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...Among the few ruling princes officially to attend the Coronations of Georges V & VI was the kinky-haired Sultan of Zanzibar, Seyyid Sir Khalifa bin Harub. All British bandmasters in London were given special editions of the Zanzibar national anthem last week, found that it sounded remarkably like Home Sweet Home. It has no words...
...surprising that outsiders did not catch the spirit of the moment, for the peculiar, insular English people were at the moment most solemn and most English. "Defender of the Faith" is one of the titles of their King, but the meaning of the phrase has changed. George VI no longer protects one religion; he stands for faith in the whole past and for the service of tradition to the troubles of today...
With Britain excited and distracted last week by prodigious preparations for crowning King George VI (see p. 19), President de Valera put his cards on the table, published the text of his new constitution, which more than fulfills the November promise. The people of the Irish Free State will vote on the constitution in June. If approved by a majority, the charter will come into force six months later and the Irish Free State, created in 1922 by the Anglo-Irish Treaty, will be nothing but a page in history...
...Edward VI, Prince of Wales by Holbein, generally considered the last portrait ever painted by the great German artist, court painter to Henry VIII, Mr. Bache found a bargain...
Birthday. Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and qf Strathearn, Earl of Sussex, only surviving son of Queen Victoria of England; great uncle of King George VI: 87; at Bournemouth, England...