" WHEN THE STRONG MAN ARMED."
(To THE EDITOR or THE " SrECTATOIs."1 SIR,—I see that my friend "C. R. H." has not forgotten his Greek in the last forty years, wherein he has, to a large extent, the advantage of me. Nevertheless, I will venture to suggest that the text " When the strong man armed keepeth Isis house " was never intended as an ideal or as what must always he. It admirably expresses the position of things in a barbarous and lawless society, but even in civil life we have long ago got beyond that stage. The citizen relies on the law and the organized goodwill of his fellow- citizens, not on his own strength. Has not the time come when the nations can organize on the same principle and form a League of Nations for the maintenance of international right and of peace ?—I am, Sir, Ac., ANEURIN WILL1Ams. 1 Central Buildings, Westminster, S.W.1.
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