4 (Incorporated in Hongkong) day is somewhat more intimate than is the case with certain other national days. That interest is all the greater because of prevailing conditions and the manifest threat to the democracies which has raised its ugly head and which may have to be sternly resisted. Consequently the inclusion of British aeroplanes in the French demonstration over Paris, is to be taken not only as a significant gesture for those who are capable of realizing its meaning, but an indication of the real bonds of friendship forged when the Entente Cordiale was arrived at; and welded in the terrific heat and suffering on many a battlefield, where French and British laid down their lives in defence of their countries and
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