WORDING OF ANTHEM
BLEDISLOE SEEKS CHANGE
NEW ZEALAND IDEA
United Press Association—By Electric Tele-
Eraph—Copyright. (Received May B,' 12.50 p.m.)
LONDON, May 7,
Lord Bledisloe, the former GovernorGeneral of New Zealand, in a letter to "The Times," urges that from the date of the Coronation Britons should sing the National Anthem as it is sung with loyal enthusiasm throughout New Zealand, substituting the word "our" for "the" in the third and last lines in each verse. < He adds: "After joining our fellowsubjects on the other side of ths world for five happy years and singing the, proposed version 1 am conscious of the slight loss of a sense of proprietorship and greater spiritual affinity attaching to persons and things when relegated to the more impersonal "the.1 The Sovereign is admittedly the great and only personal link with the Empire. His friendly contact with his people has never been closer and more sympathetic. Consequently, if he is in the most real sense our King, why not sing of him as such?".
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 108, 8 May 1937, Page 9
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