LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
WHAT CIVIL WAR MEANS FOR THE ARMY.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—I have read your article under the above heading with an interest which was considerable but at the same time purely academic. As a soldier, I can assure your contri- butor that it would be utterly and absolutely impossible for the Government to call in the Army to carry out the behests of the Nationalists until, which is inconceivable, those behests have been endorsed by the country. Stationed as I am in the Aldershot command, I have had excellent opportunities of finding out the real feeling of the Army. I have heard the question discussed many times during the past few weeks, and have always arrived at the same conclusion, namely, that at least ninety per cent. of the officers of the Army would refuse to be any party to the coercion of those whose only crime is loyalty to " that party emblem," the Union Jack. Soldiers, as such, should possess no politics, but on that very account their aid ought not to be invoked to settle matters which should properly be left to another tribunal—the electors of the United Kingdom.—I am, Sir,
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