A Quintuple Nuisance
It is a curious characteristic of the American Senate that its individual members find pleasure so -frequently in derogating from
its prestige and authority. Deeply concerned as the Senate is in foreign policy, it would appear to be altogether desirable that its members should travel and see the world for themselves—as Mr.
William E. Borah, for so long chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, refrained to the end from doing. Yet doubts are cast on the desirability whenever Senators return from their travels, as five of them have just done. They have given their views in secret session, and the whole of America is ringing with them. It would not befit an English journal to enter into controversy with the five, particularly regarding their criticisms of this country ; still less would it befit it to enter into controversy with the President when he describes their activities and arguments as " in one sense a damn nuisance." There are few cases in the course of this war in which the President has been proved wrong. In this he differs from the five Senators.
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