Tuesday's Times contains a very useful letter from Lord Cromer
in defence of British diplomacy in the Near East. We are specially glad to note that Lord Cromer points out that those who assail our Balkan diplomacy as a failure ought, at any rate, to balance their criticism by the admission, which is no doubt the fact, that our diplomacy conducted at Rome by Sir Rennell Rodd, and at Washington by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, has been in every sense a snocess. In our opinion, it has in both oases been honest, sympathetic, far- seeing, and successful. Before we leave Lord Cromer's letter we must say how unreservedly we agree with him when he says : " By all means let there be criticism if only it be directed to points which may serve to be of use in the future. Mere recriminations as regards the past appear to me at the present time to be both unpatriotic and futile."
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