4 AUGUST 1917, Page 2

'We cennot help expressing our deep pleasure in the quality

of America's help, and in the American recognition of. the -fact that the United States, while she is helping us, is-in the strictest sense defending herself. With an unbeaten Germany in the world all frontiers are violable, however distant ; and, as America knows, Germany makes war oven during peace. Looking back, we-see the extraordinary value of the lesson America learned during her incomparably patient negotiation,' with Germany. Not once did Germany act or. speak truthfully. • America is now Inoculated against all further temptations to parley. The German admiesion that the L'nited States was kept in play only while the unlimited '1J '-boat campaign was being prepared will never be forgotten.