Sir John and Lady Brenan arrived in England on May 4 in the Aqui tania." He will be on leave until October, when he succeeds Sir John Pratt inthe post of expert advisor on Far Eastern affairs in the Foreign 'OMce, where the latter has been for ten years past. Sir John Pratt will then Fetite from the Service. even on a small occasion to return thanks well, what His Majesty's day has been for him and the Queen, and that, as he said, he is the first monarch in history who has been able to speak to his subjects in every. part of the world, one may well think that "his speech was a masterpiece, 4 triumph of sincerity over emotion, Origin of Natonal Anthem Then came a thrilling performance of the National "Anthem, Not the ast extraordinary thing about that extraordinary tune is that nobody ome quits sur where comes from. The Marquise de Créquy, who lived: from the reign of Louis. XIV that of Napoleon, says that it was wrillen for the former, and then, tolen by the German Handel and made into @ national anthem for the English kings." But this is only one of,-many versions as t0 its origin, There it is, a song by which one can never fait to be moved, And in Lis indefinable origin and quality perhaps an appropriate counter-art of our own feelings about our constitution, country, Empire and the King who is head of them all. Here fare ies, foundations and sotidities which equally defy analysis and ate fack; and although they cannot -be ut into words, their reality remains stronger than ever after the Corona ti
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