Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1936, Page 6

Equal Respect and Opportunity For Citizens Aim of New King George VI Held F ully Capable of Reign- as British Empire Moves on With Usual Stability. An intimate story of the lives and personalities of the Duke and Duchess of York, who now have @scended the throne of the British empire, is told here in the last of @ series of articles. BY H. J. J. SARGINT. LONDON, December 16 (N.AN.A.). ~—Summing up the character of King George VI, it can be said that he is a man of strong will-power who is not easily to be swerved from a path which he has chosen; a man reserved some- what in his friendships, but still out- spoken and frank and with a high sense of duty. Although it was only on the death of George V that he became heir pre- sumptive, his training for the kingship has been as adequate as it could have been had he been the heir. He has, as a result of his position as a second son, been deprived of much of that popularity which naturally surrounds the heir to the throne, but he has, none the less, earned the respect and trust of the British people for his con- acientious devotion to his duties and for his well earned reputation as a model husband and father against whom scandal has never been able to breathe even a whisper. George VI undoubtedly lacks some of the qualities of his brother Edward, who had brilliance, originality, a pop- ular pearing and an easy approach, but, on the other hand, he has certain qualities which Edward lacked. He is steadier, less impulsive, with more per- severance and a greater sense of duty. He has, too, a great asset in being happily married to a true and good wife, and history might have been dif- ferent if Edward had had that advan- ; tage before his accession. Qualified for Royal Burdens. George may not jump at once into popularity, but there is every reason | to believe that he is fully capable and | well qualified to take up the royal| ‘burden laid down by his brother, and that British history wil not deplore the dramatic events of the last week, which shook the British Empire to its foundations, but left it as solid and stable as ever. A fact which was noted with in- terest by all sections of the pubhc Guring the week of crisis was the com- | radeship and complete absence of | rivalry among the four royal brothers. “Throughout the ordeal, they stuck to- gether, and, when Edward turned to | his brothers for intimate sympathy and disinterested advice. he received them in full measure. A family loy- alty of the best kind kept them to- gether, as they always had been, and | the contrast between the sons of George I1I, a century ago, who always was at loggerheads with his sons, and the sons of George V was startling. A feature which struck foreign ob- servers of the crisis more than any- thing else was the calm and dignified manner in which the British people took the unexpected biow of their| King's abdication. It is safe to as- gert that there are very féw countries | in the world where such a dramatic event would have been carried out| without tremendous commotion and | public excitement and probably with troops in the street ready to quell demonstrations. No Person Arrested. But, in Great Britain, this revolu- tionary change took place without the slightest attempt by any section of the | o public to create disaffection or dis- | order. Not s single extra policeman ‘was put on duty and not a single per- | son was arrested, for the people were content to leave the handling of the W affair in the hands of their chosen | representatives in Parliament, and never for a moment was there any question of a conflict between the | crown and Parliament. Nor did any one think for a second of abolition of the monarchy and es- tablishment of a British republic, for the monarchial system is ingrained in the hearts of all Englishmen from the | highest to the lowest, and, in fact, it is the working classes who are the most fervent admirers of royalty. Edward’s abdication was a blow to them, for it came so utterly unexpectedly, as it must be remembered that the name of Mrs. Wallis Simpson meant nothing | whatever to 99 per cent of the popu- lace, tioned her until after the storm broke. The remaining 1 per cent had an inkling for some time past that all was not well, but it was only a fraction of this 1 per cent who were aware that Edward was seriously contemplating abdication. They knew that, as the Prince of Wales, he frequently told friends that he did not want to be King, which he considered an an- achronism in this modern age, and that he only took up the succession ‘Wwith the utmost personal reluctance. There are a good many people now whose newspapers never men- | who are inclined to think that Ed- ward made the Simpson affair an excuse to get out of a job that he loathed, for the conclusion was in- escapable that, however infatuated Edward may have been, he never would have acted as he did if he ever had genuinely desired be King. Therefore, it is perhaps best for all that he did abdicate, the people are saying now, because, if the King was not a king in mind, he never could have been a good or happy King. The unhappy episode is over and finished and the British people are now ready to go on with their tasks on the principle of “business as usual,” leaving it to the new King to set the “note” of the new reign, and his past leaves little doubt as to how he will set it. No man in the kingdom is more anxious to see class differences over- come and to help in the development of equal respect and equal opportu- nity as between men and women of | different occupations. Every one knows the King's special interest, which is thorough and by no means amateur- ish, in all questions of industrial bet- terment. But he doesn't see the prob- lem solely as one of material ad- vances; he sees it, also, as his camps for boys have shown, as a problem of heart and conduct and of getting peo- ple in all ranks of life to accept equality as the basis of good feeling, with no haughty looking down on the one side and no resentful looking up | on the other. ” | In the code of the British mon- archy, the very first article is that the King must be everybody's King. He no longer can be regarded as an appendage of the nobility, or even of | the well-to-do-classes, but must stand | as the symbol of the complete com- munity, a point at which all classes can meet and all class distinctions fall away. There seems to be little doubt | that George VI of England will meet | | that need as fully as any. Mill Maintain Estates. | The King intends to maintain Bal- moral and Sandringham in the same way as during the reign of George V, but various complications in the man- agement of the two estates, arising from the terms of George V's will and the abdication of Edward, are being investigated. The King also will con- | tinue to maintain a racing establish- | | ment and & breeding stud on the lines | followed by his father. | The King and Queen are planning | to spend Christmas at Sandringham | with a family party, among wahom| | will be Queen Mary and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. And the new year will open with the British | ‘people united, steadfast and as con- | | fident as always that the momentous | evems of December, 1936, have left the solid fabric of the empire un- | touched and unmoved and that the | reign of King George VI is likely to prove the great and glorious one which verybody had hoped that of Ed- | ward VIII would be. | | British stability of temper and con- | duct is the nearest thing, amid the | | world’s uncertainties, to a pivot of | confidence. (Copyright 1936, by the No to American Newspaper Alliance Inc.) | OF LEAK NA. 4370 GICHNER Devoe’s 2-Coat Paint System. Paint the Porch with Devoe’s. 922 N. Y. Ave. Nationol 8610 Palnlln; EXPERTS FOR OVER 20 YEARS Let us estimate on _your painting K FERGUSON 5 3831 Ga. Ave. COL 0567 THE REASON!: | We have no expensive bookkeep—l ing systems. No No collectors to pay. | prices before you We Save You interest charges. 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