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ORCE.

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WITH the PEOPLE

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The life of King Gustaf V

of Sweden, who today cele- brates his 89th birthday.

of

DS

duced in 1919-21-and the number of

Civic Spirit

:

bit

THER

Sense Of Duty

throughout by a stern

TIS

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The

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Nordic Unity

KING GUSTAF

Relief Of Distress

she was

HEN in January 1908 slowly during the later half of the state. The Swedish-Norwegian Union King Gustaf met the 10th century, and the work of nn gave rise to constant issues and dis- tionwide reform Was essentially putes between the two countries, and Swedish Riksdag for, the

the conditional upon

triumphat during this period the Crown Prince is Gustaf alded his father King Osent first time after his accession to emergence of democracy the throne, he declared in the driving force. The broad masses of II, every now and then acting as He displayed speech from the throne that he the Swedish people awoke to con- Regent in his stend.

the final crisis Immediately fully realised the heavy burden aciousness of their own significance wise and sound judgment both dur-

and demanded an increased share ing

solving of the of responsibility that had been in the national Government. Wide prior to the dissolution of the Union laid upon him.

spread popular movements support. In 1905 and in the

and nought to domestic and foreign problems that

rose out of the separation. "But in my honest zeal for ed these demands

Moreover, be evinced a keen in- the welfare and progress of My educate the people to assume power

and responsibility.

The Riksdag: constata two terest in Sweden's trade relations peaceful settlement of the inter- Country 1 shall always endca-

1005 its

Second with abroad, and during the years national issues in dispute.

before his accesalon to the throne he Once again, as in 1914, he invited vour to fall my mission." This Chambers. In was his promise to the nation. Chamber was elected by an exring neted as honorary president of the the Nordic Kings to Stockholm In sively mule electorate numbering General Export Association of October 1939. On this ocasion, the it was accompanied by an ap 402,000. At the

elections

of 1944 Sweden, having taken an active part President of Finland also sat of the Scandinavia proved, however, to be OOD MORNING, herd. The pent for co-operation: "May it the women niso had the right to in the founding of that institution in council table. The developments its

vouchsafed to me, in vote this had already been intro- the litter half of the 1880s. also be

By the time of the outbreak of very different during this war from happlest news is that a days of good fortune and days voters who took part in the elec

In Sweden was soon the only country team of lady cricketers is going of trial, to have the acceptance tions was 3,099,103, nearly half of the First World War, King Gustaf the course of events 25 years earlier.

The First Chamber had become a man experienced to Australia Inter in the year and support of my Swedish them women.

lost its character of an aristocratic public affairs with a peculiar insight in the north that had the good for- tune not to become involved in the in matters of international policy. But mixed cricket is what is people in our common laboura Upper House and in its new de-

Already at the beginning of the fighting. to constitute wanted, and I have been cam-for the true weal of our coun- mocratie form came

1890s he had foreseen that Norway a part of the state structure. paigning for it for many years. try."

would dissolve the Union, and during the years prior to 1914 he became In- "With the People for the Country"

creasingly convinced that the policy It would restore good manners and

was his motto, and these words

of the Great Powers was bound to THE consequences of the two wars have naturally asserted themselves halimarc been the

of his. stop the bowlers from trying to mulm have

Both at that lead to tragic disaster. THE upheaval-we might

even in Sweden, though almest the batsmen. And I can imagine a life's work as a monarch. Undaunt-

time and a quarter of a century later, spared the loss of life and destruc storms that

call it a revolution-gave rise in between the fall ofed by all the severe

the outbreak of the still young bowler,

more ton of property that were suffered the wickets, going for a walk with have raged over the world, he re legislation and other forms of state

to countries. steadfast Intention to endeavour

the During and after the batslady, and wandering off the nained up to the very close of his activity to a new elve spirit and terrible Second War, it remained his by the belligerent and the occupied

social levelling-out of the almost unprecedentedly long reign to n

koop Sweden out of the war as two World Wars the Swedish nation ground and out into the country-side a dominant Bure around whom classes. These new conditions of neutral State. This was as natural has sought, to the best of its powers, they have And the nation rallied with ever-grow- fected a drasile change in the form to this peace-loving monarch as that

relleye the distress to for a quiet ten by the river.

Where before 11 during of

the Swedish Government should seek caused. Both the oncini and the confidence, expecially

of government. think what pretty clothes the lady log

was entirely dominated by higher

to uphold that universal law of un-

private relief activities carried on in umpires could went. And imagine the last few decades.

officials and landed proprietors, we tions which has been envolved in the

the war-ravaged countries have been course of the proetical politics and on a considerable scale, aplewild ser the

could now witness formers, new6- whispered endearments of the

and theoretical speculations ot male wicket-keeper: "Steady, darling

papermen, trade union leaders

vlees being rendered by King Gustaf the turies. entering industrial workem

and other

of the Royal members don't slog."

Ministers, Government as Cabinet

House, notably by the then chair- not Socini-Democrata ald

man of the Swedish Red Cross, the Foulenough's new dodge

insist on that item on seriously

King's brother Prince Carl, and by Ber- THE object of Captain Foulenough'sense of duty. When the Riksdag cele-

Its 300th jubilee in May their programme which demanded

commemorative

nadotte. recent lessons in the house of a 1935, he made n

socialism. In

1020

tilities the King was convinced

He gave expression to his ap ventriloquist Is now

in which the clear. The speech. in which he declared that minister and cepted the idea of ALREADY on the outbreak of tios. their nephew, Count Falke

become

Prime that the three Nordle countries ought preciation of the way other day at an auction a mild man he had sought to make his motto Social-Democrat

the

for all his Minister In Sweden for the first time to act in cancert. The fact that Nor- Swedes acted as one people during who had not opened his mouth founding principle

He went on "Whether

- a few years before a similar way had in 1908 arbitrarily broken the darkest hours of the Second that he had had knocked down to have succeeded not 1 will be

continuation of their relief acti- him six chairs, a desk, a pair of for history to Judge one day. But government was formed in England. off the Union with Sweden did not in World War and to his confidence in

King Gustaf quietly collaborated the least alter his view of the silua-

There was witnessed a muni- vities in the course of u speech. candlesticks, a revolving book-case, a of this I can assure you, that my with governments of various kinds tion.

festation of King Gustafs profound which attracted much attention, at garden roller and nine china dogs. Intentions have always been honest and showed that a monarch has an

sense of responsibility when, in the the opening of the National Agricul- Outside the rooms foutenough offer-In having from the very depths of important mission to fulft even in

the honour, hap country with

system of demogra- middle of December 1914, he invited tural meeting in Stockholm on the

the Kings of Denmark and Norway 8th June

1040. ed to buy the stuff from him. The my heart,

piness and

to a meeting at Malmo in order to. "I wish to record my great hip- In times of unrest the monarchy discuss there with their respective piness at all the sacrifices.

which King Gustar's task was no light is capable of exerting an squalls Foreign Ministers the various ques- Swedish men and women have made big loss to himself.

one, as he himself admitted. The Ing influence, When party strife Praise in advance

truth of this assertion will best be makes clear and definite decisions tions of common interest to them all in various forms on behalf of the

while the war was raging.

nations that were struck down by realised If it is remembered that impossible and the machinery of threatena to break

He took a fresh step towards the the war," he declared. After giving A FEW advance copies of Vol. 111. from the point of view two world government

of the "List of Huntingdonshire polley his reign spanned two World down, it is for the King to act as a promotion of Nordic unity when the a resume of the scope of the Swed- three Kings again met in Christiania ish relief work, both the voluntary making

possible con- regulator, Culmen" have been sent to people Wars lasting many years and, in re-

(since renamed Oslo) in November activities and the relief decided upon who could be relied on praise it. gard to internal developments, a inued, King is constitutionally the 1017. While the Swedish-Norwegian by the Riksdag, the King concluded

progressive action. Here are some of the opinions given: social upheaval.

with the words: "All these evidences had, "An honest and straightforward list At the beginning of the 20th foremost representative of the will Union still existed, King Gustaf

human

from of the people both in domestic and as heir to the throne of Norway, of a desire to rescue unhappy fellow

beings alphabetical

suffering of names, in admirably

atmosphere of happy

Therein le his

studied with Norwegian students and

death have

gladdened "Does for the Cabmen Century an

been un ofleer with Norwegian and

moved me raoro than of Huntingdonshire what a previous optimism prevailed in the countries in foreign affairs.

Western representing

responsibility and his right to in brother-officers. As reigning - and European

find words to express. work in the serius did for those of culture. The world seemed to have tervene whenever the seriousness vereign he had his residence in the can Cheshire"

demands

warmly thank enes and every one it. In "Informative with-

entered

a hitherto unattained of

royal palace.

who has contributed thereto, and out being sensational, it has the

Lora

The in-

But now, when, duly called, he re- in this respect King Gustaf proved to unmistakable ring of truth in every era of peaceful progress,

bo

the country tensive

life of industrla? sive "Shrewdly conceived and ve-work-and-bread-to

march

rapidly needed-sufficiently adoptable to be solutely thrust these memories uside, appeal to the entire people of Sweden __in his reply to King Haakon's in this present situation, which is y carried out

"Kept me ve

growing

International able to appreciate and to keep pace speech of Welcome he exhorted his more critical than ever, not to-weary those growi awake all night"

pupulation.

This appeal former brother under the Union to of these noble efforts”. to with social developments and at the brought trade

materials to raw who like lists of names, here is a

enter into a fresh union not after did not fall on desf cars, for finished same time ever mindful of his res

thu same pattern as the old one, but In Sweden the succession to the a union

on affection and Thron

male "A plain unvarnish products: the white man made vic- ponsibility as head of the state.

Throne is restricted ed list, realistic, up-to-date, stimulat- torious progress from continent to victories were

understanding, and which I hope will members of the Royal House. The ing"

prove to be more enduring that that futuro was

with viewed "Skilful marshalling of continent, and his.

the Lactual innterial"

"No better often gained with

peaceful

misgivings A$ the number of those list of cabmen has appeared in the weapons of commerce and through

VITAL factor in the education which prevailed in the past".

entltod to the Crown was somewhat last forty yeark."

the incessant mapping-out of fresh

and training of King Gustaf as a

The Two Wars

limited. It Was therefore with - trade routes and the introducion

young man was the opportunity

unte med delight, not only amongst Mun- of new means of transport.

afforded him by lengthy Journeys to kind looked towards a new era of ECENT pictures of people waiting constant betterment. Thus it was come into contact with the rulers and THAT time, the three Nordic nations members of the Royal family, that

leading statesmen of other countries fortunately escaped becoming in the news

birth on April 30, 1046 of a con in the snow at dawn to get into in Western Europe at the beginning and, at the same time, to gain some volved in the World War. During to Prince Gustaf Adolf, the eldest n football match, and in the sleet to of the 1000s, and thus too, it was idea of the characteristic features the inter-war period King Gustaf

son of the then Crown Prince., It catch a glimpse of the end of a wed-in Sweden.

of the nations he visited.

sought, in close agreement with each

was most certainly a source of great ding, make me wonder what kind of This optimism never won true In the autumn of 1878 he started successive governments and with

of travels

round Parliament, to give all possible sup- happiness to King Gusief to be able year pen Europe, spending nearly

four port to every action taken with a on January 11, 1947, when the 40th

view to establish months of that period, in the sun!-

peaceful co- ear of his reign commenced,, to open his speech from the throne operation between the nations of mer of 1879, in England and Scot world. Sweden wholeheartedly ac- with a mention of the Prince's birth.

the. land. He was then only 21

years old and was naturally very receptiva cepted her share of the work in the

Mr. G. 10 new Impressions, Queen Vie- League of Nations in the hope that toria received him, and he was the national discussions on

the disarmament conferences and inter- economic guest of the then Prince of Wales,

or

man was so glad that he sold it at a above Bill Ara of

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man whom the

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whom he had first met at the Paris problems might ultimately create international ualty-to eagerly long- Exhibition of 1878

1878. He was

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so difficult to achieve.

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SIMO

was announced of the

JNDER the name of Mr G., King Gustaf won international fame as a fine tennis player. Even as lato as celved everywhere with the great- yet

during the summer of 1940, when in est kindness and was made a Doctor The King followed developments his 80th year, he practised his of Civil Law at Oxford. Social,

with a watchful eye and personally favourite sport, but

shortly

after Industrial and commercial Institu- acquired a good standing within the that he had to give it. up on tho tlons and business enterprises were circle of rulers of states.

advice of his doctor. The loss WAS shown

The years passed, and the King keenly felt, not least by all those During

the succeeding decades was approaching the age at which who had been his opponents in King

Gustaf

kept up the relations rest and relaxation are usually honourably fought matches or who which he had established with the rently coveted. But King Gustaf had had the pleasure of playing as heads of foreign states and with never wearied." His attitude was tho

partner. people of

of political importance. On some as it had always been: the alm Striking evidence of the King's his official visits and during his he strove for was peace between the

physical vigour and power of private journeys through Europe nations.

to him.

he discussed with them the most Important problemts

his

part successfully some days later in

One can easily, therefore, imagine resistance is afforded by the fact of the day. the sorrow with which he witnessed that in the late autumn of 1946, after Не frequently received visi the outbreak of war in 1939 and the severe attack of influenza, he took tors

at home in Sweden, showing subsequent struggle

tho between Allled nations and Germany, which pheasant shooting in Skane in a them magnificent hospitality.

His political training progressed gradually spread throughout" "prac- hetically the entire world. He himself through the active part which took in the most important affairs of had hoped to the very last for a

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