6 JULY 1929, Page 5

News of the Week

'His Majesty ...TN February the King left London and did not return I- until last Monday. When he left for Sussex, watchers 'caught sight of an invalid's hand raised in the ambulance 'to acknowledge their sympathy.- This week he drove Into his Capital almost a strong man again in order to 'join on Sunday with the thanksgivings to God for the recovery for which the whole Empire prayed. At last we 'dare remember the anxiety of two or three darkest nights when his life was in the balance. We now dare imagine in secret what he and we owe to the Queen for the way She has borne herself through these months. His labours throughout the War endeared him to the Empire in a way no one would have dared to prophesy in 1914. His fight against his own sickness has only enhanced the • personal affection that was his. His return to London was arranged as a kind of semi-State function that would enable the greatest number of his subjects to see and welcome him. We trust that it gave him as much . pleasure as it gave them. Let Sunday's services show in the right spirit that the British race is conscious of a great mercy. •