* * * It is evident that the resignation of
Lord Cecil is regarded at Geneva as a much more significant event than it is taken to be here. •We ourselves look upon his' resignation as, on the whole, more likely to hinder than to help the League, because there is a real danger, now that his great abilities and unbounded sincerity and enthusiasm have been detached from the service of the Government, that it will be assumed abroad quite wrongly that the Unionist Party does not believe in the League. We read with deep appreciation the remarkl which' Lord Grey of Fallodon made on this subject at Berwick-on-Tweed on Thursday, September 1st. "The League of Nations," he said, "is not a party question. If Lord Cecil had resigned on the question of Free Trade v.
Protection I should have been frankly glad, because I should have regarded it as a blow to the Government.
As it is, I regard his resignation on much wider than party grounds. He will no longer be the British representative at Geneva. I think it is a loss to the country."
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