America, influenced partly by the inevitable swing of the pendulum, partly by reaction against President Willson's system of personal government, and partly by a suspicion of the European connections into which the present Administration has carried her, is reverting resolutely to her habitual conservatism. That is the salient fact to be reckoned with for the next two and probably four years. How, it is necessary to ask, will that affect America's relations with the rest of the world and with this country in particular.

In the first place the mere fact of having got the election over will mean a marked advantage toward stability. If will no longer be necessary to dangle baits for the Irish vote or to play counters with the League of Nations. Despite the Republican campaign, there is no reason to believe America will attempt what every sane American knows is impossible the maintenance of an austere isolation from the affairs of the world. The United States in 1917 took a step that can never be retraced even though her troops are recalled form the Rhine and her representatives withdrawn from the Reparations Commission. But two factors at least will have force in determining the speed and degree of America's entry into full cooperation with the people of Europe. One is the new President's choice of a Cabinet, whether for example, he invites men like Roof. Hoover and Taff to be his Ministers or prefers pledged isolationists like Senators Borah and Johnson. London Daily News.