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Signor Mussolini has some great qualities, but no doubt also

the defects which correspond to those qualities. His wonderful self-confidence and his amazing swiftness in action are notoriously characteristic of the man whose political experience is not long or wide. He would really have lost nothing, and might have gained a great deal, by presenting his case to the judgment of the world, and in particular by making use of the League of Nations, of which both Italy and Greece are members. The ulti- matum, as we read it in the reports before us, gives the Greek Government no time to prove their innocence, if so be that they can do so.

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