Letting Peace Slide The statement in a later page, in
which Mr. Lloyd George elaborates some remarks he made recently about the power of the British Empire to impose peace on the world, will be read. with considerable interest. It is no doubt easy to criticize someone else's conduct of foreign affairs, but the particular criticisms Mr. Lloyd George makes of the foreign policy of the present Government take a great deal of refuting. That is true notably of the charge that other countries are left in perpetual uncer- tainty as to where this country stands on a variety of important questions. What Mr. Lloyd George does not make entirely clear is where he would stand himself— whether, for example, he is for upholding the collective system by effective action in case of need, and how far he would have been prepared to go in the case of the Manchurian dispute. That is in reality the crux of the whole question. The same problem is raised by the American ministers of religion who, as another article in this issue shows, have declared themselves so decisively against war in any form. That will not in itself keep the world from war. The construction and resolute main- tenance of an organized peace system may.
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