If Mr. de Valera likes limelight, the cards have fallen
fortunately for him at. Geneva. He is presiding over the League Council, because it happens to be Ireland's turn alphabetically, and if precedent is followed he will remain president of it till the Italian delegate succeeds him at the January meeting. Meanwhile, it will fall to him to open the Assembly next Monday, and carry through the election of its own president, to preside at any special Council meeting summoned between now and January, and to deal with any emergency issue that may need sudden action. One certain item on the Council's agenda is the report of the Lytton Commission, raising issues as important as any the League has ever had to face. The Irish delegate will go back to his country a more experi- enced, and quite possibly a wiser, man. LyNcEus.
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