Mr. Hearst, on the other hand, came out with large
type editorials warning unsuspecting American citizens against this " foreign propagandist " and worked himself into a fury. He asked his readers : " What greater interference with the domestic politics of the American people can be imagined " and " What more defiant challenge to the right of a nation to keep foreign hands out of its individual affairs ? " On the whole, however, Lord. Robert Cecil's arguments have been discussed with marked cordiality, and he has been variously described as " The Savonarola of the League of Nations," " the Abraham Lincoln of England," and a man with " one foot in the Middle Ages and one in the office of the League of Nations." One of the most suggestive comments on Lord Robert's mission was that of the New York Tribune, which thinks that much American criticism could be met by such a reorganization of the League as to allow for the handling of purely European problems by European members and of American problems by American members, the Association (or League) concerning itself only with " such world-wide problems as the opium question."
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