A LEAGUE OF NATIONS FLAG
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—When the secretary of the League of Nations Union writes welcoming the idea of a League flag " as a simple visible sign of a complex mystic State," surely he is using words with less than his usual precision. That the Society (or League) of Nations may ultimately develop into a World-State may be an aspiration of Dr. Maxwell Garnett, as it is of advanced thinkers like Mr. H. G. Wells : but that is not what the League is, as constituted by the CoVenant : and; in view of widespread misunderstinding as to what the League can and cannot do, the distinction is irn*tant. As at present con- stituted, it expresses, but does riot dictate, the* will of the component States. Jam not arguing against the flag, though, as such a symbol might be interpreted by nations outside the League as a chiillenge, the question Of its adoption would clearly need very careful consideration.—Yours, &c.,
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