Gentlemen, the King!
HE King is much more than King of Great Britain. He is King of the British Dominions beyond the seas. He is the political link between Britain and the Empire or Commonwealth overseas, and there could be no other link so satisfactory. The masses of India, the soldier in the Indian regiment, look to the KingEmperor as their chief. They could not feel the same way about a President of a Republic. The people in the Crown Colonies have the same feeling of being governed by a definite personage, who inspires loyalty and affection and embodies British power and justice. To the peoples in the Dominions the
King is the chief symbol of union. Their governe ments govern in his name and derive their authority from him. The King receives the loyalty of his overseas subjects, and to them, as to his people at home, he stands for British authority, strength and ideals. The Sovereign is an institution they can revere. So we may say of the Briton overseas as of the English-
man, that to him the King stands as the embodiment of national or Imperial greatnessBritish achievements and British hopes. In this attitude there is a religious. element. The divine right of Kings is no longer put forward as a serious political proposition, but the Briton feels that there is something divine about the King’s office. At any
rate he holds that office in affection and reverence, worships it indeed, because he feels it to be part of what is the best constitution for his country’s needs, and he sees in it the embodiment of what is strongest and most enduring in his nation or union of nations.-(" The King," 2YA, June 3.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 51, 14 June 1940, Page 10
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