KING GEORGE V.

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 243, 3 June 1932, Page 4

KING GEORGE V.

SIXTY-SEYEN TO-DAY SYMBOL OF NATIONAL IDEALS To-day his Majesty King George V. will celebrate his 67th birthday. His Majesty, who is the second son of the late King Edward VII. and Queen Alexandra, was born at Marlborough House on June 3, 1865. Ho married Princess (now Queen) Mar'y, daughter of the Dulce of Cambridge, on July 6, 1893. On May 6, 1910, King George succeeded to the throne on the death of his father and was crowned at Westminster Abbey on June 22, 1911. His reign, which extends over 21 years, has been one of thle most eventful in British history. During it was fought a great war, the results of which have materially changed the political, economic and social systems throughout the greater portion of the world. In every department of human activity, there have been changes and development of an almost revolu'tionary character.-This is particularly true of the sciences, in which the progress made during the past two decades easily eclipses that made during any .similar period in history. In philosophy, art and literature also, there have he6n startling changes and developments since his Majesty came to the throne and there can be little doubt that the historian of the future will look upon the Georgian period as one of outstanding interest and importance. Personally his Majesty has done much to help his people throughout the world. He holds a unique plac^ in their re^ard and has completed the work, eommenced by his illustrious father, of consolidating the position of the Crown and establishing it as a living symbol of the ideal of British nationhood. As a result, "wh'en the Crowns of Europe were falling like ripe fruit after the war, his Majesty and his Crown were unshakeably established in the miiids and hearts of the people of the Empire as the rallying point around which they gathered to commence the hePculea'n task of reconstructing their shaken though not shattered national life. That task is still in progress and his' Majesty and his Queen are more ' firmly than ever established as the focal point of the national ideals, of the meaning of which in both, public and private life they are an outstanding example.