We are not among those who expect the Golden Ago
to come soon by international consent, but the nations, as Lord Montages suggested last week in the Times, might well agree on a simple matter like the nele of the road on land. Travel by sea and in the air' is conducted according to international rules. Travel by land is subject to divers local rules. Here we drive on the left. In Franco and America they drive on the right. In some countries there is no uniform rule. In Rome, if we remem- ber rightly, one drives on the left, but in the suburbs of Rome one must drive on the right. This confusion is not only bad for foreign motorists and unwary pedestrians ; it is also bad for the motor industry, as British oars with the driver's seat on the right hand are leas suitable for use abroad than the many foreign ears with the driver's seat on the loft. A uniform rule of the road should also differentiate between slow and fast traffic. Every ono visiting the front must have noticed how smoothly the enormous road traffic behind the lines is managed, especially ia the British zone, because the slow vehicles keep to either side of the road, leaving the centre free for heat cars. The contrast between the orderliness of our military com- munications and the chaos in our London streets, where one lumbering wagon often blocks a seem of omnibuses, taxi- cabs, and ears, Is astounding. When peak* returns the War Offioe should lend our Local Authorities a few of its exports to show how road traffic, should be controlled.
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