* * * * Germany and the League French "
nerves" have, of course, been inflamed by the evident intention of Germany sooner or later to invoke Article 19 of the Covenant for the purpose of reconsideration of the " insupportable situation " in Eastern Germany. Herr Treviranus has since dotted the i's and crossed the t's of his statement that this is " the next urgent question which must be solved."
M. Zaleski has made a strong verbal protest. And so on. But, after all, the Covenant was expressly framed so as to make possible readjustments demanded by the pacific public opinion of the world. Herr Treviranus was only sounding that public opinion, and as there is a general opinion that the official policy of France is shortsighted and inimical to the real interests of peace, perhaps the moment was not so ill-chosen. The League is at the cross-roads of policy, and only a clear-sighted lead by Great Britain at the coming Assembly will guide opinion there into the real path to peace.
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