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Then Queen Elizabeth made her first speech, and exercised the royal prerogative to break a date. The date she broke was engraved in six-inch letters on the corner-stone of the new Supreme Court building which will rise on a bluff overlooking the Ottawa River. Unwary of the fact that Their Majesties' visit might be delayed, en- gravers had marked the stone as laid on May 20, declared it laid, chatted with a Scottish stone mason whose ac- cent moved her to remark: "You haven't lost your tongue." That afternoon the royal pair stole away for a stroll in the fields outside Ottawa, encountered a small boy who doffed his cap and ran away when the Queen introduced him to his King. That night they went to another State dinner, at Chateau Laurier. Phone 1202 ED. COLLINS RADIO SERVICE Welcomes Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Long May They Reign ! Eg 73 Birmingham St., Stratford, Ont. With Loyalty and Affection We Welcome Their Gracious Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth On the Occasion of the First Visit to Canada of Reigning Sovereigns of the British Empire Long May They Reign Kroehler Manufacturing Co., Ltd. THE STRATFORD MIRROR AY init Of King and Queen Binds Canada Closer To Mother Land (By Sir Charles Roberts) The visit of the King and Queen to this, their own country, Canada, is an event of the first magnitude. It's sig- nificance to the countries of our Em- Pire it would be impossible to exag- gZerate. It declares definitely that the "Throne of Great Britain is also the Throne of Canada, of Australia, and of the other great self-governing and self-sufficient peoples which consti- tute the British Commonwealth of mations. It indicates and emphasizes to a world still incredulous the bonds, tenuous and elastic indeed, but irre- frangible, whch hold these nations of divergent interests securely knit to- gether. These bonds, being always elastic, and frequently elusive to the outside observer are ready to yield a little to the varrying stresses of time or circumstance, only to snap back again, stronger than ever, under the urge of an impending crisis. These bonds, I need hardly say, are both material and spiritual. The ma- terial bonds are the most obvious and also the most liable to give under a heavy enough strain. But things spiritual master, as they transcend, material things. And the spiritual bonds which hold the Empire together may be trusted to endure in full force so long as the cause of Freedom con- tinues to need its bulwark, the British Empire. Bond of Sentiment Of all the spiritual bonds which thus secure our unity the most potent and at the same time the most imponder- able, would seem to be that of senti- ment, in its best,. its fundamental sense. When put to the test of a great emergency it is capable of sweeping aside all other considerations whatso- ever. Here in Canada the sentiment for the Empire, which finds expression in a fervent devotion to the present gracious occupant of the Throne, is strongest among the portion of our population who use the English lang- uage. But for that part of our pop- ulation whose native tongtie is not English, but French, and whose mani- fest and wholly desirable destiny it is never to be assimilated, the bonds that link them with the British Common- wealth, while less simply defined and less instinctive than those which bind their English-speaking partners, are still far from weak. The strand of in- herited racial sentiment is naturally, to a great degree, lacking in the tex- ture of that bond. Other considera- tions there are, however, which can be counted on to make the bond a lasting one. Two Races Partners The Canadian Confederacy consists of two races, two languages, and, in a sense, two religions. These two races, the French and the British, are contracted together by our constitu- tion on terms of absolute equality, material and spiritual. In ¢very re- spect except numerically they are equal partners. And this present numerical inferiority is counter-bal- anced by priority of occupation of the country, by their holding and guard- ing of its eastern gateway, and by the significant fact that the very name of Canada is French. It may be declared without any hes- itation that the loyalty of French Canada to the Crown is hardly less dependable and fervent than that of English-speaking Canada. It may be reasonably concluded that the element of feeling for the Throne, which plays so large a part in the bonds of Em- pire, will be no less potent, although perhaps less obvious, in the French than in the British portion of the Canadian people. Most Cherished Ideals However strong and steadfast may be, under all circumstances, our Can- adian loyalty to the Throne, that loy- alty is warmed to an impassioned de- votion when we find that Throne oc- cupied, as it is today, in a manner so completely satisfying to our judgments and to our hearts. We have a King and Queen fashioned, in their personal qualifications, according to our most cherished ideals. They are all that, in our moments of clearest insight, we would have them to be. And so it is with no lip-service, but with the devotion of our hearts and souls, that we welcome your most gracious Majesties, our Sovereign Lord and Lady, to this, your own undebat- able realm of Canada.--(From_ the Montreal Standard). Loual Greetings to Their Mlaiesties imperial Rattan Co.,, Lid. Royal Visit We welcome the opportunity of extending Our Heartiest Greetings to Our Gracious Majesties. Stratford Chair Co. 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