PRESS TRIBUTES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 112, 13 May 1937, Page 10

PRESS TRIBUTES

CENTRE OF ALL LIFE

LONDON, May 12,

"The Times," in a leader, says: "It is impossible for any man to. bear the burden of kingship unless he is fortiBed and inspired by the spiritual power to be conferred on him in the Abbey today, also his people's love and good will. Mainly through the Monarchs' own doing, the duties of monarchy have increased out of all conception. A century ago the private life, of a Sovereign used to be lived apart from his people. Now nothing the Royal House does is alien to the people's welfare.. The Crown is a necessary centre, not only of political but of all life.

"The anointed Sovereign, today uplifted above common humanity, is the same as he who the other day shared the crowd's enjoyment at the football final. All wives and mothers of children will turn with affection to the •Queen and the Princesses and Queen Mary, feeling they have in . them honoured examples. The range of Royal influence and responsibility is wider than the furthest limits of Empire. All things and people within his vast Dominions are of moment to the King and he to them.

"Whether we are beginning a new era with a young King heading an upward swing of youth or whether the world is destined to continue with its familiar trouble, George VI will need all the strength our loyalty and good will can give. Our resolution is strong to serve him as a good King should be served." The "Daily Herald" says: "The King, like his father, is an average Briton who will work honestly to do his ]ob properly. That is ample title to respect. The Coronation means something more durable than days of celebration and days of thoughtless applause."