National Affairs: Senate Diplomats

Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania, Republican —one time football star at the University of Pennsylvania, and successor of Boies Penrose—was picked by Senator Lodge to be a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee of the next (68th) Congress when it convenes in December.

Now that Senator Pepper seems certain to be a member of the committee, and possible lieutenant to Senator Lodge, Chairman, the future alignment of the Committee on Mr. Harding's proposal for a World Court is significant. Assuming that there will be ten Republican members in the total...

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