The 'British Government's proposal for an extra- League *Conference `ivas
dOubtlds's well-intentioned, but here we do feel that it might be-better to work through the League. Mr. MacDonald implies the objection that he wishes to • include in the Conference nations which are not yet members of the League. But would it not be better to press, as a first step, for their inclusion in the League, and then summon the Disarmament Confer- - ence as an assembly of the League itself, attended, if necessary, by the usual American observer ? We know that the present scheme is the result of the most honest and sincere attempt by Lord Cecil- and his co-workers to meet the desires- of France in a disarmament pact, but in this, as in other matters, we hold that too much can be sacrificed to, this single object. France and her- difficulties loom very large on the international horizon' to-day, but we- must remember that disarmament and' peace are world problems, not merely European problems, and we Of the. British Empire must in particular never sacrifice world interests to those of any European State * * * *
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