Public and political opinion is taking its time to crystallize on Mr. Harding's proposal that the United States participate in the Permanent Court of International Justice. Politicians have been rushing about and issuing semi-formal statements, trying to decide on what political stand they may take. The hubbub was further heightened by the presence in Washington of Lord Robert Cecil, advocate of the League of Nations.
ΒΆ Representative Wood of Indiana, Chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, called at the White House and told the President that in his opinion the Middle West...