ARMISTICE DAY
NO CENOTAPH SERVICE
ARCHBISHOP'S MESSAGE
(.British Official Wireless.)
(Received November 1, noon.)
RUGBY, October 31
The King has decided that the usual Armistice Day service at the Cenotaph shall not be held tbis year, and the Government feels that in the present circumstances it would be preferable that other large services, which are customarily held throughout the country, should not be held. In view of the risk of confusion with air raid warning signals, it would wot be possible to signal the two minutes' silence as in previous years. November 11 will, however, be observed as .Poppy Day as hitherto,1 and the British Legion is making the usual arrangements for the sale of poppies in aid of Earl Haig's Fund.
The Archbishop of Canterbury issued the following announcement: —"The Government has announced that in the present circumstances Armistice Day cannot be observed in the once customary manner. While this is inevitable, there will be a general desire that Armistice Day should not pass without the associations which have so long surrounded it. It is therefore proposed, with the approval of the King, that Sunday, November 10, should be observed iv our various places of worship and in o.ur hearts and homes as a day of remembrance and dedication. Remembrance—we shall still remember those who fought and died for the country's cause in the last war, and with them now, those who already in the present war have given their lives. Dedication'' —we shall dedicate ourselves to the task of finishing, if it may be, the work which the men of 1914-18 sought to do and of doing and giving our utmost to win the victory of freedom, justice, and peace. We shall dedicate our minds and wills even now to the task which will await us when this war is over—the task of bringing in a new and better order of our common life, both national and international, an a basis of Christian faith and loyalty, and of the Kingdom of God. 'Truly, by the call of this great time, the most fateful in our history, to each one of us, 'a bond is given that he should henceforth be, else sinning greatly, a dedicated spirit.'"
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 107, 1 November 1940, Page 7
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368ARMISTICE DAY Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 107, 1 November 1940, Page 7
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