I am glad on broad grounds to see that an
English firm has secured, in competition against the world, the order for metal windows for the League's new buildings in Geneva. There was, of course, no kind of substance in the complaint that though Great Britain paid the largest subscription to the League no British tender for the main part of the undertaking had been successful, for there is obviously no connexion whatever between the two circumstances. The building, being planted in the centre of Europe and designed by Continental architects, is being conceived on lines which give Continental contractors certain natural advantages in tendering, but the accept- ance of the British tender for the windows does something —all indeed that is necessary—to keep this country's name to the fore.
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