27 FEBRUARY 1926, Page 4

We hope that Sir Austen Chamberlain will be guided by

the obviously strong feeling in Great Britain. If he is not inclined to give way of his own accord we hope that the Cabinet will give him the necessary instructions. In spite of his many great qualities, which are admired by everyone, he often comes near to failure by an inability to be as sensitive and receptive as a statesman should be. No one, of course, asks that he should be weak. The demand is that he should not mistake rigour for upright- ness. All, his friends would deeply deplore it if by a wrong course now he should lose the honours he gloriously gained at Locarno, and should spoil the hopes of peace which he himself inaugurated.

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