19 FEBRUARY 1927, Page 1

Frankly we have no great belief in this attempt. It

is trying for too much. It is almost impossible to conceive ratios, regulations and definitions which could apply usrly to quite different things and quite different needs.

i t is as though one should try to make a complete set of es covering the games of cricket, football and golf. evertheless, the British Government were perfectly eht to apply thenagelvesi in consideration-of the seneral. :feeling of the League, to an effort to bring off the appar- ently impossible until that effort was proved by events to be fruitless. Great Britain is much nearer in thought to the United States than to any other country. But unfor- tunately, to the vast inconvenience of the world, the United States is not a member of the League.