KING'S MISSION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23340, 8 May 1939, Page 11

KING'S MISSION

LEADER AND FRIEND

MOVING AMONG PEOPLE THE BOND WITH AMERICA FAITH IN DEMOCRACY (Receive! May 7, 7.50 p.m.) British Wireless: LONDON, May 6 In a leading article the Times says: "While storms beat upon the ramparts off civilisation, the long journey of the King and Queen will help to demonstrate how large is the area of the world's surface, within which the foundations of peace have been well and truly laid, and whose peoples cherish the aspiration of using their influence to widen Ihs boundaries of human fellowship. "The King is to be welcomed, not as visitor, still less as representative of an over-lordship in another hemisphere, but as the natural head of Canadian society and the embodiment of Canadian national life. He will take counsel with his Ministers and perform great acts of State at Ottawa, where the people may bo trusted to make him feel that this, in as full a sense as Westminster, is both his capital and his home. "His Maje.sty will visit all the nine provinces of the Dominion, moving among the people as he is accustomed to move among the people of England, as bot'a their leader and their friend."

Referring to the United States visit and the notable panorama of American life at the New York World's Fair, the Times recalls that the copy of the Magna Carta on exhibition there commands the veneration duG to one of the scriptures of American liberties. The pressure of alien ideas from without has made both nations more conscious of the profundity of that which they held in common. "The bond is no longer in any significant sense one of blood," says the Times. "Rather is it faith in peace and liberty and the rule of law in a State made for the people, and in the rights of the humble and inherent dignity of human personality."