“SILVER JUBILEE YEAR"
It is probable that the christening of the New Year in England as the “Silver Jubilee Year” had’a deeper significance in tlqe public mind than as a popular hall-mark for the year of a great national occasion, the celebration of the twenty-fifth year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Fifth. In Jewish custom the year of jubilee was. a year of . emancipation and restoration, consequently of great rejoicing, and it may well be, if the signs are to bd" relied upon,-that the celebration by the British people throughout the Empire of the King’s Silver Jubilee will coincide with their emancipation from troubles and anxieties, and the restoration of prosperous conditions. There is a growing feeling of expectancy that this satisfactory condition is by no means remote, that 1935 will be a year of jubilation in a very real sensei ’ . Should this prove to be the case, the Royal Silver Jubilee will be a conspicuous mark in British history, worthy of fervent and wholehearted public rejoicing. The first 25 years of ' a jbeloved King’s reign have been crowded with events of the highest importance to the social, political, economic, and scientific conditions of the Empire. They have seen the greatest war in history, and the greatest economic depression: the elevation of the great Dominions of the Empire to the status of sovereign nations; remarkable progress in the development of wireless communication and of aviation; the advent of the spoken word in the cinema; self-government in Northern and Southern Ireland, and the dawn of a new political era in India; a red revolution in Russia comparable in its horrors to the French Terror that sent a king and a queen to the guillotine; the collapse of stronglyestablished monarchies in certain European countries and of democratic systems of government in others; the conquest of the Antarctic; scientific triumphs over dreaded diseases. These high lights of modern progress in themselves are an impressive indication of the importance of the period, and'if to this record of achievement there should be added the definite return of prosperity to the British Commonwealth the jubilee celebrations would be a fitting climax.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 84, 3 January 1935, Page 6
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359“SILVER JUBILEE YEAR" Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 84, 3 January 1935, Page 6
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