Those whose thoughts are_continually turned to the desirability maintaining "peace. throughout the world: will doubtless have read with considerable satisfaction the statecneat made by Mr, Robert W. Bingiam, US, Ambassador {othe Court of St Jamies, "in an interview with are preventative of the "Observer." "it Great Brin and the United States 10 initiate. close diptomatie. ea.
romp farmly the present opportunity
operation, the world. soon will be relieved of its panies and every clipt Tomatie problem in. the world. wil cive litselt" "The statement a Important one and reflects what hat been in the minds of many for a very Jong time past, besides representing ideal. tu which. the {wo natlont concerned would unite for the put ose of, maintaining the world's ence, "Coming from a man of the authority which the 'United 'States Ambasondor undoubtedly possesses, and having been made at a juncture such a5. the present, it has about it very considerable significance, 'There have been those who have' sighed for an Anglo-American hegemony 10 bbe established all over the world guarantee of peace; others have thought. that the only: possible solu: tion of present difficulties would something inthe nature of an. fensive "and defensive. alliance. between the two countries, Either. soli. tion yontd call. for commitments, which, however: welcome they might be to' Great Britain, would assume the nature of those. entanglements against which the United States has repeatedly been warned by her Teaders, On the other hand, Mr. Bing. ham's suggestion calls for nothing more. than diplomatic ce-operation necessitating a looser form of under: Standing and one not so' repugnant {othe citizens of the United States, though even in this regard the post tion of that country in world affairs has. undoubtedly" modified earlier convictions. "If the British Empire and the United States" declared. Int. Bingham, "agreed. toa solution of any. problem in diplomacy, no. comination of infiences could challenge ita decisiveness!" The broader view of the existing situation would seem fo be that American membership of the League of Nations wold, per haps, be a better method of achiev-me ihe. same result, So long Washington is prepared to do 10 more than ce-operate with the League 0 far'so i can, then the combina: fon "of" Anglo-American diplomatic Influence with alt that it implies in the nature of authority may be the best means of securing the peace of the world. How far the Ambassador was "speaking within his" brief re: mains to. be. seen. That aman his eminence should mate such 2 statement is. probably one of the brightest indies tions that the outlook stil not as hopeless xe. some simists would have the world believe.
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