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Elihu Root spends the winter months in Manhattan, the rest in Clinton, N. Y. opposite his beloved Hamilton College where, as "Cube" Root, son of the mathematics professor, he was the youngest and smartest member of his class (1864). Alert, he reads widely, keeps abreast of current affairs. But what he thinks, he keeps almost wholly for those of his "young" intimates who are still alive.
A word from Elder Statesman Saionji, 85, steadies Nippon. To Elder Statesman Root, pleading once more for the World Court last fortnight, the Senate and nation turned deaf ears, paid heed instead to the vocabularies of William Randolph Hearst and Father Charles E. Coughlin.