TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19883, 12 May 1936, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

The Riddle of the Sphinx “The British Constitution is now the Riddle of the Sphinx,” says Professor Stephen Learoek. “Apart; from the monarchy, the legal connection is gone. There is still, of course, the Privy Council ah a final (-unrt of law in London for all the Empire. But the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council no more binds the Empire together, in the positive sense, than does the Old Bailey Criminal ('ourt. The real bond of union is: our allegiance to HIP Crown. “’ithout any exaggeration, without any flattery, the development of the British munarvhy is one of the greatest and happiest factors in the hixtm'y of mankind. . . . . "At the time when Queen Victoria's reign ran out we, needed and found in Rudyard Kiplillfzis ‘Ret'essional’ a voice to warn us against the uverweening t'onlidoln'n of power. “1‘ need In) such warning now. The tuna and attitude of the Empire, as we acclaim its new Sovernign, is one of tense, alert attention. not fear. but the sunse that tells that grave things may happen and that great efforts mn>l he made. Nor is there for the British 11(‘0Plt‘3, and in some measure for all those who share their .\wech and drav ') . w _ mutt history: any more, Pheering lII'OSIIH‘PL than this‘ :i‘::ii:;itnil‘)liif Edward \‘lll—whose very name, whom very number, goes hark to the l’lantag'vnvts and revalls a thousand years of historv.”

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