23 NOVEMBER 1918, Page 11

PEACE DAY.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—One cannot help thinking that if civilians glide into peace and nothing more is done for those who have brought it, they will have an uncomfortable feeling of meanness for the rest of their lives. But subscriptions have been many lately, and prices are still high. Would it not be well therefore to arrange now to celebrate a memorial week a year hence in which subscriptions and collections shall be made for those who have been disabled or left without support by the war? In every subsequent year Peace Day should be observed with the same object. It will also serve to bring home to a later generation the ghastly sufferings of war, which history is apt to forget.—I am, Sir, &c.,

A. F. GERALD.