Yet GermanY can hardly, be expected to show herself such
a benevolent animal as not to defend herself when attacked. In effect, she was 'attaCked when several Powers combined at Geneva to keep her out of the League at the last moment. Just as she countered the Allies in conference at Genoa by entering into ra Treaty with the Soviet at Rapallo, so now she answers the members of the League who " turned her down " by showing that she has an alternative policy. She can look to the East instead of to the West. Probably if Germany had become a member of the League she would not have made any new Treaty with Russia. As things are, the new Treaty is a reality and its conse- quences must be carefully watched. It is .too soon, to say whether it will have any appreciable effect uuer the international conditions which were the foundaticn of the Locarno Treaty. Germany has made a demon- stration. But for our part we shall not fear mischief if she is enabled to enter the League in the autumn.
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