Order in the Saar The Prime Minister's perfectly plain statement
about the terms on which British citizens are being recruited for the Saar police force ought to silence any honest critics finally. The others there are no known means of silenc- ing, short of Herr Hitler's methods. The reasons for strengthening the Saar police between now and the plebiscite are obvious. The desirability of having order maintained by police rather than by foreign troops called in from outside is no less obvious. The capacity of British recruits to carry out these particular duties with efficiency and good humour would, it might be supposed, be generally recognized. Nothing can be more proper than that all League States should give what help they can to a League Commission faced with problems of extraordinary difficulty. As for the cry raised by some of our journalistic patriots that Germany dislikes the recruitment of British police for the Saar, it may reason- ably be asked on what grounds Germany, having resigned from the League of Nations, is to be allowed a veto either on League policy or on the free action of individual Englishmen. The :so-called " Saar ,Sensation " is, in fact, about as sensational as a Belisha beacon.
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