THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF YOUTH. [To THE EDITOR OF THE
" SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Feeling that the time is more than ripe to co-ordinate all the forces of youth which in our country stand for peace and the ideal of human brotherhood, we, who were present at the second conference of the International League of Youth, ask for the courtesy of your columns in order to make it more widely known. The International League of Youth was founded by a young Dane, Hermod Lannung, as a safeguard for the coining generations against the horrors of a war such as we have just experienced, and with which we are again
threatened. A preliminary conference was held at Copenhagen last year, and the nations which responded held a second
conference on September 2nd, 1522, at Hamburg, to report on the year's work and to arrange the programme for the future. Great Britain was not represented at Copenhagen, and so is a year behind the other countries of Europe.
The main purpose of the new League, whose headquarters are at Geneva, is to create in each country a Youth Movement fired with the desire to spread a spirit of mutual understand- ing among the nations, and to work for the substitution of reason for the force which has hitherto only heightened inter- national misunderstandings, and to that end to support the widest conception of a League of Nations. Briefly, its object is to save the generations following us from being sacrificed as our own generation has been sacrificed. It may not be easy
to start such a movement in this country, but we are con- vinced that it can and ought to be done, unless Great Britain
is to be left outside this great effort for future peace. We believe that there are ninny organizations and individuals among our own youth who are infused with the new spirit, and who will be glad to co-operate with us in calling a Con- ference of Youth in London for the purpose of founding a British League to be affiliated to the International League at Geneva. To all such we appeal, in the hope that they will communicate with us at the address given below, where the use of an office has been kindly placed temporarily at our
ADA JORDAN, Moy.i TOW ITT.
Blake House, 16 Green Street, Trafalgar Square.
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