Sport and General" Photo. MARQUESS OF READING.

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 36, 11 August 1934, Page 13

Sport and General" Photo. MARQUESS OF READING.

The Prime Minister, accompanied by Miss MaeDonald, paid a surpriso visit to Dover to attend the picturesque ceremony at which tho Marquis of Beading was installed as Lord Warden of the' Cinque Ports. Lord Beading is the 156 th Lord Warden to ho instated.

Speaking at tho luncheon which followed, Mr. Mac Donald said tho Cinque Ports had accomplished glorious achievements, and had woe for themselves a place o£ honour, distinction, and reverence.

"Some people pride themselves on being Modern," he said, "and I am as modern as any man alive. But no one can! be modern unless he has an appreciation of the past. We are told, 'let the dead past bury the dead.' That is true, but the past of the Cinque Ports is not buried, for it does not belong to the dead past. ' "What we bavo inherited from those times is not something we can put in our pockets or the bank; they are things of the heart. The achievements of the- Cinque Ports stand out like lighthouses, and recall the simple and primitive sense .of justice -which belonged to our ancestors, who said, 'Let England live—and England did live.' "National service put before mdi vidual convenience has mado England what it is, and the spirit which animated the Lord Warden's earliest predecessor is still with us. The great responsibility of this country is to carry on the traditions of our forefathers and to maintain peace. I have attended many international conferences, but no one has ever complained that the ships of this country are on the seas to menace the liberties and independence of any other State. Our ships w the Channel are not criticised, but accepted as a guarantee of. peace, and abroad.it is fully understood what Great Britain stands for, and that sho tries to make the way of the aggressor. karcL , "Will the miserablo materialism or this age cat into the reverence we liavo for the great past? The Lord War-, den has a charge to ko,ep the moth off and to prevent rusting ana corruption. His Majesty has chosen well in choos-ing-Lord Beading to fill tho high position of Lord Warden." (Cheers.) The Archbishop of Canterbury said he aid not think thcro was any office in the country marked by such ccromonial as the installation of the Lord Warden. Tho magnificence of the Lord Mayor's Show paled,beside it. Tho ceremonial was tho fust of its kind since 1914. In the old Norman keep of Dover Castlo wore assembled the Mayors of the fiyo, boroughs of Dover, Sandwich. New Bomney,.. Hastings, and Hythe, and the two ancient towns of Bye and Winchelsea. The arrival of Lord Beading in the full-dress uniform of the Admiral of the 1 Cinque Ports was heralded by a fanfare of bugles. Lord Beading was accompanied by Lady Beading. His son, Viscount Erleigh; his grandson, the Hon. Michael Bufus Isaacs; his granddaughter, the Hon. Joan Bufus Isaacs, and the Dowager Lady Harcourt wore also present. After inspecting a guard of honour of the 4th Battalion of the Buffs, Lord Beading followed the assembly into the Church of St. Mary in the Castle, where a sermon was preached by the bishop of Canterbury. Afterwards, the procession proceeded through the principal streets, which were lined with troops from the garrison, to Dover College, where, in a marquee, the Grand Court of Shepway was formed in timehonoured fashion. ; . ' , After preliminary formalities, the Lord Warden ordered his Patent to be read. This quaintly-worded document was read by the Seneschal, Mr. B. E. Knocker. Then the Speaker of _ the Cinque Ports, \tho Mayor of Hastings, requested the Lord Warden to take upon himself the duties of: his office, and to maintain all the franchises, liberties, customs, and usages of the Ports. ■ .) ..-■■' ... A salute of nineteen guns whs nrecl by the battery at the Castle. The Lord Warden's flag was then broken, at the flagstaff in the college grounds. The Emir Abdullah. . ,

The Emir Abdullah of Trausjordan arrived in London recently on a three weeks' visit to Britain as the guest of the British Government. It is the first time he has visited England.

The Emir is the senior ruling mem-1 her of one of tho oldest reigning houses in the world, the Hashimites of Arabia. He is the son of the late King Hussain of the.Hedjaz, who, as Sherif of Mecca, gave the first impetus to the Arab "Bovolt ,in the Desert," which will always bo associated with the names of Colonel Lawrence and the late King Poisal of Irak, tho Emir Abdullah's younger brother, whoso son, Ohazi, is now King in Bagdad. Tho Emir's eldost brother, Ali, was for a time King of the'lledjas; in succession to his father. His Highness is thus the son of a king, tho brother of two kings, and tho uncle of a fourth. He is a man in tho fifties, of medium height, and has aristocratic features, set oft' with a neatly-trimmed beard and moustache.

This Arab prince is equally at ease— and has the royal gift of making others feel. at ease—hi Ms palaco at Aramau, or with tho humblest of his subjects in the tents of tho desert. Unlike some of his countrymen, ho has never abandoned the traditionally simple and incomparably dignified national dress—the headcloth held in place by a cord of camel hair or silk and flowing robes of camel'hair, silk, or linen. '

Even beyond his own domain the Emir's popularity is great, as was strikingly demonstrated when , recently he tourea Palestine. As befits an Arab prince, he is an excellent jndgo^ of horses, and a certificate to an animal's perligroe signed by him is an authoritative document in the desert.

The Emir's . principal recreation, is chess, of which he is a skilful and resourceful exponent. As a devout Moslem, he is a strict abstainer, nor 'loos he use tobacco.