Abstract

The Week

The article discusses issues related to politics. U.S. Secretary of State Elihu Root's overhauling of the U.S. State Department is on every account praiseworthy. He is introducing in the records the same methods that almost revolutionized the Record and Pension Office of the War Department when he was at its head. It seems to be Root's forte to take official machinery, which excellent predecessors had either regarded as reasonably satisfactory, or else had given up as hopeless, and make it genuinely efficient. The twenty-second annual meeting of the Indian National Congress began last week in Calcutta, India. Since, it is the most important unifying force in the diversified population of India, any large scheme of autonomy must naturally center about it. The Congress has enjoyed the favor of the Government because of its adherence to a legal and peaceful propaganda.