Public Opinion

se to that picture working itself out upon the scene of action. It is like a play suggested to the actors by their own experience, in which the plot is transacted in the re

other of the two men sees with his mind's eye is re?nacted. Across the table they were quarreling about money. In memory they are back

rning of September 29, 1919, some of the Senators read a news dispatch in the Washingto

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the American naval forces in the Adriatic, came from the British Admiralty via the War Council and Rear

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rying on what amounted to naval warfare without his knowledge. It was fully realized that the British Admiralty might desire to issue orders to Rear Admiral Andrews to

would be in a position to direct American Naval forces in emergencies with o

lled. Mr. Knox, interested in the question, forgets that he asked for an inquiry, and replies. If American marines had been killed, it would be war. The mood of the debate is still conditional. Debate proceeds. Mr. McCormick of Illinois reminds the Senate that the Wilson administration is prone to the waging of small unauthorized wars. He repeats Theodore Ro

believe it, because they are Republicans fighting the League of Nations. This arouses the Democratic leader, Mr. Hitchcock of Nebraska. He defends the Supreme Council: it was acting under the war powers. Peace has not yet been concluded because the Republicans are delaying it. Therefore the action was necessary and legal. Both sides now assume that the report is true, and the

e Italians. They had been landed at the request of the Italian Government to protect Italians, and the American commander had been officially thanked by the Italian au

in this case probably with intent to deceive, by a man who cared nothing about the Adriatic, but much about defeat