Sir Austen, however _(most sincerely in the cause of bringing
in more peace-makers. as we do not doubt1 went so far East that he arrived in the West. Unless all the reports have been wrong, he encouraged, in particular, the claim of Spain to become a perinanent member of the Council, and at once the fat was in the fire. We have written on this subject in our second leading article and will here deal only with the closing scenes at Geneva. Every conceivable accommodation was suggested in order that Germany might take her place as arranged. Sweden and Czecho-Slovakia behaved nobly in offering to give up their non-permanent seats on the-Council so that room might be made for Spain and Poland. But it was all of no avail. Brazil, who was the third claimant to a seat on the Council, declared that she could not possibly consent to Germany becoming the only new permanent member at the present session. Almost up to the last moment it was thought that Brazil would shrink before the odium of the whole world, but she did not.
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