The League of Nations and " Security " The -fifty-ninth
session of the Council of the League of Nations opened on Monday at Geneva. Mr. Marinkovitch (Jugoslavia) presides• over a gathering that includes the Foreign Ministers of all the Great Powers. A mere cata= logue .of the subjects on the agenda—Palestine, the Commercial Convention arising from the " Tariff Truce " Conference, a Report on the Traffic in Women- and Chil7 then, and the agreed amendment of the Covenant bringing it into harmony with the Peace Pact, &c.--shows, the extent to which the League is fulfilling its function . as a table at which the States sit down to do their ordinary business. The private discussions between M. Briand and Signor. Grandi are likely to be more fruitful in the Atmosphere. of Geneva than in that of London, not- withstanding a characteristic exercise in . rhetoric . by Signor Mussolini on Monday. His utterance was in sharp contrast with the quiet and dignified statement -of Signor Grandi on Friday, May 9th. The Italian Foreign Minister may be congratulated on having entirely understood " the better way " of peace to which Great -Britain and - the United States are committed. It is the way of mutual -political confidence, - as compared- with the basis of fear on which the- French continue to try to rear a structure of " security." '
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