MAGNA CARTA IN U.S.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DURATION OF THE WAR (Reed. Nov. 29, 2.50 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. In a broadcast ceremony at which United States Supreme Court, justices were the guests or honour, the British Ambassador, the Marquess of Lothian, entrusted the Magna Carta, which was sent to America for the New York World's Fair, to the library of Congress for the duration of the war. The yellowed and faded Latin script was enclosed in an airtight bronze casing.
Lord Lothian, in presenting it, said: “The principles underlying the charter are the ultimate foundations of American liberties as much as ours.” Mr. Archibald Macleish, the Congressional. librarian, in accepting the document said: “It is an action full of meaning for our time.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20108, 30 November 1939, Page 7
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