‘King and Country’ debate

Controversial debate in Britain in February 1933 in which the Oxford Union, the university's debating society, passed the motion ‘this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and its Country’. The debate sent shockwaves throughout the country as many saw it as signalling that Britain's young elite had lost their sense of patriotism, although it probably more accurately reflected a commitment to disarmament after the horrors of World War I.