PROPOSED LEAGUE OF BRITISH CITIZENSHIP. [To MR EDITOR OF THE
" SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is with feelings of real gratitude that I see you have taken up this important subject: my only regret is that the Spectator is not to be found in every household. We Britishers are had advertisers, and the ordinary citizen is a bad "organizer—he has not acquired the Trade Uniorl habit. The only chance of making any impression upon him is either by what Shakespeare would call "damnable iteration" of a truism, or by bringing him face to face with a tragedy. We all want to avert the latter, PO we must press on with the former. The idea of amalgamating all existing law-abiding bodies into a greater whole without necessarily whittling away their distinctive tenets is excellent : we all have our fads and fancies, and as long as we are 'actuated by a " common love of good " the details of the particular organization to which we belong are of secondary importance. We want to get togethex
all believers in sane religion and sound patriotism. I say " sane religion " advisedly, because one of the most insidious— I do not say the most powerful—of our enemies is the camou- flaged Bolshevism which in some quarters is being fired at us under the white flag of so-called Christianity. There are "crusades" being preached in some of our working-class areas which take advantage of the reverence nearly always shown to the sacred name of Christ, but the real enthusiasm centres round a one-aided idea of Labour—with a very large "L."—I
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