H.M. THE KING.

19 May, 1915.

Dear Sir,

The King is interested to hear of the generous action of the members of the Overseas Club in presenting to the Royal Flying Corps an aeroplane, and of their intention to make similar contributions.

Yours very faithfully,                    
STAMFORDHAM

Buckingham Palace,          
2 November, 1916.

Dear Sir,

The information contained in your letter of yesterday has been communicated to the King, the Patron of the Overseas Club, and His Majesty congratulates the members upon their generous gift of eighty-five aeroplanes to the Imperial Aircraft flotilla 0formed by the Society.

Yours very truly,                        
STAMFORDHAM.

The Overseas Club opened its fifth War Fund in 1916 with the title "They've remembered us" to provide comforts for the men at the Front and prisoners of war. The King graciously started the Fund with a cheque for £25, which paid for 100 Gift boxes:---

Dear Sir,

In reply to your letter of the 5th instant, addressed to Lord Stamfordham, I am commanded by the King to send you the enclosed cheque for £25, as a donation from His Majesty to the Special Gifts Scheme inaugurated by the Overseas Club.

Yours faithfully,                         
F. PONSONBY,         
Keeper of the Privy Purse.

Buckingham Palace,               
31 March, 1916.

Dear Sir,

I have received and laid before the King, the Patron of the Overseas Club, a copy of their official Monthly Journal, which you have been good enough to send for His Majesty's acceptance.

The King congratulates the management of the Club upon the very successful work which has been achieved during the past eighteen months.

Yours very faithfully,                  
STAMFORDHAM

H.M. QUEEN ALEXANDRA.

Buckingham Palace,               
30 December, 1915.

I thank the members of the Overseas Club most sincerely for the wonderful generosity they have shown in contributing to my Field Force Fund and to everything that is needed by our troops at the Front. It is impossible to value their patriotism too highly, and it is made all the more noticeable, as the members who have contributed to these gifts are scattered all over the world.

ALEXANDRA,

FROM THE QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS.

Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians sent the following gracious message of thanks for the tobacco and cigarettes forwarded to the Belgian trenches through the Overseas Club's Tobacco Fund.

Maison Militaire du Roi,              
La Panne, le 12 Mai, 1916.

Monsieur le Secrétaire,

La Reine a reçu les caisses de cigarettes que vous lui avez fait parvenir pour nos soldats.

Sa Majesté s'est montrée très sensible à la prévenante solicitude que votre Comité ne cesse de témoigner à notre armée, et Elle m'a chargé de transmettre à tous les membres de votre Club l'expression de Sa vive gratitude.

Conformément avec instructions de notre Souveraine, la distribution de votre généreux don sera fait selon le désir que vous avez exprimé.

Veuillez agréer, Monsieur le Secrétaire, l'assurance de ma considération la plus distinguée.

L'Officier d'Ordonnance du Roi
PREUDHOMME.   

NEW YEAR MESSAGES, JANUARY, 1917.

MR. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE,
                                 Prime Minister.

I should like to take this opportunity of congratulating the overseas Club on the formation of the Imperial Aircraft Flotilla. I understand that to date---thanks to the splendid generosity of the subscribers overseas---you have been able to present to the Royal Flying Corps over eighty aeroplanes, with promises of a number more.

I hope that your ambition of an Imperial Air Fleet of 100 units will be realised.

It is very gratifying to note that our kinsmen overseas are taking such a deep interest in our Air Service.

Yours very truly,                        
D. LLOYD GEORGE.

MR. H. H. ASQUITH,
                 Ex-Premier.

The Imperial patriotism of our fellow-subjects beyond the seas, unfalteringly sustained through all vicissitudes since its first impressive manifestation at the outbreak of war, has been a surprise to the enemy, but not to the Mother Country. We stand together before the world in the knowledge that our cause is just, and together we shall prevail.

All our thanks are due to the Overseas Club and to the Patriotic League of Britons Overseas for their noble contribution to our military resources and I am confident that they will not relax their efforts till victory is won.

H. H. ASQUITH.    

MR. A. J. BALFOUR,
                 Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

The Overseas Club and the Patriotic League of Britons Overseas have shown a splendid generosity in their contributions to the fighting services of the Empire. It is a further proof---if further proof were needed---of the patriotic singleness of purpose which animates all British subjects, however distant be the part of the Empire in which they happen to live.

ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR.    

SIR EDWARD CARSON,                                    January, 1917.
                  First Lord of the Admiralty.

By forming a link between citizens of the British Empire in every part of the world the Overseas Club is carrying out a noble task and has my best wishes for the success of its undertaking. Though seas may divide us, we never forget that we are one race animated by the same ideas of Liberty and Justice founded upon the humanity which springs from Christianity. The Old Country looks to the New to carry their standard wherever they, go, and thus it is that at the trumpet sound for action our hearts throb together in the united action to beat back the tyrant aggressor.

EDWARD CARSON.     

ADMIRAL SIR JOHN JELLICOE.

H.M.S. Iron Duke,      
January, 1917.

Sincere congratulations on the immense success which has been achieved by the Overseas Club since its inception, and my hearty good wishes for the future.

ADMIRAL JELLICOE.

FIELD-MARSHAL SIR DOUGLAS HAIG.
                                             General Headquarters,
                                                            British Armies in France.

Dear Lady des Voeux

I have to thank you very much for your letter telling me of the handsome donation of £1,300 made by your Shanghai Branch to your Soldiers' and Sailors' Fund.

In my own name, and in that of all ranks under my command, I beg to express sincere thanks to the members of the Shanghai Branch for their generosity. This practical demonstration that Britons overseas are prepared to undergo great sacrifices for the common cause is a very great encouragement to everyone now fighting in France.

Wishing you all the greatest good fortune in this New Year.

Believe me,                                 
Yours very truly,                  
D. HAIG,           
Field-Marshal.

FIELD-MARSHAL SIR DOUGLAS HAIG.

As the War draws to a close the Overseas Club and Patriotic League enters upon its stage of greatest usefulness. The bonds which the War has knit between the different portions of the Empire must be kept strong. The Overseas Club has no small part to fulfil in this great task.

December, 1918.

VISCOUNT MILNER
                     Secretary of State for War.

I willingly respond to your request that I should send a message to the Members of the Overseas Club and Patriotic League on the occasion of the issue of the special Peace Number of Overseas.

The Overseas Club has rendered admirable service not only in quickening the sentiment of a common patriotism in every corner, however remote, of the Empire, but also more particularly in keeping alive the consciousness of partnership in the British Commonwealth among the British communities scattered throughout the world. No one has had better opportunities than myself for realising what that has meant in actual addition to our armed forces by all the volunteers who have flocked home from the uttermost ends of the earth to join the British Army, as well as in the contributions which have been so generously made to every patriotic purpose by the British communities in foreign countries.

All I can say to the Members of the Overseas Club and Patriotic League is to go on with their good work. The British Commonwealth of Free Nations---the only League of Nations actually in existence, and the most essential constituent of any League of Nations that may yet come into being as the outcome of the lessons of the War---needs preserving in peace as much as in war. Its continued existence will depend above all on mutual understanding and sympathy between its scattered parts and on the growth of a common patriotism embracing without weakening, their various local and national patriotisms. Here is a splendid field for work, and I know that willing labourers will not be wanting.

December, 1918.

1914-1918. In September, 1914, the Overseas Club Tobacco Fund was established to provide tobacco for the troops of the British Empire on all Fronts. A sum of £568,203 was received from members of the Overseas League and their friends during the War.

By Christmas, 1915, the Fund was receiving over a thousand letters a day. The donors had the right to state to which front their gifts should be sent or whether to British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, South African, Newfoundland, Indian, French or Belgian troops.

At the end of 1914 it was decided to organize an "Overseas Aircraft Flotilla." Mr. Wrench's idea was to ask each section of the Empire to present an aeroplane to the Royal Flying Corps, to be named after the district which provided it. 172 aeroplanes and seaplanes costing £278,630 were presented by the Overseas Club and Patriotic League to the British Government. In addition a large number of machines were presented direct to the authorities as a result of the League's propaganda.

The following letter of approval was received from the Army Council:---

War Office, London, S.W., 
18 January, 1915.

Sir,

With reference to your letter of the 5th January 1915, I am commanded by the Army Council to inform you that if any branches and members of the Overseas Club desire to present aeroplanes to the British Government for the use of the Royal Flying Corps, the offer will be gladly accepted.

I am to enclose the photographs of two of the types of aeroplanes in use at the present time and to state the cost of the 100 h.p. Gnome, Vickers' Gun Bi-plane, complete with gun is about £2,250 and that of the 70 h.p. Renault B.E., 2 c., £1,500.

I am, Sir,                                        
Your obedient Servant,          
B. B. CUBITT.

Evelyn Wrench, Esq.,
      Hon. Organizer,
            Overseas Club.

Mr. A. Bonar Law, Secretary of State for the Colonies, wrote on 16th October, 1915 :---

I sincerely hope the Flotilla will eventually number the hundred units which you are attempting to provide---a very striking tribute to the patriotism and generosity of British subjects overseas.

Among the other sums collected by the Headquarters of the Overseas Club and Patriotic League, during the War were :

In addition large sums were sent direct from branches and members of the Society to every authorized War Fund.

(Was amalgamated with the Overseas Club in 1918, when the title of the joint society became the Overseas Club and Patriotic League which it retained until the granting of a Royal Charter in 1923. Henceforward the Society became the Overseas League.)

In August, 1914, Mr. F. W. Hayne, O.B.E., an Englishman who had spent much of his life in Chile, conceived the idea of forming a league to unite British subjects living in foreign lands and to enable them to bear a share in contributing to the "burden of Empire."

To help him in the task of putting his idea into practice he called upon the services of his friend Mr. W. Maxwell-Lyte.

The help of the Foreign Office was enlisted, a powerful committee under the Chairmanship of Lord Selborne was formed and the King consented to become patron of the society. The original aim of the organisation was to collect sufficient money to present a warship to the British Navy.

A letter signed by Sir Edward Grey was sent to all British Missions abroad and the full force of the Consular Service was enlisted in support of the appeal. Within the first seventeen months of the League's existence a sum of £50,000 was collected and 150 branches formed among the British Communities in foreign lands---although the hope of collecting sufficient funds to present a light cruiser (costing £300,000) or a destroyer (£150,000) had to be abandoned. The League presented some 50 seaplanes and aeroplanes to His Majesty's Government during its separate existence prior to its amalgamation with the Overseas Club on March 31st, 1918.

In May, 1915, the joint Honorary Secretaries, Mr. F. W. Hayne and Mr. W. Maxwell-Lyte, found that they were unable to devote sufficient time to the interests of the League. Early in June, 1915, Lord Selborne, the Chairman, invited Mr. Wrench to become Honorary Secretary, a position which he filled until he obtained a position in the Royal Air Force in March, 1917.

On the occasion of the amalgamation of the two bodies the following messages were received:---

H.M. THE KING.

I am commanded to inform you that the King approves of the amalgamation of these two bodies and has graciously consented to continue to grant his patronage to the new society to be called The Overseas Club and Patriotic League of Britons Overseas.

RT. HON. A. J. BALFOUR,
                  Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

I am much interested to know that the Overseas Club and patriotic League of Britons Overseas have decided to establish themselves as one great organisation and I am persuaded that this decision is a wise one.

EARL OF SELBORNE, KG.,
                    Chairman, P.L.B.O.

At a moment like the present I feel that only good can result from the union of two societies whose aims are so similar. As one great Imperial society, without any tie of Party Politics, you may have a real opportunity of useful influence in the period of Reconstruction after the War. If our race wishes to play its pact in saving mankind from a repetition of the crime and horror of the present War it must be united in its ideals, in its power of sacrifice, and in its renunciation of selfishness.

SELBORNE.

The aims of the Babies of the Empire which took over the Marlborough School of Mothercraft, subsequently the Mothercraft Training Centre, established by Lady Plunket (now Lady Victoria Braithwaite) and Miss Winifride Wrench under the auspices of the Overseas League in 1917 and with the assistance of Sir Bertrand (now Lord) and Lady Dawson, Mr. Peacock (now Sir E. R.) and Sit Alexander Roger, were:---

1. To uphold the Sacredness of the Body and the Duty of Health; to inculcate a lofty view of the responsibilities of maternity and the duty of every mother to fit herself for the perfect fulfilment of the natural calls of motherhood, both before and after childbirth, and especially to advocate and promote the Breast-feeding of infants.

2. To acquire accurate information and knowledge on matters affecting the Health of Women and Children, and to disseminate such knowledge through the agency of its members, nurses, and others, by means of the natural handing on from one recipient or beneficiary to another, and the use of such agencies as periodical meetings at members' houses or elsewhere, demonstrations, lectures, correspondence, newspaper articles, pamphlets, books, etc.

3. To train especially, and to employ qualified Nurses, whose duty it will be to give sound, reliable instruction, advice, and assistance, on matters affecting the health and well-being of women, especially during pregnancy and while nursing infants, and on matters affecting the health and well-being of their children ; to train probationers and students in infant care and mothercraft and to educate and help parents and others in a practical way to domestic hygiene in general---all these things being done with a view to conserving the health and strength of the rising generation, and rendering both mother and offspring hardy, healthy, and resistive to disease.

4. To co-operative with any present or future organizations working for any of the foregoing or cognate objects.

Mr. Wrench told Dr. Walter Hines Page of his scheme in February, 1915 and received the promise of his support after the War.

Mr. Wrench invited fifteen friends to dine with him at the Marlborough Club on June 28th, 1918, when he placed before them his idea of starting the English-Speaking Union. Those present were:---

The first meeting of the British Committee was held on July 5th, 1918. Lord Balfour was the first President of the English-Speaking Union of the British Empire. Mr. Wrench was the first Chairman.

The first office of the E.-S.U. was opened in July, 1918, at Lennox House, Howard Street, Strand, London, W.C.2.

The Landmark, the monthly magazine of the English-Speaking Union, was first published in January, 1919.

The absorption of the Atlantic Union, founded by Sir Walter Besant in 1897, took place in February, 1919.

The English-Speaking Union organized, by permission of the Dean and Chapter, a Memorial Service at Westminster Abbey on April 4th, 1919, to officers and men of the United States Army and Navy who fell in the War.

Club rooms were opened in Grand Hotel Buildings overlooking Trafalgar Square, April, 1920.

Mr. Wrench visited the United States in the spring of 1920 to advise on the reorganisation of the American section. He advocated the establishment of an independent Sister Society, incorporated under the laws of New York State.

Mr. William H. Taft saw Mr. Wrench at his request and agreed to withdraw his resignation as President of the American Society.

The Common Interests Committee of the English-Speaking Union was established in 1920 under the presidency of Lady Bryce and the Chairmanship of Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton, G.B.E.

In June, 1920, Lord Rothermere gave £20,000 through the English Speaking Union for the endowment of a chair of American History at Oxford University.

The English-Speaking Union, by permission of The Dean and Chapter erected a tablet to the memory of Walter Hines Page in the cloisters, Westminster Abbey, and held a service to his memory, July 3, 1923.

The first Page Memorial Lecture was delivered by Sir Auckland Geddes in November, 1924. Lord Balfour presided.

The English-Speaking Union established a Journalistic Fellowship in the United States. Mr. J. A. Spender was the first Senior Fellow.

Permanent Headquarters and Club premises at Dartmouth House, 3, Charles Street, Berkeley Square, were acquired at a cost of £45,000 in 1926. The formal opening ceremony was performed by the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M.P., Prime Minister.

Seventy travelling Fellowships for teachers have been given by the Page Memorial Fund and an extensive exchange of teachers carried out between Great Britain and the United States.

Lord Reading succeeded Mr. Winston Churchill as Chairman of English-Speaking Union of the British Empire, in 1920.

In 1930 Lord Grey of Fallodon succeeded Lord Balfour as President of the English-Speaking Union of the British Empire.

Her Majesty the Queen visited Dartmouth House in February, 1932.

In 1934 H.R.H. The Prince of Wales became the President of the English-Speaking Union of the British Empire.

The English-Speaking Union aims at increasing the knowledge of one another possessed by the English-speaking peoples. The English-Speaking Union aims at no formal alliances and it has nothing to do with Governments, but is merely an attempt to promote good-fellowship among the English-Speaking democracies of the world.

In their common language, common sympathies, common traditions and common ideals, the English-Speaking peoples possess a great common heritage, which nothing can alter. The 3,000 miles of unarmed frontier existing between the United States and Canada is an outward symbol of the relationship between the two great sections of the English-Speaking peoples.

The sacred task to which we now set our hands is to perpetuate the existing sense of comradeship and brotherhood for all time.

The "Creed" of the English-Speaking Union is:---

Believing that the peace of the world and the progress of mankind can largely be helped by the unity of purpose of the English-Speaking democracies, we pledge ourselves to promote by every means in our power, a good understanding between the peoples of the United States of America and the British Commonwealth.

Membership :---Open to citizens of the United States of America and British subjects. The English-Speaking Union is non-party, non-sectarian and is open to men and women alike. It does not concern itself with the internal politics of the English-Speaking peoples, and membership does not in any way conflict with the duties of good citizenship. It is realised that each member's first duty is to the land of his birth or adoption.

Practical Objects :---To establish branches wherever the English language is spoken, with the view of promoting locally every movement which makes for the friendship of the English-Speaking peoples. To extend the hand of welcome in every country to English-Speaking visitors.

BATH Hon. Secretary, Miss D. Hill, The Pump Room.

CAMBRIDGE : Secretary, Miss Christine H. Long, 7, Queen Anne Terrace.

CHESTER : Hon. Secretary, Mr. J. H. Dickson. Secretary, Miss M. A. Donne, c/o Messrs. Philipson & Golders Library, Eastgate Row.

DEVON : Secretary, Miss B. Sybil Bankart, 19, Southernhay West, Exeter.

EDINBURGH : Hon. Secretary, Mr. F. A. Hardy, 2, North Charlotte Street.

MANCHESTER : Hon. Secretary, Mr. E. Raymond Streat, Chamber of Commerce.

NORWICH : Hon. Secretary, Mr. Frank Leney, The Strangers' Hall.

OXFORD: Secretary, Miss Fitzrandolph, 35, Davenant Road. (Visitors' rooms are open from July to September).

STRATFORD-ON-AVON : Secretary, Miss Gladys Mason, Shakespeare Memorial Lecture Room.

SUSSEX Hon. Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. R. Shelley Bevington, Cobbler's Farm, Jarvis Brook, near Crowborough.

WINCHESTER: : Hon. Secretary, Mrs. G. Crompton, Southgate Hotel.

YORKSHIRE: Hon. Secretary, Dr. Waiter E. Collinge, F.S.A., Enquiry Office, 4, Lendal (opposite General Post Office), York.

On Armistice Night (1919) the London branch of the English-Speaking Union presented to the United States Ambassador for transmission to the President, an illuminated address to the people of America signed by:

"To the People of the United States of America.

"Be it known by these presents that we, the undersigned Lord Mayors, Lord Provosts, and Mayors of the undermentioned cities and towns in Great Britain and Ireland, while rejoicing that with the co-operation of the American Navy and Army and that of the Allies the War has been brought to a victorious conclusion, do hereby declare on behalf of the people of these Islands our deep regret at the consequent departure from among us of the American Naval and Military forces, who have fought side by side with our soldiers and sailors with so much gallantry and success.

"We are sorry that we in this country have not been able to welcome as many of the American land forces as we should have liked owing to the exigencies of war. Those of your men, however, who have resided with us have made countless friends among our people, and we shall always retain the happiest memories of their visit. The standard of conduct which they have set has indeed been a high one, and we can only say that we hope they will take away with them some of those feelings of affection which they have inspired during their sojourn with us."

Washington,                 
26 November, 1919.

To the Lord Mayors, Lord Provosts, and Mayors of the
Cities and Towns of Great Britain and Ireland.

Gentlemen,

His Excellency, the American Ambassador, has transmitted to me a copy of the address signed at the dinner of the English-Speaking Union on November I beg leave, on behalf of the Army of the United States to express my deep appreciation of the sentiments set forth in the Address.

The American Army was inspired throughout its entire participation in the War by the superb heroism with which the soldiers of its veteran Allies had fought and resisted the aggression of the enemy. They were further inspired by the sacrifices which the civilian populations of our Allies made for the support of their armies and of the cause. Our Army felt itself welcomed into a great company and rejoices that the victorious conclusion of the struggle is a common glory to the soldiers of the participating armies.

American soldiers temporarily resident in England were received with warm hospitality by the people of Great Britain, and I share with your Excellencies the hope that the recollection of these great engagements and of the hospitalities of your people will continue to be the basis of permanent good will and understanding between the armies and the peoples of our respective countries.

Respectfully yours,                     
NEWTON D. BAKER.

Washington,                    
3 December, 1919.

To the Lord Mayors, Lord Provosts, and Mayors of the
Cities and Towns of Great Britain and Ireland.

On behalf of the Navy, I wish to express my deep appreciation of the sentiments set forth in the address signed at the dinner of the English-Speaking Union on November 15.

One of the memories which the officers and men of the Navy will always cherish is that of the unbounded hospitality which was extended to them by the people of Great Britain and Ireland when their duties brought them within the confines of the United Kingdom during the Great War, and the close comradeship which existed between the fighting forces of the two great English-Speaking countries had a very particular effect in winning the victory for Right and Justice.

It will always be a source of gratification to know that the conduct of our men was of a nature as to inspire such feelings of affection in the hearts and minds of the people of Great Britain and Ireland as indicated in the communication received from their representatives.

Yours sincerely,                         
JOSEPHUS DANIELS.

Dinner given to Mr. Wrench by Mr. Paul D. Cravath at University Club, New York, U.S.A., May, 1920, when the English-Speaking Union of the United States, a sister society of the British organisation, was established.

Those present to whom was entrusted the control of the affairs of the English-Speaking Union in America were:---

Among these, apart from Mr. Alexander Smith Cochran, who gave £ 100 or more to the E.-S.U. in the first years of its existence were :---Major the Hon. J. J. Astor, Mr. W. E. Berry (now Lord Camrose), Mr. Walter S. M. Burns, Mr. Percy Chubb, Sir Percy Daniels, K.B.E., Mr. Robert Grant, Junr., Mr. James Hamilton, Mr. Albert Holt, Mr. Frederick Flutter. Mr. S. B. Joel, Mr. Claude Johnson, Mr. Charles A. Knight, Sir T. P. Latham, Bt., Mr. Alexander Lyle-Samuel, M.P., Sir G. Mills McKay, Mr. T. P. Morgan, Mr. Francis E. Powell, Mr. Gordon Selfridge, Mr. Montagu Summers, Sir Francis Trippel, Mr. James White.

On Wednesday, April 21, 1920, at Washington, Mr. Wrench, on behalf of the Dover Patrol War Memorial Fund, presented to Mr. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the United States Navy at Washington, a cheque for £ £6,000 for the erection of a monument in the United States as a lasting memorial to the spirit of co-operation which existed between the American and British Navies during the War.

In accepting the gift, after paying a tribute to the heroism of the British Navy and to the work of the Dover Patrol, Mr. Daniels said:---

"I wish to thank you for coming in person to present this latest token of the comradeship of our countries and of the men of our navies during the world War. The friendship strengthened in the stress of mutual co-operation and sacrifices in war must be cemented in devotion to world-peace and world-justice in the years of transition, and in the decades of peace that, we trust, lie before us."

The following day the New York Times wrote of the presentation:---

"Few more pleasing happenings have recently been reported from Washington---where displeasing happenings have been rather recent of late, by the way---than the presentation on Wednesday to Secretary Daniels by an Englishman of a check for £6,000 to be used in erecting somewhere on the shore of New York Bay an obelisk to commemorate the co-operation of the American and the British navies.

"That co-operation deserves to be commemorated, for it was a distinctive and successful part of the larger union of forces for a common end by which the late War, more than any other ever fought, was marked.

"When the navies of two great nations, and especially of two great nations that have had more than differences in the past, forget old jealousies and animosities, it tells much about them both and even more about the enemy that brought them together in action.

"This British gift is the more to be appreciated as coming, not from one or a few contributors, but from thousands."

An organisation which the author tried to start during the War.

"The Irish Unity League is a society of Irish men and Irish women the members of which believe in a United Ireland of free citizens.

"The members of the Irish Unity League believe in the great destiny which awaits United Ireland as a self-governing unit within the British Empire and they recognise that imperial supremacy in regard to foreign policy and the disposition of the naval forces of the Crown must be maintained. They believe that the well-being of Ireland can only be realised by all Irish men and women working together.

"The members of the Irish Unity League believe that the progress of their native land has in the past been hindered by party strife and faction. They undertake to devote themselves to the promotion of the welfare of Ireland within the Empire by every means in their power.

"The members of the Irish Unity League believe in the development of Irish industries, of Irish agriculture, and of the protection of Irish financial interests generally by every constitutional means.

"The members of the Irish Unity League believe in an Ireland of healthy and prosperous citizens living in happy homes."

Founded St. Patrick's Day, 1917.

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