News of the Week lIE Balkans remain true to type
as the danger point of Europe. It was there that the Great War had its urce, and it Might have been hoped that the froth- • wers of the Balkans would have been sobered by the antic catastrophe of which they were the indirect use and from which they greatly suffered. Yet the wns—to change the figure—still try to jig about the ess-board on their own account, heedless of the fact t their disquiet threatens to bring into play the 'glitter figures behind them. When we write it seems t the fresh dispute between Yugo-Slavia and Albania be adjusted by the restraining influence of France. the recent trouble between Yugo-Slavia and Italy account of Albania and now the direct dispute between 0-Slavia and Albania are symptoms that need careful telling- We wish that the Adriatic problem could finally settled. So long as it remains a problem it ikely continually to reveal fresh aspects of danger.
