Into the acrimonious discussions about the Peace Ballot I have
no desire to enter. If the Ballot is being made a party question the responsibility must rest with the party which has—though by no means unanimously —condemned and repudiated it. The indications are that that party will lose a good deal by its attitude, for all the casual news that reaches me from many different quarters suggests that both the Ballot and peace propaganda generally—by which I mean peace through the League of Nations—are making a remarkably successful appeal. Meetings everywhere are being largely attended, audiences are keenly interested and people who take ballot papers are asking intelligent questions about them, declining to sign something that they do not understand, but signing readily when they do understand. When the tide has flowed a little further I shall expect to see one or two politicians who can be left nameless finding unsuspected virtues in the Ballot after all.
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