News of the Week
UNLESS greater care is taken, one of the immediate effects of Lord Cecil's resignation from the Govern- ment may be a hard division between those who believe themielves to be the sole supporters of disarmament—the only true friends of the League—and those who, standing by the Government and believing in Mr. Baldwin's sin- cerity, will be written off as reactionaries and betrayers of the League and its causes. We earnestly hope that the parties of the Opposition will pause before they try to commit the country to any such ghastly misrepresenta- tion of the facts. We are thinking of the interests of the nation rather than those of the Government. The Government, as we think, have not done all that was possible in advocating League methods and exalting the authority of the League, but the simple truth is that belief in the League is not the belief of any one party. It would be a disaster for this country if the League and disarmament were made party questions.
