Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26

Italian front when British divisions
were rushed to aid the Italians after
Caporetto, had his first flying expert
ence in bombing machine over the
Austrian lines, and entered Valen-
ciennes with the Canadians on the
tide of victory in the Fall of 1918.
In those four years he made contact
with all sorts of men and found his
manhood Over those impressionable
years, feminine influence and society
were reduced to minimum Git might
have been otherwise If he had arrived
at manhood in peace time).
Like the rest of the wartime young
men, he returned to find an old world
dying and new one rolling piping
hot out of the cosmic oven. Large
and complicated tasks confronted him.
He had to be a prince who could
popularize the monarchy without
cheapening it. 1t became his job to
make personal friends in empire and
foreign lands along with the good i'm
preston which is translated into hard
terms of prestige and trade. He had
to be able to mix with any crowd, a
sincere democrat who was still un-
mistakably royal.
In all these curious and delicate
tasks he was entirely successful. He
even stopped threatened riot at a
bad boxing match in Londons biggest
hall by climbing into the ring and
making a little speech; and secured
reasonable privacy for himself at an
open golf championship session by
turning on the crowd following him
and the threatening to leave the links
if cameras were not put away.
Variety of Experience.
In the first postwar decade he COM
pleted a series of tours which made
him, at IS, the most travelled of all
royalty. He traversed Canada. At Sas-
katoon he mounted bronco and led
the cowboys round the rodeo arena.
At Edmonton he donned a pitchers
cap and. took part in ball game. At
one stop on his way into the United
States-that visit was not included in
the original program, and was his
own idea-the crowd rushed to the
observation car of the princes train.
But he was not there. He was driving
the engine.
In the United States he impressed
the White House encourage, first, by
arriving in a faded old blue suit and
battered old brown hat; and, second,
by charming the most silent of Presi-
dents into an abnormal chattiness at
the dinner table.
He landed in New Zealand in the
middle of a railway strike, but the
strikers ran his train for him. In
Japan he was initiated into the mys-
teries of japanese polo and the sport
of catching wild ducks in butterfly
nets. He had his eye cut open playing
polo in Manila. The Dyacks showed
him how to blow darts, and the Penang
natives how to play foot ball tied up
in a sack.
In Egypt he talked to King Fuad in
the shade of the trees in the palace
garden, and left the presence to keep
an engagement to play polo for Self
ullah Pasha Yusri's team. He shot big
game in Uganda and sat up all night
in that lakeside camp nursing one Of
his companions through a heart at
tack.
Sees Indian Demonstrations.
He landed in India at the height of
the swaraj agitation and had to face
organized anti-British mob demon
STATIONS. Gandhi and his aides met
him in all the cities of British India
with hartals, the closing of bazaars
and the stopping of work. But in the
native states which comprise a third
of the vast sub-continent the rajas
met him with painted elephants and
gilded guns and entertained him with
polo and pig-sticking, nautch girls,
sword-dancing and tiger shoots; and
on the Mandalay the Burmese put him
in a pagoda on gorgeous dragon
barge and towed him through tumul-
tuous regatta staged in his honor.
Everywhere and at all times he
would 60 out of his way to give pleas
ure to others. He was always on the
Jump to see that no one. however
unimportant,. felt neglected or over
looked. And he had humor.
Once. in Australia, he stopped to
help motorcyclist repair his engine