The National Service League has taken a very wise and
a very interesting step. It is sending a representative Com- mittee to Switzerland to study the Swiss military system. Among those who have joined the Committee we are glad to note are several Labour Members,—Mr. J. Wilson, Mr. Rowlands, Mr. Ward, Mr. Macpherson, Mr. T. Richards, Mr. O'Grady, Mr. D. Kelley, and Mr. W. C. Steadman. The Committee also includes Lord Newton, Lord Ampthill, and Lord Tumour. Mr. George Shee, the secretary of the National Service League, will accompany the Com- mittee, and the Swiss authorities are affording every facility for the study of the work done by their citizen soldiers. We cannot, of course, say what will be the effect upon the minds of the Labour Members of what they will see in Switzerland, but at any rate they are to be congratulated upon their open- mindedness in joining the Committee, and upon not being afraid lest, when they know the facts, they shall be converted to proposals which, no doubt, many of them have condemned in the abstract.
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