(TO THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR:1
SIE,—As one who was present at some of the interrupted meetings at Devonshire House, Bishopsgate, I feel that we must in fairness give the anti-Germanists credit for abstention from physical violence. Apart from this, there is little to be said for the interrupters, who in their fervid patriotism lost all sense of fair play and did not even stop to inquire the object of the meetings which they came down to break up, or rather to prevent from being held. The City of London prides itself, I believe, on being the home of freedom of speech ; but, apart from a manly protest by the Rector of St. Botolph's (in khaki), there has, as far as I know, been no attempt made by any civic dignitary to secure a discontinuance of the disorderly scenes which all reasonable people deplore.—I am, Sir, &c.,
London Institution, Finsbury Circus, E.C.
Immo S. ALLEN.
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