News of the Week
THE Treaty for the Renunciation of War has still a fair wind behind it. The United States Secretary of State is himself on his way to Paris in the good ship, ' Ile de France,' from which he has exchanged messages of good will with Sir Austen Chamberlain on his sick bed. She also bears eastward the Prime Minister of Canada and two diplomatic Ministers in Washington, who hope to sign the Pact on behalf of Czechoslovakia and Rou- mania. She should be a " happy ship." The Press of the world generally takes the right line of encouragement, though some American papers and politicians show ill will by mixing objections to the Treaty with gibes at the preliminary naval agreement reached by Great Britain and France, the terms of which are unknown to them, as they are to us. The Italian Press is, as usual nowadays, coldly negligent of affairs not purely Italian. It treats the Pact in the same indifferent or patronizing spirit in which it treats the League of Nations ; but it is not hostile.
