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DECEMBER, 1, 1930,-The Bishop| of Bradford, Dr. A. W. F. Blunt, la an address to his diocesan conference, says: "The benent of the King's Coronation depends, under God. on the falli, prayer and self- dedication of the King himself, and on that it would be improper for me to say anything except command him to God's grace, which hol will so abundantly need, ps wo all need for the King is a man like ourselves-I be is to do his duty faithfully.

Abdication Days?

Royal

Family moct "We hope he is aware of his need,, DECEMDER 4—Mr. Baldwin, in Royal

Bays lin woman the Lodge, Windsor, Fort Belvedero and Some of a wish ho gave, more the House,

King married would necesarily be Mariboruugh' House. positive signs of such awareness."

come Queen.

DECEMBER 10.—The Klag's xb- DECEMBER 2-The Bishop of

DECEMBER 7-Empire Partia dication, and the Duke of York's Bradford anys lil address was not

Mrs. Simpson succession autiounced in Parliament. intended as a rebuke, adda: "What ments summoned.

MAY 28, 1937.—Announcement in

I had reference to was the fact that, issues a statement that she is willing to all outward appearance, the King to withdraw from "a aliuation which the London Gaveliò that the Duke seems to live entirely indifferently to has been rendered both unhappy and of Windsor will still hold the tile "His Royal Highness,” but that the the publle practice of religion.” untenable,"

prefix "D.R.H” will not extend to DECEMBER 3.It is announced DECEMBER 8.--Mr, Baldwla' has] Mrs. Simpson on fier marriage, or that "an acule Constitutional crisis" his sixth conference with the King to any possible children, has arisen because of the King's at Fort Belvedere.

JUNE 3—Marriage of the Duke Intention to marry Mrs. Simpson. DECEMBER 9-Members of the und Nirs, Simpsoni,"

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KING GEORGE VI YESTERDAY COMPLETED

Three Courageous Years

N the afternoon of December 11, 1936, the Right Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M.P., Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, had an audience of the King at 145, Piccadilly.

That

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announcement in brandeast I have ever heard from a

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"I have, however, a message for country that King George you from the King. He bids the peopic of this country be of good VI had succeeded King Ed- cheer in spite of the dark clouds

hanging over the whole world. ward VIIL

It was three days before King cations Ordmance, 2016 Such news 2 George's 41st birthday, und he

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Dear December:

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was the 41st monarch in succes- sion from William the Con-

queror.

That night King George dined with Prince Edward at Royal Lodge, Windsor Great Park,

"He knows well that, as ever be- jare in critical times, they will keep cool heads and brave hearts

Even in this swift and crowded world of to-day we have not had time to forget so entirely the events

warmth from this Christmas of recent days as not to feel an added close at hand,

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was unfortunate that the Arst months of King George's reign were marred by a campaign of

calumny against his elder brother.

the year. but in some respects with Queen Mary, the Princess

One could wish that some of the Royal, the Duke of Gloucester, the first. You must be merry-the Duke of Kent, and the Earlingham Palace he said: "I have sur- Privy Councillors to whom at Buck- no other month has Christmas. and Countess of Athlone,

fered a very real loss by the decision of my brother, for by his going I am Yet you're a wonderful month

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own-whether you are decked with poinsettias or icicles. You're a happy month from Greenland's icy mountains to the plains of Australia.

Isn't it wonderful, when you stop to think of it, that happi- ness doesn't depend on latitude or longitude, on temperature or climate?

Do you mind my telling you where we would like best to be with you? In the Homeland, among snow-laden pines, where skating ponds glisten and ring with laughter, and fireplaces fuse famines into new bonds of cheer and happiness. And, say: If we adults like you, how must

George returned to his house in Pic- campaign.

We must be charitable, and ascribe cadilly. Later that day he gave his it to a misguided loyalty, and, let me arst audience at Buckingham Palace repeat, an utterly unnecessary ap- to Sir John Simon, which was follow- prehensiveness about the Coronation. cd by his first Privy Council at St. James's Palace. This was the Acces sion Counci

There is no need to remind readers, for whom the triumph of the Corona- tton, on May 12, 1937, is a bright memory, how unnecessary that up- On his birthday, December 14, in prehensiveness was. reply to the Lords" Address, present- ed to him by the Earl of Cramer, King George said,

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AN the Glorious First of June The Ring created Mr. Bald-

"You may be assured that it is my win an Earl and a Knight of the determination to do all that lies with

Garter.

Two days later the King and Queen

The rest of the summer and early

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to my power to safeguard" the Uber-telephoned their congratulations-10- tles of my people and to promote the Duke of Windsor on his marri- their prosperity and contentment.”

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On August 3 the King flew to his it is only when we recall the camp for public school and working pregnant circumstances in which boys at Southwold in Suffolk, and wo these words were delivered that the were all of us relieved that at inst stereotyped phrases of royal cloqu- it looked as if his holiday had begun. ence become fraught with majesty. autumn was spent at Balmoral, but The love of the people of the by October 20 he was touring the Empire for King George VI does not West Riding, and at Leeds was having the children love you! Frost depend on any words of his, and to look at gas-masks at an AR.P show, where he was able to tell his and initely less does it depend on any listeners that the gas-masks in the words uttered by his anxious ad- war "had pinched your nose!" visers.

One can imagine what he felt at wickedness on show again. That love came once for all when the thought of all this miserable a man without personal ambition, paraphernalia of human folly and Parliament lasted for 13 minutes, and ussumed the responsibility of the mighest throne in the world because

and fairies. Reindeer

dreamy. Anticipation and realization. From the fjords

of Norway to the veldts of South Africa, glad greetings.

Nazi Confession

Resort to the air

arm and magnatic mines for destruction of merchant vessels is a con- fession that submarines have disappointed the Nazi leaders.

he believed it to be his duty.

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HAD the honour in 1932 of assisting as Rector of Glis- gow University at the conferment of lionorary degrees on the Duke and Duchess of York.

The facts are grim for them. These occasions are always an Air bombing or the use of anxious business for the chief figures. "pirate" mines is imperative if by asking why there were not the His Royal Highness Inld me out

there are to be any hope that same number of windows on one side war on our ships would frighten of the Chapel as on the other. us and threaten neutrals und,

"It offends my sense of symmetry," he said. perhaps most important, on-

i courage the German people.

I was unable to offer any explana- tion, but presently the Duke discover-

buliding on the other side, and I was

able to assure him with perfect sin- cerity that he knew a great deal more about architecture than I did.

Mr. Hore-Belisha recently de-ed for himselt that it was due to a fined three courses. possible to Nazism. It may try to smash through by aca and air, it may wait for an allied offensive, it I had the honour of sitting next may try to lure us into the dis- to the Duchess at lunch in the uni- versity utter the ceremony, and I cussion of terms of peace. Who think I was never more surprised in can guess all the passibilities of my life than when she told me that she had Halened to the broadcast of distracted Nazi counsels?

my Rectorial Address (nearly an hour We must expect to endure long), stern hours. Great Issues are for decision. The strength of a powerful nation under the orders And when on that critical Septem- of men who have declared to ber, I listened to the broadcast speech acknowledge no right but force of her Majesty, I could not help

is arrayed against Britain and, the Empire and. France. One thing about the future of the conflict is clear and certain. Time is on our sido,

I realised, from that what a pag- slonato interest she must have in Scottish affairs,

thinking that whatever she meant to the Empire she meant just a little more to her own Scotland.n

I sincerely. hope that speech wIII. be made available on a gramophone record, for I have no hesitation in declaring it to be the most moving

His speech at the Opening of

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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- "I have the grandost now press agent—I'vo boon-robbed of my jowofs, my house burned down and I received three extortion

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those who had any doubts about the quality of his clotution' doubled no

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поге.

r was a busy autumn. The

King and Queen of Bulgaria were received at the beginning of November.

On Armistice Day people listening to the broadcast heard suddenly aver the silence shricks and the clatter of horses.

Enter that month, on November 10, the King greated King Leopold of Belgium Victoria, and at the ban- quet in Buckingham Palaco said to his royal visitor, "Your visits to these ahores will have enabled you to ces for yourself how strong are the bonds of mutual interests and of common ideals which bind this country with your own."

On November 24 he received a number of Italian ex-Service men and on November 20 he gave a lunch to MM. Chautemps and Delbos at the conclusion of the Anglo-French talles. His 42nd birthday was celebrated at Buckingham Palace by a children's party given by Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret

On Christmas Day the King brand- cast from Sandringham. He said he could not aspire to take his father's place, but, "as this is the first Christ- mas since our Coronallon, the Queen and I feel that we want to send you all a further word of gratitude" for the love and loyalty you save us from every quarter of the Empire during this unforgettable year now drowing. to its end."

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AND then came this unfor.. gettable year of 1939, with war clouds gathering all over Europa.

In February Mr. Eden resigned. from the Foreign Oßer.

In May the King opened the Glas- gow Exhibition."

In June he and the Queen were on the point of setting out for the visit to Paris when the Countess of Strath- more died, and the visit had to be postponed until July 19,

That visit to Paris must have been

a wonderful assurance to the King and Queen of their personol Influence in this dimcult time, and once again it is meet to insist on the vital part played by the Queen on that historic occasion.

Then came last September and the end of that crisis, when Mr. Cham- berlain returned from Munich and

the King led him out on to the balcony of Buckingham Palace to ac- knowledge the greetings of the great crowd below-the first time that any King has shared an ovation with his Prime Minister, and a poignant illus- tration of the relief and gratitude he must have foll

Their Victims Ask For A Square Deal

B

the PRITISH seamen, who face

terrors of the U-boat as well ar the normal dangers of the sea, feel they are not getting a fair deal re- garding compensation for injuries,

Sufferers through

enemy action are

particularly bitte

They say that the regulations under which they are compensated deprives them of their rights at common inw,

Instead of being paid wages while incapacitated, as any other workmen would be under the Workmen's Com- pensation "Acts, they resolve, merely temporary allowance based on the degree of disability.

They point out. also, that any disability prevents them from gotting another ablp:

Among the instances referred to the National Union of Seamen are cases from the torpedodd 'Atheala.

15. A Wook

One is of a stewardess, who would normally earn about 240 a month. Ifer disabilly has been assessed at 20 per cent, and she is being paid 16. a. week.

1

Crew,

A male member of the similarly usessed, is being paid 22s. Bu, a week...

Strenuous efforts are being made by the union to get this altered, and it is also asiting for a revision of the compensation for lest kit.

Evidence was shown to the "Daily Herald" that to provide a now kit of essentials would cost a deckhand practically 4216. Just, twice the amount he receives.

Men who sailed before the outbreak of war are particularly hard hit, da they carried many things they would not have had with them had they known of the danger, of losing it:

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