Abstract

A Party Perforce

The article presents news related to political issues. Victor Berger, the Socialist Representative from Wisconsin, had a good deal of justified fun with his fellow-Congressmen from that State in the House of Representatives last week. He pointed out that last summer they were all for a new party, but that now they resented being kicked out of the Republican Party, and, Congressman James A. Frear in particular, were quite ready to reassert their party fealty. Behind, the new Japanese-Russian treaty lies far more than a mere diplomatic recognition. It marks a stage in the alliance of East against West. Soviet Russia, rebuffed in the West, turns to the East; and Japan, also rejected by that West which she has too successfully aped, returns to the role of defender of the Orient.