17 MAY 1935, Page 6

I am very glad to see full appreciation given by

the Press to the almost pathetic display of loyalty throughout the poorer parts of London and other great cities. The decorations there are most of their home-made and mean ten times as much in personal devotion as the clusters of flags or bunting which some of us buy and hang out of our windows. The legend on a Finsbury streamer (I think it was Finsbury)—" Poor but Loyal "—has had plenty of publicity. Let me add another, on a condemned building in Bermondsey—" Lousy but Loyal." * *