POSITION OF CROWN

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 104, 4 May 1935, Page 9

POSITION OF CROWN

AN ELOQUENT TRIBUTE

"SYMBOL OF OUR RACE"

(British Official Wireless.) ■ (Received May 4, 11.15 a.m.) • RUGBY, May 3.

Mr. Stanley Baldwin, presiding at the League Demonstration, said the position of the Crown and of the King in this country was not merely a matter of sentiment, important as that was. It was a matter of the most profound political interest and importance. If jn any cataclysm the Crown vanished the Empire would. vanish with it. ■■■■• '. ■■■■;:■::■ ■ ;■:- -' ' '

"As the older Imperial ties become attenuated," said Mr. Baldwin, "that of the Crown becomes stronger and more personal every year: we live. We have evidence of that today in the tone and spirit and temper of the demonstrations and thanksgivings which are patent throughout the world from one end of the Empire to the other. '

'ISo we may pray that the Crown, that great symbol of our race and of our unity throughout the world, maybe perpetual with the Constitution of our country. This is a link which once broken can never be repaired. So long as that tradition, to which we have been accustomed and our fathers before us, lasts it will be blessed through this country, and no power on earth can ever break it."