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ll QUEEN AND HER ADVISORS

Queen Htabeth H is shown above with the Prime Min- isters of the Commonwealth countries during the annual Prime spring. The Queen

Ministers Conference held in London this always greets her Prime Ministers during each

The Queen heads association of free

B}- New _| Gnvﬂl'nlllpill", and Min ROBERT RHODES IAMES ‘tsters are "Ministers of the In the United i ‘dom of ’ Crown". who receive their seats

iof office from her personally, kiss her hands upon appoint- |merit. and surrender t h e i r treat: in her when they resign ift‘nm the Government. ‘ She is the head of the armed ;;er\-it~es; The Royal Navy goes i to sea in "Her Majesty's Ships‘ and every officer in the servic- ecnstitiition iv she act.- or the . es holds the “Queen's Commis- adi’ice of responsible \iiniﬂer: 5 sinn”. She is head of the Church The Government is "Her Vial 'oi England (although not of the

Great Britain and ."or‘her" Ire- land. Queen Elizabeth it. as the Sm'ereign. is Head of the State and of every department in the state She makes peace and war. issues charters. in-i creases the peerage. and i: the fountain of honour. office. and ~ . though in =nch matters

which she officially opens. The Queen other visited each country of the

conference,

greatest peoples

icstabiished Church of Scotland) and bishops are appointed on

Republics still recognize Queen as Head of the Common- 1 wealth. COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE It is necessary to interpose a certain amount of history On this matter. The complete indc- ‘ pciidence of each member of tthe Commonwealth— or "no. iminions" as they were then ' her [lamination lcailedH was formally signified ' . . . ‘by the Statute of Westminster t lPERSONAL INFI’Ul'fNLh iii-193i. whereby the principai i In the courts of lusme' pmse‘ ‘ Parliaments of each nation 1 lcunons are “Fade m her "a?" lwere invested with sovereign 3 land. are. premde over by Her i and absolute control over all Wale-“H Judge" Her appl‘WWthcir national affairs. This en- al ‘5 essgntial for a“ legiSlatmn' ‘ aciment c0nfirmcd the dcfini- ' l and She '5 the head 0f Parka tion of the Commonwealth couu .

ii ment. which consists of the I. mes agreed at the Imperial i sovere'gn' uh. Lord' and ‘he i Conference of 1926 as ‘autono- t i common; l mous communities within tho, ‘

. s , i . l . I few of the Queen 5 powers in Brmsh Empire. equal m status, I. Britain are in fact her personal ; in no way subordinate one to i responSIhility. and her functions another in any aspect of their

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are mainly limited to the rightiomesuc or foreign affairs. ‘ to advise, to counsel and, if need ‘ though united by a common a, i pe’ to warn h" Mini5l9r§~ Tm“ 1 legiance to the Crown. and fully influence, which is essentally :i i assmia‘ed as members of the personal one. should not be “11' iBi-itish CommoHWcanh of Na_ derrated, but it must be einphas. i t“ms.- i ized that no real executive pow- l A "{lmber of the Cummom er “es in "he hands 0f the SOV’ wealth nations have continue

Commonwealth represented and is doing a similar ditty in her Visit to (.anada which includes a tour of Prince Edward Island

i

" she opened

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to! to. and independent u- ﬂw national community. The tom-t

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m by. You Queen will put m m At the Provincial Building. lines of war amputees.

dation of the Commonwealth 99’ Nations is the mutual rupee. and affection of the mem be! I countries; its geographical and- social centre is London; and ll 7 its summit in Queen Elizabeth ll. who reigns not as monar- ch in the past have reigned over their subjects. but as the beneficcnt. wise. and deeply re spectcd head of the greatest

Each new nation moving tron: colonial to independent status has the right to choose its own form of government and its own destiny. Only Burma has not availed herself of the invitatlo to t Commonwealth (Southern Ireland withdrew in 1949) and every other new a- tion has either become a Repub- lic and recognized the Queen merely as the head of the Com- monwealth. or has chosen to re- gard the Queen as the titular head of the State. without in any way diminidiing its own absol» ute. unfettered. independence. When South Africa withdrew from the Commonwealth in 1961 upon becoming a Republic ’ it was not through the change in her constitution. but as a con- sequence of the South African Government's policy of sparth- u eid. which made her presence J l in the Commonwealth an em e m prim. Mining" meet in Lon. . Branch. Royal Canadian Legion don — which is the geographi i will play an active part in the cal and social centre of the Royal visit this week. giggl'gxntuug g 1:130“! During the several drives of on c a e a. equals, the Prime Minister of rgalﬁzig' tgr$:$?r;flj . .. . ?:t;Lnre:$}n‘ only 9mm" m lino parade routes in both Sum- merside a d C h a ct ottctow-n SENSE or spanniqu keeping anxious spectators from Why 1, u, u may be ask“, getting into the way of the cars. that the anachronism of monar- .0" we“"”"_‘"- “1‘? L' E "m- i chy still exercises such a power- i “"lh 901°" nylng- W1“ 3559mm“ {"1 hold upon the Comma“ ken masse outSide the Charlotte- wealth. with its enormous to: “’W" Milo“ Hnme as the Queen- ritorial size, its vast and diver- v so populations. and its unimag- 1 inablc potential of wealth and‘ influence?

which the world has ever seen. u God hath raised me high." the first Queen Eliza both declared more th a n 330 years ago. “yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves."

Legion plays

Sentiment is unquestionably a vital factor; not a sickly. bnch ward- looking sentiment. but ra‘ . ther a healthy. vibrant. it v in);

has at one time or on- which was

th e i tralian Ship—'2 From time to;

time the Queen visits each or the nations of the Common \icaith and fulfils some of the

‘(iutics normally carried out by

the (io\'t‘t‘tml‘~ (jcneral. as when

the Canadian Par~

liamcnt in 1957 as Queen

Canada.

0F COMMONWEALTH Since the accession of Queen

Elizabeth il in 1952. each Com~

monweaith country has had the

right to assign its own title to

i the Queen. and this change has

had a subtle but significant re- . It is no longer the c8~e that "it is the golden circle or the Crown which alone embrac- es oyalties of so many States and races all over the world", as Sir Winston Church

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phasis is not so much upon the Crown but upon the person oi the Queen. She is thus recogniz- ed by all the members of line

Commonwealth, even by those‘

who do not recognize her a. head ol their nation, as th head of this unique association

of

ill once declared: the new any i

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long May She Reign

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ereign. and she. and her Minis ‘to regard the Queen as the”. ‘93- a" dependent upon Pm" ‘ Sovereign. and in these coun- lia'ment for the pmViSiO“ 0‘ the tries she exercises her respon- money necessary for running -sibi1ities through a Gm-pmm. "he counlry- General, who is appointed by She reigns, but does not rule: iher after consultation with the ‘9'” 1‘“ inﬂuence. b‘" M 90“" l Prime Minister of the country . ie'r Si“ “ 3'30" controversy: lconcerned. This is the situation . ‘ the strength of her position he: i in Canada. Australia, New Zea. ; in the unwritten but unchalleng~ “ Land‘ Cevton' Sierra Leone. Ja. ‘ ed doctrine that ‘I'The Queen maica' ‘Trimdad and Tobagn, j “"1 do _"° wr‘Tng - when " >Kenya and Malawi. The Cover 1 great national triumph is being n0r_Geanl is me Queen's rep , “what?” ‘he Wop" “he”: the ‘ rcsentative and. although his Queen; in the hour of disap- duties vary “mm” m different W‘"""_"." and defeat they mm l countries. he fulfils the Queen's her Ministers out of office. lrospnnsibmtves in a similar in the eyes of. s o m e‘ outside manner as she dam, in the Unit observers. this is a (‘llt‘lOllS sit- ed Kingdnm. advised by an ex. “atlonv and the Queen's msmon i ecutive council of senior Minis- as Head of the Commonwealth item sometimes arouses wen great- ‘ er bewilderment among atrang- Th. Governor'Genfml' “an era. since the Commonwealth J from "lim‘tml" 100181 "bligh- Nations contains six independ- , tions as the Queen's representa .tive, invites public men to form

ent Republics — India. Pakis-

;tan. Ghana. Nigeria, Cypru- lGorernments, formally opens ‘ and Tanganyika and Zanzibar ’ and ends Parliaments. signs re- ‘w-ho have their own constiin- gulations. and approves leng-‘ tions and Presidents. Malaysia :iation. The fiction of the pres- which has its own monarchical lence of the Queen is continued Head of State. and Ugandalin other ways; the Australian which has its own Head of ' Navy, for example. calls each

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