LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] THE SANCTITY OF INTERNATIONAL CONTRACTS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Your idea contained in your leading article of last week on " The Sanctity of International Contracts" to be solved by a simple agreement among the nations to exalt into a creed and a working system the idea of the sanctity of international contracts is -the best, in my judgment, that I have yet read. It is, and has been, my own idea for a long time—but my mere opinion does not count in any of these discussions. I believe with you that it is precisely what President Wilson is driving at too; and I hope you will keep hammering away at it until you get your readers seriously to reflect on it. There is nothing Utopian in it, as there is in all these fantastic schemes of the Holy Alliance pattern and their Leagues of Nations, for which neither the time of the world, the materials at hand, nor the minds of men are at all ripe.—I am,
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