The Archive · 1924

BRITISH EMPIRE

Wonderful Spectacle: The'Scene "King's Speech Heard by Milli By Hoo Maniu 1 rie "Datuy News."

There are various ways of saying "How British!" and. we heard them all. at Wembley.

There in the way foreign visitors were saying it when they saw for the first time the restraint and soli ity—what we are pleased to call dignity—of much of the architect ture. Te was said with a kind smile. There is the way they said it when they had had time to appreciate the marvellous variety and astonishing, richness of the contents of this Empire Storo—the way in which you man, speak about a very able business

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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