The following—_ announcement recently appeared in" The The Central Committee of the Overseas Club has much pleasure in announcing that his Majesty the King has graciously become Patron of the Overseas Club. The fact that his Majesty has consented to give his patronage to our move: ment will be a matter of very great gratification to the 125,000 odd members of the Overseas Club in all parts of the world, and it means that our movement is once for all recognized as a very important fac-for in Imperial matters. The Overseas Club is not five years old, and it has now become recognized as one of the most a Imperial organizations in existence.
We hope that our members will make a point of sending us a cable on Empire Day (May 24) which we shall be able to hand to his Majesty. The cable address of the Overseas Club is ' Ovazeeclub, London," and any message of loyal greeting which is forwarded to us by groupe of members will be transmitted to the King. On an occasion like the present it seems hardly suitable that an elaborate Empire Day banquet should be planned. We would suggest that our members and their friends should make a point of gathering together at a somewhat frugal meal, and allocate any sur plus to some fund of a patriotic nature, such, for instance, as our Aircraft Fund. We should like to feel that groups of British subjects in every part of the world were meeting together on the most fateful Empire Day in the history of the Empire.
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