We desire earnestly to support a plea which appeared in
a letter to the Times of Wednesday from Mr. Edward Price Bell, the wellLknown London correspondent of the Chicago Daily News. The plea, which was stated with admirable force and vividness, amounted to this : that it is not enough for the British Government officially to be innocent of all responsibility for the attempt by British adventurers to break down Prohibition in America by running the liquor blockade and co-operating with the American bootleggers. As Mr. Bell says, there are millions of determined men and women in America fighting for Prohibition. That is a fact which cannot be altered by any belief that they are mistaken. It is sinking deeper into their consciousness that if Prohibition should be defeated it would be due to foreign and mainly to British intervention. The seriousness of this prospect need not be laboured. All who believe that the friendship of the English-speaking nations is by far the most important political fact for the future should join in asking the Statesmen of Great Britain and America " to get together " and remove the danger.
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