The privilege fell to me, as chairman of the Executive Committee, to present to the King and Address which I had composed in these terms

While the great public services rendered by King George V stand recorded in the annals of the Nation, His memory will ever be specially and affectionately cherished for the nobility of His life and character and for the example which He set of single-minded devotion to duty. | No more fitting place could have been found for His Statue than this hallowed ground hard by the national fane so closely associated with many of the great events of His life, and looking across to the House of Parliament, the seat of the Government of the Realm of which He was the constitutional Head. | To Your Majesty and to the Queen Mother this ceremony cannot be but fraught with personal and intimate emotion, but it is also an occasion of inspiration to all of us to seek to exemplify in our daily lives those great qualities of fortitude and goodwill which animated our late revered Sovereign and which Your Majesty has so amply and so happily inherited. | I have now the honour to request Your Majesty to be graciously pleased to unveil the Statue.