A New Alignment of World Powers
FOLLOWING the cessation of hostilities between Russia and Japan, it seems likely that there will be a new alignment of the world powers, and a new danger to the United States of becoming entangled in old-world alliances. A writer in the Washington Times says, discussing the prospects for peace:— There is the intimation that the principal European powers are doing their utmost to entangle the United States of America in their own international problems, not for the present reasons alone, but for what they see developing in the future. In settling one war the powers will be looking ahead to the next one. They will want to be sure about the “balance of power.” They want to know where each nation will stand in the realignment arising out of the coming of peace, whether that be this month, this year, or some other year.