22 SEPTEMBER 1923, Page 2

We appreciate the value of the British arguments about the

importance of the three-mile limit, and we are quite aware that in a sense America has brought the trouble on herself by making laws which cannot be carried out without foreign co-operation—a co-operation which she never asked for and which she could not reasonably rely upon. All the same, our strong view is that those private persons who are shipping liquor to the American coast, though they are behaving legally are behaving abominably. After all, a good understanding between the two great English-speaking countries is one of the most precious objectives of a right policy, and at present a great deal is being done to destroy the very possibility of it.