Government approves king’s request.

The king’s coronation speech promised to regain all territories lost to the British Empire during the war. After months of debate and denials, his Majesty’s government, in spite of public opinion, has finally bowed to his constant badgering to approve said request.

As the armed forces are currently in no state to engage in large conflicts, the government has entered a new stage of bargaining and debates as to how this may proceed. Current speculation indicates that it is likely to spark a new round of conscription, last seen in 1963. If this occurs, all men over the age of eighteen will be issued with call up papers and ordered to their nearest recruitment office.

The editor would like at this point to express his extreme opposition to such idiocy. Every man of education in this nation knows that the country has neither the population nor the wealth to maintain an extended campaign at this point in time and is unlikely to for many years to come. It is my opinion that this will be the ruination of this country resulting not in the recapture of lost colonies but the loss of any we have remaining to us.”