BRITISH NOT ENGLISH.
"* R. B. Marston writes to London 1 "Mail":— ! His Majesty the King is always doing good work for tho nation and so :s her Majesty the Queen, God bless them. At this time, when the United_ Kingdom is more really united than it ever has been, when the whole Empire is so splendidly one, it would be a graceful j and welcome not on the part of th&! King if his Majesty would decree that his officers and subjects generally, when I referring to the valour and deeds of tho Army and Navy, should always use the word " British " and not " English." We English have no idea how much resentment is cansed by this . thoughtless use of the name for one part of the kingdom when the whole is intended—or the whole Empire. Presently we shall have soldiers from In-di-i, Canada, Australasia, South Africa, etc., lighting for tho Empire, and wo should remember how keen are tho susceptibilities of our fellow-subjects not strictly of English birth 021 this subject. Whoa I have told Scottish friends that f'f coure wc English by " English" 1 otoaj! "British" they have rouUodj
"Then why do you refer to English victories, but to ' British' retreats and 'disasters''-"'
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11215, 22 October 1914, Page 4
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