finest embodiment of social life which men had yet developed...the main business of our public life and of our public activities...must be..To unite by every possible link the scattered states of the British Commonwealth." As such, it was an advocate for Imperial Preference. In 1916, the newspaper severely criticized Prime Minister Asquith, nicknamed "Squiff", for drinking too much, allowing no crisis to interfere with his two hours of bridge every evening, and, while hundreds of thousands died, spending leisurely nonworking weekends at friends' country houses. He even raised eyebrows on one occasion by attending a Saturday morning meeting at 10 Downing Street in his golf clothes. 1917 was the high water mark for the British Worker's League, with over 150 branches and in open opposition with the Labour Party, and its decision to send politician Arthur Henderson to Stockholm for an international labour conference supported by communists. The conference proved to be Henderson's downfall. In 1918 the British Workers League stood candidates in the general election as the National Democratic and Labour Party. From 1921 to 1927 the League published a newspaper entitled The Empire Citizen. In the years after World War I, Lord Milner was unhappy with what he saw as Labour inheriting the Liberal "indifference, not to say hostility to the Empire". It would have to rid itself of this if it was to ever become a "great National party". For example, while Labour was enthusiastic for the League of Nations, why had the League of British Nations found no support? He attributed anti-national bias to "superior persons" more interested in eradicating working class patriotism and substituting it with class-consciousness. Video British Workers League in Hyde Park (1917) British Workers' League & March video newsreel film (1914-1918) British Workers' League - celebrate France's Day in Hyde Park Citations Sources The Times, digital archive Thompson, J. Lee., A Wider Patriotism: Alfred Milner and the British Empire'', Pickering: London, 2007 Hochschild, Adam, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion: 1914-1918, Boston: Houghton, 2011 British Socialist Party