We cannot commend too earnestly to the attention and interest
of those who may read these linos the moving appeals on behalf of the Officers' Association which were uttered by Lord Beatty, Lord Haig, and Sir Hugh Trenchard at a Mansion House meeting on Friday week. During the war there were more than forty organizations concerned with the interests of officers. It is now proposed that these organizations, most of which were rapidly improvised, and among which there has naturally been a good deal of overlapping, should be amalgamated. The Societies themselves approve of amalgamation, and the Association has had the good fortune to obtain the services of Sir A. Lawley as Chairman and of Sir H. Ruggles-Brise as Organizing Secretary. Lord Beatty stated what the Officers' Association proposes to do, and Lord Haig's speech was an admirable complement, as it explained and justified much which Lord Beatty had said without once being guilty of " overlapping."
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