NEWS OF THE WEEK
T,OR President Roosevelt this has been a week of perplexities and satisfactions. The satisfactions derive, of course, from the results of the Moscow Conference, whose nature he was the first to indicate to the world. There seems, moreover, to be a reasonable prospect that the United States Senate will embody in its much- debated resolution on post-war policy the effective article 4 of the your-Power Moscow Declaration, providing for the establishment f a " general international organisation . . . for the maintenance of nternational peace and security." Such action by the Senate would n itself be a substantial contribution to the maintenance of inter- rational peace and security, for it would register decisively America's ntention to share responsibility after the war with the Allies with vhom she is fighting the war. The President's perplexities have ad two causes. One of them, the miners' stoppage, has, fortunately, en of short duration, but it is a disturbing evidence of the temper evailing in the American coalfields and the subversive influence exercised by men like John L. Lewis. The Government has once ore taken over the mines, an advance of wages is to be conceded, nd the men, it is announced, are once more resuming work. There s not much ground for hoping thA this means settled peace. More squieting for the President on the political side is the evidence orded by a number of State elections of the headway his Republican pponents are making. New York has elected a Republican Lieut.- overnor by a sweeping majority, New Jersey a Democratic governor, hiladelphia a Republican Mayor, and in Kentucky, usually Demo- ratic beyond challenge, the Democratic candidate barely scraped ome. As a whole, a majprity of States will have Republican overnors. While this, of course, has a bearing on the Presidential rid Congressional elections a year hence, its importance as a pointer limited. In the State elections local considerations usually pre- ominate. Next November, not only national but international issues ay be the determining factor.
