MAGNA CARTA
ENTRUSTED TO AMERICAN CARE FOR DURATION OF WAR. FOUNDATION OF COMMON LIBERTIES. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. WASHINGTON, November 28. At a broadcast ceremony at which the Supreme Court Justices were guests of honour, Lord Lothian (British Ambassador) entrusted the copy Magna Carta which was exhibited at the World’s Fair to the Library of Congress for the duration of the war. The yellowed and faded Latin script was enclosed in an airtight bronze casing. Lord Lothian, in presenting it, said: “The' principles underlying the Charter are the ultimate foundations of American liberties as much as ours.” Mr Archibald Macleish, Congressional Librarian, in accepting the document, said: “It is an action full of meaning for our time.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1939, Page 6
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117MAGNA CARTA Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1939, Page 6
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