Abstract

Editorials

This article reports on key developments affecting the U.S. All those people who were caught in the stock market crash in the U.S. are busily and anxiously trying to look ahead and to discern what is likely to happen next. A good many people, including, of course, a certain number of members of the U.S. Congress, have promptly insisted that Wall Street is the leader of the calamitous procession. Herbert Hoover, the U.S. President, in his Armistice Day address, advanced the proposal that neutral food ships in time of war be exempt from capture. There can be nothing but praise for the humanitarian impulse that unquestionably animates Mr. Hoover's proposal. The starvation on non-combatants in the First World War was one of the most dreadful features of that ghastly struggle.