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Chronicle (Levin), 8 November 1948, Page 5

Received Monday, 9.30 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 7. | Rain and a cold wind whieh swept down Whitehall reduced to only 5000 the crowd whieh assem-^ tjled at the Cenotanh to see His. Majesty place a wreath of poppies at the base as tribute to the dead, qf two wars. Usually a crowd ofi about 30,000 witnessed the cerernony, whieh was curtailed today! oecause of the weather. j The Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of Gloucester accompanied Has Majesty and also placed wreaths. Queen Mary, Princess Margaret and the Duchess of Kent watched the ceremony from a window of the Home Office. Queen Elizaheth missed her first remembrance service for many years beeause of an influenza cold from whieh she is recovering. I The Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee,' Mr. Winston Churchill, member$ of Cabinet and Mr. W. J. Jordan, for New Zealand, also placed wreaths on the cenotaph. The.Bishop of London, Dr. Wand, said a special prayer. j In the Remembrance Day service at Middlesborough Cathedral, Car-I dinal Griffln said that the failuresj experience since the war seemed to outweigh the good, that had beeni achieved. "There is no liberty andl no freedom. Communism, and with! it the denial of God and the op-j pression Qf man, continues to sowj the seeds of hatred, revolution and; anarchy. A tyranny worse than: that of the Nazis stalks the earth." He added that ordinary man's desire to live in peace was one of the greatest hopes in the world's unsettled state.