The last issue of the Sunday Times contained a signifi-
cantly instructive leading article. The subject was security ; the purport was warm approval of Mr. Eden's declaration at Geneva that Great Britain could undertake no further commitments ; and the statement was made that " Locarno and the Kellogg Pact are Great Britain's binding contributions to the maintenance of European and world security." The whole article of close on a column contains no single mention of a not unimportant instrument signed in 1919 and known as the League of Nations Covenant. The omission may have been accidental, but such omissions make it all too easy to understand the contention of Continental States that since Great Britain attaches no importance to the Covenant and its security clauses reliance can only be placed in national armaments.
Previous page
