13 JULY 1929, page 5

In View Of The Importance Of The Government's Decision To

sign the Optional Clause of the World Court at The Hague we have devoted our first leading article to the subject, and we have omitted this week our usual League of Nations......

A Great Editor

T HE retirement of Mr. C. P. Scott, after fifty-seven years as Editor of the Manchester Guardian, is an event which has called forth all over the world admiration of what he has......