In the matter of League policies and the question of the international body undertaking work affecting particularly an especial National Section with against its will we should both feel as you do --
↑([illegible] J A and E G B)↓ "You must either persuade your national Section to come round to the point of view of the International executive or you must drop the work you contemplate or you must do it and let the National Section resign."
There are conceivable cases where this might not be a misfortune. I think this statement of yours is appreciably different from an the way you put it earlier in the same letter which I do not subscribe to --
"unless it has come to the conclusion that the National Section existing there is of such a character that it ought to be asked to resign."
I do not think it is advantageous to vote on this set of questions however, I think such discussions are more divisive than clarifying and that any Secretary that does not sense these things or any committee that acts in a different spirit is rather hopeless. I am all for the British practice of unformulated constitutional usage.
↑[written up left margin] Addendum to my letter to Miss Courtney↓
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