FROM DAWES TO LOCARNO. By G. Glasgow. (London. E. Benn,
Ltd. 78. (Id. net.) MR. GLASGOW'S views on Foreign politics are well known to readers of the Contemporary Review. Though Mr. Ramsay
Macdonald is his favourite Foreign Minister here and Dr: Benes his favourite abroad, he gives Sir Austen Chamberlain'
his due in this book, just as Sir Austen has generously ac- knowledged his predecessor's good work in Central Europe:
We need not enlarge on the difficulties surmounted and the successes achieved in the period described by the title. Mr.
Glasgow gives a clear account of them, although he does not really add to clear exposition when he pretends to get inside the minds of his chief actors and tries to explain their thoughts and motives. He is happier when, as throughout the greater part of the book, he sticks to a narrative of facts., Similarly his last short chapter on the future need not be taken too seriously.
But the facts of his story he recounts accurately and in good perspective. Our only complaint on this score is that anyone reading p. 19 would think that the Upper Silesian plebiscite took place after the conference in Paris of August, 1921, instead of several months earlier. It is useful to have the text; as given in the Appendices, of a good deal of the preliminary official correspondence which has been published and of the Treaties of London as drafted and initialed at Locarno.
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