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To be Driven or Led?

... SIR, May I congratulate you on your first issue of Britannia. It is excellent, and very readable, except the first (page 2) political article. I entirely object to that. Think again. Mr. Baldwin is an honest, upright, Christian gentleman, and has done j well in his most difficult post. You cannot- drive the British people. A leader can only load a very little way ahead. I am no politician, and ...

Published: Friday 05 October 1928
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 273 | Page: Page 88 | Tags: Letter 

A Light in the Ashes of Delusion

... From the Lord Dewar. Dear Sir, May Ihe torches of Britannia i'lumine the winter of our discontent and be a light in the ashes of our delusions, because is not the light of civilisation fed by dark printer's ink, and the strongest light in national affairs, the newspapers To make something out of nothing and much more out of less, is the privilege and prerogative of those upon the Press how ...

A Light in the Ashes of Delusion

... . From the Lord Dewar. Dear Sir, May the torches of Britannia i'lumine the winter of our discontent and be a light in the ashes of our delusions, because is not the light of civilisation fed by dark printer's ink, and the strongest light in national affairs, the newspapers To make something out of nothing and much more out of less, is the privilege and prerogative of those upon the Press how ...

Our National Accounts

... . Sir, I am moved by the second paragraph, in column 2, page 2, of your issue dated September 28th, to send you a copy of a letter I sent to the Editor of The Times on April 24th last. Needless to say it was not published. This very serious aspect of our national accounts ought to be probed further. Yours, etc., (Col. Sir) Herbert Bryan. To the Editor of The Times. Sir, I find some difficulty ...

Published: Friday 05 October 1928
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 240 | Page: Page 88 | Tags: Letter 

The Unreasoning Communist

... . Dear Sir, I was very interested in the first advertisement of your new weekly paper, but as far as the first issue is concerned I am sure that the description of Mr. Gilbert Frankau's few straight words to the Conservative Conference will not help your paper to any degree of success. I can only conclude that the reasoning classes referred to by Mr. Frankau are the Communists, and, after four ...

Published: Friday 05 October 1928
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: Page 88 | Tags: Letter 

A Pacifist Hits Out

... . Dear Sir, May I congratulate you on the first issue of Britannia 1 It is truly a brilliant achievement. I assume that as your journal will contain much of a controversial nature you will throw its columns open to correspondence, and I therefore hasten to join issue with your contributor .Samuel Johnson on the subject of his remark under Pacifist Logic. Truly, we are not a logical people, ...

Published: Friday 05 October 1928
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 301 | Page: Page 88 | Tags: Letter 

Wonderful First Number

... . Telegram from Sir Harold bowden, Bart. Sm, Sincercst congratulations on Britannia's won derful first number. Your paper should be a great national success. Harold Bowden. ...

Published: Friday 05 October 1928
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 28 | Page: Page 88 | Tags: Letter 

Unsolved Problems

... . Dear Sir, As one of the multitudes that were over there, also as one who had almost reached a point of despair, raising a lone voice on the unsolved problem of unemployment and inter-Empire migration and settlement and inter-Empire free trade and inter- Empire industrial safeguards against other than inter-Empire industries, allow me to be one of the number (I hope a multitude) who will ...

Published: Friday 05 October 1928
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 542 | Page: Page 88 | Tags: Letter 

The Cinderella of the Arts

... . Pear Sir, May I congratulate you on your new venture and wish you every success At the same time may I call your attention to your musical article and to point out the error in referring to the Zurich Philharmonic Orchestra when Vienna is surely indicated. Please do not adopt the attitude, assumed by so many newspapers and periodicals, that music being the Cinderella of the arts (so far as ...

Published: Friday 12 October 1928
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 76 | Page: Page 88 | Tags: Letter 

Our Civil Aviation Policy

... f . Dear Sir, May I, on behalf of the Air League, congratulate you on the admirable and outspoken article by Mr. Rossiter published in the second number of Britannia Civil aerial transport is a great new constructive agency in civilisation and offers inestimable benefits to the British Commonwealth. Yet we possess to-day, in this tenth year after the Armistice, a grand total of but twenty-one ...

Published: Friday 12 October 1928
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 305 | Page: Page 88 | Tags: Letter 

Post Office Contracts

... . Dear Sir, Great interest was aroused recently by the action of the General Post Office in placing abroad an important contract for bronze wire. The Post Office explained their action by charging the British manufacturers, not for the first time, with de manding excessive prices. This charge is so serious, both in itself and in its consequences to British industry, that the Chair man of the ...

Published: Friday 12 October 1928
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 182 | Page: Page 88 | Tags: Letter 

Professionalism in Lawn Tennis

... . Dear Sir, May I congratulate you on your splendid article in the first number of Britannia, entitled The World's Professional Lawn Tennis Championship, and, at the same time, congratulate Britannia, to whose enterprise and generosity the world's profes sionals will ever owe a great debt of gratitude for providing the Challenge Shields, and more espe cially the cash prizes which will ...

Published: Friday 12 October 1928
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 323 | Page: Page 89 | Tags: Letter