A LOYAL PEOPLE

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1929, Page 3

A LOYAL PEOPLE

BRITISH SPIRIT OF TOLERANCE. MR JUSTICE HERDMAN’S IMPRESSIONS. AUCKLAND, Jan. 10. One strong impression which Mr Jus ticc Herdman has brought back with him from his recent stay in England is that of the simple loyality of the people to the Throne. “I knew befor© that it existed,” he said “but never had I witnessed in England public demonstrations of respect for the Sovereign. Tf I may respectfully say so, l doubt whether in history we have ever hnd rulers more genuinely respected r.r.l admired ihsr. our King and Queen Their simplicity their tact, their consideration for the suffering and po?r, and the e.'ainpie they set their subjects in their daily lives have firmly established them in the confidence and affections of the people. “On May Day I watched a large procession of Communists marching along Oxford street to demonstrate in Hyde Park. They carried a ml flag and their band placed revolutionary tunes. In front of the procession rode half a dozen mounted police to clear the traffic. For whom? For the Communists, if you please, and along the procession were stationed here and there police who kept back the crowds as they passed. “I watched the faces of shopkeepers and spectators on the sidewalk. Everywhere I saw a look of quiet amusement, never a shadow of fear, never a sign of anxiety. The quiet smile which flittered over the faces of the onlookers who watched in an aloof fashion this collection of queer-looking human beings mostly foreigners, making ,for a place where they could rant against law and order and princes and kings to their hearts’ content seemed to s n v: “Tins is a]l part of England. This is part of life of London. Let thorn have their say. Long live the King.” “I imagine that in no other country in the world will von find the police assisting those wishing to destroy a system of Government that stands for order and if reed om to reach a snnee where sedition and political rubbish can be talked in safety. In New York the authorities would use t"he stick or nerliaps the gun, but not so in England. There people look on with a smile. No wonder that other nations declare that of all the nations in the world the British are the most incomprehensble.”