The Archive · 1928

No Jingoistic Air

The Government were anxious that there should not be any vindictive air about the m thing of peace. On one side is the figure of Great Britain supporting a young warrior with a sheathed sword and the broken shackles of War. On the other side ix the Cenotaph surrounded by the insert Name Liveth for The sheathed sword and the broken shackles of War were suggested by a great phrase whi the Jate Earl of Oxford and Asquith used when Britain entered the shall not sheath the sword until justice has been done.

The proceeds of the sales will be devoted to covering the cast of manufacture of the medals. I there is any surplus it will g> to the Govornment,—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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