BRITISH LEGION
SPEECH BY PRINCE OF WALES
LONDON, November 14
The Prince of Wales addressed 8000 British Legion men at the Albert Hall on Armistice night, and his speech was broadcasted throughout the Kingdom, The huge gathering occupied themselves for some time before the Prince’s arrival with community singing, which has now become a recognised custom at these gatherings. To the Indian Princes there it must have seemed a strange one, but they realised the discipline of the British, people when at a given signal the audience were hushed to. silence. “This is essentially a Festival of Remembrance,” said the Prince of Wales, “and I hope that it will long remain an annual event in the calendar .of the British Legion. It cannot fail to do good in fostering the spirit of comradeship which helped us through the ha i d years of the war. We do not want another war,” he continued. “We must not even contemplate one. Above all, we must do our utmost, to avoid any war. On the other band, we must not forget the Great War. To forget that, which means toi neglect, to. honour .those who fought, not only the fallen, but the survivors,- is.a way to.breed new wars. If von read history you will find that in .the past.-nations*-have 1 been apt to take up arms light-heartedly, and the reason has generally been that the rising generation never realised the horrors that had happened before thenclay. This does not apply to-day, but there is a danger in the rising generation knowing little or nothing about the Great War. T feel very strongly that it is another duty of the British Legion to see to it that this memorv never fades, and that the youth of the Empire are never left in ignorance.”
Lord .Tellicoe demonstrated his powers of elocution when he recited Lawrence Binyon’s immortal four lines, which have' identified themselves with the Day of Remembrance. Then there was a rustle- in the air. as the scarlet pdta15—1,092,237 of them—.fell from under the vast dome through the beams of the searchlights on the throng beneath. Then, picked out by tlie glare of searchlights;in' a. corner nk; the rend of the hall, broke the fLiion'Lack, fluttering bravely'as the trumpeters of the Life Guards sounded Reveille.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1931, Page 6
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