Correspondents have drawn our attention to a letter which ap-
peared in several American papers signed by Mt. Bertrand Shadwell. Mr. Shadwell points out that the Spectator had suggested that the United States might " take over as large a part of Germany's Colonies as she could be induced to accept." Mr. Shadwell's comment is that for the honour of America, if this offer should be made officially, " it should be courteously but very promptly and firmly declined." " The United States," he says, " entered this war in the sacred name of Liberty and not for loot and plunder. The memory of the American dead who gave their lives in a spot- less cause should not be stained by the suspicion that America had her price.' " We imagine that the words from the article in the Spectator which Mr. Shadwell discusses were read by him out of their context, for it would be impossible to conceive a more complete misunderstanding of what we proposed.
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