NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE outstanding fact in foreign affairs is the breakdown of all President Wilson's plans and hopes for the " elimination " of General Huerta without going to war with Mexico. Events have " taken charge" of Mr. Wilson, and there is already a state of war. It is true that Mr. Wilson still pretends that his quarrel is with General Huerta alone, but this view, utterly at variance with common-sense, is repudiated by the American Senate, by General Huerta, by (if reports be true) the heads of the Army and Navy in the United States, and even by General Carranza, the Mexican rebel leader, whom Mr. Wilson has tried to use as an agent in getting rid of General Huerta. We sincerely hope that for the sake of his country Mr. Wilson will at last face realities, and recognize that war, to be prosecuted successfully, must be prosecuted thoroughly. To conduct a war on the theory that there is no war is to cause Generals and Admirals to fight with their hands tied behind their backs.
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