Public Opinion and the League It is natural that at
a moment when the failure of the League of Nations to check aggression in Abyssinia has had so depressing an effect on believers in the League ideal an organisation like the League of Nations Union should suffer some loss of support. Nothing could be More unfortunate, for never did public opinion need educating in the aims and purposes of the Covenant more. The Union, on whose executive committee men as different and as sincere as Lord Cecil, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Sir Alfred 7;munern and Sir Norman Angell give ungrudg- ing service, is from time to time made the object of shortsighted and undeserved criticism. -Actually it is cloing•work of great public value, and an appeal now being issued by Lord Cecil, Lord Lytton and Professor Gilbert Murray for increased financial support merits a general and 'generous response.
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