A sequel to the ratification of the Treaty for the
Renunciation of War, rather than to the passing of the Cruiser Bill, has appeared in a resolution introduced into the Senate at Washington by Senator Capper, the well-known Republican from Kansas. It is designed to make the Treaty effective. If carried, it would bind the President to declare a boycott of any country that violated the Treaty. No nationals of the United States- should be protected by their Government in giving aid or comfort to a nation guilty of a breach of the Treaty. Other nations should be invited to agree to corresponding action. Such a policy would fit in with the British policy of blockade, as conducted against the. Central Powers. Senator Capper has four powerful supporters, but there are others, including Senator Borah, who refuse to support him. The resolution is so obviously consistent with the Methods of the League of Nations that they cannot bring themselves to judge it without prejudice. It must be tainted if it might bring the States nearer to member- ship of the League. While writing of the United States we cannot but refer to two articles which appeared in the Times last week from that scholarly writer, Professor de Madariaga, who has made himself so welcome at Oxford and Geneva, on the Monroe Doctrine (or "dogma "). They were not flattering to Americans who think that the States have been consistent since the days of Monroe, but they should be read, for they an written.: with such humour and lightnesK of •touch that they, could not possibly give offence, and indeeci they contain not a -few compliments to those who enforce the " dogma." * * * *
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