"LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY"
Sir,-While in agreement with A.M. (Wellington) that "Land of Hope and Glory" is a rattling good tune, I would say that it is also a rattling good song, and that if the British Commonwealth retains its present aims and objects, in giving Egypt and India self-govern-ment, the words of this song will never be out-of-date. Surely the giving of independence and freedom to these countries is the absolute embodiment of the British nation — that of freedom and equality for all men of all races. To adapt Mr. Churchill I would say: Never
in the field of human conflict, has such a nation worked and fought, for so long, for such freedom, as Great Britain, and that the giving of this freedom to all peoples is a "widening" of the Empire spiritually if not materially. The "narrower still and narrower’ conception of A.M. fs brought about by modern secular education which takes no account of the moral and spiritual values which brought about the British Empire, and without which no nation can fight -a protracted war however large her material forces mav
be.
N.R.
W.
(Auckland) _
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 367, 5 July 1946, Page 23
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