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ward by General Smuts. It was

The China Mail General Smuts who first propos-

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ed that the Council should” con- sist not only of Great Powers as permanent members but of re- presentatives of the lesser and minor States, who should be elected in rotation from their number. It is therefore surpris- All communications intended for ing to find General Smuts advis- nublication should be addressed ting that the Council should be the Editor, and be accompanied by replaced or superseded by "a the Writer's Name and Address standing committee of Great not necessarily for insertion but ar Powers." Two factors would seem a guarantee of good faith.

to have made him change his mind. He believes (with some justification) that experience has shown the Council to be too large and too cumbrous for ef- ficiency, and he hopes that by this reform those Great Powers who have left the League may 1938.be induced to return to it. (The

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United States is to be offered the bait of a "special position"). That the Great Powers should return is obviously desirable, but it is to be feared that they will insist In London the other day there on other and more far-reaching was held a widely attended and conditions before doing so. We supported conference on the work shall have to consider first whe- ings of the Official Secrets Acts, ther the price may not be too. the law of libe!, and other mat-high. More important, the small- ters affecting the rights and pri-er States will certainly resist any vileges of a free press. Progress attempt to place the affairs of of events has made the subject-Europe in the hands of the matter of that conference one of Great Powers from whom the even greater importance than ap-League rescued them for the first peared when the application of time in history. And in this the Act of 1920 was first called they will surely be supported by in question as a result of the men of intelligence in every

country. Lewis prosecution at Stockport. That prosecution showed in the clearest possible way that legal machinery ostensibly created for the suppression of spying could

be used as a punitive measure in The Free And Easy

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matters which had nothing whatsoever to do with nationa:

Mr. Churchill's promptly issued defences; and the later Sandys rejoinder to Herr Hitler's "man affair left it tolerably clear that in the moon" references to him- the same machinery cou'd be a sef (the one following the other threat hanging over the head of so quickly that both were able to an admittedly patriotic M.P. in appear in the same issue of the the exercise of Parliamentary du- Lngush newspapers) underlines ties that were solely concerned.ne genuine noveity of such ex- with the strengthening of those changes between the head of a defences. Mr. Dingle Foot's Bill foreign country and one who is to prevent the future exercise of at the inoment simply a private the 1920 Act in those ways is member of Parlament. Once very properly designed and in-upon a time it would have been tended; men and Ministers go thought odd and even amazing if but Acts, unless repealed or the head of a State had argued amended, remain, and the most by name with anybody at all in tender assurances given by one another country, except perhaps Home Secretary need not bind his in devious and confidential successors and other law officers. changes with his own ambassa- But both press and public at this dor. Even now it would be re- moment have need to be vigilant garded as astonishing it, say, Mr. not only of particular points but Rooseve.t.or the French Presi of general tendencies. Over dent were to indu.ge in an ora- most of Europe the printing on which directly invited a presses are now in chains, and ittie back-chat from any speci- even in Britain there can be not fed politician in the British Isles. led among some writers and However, the Weimar depar- speakers a disturbing readiness túre from the dull and decorous to admit the attractions of that traditions of yester-year certain- position for the purposes of any shows the importance which Administration that may be de-Herr Hitler attaches to the oppo- termined to go its own way and sition forces in this country, crush where it cannot argue. It which can be read as a compli is a desperate tendency by the ment and a sincere one. It also older traditions. The public ascends to make foreign relations well as the press has every rea-la bit more "matey" and less pon- son to expose and resist it.

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tifica; perhaps one of these days Herr Hitler will go a stage far- ther and take to writing "letters to editor." After al; it must Jin some ways be a bit dull being a dictator. There is so little The original British conception chance for the back-chat which of the League of Nations was an is so often the soul of social in- organised and enlarged Concert tercourse. In the compulsory ab- of Great Powers on the lines of sence of anything approaching. the Final Act of the Treaty of "nest-fou.ing" in the Third Realm Vienna. In the words of the a Fuehrer cannot very well argue Foreign Office Memorandum of with his own subjects by name, 1918, "the Great Powers would and Mr. Chamberlain and M. Da- stand out as being, what in fact ladier do not seem to be very they are, a sort of executive com- much good at talking back. mittee of the whole body of 80 [Fuehrer who wants a little fun vereign States." This conception might well decided to try else was enlarged partly to meet the where. He will certainly get it ideas of Wilson and his Ameri-if he decides to continue his un- can advisers and partly as a re- conventional exchanges with Mr. sult of the suggestions put for-Churchill.