The Message which the King issued on Tuesday, St., George's
,Day, dwelling gratefully on his recovery from his long illness, and thanking his people for their " loving solicitude," was noble in language and beautiful in thought. The Message embraced not only the British Commonwealth of Nations but the " remotest corners " of the world where anxious concern had been expressed for His Majesty's health. It is the best thing of its kind we have ever read. By an exquisite transition the Message passes from an appreciation of the human sympathy shown to personal suffering to an expression of His Majesty's . yearning hope that such feeling and friendship common to • all races may culminate in an expression of the true nature of Men and Nations "- that is to say in universal peace.. His Majesty intends that, when he is well enough to join in a Thanksgiving Service, praise shall be given not only for his own recovery, but for " the new evidences of a growing kindliness." It is believed that the King will be well enough to go to Windsor at Whitsuntide.
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