News of the Week
/THE Eighth Session of the Assembly of the League ended on Tuesday. There are now two distinct camps of opinion in the League—the camp of those who believe, or pretend, that the League has declined, and the camp of those who hold that though the League is progressing slowly it is truly progressing and was never stronger than it is now. We ourselves are in this second camp. We cannot be in doubt about the growing strength and importance of the League, because even while contemplating the renewed ill-feeling between France and Germany, we recognize that even this ill- feeling, disappointing though it is, has aroused no fear of -violent complications. There could not have been such freedom from anxiety if the League had not been in existence. The most striking fact of the session has been the emergence in an almost solid phalanx of the smaller Powers who have attacked the Great Powers for what is alleged to be their calculated • dilatoriness in promoting peace in accordance with, League principles and for their habit of conducting private negotiations. • . _
