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interpretation from the available signed documents,—who will, that is to say, take account of asfew things as possible, in an excusable search for asimplicity which is not there. That would only giveus more judgements of Solomon with the ass's ears,a Solomon with the bandaged eyes of law, who,when he says " Divide ye the living child in twain,"means it.

The Wilsonian dogma, which exalts and dignifiesthe divisions of race and nationality above the bondsof trade and culture, and guarantees frontiers butnot happiness, is deeply embedded in the conceptionof the League of Nations as at present constituted.It yields us the paradox that the first experiment ininternational government should exert its influencein the direction of intensifying nationalism.

These parenthetic reflections have arisen from thefact that from a certain limited point of view theCouncil of the League may be able to advance a goodcase in favour of its decision. My criticism strikesmore deeply than would a mere allegation of partiality.

With the conclusion of the plebiscites the frontiersof Germany were complete.

In January 1920 Holland was called on to sur-render the Kaiser ; and, to the scarcely concealedrelief of the Governments concerned, she duly refused(January 23, 1920). In the same month the surrenderof some thousands of " war criminals " was claimed,but, in the face of a passionate protest from Germany ,