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LONDON, Npv. i‘! - (NEAJ — Every Brlton's lively personal in- terest in Princess Elizabeth's ap- proaching marriage underscores one fact that has great importance to this troubled world.

Socialism may be creeping into the very marrow of Britains bones. The House of lords may be threat- ened...wlth die-emphasis, or even, in course oi time, with i055 0f My party in the legislative process. But the British throne still re- mains an impregnablc fortress.

It is well known that the King does not rule. Though many pow- ers are exercised in his name, be makes virtually no decisions. He is asked, urged, and almost required to give advice to his ministers, but it ls their advice to him which ls ‘minding. He cannot even select his own bride and get away with it.

Yet Britain without. a monarch- a King or a Queen-would be as inconceivable to almost any Brit- on, of whatever party, as a body iunctioning without a. head.

In the abstract ,it is conceivable that England, Scotland and Wales could be governed by Parliament without a King. But the entire structure of the iar-flung empire revolves around the Kingshlp, and no student of English history and constitutional law can imagine how the Empire could be held to- gether without the throne.

There is no written British con- “ed- omclﬂls ‘wmmaied.

stitutlon. There is no interpreter to . say where the rights and privil- y cges oi the throne end and those of the Ministers begin. By a pro- cess based on evolution and com- mon sense ‘there has evolved s sys- lem that works.

In the 18th. century the King was supreme executive like the President of the United states, and presided over cabinet meetings. When the Hanoverian George I ascended the throne, a iorelgner who did notieven understand Eng- lish, Tories and Whigs alike seized the opportunity to deflate the royal, powers. But they did it by prac- tice rather than by llw.

In theory the Sovereign can veto any Act oi Parliament, though hone lms done so since Queen Anne (1102-14). In theory he can make war or peace, annex 9 sur- render territory, without consent oi Parliament. But unless he can do without spending money the right is hollow, for only the House oi Commons can impose taxes.

These things still are done in his name. So are Parliament dis-

historic events such as the coronation oi His Majesty, the wedding will show signs oi the austerity oi the times. Thousands oi visitors and millions o! Londoners will wit-

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Royal proclamation, here in the King's name_ but his min

being

Threatened By Loss 0f Power lmprcgnahle Fortress

read In the streets oi London, is isters decide what it says.

solved and convened, ministers dis-

missed and replaced, Peers creat-

crlminuis . prosecuted, sentences confirmed or

reprieves extended. But in tact.

they are done by his ministers, who

are responsible not to him but to

Parliament.

Perhaps the most important item in which the King still retains dis- cretion is when, after an election, there is some question who should iorm the new Government. George V in 1923, selected Stanley Bald- win instead oi Lord Curzon. When the Ramsay Macdonald Labor government collapsed in 1935, pre- cipitating a world economic crisis, King George rushed back irom~ Balmorel to London to invite Baldwin to rorm s national severa- ment.

In a parliamentary type oi gov- ernment there has to be somebody to do such things. In Britain there ls-thc King.

But the Monarchy's enormous vi- tality and the respect and siiec- iion in which it is held,even by Socialists. does not derive much from this practical aspect. Neither, with all respect to the genuine personal popularity oi recent mon- nnshs. is it in personal tribute.

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There are two fundamental rea- sons. on sentimental and the other practical, which are somewhat in- icrwoven.

One is that the throne, even utter losing most power, has been made by a procession oi rattler tactful occupants to symbolize now than the Rock oi Gibraltar. Great Britain and the Empire. it stands above all partisanship, the personification oi Britain's great- ness. Being nan-partisan - and quite powerless- it is not contrp- vcrslal.

The other is that the throne is the single link that binds together a widely scattered, cosmopolitan ‘empire, oi which at east some parts have little in common with the others.

Here again the thrones practi- cal weakness is its actual strength. li the King-Emperor were to trv

don, over distant’ dominlons, they might well deiy him and cut them- selves loose. But he does not. He s‘ts in majesty parsonliying the Envpire and providing a. key by which the trick setup can iunc- lion.

'I‘he Domlnlons in tact are na- tions. They attained that status after the iirst World War. The question arose how they could be nations, independent ot Parliament in London, and yet remain inte- gral parts oi the Empire. Ii the

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known at home and abroad as Elizabeth, whose marriage has provided to her people at home a spark oi glamor in lives rendered drab by material shortages, and to the ness the event. testifying to the popularity oi the British‘ rest oi the empire an opportunity to show solidarity and

Never has a princess oi Britain been better sympathy with the mother country.

to exercise authority ,out oi Lon-'

Queen Anne: She was the. Isst British monarch to veto an Act oi Parliament.

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In Dominion matters the King does not consult his British minis- ters; he acts on advice oi the gov. crnment of the Dominion con- ccrned. Ii there should be a dispute be- tween two Dominlons, the crown would act as impartial arbiter. He may act to some extent through the Secretary oi‘ State for Domln. ions, but that oiiicial is partisan i-ndptemporary. while the crown is non-partisan and_ permanent. and in such cases the throne has very real influence. It is difficult for the citizens oi a republic to understand the very hrm and enduring hold that the British throne retains on a people who have drlited quite iar lett- uard, have selected and supported s Socialist government, and are moving away irom institutions much more democratic than even the most limited monarchy. But the hold is there. And the throne to which Elizabeth is heir looks much more lmpregnable right now than the Rock o! Gibralter.

Parliaments oi Canada, Australia, the Union oi South Africa, New Zeeisnd, have authority equal to that oi Greet Brltain-‘snd ii those authorities clash— how could the Empire stand?

The Statute o! Westminster. which settled the problem, was possible only because there was a throne. The Parliament oi each Dominion is as independent as though there were no Empire. But each gives allegiance to the im- plftll'l_ non-partisan, universal throne. _

Though the King is King oi Eng- land, neither his royal style and titles, nor the law governing suc- cession, can be changed without

the assent oi all the Parliaments.

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