Abstract

The Week

This article presents information related to socio-political issues of several nations. With regard to the Russian situation, the most diverse groups agree in a desire to know what the Allies intend, and especially in a desire for aid from the United States for their several ends. It is pleasant to read of the flattering reception which U.S. President Woodrow Wilson has met with in France, and of the favorable impression which his early public utterances have made. It would be an immense relief, if the country might also know that the outlook was bright for a harmonious peace conference, that the broad principles of justice which Wilson has repeatedly phrased would be frankly and unhesitatingly adhered to, and that all essential proceedings would be public. Unhappily, no such relief is yet in sight. It is reported that a priest of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has induced a number of Catholic priests, mostly of Polish or other Slavic nationalities, in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, to unite in an effort to stem the social movement.