GREAT BRITAIN: A Worrying Time

GREAT BRITAIN "A Worrying Time" Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us, God Save the King!

In London's sooty, bustling Paddington station one morning last week, travelers paused in their rush to catch holiday trains, trainmen and porters put down the tools of their trade, and all together, as fellow subjects of Britain's King George VI, sang the words of their national anthem. All over Britain, in churches of every denomination, others were singing the hymn's familiar words with special solemnity. "When we sing 'Send him victorious,' " said Canon Adam Fox to a...

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