To-day the rest of the world must be filled with the irony of the proceedings at the Republican Convention in Chicago. The platform which has been drawn up says that the "Covenant of the League of Nations has signally failed to accomplish peace," a complaint with which we agree. But surely this comes with no particularly good grace from those who have done even less than the League to restore. the world to the desired—cundition. Nor is the unfavourable impression essened by a subsequent' clause which "pledges the coming Republican administration to such an agreement as 'wAll meet. the full duties of America to civilization and humanity." As a matter of fact many Amietican financiers have been preaching America's present duty to the world, which is to come to the aid of those devastated countries over which war has raged, to help to set them upon their fedt_by re-establishing credit, but unfortunately the politidians hat> been too busy over the coming political struggle to take this advice seriously to heart. We know that a very great number of Atierficans, both Republicans and Democrats, deplore the parochial atmosphere in which world politics have been debated. and feel that little credit has been done to America's standing thereby. And these feelings are likely to be strengthened by the latest electioneering devices _introduced into the Republican platform.
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