Last of all there was a ballot to de - cids whether
any State should be designated in advance as "re-eligible" for a second. term Of three. years. There was only one candidate, Poland, and she easily obtained the 'necessary two-thirds' inajoiity. It does not follow, of courses that she will be re-elected when the time comes, but she starts with' the advantage of a recommendation. It cannot be pretended that the character of the new Council is altogether _satisfactory. Of the previous non-permanent members only Belgium and Czecho- slovakia remain. Who could have foreseen . a few months ago that Colombia would head the list in the first ballot or that she and San Salvador, would become members of the Council at all ? The . Council, which now embodies fourteen States as permanent and, non- permanent members, is a much more unwieldy, body than it ought to be. Yet we do not see how, in the very difficult circumstances of the past few months, a better scheme than Lord Cecil's could have been brought to the rescue. -We particularly regret that no Scan- dinavian country is represented on the Council, for, as we have repeatedly pointed out, the League spirit flourishes nowhere more strongly than in Scandinavia. The voting power of -Latin- South America manifested its great strength in the Assembly.
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