Other Countries' Papers The international discussions now in progress give
expressions of national opinion on international questions more than ordinary importance. The most representa- tive vehicle of public opinion is the Press, and Press opinion in one country is, in fact, widely quoted in others. But to judge what the opinion of French or German or American papers is worth it is clearly necessary to know broadly what the individual standpoint of the principal papers is. A foreigner, for example, who wanted to know what this country was thinking would do well to realize that the general standpoints of the Daily Mail and the Daily Herald are not precisely the same. An article on a later page of this issue contains a survey of the German Press of to-day by a well-known German journalist, indicating what the principal Berlin and
provincial papers commonly quoted in this country stand for, and a similar article on the French Press has been arranged for next week, with a view to giving readers of the Spectator some guidance as to the estimates to be set on quotations from various foreign journals,
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