THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17017, 14 December 1920, Page 9

THE PRINCE OF WALES.

(FHOII OX7K OWN COnHESPONDENT.) LONDON, October 25. ( Every newspaper still eulogises tho Prince and his thoroughly human ways. ' Belativo to the tour, the "North Eastern Gazette" {Middlesbrough) eays the Prince ia preparing himself in tlhe moat thorough fashion for the discharge of those ffigh. responsibilities whidh. wi« some day fall upon his shoulders. ' better xrs? OS fitting an Emperor to his duties' lias been discovered sinco those far-off years. v,-hon a yoiing Roman noble, named Caius- Julius Cie«ar, took his first ster> towards tine Purple hy- gallivanting up and down the Mediterranean and hob-noobmg •with seanien, merchants, provincials, bandits, officials, and pirates. .The Prinoo is welcome homo for -what ho is, and for vrhnb ho will hereafter accomplish, and also for what he has already clone. His public services sine© tho peace are incalculable. Tho Impprial problem which confronts Vko British people i 9 to hold together a worldwide Commonwealth whoso component parts are froo, eelf-governing, virtually independent communities, each possessed by a strong and hardening consciousness of its separate nationality. -Formal legal links and schemes' of official sulv ordination, under whatever ■ disguise, promise only disruption. What solution experience will provide.no one can mora tihan guess. One essential circumstance, however, is already known. Xo search can hopes to succeed which.-is not prosecuted m common feeling; of friendliness. Towards tho inculcation and «n----coUragement of tho deeired and fruitful sentiment the Prince has laboured with, a triumphant success." • "Truly/ , says tfto "Edinburgh J>ispatch," "'"out' Prince is an imrivalled conqueror of hearts. The world has seldom, if over, Seen anything ouito like it before. , He has tho secret of popularify to a degreo never excelled. Jiow many statesmen, who seek laboriously and amid many discouragement:* to make the peoples of the earth understand one another, must covet his almost uncanny gift oF iiistHrinp;- affection and inaking friends, a, alft that breaks down.tall "barricre, and is «i moro valuable aseet to the Empire than all tho well-meant plausibilities of diplomacy."