3 MARCH 1928, Page 2

* * * * On Tuesday the Dutch delegate pursued

the line of proclaiming the possibilities of security already available under the Covenant. The representative of Yugoslavia went further in asking for estimates of the practical value in operation of Articles 10, 11 and 16. We agree with Lord Cushendun's view that it is really of no use to try to measure security. No advance would be made by any arguments about such formulae, even if any result appeared on paper. A new French memorandum harked back regretfully to the definition of aggression in the old Protocol. Later there was an echo from Havana, when an Argentine delegate criticized Article 21 saying that the Monroe Doctrine was no regional under- standing as stated, but a unilateral declaration,