7 SEPTEMBER 1918, Page 12

IS A GENERAL ELECTION NECESSARY P [To THE EDITOR OF

THE " SPECTATOR.") rm,—Not one elector in ten thousand (one hundred thousand ?) desires peace except on our own terms. Therefore, there is no need of a General Election to find out what "public" opinion (i.e., that of an overwhelming majority) is. The present House of Commons is all but unanimous for going on with the -war, and aloes its best to " ensue " it : no new House could do more. The end is the thing; not the means. There is no British energy to spare at the moment (to say nothing of money) from actual war