PAST AND PRESENT
A reminder that things might be, and have been, worse than in this year 1940 can be found in Mark Rutherford’s “Pages From a Journal,” written 40 years ago. The relevant passage is:—“ The year 1798 was a year of great excitement: England was alone in the struggle against Bonaparte; the mutiny at the More had only just been quelled; the 3 per cent Consols had been marked at 49 or 50; the Gazettes were occupied with accounts of bloody captures of French ships; Ireland may be said to hav« been in rebellion, and horrible murders were committed there; the King sent a message to Parliament telling it that an invasion might be expected, and that it was to be assisted by 4 incendiaries ’ at home; and the Archbishop of Canterbury and 11 bishops passed « resolution declaring that if the French should land, or a dangerous insurrection should break out, it would be the duty of the clergy to take up arms.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24420, 4 October 1940, Page 3
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165PAST AND PRESENT Otago Daily Times, Issue 24420, 4 October 1940, Page 3
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