Glebe Collegiate Institute - Lux Glebana Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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1 To His Most Excellent Majesty, George the Sixth, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, we, the students of the Glebe Collegiate Institute do respectfully dedicate this edition of the Lux Glebana. Page 2 LUX GLEBANA

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l Lux GLEBANA VOL. XVaw 939 PUBLISHED BY E THE STUDENTS 1 W OF THE GLEBE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE OTTAWA

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Q9111' ing N MAY 12th, 1937, throughout five continents attention was fixed on a'ceremony at Westminster Abbey in London proclaiming George the Sixth as crowned King. No more than a few thousand witnessed the crowning, that solemn ceremony of dedication, but waiting and listening with these in united loyalty were five hundred million citizens of an Empire that is established in every part of the globe. Nothing like this had been known in history. Twenty-seven years earlier his father had been crowned as His Most Excellent Majesty George the Fifth, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India. But when on May the 12th, 1937, his son, George the Sixth, was crowned King of the great self-governing Dominions, the coronation took on a significance such as has been unknown before. During that twenty-seven years of his father's reign, by a series of con- stitutional changes culminating in the Statute of Westminster, Canada and the other Dominions had acquired the status of free and independent nations answerable in nothing to the Mother of Parliaments at Westminster, but united together by a common allegiance to the crown. By certain nations such a unity is misunderstood. To them, it seemed the 'break-up of the Empire. How little they understood the life ofthe Empire! Had they been present in homes of the people of the Empire and sat with them as they listened to the late King's Christmas broadcasts in the closing years of his life, they would have seen the emotion created in the hearts of all citizens by the tenderly parental tone of that beautiful voice. Then they might have understood the reference in the statute: the crown is the symbol of the free association of the members of the British Common- wealth of Nations and . . . they are united by a common allegiance to the crown . . . - In connection with these words Mr. John Drinkwater writes: That is the bond, a bond that operates in the King's sovereignity and in that alone. In their free association these people look to one head, each with the right of direct appeal, and through him proclaiming their brotherhood. It is a ma- jestic conception and has a unique spiritual sanction in the World of politics. Itis the best example yet shown of the binding strength of co-operative good- W1 . This month we welcome our King and Queen to Canada. In the warmth of our welcome to them let those nations which look and hope for the disinte- gration of the Empire see our love and devotion to the King, and our loyalty to the Empire and that for which it stands-justice and freedom. Goh Sam, the Bing Phlo H M'l cpfpwafiiiiisufb' LUX GLEBANA Page 3