30 AUGUST 1913, Page 1
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TN dealing with Mexico Mr. Woodrow Wilson wishes to secure the effects of compulsion while announcing that he will never apply compulsion. This is a new method of diplomacy, and it is obviously not a hopeful one. Whether he will be able to emerge from the present crisis with credit or safety it is impossible yet to say. As we write on Friday morning the outlook is certainly less black than might have been expected. The good luck which sometimes attends the amateur in management seems inclined at the moment to visit Mr. Wilson's curious method. But this may be a passing phase. It is still true that what may be called Mr. Wilson's gentle obstinacy has manoeuvred him into a position from which it is not easy either to advance or to retire.
