LACKING IN INSPIRATION

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 28 January 1933, Page 11

LACKING IN INSPIRATION

4<r PHB most melancholy man in Geneva is Derso, the famous! Hungarian caricaturist, whose work •has brightened up almost every inter-1 national conference since the Armis-j iticc," writes' the Geneva correspond-1 ent of the "Spectator."' "How can I I draw any more profiles?" he complained the other day. "All these faces are flat and empty. ’ ’ And Derso •is right—the Thirteenth Assembly, at any rate up to the time of writing, has contained nothing to persuade delegates and journalists to shake off their lethargy.

"From the moment when Mr de Valera resumed his seat in silence after a vigorous speech which, in old

Complaint of Lethargy at Geneva

days, w'o.uld have won him rounds of applause, there have been no words, still less, deeds to thrill us. M. Motta who has spoken at every League Assembly, did a useful service in reaffirming his faith in the League ideal, and Lord Cecil —(‘Lord Robert’ still to every foreign delegate—was even more useful in his insistence that what was amiss was something about the Governments rather than about the League they had established. "Many of us remain optimists, but we have to confess to ourselves that we are not sure how far this optimism is due merely to a feeling that men cannot really be such fools as to allow themselves to drift into another war."