12 MAY 1928, Page 33

We wish that Sir Arthur Willert's Aspects of British Foreign

Policy (Oxford University Press, 9s.) could enjoy a wide distribution throughout Europe and even in England, where our foreign policy is almost as much misunderstood as it is abroad. As a nation we are given to belittling ourselves, and we read so many angry criticisms of this and every other Government, from " experts " or faddists whose policy is different, that we forget the great prestige our diplomacy enjoys abroad and that the honour of England has never stood higher—and for good cause—than it does to-day. Sir Arthur's position at the Foreign Office gives him the first- hand knowledge and his training as a journalist the skill to marshal his facts interestingly ; the result is a small volume full of pith and discernment.

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