KING SPEAKS OF PEACE AND FREEDOM.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 9

KING SPEAKS OF PEACE AND FREEDOM.

SPEECH AT OTTAWA

Significance Of National

War Memorial.

UNVEILING CEREMONY

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( Received 11 :io a.m.) OTTAWA. May 21. Kins (ieorgo in-day unveiled the Canadian National War Memorial, and in the course of his speech, said: "The time and place of today's ceremony are not without significance. The memorial speaks to the world of Canada's heart and its symbolism has been beautifully adapted to this great end. It has been well named, The Response. "One sees at a glance the answer made by Canada when the world's peace was broken and freedom threatened. But the symbolism of the memorial is even more profound, something deeper than chivalry is | portrayed. It is the spontaneous I rosponse to the voice of the nation's conscience. "The very soul of the nation is here revealed. Surmounting the arch through which the armed forces of the nation are pressing onward are the figures of Peace and Freedom. To win peace and secure freedom Canada's sons and daughters enrolled during the Great War. For the cause of Peace and Freedom 60.000 Canadians gave their lives, and a still larger number suffered impairment of body or mind. This sacrifice the National Memorial holds in remembrance for your own and succeeding generations. "This memorial Coes more than commemorate a great event in the past. It has a message for all generations and for all countries— the message which called forth Canada's response. "Not by chance do the crowning figures of Peace and Freedom appear side by side. Peace and freedom cannot long be separated. "It is well that we have in one world capital a visible reminder of so great a truth. Without freedom there can be no enduring peace, and without peace no enduring freedom." Their Majestic* delighted a large crowd when, at. the conclusion of the unveiling ceremony, they broke away from tho official arrangements and stayed for half an hour talking with veteran* with four "Mount ics" as their only attendants. They mingled freely with the crowd which jammed about the base of the memorial.

Just before, leaving for the unveiling ceremony Their Majesties spoke l>y tclephono with tlio Princesses. The time hern was 10 a.m.. which is 3 p.m. in England. It. was announced that the Princesses had just finished their lunch and that the connection was clear.