As a result, no doubt, of these revelations as to
the real aim of the meeting, and the protests which appeared in 'various papers, the Council of the Albert Hall refused to allow the building to be used for the purpose, and can- celled the engagement. We may note that the meeting was heralded in the news columns of the issues of the Daily Mail for Monday, the 15th, and Tuesday, the 16th, as a " great patriotic demonstration," without any reference to the circular or the avowed aims of the organizers. We can only assume that. the Daily Mail stood alone in ignorance of facts which were in the possession of all its contemporaries and had been commented on in several of them. For the alter- native is that the Daily Mail, by deliberately withholding these facts, was an accomplice in an insane plot to win the war by Wrecking the Coalition Government.
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