VALUE OF TRADITION
DUKE OF KENT SPEAKS OF CORONATION LONDON, June 3. The Duke of Kent, at a banquet given by the Company of Salters, acclaimed the value of tradition as epitomised in the Coronation. “In Westminster Abbey on Coronation Day 1 felt that the twentieth century had slipped away and mediaeval England had come to life,” he said. “It was a great encouragement to feel that amid the unrest and difficulties and problems of life to-day there was a, solid tradition that has made England great. “It has become fashionable to ridicule tradition and scoff at timehonoured customs, but the scoffers have completely failed to understand that the real reason that the old-fashioned customs have survived 1* because they are probably best.^_
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22111, 5 June 1937, Page 16
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