The Body of Experts in general charge of the White
Slave Traffic investigation discussed by Dame Edith Lyttelton in the last issue of the Spectator has been meeting at Geneva this week, to discuss the publication of Part II. of the Report. It will be remembered that Part I., embodying a general survey of the investigators' conclusions, was published by order of the League Council last March, and that it was decided that the issue of Part II., embodying the reports on individual countries, together with any observations the Governments of the countries concerned might desire to make, should be deferred till December. The Body of Experts has now to consider the precise form the report shall take. It is- understood that some fifteen Governments have sent in observations, and that in two or three cases the reports of the experts are definitely traversed, the countries concerned being those which emerge with little credit from the inquiry. There can be no question of withholding publication, for the decision regarding that at the September meeting of the Council was categorical. Neither, of course, could state- ments by interested Governments be allowed to supersede the conclusions of impartial investigators. It seems likely therefore that the reports will appear in their original form, with the observations of the Governments regarding them
appended. * *
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