6 DECEMBER 1919, Page 12

. ALLIES AND FRIENDS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " EIPEGTATOR."1 :!IR,—Tite following extract from a study of George Bubb Dodington by Mr. Lloyd Sanders may interest your readers from its modernity :-

" It seems to me," wrote Dodington to Lord Stair, " that we shall at last have so sunny allies that we shall hardly have one friend in the world."

You, Sir, will not agree, nor shall I, but I feel sure you will be amused, even though you may say that the enemies, not the supporters, of the League of Nations ought to have brought to light Bubb's palpable hit.—I am, Sir, &c., Z.