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Friday, June 2, 1972
COMMONWEALTH DAY MESSAGE
From Her Majesty The Queen
Note to Editore:
Saturday, June 3, 1972 is being observed as Commonwealth Day. The following Commonwealth Day message from the Queen is embargoed until 12 midnight tonight (Friday), and must not appear in newspapers or be broadcast before then.
The Queen, in her Commonwealth Day message this year, says she believes
that people in the Commonwealth are held together chiefly by "a sense of
community and the opportunity given for service within it."
Commonwealth Day tomorrow, June 3, is observed every year in Britain
It is also Her Majesty's official
and a number of Commonwealth countries.
birthday.
Referring to the special quality of the Commonwealth, the Queen said
there was "no aspect of our lives" which was not touched and helped by its
varied network of day to day exchanges,
"Every one of our peoples has something to give and something to
receive," she added.
The Hon. Sir Douglas Clague is the Honorary Representative of the
Royal Commonwealth Society.
message:
The following is the full text of Her Majesty's Commonwealth Day
"It is a good thing, on Commonwealth Day, to ask ourselves how much
we know, or can remember, about the Commonwealth; which countries belong, where they are, how big or small they are, and what their people are like.
"We find
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