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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1939.

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REPLY to a question in the House of Commons would. indicate that Mr. Chamberlain is awaiting a propitious moment to re-open trade negotiations with Germany. These negolia. tions, it will be recalled, abruptly

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He would place his trust, not In the British navy, army and air force, but in gold.

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---Trade-negotiations-at-this- stage would nid Germany much than they would nid Britain. They would help her

overcome some, of her economic difficulties, which means, in effect, to increase her

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Britain should do nothing which would enable Germany to do this. It should rather be Mr. Chamberlain's policy to increase those difficulties and diminish Germany's power to wage war.

As Mr. Roosevelt said recently, there are many ways short of going to war by which aggressor nations can be countered. They should be adopted against Nazi Germany.

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HITLER: "You are absolutely encircled-menaced on all sides!"

for

Rough

draft a play, to be written 50 hence

years

AURENCE HOUS- MAN'S play "Victoriu Regina" traces the

life of Queen Victoria in a series of some twenty dramatic episodes.

This day another great Queen

GO

-by

BECKLES

"What ward is that?".she asks, pointing to a closed door.

"Those are-er-those are special enses," hurries the doc- tor.

"How special?"

"Well, ma'am, they are rather bad facial cases, and we didn't think that you.

The Queen of England enters the special ward.

JULY 1934. A sedate and apprehensive audience sits in the stalls of the rose-covered royal box at the Palladium. They look sideways now and again to see whether or not they should applaud.

And now a broad comedian,

There is a knock at the door. the greatgrandson of another one Billy Bennett, has come be-

"Madam,"

A man in a frock coat enters. son of George the Third,

fore the footlights. What can is in our thoughts; it is the "Doctor?" says the Duchess

a Queen know of fish and chips, seventy-second birthday_of_of_Teck, springing.up.-- -

It had been quite a quiet landladies and kippers?... Queen Mary.

affair in the little Chapel Royal,

"I knew a man," bawls Ben- says the doctor, "I but when they came to drive to nett, "who had a hair on the end Who doubts that some Hous- consider that your child has Liverpool-street Station for of his nose so long that every man of the future will wish to passed the crisis and should their honeymoon at Sandring- time he sneezed it cracked like write an episodic play about the soon be out of danger.”*

ham it seemed as if London had Consort of the late King George

a whip, suddenly gone mad. the Fifth?

MAY 26, 1873. A little

"He finally caught a cold and It was no public holiday, and flogged himself to death." girl dressed just like the Tenniel there were no decorations; but Her life has been no less drawing of "Alice in Wonder- the crowds in Piccadilly and on Queen-she is rocking with, Horror! But look at the romantic and far richer in land" has come back from her the way to the City were said laughter, dramatic incident-than that of afternoon walk in Richmond to have been bigger than at the robust humour of her paternal shaking with the Victoria, and she has been wit- Park. ness to social and world changes

Queen's Jubilec!

ancestors.

of far more sweeping a charac- She has long fair hair, nearly Every one wanted to see the ter than those seen by the Vic- down to her waist. Her jacket marriage of the Princess who JANUARY 1936. It is just torian reign.

is trimmed with fox fur right was known to every one by the after midnight. The only light One episode in such a play up to a pert little bustle, and name of the lovely month in in the room comes from the might spring from those touch she carries a demure muff in which she was born.

flickering fire. At reat now upon ing moments in the Abbey film front of her. Her eyes have the But that was a year ago in the bed is George V., who all day at the moment that the Crown galety of her gay, pleasure- 1893.

long has sat propped up in a is placed on her son's head; and loving father, the dashing Duke

Now there was this bundle of chair before the window. A few later on the balcony of Bucking- of Teck.

clothes who was going to be moments ago the King breathed ham Palaco.

christened Edward Albert Chris- for the last time. Life at White Lodge, especial- tian George Andrew Patrick, Stage directions would have ly with all the dolls of a birth- but known as "David." And the world has curtseyed, and she to Queen Mary-to whom all the to read: "The Queen is seen to day, is very pleasant. Of bearded young man-no strange- no one since two other Queens be in tears."

course, there are all the rela. ly like the proud father-was had died-turns to the flaxen- Here are a few other random tions: some of them nice, others twenty years later to write haired man at her, sido and hor- stage directions which might quite frightening. come in useful for the play

wistfully from the Palace in St. self curtseys. "Mary Regina."

The little Princess Victoria auch pleasure to those days King!

Petersburg: "I look back with The King is dend, long live the (they also called her Mary, at Marlborough JULY 1868. The plump now) likes her grandmamma, Georgie's wedding

Houac for Duchess of Teck is sitting at the Duchess of Cambridge. She

and the MAY 1937. The Queen sits christening." a window of Kensington Palace, had known George the Third,

at her writing desk overlooking She is alone and silent.

and could talk about the Napo- fond of Georgle and Princess House which she know as Prin- The Czar of Russia was very the lawns of the Marlborough Upstairs her one-year-old leonic wars that the Princess May. daughter, the Princess Victoria, rend about in her history books.

cess May.

She is reading her morning

The United States set an excellent example by putting heavy anti-dumping duties on subsidised German goods.

Still more radical suggestions were made recently in a letter to the London "Times" by Sires dying. She has caught Lots of funny people came to NOVEMBER 1, 1901. There letters and answering those that Alexander Roger:

typhoid from the stagnant pond White Lodge. Only the other is rough weather in the Chan- need answers. She writes with outside the window.

day her elder brother had re- nel, and for days the liner Ophir a swift and flowing pen, abbrevi "Let us cease all trading with

The Duchess did not wish her. ceived a nice knife on his birth- has been battling across the At- ating "your" into "y." Most of Germany. Let German ships daughter to be called Victoria: day from a funny old man with lantic in the face of gales. her letters are signed "Ever arriving in democratie ports 'find'Mary, for instance. But the

there were several better names Painted cheeks called Disraeli. The Duchess. of Cornwall-yours sincerely."

Her plump mother stands in she will soon be the Princess of There is a letter on cheaper that labour declines to handle great Queen had said: "I am her the background at the birthday Wales-is coming to the end of paper than most of the others: their ships.. Lot all Germana godmother my wishes must party, shaking her head at some a long journey round the world. It is a letter written by a Mrs.

of the little guests.

On her desk lies an open McComber, of Acacia-road, Wood' The little Princess who was to "There are far, far too many diary. One page starts: "I am Green, inviting her to come and become Queen Mary was. a grown-up children to-day," she a very bad sailor and if not look at the decorations in her beautiful child. The deepest laments to a friend,

actually ill have a constant' district. rosebud of a mouth (the sorrow- blue eyes imaginable, a tiny JULY 1894. A funny little at sen is one's only rest.”

headache-great loss-as. being That afternoon the Queen drives through castern and ing Duchess recall her own bundle of baby clothes to being

northern London, and makes a words), a pink-and-white com- held in the arms of a bearded plexion; and a most perfect young men so like her own hus of England is at a hospital in Combor's house,

AUGUST 1916. The Queen' point of passing Mrs. Mc- igure.

band that Princess May marvels North London. For two hours A man on the corner of á "I short-coated her quite that they are not twins.

she has been talking to the shabby streat early," the Duchess had told her ·Just a year ago, this vory woundeți soldiers, chatting gaily, as she passes off his hat. friends. "She looks a perfect month sho-the granddaughter losing none of her dignity yet. picture in her frocks and of one son of George the Third essentially a jolly sort of wo- by sashca

had been married to George-man,

Queen

in democratic countries be asked to apply for naturalisation papers within thirty days or -politely told to leave the --country."-

Those measures, adopted in all the countries of the peace front, would bring home to the German people the detestation felt by the outside world at Nazi methods..

come first."

"She's a Queen," he says, “and

'doesn't she 'look au