The Fifty-Eighth Meeting of the League Council, The Council of
the League has appointed a Com- mission mission of eleven members, whose task it will be to prepare a draft embodying such amendments as may be necessary to bring the Covenant into harmony with the Kellogg Pact. That some supplementary convention is required . was the burden of General Smuts' message both over here and in America. Great Britain alone can contrive to bridge the gulf that still separates the American and the Continental idea of the way to peace. The present Government fortunately appreciates fully the synthetic value of British policy, and Mr. Henderson by his wise words at Geneva on Tuesday must have dispelled any remaining suspicion in European minds that this country looks to the Kellogg Pact more than to the Covenant. " Order, stability, and progress in the society of States," he said, " can come only through permanent political institutions acting on a 'basis of accepted public law." The French and German delegates supported the proposition, making it pretty clear, however, that their respective countries would be fighting again over the bone of " sanctions " that has been the occasion of the unedifying spectacle at The Hague. Mr. Henderson also persuaded the Council to appoint a Committee to report on the conflicting claims of -Jews and Arabs at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.
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