25 MARCH 1916, Page 3

When the war broke out the policy adopted. by the

military authorities, which we have always regarded as inconvenient, was not to let the men retain the name of National Reservists, but to give them another designation. Under the new and, in our opinion, much better system of the creation of the Royal Defence Corps, the country will for the first time understand what a great debt it owes to the National Reserve—a body which, the readers of the Spectator will remember, was first foreshadowed in these columns,• and first endowed with a concrete form in the county of Surrey on the suggestion of the editor of the Spectator.