KING'S MESSAGE
Broadcast Should Not Be Taken for Granted NOT EVERY YEAR (Received 29, 9.30 a,m.) LONDON, Dgc, 28, The Times, in a leader, says the third sentence in the King's Christmas Day broadcast must be interpreted • to mean the King will not broadcast every Christmas Day, "It is a wise decision — and for a reaspn perhaps better than any which filial respect has allowed to be given," it states. "The King, we all pray, will reign many years, and so the intimate and spontaneous contact between him and bis people should not be allowed to eorne within the danger of being taken as a matter of course, "All will hope that, when the oceation arises, the King will broadcast on Christmas Day. Meanwhile, neither he nor his people will doubt that, broadcast or no, the true Christmas feeiing will pass to and fro between them," The passage referred to in the King's speech was:-— "I cannot aspire to take his (my father's) place, nor do I think yon would wish me to carry on unvaried a tradition so personal to him, but as this is the first Christmas since ppr Coronation, the Queen and I feel we want to send you all a further word of gratitude for the love and loyalty yeu gave ug from every quarter of the Empire during this unforgettable year."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 81, 29 December 1937, Page 7
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