AMERICA AND THE LEAGUE
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your editorial note on the American election contains a remark as to the increased power of the President, by reason of the more than two-thirds majority in the Senate, which seems to me to need a word of comment. Mr. Roose- velt, you say, could now if he wished bring the United States into the -League of Nations. But is that actually so ? The President, no matter how great his personal authority, cannot command his party in matters of international policy, and at the present time the mass of the American people are, beyond question, isolationist as regards Europe. Since the Roosevelt election of 1932 the old fear of embroilment has been strengthened and made more definite. It would be well for our people to realize the important truth that in Washington there can be no thought of any change in the relation of the United States to the League during this presidential term.
'It seems just worth noting that in the first line of my article last week the election was described as Presidential—
a slip, doubtlesi, in proof-reading.—Yonrs, &C., '
Whiteleaf, Princes Risborough. S. K. RATCLIFFE. [It was a slip. The word should have been Congressional. ED. The Spectator.]
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