The Archive · 1920

EARL HAIG'S MOTTO

Earl Haig reviewed 5,000 boy scouts at Glasgow recently, and addressing the lads afterwards, said "Peace and Comradeship" was the policy for individuals and groups as well as empires. That fact shoald be borne in mind when all were feeling the effects of five years of war and the cost of food and necessaries of life were oppressing them. A similar situation had always arisen after every great war. There was no good hoping \that a new doctrine or a Bolshevist remedy would be discovered to help us out of the present trouble without any effort or self-denial. The only possible remedy was to pull ourselves together and make a determined effort as a people. A ca' canny policy would lose us all that we had fought for and won. His motto for them all was, "Work hard and play hard," and then there would be work, food, houses for everyone.

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