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THE WORLD'S SHYEST MONARCH

K

́ING HAAKON VII,

the giant 6-foot 4- inch sailor who is first to Occupy the Throne of mo- dern Norway, is Europe's least 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

some parts of Europe

left never

their palaces without solid lines of bayonets to guard them, Han- kon of Norway and Christian of Denmark walked abroad daily among their subjects en- tirely unguarded.

In fact, the gigantic stature of the two Scandinavian brothers made them both so conspicuous in any crowd that they were constant sources of anxiety to the detectives ns- signed to protect them when they visited foreign capitals.

Нинкол, 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 ronsen for this was his lifelong shyness, not any hankering after formality,

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, sen-faring,

moun-

taineering people broke away from union with Sweden in 1906.

.

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

born Was

on

King Haakon August 2, 1872, at Charlottenlund Palace in Denmark. He Was christened Christian Fredrik Karl Georg Waldemar Axel and was known as Prince Karl. His father was Crown Prince Fredrik, after- wards King Fredrik VIII of Den- mark.

As the younger son of a not-too- wealthy funity, Prince Karl was brought up in an unpretentious

manner.

is only apparent chance of becoming a reigning monarch was lu the very unlikely event of his brother Christian-two

older than himself—dylug.

Consequently, when he

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

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His fellow-endets took il themselves to guard against any signs of "uppishness" on his part.

He had to scrub deeks, swarm up masts into the rigging, inend his own socks and sleep In a hammock wearing nothing but a sallor's woollen striped under- shirt, with his clothes rotted un- der his head as a pillow.

He spent all his early manhood

In the navy and hd only reached the rank of lieutenant when he left It to became king.

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

His son (Crown Prince Olav) 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 an promising a candidate as any and he was shipped off to The Hague to make himself known at the Dutch court..

for

According to report, he got as as teaching Queen Wilhelminu to play chess, but apart from that made no real effort to make him self agreeable and came back to Copenhagen without bride,

The real reason for Bɛls back- wardness, however, was that he had already made the acquaio- tance of the lady of his choice, Princess Maud of Wales, youngest and, if was generally agreed, best looking of the daughters of the Prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward VII.

She was his first cousin, since mother-afterwards Queen her Alexandra

sister WILS

of the Prince's father.

Their engagement was announced shortly afterwards and they were married in England in July, 1896,

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

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

Prince Kart often spent months at a Ume away at sea and in Co- penhagen society he was not well known.

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Years

"Cook books? You'll find them in the fiction section!"

WILK

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

Spotting the Rank

COLONEL

This is the highest rank in regiment, all ranks above baing staff officers:

While the Colonal is the no-

minal com- mander of a regiment or

battalion, he is gehorally relieved, of this com- mand by the Ligutenant - Colonel In order to be free to do- voto Himself

to administrativo duties.

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

At the outbreak of war there were 575 Colonels in: the British Army: 15 in the Royal Marinos; 124 In the Indian Army and 204 in the Territorial Army,

Pay: £1,337 a year if mara riod and 21,188 if singlo.

His son, Crown Prince Olav. of · Norway, was born at Appleton House, Sandringham, on July 2, 1903:

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

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

He refused, and the Norwegians then looked to Denmark for a King.

By a vote of 250,593 to 60,204 Prince Karl of Denmark

Was chosen to be the first ruler of on Independent Norway for five cen- turics.

"The last

Norweglan king had been Hankon VI in the thirteenth century.

When Prince Kar!' took throne at the age of thirty-three be assumed the title of King Haokon VI. (The name is actually pro- nounced "Hawkon").

King Haakon and Queen Maud came to their new capital-then known as Christiana-amid scenes of tremendous popular rejoicing on November 20, 1905.

· Despite occasional rebuffs from the Socialists, King Haakon and his British Queen,” by their tact and generally unassuming : Inan- ner, soon showed themselves to be just the kind of Monarchi multed to the democratic- Norwe- gian people,

Although, King Huskon was pain- fully shy, especially of women, he made special efforts to visit all parts of his mountabious kingdom. Hix Silver Jubilee was celebrated in 1930.

King Ilaskon had a physique to match his height., is a rather dark, with a heavy moustache and is inclined to baldness. As a young man he was considered handsomer than most royalties.

Throughout his life he has been 101 ardent sportsman. He hunts, 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 Hankon and Queen- Maud visited England at least once every year. Queen Muud, it will be recalled, died in England about 18 months ago. Her remains were Laken to Norway in a British war- ship.

J. Griggs

With Hitler

·

in Poland

BY W. N. EWER

WHAT,

THAT, I was asked the other day, are the Nazis doing in Poland? Plundering it no doubt, but what else?

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 reliable information to-hand. But the an-. swers are grim ones,

All that carly

up of a

Polish ence of setting

settlement

of making a with 11 new Polish Government, of

annexing. merely to Germany a few slices of terri- that might plausibly be tory argued to be German, has gone,

It was never serious. It was the merest propaganda stunt, devised for the fooling of anybody. In in Allied or neutral countries who could be persuaded into believing that Hitler is not so very unrea- sonable after all. It was just um- munition for that "peace offen- sive"

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 whole administration — municipal

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as well as national-is in the hands

of German officials.

In both the final power is in the hands of the Gestapo, which over- rides both military and civil ou thorities. at will-nuck to the annoyance of the military.

11 in the Gestapo which is carry- ing out with its usual cold brutality the policy of the Fuehrer. And the pulley of the Fuehrer is quite simple.

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

But all authority, all administra- tion, all culture, are to be in the hands of the German taskmasters. Nazian has leapt back to the crudest barbarisms of the uncleat world,

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

If it wasn't Lars and Sextus it was two other men in early Romani times. The Idea is the thing: and It is the Idea the Gremens are putting into effect in Patond to- day.

pro-

Every leader, or potential leader. of any kind is being liquidated. Landowners.

employers, trade union lenders, "intellectuals," minent peasants, officials-every- body who might conceivably lead his fellows, either

locally nationally—is being "liquidated."

Some are shot. The total of

or

thou ons is unknown. Fifteen

Some

in the "annexed" arcas

to

is a fairly certain minimum.

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

vall ever before them.

The destiny of the Pole is to be slave to work for larvation wrges, to obey, to be silent. Elther thal: cr the rubber truncheon, the torture chamber, the firing aquad. If he lifts his head it will 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- lug. The Poles are fighting back deflantly.

In the forests there are still guerlila fighters giving the German troops much trouble. In the towns there

is sabotage and gallont challenging of the tyrants, "There are underground netivlifes of which it would be criminal to say

word.

The fight goes on. The deter- mination to resist grows stronger instead of weaker. The last mes- sage which has come through to mc says, "Confidence In the ultimate victory of the Allies has 'returned."

Never neglect a scentch—however small, The moment the skin is broken a path. for germs is opened.

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