We heartily congratulate the League on its rapid and efficient
work- in settling the incident between Greece and Bulgaria. The whole affair has been- admirably Managed. In the days before the Great War there was no knowing what might be the results of a Balkan squabble, for the Balkans were the chess-board of Russia Austria and Germany. The movement of an apparently unimportant pawn set all these great Powers glaring at one another. War on a large scale might, at any moment boil up as the result of some insignificant encounter ; and, of course, the Great War itself grew out of a Balkan incident. Now we have the League of Nations, and the important fact is that the League has not merely achieved an immediate settlement of the dispute between Greece and Bulgaria, but has drawn up an award which ought to prevent such a dispute happening again. Of course, Greece. is not pleased at losing her case and having to pay, but then no litigant in a law court who loses his case, is pleased. The law court method between nations is steadily being established, and that is what matters.
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