GREAT BRITAIN: Indoor Sportsmanship

The keenest, most widespread quotation hunt in the history of a nation of ardent quotation pullers and hunters raged last week all over the British Empire. King George started it by winding up his globe-circling Christmas Day broadcast to his peoples thus:

"I feel we may all find a message of encouragement in the lines which in my closing words I should like to read to you:

"I said to a man who stood at the gate of the year: 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown,' and he replied, 'Go out into the darkness and put...

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