12 JANUARY 1940, Page 6

Wednesday of this week marked an anniversary which, so far

as I have seen, no one in the Press noticed. Perhaps they had no heart to ; perhaps they forgot. On January loth, 1921:I—just twenty years ago—the Treaty of Versailles came into force and the League of Nations into being. I forgot it myself till someone concerned in both events reminded me of it.

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