Last Sunday night the official British speaker re-expressed " the
feeling of the whole British people," that though Great Britain desires to do everything she can for improving the machinery of peace she will have nothing to do with any further military commitments. The Prime Minister confirmed this statement in the House on Tuesday. " The Government have no intention of enter- ing into any commitments which go beyond the obliga- tions resulting from the Covenant of the League of Nations and the Treaty of Locarno." The Government are cer- tainly interpreting the considered opinion of the nation, but we must add that some of the expressions of that opinion have been most unfortunate. To argue that such commitments would mean our going to war without being able to control the situation which brought about war is surely to hark back to pre-War international methods.
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