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9% THE DATRY TIMES-GAZETTE, Monday, June 1, 1958 - King George V1 s Recalled By a LF LER «TA by | Nr © 7 : WESTMINSTER ABBEY, whe has long history ted in with the Royal Family. oronation ictures re Coronation will be held, CORONATION OF KING GEORGE VI is about fo begin with king awaiting his first act--Recognition. 1. E HOMAGE. After the erowning, the sovereign is enthroned and the princes and the peers of the realm pay homage. . By A. J. Forrest - THE student of history, myth or ~cious stones will discern far|coming, reaching associations in widely . scoitered lands with the Queen's Co. onation, It may be cited as an omen of nh significance that she acceded the Throne while a guest on lcnial territory. Prince Philip, she had, only ea few hours before becoming Queen, served in the East India Company, sat up in a Kenya hunter's hide, watching elephants drinking by dawn light at their jungle pool. And, in this age of jet airliners -- with the prospect of atomic- driven ships just around the cor- ner--it is certain that the Queen will in the future have a better chance of visiting all quarters of her Commonwealth than any pre- vious sovereign imagined possible. Experienced as a wide-roving traveller, with happy associations already forged in Canada and Africa, it is equally certain that she will take advantage of her opportunities, Those who pause for a moment fo survey history must be conscious of the benign influence exerted on colonial development by Englands ruling queens, Accidental ugh this influence may have seemed at he time it emerged largely from heir own qualities of .character and interpretation of sovereignty. Queen Victoria was to the a symbol of enduring greatness, al figure that represented all the races of the Empire, and the best fn them. Perhaps Empire building was fortuitous in her great era, Yet, a certain pattern dictated it, inspired first by England's Jead pver rival European nations in in- dustrialization, Men gained thereby the impulge to seek new horizons. There was, also, that sudden break up o gristocratic privilege which, under the growing pressure of commer- gial stringencies, forced the| jsquires to venture abroad. Accompanied was characteristic of the finer by one of the happiest accidents of _giwilination, misvule alwaws This they did, not to deserve well of their neighbours on their home- as sentimentalists pre- tended, but to carve out a good living for themselves and their families wherever ships could bring them, The career of James Brooke, first British Rajah of Sarawak, type of Victorian coloniser, He then at the age of 35, set sail for Borneo in a 142 ton schooner. His assets, if he bothered to count them, consisted largely of hisown courage and self-confidence. He landed in Sarawak. Soon, the sym- pathy which he developed for its natives, incorrigible head hunters, brought out all his latent adminis- trative talents. He became indis- nsable to the people. From the Malay Sultan of Borneo, he re- ceived the hereditary title of Rajah of Sarawak. heirs en- hanced his prestige, One Man's Force Phus, despite tie indifference of the Queen's Ministers in London, Sarawak was added to the Empire -- fundamentally through one man's force of character, As recent warfare in Malaya testifies, the Sea Dyaks of this state, engaged as jungle trackers with the British forces, 'are not merely invaluable for their skill in pursuing bandit trails to remote fastnesses. They are, to a man, fanatical in their loyalty and de- votion to the Queen's service. Certainly, often blood, strife and agony marked the imitial settle- ment effected by the British in native territories. e newcomers were sometimes hated not unjusti- fiably. For, let it be fairly ad- mitted, thé exploitation of local peoples was someti their goal, and not a vestige of Empire vision coloured their outlook. Yet slowly, way to order. And, in the wake of justice, mew and wundreamed-of benefits in medicine, education and social betterment followed. There stands, for instance ,as an enduring memorial, the English thedral at Zanzibar. It is built on the spot where in 1873 John Kirk shut down for ever one of Africa's greatest slave markets, As late as 1903 Frederick Lugard rode into Kano in Northern Nigeria, determined to suppress those slave merchants who, armed with chain mail, still scoured sur- rounding districts for victims. He, too, abolished this evil. And, in similar manner, as the venerated Queen Victoria aged, Englishmen were putting an end to torture, cannibalism infanticide, head- hunting and other malpractices in territories scattered over the world, What began often with blood, ended in brotherhood. The very foundation, though of - colonial development can be ost imperious of queens. €au- tious beyond logic, parsimonious in her provisions for her army and navy, and hating war, she refused to embroil England in a struggle on the Continent -- despite the fiercest provocation. Unassailably ecool-headed, she the peace for more than twenty years while England grew strong and united. Even when in 1580, Spain suddenly annexed Por- tugal, occupying her harbours, colonies in India, Africa and Brazil, e Queen still schemed for peace. 'Finally, when thefe was no escape from war,a navy, Sonsisting largely of privateers and ma, icently manned and gunned, sailed out to jdrive the Spanish Armada on the rocks with minimum loss. Victory brought an illimitable harvest. With almost undisputed command of the seas, their blood dingled with adventurous yearn- ings, English seamen ventured fi" to Elizabeth I, herself the SOUS westwards to the farthest horizons Accession While in Colony Good Omen ranging from Newfoundland tq Patagonia. And in North America and the West Indies were planted the first tiny seeds of settlement from which colonies and later greaj independent nations sprang. Empire Takes Shape Not Shrolgh acquisitiveness on the part of the Crown but as the outcome of private enterprise, sup- gored by financial Syndicates ormed in London, the Empire be- gan to gather shape. A hundred years later, with Ms size already considerable, not a single Crown-established colony existed. But British traders were settled in Calcutta, Madras, Surat and Bombay; in West African ports on the Gambia, at Cape Coast Castle and Sierra Leone. The Persian Gulf was ringed by their factories, And westwards -- how bright & was! There flags flew over 13 of the future American states, the Hudson Bay, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia. Phey occupied, also, either in part or entirely, Ber= muda, Honduras, Jamaica, Bar< bados, Trinidad and other valuable West Indian centres. So it is that the roots of the Queen's crowning penetrates to earth's four eorners, From the rov- ing tribes of Eskimo caribou hunt- ers in Canada's North to the feast ing Nicobar Islanders in the Bay of Bengal, from the rice planters of Swaziland to the forest conser- vators of Sierra, Leone, they will all be stirred by this event, so pregnant in dynastic ritual, spirit- ual significance and antique splen- dour, as if some trappings of maj esty had descended on the whole wide Commonwealth. Just as Elizabeth I inspired not solely colonial development, but an upheaval of genius in the minds and tongue of the English speaking imic, social and mental awakening? down on new lands, The omens already promise wei peoples, may not the second young Jlizabeth promote, also, an econo- 9 We Extend Our Loyalty and Greetings Murdoch General Insurance Service ESTABLISHED 1926 A. E. MURDOCH A. H. MURDOCH {, li, 7, May the selfless devotion to duty shown forth by the Royal Family be a guide and inspiration to us all, and that dreams of prosperity and peace possible. Long may over us! may then become Elizabeth H reign SHARP ELECTRIC CO. 160 KING ST. WEST DIAL 3-8214 We rejoice with Britain and all the other nations of the Common- wealth in the Crowning of our young Queen Elizabeth. It is our af- fection anq support that will make it possible for her to reach the heights which she has set herself of service to us and the Empire. May she have many happy years in which to do. so. 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