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Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1925, Page 3

diplomacy a kink apt. "Sour - experience ol diplomatic ] methods has convinced HR' that they „. :1 y lui vo real value. Diplomacy. in true sense. as the management "• international relations. is a tine art; ami. like nil line ml-, it needs to l>e studied ami practised so that the best results may lie attained with the greatest cronomv el' elfort. An amateur unskilled in the handline of relations netween States and peoples may produce discords as previous a- those ofean unskilled tiddler who seeks to play a violin cftncerto. The sneeessfu! working even of an institution like the Permanent Secretariat of the League of Nations demands a staff unite as skilled in diplomatic craftsmanship as the stall' of any national ministry ot '°i - cion a Hairs' On the other hand, there may he risk in the uncontrolled operations of skilled diplomatic performers. They mav come to take delight in mere exhibitions of skill and to imagine that since the foreign policy ot several nations is entrusted to their management. they are. therefore, privileged beings, entitled to operate in accordance with rules to which ordinary citizens have no knowledge.”—-Mr M lckham Steed, formerly editor of the London "Times,”