22 APRIL 1916, Page 3

We should, we feel, be acting in a spirit contrary

t3 that n hi rh inspires the signatories of the American statement if we did not show reticence in expressing our delight and admiration at the courage and wisdom of the words addressed to America and the world by these five hundred men of light and leading. They did not sign their protest to please England or to win her applause, but because they dared not let a great crime go by without their condemnation. They spoke because they must, because silence would have made them participee criminis. They have won the gratitude of all honest and just men.