C.W.L. CLUBS AFTER THE WAR

SIR,—On November 9, 1945, you very kindly published for me a letter in which I slated r " At the end Of the Great War, 1914-18, I believe I am correct in saying all the good work then being carried out by the C.W.L.
for the Services came to a standstill. If conscription is to continue, surely this work is just as essential in peacetime as in war-time?"
This letter was replied to on November 30, 1945, by the chairman of the Catholic Women's League Huts and Canteen Committee as follows: " I should like to assure your correspondent that the Catholic Women's League has every intention of continuing its Canteen Clubs for the Services into the years of peace both in this country and with the Armies of Occupation."
I should he interested to know bow this statement can be reconciled with the notice in our Orders, published last week, that "The C.W.L. Club, 200 beds, Cadogan Square, S.W.1, is to
dose ve/e June 30, 1946."
Recently, I also heard that the C.W.L. Club in St. Peter's Hail, outside Westminster Cathedral, was to he closed in the autumn. Is this true or is it an
unfounded rumour? I ant sure all Service personnel will deplore it if it is! And I would like to register an appeal against the closing of the Cadogan Square Club so soon after the assurance of last November that the C.W.L. were not going to repeat the sad tale of the end of the Great War as it would appear the post-war eonscripts and regular peace-time Catholics am again to be left to depend on the N.A.A .F.I. or non-Catholic philanthropic organisations as before! Can we be informed of the reasons for the apparent reversal of policy? Is it too late to reverse the latest policy, i.e., the decision to close the London club?
PAULUS.