Lord Bessborough's successor the Governor-Generalship of Canada is. that versatile author-journalist-politician Mr. John Buchan, who, Presumably, in accordance with precedent will have the right to sit in the House of Lords when the time comes for him to leave the "faithful" Commons. The selection is out of the beaten track but Canada has Gsually been fortunate in drawing: ther Governor's-General from different curees of supply. She has seen 'a member of the Royal Family—the Duke of Connaught—occupy Govern ment House at Ottawa. She has had 2 distinguished Indian Governor, destined 12 be an Indian Viceroy—the Earl of Willingdon. She has also had a brilliant soldier, in Vis count Byng of Vimy. The Earl of Bessborough brought aristocratic and business experience to Ottawa, to say nothing of an appropriate sympathy with Canadian French sentiment in his choice of a wife. Mr. Buchan, as Companion of Honour, is a member [of a highly exclusive order wherein of the tracing the Lithuanian authorities comes unhappy moment. 'The trial began on' December 14 at Kaunas. The charge against the accused was tone of treason, Including the alleged murder of az informer-member of] their organization. In September last the "German-born "inhabitants Memel, or Klaipeds, as it is now ealled, handed to the High Signatory Powers of the Memo! Convention—Great Britain, France, Italy and) Japan—a protest against the Lithuanian Government's alleged violation of the Convention. The suggestion was that an illegal state of affairs had been allowed to develop in the territory, justifying the intervention of the signatories. Sir Alexander Year will provide sumicient tunde for the establishment of such a. theatre remains to' be seen, But of the need for such there cannot be much oont "Atter a long experience of close contacts with Geneva and elsewhere, the British "Government does not doubt that Britain's influence on peace would be enormously weakened under present conditions, it were 10 attempt unilateral disarmament. up to a point making it appear that th country was defensvless and unable to contribute to collective security," the Prime Minister, Mr." Ramsay MacDonald, said on Mar, 29 in reply to a resoltition by the Essex" Committee of the British Union for the Leaitue of Nations
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