" ADVOCATES OF THE LEAGUE "
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—It is not I but Dr. Gilbert Murray who makes the cap fit.
In speaking of " advocates of the League " in my article of July 8th I was thinking not of the League of Nations Union, but of the politicians, Members of Parliament, writers and journalists who, for several years past, have proceeded on the lines I indicated in this article. It is part of my daily work to follow these proceedings pretty carefully, and to deny that they have followed this course would be—for me—to deny the evidence of my senses.
The League of Nations Union includes men and women of .all parties and opinions, and nothing is more desirable than that they should hold together in these times to maintain what is essential in the idea of a League of Nations. The difficulty of finding any uniform expression of their views as they apply to current affairs is very great, and I should not like to add to it by any public controversy about the Union's propaganda. But, as Dr. Murray is aware, I have taken other opportunities of expressing my dissent from those parts of it which seem to me open to the objections indicated in my article.—Yours, &c.,
J. A. SPENDER.
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