7 MAY 1921, Page 2

Lord Northcliffe, addressing a party of American business men on

Tuesday, dealt frankly and fully with various questions which have caused misunderstanding on the other side of the Atlantic. We are particularly glad to notice that in regard to the British-Japanese Alliance Lord Northcliffe strongly emphasized the view which the Spectator has always taken. " There cannot," ho said, " be any possibility of an Anglo-Japanese combination against the United States." Not only would publio opinion here and in the Dominions revolt against such combination ; our Government had made it clear that the Alliance Treaty would not affect our special relations with America. We discuss this important question more fully elsewhere.