chiavellian cunning is refreshing contrast to the charge of stupidity which he usually prefers to bring against the whetstone of his wit. It would seem that at every turn Great Britain has deceived the world and the League. She should have facilitated the pacific express sion of Signor Mussolini's policy instead of contriving within the framework of the League to maintain the Covenant to which she, as well as Italy, was a signatory. The accusation is carried further; by refusing to parcel out her own possessions she has encouraged the Ethiopians to affront Mr. Shaw's sense of civilized propriety. She has accepted mandates which have aggravated the imperialistic in-stiners of her people and bolstered up an absurd Parliamentary system when the proteges of Mr. Shaw's new cult have gleefully submerged themselves in a gratifying autocracy.
The forty-nine nations which have associated themselves with Great Britain's support of the League are happily exempt from the codium which she has incurred, It useless to point out that Great Britain is the only mandatory who has actually carried out the process of completing her charge by bringing Iraq into the League as a fully-fledged member-state. That merely another proof of her duplicity. Her inability to make the League conform to certain itldefined moral standards is assailed with the same fervour as that which accuses her of wielding tyrannical sway over supposed equals Geneva. Her efforts to administer mandates in accordance with the spirit of the Covenant connote her imperialist viciousness and can find atonement only by surrender of the mandates to some other nation which, apparently, is to be allowed to proceed on the lines of that very colonization system which Mr. Shaw has condemned. No wonder Signor Mussolini feels that the moment is opportune for him to wave a protesting olive branch in the face of the armed colossus of Sir Arnold Wilson's nation. No-one would be so indelicate as to suggest that' blame for the Stresa Conference's disregard of the Ethiopian issue cannot be logically placed on the shoulders of only one party to that Conference. Great Britain must abide the question of Mr. Garvin and Mr. Shaw—a delightfully touching union—: Signor Mussolini Jand others are free. The situation calls for one action and one action only: the complete condemnation of [Great Britain by all civilized nations which are prepared to accep: the cheerful patronage of Mr. Shaw. Mr. Anthony Eden has an easy task in Jassuming responsibility for British foreign policy: he should at once issue a formal apology on Great] Britain's behalf for all that has been done in her name ever since the Covenant was signed. Then, suitably attired in a white sheet, he should request his colleagues of the Navy, Wor and Air to give immediate orders for disbandment of their respective forces. The only' objection would be that Mr. Shaw's
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