NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE feature of the week has been the successful, far-seeing, highly beneficial and yet perfectly con- stitutional influence exercised by the King in the matter of the double invitation issued by the President of the United States hi regard to disarmament and the establishment of something approaching a quadruple entente cordiale in the Far East. We are not going to discuss how or why a certain temporary entanglement occurred, or appeared to be about to occur, in the conversations concerning the questions just mentioned. To do so might prove highly mischievous. It is enough to say that the King saw that he could straighten the coil, and did straighten it, by direct action. Happily, he and the .American Ambassador, who is showing himself a great envoy, are personally on the best of ternas, and thus the task His Majesty had undertaken was fatilitated.
