SIR,—Professor Webster in his review of my book in your
last issue takes me to task for making some incidental criticisms, or, as I would rather put it, retrospective judgements; on the voluntary societies working for peace and the League of Nations in this country. As his remarks may lead to misconception in some quarters, perhaps you will allow me space to explain that the passages in question occur in chapter devoted to the history of the League and relate to attitudes and policies during various phases of post-War history. We have all of us made mistakes during those' difficult years, and•I doubt if the directing minds of the League of Nations Union would wish to Blain► exemption from this human failing. But I should be very sorry if anyone were to conclude from Professor Webster's words that I intended to make any criticism on that work as such or to belittle its remarkable achievements. It is indeed just because the movement has been so influential abroad as well as at home, that no one writing a review of the period could omit to include in his survey a retrospective judgement
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