The Work of the League We have commented elsewhere on
the principal points discussed at Geneva and need not do more here than set doWn a bare chronicle. On Thursday, September 5th, M. Briand delivered one of those speeches full of sympathy, reasonableness, persuasiveness, rhetorical championship of peaceful methods and hectic scorn of obstruction, which have gained for him the admiration and confidence of Mr. Henderson. He mentioned that there was one " serious gap " in the work of the League—an Article of the Covenant which permits war in certain circum- stances. He had no doubt that the gap would some day be filled, though one attempt to fill it had already failed. He professed himself a zealous disciple of the idea of a Federated Europe. He did not, however, make any constructive suggestion except to say that there ought to be some " federal link " between European nations, and that the most important element in the link would be economic agreement.
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