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Summons of the Nation to Arms
British People Roused by Their Leaders.
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Earl Curzon of Kedleston Suggests Holding of Public Meetings.
Hackwood, Basingstoke, Aug. 27.
_To the Editor of The Times:_
Sir: Many of us are wondering what we can do to serve our country
in this crisis. We sit on local or on larger committees. We
attempt, within the narrow range of our influence, to gain
recruits, we organize relief, we help to provide or furnish
hospitals, we subscribe both to the national and to private funds;
and, apart from this, we go about our ordinary duties with as much
composure as we can, wondering where, when, and how it will be open
to us who are no longer young and cannot bear arms, but have
perhaps had some experience of affairs, to render more effective
aid.
Does not a path lie open to the class of so-called "public men,"
and does not the very name which is given to them indicate the
nature of this duty? Surely it is to place themselves at the
disposal of the public. The two great needs of the moment are more
men--hundreds of thousands more men--for the army, and a clearer
understanding by the masses of the population, not merely of the
justice of our cause, but of the supreme issues, both for our own
country and for the whole empire, that are involved.
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