Another reason is the general inability of a somewhat slow public opinion to take hold on more than one subject at a time or more than one urgent part of one subject.

The One Subject, of course, is winning the war.

Since everything else depends on that, everything else must wait on that.
The League, therefore, has not taken hold on the public imagination here as it has in the United States.

The large mass of the people have not thought seriously about it: it has not been strongly and persistently presented to the mass of the people.

There is no popular or general organization to promote it.