Mr. Balfour answered his own question by declaring that :—
" What they had got to do was to combine that national feeling with that passionate desire for international comprehen- sion and international amity which was the stvest obstacle to any repetition of the horrors which we had gone through the last five years."
We are in full agreement with Mr. Balfour. For our international problems we want not only sympathy of comprehension, but also the sympathy that comes from the passion engendered by devotion to a great and good cause. Mr. Clynes, as he generally ` does upon great problems, spoke wisely and well : "Labour had now to deal with foreign affairs, and therefore Labour should be possessed of the fullest possible knowledge on these questions." Lord Robert Cecil, to whose inspiration the British Institute already owes much and to whom it is certain to owe still more in
the future, also spoke. No institution of the kind could have started under better auspices.
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