MR. BALDWIN SPEAKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 112, 13 May 1937, Page 11

MR. BALDWIN SPEAKS

DEEP IMPRESSION

"LET US DEDICATE OUR LIVES''

(Received May 13, 10.30 a.m.-)

LONDON, May 12. The following message was broadcast by Mr. Baldwin: — "This has been a day of profound emotion. ' I am now sitting quietly with two or three friends in the Cabinet room of No. 10 Downing Street, in the heart of London. The room has been occupied by Prime Ministers of this country for two hundred years.

"This morning I was in the Abbey. Early in the afternoon I was privileged to drive in the procession through miles of London streets. In the Abbey I saw our young King and his Queen dedicate their lives to the service of their people, and, as I said only the other night in the House of Commons, a service that can only be ended by death. As I drove through the streets of London I saw the vast crowds eager to see their newly-crowned King and Queen, and listened to their ringing cheers. I thought there was only one way in which we, all of us, can make permanent that deep impression of what we have seen and heard this day.

"Let us dedicate, afresh if need be,

ourselves to the service of our fellows, service to our home, to our neighbourhood, to our brothers, to our country, to our Empire, and to the world, no mere service of our lips, but service in our lives, as we know will be the service of our King and Queen. God bless them."