The American Senate has taken umbrage at the refusal of
the Allies to publish the Peace terms in full, although they have been published in Germany and circulated for and wide. On Saturday last it resolved that the Government should furnish it with the text. President Wilson was known to disapprove of publication. His chief critic, Senator Borah, therefore secured a private copy of the Treaty and began to read it at length in the Senate. When the Senators hail listened for an hour or so, they agreed in sheer despair that the Treaty should be taken as read. Senator Borah was thus enabled, under the rules of the Senate, to have the whole document printed in the Congressional Record. Some ingenious Radical Senator once began reading Henry George's Progress and Poverty, and thus secured a free repriht of that ingenuous work in the Congressional Record, which often contains a great deal more than the actual speeches. We notice that Mr. Taft described the attempt to hold back the Peace terms as an error in tactics. Perhaps the British public, which is not uninterested in the matter, will now be allowed to buy copies if it cares to do so.
