THE NATIONAL TEMPER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1380, 30 March 1915, Page 3

THE NATIONAL TEMPER.

The result of the great struggle, says Sir W. Rylaud Atkins, M.P., in the Contempotary Review, depends upon the efficiency and success of our arms and the temper of the country. The importance of the temper of a nation engaged in war cannot be overrated. Tbe spectacle of united leadership in a unique crisis has struck the national imagination. In Oxford in September one hardly recognised one’s own college, then disguising itseif as barracks. Aid so at Cambridge in November. A Masonic function, maimed of i'-s ordinary tiles, and with the unaccustomed toast at the supper cf “Brethren now fightu g lor the Flag,’’ brought back the recollection how tbe one thing on ail men’s longues was the best way of traiuing British youth for the war. livery class is giving lavishly. Again the national temper is seen in the absence of crime. “ Last month no assizes were held for the County of Buckingham for the first time wilhiu living memory, for there was no crime to be tried. The same is true of the County of Huntingdon. . . . Germany will find that the Ironsides have come again.’’