ARMISTICE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 32, 8 February 1932, Page 3

ARMISTICE DAY

SHOULD IT CONTINUE?

ENGLISH OPINION

. There appears to be a growing current of opinion in England that some change should bo made in the1 Armistice ceremony, but only one man—Lord Castleross, in the "Sunday Express," has so far put it into print. He speaks with that curiously dispassionate bitterness which characterises large numbers of men who were in the war, when he says the ceremony in Whitehall now means nothing. It is difficult to. express the sentiment exactly, but frustration seems to bo the word that-convoys it best, says the London correspondent of the "Cape Times." ••

That the ceremony itself is magnificent m conception these ex-Service men admit. History has many examples of tlie epic expression of national sorrow, but it has remained for the undramatie Briton to evolve the most movinf of them all—silence.

can do no more than mention that this sentiment exists, and that its basis appears to be that each year the Armistice ceremony becomes more of a formality, and that its nature should be altered before it becomes more secularised. Perhaps some cx-Servii:e men are- unusually sensitive on the point; it is a question of which only their comrades can judge.