A CALL FOR MR. HOOVER

Disappointment with the results of the London Conference is justifiably rife. The present generation has seen a long succession of American political leaders engaged in making high sounding promises of disarmament, promises which ended where they started--on paper.

When the American people elected Mr. Hoover they put; a man with a reputation for practical ideals in a position of power. The confidence of the people in Mr. Hoover is a mandate to carry his avowed principles into action. It is time for the United States to make a reality of its verbal gestures towards international peace, or else frankly to admit their emptiness.

The Liberal Club has demonstrated a vital reason for its existence in the promptness with which it has mobilized Harvard opinion on the Conference. By calling attention to the remarkable "big navy" attitude of the American Delegation and by urging the President to make good his promise of pro rata disarmament, the Club gives instance that the petition is still an intelligent avenue of democratic representation.