TRIBUTE TO KING
GENERAL SMUTS'S SPEECH LEVEL OF PUBLIC LIFE RAISED H'ROll OUR own COKBESPOKUEKT.) LONDON, November 9. A very fine tribute to the King was paid by General Smuts at the Albert Hall on the occasion of the farewell to General Higgins, over which the Duke of York presided: "I sometimes wonder," he said, "whether the people of this country appreciate sufficiently what a priceless blessing they have in the Royal House. We have in our King one who has set a standard of services to everyone, not only in this country, but throughout the Empire. By that example he has raised the level of public life to a degree for which we can never be sufficiently grateful. It is a great thing for the people of this country at a time like the present—a time of heart-search-ing and unsettlement —that there is at their head, and at the head of the British Empire, a truly wise man, a humble, modest man, who pours out his soul by day and night for his people. Only in the future, when the record is opened, will the people of the world know what we owed to King George in these trying days."
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21354, 22 December 1934, Page 15
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