NEWS OF THE WEEK I T would be an excess of
optimism to regard the dispute betweenJugoslavia and Hungary as already in the way of settlement. Far too much was involved for the possi- bility of a final decision during a single session of the League Council to be contemplated by anyone except the Jugoslav delegate, who at first hoped for a ruling in his country's favour there and then. But Jugoslavia has at least obtained partial satisfaction in that terrorism gener- ally is emphatically condemned in the Council's resolution, and that the possible culpability of Hungarian officia!s in regard to the Marseilles murderers is definitely men- tioned. Hungary, on the other hand, has not been called on to submit to an international enquiry, but has accepted the proposal that she shall carry out a searching enquiry of her own.. If the chief credit for lowering the sometimes feverish temperature of the discussions, and insisting on the exclusion of the whole revision question, which would have divided the Council hopelessly, belongs to Mr. Eden, he was effectively supported by M. Laval and Baron Aloisi, whose steady rapprochement is of good omen for the coming Francodtalian conversations. To Mr. Eden himself falls the important duty of presiding over the committee which is to prepare the draft of an international convention for the repression of terrorism.
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