Mr. Balfour, in the. House of Commons on Thursday week,
made an informing statement about the work done by theleague of Nations during the past four months. It had set up four advisory committees to deal with armaments, health, transit and especially waterways, and international justice. It had appointed a governing commission for the Saar valley and a High Commissioner for Danzig. It was asking for funds to combat the typhus epidemic in Eastern Europe, and it was trying to expedite the exchange of prisoners between Russia• and'the Central Powers. Mr. Balfour expressed the opinion that- the League had done a good deal in a short time. The League suffered less from its enemies and its candid friends than from those who wanted to make it a super-state. America had paused before joining the League for fear lest her national sovereignty :should be infringed. Mr. Balfour said that the League was not meant to rearrange Europe or-to bring order out of chaos ; -when Europe-had been re-arranged, the League was to maintain the settlement. The League -must depend not on fleets and armies, but on delay- and publicity. " The Lea to a Nations will serve you well if you do not-overload it. if you overload it, you will assuredly break it down."
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