THE PRINCE ON ENGLAND

Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1923, Page 4

THE PRINCE ON ENGLAND

VARIED MEANINGS HE THE WORD. LONDON. April 21. The Prince of Wtiles, who said that lie was iu-t jytiing over rather a severe attack of larvngili-. pre-ideal last night at the St. George's Day liuiiqitct ol the Royal Society of St. Ge-orge at tin- l.ondon (leiildhall. The Prince wee- given a great roj reptioli. Hi- voice- showed -igns ol j liii-kine-s. but with an ell’ori 1 1> ■ suej 1«•• 1 in making liim-eli In-aril | lliri'iigb.-iiil tin- great ball. " The- word England." b- -aid. "-tig g*- t- [. L. I) e ijitf.-ia II! nil il- 111 • IJ!! ■ • l • -! t ( kind' of Eliglisiitm, n : t la greater pa it ol cm juvenile population, for iu-.-tam-e, think ol it sininly as that portion of the globe which, from lime lo liino. prodin *-- efi -, i-n gend ei-iekofi-i-s lo p'ay To-1 mati-he- (and unctimelo w ii! ! hi-ni'i again-i Ati-I rttiia or - miii A Inca : w ink- in a fi-i ol tln-ir elilci'* il seem- lo stand only i’nr a j|:• i I :ei:l.'ir!y draught \ 'Minor ol Nortii-We-t E'lroi.c. nuali fnvuttn-.l a- a iv-i----d.-i- bv i lie jiijlnen/a germ. "Pi.t ,v< ■ km,a what England inibeen, still is, and. please God. will be. so lo; _>; as melt enntiillli- I i il-i- ...tile word. We know I hoi ihere i- no tn■ tter plat-;-, and we know thill if we li.-ue lo leave ii v. • iie.i-i reaiiy lla\ nil we gel I a,-I. ago,a. "l-'ießislime,, a- a ra-e do mil care I o tall, a lion I I * i • • i i - j it 11 1 ry, ami in blow ii - I run.|i-i i- litei-hq-ii-lt. But there i- mi" ai: I l imi.- ill England 1 slio .! i I ke io i-on-h ,m. (! oi*g!i o ts rat! i - • ill stie.lit to ex pic.- , ; u ii-. I m a ali I he a --- la i "■ . - fioeml up ill that esse lit .bill y j-.neli-li word •lioltie.’ "Nid.odv can call i,a- a ‘slay-jtl-liome.’ Nobody, least ; i all my self, can deny that my Irii-tu! - otil -id.- Eng- . land have a I wav- made mo icel very ; mm h 'at h me' w D,-it.-v.-i- I Ikm visit j ed t in'ii), ■'Hut, none I in- !.- when I fra r thai word. I chink ol Ivngiaiid; ami il , is i" o 1 1." same with all Bril isk-t-rs of ' Ettgli I, descent all 11... wm-kl over. ' Ihev -a.k oi 1-n . iend a- 'll,mu*' no - Ilia: !‘T wia-i-e Ma y m.iv !-a\e iireii bin')). Tilt; St (IT AND ST. GEORGE. j Dis -u-'-iitg tin- ‘o'-iel v and lla- w,u-k ! that ils lioiiorarv s'-eri-iary. M.»- fiow- i

aid Ruff, lias done for it, the Prince said: "It must be a groat consolation lo Mr Ruff to think that every time a Scotsman or a Welshman takes a sovereign off an Englishman and puts a Treasury note into his breast pocket he goes away unconsciously wearing the effigy of St. George next his heart. "The American Ambassador (Mi Harvey) I see is to follow me in proposing the toast of England,” eontinned the Prince. "From the look in his eye and from what 1 have heard him say on many occasions 1 suspect l hut. hailing as lie does from Mew England, he ha- a soft corner in Ins hear! for (lid England too.” ROTH TREE EXGI.AXI)S. Mr Harvey said that I’ritannia and Columbia willingly abided their own times and, clasping hands across the seven seas, gratefully and gladly did homage to their common Motherland. C'hurli-h, indeed, would be the spirit of a .New England which at such a time would withhold honour and reverence from the Old England to whom she owed her very being. Nor could she if she would, lor both were true Englands, true to English principles as agaiii't Socialist theories: true to the English Christian faith as opposed to Ihdshcvßt pagan practices; I rue to the highest of aspirationwhich (hey shared and shared alike to raise hiiiluT and higher and l>oar further and further into tlie wilderness illo lurch of civilisation.