Prospectus and application form for the Anti-German League, together with two other items of promotional material.

All three items good. Item One: Prospectus and application form, headed 'The Anti-German League. Introduction by the Founder.' Three pages, in a bifolium. Leaf dimensions 27.5 x 21.5 cm. Printed in blue. The 'Introduction' covers the first two pages, flanked by columns bearing the words 'Lest We Forget.' and 'MOTTO: "Everything German Taboo." ' It includes the headings ' "Made in Germany" - The Mark of the Beast' and 'The Alien Menace'. The following is representative: 'We have no Hymn of Hate, and no Kultur, or, at any rate, a Kultur which necessitates the cutting off of women's breasts, but in commerce, as in war, self-preservation is the first law of nature, and our commercial prestige is at stake.' The six objects of the League are given, as is the 'Pledge'. Recto of second leaf bears the names of the League's officers and patrons, and an 'Application Form for Membership.' Item Two: Single-page (dimensions 21.5 x 14 cm) handbill, headed 'Reprint from The Daily Graphic 15th September, 1915.' Bearing half-page photograph of the 'New Form of Recruiting in Regent Street', consisting of a shopfront festooned with slogans, including, covering the fascia, 'If you cannot join the army join the Anti-German League. A million members wanted - enrol at once.' Item Three: Striking handbill printed in black, blue and read. Superimposed over a Union Flag design is a notice headed '10,729 GERMANS' and continuing 'In London alone uninterned!!! [...] In the event of further Zeppelin raids, some of these miscreants still at large, by a pre-arranged system of flashlight signals, will again make us pay dearly for our foolish forbearance. [...]' According to Panikos Panayi ('Germans in Britain Since 1500') the AGL was 'established in the hysteria which followed the sinking of the 'Lusitania' in May 1915'. It 'existed for just one year because its founder, E. J. Balsir Chatterton, faced charges of embezzlement'.