15 MARCH 1924, Page 3

With Mr. Leach's homilies about the awfulness of war we

all agree, and we can sympathize with his personal statement about his reluctance to raise money for fighting purposes. It is evidently necessary, however, for Mr. Leach to be told that he is preaching to the converted. All we want is enough common sense to make the world safe for idealism. It is notorious that we are at present in a dangerously unprotected state. Let us make ourselves safe—of which no friend or sincere person can reasonably complain—and let us do everything that is within our power also to obtain such an international agreement about aerial disarmament as was achieved at Washington with regard to naval disarmament.