WAR’S AFTERMATH

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3827, 30 October 1936, Page 3

WAR’S AFTERMATH

THAT “UNSEEN CROWD OF WITNESSES.” One passage in Mr Baldwin’s speech to the Canadians at Westminster Hall at the end of July, stood out, says the Loudon Daily Telegraph. When ne spoke of the “unseen crowd of witnesses” that watch over the battlefields his audience was deeply moved. Mr Baldwin’s own emotion was no less evident. He spoke into a microphone, as King George did at last year’s Silver Jubilee ceremony in Westminster Hall. The British Prime Minister’s voice was well controlled. But I noticed that when he reached the description of his own visit to the Menin Gate the speed of his delivery was almost doubled. The cheers which punctuated the speech and the khaki berets which the Canadians, were wearing made the occasion a strange contrast with the last time most of us were in Westminster Hall. The plaque which is to mark the place where King George lay in state will ■ soon be put in position there. A Canadian suggested that anotheimight well commemorate the first great Imperial occasion of the kind in Westminster Hall’s long history.