10 FEBRUARY 1933, Page 6

The League of Nations Secretariat, with a Frenchman as Secretary-General

and an Englishman as one of four or five (according as to whether Japan remains in the League or not) deputy or assistant secretaries-general, will be a new conception for this country to assimilate. The British Assistant-Secretary-General, Capt. F. P. Walters, has been found within the Secretariat, not im- ported from outside. His record—Eton, Oxford, the War, secretary to Lord Cecil at the Peace Conference and Chef de Cabinet to Sir Eric Drummond since 1919— qualifies him peculiarly well for his new post. So, it may be added, does his personality, though there is some force in the argument that a man of established position brought in from outside might carry more weight.

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