BRITISH PARTIES AND THE RUHR.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It may be of interest to your readers to point out that, whereas the Labour Party's attitude on the Ruhr agrees pretty nearly with the Government's, and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald supports Mr. Baldwin, the Socialists are in favour of the complete withdrawal of the British Army of Occupation, and so appear to be in more accord with Lord Birkenhead, though doubtless for very different reasons. They no doubt realize that the centre of gravity of the British Empire— numerically, commercially, geographically and politically= lies outside Europe and will move further away from Europe as time goes on. In these circumstances a kind of Monroe Doctrine policy, such , as was in the main pursued from Canning to Lord Salisbury, is the safest for the Empire, as it is for America, and would doubtless be found in the long run to lead most surely to world peace, for in international affairs the surest way to peace is to mind one's own business.
Eirianva, Hornyold Road, Malvern. F. T. W. LEWIS.
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