The United States The first announcement of the results of
the elections in the United States, which we mentioned last week, had to be amended. It seems now that though the Republicans suffered a heavy reverse the Democrats did not actually obtain control of either the Senate or the House of Representatives. According to the latest figures the Republicans in the Senate number forty-eight and the Democrats forty-seven and there is one Farmer Labour member. In the House of Representatives the. Republicans number two hundred and eighteen, the Democrats two hundred and sixteen, and there is one Farmer Labour member. On Armistice Day Mr. Hoover confined his speech to peace and its methods. One of his sentences has excited an extraordinary amount of interest. When mentioning the Peace Pact he said that there had been proposals for extending it not merely in order to develop the machinery of peaceful settlement, but in- order to mobilize world opinion against those who failed. He added, " I do not say that some such further step may not come about." Another unex- pected point in his speech was his revival of the demand for settling the controversy about the Freedom of the Seas. His proposal in its latest form is that the immunity of food supplies from attack should be guaranteed by neutral transport and neutral management,
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