DURRANT'S PRESS CUTTIN St. Andrew's House, 32 to 34 Holborn Viaduc and 3 St. Andrew Street, Holborn Circus, E.C.1 Telephone: CENTRAL 3149 (Two Lines) The Scotsman 24 North Bridge Street, Edinburgh, 28 MAR utting from issue dated THE SPIRIT OF GENEVA THE WORLD CRISIS. By Professors of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. (10s 6d. Longmans.) "The world crisis," as a title, is perhaps open to the charge of being ambiguous, if not misleading. There are, unfortunately, in these days SO many world crises. The present volume does not relate, except in- cidentally, to what a few years ago we were accustomed to call the economic blizzard. It deals from a variety of angles with the troubled state of the world, and is the work of thirteen professors of the Graduate Insti- tute of International Studies at Geneva, each of whom contributes a substantial essay. "The only link between these papers," it is observed in the preface, is the Institute itself," and the reader is therefore prepared for a considerable diversity of topic. But despite this warning there is nevertheless a large measure of unity, in that most of the essays are concerned with the League of Nations, and all of them reflect the spirit of Geneva. The various articles in themselves are without exception valuable contributions to questions of current controversy. They fall under three headings, the first being de- voted to political and historical problems, the second to legal problems in the wider sense. and the third to economic problems. In the first section M. Paul Mantoux, in amplifying the theme that the League of Nations has throughout missed its opportuni- ties "because of a lack of confidence, resolu- tion, and, above all, foresight," retells in considerable detail the events of the autumn of 1920, when the League intervened between Poland and Lithuania in connection with the Vilna dispute. Professor Rappard, in a discriminating essay, discusses how far the League has, and how far it has not, brought something new into the world. His negative conclusions are no less interesting than his positive, which are that the achievement of the League lies in the proclamation and accept- ance by the general public opinion of four new principles: the principles of international co-operation, international peace, inter- national publicity, and international arbitra- tion. In the section devoted to legal problems there are two essays of great value. The first, by Hans Kelsen, deals with the conten- tious question of the separation of the Cove- nant of the League of Nations from the Peace Treaties. He deals, as a lawyer, with the anomalous situation that the Statute of the League is contained not in one but in several Peace Treaties; and that the I.L.O. and membership of the I.L.O. are likewise legally in a somewhat curious position. The other essay deals with the highly topical question of the attitude of Inter- national Law to Civil War, and at what point insurgents may claim and be accorded the rights of belligerents. In the last group, Professor von Mises is on familiar ground in arguing for Free Trade, and Mr Whitton discusses the ques- tion of raw materials, outlining suggestions for a Code of Practices." Books to which as many as thirteen authors contribute are perhaps never wholly satisfactory, but the present volume cer- tainly contains matter which will commend it to all who are interested in the League of Nations or in the wider international problems of the present day.