Mr. Coolidge has issued a bald "statement that he "
does not choose to run for President " again. How we should relate this . decision to the Geneva Conference we do not know.. We have not felt -called upon to speculate on the influence of American domestic politics upon the instructions given to the delegates. We know that the party politics of the United States are very per- yasive, but we have preferred to think that President Coolidge was honestly following the lead of his predecessor, who summoned the Washington Conference with, we believe, the highest motives. It has been argued that the Republican Party will improve its prospects for the Presidential election by a failure at Geneva for which Great Britain could be blamed, but we are either too little ingenious or too little perverse to follow the argument.
