* Germany has only to wait a little longer in
order to be able to plead for herself under the most advantageous conditions that are yet possible—we mean when she becomes a member of the Council of the League. She has already applied for membership. This is a very important event and we earnestly hope there will be no hitch. If she joins the Council the League will no longer be open to the reproach that it is a mere committee of the Allies who won the War. We do not deceive ourselves into supposing that Germany will always or generally be a complacent member ; she has many demands to make and in this particular case of Southern Tirol the complication is likely to be great because the Germans in Southern Tirol are not protected by any particular treaty. Yet it is obvious that Germany's membership of the League is not to be deprecated just because it will create fresh difficulties. The whole purpose of the League is to settle difficulties, and if ever we begin to say that the difficulties are too great for the League we shall by that very confession be condemning the League itself.
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