15 JANUARY 1927, Page 2

The Washington correspondent of the Times says that the President's

Message is very like an appeal for a vote of confidence. There has been so much suspicion of the State Department owing to the rather unconvincing statements which the Department has issued from time to time that Mr. Coolidge clearly thinks the hour has struck for standing manfully by a policy which has already gone too far to be abandoned. No doubt there will soon be a debate in Congress in which Senator. Borah will do all he can to discredit the State Department. We have discussed the whole subject in a leading article.