The Council of the League of Nations brought its session
to an end on June 11th. The public discussion and decisions of the last day were not upon subjects of great importance. But we have no patience with the would-be superior persons who think that the occupation of the Council over such prosaic trifles as a pillar box at Danzig deserves only cheap sneers. It is worth while thus removing the small particles of grit that might do unexpected damage to international machinery. And in this way the ground is prepared for bigger matters, one of which came up for discussion but was postponed until September. This was the treatment of Rumanian minorities in Hungary, a matter of equal importance with the treatment of Hungarian minorities in Rumania. We regret the postponement in so far as these are danger points and because the Minorities Treaties are not being faithfully carried out. It is a definite duty of the League to see justice done and these treaties fulfilled in the spirit and, if possible, in the letter. We can accept, however, the opinion of those on the spot if they thought that more acrimony than harmony would result from discus- sion at the moment. If the responsible parties are conscious that the League has its eye upon them and expects them to appear in September with clean hands and reasonable arguments, the good done is not small and the League saved from imperilling the gradual growth of its own powers for more good.
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