THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9574, 27 July 1923, Page 3

THE PRINCE OF WALES.

WHAT WILL TKOL'KE TOLD HIM. “I thoroughly enjoyed myself and spent a jolly evening. The Prince of Wales seems to me to be a broad-mind-ed person.” In these words Mr Will Thorne, the bluff East London M.P.. who engaged in a long chat with the Prince at Lady As tor’s dinner party, recounted his “impressions’’ to a Sunday Express representative. “I talked to tlic Prince on various topics,” said “.Red Willie,” as Lady Astor playfully dubs the Labor member. 5 "We discussed the football final at Wembley. 1 told, him what happened when the National Anthem was played, and how the great crowds sang. “Talk turned to the industrial situation, and I told him*that the position was serious in consequence of no many men and women being without employment, but that in a short time we should pass through this cycle of bad trade into a good one. ‘‘l also told the Prince that I thought there would he many changes in the country, hut that they would he made in a constitutional way. “ 'Nobody can object to that/ was the Prince’s reply. "I told the Prince that I should have some dirty bouquets sent along to me for putting my feet under the table with Royalty. “The Prince said: “I object to “royalty,” but I don’t mind being called the Prince of Wales.”