20 SEPTEMBER 1935, Page 6

Sir Samuel Hoare's broadcast from Geneva last week Was in

its way as successful a piece of work as his address to the Assembly—not because it was so like it, but because it was so different. There was an informality about it that was almost intimate and that brought the speaker in his first sentence into complete rapport with his unseen audience. The Foreign Secretary had the air of really conveying. information, which is always attractive, and at the same time he spoke as a delegate reporting not to the Cabinet, but to the ordinary citizen whose representa- tive he in the ultimate resort was. You could read the Assembly speech in the papers and admire the statesmen. You listened to the broadcast and were linked in synix pathy with the man.