TRIBUTE TO THRONE.
MR SEMPLE’S SPEECH. EMPIRE AND WORLD PEACE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Saturday. “ I look upon Great Britain and her Dominions to-day as the safety zone of democracy and the sheet anchor of world peace,” said the Minister of Public Works, the lion. R. Semple, In response to the toast of Parliament at the New Zealand Engineers’ dinner in commemoration of the bicentenary of James Watt. ”In other words,” continued the Minister, “If It had not been for the statesmen of the British Empire, war would have broken out in Europe again before this. ”We lost a beloved and lovable King who was a peacemaker all his days, but we are extremely lucky that his son is one of the greatest friends of the people who ever stepped on to a throne to take his father's place. While the British Empire has a King of that calibre with a heart throbbing with pity for his peoples, the democracy is safe and the peace of the world is safe too.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 9817, 22 February 1936, Page 9
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