SIMPLE LOYALTY

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3894, 12 January 1929, Page 1

SIMPLE LOYALTY

PEOPLE IN BRITAIN

AUCKLAND, Jan. 10. The strong impression Air Justice Herdman has brought back with him from Ins recent stay, in England is that of the simple loyalty of the people to the Throne. “I knew before that it existed,” he said, “hut never had 1 witnessed in England public demonstrations of respect for the Sovereign If I may respectfully say so, I doubt whether' in history we have ever had rulers more genuinely respected and admired than our King and Queen. Their simplicity, their tact, their consideration for the suffering and the poor, and the example 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 Hvdo Park. They carried a red flag, and their band played revolutionary tunes. In front of the procession rode half a dozen mounted police, to clear the traffic —for whom? For the Communists, if youplease! And along the procession were stationed, here and there, police who kept back tbe crowds as they passed. “I watched the faces of shopkeepers and spectators on the side-walk. Everywhere I saw a look of quiet amusement —never a shadow of fear, never a sign of anxiety—and a quiet smile flitted over the faces of 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 i the law and order, and princes and kings to their heart’s content, seemed to say : ‘This is all part of England, this is part of the life of London; let them have their say. Long live the King'! “I imagine that in no other country in the world will you find the police assisting those wishing to destroy the system of government that stands for order and freedom to reach a space whore sedition and political rubbish can he talked in safety. In New York the authorities would use a stick or perhaps ,a gun, but rot 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 incomprehensible.”