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THE
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CORONATION
OF THEIR MAJESTIES
4
KING GEORGE VI QUEEN ELIZABETH
OFFICIAL
N Edition of the
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Official Souvenir Programme of the
ACoronation has been produced for His Majesty's subjects
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SPECIAL THOTOGRAPHS OF THEIR MAJESTIES KING GEORGE VI QUEEN ELIZABETHTM
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HER MAJESTY QUEEN MARY THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH THE PRINCESS MARGABET OTHER MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY
A CORONATION ODE
BY JOHN KASEFIELD, POET LAUREATE ·
THE KING'S MAJESTY
THA FIGNIFICANCE OF THE CORONATION, TO THE EMPIRE. BY JOHN DRINKWATER
DESCRIPTION OF THE CORONATION PROCESSION
A PICTORIAL NAF OF THE ROUTE OF THE PROCESSION
AN INTRODUCTION · TO THE SERVICE
BY HIS GRACE THE LORD
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CANTERBURY THE CORONATION SERVICE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY AN EXPLANATION OF THE CORONATION CEREMONIAL WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
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BY BIR GERALD WOLLASTON, GARTER PRINCIPAL KING OF ARMS A GENEALOGICAL TAHLE SHOWING THE DESCENT OF THE CROWN
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Powers concerned in this com- petition with Great Britain with some very serious problems,
It is one thing to subsidise shipping on the vast scale em- ployed by the United States, but it is another to keep the increas- w.c.2.ed tonnage up to date and fully employed. Vessels become ob- solete, and competition is by no means suppressed because com- All communications intended for petitors may be hard hit. Sir publication should be addressed to Archibald Hurd quotes Mr. the Editor, and be accompanied by Bates, chairman of the Liverpool to the ef- the Writer's Name and Address, Owners' Association,
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SHIPPING IN THE
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cost to gain and hold a dominant place in the world. And now has come the problem of replacement and of the need for further massive expenditure. British unsubsidised shipping
other nations have been joining in this very costly business of uneconomic competition, but she has not yet begun to meet her rivals with their own weapons. The British lion may have The precise significance of the wounds to lick in that shipping recent announcement of a special tonnage has been reduced, and inquiry into the problems beset-the actual number of vessels has ting British shipping interests in been reduced. But Britain is the Far East has not been made wide awake and moving at last, clear. The one thing practically so that the nations at large, and certain is that the committee Germany in particular, have will have no concern with such been startled and profoundly im- matters as Hong Kong coastal pressed with her defence pro- shipping, although it is possible gramme and the rally of the that if changes there are as a Coronation and the Imperial result of the study, Hong Kong Conference. Here at the out- will notice them in the form of posts of the Empire we are be- new competition with the crack ginning to realise what it all German and Italian liners re-means. The peace of the world cently put on to the Far Eastern and our own safety can only be run from Europe.'
secured by a demonstration not The safest assumption, how-only of power in the visible unity ever, is that the enquiry forms of the Commonwealth of Na- part of the general survey of the tions, but in the careful for- oceans in view of the repeated mulation of a plan of co-opera- |warnings that British shipping tion in defence and of hearty is facing a serious situation as agreement in trade and shipping. the result of heavily subsidised competition. Foreign discrimina-
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tion has recently been brought Of Old School Ties home in forceful ways. While
British tonnage has fallen, that Mr. Duff Cooper has been put- owned in foreign countries has ting up a spirited defence of the been rising to unprecedented "old school tie" at a meeting heights, and there is no sign of held at the Imperial Service a cessation either in building or College and protesting against in building new ships principally the alleged fact that music-hall at the cost of the various govern-audiences burst into laughter as ments.
soon as that type of holy haber- One of the special concerns of dashery is mentioned, In that, to-day is the vanishing flag of of course (if the fact be as stat- Britain in the Pacific, in the face ed), it resembles Wigan and and many an- of intense Japanese and Amer-mother-in-law ican competition. While British other established and high- tornage has been shrinking,ly respectable institution. But American tonnage has increased it seems a pity that the tie since 1929 at a cost of something in question, if it should happen like £1,000,000,000 to the U.S. to need a defender, should have Government in subsidies. This to find one in such an entirely was part of а well-devised appropriate person as our pre- scheme at a critical moment to sent Secretary of State for War take from Great Britain her about whom there is a general supremacy as the world's great impression (possibly completely est trade and passenger carrier, mistaken) that he represents the. and the result has been
of that conscious that very essence "where the liner services of the rectitude which the baser sort United States compete with Bri-are apt to associate with old tish liner services, the latter school ties of the impeccably have had the utmost difright pattern. Indeed, it might ficulty in meeting the threat to almost be said that if there had their existence." Sir Archibald been no old school tie it would Hurd in a recent article have been necessary to invent mentioned the Pacific liner one
in order that Mr. Duff service in this connection, and Cooper might wear it. added that while it is a case in That being so, his defence, point it is not the only one. No however able, lacks that element doubt the great liner services of surprise which is often so through the Suez Canal with persuasive. It would have sober- their branches will emphasise ed us into a mood of proper res- this very emphatically, and will pect if the defence had come be heard when the question of from Mr. Gallacher, M.P. or subsidising British companies is the Western Brothers. Alas, being discussed in the Imperial why is it that in this world the Conference. The interesting right thing is so often left to be point, however, is that foreign said by the too obviously right subsidies are presenting the person?
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