Secretary of State, speaking under the auspices of the National Peace Conference, is one of the most important that have recently been made on the subject of American policy towards war. It is a dignified reaffirmation and combines a high idealism with a very real outlook upon international affairs. Determination neither to thrust the United States into nor be drawn into armed conflicts between other nations is the ideal to which Mr. Hull authoritatively subscribes, but it is not to be accepted as a peace-at-any-price policy. for "this policy must be supplemented. We must make a contribution tọ the realization For personal as well public reasons this journal deeply regrets to learn of the death in Hongkong of Mr. Alfred Hicks, Editor of the "Hongkong Telegraph" and a veteran journalist of wide experience in the Far East. Mr, Hicks was a man of sound principles with a staunch devotion to the standards of his profession and he belonged to a. school of journalism which commanded confidence in its craftsmanship and sense of responsibility. He was a fervent champion of Hongkong's interests and exercised a salutary influence on local public opinion. He had courage as well as restraint in expressing his independence of view and Hongkong is the poorer by his death. The greatest sympathy will be extended to his wife in the bereavement which has so suddenly come upon her.
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