27 SEPTEMBER 1919, Page 19

Lord Charnwood says some wise and true things about America

in a short article in the current Anglo-French Review. " While in some ways Americans may think too much of the greatness of their country, it is really a more serious defect that in other ways they are not enough aware of it." " The puzzling peculiarities of American politics matter little beside the relative security that, in the long run and in the largest matters, ' the common sense of most' is going to prevail."