5 JANUARY 1934, Page 10

The Archbishop of Canterbury's impressive appeal for support for the

League of Nations in his broadcast sermon on New Year's Eve was evidence of a quality of leadership of which there is all too little sign in other quarters where it might reasonably be looked far. Convinced himself that the League is "the one barrier against fear and the lawless forces that fear arouses" he was compelling in his appeal to every citizen to strengthen the Government in making support of the League, and action through the League, the basis of our national policy. Mysteriously and incomprehensibly The Times printed not a word—at any rate in its London edition—of a pronouncement that may properly be read as the reply of the Churches of this country as a whole to recent attacks on Geneva.