27 JULY 1934, Page 6

I hear that the arrangements for the celebration of the

twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession of King George, which coincides with his seventieth birthday, are already well advanced. There will be a state procession and a thanksgiving service at St. Paul's Cathedral. Representatives from the Dominions will be invited to attend and plans are on foot for a joint assembly of Lords and Commons in Westminster Hall for the purpose of an address of congratulation to His Majesty. The Office of Works will be responsible for all the preparations, and to judge by their management of pageantry in the past they will make a superb show of it. (But how Lord Curzon would have revelled in the task.) All that is needed is another fine summer, which, since it would be the third in succession, seems almost too much to hope for.

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