THE Sixth Assembly had behind it the death of
the Protocol and ahead of it the birth of the
doves of Locarno. It had to weep with one eye
and to be merry with the other. In these exacting cir-
cumstances, it chose for its spokesman the only man
nimble enough for the task. Señor Quiñones de León,
Spanish Ambassador in Paris and the representative
of Spain in the Council and in the Assembly, is a living
proof of the fact that the diplomat is not made but
born. He is one of the few Spanish ambassadors who
do not belong to what Foreign Offices know as "the
Career" or "the Service." But he is a diplomat for all
that. So that the Sixth Assembly approved the draft
resolution which he proposed to take stock of the past
and to prepare for the future. Not that what was then
known as the Spanish Resolution means anything in its
actual words. But then the actual words of League As-
sembly resolutions, like the actual words of prayers, in-
cantations, love-letters and other important utterances
are as irrelevant as the chemical formulae of medical
prescriptions. What matters is their effect on the body
politic, religion, magic, amorous or physical on which

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