The retirement of M. William Martin from the Journal de
Geneve is a literally unique loss to international journalism. If it be asked what international journalism is, the answer is that it is the kind of journalism repre- sented by M. Martin's daily articles on foreign affairs in the Journal de Geneve. These front page leaders, which have appeared four or five times a week for almost as long as the League of Nations has been in existence, are studied in Embassies and Foreign Offices in every capital in Europe and beyond. No journalist living, not even the redoubtable Pertinax, is taken more seriously by the chancelleries of the world. M.
Martin has, of course, quite peculiar adVantages, living reaction under the Harding Administration in full blast, as he does in a city where the contacts of nations arc, as it were, concentrated, and with perpetual oppor- tunities of establishing personal touch with the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of fifty or sixty countries.
But that only _ gives him his material. The judgement and ability, and it may be added the courage, with which he handles it are his own,
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