COMMON DESTINY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 June 1939, Page 5

COMMON DESTINY

TRIBUTES BY NEW YORK NEWSPAPERS DRAWING PEOPLES CLOSER. FUNDAMENTAL AND ENDURING BONDS. NEW YORK, June 7. Striking leaders on their Majesties’ visit appear in the two most important New York newspapers. “The New York Times” says: “Underneath the ceremonial of the Royal visit is the success on an honest effort to draw the two' English-speak-ing peoples closer together in the things which really matter. “The British Throne continues to exist because the British people regard it as a safeguard against tyranny. In that knowledge we welcome its occupants. They and their people are sharers with us in a common destiny. The liberties of England could not be destroyed without danger to our own.”

The New York “Herald-Tribune” says: “There was never a question of the cordiality with which Americans would welcome George and Elizabeth upon their visit here. The bonds of language, history, and basic institutions are too fundamental and enduring to be ignored in the presence of so friendly a gesture. In a difficult hour they have performed an arduous duty for their Empire, and performed it well. May their stay on this alien, but friendly, soil be as. happy and cloudless as every American will wish it to be.”