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TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 6,

1938.

PRINCESS ELIZABETH WILL AUTOMATICALLY BECOME QUEEN OF ENGLAND

RIGID LAWS OF THE

BRITISH CONSTITUTION

By H. L. Percy

Euited Prem Staß Correspondent,

London.

Twelve-year-old Princess Elizabeth automatically be- comes queen-ruler of England at the exact moment her father, King George VI. ceases to be king.

The British constitution lays down that there must be no interregnum, and Elizabeth, as the King's eldest daugh- ter is heir presumptive and next in line of accession. Until Edward VIII, abdicated she was only second in line after her father, then the Duke of York.

Elizabeth, of course, would lose, would she take the customary oath to her position as first in He should defend the faith, or any other oath her mother. Queen Elizabeth, give; until she was 18. birth to son, and she would drop

The Lord President of the Counell

still further for every additional son! [Lord Haisham at present? would That was burp This is because boys al- j preside, and the council's first ac!

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the

ot oath swear days take precedence in Betish law, would be

Seal of over the Great whatever their age, and it is also alleginne

formally I would then why the Princess is heir presumptive England and not heir apparent, although it approve the proclamation of Eliza, is proetically vertala that the Queen | beth's arression, including the name by which she would be known, and will have ne mure childeen

the Duke of vitorester's appointment

regent as reg

So far as anyone can faretell only death will remove King George from the throne, and presumably not fu many years to come at tint, but the constitutional law alto oppiles should he abdiente, ur citated 3-helth

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any

The luke would then, fiske his three оти! afterwards prominent patho, citizens, such as the Lurd Mayor of the Mayor of West- minster, in whose borough Bucking- ham Palace Des, would be eiled into the room also to take the eath

London Hi as declared mojm

as

such Leitson,

WOULD AUTOMATICALLY BE QUEEN

It does not matter how, when or He where the King should clie might fall from his horse ont break his neck in lia; he sight be killed in a plane crash in Australia, on be mhtht be assassinated on the Crop- tinant

Elizabeth might be thentsands

of miles away at the time. But af the accepted moment at which he diesl Elizabeth would automatically Queen, UK history would revival as the hour and day of her acces sion

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unifying

This would end Das Privy Council, and the next at might either be

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santimonteg of Pat kamen: to take the oath of allegiance and supre mory in the public reading of the i patoriumaitora

These could be held at any venient the 11 the next day or so In the ease of George VI, the PNY

Let the 11ng. Pail ment Bark the oath in the aftermon, and the proclamation was read in the aftergin of the next day

to the Reform Act of FINET Parlament was subignet to disolution anthage of sereign tot als zer bar bentre, ou de contrary, the existing Parlament maint

Formal proclamations, the people's arreptare, al the coronation, signifying the Church's, unge, and even in the event of its ' neceplater, would cime later, but, mulig been dissolved it is tempor from that split second when King'arity resuscitated, an permitted to George breathes his last. Elizabeth

so long # Six nonths st

is henceforth Queen Elizabeth 11 PRICEPANOT has not before that been

ruler of (1 greatest empire the aborted world is ever likely to know.

But should Elizabeth become queen hefure she reaches her ranority 1 years in the ease of royalty she would be queen in name only unit her 18th birthday, Apra 21. 1944 She could sign no bills, exercise in royal prerogatives, or take any port in the affairs of State

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In fhet, except for changing her title. Elizabeth's life would! Tot altered one jot.

A

reggent would take care of all at least lentil she the royal duties.

was 18, and preably until she was 21. Paz Bament passed i Fill in February, 1837, providing for suel

CZECH PRESIDENT RELAXES

While European lenders seek international understandings, a new and knotty problem develops in Czechio-Slovaška, as Sudeten Ger- mans demand an autonomous state dominated by Germany. Czechi President, Dr. Eduard Benes, is shown with Mrs. Benes in a mo- ment of relaxation on their country estate of Sezimova Usti, neur the nation's capital of Prague

CHILDREN

"TRAPPED" IN MENTAL HOMES

"Parents Sign Away Their

Freedom

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"ANY mothers are urged into unwittingly signing away their children's freedom, and stigmatising The proclamation is read from the them, perhaps for life, as mental defectives merely be

entise the children were backward at school."

balcony of Friary Court St. James's

Palace, and then at Charing Cross, Chancery Lane, just inside the limits of the City of London, and trully at the Royal Exchange

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tubards

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要 medieval!

Mr. W. Baker, secretary of the National Society for

Lunacy Law Reform, said this to a Daily Mail reporter,

W commenting on the society's annual report, just issued.

"shes of vung people thus wrong- fully defined app being bristupit to our police more and more frequent-

three-cornered offended by i uzupetess and heralds, Lakes

the part in

When Demony liv father was proclaimed, Elizabeth watched the ceremony from a win- dow nex St James's Paire and the combateel. When Brisard V111 WAN pro omert.

Its nullous sveter 1 t and Mrs Sampson waleled friti an window of the palace

because a child can read and wife This ends the endablished for properly caugh he may be perfectly akties until such time as when normal in very The Regenes 11h, as at B ended,, Elizabeth be old enigh to take oaths blm to spertal inys down that the next adult sa be herself, and the date of her voet-

an eventually

other way

which

nothing more than "orders antal

The mother was advised to send her!

but did 201 to the train hom*, know it Was our for mental defec Boxes

"Once a girl of this type funds herif forcibly detained, fi hap- es, tu most cases, that all her parents' efforts to speure release prove unavailing,

IF THEY ESCAPE

Its for more difeult to secure "If at 16 children at free schools the release of a mentul defective than

of accession shall be regent if the tins to be announced, when there Institutions sovereign 14 umuler accession

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of would be a stenilur erremony to the

In Elizabeth's case this, reading of the necession proclima e are stil below struchard and 11 is auf a person certifled as insane." Mr. would mean that her uncle, the Duke Ulor.

of Gloucester, would be regent, and

after him the Duke of Kent.

DUKE OF WINDSOR

19 BARRED

PASTOR WHO

The Duke of Windsor is speciftently GAVE UP £15,000

barred by a clause in the bill defining

disqualification: "If the person is not

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British aubject of full age and

resident in the United Kingdom. or would, under the Act of Settlement, be Incapable of inheriting, possessing

and enjoying the Crown,"

Says "No" To

London

Pastog of a little

church

In the

badly defined standard they become,

Is the subjer-t Mental Deficiency Committee.

Baker declared "20 they escupe Government they can always be taken back with- The rule of 14 days 100ta verrrant.

Iberty does not apply.

"We demand a better-defined stan-

FIVE YEARS TO WAIT

deni

It is the that felays go to pa-dard for judging children of 12 und

poor, we suggest rents, oflen would be advisable of their children; went to trening burne

"Oner a mather ats the form she may never see her child gain for years, and only when she tries to get him back home find that he is in Independent medical examination paroies granted, but for the most

The Act of Settlement, drawn up toughest quarter of Aberavon's dock- a mental home." after Edward VIII., abdicated, pro- land. Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones a for- vided that he could marry without mer volleague of Lord Herder has can be made and occasional special the King's consent, and that neither refused an offer to become raluister he, his wife, or his children are in line of accession to the throne.

The Regency Bill, which presumes that the next sovereign will be u male, but is equally applieuble Elizabeth, provides that "is" mother shall have guardianship of the

of the prosperous and fashionable part ne decision is taken as to possis English Presbyterian bie discharge from such tratning

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Marylebone Church, London.

Eleven years ago Dr. Jones, a bril- ant heari specialist, sacrificed fame.

fortune, und West End social e to

schools until after five yours

NO RELEASE

sovereign's person until "he" is 18; answer the call of the Welsh Presbyed for 11 years under the Mental De- and that the retent will administer terian Church.

From the church at Aberavon, Dr. ficiency Acts. Although sovereign's proprety and also

the guardianship. of "his" Jones and his wife set in motion a revivalist movement that is sweeping Wales.

the

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have person.

12 or younger 'mentally felent; just because they cannot rond j and write properly it does not mean they are unit for manual or dennes- He work,

"Quicker medical examination of the detained is necessary, with as- surance that evidence of independent doctors would secure mediate re lease; and finally, to prevent possible cruelty, an independent committee should be set up with power to visit

patients in private."

DOCTOR TO PAY £600 FOR NEGLIGENCE

The report cites many cases: "A woman of 37 has been detain-

For negligence in leaving a swab unable to

In Thomas Mahon, n 25-year-old ! read or write, she is accomplished in labourer, after an oppuation In Davy- other ways, and can sew and crochet hulme Park Hospital, judgment was with murked intelligence."

given at Manchester Assizes recently The Bill differs from the act passed

Another: "A young woman of 23, against Dr. Rowland Perry Osborne on the neression of King George V.

detention for for £016 3. Od, with costs. This provided for the wife of the

who has been under King Queen Mary) to be regent.

nine years, was examined indepen

The jury added a rider that they To-day men in silk hots mingledently through the society's medical Before taking offee, the Bill lays down that the regent must take with men wearing cloth eaps in the service, and the doctor was of opinion were unanimously of the opinion that three oaths before the Privy Council: crowds entering every church where that there is no just ground for re- Dr. Osborne worked under difficult "Allegiance to the Sovereign and to Dr. Jones preaches,

circumstances during the operation.

his heirs and successors; that he will truly and faithfully execute the office of regent and will consult

and maintain the safety, honour and dignity of the Sovereign and the welfare of his people; and maintain the settlement of the Protestant - ligion in Scotiand."

"THIS IS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN

They have laboured to insprove the lot of working men and women in their little pastorate,

garding her as a mental defective.

"Bang Went Saxpence".

By Instalments

Here is what would happen in the BELLS for the 80ft. tower of the Peace Pavilion at the Empire Arst few days of Elizabeth's reign, Exhibition, Glasgow, were cast at Croydon Bell Foundry assuming that King George was to recently, and the tradition of throwing silver coins Into the die within the next six years or molten metal "for luck" was observed by onlookers.

before she reaches the age of 19.

probably the following day. There of

The first offcial action would be

the summoning of the Privy Council

to St. James's Fainee, London, most

are in all about 300 Privy Councillors,

accession over a 100 attended.

Princess Elizabeth would not be

Lord Ceell and Sir Herbert Dunnico tossed in sixpences. Bir Archibald Sinclair, M.P., and Mrs. E. M. Currie, convener the Peace Pavilion Committee, parted with threopenny-bits.

It was, of course, inevitable that there should be a joke about

und at the time of George VI's England's contribution being twice that of Scotland.

Dr. Osborne said he thought there might have been a miscount, or that two swabs had been given at once.

Nurse Ethel Monica Ashburner, also nued, suld she counted the swabs be- fore and after the operation and found them correct.

Professor John Morley told the Court that reliance was placed on the count of swabs to avoid unnecessary searching.

If a search were extensive and pro- longed it might make the difference hetween life and death.

Judgment against the nurse was set asido. Stay of execution was granted In the case of Dr. Osborne.

The man's mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Mahon, of Hancock Street, Stretford,

Sir Archibald Sinclair, chuckling, said his contribution had had brought the action. Hor son le

present, being a minor. Neither been brought specially from Scotland for the ceremony.

dend.

DEATH FOR SPIES IN FRANCE

Purls.

Espionage has Increasel to auch an extent in France that capital punishment may shortly be reintroduced.

The Daladier Government han been studying the question closely. and is understood that a decree which is in course of preparation

tucrease substantially

for

various

the

fortun

of

Would sentences espionage. Sume would entail the death penalty.

It is recognised that in Germany, where both men and women spies are behended. espionage has been practically

felt aut. stumped It 12 that, in the interests of nationd de- fence, more rigorous methods simuld be adopted to protect France from the agents of foreign Powers.

Since 1938 vil spy cases have been Judged by military tribunals, where the maximum pensity is 20 years imprisonment.

In 1932 seven cases of espion- nge were judged in. France, in- conviction of 13 volving the Individuals. Two УСАГА laler the number had risen to 70. Of the B5 people convicted 78 were foreigners,

Figures are not available for more recent years, but there is no doubt that the total is very much larger. One estimule

it lenfold in-

creuse,

The military court at Besanron, an East France, condemned three imen to prison for explonage.

SAFETY FIRST!

Danger of TYPHOID and CHOLERA bonished through

TYPHORAL' 'CHOLPEROS'

(BAYER)

MAMPEI

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KARUIZAWA

Karuizawa, a small scat- tered town, is situated 3,080 feet above the sea Georges Knochel was sentenced to and has been known for 15 years' imprisonment for trying to obtain information from an Alsatian many years as the sum- about French troops stationed in the

aft mer resort where more the secret region and about code.

Walter Knapp received 11

years.

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