Ever since its establishment, from the fusion of four existing ex-Service organisations, in 1921, the British Legion has been a stabilising influence amongst the chaos of post-war movements, and it has done much to keep alive the good elements in the spirit of the war years. It has now a membership of nearly two millions. Sir Frederick Maurice, one of its Vice-Presidents, who gives this talk on it, is a distinguished soldier (he was Director of Military Operations to the Imperial General Staff during the last three years of the war) and a writer on military subjects, his books including one on "Governments and War".