OXFORD UNION’S LOSSES
ANTI-PATRIOTISM BLAMED LONDON, March 10. The Oxford Union has apparently not yet recovered from the financial effects of the motion it carried in Feb. 1933, “that this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and country.” The leading article in the “Isis,” the University magazine, this week refers to the Union’s present poverty, and adds: “The story goes that the unfortunately publicised motion was . . . most expensive. “So many .. . retired colonels wrote letters bristling with indignation and club addresses to the newspapers that quite a large number of people stopped being members of the Union. “’Phe loss in subscriptions totalled somewhere around £l,OOO a year, and it is an odd thing that, though that motion was mooted a long time ago, the subscription list has never recovered.” The admission of women, the writer adds, would “entirely solve the money problem, whatever other problem is introduced.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 April 1938, Page 4
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