms.might not unfairly be unemployed youth than gress and that he is satisfied at tor is that nowadays bur democracy in our time. Whether because there described as a surrender to mob rule, Young Germany, whlist our youth is the manner in which, the is tending to direct its polleles ns are fewer outstanding leaders of

well as select its leaders.

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 moeralle system in this country was process has almost been reversed, but it was demonstrably futile in its open-air life and taught suprems 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 or other of two established schools electors to dietate polley, and for the any peace proposals unless we were How is this going to affect things. leaders of democracy merely to really prepared to do something if and when it comes to a practical. with a fuller knowledge of the

carry out instructions,

more to help Abyssiniu than express] test of the two systems? facts than Mr. Churchill can. In throughout the manufacturing i Nobody would go the length of our deep moral sympathy and pass, these matters, democracies start side of the Government's pro- admiring the Laval-Hoare, peace pious but ineffectual resolutions. | Feet of Clay'

The real issue was that of peace with a heavy handicap when gramme. The nation's industrial terms as an equitable settlement of

Abyssinia's ravished territories. But for war. We had either to fight the! On the one hand we have young compared with diatatorships, 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 has 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 a deal theme, nasuring us it will not Oght In charged if democracy in Britain the very vastness of these re-emotional and fanatical supporter of

must be obvious,, even to the most fuded Abyssinia better terma than any circumstances whatever, and

now appear likely to be offered to fawither. for King nor country. 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 ece 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, exulting in its health and the creation of a Ministry of ordination be prevented. These have hurled the unfortunate Abys. a pawn in the struggle for inter-strength, and dedlented to the de-

much what we are doing. point is apparently not final. In doubted, are well realised by the wae course of time, the very Government, whose critics may magnitude of the task-may show rest assured that there will be the desirability of a division of no slackening of effort until the Inbour at the head, as well as final objective is reached.

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Supply, but its decision on this I considerations, it cannot hasiniuns out of the frying pan into the national disarmament, which is very fence, and even the E

furnace.

It may have been a very gratifying German. Efficiency, gesture of moral equity on our

part at it amounted to a crucifixion of whose behalf it was supposed to be who put down bear-baiting not be the material interests of those on Macaulay's glbe at the Puritana,

made. Or, it wo hod larger Interests enuse It gave pain to the bear, but

of the newly-modelled

On

pire. There may be two opinions as to the better of inese two contrasting atitudes in human ethics, but there can be only ons as to the result if over the two come to the test of. (Continued on Page 5.)