It is this pugnacious spirit that frightens France, and more
than anything else defeats Germany's aims in international affairs at Geneva or elsewhere. France will have had another shock lately, in what we too find shocking, namely, in an article by General Balbo, the gallant Italian airman, who is now his country's Air Minister and should therefore write in the Press with a sense of responsibility. We can be fairly sure that Italian Ministers do not write what could offend Ii Duce. General Balbo, himself a delegate to the Disarmament Conference, condemned that Conference as useless owing to the domination of France, the United States and ourselves, none of whom had any intention of disarming. He praised up Germany, Russia and his own country for trying to resist this domination of the League. We publish to-day an article on the League which is aptly illustrated by General Balbo. It is the Governments of the Member-Nations that can make the League what it ought to be or can bring it into contempt. Italy seems determined to do it harm. Signor Grandi's fate, by which the Court of St. James's alone has benefited, seems to show what Signor Mussolini thinks of those who make good use of the League.
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