KING TAKES SALUTE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1942, Page 4

KING TAKES SALUTE

UNITED NATIONS DAY LONDON CELEBRATION. MARCH PAST AT PALACE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, June 14. The King took the salute this afternoon at Buckingham Palace at a march past to celebrate United Nations Day. With the Royal Family were the Kings of Norway and Yugoslavia, the Presidents of Czechoslovakia and Poland, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, the Queen Mother of Yugoslavia and the Crown Prince of Norway. The High Commissioners for the Dominions and a galaxy of Allied Ministers, ambassadors and generals were present, with General de Gaulle and Mr Churchill, who were wearing war medals and carrying gas masks. When the King and Queen had taken their places, the ceremony of honouring the flags of the Allies was performed. Guardsmen, bearing the flag of each of the Allies of the British Empire, held them aloft and a fanfare of trumpets was sounded. Civil Defence services took pride of place at the head of a half-mile-long procession, which included representatives from every phase of the war, including the fighting services, civil transport, factories, mines, offices, the fishing fleets, Indians who are undergoing munitions training and canteen workers. Crowds along the route had a special cheer for the Merchant Navy contingent, which included men from the Dominions and colonies, many of whom had been torpedo'ed or bombed. The fighting services were led by : a Royal Navy contingent and included representatives of the Dominions, the Home Guard, nursing and auxiliary services. Celebrations in various other places in Britain were on similar lines. A Delhi message says the flags of the United Nations were honoured in a ceremonial parade in which British, Indian, Chinese, American and Dutch troops took part. The Duke of Gloucester and the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, took the salute.