The very absence of excitement at the session of the
League Council was a sign of the usefulness of the work accomplished. The Saar difficulty was settled in an atmosphere of good humour, and so was the quarrel about the German and Polish schools in Upper Silesia -by the appointment of a Swiss umpire. Herr Stresemann did a particularly useful thing in ridiculing the elaborate story that Great Britain was trying to build a ring-fence round the Soviet. This grotesque story, utterly without foundation though it was, would have been capable in the days before the League of setting all Europe by the ears. We know the way in which Continental students of foreign affairs think and write, and therefore we know, as Calverley says, that " the danger past will recur again," but, at all events, the present danger seems to be disappearing.
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