Many newspapers take cognizance
of the absence of England from the
agreement, among these being the
New York Times, which expresses the
opinion that “England has more cause
than we have for viewing the new
steel trust with alarm. Her coal
strike has caused imports of iron and
steel, even for shipbuilding, and has
laid her exports open to foreign inva
sion," explains the Times.
The Asbury Park iPress wonders If
“the recent meeting of Uhamberlaln
and Mussolini” may not be “the first
step in a counterbalancing cartel de
signed to weaken the central Euro
pean metal combine.” and frankly dis- ’
approves that country's “playing off
the Franco-German agreement td
strengthen its own ends.”
THINK IT OVER
Statesmen and Bathing Suits.
By William Mather Letvi.%, {
President George Washington University
There is an adage to the effect that
no man is a hero to his valet. Its
meaning seemed clear as a few days
ago I looked upon the picture of Mus
solini in a bathing suit.
Now I have admired Mussolini. It
has always seemed to me that one
could read leadership and power in
his keen, strongly cut face and In his
alert attitude. In the bathing picture,
the attitude, and the physique which i
supplies it, lets one down. From the
shoulders up we still have leadership,
hut we long for some one to throw
about those shoulders a toga such as
other great Italians of a bygone day
wore as they trod the Applan way.
