The activities of President Coolidge, acting through his personal representative in Nicaragua, Henry Lewis Stimson, last week drew from U. S. Senator Robert Marion LaFollette (Republican) a comment:
"The admission [TIME, May 16] by the State Department that Mr. Stimson, speaking for President Coolidge, threatened open warfare on the Liberals of Nicaragua is an amazing revelation that the President, in carrying forward his policy of ruthless imperialism in Central America, is ready to violate the constitution, which gives the war-making power solely to Congress."
Meanwhile Mr. Stimson and some 3,000 U. S....
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