Abstract

The Week

This article presents information regarding political and economic developments in the U.S. One of the section of the article says that Sir Charles Russell's appeal to the U.S. lawyers to free their minds from "cant" on the subject of the horrors of pelagic sealing must have reached ex-solicitor- General Thomas Aldrich in advance, for he declared, in his argument on the Chinese question before the U.S. Supreme Court that he had no sympathy whatever with the "sickly sentimentality" which some foolish people displayed over the Chinese. The flurry in the Paris tribunal over spurious Russian documents used in the American Case by an agent is interesting in many ways. The translations referred to purported to be of original documents of the Russian-American Company handed over to the U.S. and deposited in the State Department when Alaska was delivered to the U.S.