29 JUNE 1907, Page 17

On Wednesday afternoon the National Service League held Ito annual

meeting, and in the evening its annual banquet. We cannot, unfortunately, find space to record the speeches, hat we may congratulate the League on the excellent progress it has made, and upon the plan of campaign for influencing Public °Pillion which wae set forth at the meeting. It is worth noting that though plenty of people say that they do not believe the British nation will ever consent to national training, it is very rare to find people who say that they regard the proposal as evil pm. as and mean to oppose it. to the last ditch. We are firmly convinced that if every elector in the country could have seen the Spectator Experimental Company when they first assembled, and then after their period of training, no one of them, whatever his political views, who desired the improvement of the British race would have failed to vote for universal training.