Mr. Houghton. the American Ambassador in London, who is visiting
America, has let it be known very plainly (by a calculated indiscretion or otherwise) what he thinks of European affairs. He said that the Continent of Europe, so far as its statesmen are concerned, has ” learned nothing from the War." He described the League as a modern version of the preposterous Holy Alliance of 1815. He found that European statesmen did not want American participation in their counsels. He did not include Great Britain in his generaleastigation, though he thought that she was being reluctantly carried_ along by France, who was the leader of the new militarism. He concluded that there was no hope whateVer for disarinament until the present madness' had inn its course, and he added that France,- by Objeeting to the methods of discisSing disarmament proposed by the United States, was really putting Uji, a screen behind which the restoration of the evil' old " Brilanee of Power," heavily 'weighted in faVonr of Frariee, could 1 e accom- plished with as little interruption as"posSible. . • .
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