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Duke of Kent And , Traditions CReceived 4, 1 p.m.) LONDON, June 3. The Duke of Kent, at the SalteT's1 Company banquet, acclaimed the value of tradition as epitomised on the Coronation. "In Westminster Abbey on Corona,tion Day, I felt that the twentieth century had slipped away and the medieval England had come to life," he said. "It was a great encouragement to feel, amid the unrest, difficulties and problems of life to-day, that there is a solid tradition that made England great. " It has become fashionable vto ridicule tradition and scoff. time-honoured customs. The scoft'ers liavo complefely fniled to unclevstand that the roa! roason that old-fashioned customs have survivod is becauae they are probably the best"
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 118, 4 June 1937, Page 5
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