THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17877, 25 November 1929, Page 7

THE PRINCE OF WALES.

A CANADIAN VIEW. CHANGED SINGE FATHER’S ILLNESS “He’s a big boy now.” i ; This caption, under a cartoon of John Bull and Britannia looking at the Prince ’of Wales, in the American Cosmopolitan, sums up a Canadian’s impression of the Prince of Wales. The Literary Digest reprints extracts from a Cosmopolitan interview with the Prince, which emphasises that he has changed since his father's illness. “lie is a new Prince, a Prince reborn that day in the back country of East Africa, when the word came that the King was sick unto death," writes Mr Frazier Hunt, the owner of a ranch in Alberta adjoining that of the Prince of Wales. Mr Hunt saw the Prince at St. James’s Palace, and was profoundly impressed with the difference in his manner, his “grown-upness,” his greater seriousness, and his realisation of the responsibility that lies on him as heir to the throne. “The same old quick smile and good humour are still there,” ' says the article, “but suddenly he has grown up to the full measure of his responsibilities and his future. To-day he is serious, hard-working and efficient—and the last thing in the world he is thinking about is abdication.”

Anglo-American Relations.

Mr Hunt and the Prince talked about Anglo-American relations. “ ‘More friendly understanding is all wo need to iron out any little differences of opinion,’ said the Prince. ‘Fewer experts and more human beings to settle our difficulties. That’s why travel and intimate interchange of ideas are so important. “ ‘lf we all could play golf together, as I did recently with my good friend Mr Kellogg, and later with Walter Hagen, we’d realise how close and necessary we arc to one another.’ “Here was a Princo thinking deeply and profoundly about great and serious problems. Here was a new heir to a hard and trying post. “ ‘I haven’t had much time to myself since my father was taken ill,’ he said to me, simply and earnestly. "And never again will he have much time to himself. Gone forever is his freedom. He is a man of duty to-day —a man of destiny."