KING LEOPOLD’S VISIT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 18 November 1937, Page 9

KING LEOPOLD’S VISIT

| A WORLD COMPLICATED BY NATIONAL PROBLEMS i TRIBUTE CHEAT BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE IN SEARCH OF SOLUTION FOR ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES I ; |l(rilit<li (hliruii \Viiolh*h| . (Received Uilli November. 10.48 a.m.) i RUGBY. 17th November. | I lags are Hying at mastheads all over ! London in honour of King Leopold's \isit, and buildings were hung with bunting along the route which 1 ris Majesty followed on the drive from Buckingham Palace to the Guildhall, where an address was presented on behalf of the City of London. Before setting out for the Guildhall ! King Leopold had engagements at the i Palace, where lie was presented with I the gold medal of the Royal African Society by the Earl of Athlone and Gu era 1 Sir Reginald Wingate, for distinguished service to Africa. At the Guildhall, replying to the toast iin his honour proposed by the Lord I May or, King Leopold said: ‘'To your i city more than any other come the | echoes of those anxieties to which the inhole world is a prey. Political ob- ! jectives are of concern only to ccr- | tain .sections of mankind, but the better ! ordering of economic life is of interest Ito mankind as a whole. We are faced i with a world which is complicated by j various national problems The Bri- ! tish Empire represents so important a part of the human race that it cannot ; help but realise more clearly than any 1 other nation how closely the fate of ; mankind is bound up with its own. That is why your understanding of great universal problems is so profound, and why it is permissible to hope that : Great Britain may play a prominent 1 part in the search for a solution to the major economic difficulties.” BRITISH EMPIRE GUARDIAN OF PEACE KOVAL VISITOR AT STATE BANQUET Acknowledging a toast proposed hv I King George, at a Stale banquet at 1 Buckingham Palace, King Leopold said that he was deeply touched by the re- . fcrence made by King George to the close friendship which existed between ' their dead fathers. “The sorrows that have befallen your family and mine, grievous as they are, have forged a further link of mutual sympathy and friendship between our Rival houses, and through that, between our two peoples.” said King Leopold, “The ( British Empire, besides being th® , u ,ne , i.ite, ...in . i other wasy an in piration and line example. Your age-long traditions, your devotion to liberty, which docs j not exclude respect for the authority j and trust which you repose in the best men among you, your great fam- j ilics who serve the State from gen- : oration io generation—all these arc j examples from which pcopio would j do well to learn. Your constitutional i system, the principles of which are to he found also in our own, has enabled the British people to enjov an era of tranquility aud well-being and yet, at (he same time, make those social and political adjustments 1 which fhc new age requires.” MODERN DANCE BAND AT PALACE j RUGBY, 17th November, j To-night at tbc Belgian Embassy, Their Majesties, King George and Queen Elizabeth, were the guests of King Leopold and later the Royal visitor attended a State bail given at Buckingham Palace by Their Majesties. I For the first time at a bail at the ; Palace dance music was rendered by a j modem dance band in place of a military band, which in the past has played j the dance music at State balls.