7 JUNE 1930, Page 2

The traditional and discredited doctrine of "peace preserved by power

"dies bard. Last Sunday a chain of Canadian newspapers published an " interview " with Mr. W. Randolph Hearst in which he re-stated his opposition to the League of Nations and the Naval Treaty because of the chronic contamination of America by Europe. Peace for the two English-speaking nations, he says, " could probably best be secured by a sufficiently formidable evidence of power to prevent the combination from being hastily attacked or unjustly treated " ! When a man so prominent in American life as Mr. Hearst talks this primeval and obsolete language, we can hardly wonder- that the idea of preserving peace by coercion is still dominant in " wicked " Europe.