* * * Dangers at Memel Not all, perhaps not
many, of General Goring's utterances are faultlessly conceived, but his comments on the situation at Memel, where an election is pending, are fully justified in their main purport if not in all their emphasis, and the guaranteeing Powers; Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, will be making a serious mistake if they ignore the situation that may arise under th'e stress 9f Lithuanian menaces. This is not a League of Nations affair (except in the sense that any dispute anywhere may be) for Memel was dealt with first of all by the Conference of Ambassadors and then by the four Allied Powers mentioned above. Lithuania has never realised that her only hope of retaining sovereignty over Memel was to exert every effort to make the arrangement, giving the German population of Memel autonomy,, work -smoothly. She has mingled provocation with actual injustice and the .British Government has already indi- cated its disapproval of Lithuanian policy in this matter. That the Germans at Memel are no less provocative inay well be true. If so, there is all the more reason for -depriving them of all legitimate cause for complaint.'
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