A FALSE SENTIMENT
Sir,—A Palinerston North report states that Mr, IJ.1 J . T. Robinson, a. prominent Labour official, declines to send his children to a lecture by Colonel Charters, fearing that,that soldier's remarks will tend to. perpetuate Prussiaiiism and glorify it. His fears are groundless. I have lieard Colonel Charters's lecture, and wish that every man, woman, and child in the Dominion could hear it. Colonel Charters's lecture rings true—no false heroics, 110 crocodile tears, but a plain statement of the work of the men in the trenches, and a stirring appeal to all children .to live up to the ideals of honour, loyalty, and ireedoni set by our fallen oil the fields of Franco and Belgium. " Is it not time, Sir, that the fatuous amongst the Labour people dropped their sickly references to a democracy of which their doctrines are the negation, to a freedom they scorned to light for, and to a militarism as alien to AngloSaxon ideals as the Bolshevism preached by some of their members.—l sm, etc., IiAH KEY. September 2D, 1919.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 5, 1 October 1919, Page 8
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176A FALSE SENTIMENT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 5, 1 October 1919, Page 8
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