5 SEPTEMBER 1931, Page 2

The League of Nations Geneva again calls for our attention,

in spite of our troubles at home. The Council of the League of Nations was summoned for Tuesday, and the Commission of Enquiry on European Union also met to receive reports from its Committees which have been working on schemes for economic co-operation. The Assembly is due to meet next week. The subject that creates most interest and some nervous anticipation is the expected Report of the Permanent Court of International Justice on the legality of the Austro-German Zollverein, but the hot feeling engendered in France by the tactless announcement of the proposal has died down. The French cannot hear of the Ansehluss or anything that might lead towards it without a revival of an inherited dread., They must be tenderly treated if their fears are again aroused: _ * *, * , _ *