27 FEBRUARY 1926, Page 3

We hope that the Times is right in saying that

there is really no need to be alarmed, as Sweden, a non-permanent member of the Council, is determined to vote against Poland, and the position is therefore safe since the vote must be unanimous. If Sweden should make herself responsible for preventing what we are sure would be an extreme blunder we shall be more deeply in her debt than ever. A volume might be written about the heroic loyalty and self-abnegation with which Sweden has devoted herself to the interests of the League. In the matter of the Aaland Islands she showed that she could place principle above self-interest, and in many other ways she has pursued a policy of loyalty with great honour and credit to herself.