Now that the Direct Actionists are fairly and squarely beaten
the time has come for all those who do not want fresh challenges to our well-proved methods of governing ourselves in content- ment and prosperity to band themselves together and take means to ensure that the extremists shall never have another opportunity of trying to hold up the whole nation. In this connexion we wish to refer to a letter from Sir Edward Woodward published in the Times of Friday week. He announced that
the organization of a British Legion which he had under- taken on the lines of the American Legion was not yet far enough advanced for the details to be published. He desired to say, however, that as the incubation of the Legion had been mentioned in connexion with the pro- posed Liberty League, in a few days he would submit his whole scheme to public opinion. We have already expressed our hope that the British Legion and the Liberty League, in whose interest Sir H. Rider Haggard, Mr. Rudyard Kipling, and Lord Sydenham wrote to the Times recently, may be amalgamated. The letter signed by Sir H. Rider Haggard and his friends has been the subject of a good deal of criticism as being too hectic and alarmist. Surely the appearance of such criticism in many quarters is a proof that any Society or League which is formed for the purpose of preventing anarchy and chaos and saving order and constitutionalism most studiously avoid every appear. ante of particularism.
