13 MARCH 1926, Page 4

* * * There is also the plucky consistency of

the Swedish policy for which we cannot be sufficiently thankful. The conduct of the Swedish representatives at Geneva is heroically rigid. They refuse to join in any of the conversations with which Geneva is buzzing on the ground that all these are in the nature of intrigues. The proper place for discussion, they say, will be the League itself after Germany alone has been elected a permanent member of the Council, as it was understood at Locarno that she would be. Sweden refuses even to consider the argument that there can be any doubt on that point.