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A 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 negotin- tions, it will be recalled, abruptly
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Trade negotiations at this stage would aid Germany much than they would aid Britain. They would help her to overcome sonte of hor economic difficulties, which means, in effect, to increase her war resources.
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.
The United States set in 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 Sir Alexander Roger:
"Let us cease all trading with Germany. Let German ships arriving in democratic ports find that inbour declines to handle their ships. Let all Germans in democratic countries be asked to apply for naturaliantion papers within thirty days or politely told to leave the country....
HITLER: "You are 'absolutely encircled-menaced on all sides!”
Rough draft for a play, to
written
50
years hence
AURENCE HOUS- MAN'S play "Victoria Regina" traces the life of Queen Victoria in series of some twenty dramatic episodes.
Those mensures, adopted in all the countrios of the plence front, would bring home to the German people the detestation felt by the outside world at Nazi methods.
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This day another great Queen is in our thoughts; it is the seventy-second birthday of Queen Mary.~--
-by-
GORDON BECKLES
be
"What ward is that?" she asks, pointing to a closed door.
"Those aro-er-those special cases," hurries the doc- tor.
"How special 7′′
are
"Well, ma'am, they are rather bad facial cases, and we didn't think that you...
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The Queen of England enters the special ward,
JULY 1934. A sedate and apprehensive audience aits 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- A man in a frock coat enters. son of George the Third. "Doctor?" anys the Duchess of Teck, springing up.
fore the footlights. What can a Queen know of fish and chips, It had been quite a quiet landladies and kippers? affair in the little Chapel Royal, "I knew a man," bawls Ben- """'Mudam," "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
a whip. Consort of the late King George
suddenly gone mad. tho Fifth?
the
"He finally caught a cold and MAY 26, 1873. A little It was no public holiday, and flogged himself to death." girl dressed just like the Tenniel there were no decorations; but Horror! But look at the Her life has been no less drawing of "Alice in Wonder- the crowds in Piccadilly and on Queen-she is rocking with romantic and far richer in land" has come back from her the way to the City were said laughter, shaking with dramatic incident-than that of afternoon walk in Richmond to have been bigger than at the robust humour of her paternal Victoria, and she has been wit- Park.
Queen's Jubilee! ness to social and world changes
Every one wanted to see the
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ancestora.
of far more sweeping a charac- She has long fair hair, nearly
JANUARY 1996. It is just ter than those seen by the Vic- down to her waist. Her jacket marriage of the Princess who 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 flickering fire. At rest now upon might spring from these touch she carries a demure muff in which she was born,
But that was a year ago in the bed is George V., who all day long has sat propped up in a Now, there was this bundle of chair before the window." A few clothes who was going to be moments ago the King breathed christened Edward Albert Chris- for the last time.
ing moments in the Abbey film front of her. Her eyes have the 1893.
at the moment that the Crown gaiety of her gay, pleasure- is placed on her son's head; and loving father, the dashing Duke later on the balcony of Bucking- of Teck. ham Palace.
be in tears."
She is alone and silent.
Life at White Lodge, especial- tian George Andrew Patrick, Queen Mary to whom all the Stage directions would have ly with all the dolla of a birth- but known as "David." And the world has curtseyed, and she to to read: "The Queen is seen to day. is very pleasant. Of bearded young man so strange- no one since two other Queens 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 side and her- stage directions which might quite frightening.
wistfully from the Palace in St. self curtaoys. come in useful for the play
Petersburg: "I look back with The King is dead, long live the "Mary Regina."
The little Princess Victoria such pleasure to those days King! (they also called her Mary, at
for Marlborough House JULY 1888. The plump now) likes her grandmamma, Georgie's wedding and tho MAY 1937. The Queen sits Duchess of Teck is sitting at the Duchess of Cambridge. She christening."
at her writing desk overlooking a window of Kensington Palace. had known George the Third, The Czar of Russia was very the lawns of the Marlborough and could talk about the Napo- fond of Georgie and Princess House which she know as Prinz Upstairs her one-year-old leonic wars that the Princess May.
cess May. daughter, the Princess Victoria, read about in her history books.
She is reading her morning lies, dying. She has caught Lots of funny people came to NOVEMBER 1, 1901, There lotters and answering those that typhoid from the stagnant pond White Lodge. Only the other is rough weather in the Chan- need answers. She writes with outside the window. 7
day her elder brother had re- nel, and for days the liner Ophir a swift and flowing pen, abbrevi- 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 daughter to be called Victoria: day from-u-funny old man with lantic in the face of gales her letters are signed. “Ever there were several better names painted chocks called Disraeli. The Duchess of Cornwall yours sincerely."
Mary, for instance. But the Her plump mother stands in she will soon be the Princess of There is a letter on cheaper. great Queen had said: "I am her the background at the birthday Walea-is coming to the end of paper than most of the others: godmother-my wishes must party, shaking her head at some a long journey round the world. it is a letter written by a Mrs. come first."
of the little guests.
On her desk les an opon McComber, of Acacia-rosu, 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. blue eyes imaginable, a tiny
headache-a great loss as being rosebud of a mouth (the sorrow-
JULY 1894. A funny littla at sea is one's only reat." ing Duchess recalls her own bundle of baby clothes is being words), a pink-and-white com- held in the arms of a bearded · · AUGUST 1916. The Queen point of passing Mrs. Mc- plexion; and a most perfect young man so like her own hus- of England is at a hospital in Comber's house. figure.
band that Princess May marvels North London. For two hours A man on the corner of a "Ihort-coated her quito that they are not twink.
she has been talking to the shabby street takes off his hat carly," the Duchess and told her. Just a year ago this very wounded soldiers, chatting gaily, as she passes.
fonds. She looks a perfect month the the granddaughter losing none of her dignity yet "She's a Queen," he says, and picture in her frocks and of one son of George the Third essentially a folly sort of wo- by ---- docan't she took a sashes."
--had been married to George man.
Queen!"
That afternoon the Queen drives_through_eastern_and northern London, and makes a
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