OATH OF LOYALTY
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—Your correspondent, J. H. McKenzie, in Friday's issue, refers to "anyone who knows the full purport of the affirmation of loyalty that State servants make." Your correspondent is evidently under .a misapprehension. Every public servant on joining is, required, and quite properly, to make a declaration of secrecy, but is not required to take an oath of affirmation of allegiance. Why should he? Every citizen, be he a public servant or otherwise, owes allegiance to the Crown, and it would be quite illogical —indeed unfair—to require a special oath of allegiance to be taken by one particular section of the community, especially a section whose record of loyalty and service is second to none. —I am, etc.,
RETURNED SOLDIER,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 86, 8 October 1941, Page 6
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125OATH OF LOYALTY Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 86, 8 October 1941, Page 6
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