There should be no award of the Nobel Peace Prize this year. The reason is ridiculously clear: there is no peace and it does not matter what efforts have been made to restore or preserve equanimity in the world they have met with no success, and; it would be the height of cynical disdain of ordinary standards of computation if any such award were made. President Roosevelt is reported to have been mentioned ab the candidate for the prize. Nobody disputes or disparages President Roosevelt's efforts to maintain peace or obtain a form of mediation in the present conflict, but a general view of the situation, including the German view, should exclude him because Germany has very pointedly suggested that the Unites States is as much in the war as any of the declared belligerents since the repeal of the arms embargo in the Neutrality Act. In fact, pay heed to Berlin's propagandists, it would seem that Hitler himself is the greatest exponlent of peace through his own peculiar interpretation of aggression, and possibly he would he the most likely candidate for this prized honour which has done not the slightest to promote peace in the world beyond a certain academic point. Considering the question quite \dispassionately, it would not be a bad idea to
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