Mr. Snowden The controversy raised by Mr. Snowden last week
about Allied debts and the Balfour Note. has rambled and rumbled during-the week. There seems to be no intention, however, in any party to seize upon Mi. Snowden's cretiOn to manufacture an election cry. We are glad of it. The -glint of battle in Mr. Churchill's eye when he reduced Mr. MacDonald to silence suggested that he thought he had found a companion cry to that of the Zinovieff letter. From an electioneering point of view the possibility was tempting, but there is a greater cause than that of any party—the country's common cause of keeping the elenients of an agreed foreign policy far above the party level. We are satisfied that Mr. -MacDonald was sincere in saying that he would never ' repudiate the Balfour Note. Of course, as Mr. Churchill pointed out, that promise did not cover the whole ground. -There might be an attempt to force France and Italy into an undertaking to make higher payments which Would not involve British repudiation simply because France and Italy would give their consent—a forced Consent.
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