Wairarapa Times-Age WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1940 UNITY IN FREEDOM.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1940, Page 4

Wairarapa Times-Age WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1940 UNITY IN FREEDOM.

A GAINST the background of the relationship m which Throne " and people are linked in the Mother Country and in all the partner States of the British Empire the simply voided address broadcast by the King from Buckingham Pa ace o Monday was invested with a significance and dignity which no dictator can hope remotely to rival. The King speaks as one who exercises great power and responsibility but on tl e basis alwavs of the spontaneous loyalty and united will of the peoples over whom he rules. The authority of the King is pait and parcel of the essential unity of the British body politic in the acceptance and pursuit of common ideals and a common purpose.

The relationship in which the British Throne and people are united has never been illustrated and exemplified better than in the visits the King and Queen have made of late to some of the areas in London and elsewhere which have suffered most heavily under indiscriminate Nazi bombing. Their Majesties are able to move about among their people unaffectedly and unguarded because monarch and people are linked in genuine and spontaneous sympathy. Hitler and Ins kind, as a woman in the East End of London declared truly the other day on the occasion of a Royal visit, dare not move about among the people over whom they rule without being surrounded by bodyguards The dictators maintain themselves m power by brute force espionage and terrorism. Our King is sustained in power as the living representative of the spirit of unity and co-opera-tion which animates the British nation in all the lands it occupies.

The King is thus placed as no dictator can ever hope to be to proclaim the inflexible resolve of the free people over whom he rules to endure whatever may have yet to be endured in the struggle for victory over the forces of evil. He has no need to utter appeals, for he knows that his people are with him heart and soul in a determination to overcome the forces of evil to which they stand opposed and to re-establish liberty and justice in the world. A nation wholly united is with the King when he says: 11 Let us then put our trust, as li do,, in God? and in the unconquerable spirit of the British people.”