* * * * And if there is a dualism
that is right there is a trialism that is clearly wrong. A phrase, already used more than Once by Sir Samuel Hoare, made its appearance in the Ding's Speech on Tuesday, when hopes were expressed. of " a peace acceptable to the three parties in the dispute; namely Italy, Ethiopia and the League of Nations." With all respect to the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, such words can be regarded as no more than pious and rather mischievous verbiage. Italy has broken the Covenant and the Kellogg Pact. She has wantonly 'invaded the territory of a fellow-member of the League. She has been branded by Great Britain' and fifty other countries as a treaty-breaker. And with that record before it the British Government is aiming at a peace " acceptable to Italy." It will not do. Once the League has asserted itself, as it fortunately and rightly has, the only peace to aim at is a just peace, pronounced just by the disinterested members of the League. If " acceptable " means a peace which the aggressor State may be constrained by League action to accept, well and good. But the danger of its meaning a peace which brings Italy profit at Abyssinia's expense is very real. The Paris terms of August, or the Corn-. mittce of Five's terms of September, arc the utmost to which a country standing for a just peace could assent. It is to be hoped that Sir Samuel Hoare will make that unmistakably clear to M. Laval when lie sees him.
