News of the Week A N • event which may reshape
all the European precon- ceptions about the quickest means of guaranteeing the general peate occurred at the end of last week, when Mr. KellOgg sent a draft Treaty for the consideration of the Great Powers. It is a proposal of the utmost' im-, portanee" and deserves, as we are confident it will receive, a profoundly sympathetic consideration. The signs are already good that the Government will 'approach the matter with a positive desire to reach agreement and not to be to´ly aware of difficulties. We have explained' in our first leading article why Americans, unlike our-1. selves, have a habit of emphasizing a general: principle. withoutat first troubling about the details..- They do this- not because they place sentimentality-above all biiaineis-• like qualities, but because they have a deliberate and-fixed tradition: in this matter which has an historical..liack- ground;: The usual comment that generalities lead nowherels thereforebedide the mark. - •
