18 AUGUST 1939, Page 6

With all respect for Mr. Hamilton Fish I think there

is a danger of his pilgrimage through Europe being taken a little too seriously. Mr. Fish is not an American Senator (as one or two London papers have styled him), of whom there are 96, but a member of the House of Representatives, of whom there are 441. He is known primarily in the United States as a die-hard isolationist, and while it is eminently satisfactory that he should cross the Atlantic to study the European situation on the spot it is conceivable that he has not fully fathomed it yet. Incidentally, he is not to be confused with Mr. Hamilton Fish Armstrong, the editor of the quarterly review Foreign Affairs and one of the best- informed authorities in the United States on international affairs.

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