NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE first Assembly of the League of Nations met at Geneva on Monday. This fact is, or ought to be, a very conspicuous milestone in the history of the world. We wish we could say that the Assembly met with all the auspices favourable and that the event had caused as much interest in a war-stricken world as it should have done. It is our solemn belief that the League of Nations, or at least let us say the principle which underlies the League—the principle of the
. . association of civilized countries—is the only barrier which stands between civilization and collapse. We all know now what war on a grand scale means. Every war begins where the last left The devastations of the late war were but a foretaste of what would happen in the next. War by air was only beginning. The men of science were only just getting to work on their Poisonous gases and their lethal rays.
