Welsh Journals

The settlement of the Greco-Bulgarian dispute is claimed to be the first instance of hostilities actually commenced being suspended and peace restored by the action of the League. What actually happened on the frontier between Greece and Bulgaria and resulted in a Greek advance into Bulgarian territory will perhaps be never precisely known. Of these affairs there are always at least two equally plausible and con- tradictory accounts. But no one can question that the action of Greece in resorting to hostil- ities was a clear and insolent breach of her obligations under the Covenant, and Bulgaria very properly applied to the League to intervene. On the action, decision and promptitude of the League in this matter depended a great deal more than the safety of Bulgaria. There was here a clear breach of the Covenant and it remained to see whether the League had the will and the power to assert its authority. The crisis resulted in a convincing vindication of the efficiency of the machinery of the League and of the reality of the force behind it. The Council of the League met in Paris and in spite of the The Father. By Ap Tango. HE was the highly respected head of a printing firm at Bentham, a small seaside town in Wales. His father and grand- father had been at the head before him, and he intended his only son to follow in their footsteps. Some streak of ancestry, linking him with the Orient, must have given him this ideal of son following father for generations. The fact that he himself had wanted to be a Doctor, and that his son now wanted to be an artist, did not make him hesitate; indeed, it did not even make him sympathetic. Rather did he think it a mere symptom of youth to kick against the pricks, and as for any idea that he might play divinity and take away the pricks and leave his son unfettered and free, that was not his idea of fatherhood. He was the most important elder in the Baptist Chapel, and deep in his mind he intended his son, in due course, to take his place and follow after him there too. The fact that the boy cared nothing for religion, and simply went to Chapel rather than bother to make a protest, and that he feigned what little interest he could muster, in anything to do with Zion, in order to be asked to act as occasional organist, did not appear on the surface. Very few of the ideas and emotions that governed his family ever did come to the surface; they knew better than to speak out their inner- most thoughts and wishes before him. He was himself enveloped in conventional coverings, and decently hid his own self in shortness of the notice all the members of the Council except Czeco-slovakia sent their principal delegates. It was ascertained that Greece had ignored the preliminary injunction issued by M. Briand as President of the Council, ordering the troops to be withdrawn to their respective countries. The Council demanded from the Greek and Bulgarian Governments within twenty-four hours an assurance that this injunc- tion had been complied with. Before the expiration of sixteen hours not a single Greek soldier remained on Bulgarian soil. Having been notified of this fact the Council proceeded with the work of investigating the origin of the dispute and fixing the responsibility for the various incidents. With its growing record of useful and bene- ficent work, with the imminent and stabilising adhesion of Germany, and in particular after its very satisfactory handling of the Greco-Bulgarian incident, the League of Nations will face the coming year with more prestige and confidence than at any period since its inception. garments of reserve and pride. Let his children do likewise. It is not decent to walk about unclothed for your grinning fellow beings to spy upon the nakedness of your soul. Welsh, he called himself, but there was a teaspoonful of Scots blood in him, which ac- counted for the narrowness of his religion, and the unnatural reticence of his character. His sensitiveness to any slight, most acute when he was at his stoniest, his innate refine- ment, his ambition, these were all Welsh traits, and his pride, which was so colossal as to be overpowering, that was Welsh too, and it was here that his wife most jarred upon him. She was a Celt, but of a totally different type, for she was homely, emotional, and garrulous, and the last was the unpardonable sin, and one which she, poor woman, committed many times a day. Saint James' injunction about the unruly member she obeyed not at all, and the man often echoed the Apostle's words with bitterness: for the tongue can no man tame." When a man who cannot bear to have his likes and dislikes about food even mentioned to people, learns that his wife discusses their most intimate relations together with the minister's wife and the butcher's widow, it is torture of the worst description, and this laying bare, of his habits and feelings ate into his nature, and soured a never very sunny disposition. Then when his tempers and remonstrances were laughingly gossiped about too, he needs must restrain all passion, and take refuge in the heaviest and blackest of moods, so that for many days he would never utter a word. This jarring one upon the other, for she was passionate and hysterical, and her tears and