Abstract

Editorials

The article highlights the political concerns, which are of international importance. It is a little more than ten years since a member of the New York bar, Franklin Pierce, in a book entitled "Federal Usurpation," called attention sharply to the forces of centralization which were rapidly, and as he believed dangerously, transforming the American constitutional system. From the beginning the "Nation," as its readers know, has been opposed to military intervention of any sort in the Soviet Union. That opposition has not been based upon any extravagant notions regarding the aims or accomplishments of the Russian revolution, nor upon an overweening fondness for the principles or methods of the Bolsheviki, nor yet upon the imputation to the U.S. or the Allies of selfish and ignoble motives.