Lord Parmoor sent a letter to the Times of Monday
in which he said that much of the criticism of the Geneva Protocol came from persons who really objected to the principle of the League of Nations as such. " When a policy is distrusted it is not difficult to find detailed ob- jections." Lord Parmoor agrees with Professor Gilbert Murray that the Protocol does not affect in any way the power of review contained in Article XIX. of the Covenant) Moreover, he points out that Article I. of the Protocol contains an undertaking to try to introduce into the Covenant amendments on the lines of the Articles of the Protocol. In general, Lord Parmoor argues that the critics of the Protocol overlook the fact that its provisions apply not to existing conditions but to conditions as they would be after there had been an agreed reduction of arma- ments. In the same issue of the Times there was a welcome; letter from Professor S. E. Morison, Professor of American. History at Oxford, who described his impression that in America the League had gained prestige from the proposed Disarmament Conference. Finally, he made the very sagacious remark that the best way to ensure American co-operation was for Europe to show that she could get on without it.
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