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The Seaforth News, 1952-04-17, Page 7PICTU 1. Y of WE YN S Behind A Mask—His features masked to protect him from Commun. 1st "vengeance," a witness shows q House committee how he saw Russian soldiers shoot captured Polish officers in the Katyn Forest massacre in October, 1939. He is using a Russian revolver for the demonstration, and the "victim" is Charles Burke, of the United Polish Press of America. The witness is a 44 -year-old Pole, now a farmer in the U.S. Collective Cotton Crop—Great mounds of new cotton are piled up at the Pakhta-Aralsk receiving depot in the Kazakh Republic of Soviet Russia, Russia reports that her 1951 cotton crop, being baled and processed on collective and state farms, wilt top production of the previous year. (Photo and caption material are from official Soviet source.) o ow King s De ' t Changes 5uccessi mm With the death of Britain's King George VI and t he accession to the throne of his older daughter, Elizabeth, the status of other members of the roya I family changes drastically, as shown below. The British royal succession always goes through the male line. Three-year-old Prince Charles becomes heir apparent and, if he lives, will eventually succeed his mother, the new Queen on the throne. He does not auto- matically become Prince of Wales, but must be elected to that title by the people of Wales. After Prince Charles, his 18 - months -old sister, Princess Anne, becomes heir presumptive„which means that after his death she would succeed him unless Queen Elizabeth a n d Prince Philip should have another son. In that case, the new son would be king Assuming the incapacity of both Prince Charles and Princess Anne to ascend the throne and assuming that the King and Queen have no other son in the future, the succession passes to Princess Margaret Rose, younger daughter of the late King George Prince Philip, the new Queen's husband, becomes Prince Con- sort, almost 112 years to the day when Britain last had one. The last' Prince Consort was Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who married Queen Victoria on Feb. 10, 1840. The Prince Con- sort cannot succeed to the throne Queen Elizabeth, widow of the late King becomes Queen Moth- er, the title now held by Queen Mary, widow of :King George V. The Queen Mother is always, the mother of the reigning monarch. In British custom, there is no such official title as "Dowager Queen.” Queen Mary, who became Queen Mother when King Ed- ward Vill, now the Duke of Windsor, ascended the throne, now becomes just "Queen Mary" She retained the Queen Mother title after the abdication and through George VI's reign be- cause he also was her son, Canadians Take Oath in Korea—Lt. Col. J. Valle, (left) Commanding Officer of the Canadian Royal 22nd Regiment in Korea, administers the oath of allegiance to Queen Elizabeth 11 to his junior officerr JIl company commanders of the 22nd' Regiment. footloose—Some folk put their best foot forward but the Wallen twins (Eileen, left, and Enid) prefer to put theirs 'way over their heads. The sisters, starring at a Miami Beach night club, practic* acrobatics on the sunny beach. QUEEN VICTORIA 1837 - 1901 VICTORIA 1819 - 1901 ALBERT 1819-1861 EDWARD VII PRINCESS ALEXANDRA DC SS ALICE 1841 - 1910 OF DENMARK !RIN 1842 - 1878 GEORGE V PRINCESS MARY 1865-1936 • OF TECK EDWARD VIII Born- 1894 EECAME KING- JAN.20.1956 ABDICATED- PEC.11.1936 GEORGE VI 1895 - 1952 LADY ELIZABETH BOWES- LYON [PRINCESS MARGARET 1930— 1 PRINCESS VICTORIA OF HESSE. PRINCE LOUIS OF HES5E PRINCE LOUIS OFBATTENBURG LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN MARQUIS of MILFORD RAVEN PRINCESS ALICE OF GATTFNBURG PRINCESS ELIZABETH PRINCE. PUMP 1926 — ""* Or GREECE PRINCESS ANNE AUG 15, 1950 PRINCE CHARLES NOV. 14,19,4 8 GN ELIZABETH 1952 - PRINCE ANDREW OF GREECE The Victorian Line -- Britain's new Queen, Elizabeth II and hot Prince Consort, Philip, are both great -great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria and therefore third cousines. It is interesting t* note that Queen Elizabeth descended through the male line of Vic toria's children while Philip descended through the feniale line