To the Editor of the "Nontu-Cuina Datty News."
Sir,—Your leading article in today's issue under the above heading invites a query!
You advocate the forming, by British subjects in the East, of an organization to be "The King and Empire Alliance," "having as its main objects the welfare of the British Empire and the counteracting of attempts to introduce and encourage disloyal doctrines."
What are disloyal doctrines?
Who are disloyalists In the reign of King Charles 1 there were many Englishmen who opposed the policy of that ruler and who preached disloyal doctrines, practising them so far, in fact, as to eliminate the object of their particular disloyalty.
And the statue of Oliver Cromwell which now stands by Westminster Hall is History's verdict on the quality of their "disloyalty."
In the reign of King George III there were many Englishmen who opposed the policy of that ruler and who were actively disloyal—they were called rebels—but His-the memory of George Washing-tory holds an honoured niche for To-day, in the reign of King by. Ministers functioning as. His George V, wars arg being waged Majesty's Government to which Englishmen are strongly opposed, Are such men disloyal?
They certainly object to. and oppose the extension of the British Empire in Mesopotamia, for
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