THE SHEARER. CASE.
It is puzzling to find an influential London correspondent of one important American paper cabling a protest at the prominence given to the Shearer case in the British Press, and suggesting darkly that " regarding Anglo-American relations, the less noise made about Shearer from now on the better." It is true that few people in the United States believe Shearer's influence in itself sufficient to wreck the Geneva Conference, but the investigation was precipitated by President Hoover with the deliberate intention of obtaining for it the widest possible publicity. That has certainly been obtiined inthe AmericanPress, some papers to-day, for instance, devoting seventeen and eighteen columns to reports. It is generally felt that this publicity has been in the public interest and helped to clear the air for unbiassed discussion on the momentous disarmament issues. Moreover, the evidence so far leaves a number of points in conflict, and it is imperative that those points be cleared up, since not only the Geneva Conference but other matters affecting Anglo-American relations are involved. The more searching the inquiry and the more public attention given to it the better.
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