The New Table Round
THE NEW TABLE ROUND TT IS the best possible indication of Europe's inten-¦¦ tion to turn Geneva into something more useful than a summer resort that anxiety and interest attend the coming...
...It need not be worried by jumpy nerves in the new countries carved out of the Danube and the Dneister valleys...
...Just now, most of Europe is placing so much faith in the stability of the League of Nations that what is done in the near future will have its effect upon the morale of long time...
...Seipel to the New York Times that the exercise of Reich protection over the German peoples to the south is only —if the sentiment of these peoples is to count—a matter of time...
...It depends upon whether French backing of other national ambitions to acquire seats in this august body can prevail against the blunt antagonism of His Majesty's government...
...but obviously they are not designed to promote the kind of Italy which Signor Mussolini has seen in his dreams...
...but it can be promoted in subtle ways which be;ar the same relation to final diplomatic settlement as the master salesman's chatter bears to the closing of a deal...
...Our own present isolation from it is likely to cost us something, at least while we refrain from attempting to organize any similar groupment for the discussion and settlement of international problems...
...It is easy to see what advantages might result from such an arrangement...
...But if the Germans win the day and enter the Council on a firm footing, there will be entries in the League's docket which cannot be overlooked...
...THE NEW TABLE ROUND TT IS the best possible indication of Europe's inten-¦¦ tion to turn Geneva into something more useful than a summer resort that anxiety and interest attend the coming reconstruction of the League of Nations...
...There is no reason why it should be alarmed by commercial embroglios along the Rhine...
...Triumphantly identified with the four ends of the earth, it can afford to be magnanimous to a defeated power which is no longer rich in colonies and ships...
...Can Berlin enter the Council as that is now organized...
...It is evident from an interview granted by Dr...
...Since 1920, the nature of this "protection" has been pretty well defined...
...All eyes are fixed on Germany, because what this quickly reviving country expects to accomplish at Geneva is likely to furnish material for argument during some months...
...Few German students of politics expect anything like coalition into a single state, but work towards "federation" as suggested by the program, according to which certain revolutionary groups in the Centre party have tried to organize their strength...
...Or perhaps the vision is not Mussolini's—who seems, after all, a practical man and an organizer—but rather the property of some one of the rhapsodical theorists who color the earth with extravagances and sometimes with blood...
...The former Chancellor declared that the matter would not be referred to Geneva until the time was ripe...
...Once again the extracontinental position of England is its fortune...
...This is, whatever criticisms may be directed at it from an American point of view, the first institutional arrangement for the progressive guarantee of peace...
Vol. 3 • February 1926 • No. 16
