26 MAY 1923, Page 8

An interview with Mr. David E. Smiley, the editor of

the Philadelphia Public Ledger, on that topic of never- failing interest, British-American relations, was published in the Sunday Times this week. To readers of these notes two points emphasized by Mr. Smiley will be familiar. " Nothing," he said, " has done more to improve Anglo-American relations than the establishment of the Irish Free State, which thus removes a big difficulty in America, and the debt settlement achieved by your Chancellor of the Exchequer." Of his impressions of London Mr. Smiley was induced to speak. Nothing struck him so much as " the calmness of your Cabinet in the House of Commons " when " some of your Labour members were booing, yelling and shouting."