CORONATION DAY

Northern Advocate, 30 May 1936, Page 6

CORONATION DAY

It is announced today that the King’s Coronation has been fixed for May 27, 1937, and that Hi* Majesty has signed the Orders-in-Couneil setting in motion the machinery for that great^,^^^

si on. As a London paper described it recently, the Coronation j will be the landmark by which | ail programmes arc steered, the | pivot on Avhieh all organisations will hang. Its pageantry will make an appeal to the world’s imagination beyond that of any festival in living memory. There is no political institution to be compared with the British Monarchy as a link between past and present. The dynasties that might have vied with its traditions have vanished; “their bones are dust, their swords are rust.” Nowhere else can kingship be found preserving in its immemorial seats all the reverence with which centuries have hallowed it, and persisting, not only in form and in law, but in all the verities of human feeling, as the moral centre and inspiration of an Empire. The Coronation will symbolise that continuity for lack of which sq much of Europe wavers between cynicism and distraction. It will be a beacon .of hope and assurance among so many contrary signs of the times.