The League and the Press On discovering a campaign to
which our attention has been drawn in the Daily Express against the League of Nations and the British League of Nations Union, our first feelings were of shame and annoyance. But we doubt whether anyone is influenced by such arrant folly, which can only recoil on those who produce it. We cannot explain to them to-day what the League is, nor yet praise it or excuse any weakness that it has shown during its growth ; nor need we defend the Union from some mistakes made in the past. But do these people want war ? If not, why cavil at the principal bulwark against war ? Like a penny miles gloriosus they mock at the Union as led by bloodless pacifists. And yet they would make our flesh creep too with their warnings to Great Britain to keep out of Continental embroilments. They forget or they never beard how we and the United States could not keep out of a War waged from 1914-1918, and they will hardly understand the saying tua res agitur paries cum proximus ardet.
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