Abstract

Editorials

The Peace programs are not only excellent policy for Great Britain, but with slight modifications to suit British situation most of the points would constitute an equally good immediate peace program for the United States. The first could be accepted exactly as it stands, with the latitude it gives for gradual and logical reduction of military forces. The second proposal, if interpreted correctly, is a lull acceptance of the basis for naval disarmament which the United States proposed at the Geneva conference in 1927 but to which Great Britain would not give her consent. The fifth and sixth points in the program apply specifically to Great Britain and suggest no measures here of a similar sort. It may be said in passing, though, that while the recent Anglo-French secret agreement is already dead by voice of the British people, it ought to be officially cremated by the Government.