Article July 23, 1927 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Edgar E. Lowther, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Stanley Baldwin

[From an editorial in the New York Evening Post, New York]

Ambassador Houghton, in a noteworthy address at Manchester, England, has set forth clearly the reasons why an armed alliance of the English-speaking peoples of the world is inadvisable. Such an alliance could only result in similar alliances among other nations and turn the world into the sort of armed camp Europe has been for centuries. Nothing has produced more wars, more economic distress, or retarded the progress of that continent more than competition in military power. When the world was more widely separated, combinations were necessary for protection against sudden wars, but the improved methods of communication and the existing machinery for peace have made such alliances no longer obligatory. The great need of to-day is not colossal preparation for wars that are to come, but same limitation of armament. The United States and Great Britain can perform no higher service than to set the example. The peace, happiness, and well-being of the world depend upon a sound and cordial understanding between nations, not on arms. This understanding already exists between the American and the British peoples, because the two nations "look out on the world very much from the same point of view and have identical interests."

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