"WE DEMOCRATS"
NEW YORK, 28th June.
The New York Times says editorially this morning, under the caption "The Fifth George" :
" 'We Kings must stick together','said Charles of Austria to a Royal pal in the same boat the other day-
_ "George of England has a better version: 'We democrats must stick together.' And he means what he says. His days are spent in doing hfs- bit like ono of his subjects, which should really read fellow-citizens. A busy King is George. Ho is seen everywhere and at all times.of the day and night; in camps and hospitals, 'over there,' as well as an England; sometimes in munition factories, at reviews, at receptions lo soldiers of the Allies, at ;-.ny function where his presence and a kindly word may count. He loves a 'hero' as much as anyone; likes to talk to Tommy Atkins, and has ■a great desire to be "hospitable to the lighting men from overseas. Heart and soul he is in the war all day long. He does not Want to be reminded of his German forbears. John Bull is George's ideal of a human man. Perhaps he nas a slight preference for the navy, in which he was Drought up. over the army; but ho would never show it. In the navy George was taught equality and how to be a man, and he has never felt like a traditional King since ho assumed the Crown."
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 40, 15 August 1918, Page 2
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