Mr. MacDonald recently gave short shrift to the pro- posed
Treaty of Mutual Assistance upon the drafting of which the Asseinbly had spent much time. It must not be forgotten, however, that there is an American project which may possibly have a blessing in store for it. The authors of this scheme are General Bliss, Mr. David H. Miller, and Professor Shotwell. According to a summary of the scheme in the Daily News the proposal is to set up a Permanent Court which shall proclaim any particular State which threatens or takes armed action to be the aggressor. A State refusing to accept the Court's Juris- diction would, by that very fact, be regarded as an aggressor. The means proposed for dealing with an aggressor State are an economic boycott. For the rest it is proposed that a permanent Disarmament Conference should be created by the League.
