America and the World
There has been no more striking indication of the movement of opinion in America than the fact that last Tuesday the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives unanimously adopted the following resolution for submission to Congress : Resolved by the House of Representatives [the Senate concurring]
• that the Congress hereby expresses itself as favouring the creation of appropriate international machinery with power adequate to establish and to maintain a just and lasting peace, and as favouring participation by the United States therein.
The points that are remarkable in this resolution are, first, its far- reaching, uncompromising character, and, second, its unanimous adoption. If Congress accepts it, it will have given a mandate to the Administration such as President Wilson never had before or during the Paris Peace Conference. It will have committed itself to the doctrine that the co-operation which the United States gives in the war is to be continued in time of peace, and that it is to take a part in creating and working an international organisation appointed not merely to make peace but to maintain it. This is indeed no more than the logical outcome of what it is already doing in joining the United Nations for the administration of relief and conferring with them on the world vlaiminz of food and azriculture. But the
adoption of such a resolution indicates that America is not merely moving from stage to stage under the pressure of events towards complete co-operation, but that it is consciously considering its adoption as a principle of policy. The resolution in effect represented a unanimous vote against isolationism.
