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May 10, 1940.

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THE WORLD'S SHYEST MONARCH

KING HAAKON VII,

the giant 6-foot 4- inch sailor who is first to occupy the Throne of mo- dern Norway, is Europe's Jeast known, least public- ised and shyest reigning Monarch.

The only King to whom he had to concede any inches was his

own

brother, Christian X of Denmark. With him he shared the reputation of being the most democratic monarch even in a Europe shorn of all but a few of the glittering royal courts of pre-war years.

When members of reigning houses in

paris of Europe never left their palaces without solid lines of bayonets to guard them, Haa- kon of Norway and :Christian of Denmark walked abroad daily among their subjects en- ‚tirely unguarded.

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In fact, the gigantic stature of the

Scandinavian two brothers made them both so conspicuous in any crowd that they were constant sources of anxiety to the detectives as- signed to protect them when they visiteit foreign capitals.

· Haukon, like Christian. hates the kind of protection normally accorded to royalty and refuses to be guarded when at home in Oslo.

Unlike his brother, however. Haakon VII was not a familiar figure among his subjects. The reason for this was his lifelong shyness, not any hankering after formality.

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BORN a Dane, of the ruling house of Schleswig-Holstein- Sonderburg-Glucksburg which has supplied Europe with more sovereigns than almost any family except the Bour- bons, Haakon was elected first King of Norway when its tough, sea-faring, moun- 'taineering people broke away from union with Sweden in 1905.

democratic

His unassuming. rule enabled him, in the face of occasional awkward snubs from the Norwegian Socialists, to re- tain his kingdom at time when -some of Europe's greatest mon archios were crashing or shorn of all but a shadow of their former power.

King Haakon

born on August 3. 1872, at Charlottenlund Polace in Denmark. He Was christened Christian Fredrik Karl Georg Waldemar Axel and was known as Prince Karl. His father was Crown Prince Fredrik, alter- wards King Fredrik VIII of Den- mark.

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As the younger son of a not-too- wealthy family. Prince Karl was brought up nn unpretentious

manner.

His only apparent chance of becoming a reigning monarch was in the very unlikely event of his brother Christian-140 older than himself-dying.

Consequently, when he

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still a small boy. Prince Karl was entered as a cadel in the Danish navy.

Spotting the Rank

COLONEL

This is the highost rank in a regiment, all ranks above being staff

officers.

While the Colonci Is the no- iminal com. mander of a regiment or battalion, ho is ganorally relloved of this com- mand by the Lieutenant- Colondi In order to bo free to de-. vote himself

to administrative duties.-

The word Colonel is derived from the Latin "Corona," crown or chief.

At the outbreak of war there wore 575 Colonels in the British Army: 15 in tho Royal Marines; 124 in the Indian Army, and 204 in the Torritorial Arm

Pay: £1,337 a year if mar- riod and £1,188 It'single. ·

IN the very democratic life of a Danish warship Prince Karl found that royal birth was, if anything, a disadvan- tage.

His fellow-cadets look it 011 themselves to guard against any signs of "uppishness" on his part.

He had to scrub decks, swarm up masts Into the rigging, mend 1119 own socks and sleep in a hammock wearing nothing but a sailor's woollen striped under- shirt, with his clothes rolled un- der

his head as a pillow.

He spent all his early manhood in the navy and had only reached the rank of Heutenant when he left it to become king.

Is King Haakon of Norway, whose brother is King of Denmark and whose wife is Princess Maud of Wales.

His son (Crown Prince Olay) was born in England.

In the middle nineties rumour was busy in the courts of Europe, searching for a likely consort for the youthful, still unmarried Queen. Wilhelmina of the Netherlands,

By common consent Prince Karl of Denmark Was considered as promising a candidate as any and he was shipped off to The Hague to make himself known at the Dutch court.

According to report, he got as far as teaching Queen Wilhelmina to ploy chess, but apart from that made no real effort to make him- Reif Bgreeable and came back to Copenhagen without a bride,

The real reason for this back- wardness, however, was that be had already made the sequain- tance of the lady of his choice, Princess Maud of Wales, younrest and, it was generally agreed, best looking of the daughters of the Prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward VII.

She was las Arst cousin, since her mother afterwards Queen Alexstidra WHA sister of the Prince's father.

Their engagement was nnnounced shortly afterwards and they were married in England in July, 1890.

Even after his marriage Prince Karl had to live on a very modest scale with an income of only £15,- 000 a year.

He and his English bride mude their home in a small apartment in one corner of the Copenhagen Palace belonging to the King of Greece.

Prince Karl often spent months at a time away at sea and In Cu- penhagen society he was not well known.

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Ils son, Crown Prince Olav of Norway, was born at Appleton House. Sandringham, on July 2,

· 1903,

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Norway IN 1905 years of discontent, broke away from Sweden, with which she had been united under one King since 1815.

The Norwegians asked King Oscar II of Sweden to choose them a ruler from the junior branches of his own family.

He refused, and the Norweglans then looked to Denmark för a

King.

vote of 239,583 to 60,261 By a Prince

Korl of Denmark was chosen to be the first ruler of an independent Norway for five cen- turies.

The Inst Norwegian king had been Haukun VI in the thirteenth century.

When Prince Karl took the throne at the age of thirty-three he assumed the title, of King Haakon VII. (The name

actually pro- nounced "Howkon").

King Haakon and Queen Maud came to their new capital-then known as Christiano-amid scenes of tremendous popular rejoicing on November 20, 1005.

Despite occasional rebuffs from the Socialists, King Haikon and his British Queen, by their taci and generally unassumlig man- ner, soon showed themselves to be just the kind of Monarchs suited to the democratle Norwe- gian people.

Although King Hankon was pain. fully shy, especially of women, he made special efforts to visit all parts of his mountainous kingdom. His Silver Jubilee was celebrated in 1930.

King Haakon had a ptiyalque to match his height. He is rather dark. with a heavy moustache and is inclined to baldness, As a young man he was considered handsomper than most royalties.

Throughout his life he has been an ardent sportsman. He hunta, boxes, plays tennis, fences and is an excellent dancer. He used to swim nearly every morning before breakfast. He is exceedingly strong -so strong, in fact, that his friends say he can take a poker in his

hands and bend it double,

Both King Haakon and Queen Maud visit England at least once every year. When they stay in London Ulicy

walk about the streets without escort and generally quile, unrecognised.

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What is their policy? Are they really setting up some kind of Polish State? How are things going?

Questions only too easy to an- swer: for there is quite reliablo. information to hand. But the an swers are grim ones.

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All that early pretence of setting of a Polish State, of making a settlement with

new Polish Government, of merely annexing to Germany a few slices of terri- be tory. that might plausibly argued

be Germon, has gone. It was never serious. It was the merest propaganda stunt, devised for the fooling of anybody in Allied or neutral countries who could be persuaded into believing that Hitler is, not so very unreu-

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The reality is very different. Certainly the Westernmost dis- tricts of Poland have been formally annexed to the Reich; while the rest is a "Government-General."

But in practice it comes to the same thing. In both areas the administration municipal whole

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as well as national-is in the hands of German officials.

In both the final power is in the lands of the Gestapo, which over- rides both military and civil nu- thorities at will-much to the annoyance of the military.

It is the Gestapo which is carry- ing out with its usual cold brutality the policy of the Fuchrer. And the polley of the Fuehrer is quite simple.

Poland as a nation is to be de- The Polish workers and stroyed. peasants are to become helots serving the German master-race. They are to hew wood and draw water,

But all authority, all administro- tion, all culture, are to be in the hands of the Gernion taskmasters. Nazlam has leapt back, to the crudesi barbarisms of the ancient world.

The method is as old as the ob- jective. Was it not "Lars. Porsena of Clusium" who gave the tip to "Laise Sextus" by lopping off the heads of all the tallest popples in his garden?

If it wasn't Lars and Sextus i was two other men in early Roman times. The idea is the thing: and it is the idea the Gremans are putting into effect in Poland lo- day.

Every leader, or potential leader, of any kind is being liquidated. Landowners, employers, trade union leaders, "intellectuals," pro- minent peasants, officinis-every- body who might conceivably lend hils fellows, either locally nationally is being "liquidated."

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Some are shot. The total of executione is unknown. Fifteen thousand in the "annexed" areas

fairly certain

minimum. Some are put into concentration camps. Some are deported to districts where they have no in- fluence and are allowed to scratch a bare living there under the watchful eyes of the Gestapo- with the threat of the camp or the wall ever before them.

The destiny of the Pole is to be slave to work for starvation wegen, to obey, to be sllent. 'Either that: er the rubber truncheon, the torture chamber, the fring squad. If he lifts his Head it wil be hit.

That is the plan. It is being carried out with all the ruthless brutality of the Nazis.

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But for all that it is not succeed- ing. The Foles are fighting back dedantly.

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In the forests there are guerilla fighters giving the German troops much trouble. In the towns there is sabotage and gallant challenging of the tyrants. "There underground activities which it would be criminal to any a word.

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