FRANCE'S TRIBUTE
Times Cables.
TO DEPTH OF BRITISH CHARACTER. Appreciation Of King's Messa^es
(Received This I)ay 3 p.m.1)
LOXDON, April 23. Tho Times Paris correspondent states that tlie British Emhassy lias issued a communique that llis Majesty has takou the opportunity of - Saint George's Day to tliank ihe Britisb people for the sympatliy sliown during liis illness. Tlie British Amhassadoi1 lias been instructed to tak| the same ojjportunity of expressing on ■ lichalt of His Alajesty to the Frencli nation lns higli appreeiation of all proots oi SMiipatliy so gonerouslv ofl'ered hy Frenchmcn of all classes. The Iving s own message has deoplv impressed France. Le Figaro, descrihing it as distinguished hy tnie sreatness, adds, ''The letter contains tlie accents of a nobility of ideas of a breadth and loftiness to wliicli we alas are too littUi ac custoincd. That such a speech and tlioucrht should comc from the head ot j tiie Britisli state is not a mere ohanee It is due to the i'act that tliis state, Kituated as we know it to 1)C, is also gifted with a temperament rich in nobility and great noss. Tlie Briti.sh tlirone preserves, in a now Eurqpe, the power of anciont things."
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 70, 24 April 1929, Page 9
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200FRANCE'S TRIBUTE Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 70, 24 April 1929, Page 9
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