MESSAGE TO HIS PEOPLE

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 7 June 1935, Page 9

MESSAGE TO HIS PEOPLE

KING’S JUBILEE SPEECH

HOURS OF CAREFUL STUDY ASSISTED BY THE QUEEN. (Our Own Correspondent—By Air Mail) LONDON, .May IS. The King's two jubilee speeches last week were the admiration of the world. How did the King write them? The story has 'been revealed this week. For a fortnight before Jubilee Mouday the King set aside two hours each day to work on the speeches—his broadcast to the world and his reply to the addresses from the Houses of Parliament at Westminster Hall. Unlike his speeches at the opening of Parliament, prepared for him by the Prime Minister and members of the Cabinet, and unlike formal speeches at the opening of hospitals or foundation stoue layings, those two speeches to liis people throughout the world came solely and directly from the King. And they came from his heart. Time and again the King revised the drafts of the speeches, altering a word, turning a phrase, and only two hours before delivering his ‘address at Westminster Hall—a masterpieee of English prose—he made a last alteration to one sentence which did not please him. ■ The King refused to be satisfied until ho had found the exact words to express his feelings. All through the King turned only to one person for help aud guidance —the Queen. It was she who suggested some ot the happier homely phrases in the King’s addresses. The King has told his intimate friends that he is pleased beyond measure, and more than a little surprised at the tributes he has received irom. his people during Jubilee Week.