Experiments in International Administration. By F. B. Sayre. (Harper. 6s.
net.)—Mr. Sayre describes clearly the various international experiments, with full references to the treaties governing them. He classifies them as organs with little or no power like the Postal Union ; organs with local powers like the Danube Commission, the administration of Cape Spartel lighthouse or the Suez Canal Commission ; and organs with power of control over the members like the Sugar Commission or the Rhine Commission. Mr. Sayre admits the numerous failures, but urges that, where the nations were in earnest, international bodies like the Danube and Sugar Commissions were successful. He thinks that the old. diplomatic rule forbidding the majority to bind the minority must go if the. League of Nations is to suc- ceed. He admits that the supposed equality between any one State, however 'small, and any other State, however large, cannot be maintained, and that the national votes must be weighted. In view of recent protests in the Senate against what is supposed to be an unfair weighting of the British vote by the addition of the Dominion votes, it is interesting to learn from this American scholar that on the Postal Union the Dominions have separate votes, so that Great Britain has six votes, France four and America two. We cannot recall any American protest against this.
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