Interest keen and widespread was shown in the re-entry, after
so long an abstention from publio affairs, of Lord Grey of Fallodon when he spoke of a League of Nations on Thursday week at the Central Hall, Westminster. The League, he said, would provide the machinery to prevent war in future. There must be no economio boycott within the League ; but economic boycott would be a most powerful weapon to be used, when necessary, by the League itself. Germany must take the lead in disarming, as she had in arming. Germany could be admitted to the League only as the Government of a free people. The League would establish a system of international poiioe, and incidentally would give international labour negotiations a more official status. Finally, the League would raise the international relations of the world to a higher plane than was ever possible before. We hops shortly to return to the subject of the League.aad to present a draft scheme showing a League in operation.
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