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Coronation as seen through
eyes of British working people

Below is the London Daily Worker’s report of the Coronation—a sober account of the
Penetings, as seen by the working people who lined the procession route. Canadian daily
‘rs noted the London Daily Worker’s headline, “Long Live the People,” but none of them
Printed the story for obvious reasons.

By LEON GRIFFITHS .

; LONDON
weal Lee it the two-nation Coronation. In Westminster Abbey the greatest gathering of Britain’s

/ Y in all history paid homage and swore allegiance to the new Queen.

Proves in the streets the crowds waited in wind and rain to applaud the color of the grand
rout The long wait—nine hours for ticket holders and all night for most of those who lined the
~ &—caused plenty of casualties. :

Sie the evening over 6,000 peo-
received first aid. Over
to hospital for treatment.

the moment the long pro-
Dass) rr a took 45 minutes to
Abbey et off from Westminster

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Splendidly attired the Ladies in
Waiting followed. They too came
from the ranks of the wealthy,
like Lady Jane Heathcote-Drum-
mond Willoughby whose father,
the Earl of Ancaster and former
Tory MP, bore St. Edward’s Staff
in the Regalia.

Bringing up the rear were the
Queen’s Equerries. Captain the
Lord Plunkett, whose family mot-
to is “Quick, without impetuosity,”
was one. .

lords who had passed the same
way, and waving to the crowd.

The Royal Marines lined up and
after the order “Ground arms”
were handed packets of sand-
wiches by stiff-marching army

‘cooks. It was done with such pre-

cision that you thought they would
eat by numbers.

For the most part the crowds
listened to the ceremony while the
Marines kept munching. «

23. ST es

Tunney taking the famous “long count” at Chicago.

SPORTLIGHT

It wa And hi the 15-vear-|. 7, the Abbey the Marquess of
too. ms 20 early call for the peers NG~ AIS: Page Was: lt “Yt | Salisbury, leader of the Tories in —_———
Ab) they began to arrive “1 the |-0ld Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, | the House of Lords, presented the By BERT WHYTE
the °Y at 6.30 and two hours later | 22 Eton schoolboy. That distinc-| ..o7q of State. :
doors Were closed. tion he shared with most of the

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under one roof,
‘ ealthy of Britain
Sethe, Pire were gathered to-
ere were no genuine
ves of the British peo-

young coronet-carriers.

Among the peers, too, practic-
ally everyone was an Eton pro-
duct. It was almost like an old
boys’ reunion,

The ceremony was on and the
people who waited outside the
noble and majestic Abbey had it
relayed to them by the BBC.

They were. waiting for the pro-
cession and in terms of rank and
wealth and privilege they had
nothing in common with those in
the Abbey.

They had plenty to amuse them.
A short stocky man in vest and
shorts ran down Whitehall, turned

The Archbishop placed it in
the Queen’s hands and asked her
to use the sword to “restore the
things that are gone to decay,
maintain the things that are re-
stored, punish and reform what
is amiss.”

It was just that the 60-year-old
Marquess, who is both banker and
landowner and opens his country
house to the public at half-a-crown
a time into the bargain, should
present the sword. He is a great
believer in restoring the political
system which is gone to decay.

Still the crowd waited and then
as the procession set off from the
Abbey down came the rain. It

TT alleged “short count” which

Joe Walcott claims he got in
his recent title fight with Rocky
Marciano caused fight fans every-

“long count” at Chicago, when
Dempsey nearly won the heavy-
weight championship back from
Gene Tunney. Only last week
Tunney admitted to a scribe that
the extra four seconds saved him,
He might have wobbled to his
feet in time but would have*been
an easy target for Dempsey.

Fate caught up with the Man-
assa Mauler that trip. Always a
barroom scrapper who broke the
rules consistently, Dempsey was-

where to rehash the famous

women. (He has some other sug-
gestions but these two are his
key ones, for if passed, it would
mean that the United States
would gain many points at the
expense of the Soviet Union in
the unofficial scoring).

Brundage hasn’t gained much
support for his proposal to make
the Olympics “less unwieldy” by
barring sports for women.* His
suggestion came too closely on
the heels of the great triumphs
of Soviet women athletes at Hel-
sinki to be anything less than
suspect.

“Tt would be detrimental to
women’s sport if they had to or-

dle oul: Jewels than most peo-| and ran back again. Not even a| soaked soldiers and spectators | n’t acting out of character when ganize their own Gamat sbete
Lords ‘ See in a lifetime. policeman asked why. alike. ; he refused to go to the farthest Leo Frederiksen, president of
indust th land, the Lords of é The horses glistened and the |neutral corner after flooring Denmark’s Sports Federation.
Lords “f snd, without shame, the| 4 street cleaner wheeled his | Guards’ busby hats were dank and | Tunney. In the Firpo brawl! Jack “They are on the official program
Queen.” labor, too, awaited their | cart to the middle of the road | dripping. Altogether the proces-|had stood right over the Wild

W
of men She arrive

iv
tigg in hivovern ment

and doffed his cap to acknow-
ledge the cheers.

structors went by, mimicking the

to strengthen the position of his Con-
ho , is shown with his wife at Coronation festivi-
A me Constituency of Woodford.

sion was becoming something of
a washout.

als on horseback were a distinct
failure.

As they rode inexpertly by,
someone shouted: “You ought to
have Sir Gordon up there.” (Gor-
don Richards, newly knighted
jockey, who rode Pinza to victory
in the Derby.)

Field-Marshal Montgomery was
in trouble after a. few hundred
yards. At the Cenotaph his horse
decided to retrace its footsteps.

While the crowd roared with
delight he urged and pleaded until
the horse joined the parade head-
ing northwards. :

Then came the State Coach.
With white-wigged flunkeys in at-
tendance and drawn by eight grey
horses it looked like something
from a fairy story or the top of
a birthday cake.

The Queen — heavily made up
for film and television camermen
— oceasionally acknowledged the
cheers of the crowd, And a few
minutes later the last escort pass-
ed and the parade was over.

Clutching coronets, still wear-
ing their rich robes and ermine,
attended by servants dressed for
another age, the peers and their
ladies were making off through
the side-streets.

It was still raining. Littering

the streets were sodden mounds !

of discarded newspapers and sand-
wich boxes.

the street cleaner who nearly stole
the royal show will be a busy man
today.

Bull during several knockdowns,
smashing his man to the ring

of the ring with a roundhouse
right. Jack was gone about 18
seconds, but the referee forgot
to count and Firpo’s dumb man-
agers neglected to protest until
the next day, when it was too
late.

At Chicago both Dempsey and
Tunney had been warned before
the battle by Referee Dave Bar-
Ty that ring rules must be ob-
served. When Dempsey nailed
Gene and the champ hit the deck,
Jack stepped over him to the
nearest corner. Barry took him
by the arm and started shoving
him away to the farthest neutral
corner, then turned and picked
up the timekeeper’s “five” count
at “one.” This gave Tunney four
extra seconds to clear the cob-
webs from his brain. When he
got up he began back-pedalling
and a leg-weary Dempsey could-
n’t catch him.

* * *

Turf Callister Park, and our
boys will be completely outclass-
ed by visiting Old Country teams,
they said for years. So a year
ago we got a grass pitch, and last
Saturday a Vancouver team de-
feated the touring Irish Interna-
tional eleven, 3-2. :

* * -

Olympics” by eliminating all

team sports and all events for

to stay.”

“I cannot see why we should

dinby q with the Duke The promised non-stop music all | floor again as soon as Firpo had ¢liminate events for women,”

accived i at 11 a.m., she was With dignity he followed the along fas royal route was missing. | his knees and gloves clear of Said Karel Lotsy of the Nether-
key tStishea aor Tl Marshal, a police. horses, anxious to make | For Jong intervals not so much as | the canvas. — On. that occasion he lands Olympic Committee.

args and by perictaht con. sure that nothing littered the | a note of music was heard. fitted by. oy int ieee Ose: Teale’ sotets.. Seis
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the land, Srea impresario in| route. A truck load of stand con The admirals and air mars suheh ‘Firno littad him’ oleae oak also expressed the opinion that

it would be a retrograde step to
drop women’s events. In fact,
only a handful of people agreed
with the reactionary proposals
of Brundage.

* * %

British Empier Games officials
should cast a glance at Bucharest
for inspiration on how to build
a stadium in record time. Over
there the Rumanian government
decided to erect a stadium to
seat 80,000 in preparation for the
World Youth Festival in August
this year. The excavation and
levelling work was completed
June 5; the prefabricated con-
struction sections will be up by
June 25,.along with the main
stand and the open-air theatre;
and the whole job will be finish-
ed by the middle of July.

* * *

Jim Daly, president of the
Winnipeg AA “Hounds,” sent me
a note boosting the 1953 Cana-
dian Junior Track and Field
Championships, which take place
July 3-4 at Sargent Park in Win-
nipeg. He encloses some entry
forms “which we would appreci-
ate. you spreading around your
locality. . . . No doubt there are
some potential Olympic stars just
waiting to be discovered.”

Midget, juvenile and junior
events are on the program. En-

Brundage, president of
i sa And now, after the show, comes Avery L f : : 2
caleyi 3In's Prime Mini ip Wi Il, who shrewdly | the reckoning. It looks as though | the agegeleves sage i ge pian reaped cn - ee
Sep, cted inister Sir Winston Churchill, who aiine ada: OR

obtained by dropping in to see
me at the PT office.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 12, 1953 — PAGE 11

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