BOND OF FAITH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1939, Page 5

BOND OF FAITH

SIGNIFICANCE OF ROYAL TOUR IDEALS OF PEACE AND LIBERTY. EXTENSION OF BOUNDARIES OF FELLOWSHIP. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 6. Commenting on the Royal visit to America, “The Times” in a leading article today, says: “While storms beat upon the ramparts of civilisation, the long journey of the King and Queen will help to demonstrate how large is the area of the world’s surface within which fhe foundations of peace have been well and truly laid, and whose peoples cherish the aspiration of using their influence to widen the boundaries of human felowship. “The King will be welcomed, not as a visitor and still less as the representative of overlordship in .another hemisphere, but .as the natural head of Canadian society and the embodiment of Canadian national life. “He will take counsel with his ministers and perform great acts of state in Ottawa, where the people may be trusteed to make him feel that this, is as full a sense as. Westminster, is both his capital and his home. “He will visit all the nine provinces of the Dominion, moving among the people as he is accustomed to move among the people of England as both their leader and friend.” Referring to the visit to the United States and the notable panorama of American life, which their Majesties will see at the New York Fair, “The Times” recalls that a copy of Magna Carta is on exhibition- there, commanding the veneration due to one of the scriptures of American liberties. “The pressure of alien ideas from without continues the paper, “has made both nations more conscious of. the profundity of that which they hold in common.. The bond is no longer in any significant sense one of blood. Rather is it faith in peace and liberty and the rule of law, faith in a state made for the people based on the rights of the humble, and fa:th in the inherent dignity of the human personality.” EXCITEMENT IN CANADA FINAL PREPARATIONS. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. (Independent Cable Service.) (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) TORONTO, May 7. Canada is feverishly rushing preparations for the visit of their Majesties. Parliament is attempting to complete all business next week, to permit of its prorogation, for the first time in history, by King George VI. Fifty-two cities and towns on the route of the Royal tour are already decorated with bunting and flags.

The royal programme includes the unveiling of Ottawa’s war memorial on May 18 and attendance at the historic King’s Plate horse race «at Toronto on May 22.