A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
WE all unite," said Mr. Ormsby-Gore on Saturday, "in giving Mr. Eden gratitude for what he has done all through the last two difficult years. If it had not been for him the Disarmament Conference and all it means—nay the very League itself—would not have survived at all." From a Cabinet colleague of Sir John Simon's this is fairly strong, but I have no desire to dissent from the First Commissioner of Works' judgement. He, in fact, did no more than say publicly what most people who follow foreign affairs at all are. saying privately. And last week's proceedings at Geneva, when Sir John Simon went home leaving a deadlock, and Mr. Eden stayed behind and found a solution, come as rather pertinent comment. But it remains to be seen after all whether the Eden, or Eden-Barthou-Davis solution does advance matters in the end. Meanwhile Sir John Simon's devastating handling of Mr. Churchill in the Privilege debate on Wednesday demonstrates once more the brilliance of the talents that are being misapplied at the Foreign Office.
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