AN AMERICAN TRIBUTE

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 47, 25 February 1929, Page 6

AN AMERICAN TRIBUTE

Ihe followng letter, si-ned K. B. Fer-usnn, appeared in the -Time," on daiiuarv 7: — e We British subjects liviu- abroad h-.\e watched the King", ilhics with even more anxiety than you, bee, >.-e to u- evervthin- rV,,m Home, especially at this season, ha, a twofold appeal. \ou ran imagine with what piea-uiv and I must add with what «iir;.ri»,-. some of u-' nave read article, like the following' It appeared on December 14 in the -Atlanta tlie leading morning paper of what is one of the greatest cities of the Southern States; "While King (jeorne has made one of the bravest lights again,: pneumonia known in medical history, and is reported as - p:i:iiin-' after the insertion of a drainage tube, the uravitv of h ; - eondition is obvious. The entire world i", hoping and praying for his recovery. He i, one of the most popular monarchs of all time, a simple man of sterling worth, and tin: highest and true,', type of constitutional royalty. The •j.tou'j oi men and women who stand in svmpathe; ie waiting throughout the days and nijhts at the i:ate, of Buckingham Palace' symbo -,'■* the love ui his own people. The < iovernment of Hreat Britain is one cf and by the people, [t is nearer a true democracy than that of the Unite.; State*. Th ; « country has gone far adrift from ie old mdh-ies of democracy as established by detl'erson.' while the British Government has been continually getting closer to the people. With this policv" of democracy King George V. lias been always ,vmpathetie, and the heir to the throne, the Prince of Wales, is as thoroughly democratic as is his father."