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Hottest liberal blast of the week came from Dr. Ramsay Muir, president of the National Liberal Federation. "The Baldwin Cabinet has betrayed our national honor," cried he. "The judgment of the world on Britain now is 'Beast—mean, cowardly beast!'"
De Valera and King with Baldwin, Although His Majesty's obstreperous Irish Free State Government usually like to bait His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, last week lean President Eamon de Valera played an obliging Don Quixote to rotund Stanley Baldwin's earthy Sancho Panza. "May the fate of Ethiopia be a warning to the small States of Europe," President de Valera told Free State Deputies. "Sanctions have failed and at Geneva our Free State will support the lifting of Sanctions from Italy."
So flustered in Paris was new French Premier Leon Blum last week that Sir George Russell Clerk, the British Ambassador, was called to the Quai d'Orsay and quaveringly told by new French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos that, although France will "support" Captain Eden when he proposes abolition of Sanctions at Geneva late this month, this will be "a move in which France can neither take nor share the leadership." In other words, Premier Blum's Communist and Socialist supporters are willing to agree to an historic League capitulation before Fascism, but demand that as much of the odium as possible be borne by Britain. Headlined contented Rome newsorgans last week: 'BRITAIN CAPITULATES."
Failed but No Failure— This week devotees of the League of Nations could find comfort only in such crumbs as the following, dropped by Canadian Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, a kindly optimist: "The League of Nations has failed, but the League is not a failure. Its machinery for conferences and conciliation is always available. We must not despair of the League!"