White men have confidence that they can bluff a Chinaman. Perhaps that fact explains why Premier Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary proceeded, last week, to bluff the League of Nations. He knew that the Acting President of the League Council is now, by alphabetical rotation, His Excellency Tcheng Loh, the Chinese Minister at Paris.
With this tall, gangling Celestial at the 'helm of the League, Count Bethlen dared, last week, to order destroyed the evidence in a case upon which the Council was expected to sit in judgment when it convenes in March. The case was that involving five carloads of...