GEORGE V. OR ASQUITH I.?

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3300, 19 August 1911, Page 2

GEORGE V. OR ASQUITH I.?

A STARTLING ARTICLE. An article by ‘An Englishman” in the “National Review” entitled “George V. or Asquith I.?” says: “•'The tumult and tlie shouting dies; the Captains and the Kings depart’; and that section of the British people which inhabits the British Isles is called upon to turn from the contempla/tion of the noblest, most ancient, and most splendid of historic and religious rites to the -squalid and miserable intrigue the aim of which is the destruction of its political integrity and of its thousand-year-old constitution. If that intrigue succeeds there will never be another Coronation. “Of the three estates of the realm, King, Peers, and Commons, the first two, according to the Radical plan, are to perish and become the mere puppets of the third or rather of the little clique of politicians and adventurers who have obtained a temporary ascendency by dexterous . use of the demagogue’s most degrading arts. The Sovereign whose coronation has been celebrated with such admiration and respect is to be compelled to betray the Peers who rendered him homage.”