It may be thought that it is almost hopeless to
secure the unanimity of the fourteen members of the Council, but • happily the representative of Norway in the Assembly succeeded in restoring to Lord Ceeil's scheme the clause which had been temporarily abandoned but to which we have always attached much importance. That clause gives the Assembly power at any time to elect an entirely new set of non-permanent members of the Council. The significance and utility of this provision are obvious. If some obstructionist State tried to hold up the work of the Council, as Brazil did last March; the ' Assembly could disband - the non- permanent .members and elect fresh representatives. Here there seems to be a complete safeguard. It is hardly to be supposed that a State which was recalcitrant merely in its own selfish interests would be likely to commend itself to the Assembly. * • *
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