4 MAY 1918, Page 12

THE SANCTITY OF INTERNATIONAL CONTRACTS.

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."]

Sia,—Nearly two thousand years ago I wrote:— " Quid tristes querimoniae, Si non supplicio culpa reciditur; Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt."

Human nature appears not to have greatly changed in the interval.