As regards the two great questions of the day in
America, Prohibition and the League of Nations, Mr. Cox is understood to be ready to modify Prohibition by admitting light wines and beers, and to favour, the acceptance of the League with some harmless reservations The Convention, as so often happens with American party conventions, reminded one of the election of a Pope at the Vatican. Those who seemed at the beginning to be strong candidates were eliminated in the voting. Mr. Palmer had practically lost his chance by the tenth ballot, though it was not till much later that he urged his supporters to transfer their votes to another candidate. But Mr. McAdoo is the chief example of one who seemed to have everything in his favour and who yet lost in the later ballots all the promise of the earlier ones. We feel pretty sure that whoever becomes President the American people will want to accept and work the League, not it is true in the full sense 491 Mr. Wilson's demands, but in a manner that will in the end be practical enough for our purpose.
