The recent successes of the League of Nations with regard to the Saar Plebiscite and the Hungarian-Crecho-Slovakian dispute, adds considerable importance to the statement reported. from Paris in which M. Berenger said that a complete settlement of outstanding questions between Taly fand France is Imminent, It has been matter of considerable concern amongst observers for some years past that there was a number of questions between France and Italy the failure to solve which constituted jan ever present menace to the Peace of Europe, There are even Inow cases where French and Ital/an policies do not run tide by side. In ome cases this may never be entire-possible, but there is every room to believe that a more cordial understanding by one of the other's dificulties "may not only tend towards the elimination of some causes of irritation, but in the long run bring about a community of interests cal= culated {0 produce a greater degree stability in the structure of peace which, slight as. it appears to-day. has weathered two important dis: turbances in a manner which augurs well for future possibilities. There still remains some spade work to be executed before ft will be possible for M. Laval, the French Foreign Minister, to go to Rome to, mee! Signor Mussolini, but there is no [reason to think that this will not be executed in good time and -an opportunity afforded for the two statesmen to derive every possible advantage which seems to. obtained nowadays from personal meetings between leaders.
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