There was no issue of the paper on Dec 27, 1949, on account of a holiday following Quaid-i-Azam’s birthday. The following excerpt is taken from the previous day’s edition.

LONDON: King George Sixth declared today [Dec 25] in his traditional broadcast Christmas message that though Britain had “a long way to go” and it would be a “tough business” “none of us can be satisfied till we are again standing upright and supporting our own weight”. The King, whose voice was carried all over world after the most comprehensive exchange of Commonwealth meetings ever undertaken, said: “If we are to see us through, as we shall, we put the good of our country first all the time.”

“We are simply grateful to our old friends in the United States for the imagination and sympathy with which they first realised our problems and then set to work to help us over them. []Without this understanding help we could not have made the progress towards recovery that has already been achieved.” The whole world, he said, was watching Britain to see how she bore herself in the test of character her recovery involved.

Published in Dawn, December 27th, 2024

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