On similar grounds we even find difficulty in approaching in
a proper spirit of satisfaction a subject advocated long and earnestly by the Spectator. We mean the arraying not only of a portion but of the whole nation for National Service. Mr. Lloyd George declared most truly that the way to make a swift and effective answer to Germany's latest move was by the adoption of the principle of Universal Service. Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, • had accordingly been appointed Director-General of National Service. Labour henceforth was to be emancipated from non-essential industries and asked to enrol for war work. " If it is found impossible to get the numbers required, the Government would not hesitate to ask Parliament to give the necessary powers for rendering the plans of the Administration fully effective." That is excellent if, once more, it does not mean that the brewers, the manufa eturers, and the retailers are to be considered to t be doing war work of an essential kind when they bemuse ow-people, with intorinantir.
