SENATOR POPE
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
Sea,--In the course of an article entitled " The World and Qetteva," which appeared in your issue of September Gth, Yell refer to U.S. Senator Pope.
Parenthetically you say he is a Republican. -This is not correct. Senator Pope is a Democrat. You refer to him as a representative Senator and a representative American. 4- think I May, without presumption, claim to follow the Political news as closely as the average of my fellow-citizens. who are .noi in politics, and I have never even heard of Senator Pope until his name appeared recently in the headlines ct the newspapers as a self-constituted " Ambassador-At- Large " of the United States.
Purther, you say that he states : " Should the League Prevent war between Italy and Abyssinia, it will start in the United Sikes a wave of sentiment that will set America Winging back' toward the ideal of world co-operation," and .'"131•1, yourself, venture the opinion that he is voicing the United or unspoken thoughts of nine men out of ten in the United States.
If the League is successful in preventing war, it will certainly gain enormously in respect with a large number of Americans. My own desire is that it may lead to close have between my country and the League. But I 4ave no hope that anything like this will eventuate. The general attitude of this country is today, and I believe will continue to be, strongly opposed to any relationship whatsoever with the League of Nations, to which (I will venture my opinion) a much larger proportion than nine out of ten American citizens are, and will remain, completely indifferent.
—I remain, dear Sir, respectfully yours, E. R. Dunn. 68 White's Lane, Cedarhurst, Long island.
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