2 NOVEMBER 1918, Page 10

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

era,—Given goodwill and good faith all round, the " League " would seem almost unnecessary, and without them unworkable. Should the process of recovery from Prassianism run to about the length of time during which that disease has been developing and flourishing, Prussia might be expected to have morally quali- fied for membership in time to celebrate by her admission to the League the quincentenary of the declaration of peace. The rest of Germany having caught, or rather been inoculated with, the infection at a later date, may have recovered in time for a jubilee of the same event. If so, the League would virtually be an Anti- Cierman League for the next fifty years, and an Anti-Prussian League for the residue of the longer term.—I am, Sir, &c.,

Scenic.