The Polish proposal for " outlawing " war has come
into sudden importance. Holland appealed on Wednesday for a reconsideration of the condemned principles of the Geneva Protocol and was heartily backed up by the Scandinavian and Baltic delegates. Sir. Austen Chamberlain naturally shrinks from the Protocol idea as the Dominions would never agree to it, and moreover it is unacceptable on general grounds as it would commit us automatically to go to war at the bidding of the League if some defiant country had to be suppressed. Suppose that the country which defied the League was the United States. Suppose that some Republic of South America or Central America had won the sympathy of the League and that the United States became for the moment the "public enemy." It might easily happen. We Can under- stand Sir Austen's alarm. He apparently hopes that the Assembly of the League will pass the Poligh resolution— which might become ver5i valuable—and drop the Protocol idea.
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