On Tuesday in the American Senate Senator Lodge created much
excitement, and it must be admitted enthusiasm, by a brilliant and scathing analysis of the Constitution of the League of Nations. He based his suspicions on his reading of history, and rehearsed the story of the Holy Alliance. He described how that Affiance was opposed by Castlereagh and Canning, and, in accordance with their fears, turned from a profoundly pious aspiration into a terrible engine of tyranny. All this is well known
to readers of the Spectator, even if they have not made themselves acquainted with the facts in history-books. Mr. Lodge declared that he and his friends had ideals even though they disagreed with those who were trying to establish " a monopoly of idealism." He added, according to the correspondent of the Daily Express :- " Visions are one thing and visionaries are another, and the mechanical appliances of the rhetorician designed to give the picture of a present which does not exist and of a future which no man can predict are as unreal as canvas clouds, angels suspended on wires, and the artificial lights of the stage."
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