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Inthis chapter of the life 0f King George V. MaJor Kipling tells of the wel- darkening shadows leading up to the War—of the trouble in India and Ireland and how the sovereign tra- veled to both counties in a vain cilort to quieteu disturbance.

By Major . C. F. l... Kipling (Copyright 1980)

King George had ascended the throne in the middle of one of the greatest constitutional crises oi mod- em times, brought about by tho re- jection in the House of Lords of Mr. Lloyd Georges Budget, which for the llrst time. imposed direct taxes‘ on land. '

_The outcome oi this was the ‘Par- liament Bill’ to limit the power of Lords, by decreasing that Money Bills which failed to pass them should re- ceive the Royal Asertt at the end of

re session ill which they were brought in. and that all other Bills on their third rejection by the Lords, should receive the Royal Assent and become law.

King Edward had been told by Mr. Asquith the Prime Minister, that this government would stand or fall by the Parliament Bill, but that, before going to the country on this question, they asked for a guarantee from the King that if the electors returned

exercised to create u suﬂicient num- ber of peers to pass the Bill through the Lords. The King answered, as we know on the authority of Lord Haldane, that he would be prepared to accept the verdict of the people, but llktllé meantime, he tried in every way to bring the party leaders to- gether, although with no success.

It was at this stage oi the crisis that King Edward died. and it was left to the new King to meet the per-

his... it constitutionally 111d 1m.

Partially as has been his way always,‘

It cannot have ‘been Anything bu]; exceedingly diﬂicult for him u; “m. to the conclusion which was non.

Oil-Medea the eve of the General

Election of November i910 that the King "felt he had no alternative but t0 assent to the advice of the Cabi- net" and that he would “be ready to exercise , his constitutional powers which mil’ involve the prerogative of to the decision of the country."

The necessity did not lu-Lge, when the Bill was again sent back to the lords, when Lord Morley, for the Ministry. warned the ‘House that. if the Bill was not passed, the» King

would definitely assent’ to the ere-i

stion of a huge number of peers, the Unionist lelda-s, Lord Ourzon and Lou-d Iandsdowne, advised their party to submit in ‘force majeure‘ and the Bill was passed by a small majority .

1hr the first time, hater-m] consign was less acute. bllt..almost simultan- 6011815’. the King and his Ministers had to face the possibility oi serious Political danger /6n the Continent. 'I‘hat summer of i911 was abnorme B11? 110i». a time of tradestrikes and of a low umblng of the distant thunder of war. How near war with

Germany was at that time, the peo- '

pie did not fully realize until the danger was for the moment averted. But there were rum- on more or less definite; the cancell- ing oi the Army Mancuvres. unusual ﬂeet movements, following on the unwarrantsifdespateh of the Gemian ‘Vi-mill! "Panther" to Agadir in Morocco, which necessitated a. very "W"! Wamiﬂl from England-a warning that if France was willfully attacked, England must be reckoned with. The warning served its pur- pose; Germany hastened toexploin away the "Panther" incident a-nd to declare that she had meant nothing aggressive, but the incident had left an increased feeling of insecurity, an increased sense among those who were iarseeing that the strain was only temporarllyrelaxed. , And now the time was approach- ing for that voyage which was to be the culmination d the Cor-ration ceremonies. The King had enn-

plexing and dangerom situation, and "ounccd his intentions to the Parlia.

ment which had met in the preceding iWaruary-dn intention which had startled some people by ‘its very un- expectndneias.

It was ninety years since a British sovereign had visited any part oi.his Dominitms overseas-and then it. had ‘only been a question of a continental ,tour to Hanover. King George now purpoeed in "celebrate inhis Indian Dominions the solemnity of the Cor- onation." to be proclaimed in person, and in full Durbar, Emperor of India and to receive personally the homage of his Indian Subjects. King George has sometimes been accused of a certain lack of imagination, of that .sense,_ of the dramatic which his father displayed so strongly. In planning himself this great Stall visit to Hndll. he showed t-hlb he could imagine as vividly an any other ‘the immense effect‘ which such I. visit wdpld have in consolidating the loyalty of that vast overseas Empire.

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The Ring and Queen could not leave the country WEN-her without iproviding ‘fully for its government. especially as the Prince of Wales was not yet oi age. ‘This was done by appointing v Counsellors of State, in the persons of Prince Arthur of Con- naught, the archbishop of Canter- bury and theilvord Chancellor with thc ‘Lord President oi the Council, these last being 10rd Llorebum and Lord Morley. They were given power to do anything which seemed to them necessary, on King George's behalf. for the safety and for the good of the realm. except that they might not create peers or dissolve Parliament. But, as a matter of fact. the minist- crs were in daily communication with the King by telegraph, and he was consulted on all important ntatters.

On November 11th. 19l1—a date which was to become even more momentous later in the reign of King GCOPQC-J/llc King and Queen set out from Portsmouth in the P. and O. steamer. “Medinaﬁ manned, as the "Ophir" had been, by the navel offic- ers and seamen. There was an ee- colt of battleships, the “Oochrane". "Defence". “Argyllﬁ and "Natal", all under Rear-Admiral Sir Colin Kep- pel. ‘

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, - . King odboard the iuodilu." m4 the Kink returned the vilt to-the Klled- ive'a state yschtwhile‘, he was-able to meet and consult 16rd Kitchener, W110 11nd lust become Agent-actual 1n Rm. and learn how ‘snail-o went there. » '

On December ,_ 2nd, the "Medina" arrived at Bombay. to be_ met by Lord Hlrdinge, the Viceroy, and es- corted eiilorie later in the day to a city gorgeously decorated with all the brilliant colorlngs o! the East. That Eastern splendor accompanied the Royal party all through the tour. but it reached itl culmination in the mat Durbl-r lRYDelhl, protnbbly one of the most magnificent spectacles in the history oi the world, when all the nliing lgl-ihoos um Chieftains of Indil. vying with each other ln the splendor of their persons and their suites, came tn do homage to the King Emperor and his" consort, sitting crowned and in Royal robes on the thrones of the dais.

It was a wonderful moment when the Proclamation was made by the Chief Herald. when the thunder of guns and the silver voices of trumpets and the cheers of countless people, white and brown, saluted the Sove- reign. And in another way, a still more striking moment followed. when the King himself read loudly and clearly the words in which were ex- pressed a decision which had. up till then, been a complete secret, even from such officials as Lord Cursor-l. the err-Viceroy. 'I‘lle capital of India was to be transferred from Calcutta to Delhi-drool the new town Bengal to the snclen city, which had always held historically tin highest place in Indian tradition.‘ It was a

” _ lnunensely popular in India. although m‘ llrogluod it doused e certain amount of dissatisfaction.

The ioundatlo- -stones or the new Delhi. the new capital. were laid dur- ing the Royal visit, and other magni- ficent ceremonies took place, especi- ally a. great review of troops, British and Indian, one of the most; impress- ive sights imaginable, At an investi- ture which was held that evening when several thousand people were assembled in s. great tent,’ in the centre of, the vast Imperial camp. an incident own-red which might have led to terrible consequences. Those to be invested were passing before the King v/l-lilet the Queen. wearing the pale blue of the 18in: of India Order. was seated beside him, when suddenly

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King which ls appearing exclusively in the Guardian the biographer tells of the relief and joy of the Royal Family when United States Joined the side of the Allies.

berland. King George and the Tsar were both invited and both accepted the invitation. in the hope that the strain and stress oi foreign relations might be lessened-a result which certainly, for the moment, seemed to be attained. There was an atmos- phere of klndiiness and Deaceable- ness over the whole of this proceed- ings, which gave orally People hope for the future, even although they might see in it only one of the Kaiser's impulsively enlotional rnoods. A very succusiul State visit of

there was a cry of: "Fini" Always horrifying, such . an aiann

question, with the infiamability of the tents "and marquees. There ‘was something very like s penieammlgst a certain section‘ of the close- preesed crowd-but the Kin: and Queen remained absolutely unmoved. showing ls always that unshakable personal courage which we have come to expect of our Royal Family use. matter of cculsei It‘ was no false alarm: a tent only I hundred yards or so away had caught fire. and’ except for the prcmptitude of the action taken. it might well have ‘spread further.‘ . l

Itywas acrowded week of pageants and stats functions. and at the con- clusion of one of them the people of; Bengal allowed pathetically and beautifully, the spirit which the visit of their ruler had waited in them. It was after the King had left pav- ilion at i Ina/t historiccl display that the uowd broke off. sweeping past soldiers Qnrtpolice. surrounding the

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been standing. Ind catchinrup the, dust and the earth which his feet had troddqliioisviiiuhomueoo their foreheads. | The return to England was sadd- enedtiby the news of the death oi the Duke o! Fife. and at once the Kip; wesiaamei-sedinthetangle oifmign

' poiltill. complicated at the moment

by the troubles in the Balkans. vmen Serbia me Bulgaria were Just about. to sign an alliance. which made the greet Powell of Iiurcpe uneasy. (me of the King's first nets on his seturn was p bestow the Order of the Garter on Sir Edward Grey in recog- nition of~his services during the din- gewue crisis cf the year before. and during all. spring the bonds of the httnte ‘with France. which King sewers had so. largely brolllht about, . weeodi-oioolosor-hyhilson. ,- i "more wen Iron-t reviews of the Fleet. and the Army that summer of‘ 102i,’ and Mauouvres which were especially important. if cnLv for the fact that it wuv the occasion on wnichttis King first met intimately that greet fkilrtof the fimln, Gen- eral Redmond Icon. who came‘ to Helene la the military reilflllilir- stive of Irma on this occasion and

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President Poincare to England foli- owed during the summer, and in the spring of i914 this visit was returned by the King and Queen-avisit which was brilliant in the extreme. and roused great enthusiasm amongst tho Parlsians. ,Yct under the sun- shine of those April days there was a growing uneasiness and disquite.

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Bar's intense desire that comet-hint oi’ the kind might be concluded. The ‘Triple Alliance was regarded as a tilrealt to the peace of Europe on the part of Germany, Arlstria, and Italy A Triple lmtente might ease the strain. The King. approached on the matter, said frankly that he thought‘ some kind of naval undemanding would beta very good thing-and referred the President and the Russian Am- bassador _to Sir Edward Grey for further discussion.

Foreign polivcs, indeed. at the moment. were less in the King's thoughts most likely than domestic matters. It had. been noticed that even during the galeties of Paris, King Gem-ego was depressed and preoccupied to some extent? the problem of lreland, the threat of civil strife was pressing. upon him more and more heavily-the sense of impotence which the state of Ireland has so ofteniillposcd upon llcr rulers. President Poincare tells in his diary how the King scorned oppressed by |tl1ese ilfrlpfs. how lie exclaimed fol‘- ,cibly that he would not allow c.‘vl‘l ‘war to break out, and that he had not ‘the powers which the Conservative-s laccusedhim of failing to exercise.

‘It is evident that increasing press- ~ure was‘ being brought to bear upcn the King, for now the moment was approaching when Asqlfthts Home Rule Bill, by passing through tile coiruhons three time , had reached the pofnt when the King's assent to ‘it might". be d:ma.nded. irrespcctive of ‘the intense opposition in the House .oi Lords. This Bill created a sngle Parliament for Ireland, although with no authority over the Army. Nay-y, peace or war-far less power. oi’ course, than the past-war treaty gave the new Dominion. But at the same time, it called out tho bittelcst opposition. and in spite oi’ the fact that Ulster was to be allowed to cut

herself oil, for a period" from the new arrangement, Ulster was determined on nothing less than civil war, whilst Ibcth parties in Ireland were gun- running and drilling almost openly. I It was a most serious position, and. ~ior the King, it vary tragu: one. According to the constitutional law of the country. lle was undoubtedly bound to act c2 the advice c! his

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would see their inevitable defeat But the King decided. that he could only dissolve Parliament an the advice of his Ministers, who had’ no intention of councelling anything c1 the kind. '

Prcbably the action upon which King George decided was the very possible in the circinnstances, even though it may seem to have failed. lie tried t0 lessen the bitterness oi the party war by acting as a medl- iator and peacemaker, and he summ- ‘oned the ' leaders of both sides to a confer-ghee at Buckingham Palace on ‘July Zgird. Asquith, Lloyd George, Lord Imnscioufhe and Boner Law. John nourish? ’and Dillon, so- Ecl- ward Carson and Craip-these rep- resented oil the different parties. and-Mr. Lowther, the Speaker of the House of Commons. was to attend. a: an impartial chairman.

The King opened the conference with s. speech which urns to cause much discussion and rilssellsion, but for which Mr. Asquith took the re- sponsibility since he said that it had been sent to h‘m for revision in the usual way. Yet the words. in thdr grsvedigulty. ring truly like those of the King himself, and there seems no reason to suppose that they cllrl not express ills feelings.

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