The proposed Protocol to the Covenant of the League of Nations-a document devised last summer to maintain the status quo in Europe, to enable European Powers to disarm and to set up a system of obligatory arbitration of international disputes under threat of combined punitive measures (TIME, Sept. 8 et seq.)—was last week unanimously declared dead (because the British Commonwealth of Nations does not intend to sign it) and the whole question of security loomed large in the politics of Europe.
The present position, as reflected in the past week's news, by countries:...
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