W. F. CASEY
SIR.—May I express my gratitude for your note about W. F. Casey. You are right in saying that few people inspired more affection from all who knew him. Not many have recalled that he was very frequently The Times Geneva Correspondent during the years when the League of Nations still held great hope for mankind; no one interpreted more effec- tively the degree to which the ordinary citizens of many countries came to accept the Covenant as binding law which their governments ought to respect; and none understood better the success achieved in the first decade of the League's existence by the method of responsible Parliamentary discus- sion which Lord Cecil, Lord Balfour, Mr. Arthur Henderson, Sir Austen Chamberlain and others intro- duced for the first time into the conduct of inter- national affairs. This service deserves to be particu- larly and gratefully remembered at the present time. —Yours faithfully,
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