24 NOVEMBER 1917, Page 14

A LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] Sie,—May I add a further word to express my gratitude for your admirable article, " The Essential League "? Surely your feeling is right, "that any thought of a formal contract or alliance is alien to the existing sentiment of both nations" (Great Britain and the United States). And Dr. Page's concluding words should be our inspiration for the days that lie ahead—" Upon the English-speaking peoples depends hereafter the safety of the world." This is, as he concludes, "the largest political fact that has ever risen upon the horizon of the race." Am I wrong in having foreseen and pictured the Holy Land under the joint guardianship of the Union Jack and the Old Glory? So mote