Justifobly strictures have been passed on the inability of the League of Nations to stand the strain of the Arst-close assaulle on Its authority by certain of Its more powerful members recent years, 'The League, has much to do to recover. the found lost. Many' believe that it will go the same way os carller and, within the Tmits of international effort then available, equally ambitious plans of the same kind," Stil, oven if it be conceded that the so-called social tivities of the League may be kept alive, the political vitality of that body' need not necessarily be regard ced as lost beyond revival. The setttement of the dimeult and delicate issues arising out of the "League's responsibility "for Danzig and Alexandretia shows that the League SUN functions and puts something det-Inite on the credit side of the ledger. Only unrefecting optimism would dare to claim more at the moment, The breakdown of Disarmament, the dilatory approach tothe questions which are involved in the maine tenance of the statue quo and" the consequent reluctance of some na-long "to. accept the League's an thority or guidance and other uncertainties "constitute sufficiently terious failures and, the worst of it fs, tend to widen the scope for further failures in future, Yel, in resisting the notion that the world can be divided into dictatorships of the Right or Lett, Mr, Anthony Eden has Ju the mame of Great "Britain, inned loyalty to the League id He has made it plain that. national interests Include nothing more Ime portant thab the preservation Peace which cannot be sought on the basis of "such doctrines and slogans" from the unguiet eceptles, fact, is ath the instru vent of "ce-operation in foreign affairs," regardless of the form of Government affected by any" parllcular "country. " Great in will better face the task of 6 in the revival of the League if she can persuade herself to take such steps og will _make the understanding, which Mr, Eden so aptly defined, the Dasis of a consistent policy.
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