24 AUGUST 1929, Page 2

The case for parity was long ago admitted ; the

problem is to express it in terms which satisfy two countries with totally dissimilar requirements. How widely the conversations have ranged is implied by a report in the Daily News that the United States will consider sympathetically the British proposal to class a certain number of cruisers as " police " ships as distinct from regular fighting ships. This pleases us particularly, as it leads on to the ideal we have often entertained that Great Britain and America may some day pool the duties of ocean police work.