7 JANUARY 1928, Page 15

The League of Nations

The Prospects of Disarmament

UNDOUBTEDLY the thorniest question before the League is that of disarmament. Some go so far as to say that the prestige of the League is bound up with this intricate problem and that it must solve it or suffer eclipse. To my mind this view is wrong, for reasons I shall set forth, ink it is- obvious that if and when the League can lure the doves of peace to the chancelleries of Europe, it will have accom- plished. its most popular and important act of statecraft.