Retreat From Versailles.

And Mussolini? He and the Four Power Pact are not just now in the foreground. Whether the Pact is to yet become a force is not clear. The Italian correspondent of “The Manchester Guardian” specifies German-Italian territorial gains which, he says, are motives behind the Pact, but were concealed from Mr. MacDonald when in Rome. Pressure, he says, would be exerted by the Four Powers to make Poland compensate Germany on the eastern frontier, and to make Czecho-Slovakia and Rumania compensate Hungary. A compensated Germany would then abandon an Austrian programme embarrassing to Italy. These allegations are not presented as having authority, but they are an example of fairly wide-spread suspicions that the Pact would mean dangerous frontier adjustments leading to war. Poland and Czecho-Slovakia are not infants. Yet judges like Mr. page 59 J.L. Garvin declare that readjustments must come. Can there be peace on the Versailles basis? Can any change of that basis avoid war? Herein lies the dilemma.