. Review of reviews and world's work . s impossible to see how theycan ever again be divided. In our opinion, this isthe greatest result of the Peace Conference. Thesecond fact is an expansion of the first; the mem-bers of the wliole Entente Alliance, so far fromhaving become alienated during the discussions ofthe Conference, have drawn much closer third fact is that the very delicate, and indeedperilous, question of the Freedom of the Seas hasby force of circumstances disappeared altogetheras an issue. As President Wilson has himself ex-plained, that doctrine was asserted in the
. Review of reviews and world's work . s impossible to see how theycan ever again be divided. In our opinion, this isthe greatest result of the Peace Conference. Thesecond fact is an expansion of the first; the mem-bers of the wliole Entente Alliance, so far fromhaving become alienated during the discussions ofthe Conference, have drawn much closer third fact is that the very delicate, and indeedperilous, question of the Freedom of the Seas hasby force of circumstances disappeared altogetheras an issue. As President Wilson has himself ex-plained, that doctrine was asserted in the interestof neutrals. In future there will be no war breaks out again, the world will be di-vided into those who side with one or other of thebelligerents. The last four years of war haveshown pretty clearly that the status of a neutralduring war had become almost entirely is just as well that this fact should be recog-nized. We think we are not exaggerating whatmust happen; for the covenant expressly provides. MUZZLED From Opinion (London) LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH 419 for cutting off countries altogether by means ofthe boycott, and such a boycott can leave no placefor neutrality on the part of states which areneighbors of the boycotted nation. This British journal anticipated the dis-cussion that has since arisen in the UnitedStates regarding the relation of the covenantto the Monroe Doctrine: In the United States there is bound to be muchdiscussion about the paradoxical aspect incident-ally placed upon the Monroe Doctrine. Supposethat the American Senate demands that the West-ern Hemisphere, in accordance with the MonroeDoctrine, should be excluded from the operationsof the League and from all its implications. Suchan amendment would have a very logical appear-ance, for assuredly, if the authority .of the Leaguebe accepted in the Western Hemisphere, the Mon-roe Doctrine in its literal sense will cease toexist. We sincerely hope, however, that the
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