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RUSSIA'S ROLE IN EUROPE

being made." Thát no doubt, is a determining factor in the pre- sent talks, but Great Britain has to remember that she cannot, in her own interests, allow the anti-Soviet prejudices of other countries to multiply the risks she is already undertaking. It would be dangerous, if not suicidal, to hedge the anti- aggression front around with [limitations.

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Ancient Noises o' Nights

The Dean of St. Paul's, who has been complaining humorously about sleepless nights amid the noises of the City, would have found many sympathisers in an- Renewed diplomatic activity in cient Rome. Julius Caesar (so Moscow during the week-end re- Shapespeare says) like to have flected the increasing desire of around him men who sleep o' Britain and France to arrive at a nights, but he had himself done mutually advantageous under-much to murder sleep by a law standing with Russia. After which prohibited heavy street Lord Halifax has discussed with traffic, in the day-time before M. Bonnet in Paris ways and late afternoon. The rich might means of surmounting the very find rest in their mansions far real difficulties and complications enough away from the centre, but that stand in the way of full the highly strung literary men of Russian diplomatic and military the early empire seem to have co-operation with Great Britain had disturbed nights. Juvenal and France, fresh instructions complains of nights made dread- are in the hands of the negotia-ful by rumbling wagons and the tors with somewhat better hopes.midnight. "language" of cattle It may

be that the delay in drovers. "It needs a fortune," reaching an agreement with Rus-he says, "to sleep in Rome." sia after two months of negotia- Martial, who lodged in a noisy tion is due to complications be quarter, where as at the Deanery yond the control of the British of St. Paul's, "all the city is at Government to suspicions and my bedside," gives us a curious prejudices against Russia, or to list of his own particulars spoil- the kind of difficulty, which was ers of sleep; among them a night. encountered by France when she bakery, a firm of gold beaters, negotiated the Franco-Soviet pact and a schoolmaster who started and by the United States before school before cock-crow and kept the signing of the American-would-be sleepers alert with his- Soviet trade treaty. But wherever shouting and the swishes of his may rest the blame, it cannot be cane. Near the end of life denied that the present pro- Martial retired to a little es-- crastination has given rise to tate in his native Spain, and. justifiable anxiety not only in the when friends wrote condoling minds of a public confronted with him on his distance from. with an unprecedented extension cultured life he made a pleasant of British obligations in Europe, reply: "I am enjoying immense but also in the ranks of the Briand remorseless sleep till 9 a.m., tish Cabinet and its supporters. and I now make up for all the The co-operation of Russia is nights I lay awake during thirty vital to the impressiveness and years in Rome.” probably to the success, of the anti-aggression front. In the A Land of Aliens

last few months Great Britain

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has embarked upon a new for- It has long been suspected that eign policy which has assumed that strange survival the lit- vast commitments in Eastern tle independent principality of Europe. With those commitments Monaco, on the coast of the go unprecedented risks, which French Riviera, contains precious. will be increased, not diminished, few genuine Monegasques. And, by failure to bring Russia into sure enough, a recent census re- the peace-fold built by the Demo-veals it as easily the country with cratic Powers. Three great dan the greatest proportion of aliens.. gers would arise in the event of The best-represented nation in. Russia's choosing to adopt a Monaco's population is Italy, with policy of isolation and aloofness: 9,724 nationals, There are 8,540, The anti-aggression front would French, and 1,902, British, 270 lose much of its stature and Americans, 194 Belgians, 278 would suffer in terms or military Swiss, 122 Russians, 96 Span- power; the Western Emocracies iards, 187 Germans, 75 Poles,. would lose, to an appreciable de- 164 Dutch, 86 Czecha, 29 Swedes,. gree, the initiative which they 28 Norwegians, 22. Turks 89, seized from the Axis Powers, Hungarians, 122 Austrians, 9 and Germany would be encourag Bulgarians, 25 Yugo-Slays, 33. ed to believe that Britain assumes Rumanians, 17 Luxemburgers, 36. her new commitments unwilling- Greeks, 28 Danes, 7 Peruvians, 6- ly and does not mean business. Persians, 5 Egyptians, 3 Geor- Failure to enlist Russian co-gians, 7 Letts 9 Brazilians, 27 operation, in short, would under Argentinians, 16 Irish, 5 Exton-- mine the value of the anti-aggres lana, 20 Cubans, 7 Armenians, 1 sion front and throw the world Mexican, 2 Uruguayans, & Colom.... into a condition of increased bians, 11 Chileans, 11 Lithuan...... nervous uncertainty. Mr. Cham lans, 2 Danzigers, 8 Finns, 4 berlain in the House of Commons Hondurans 1 Lichtensteiner, 3 has suggested that blame for the Portuguese, 1 Lebanese Iraqi dilatory nature of the conversa 2 San Marinoers 4) Albanians, tions may not rest, as some of Chinese, I Ecuadorian, 1 Haitian, his opponents supposed, with and 2 bemused foreigners who London Russia, he said, might do not know just what they are. be disposed to collaborate, but A polyglot assembly indeed?

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