The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-21

BOake Carter
Wars Go On.
A Kings Bride.
Justice to Please All.

"war.to-end-war" closed Novem-
Der IL, 1918, there have been
seventeen wars. including out
breaks in Russia d919), Moroc-
co G919), Arabia G919), Ar
menia (192O),' China 1920,
Greece 092D, Paraguay Q925),
China G932), Manchuria
1880, Paraguay (1935), Ethio-
pia G935), Spain and China
Q93D.
7 wonder:
l. If you realize that foreign
investments in China amount
to more than $4,000,000,000 Of
which the major portion is Brit
ish; but that British business
men, according to an item in
London's News Review, are not
very unhappy about the losses
suffered in Shanghai, for they
have gained many orders from
Japan, who, being on a war
basis, cannot fill them.
1t is therefore a strange para
dox to note some so or so ma
tons diplomats gathered round
a rostrum in a great assembly
room in an imposing stone
palace at Geneva, denouncing
each other for waging war.
While the diplomats say it's all
very terrible, the business men
of the same countries. back home
are busy selling war supplies to
prolong the wars.
7 WONDER:
l. If you noticed that item about
the newly crowned 18-year-old
King of Egypt picking a bride
for himself. He's pulled an Ed
ward VIII! And it must be a
notifying blow to the Tory rul-
ers of Great Britain, for the
young King of Egypt was edu-
Gated in British public schools
and picked a commoner for his
wife
With the death of famous
Cleopatra, Egypt ceased to be in
dependent, became a colony OF
the Roman Empire, passed into
Mohammedan hands in GAL,
was seized by Great Britain in
1914, but became free again last
year-free in the sense that the
Philippines are free from the
United States.
The young King Farouk I
broke the ancient tradition that
the Queen should always be Q
royal Moslem, picked the daugh-
ter of a police magistrate Of
Alexandria. Waiting for a pro-
pitious moment. he Scooted over
to the magistrates home, popped
the question and was accepted.
His royal parents shrugged their
shoulders, considered it futile to
raise row because the Nation
alists, most powerful Egyptian
party, were tickled pink at the
royal democracy.
Oddly enough. the young King
was hailed at his coronation as
"the most perfectly brought up
boy in the world" In England,
they called him Prince Freddy"
His Queen tolbe is 16, up to
date, wears Paris fashions, high
heels, bobbed hair and is genu-
inely pretty. Both like Western
ways and plan to Westernize
Egypt.
All Of which must shock the
ruling class of England. For,
fresh from the recovery of find
ing a Prince Eddy" who was
supposed to be "the most-per-
fectly brought up boy in-the
world" and who planned to
democratize his kingdom, defy
ing tradition by taking a twice
divorced commoner as his wife,
along comes another perfectly
brought-up" product of the Eng
lish system, kicking tradition
right and left in his own land.
to shock them all over again.
OF course. it can't be the sys-
tenn, or the times, or the age,
or the era! The system is never
wrong. The times never change.
The age affects not the system
and the era is just passing
social headache. It's the per
feet" boys who must be wrong!
The opinions OF BoGEe Carter
are his oWn and not necessarily
those of The Washington Times.
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