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| Letter Reference | The Times, Wednesday 12 January 1916, page 5, column 1 |
| Archive | The Times |
| Epistolary Type | Letter |
| Letter Date | Wednesday 12 January 1916 |
| Address From | na |
| Address To | |
| Who To | The Times |
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Copyright transcription: © Olive Schreiner Letters Project. This transcription can be freely used as long as copyright is acknowledged and it is referenced using the following citation: ‘Olive Schreiner to The Times, 12 January 1916, The Times, Olive Schreiner Letters Project transcription’. Please also supply letter line numbers for specific quotations.
Legend
This letter has been dated by reference to when it was published in The Times.
1: SIR J. SIMON’S SUPPORTERS.
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3: LETTER FROM 36 SYMPATHIZERS.
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5: The following letter was handed to Sir John Simon last evening:-
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7: We, the undersigned, desire to express our wholehearted appreciation
8: of your action in regard to Conscription, and to assure you of our
9: active and immediate support, whether as private individuals or in so
10: far as we represent organizations in any opposition to the Bill you
11: and your colleagues decide to organize.
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13: We realize that our names are representative of only a limited section
14: of the public, but we have ventured to take the initiative through our
15: conviction that these views reflect a widespread opinion in the
16: country.
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18: Yours faithfully,
19: C. G. AMMON
20: W. A. APPLETON
21: J. H. BANKS
22: ELEANOR BARTON
23: MARGARET BONDFIELD
24: JOHN CLIFFORD
25: G. D. H. COLE
26: MARGARET LLEWELLYN DAVIES
27: G. LOWES DICKINSON
28: J. W. GRAHAM
29: F. W. HIRST
30: J. A. HOBSON
31: HENRY T. HODGKIN
32: GEORGE LANSBURY
33: F. W. PETHICK LAWRENCE
34: MARY MACARTHUR
35: SAM MARSH
36: CATHERINE MARSHALL
37: H. W. MASSINGHAM
38: FRANCIS MEYNELL
39: J. S. MIDDLETON
40: J. CAMPBELL MORGAN
41: GRACE NEAL
42: W. E. ORCHARD
43: SYLVIA PANKHURST
44: CLARISSA E. POTTER
45: ALFRED SALTER
46: OLIVE SCHREINER
47: MARY SHEEPSHANKS
48: ROBERT SMILLIE
49: F. R. SWAN
50: JOHN TURNER
51: J. E. WILLIAMS
52: ROBERT WILLIAMS
53: J. WINSTONE
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Notation
Olive Schreiner and the other signatories, probably organised by Bertrand Russell, sent this letter of support for Sir John Simon to The Times in response to Asquith's wartime Coalition Government having introduced a Military Service Bill for compulsory conscription on 1 January 1916. Simon, the Home Secretary, resigned and led the Liberal, Quaker and ILP MPs opposing the Bill. After this letter was published, John Clifford, a leading Nonconformist, collected the signatures of more prominent thinkers and activists for a petition in support of Simon. However, the Government negotiated Labour Party support for conscription, and the Bill was swiftly passed into law. See Richard A. Hempel (ed, 1988) Bertrand Russell: His Works vol. 13 ‘Prophecy and Dissent’ 1914-1916 London: Unwin.
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