The Archive · 1924

KING GEORGE

June 3.

His Majesty King George the Wifth is 59 years old to-day, having been born at Marlborough House on June 3, 1865, and millions upon millions of his subjects, scattered all over the earth, will join in wishing him many further years of health and happiness and in hoping that he will be spared to rule them for many years to be. It is something of a paradox that the British Empire, one of the oldest of existing monarchies, consists of one of the most the society responsible for producing them, help to make them, It has become fashionable for men to assume a kind of inverted democratic peoples in the world, governed and controlled democratic principles. The basic reason for this is that the hypocrisy. Moral men scoff at morals and advise the youth, British constitution is founded on no fundamental law, but rests

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