It is meeting with strong popular support, at all events in Britain and in the United States.

France and Italy are examining the proposal.

It is well, however, where attractive phrases are used and schemes proposed, to subject them carefully to the double test: how far they cover the ground and meet the real difficulties; and, secondly, how they would work out in practice in the circumstances which are likely to arise.

We want to look at the question as a whole, to see exactly what we have to aim at, sometimes to reiterate what seem almost useless truisms.

The obvious is too often overlooked.