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UNEASY HEADS

BY RONALD MATTHEW S

·ILLIONS.of pairs of суса in Europe's noutral States arc looking with

an- guished gaze to-day on the progress of the great war drama that

at may

any moment summon them on the stage.

But I can think of ten which stare down the aisles of the future with a quite particular anxiety,

They belong to the ten uneasiest heads on the Continent. The ten neutral monarchs, who cannot but bo thinking how the last war ended with crowns fluttering down two a penny. Elke leaves before Вп autumn blast.

They must be asking themselves uncertainly how it will fare with them and their lands when to day's tremendous storm has blown by.

Gustav of Sweden brings a long memory to his con- templation of 1940's perplexities. For,

with his 81 years, he

is the world's oldest King, had boasts of being the only living man who has dined with Disraeli and lunched with Hitler.

Over his country's northern bor- der looms the shadow of Soviet Russia; south of the Baltic ahrli the alarms of the Nazi hosts.

Every year, punctual as the awal- low, Gustav has descended to the Riviera for the tennis holiday at which he still matches the stars, Was his latest trip, he must ask himself now, the last he will over make as a reigning King?

Across the craggy spine of Scandina- via's mountains, shy Haakon of Norway broods on the future in Oslo. It is freez-

Ing, so he will not have been able to take his before-breakfast swim. But he may have been up early shooting foxes, a habit they hays in Norway.

Haakon has reigned for 35 years, but possibly it would not be such a shock to him if to-morrow were. to leave him once more without a throne.

For he never expected one as a boy; he was only the younger son of Frederick VIII of Denmark.

Had not Norway revolted from Sweden in 1905 and offered him the crown he would have been still to-day the honourable but obscure royalty that history might

make him to-morrow,

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Half-past Boven any morning of the year will see a lone horseman, 6ft 5in. tall, riding thought- fully through the

streets of Copenhagen. It will be King Christian of Denmark, King Haakon's brother. You will ace him stop at the traffic lights, chat with the errand-boys on their bicycles.

If any king knows the anxieties of his subjects it should be Chris- for ho keeps open house for them.

Lian,

Twice a month the doors of his palace are flung open for a lovec, to which any Dane who wants can go. You may be certain ho knows to-day just what they think of Germany's mines, Finland's plight. Britain's contraband control,

The clouds 100m sombrely to-day over the simple paláce at The Hague, where Queen Wilhelmina of Holland realdes. German troops mass on Holland's borders once more, and the Queen has a serious air na she sets out on her bicycle-her example of war-

time economy-to pay her mom- ing visita.

Little chance this year, she must think, of the mountain holiday on which she can take refuge from cares with her favourite paint-box and carol.

But then, forms of State are not eternal, oven. German Empires. Wilhelmina has received two famous exiled rulers into Holland in her long reign-Kruger in 1981: the ex-Kaiser in 1918. May there not yet be a third?

Young Leopold of Belgium-kings are atli young at 30—— shares Wilhelmina's anxieties, for he has not only twice ap-

pealed for peace with her; he has promised to come to her ald if sho ia attacked.

And he has sẹon war; he left his English school at the age of 15 to Join the Belgian Army in the last.

Meantime, one must keep at, and he goes out in his oldest clothes to practise rock-climbing in the " miniature Switzerland " he has had erected in the grounds of his country house, for periods when work does not permit even a flying visit to the real Bwitzer- land.

wonders.

Little King Em- manuel of Italy-he has long grown used to jokes about his size--bends over bis coln cabinoto and

Will the year see him with a third new crown-there have been Abyssinia and. Albania, and now they talk of Hungary-or will it see him finally without one?

Bo often uttle Victor Emmanuel has been shot at in his 39 years of rule; so often he has been on the point of abdication or dethrone- mont, Coina aro a restful subject

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The neutral Kings of Europe are troubled, for though their countries may be at peace, the threats of Hitler · make it an uneasy

peace.

to turn to for a change when one can't be fishing; no wonder he has written more than a dozen books on them.

★ ★ Over the Adriatic in Belgrade King Peter of Jugoslavia is growing up. Ho will be 17 this year, almost old enough tó

handle the £500 a day fortunio with which the royal estates pro- vide him.

For the moment he must be con- tent with his 12s. 6d. a week Pocket-money, which he makes up to 1 a week by selling to palace- officials the wooden toys he carves, There will be time enough for him to worry when he comes of age. Als father's assassination put him, still a schoolboy, on the throne.

Boris of Bulgarin asks himself uncaslly whether ho shall accept the patronago; of Stalin, Ho is al good deal of a die- tator himself, and so he has no desire to put up with dictation.

What do the workers think? Ho flatters himself that he knows. them, for he is an enthusiastlo locomotive driver, and a paying. member of the Bulgarian ruliway-- men's union,

George of King Greeco has no par- ticular desire to go on his travels again. But then, he would not be 80 incon-

venienced as some exiles. He spenks. five languages perfectly.

Still, two exiles, in 1917 and 1922. are quite sufficient. If only he had not tied himself up ao closely with Dictator Metaxas and those not-so-popular Greek Fascists,

King Carol of Rumania is unlikely. to be leaving his desk before mid- night any evening now

future? Hints may be gleanedINTIL March 1917, Great Britain begun already. A staff has been got artist. Sir William Orpen

lacked any national scheme to together to record every phose of John Lavery are honoured in this record fully the manifold activities the British campaign against aggres-way. comprising the country's war efforts. slon.

Many other noted artists have an- Some of these' non-combatant warsisted in this national effort, includ- For two and a half years of the 1014-18 Great War, Indeed, there workers will go to France-by the marvels than any of the mechani- existed no comprehensive effort to time you read this, they may already Sir Mulrhead Bone, Sir George Clausen, and Slr William Rothen-

Horo in Eng-

cal

they discover. Thoir provide posterity with a complete, be there. They include noted sculpstein. Sir Muirhead Bone, whose land the ruler who ousted his own

self-contained review of the happen-tors and artists.

clchings are famous, was among the future is linked even more vitally ings on land and sen.

artists rent to the Western Front in on from the throne is still re-

garded as a playboy. Jast with, spirituality than with the To-day, more alacrity has been The enlistment of painters for this an official capacity during the

Not in Rumania. The passers-by, Great War. Sculptors, too, have physical aspects of life. It is the (under the leadership of Mr. David these

who look up at the lighted windows shown. In 1017, the War Cabinet work may perhaps seem strange nived a part in this historical works of the palace in the Calea Victoriok

days of high-class photo- awareness of spiritual forces and Lloyd George) founded the Imperial graphy. But it has been found that Che official "records" for 1014-1010 know that behind them is working. War Museum, which has since be- drawings and paintings con be of Include sculpture by Jacob Epstein.

the shrewdest politician in the the search for truth that help to come the world's most complete col- great assistance in recording the rent

country. Every effort is now made to ensure differentiate human nature from lection of wartime objects and re- atmosphere of war. Though

When he relaxes, it is not in cords. Though tha Muscum La Imperial War Museum collection in that future generations shall have other manifestations of nature, closed to the general publle for the cludes more than 280,000 photographs complete detalls of wartime condi- Bucarcat's glaring night-haunts,

the twentieth duration of the present war, activi- depicting scenes and incidents belons in

century. but

over the keys of his beloved Only a few physicists, chemists, du behind the scenes have been in- tweens 1014 and 1018, these are ad-Students of history 500 or 1,000 years piano: sometimes he plays dueta and technologists are required for tensified.

mirably augmented by 6,000 works hence will lack nothing in materiale, with Crown Prince Michael.

when they set out to reconstruct Russian armies gather on his the mastery of our physical Britain's war activities in their curly

No longer has the recording of of art.

Artistic Interpretation of the hap-the war circumstances of this period north: Hungary raises claims to the west. Perils call the King to environment, but for victory in the stages been left entirely to private penings during critical periods has in history.

Among the most important work, play the part of a leader. struggle with oursolvon, every man enterprise-auch. as newspaper war been found so valuable that the Im-

"But that is a part I must play correspondents and photographers. perial War Museum has devoted two of course in the task of recording must be his own sociologist. This time, the national efforts have rooms to war plċtures by a single

PLEASE Turn To Pago 9. solo," thinks King Carol

the