, he remarked to me the other day, "involves as much
labour as a Government Department," has fits of impatience about
pushing a campaign for a league, and so have a few other men. They
ask me if it be not possible to have good American public speakers
come here--privately, of course, and in no way connected with our
Government nor speaking for it--to explain the American movement
for a League in order to arouse a public sentiment on the subject.

Thus the case stands at present.

Truth and error alike and odd admixtures of them come in waves over
this censored land where one can seldom determine what is true,
before the event, from the newspapers. "News" travels by word of
mouth, and information that one can depend on is got by personal
inquiry from sources that can be trusted.

There is a curious wave of fear just now about what Labour may do,
and the common gossip has it that there is grave danger in the
situation. I can find no basis for such a fear. I have talked with
labour leaders and I have talked with members of the government who
know most about the subject. There is not a satisfactory
situation--there has not been since the war began. There has been a
continuous series of labour "crises," and there have been a good
many embarrassing strikes, all of which have first been hushed up
and settled--at least postponed. One cause of continuous trouble
has been the notion held by the Unions, sometimes right and
sometimes wrong, that the employers were making abnormal profits
and that they were not getting their due share. There have been and
are also other causes of trouble. It was a continuous quarrel even
in peace times. But I can find no especial cause of fear now. Many
of the Unions have had such advances of wages that the Government
has been severely criticized for giving in. Just lately a large
wing of the Labour Party put forth its war aims which--with
relatively unimportant exceptions--coincide with the best
declarations made by the Government's own spokesmen.

Of course, no prudent man would venture to make dogmatic
predictions. There have been times when for brief intervals any one
would have been tempted to fear that these quarrels might cause an
unsatisfactory conclusion of the war. But the undoubted patriotism
of the British w