he war by talking across the Atlantic. At the
Peace Conference he did not conceive of his country's winning the
peace by the powerful position in which victory had left it; he saw
himself as winning the peace by the hold he personally had upon the
peoples of Europe. Like Napoleon, of whom Marshal Foch wrote
recently, "Il oublia qu'un homme ne peut etre Dieu; qu'au-dessus de
l' individu, il y a la nation," he forgot that man can not be God;
that over and above the individual there is the nation.

In politics he knew at first better than any other, again to quote
Foch, that "above men is morality." This knowledge brought him many
victories. But at critical junctures, as in his 1918 appeal to the
voters and in the treaty fight, he forgot that morality was above
one man, himself. He excelled in appeals to the heart and
conscience of the nation, a gift Mr. Harding has not; the lesser
arts of the politician, tact and skill in the handling and
selecting of men, were lacking.

He forgot in his greatness and aloofness the national passion for
equality; which a more brilliant politician, Mr. Roosevelt,
appeased by acting as the people's court jester, and which a
shrewder politician, Mr. Harding, guards against by reminding the
country that he is "just folks"; and in the end the masses turned
upon him, like a Roman mob on a defeated gladiator.

GEORGE HARVEY

There is something inscrutably ludicrous in the anxiety, bordering
upon consternation, that lurks in the elongated and grotesque
shadow that George Harvey casts upon Washington. The Republican
fathers, who now feel a sense of responsibility, after a lapse of
many years, for the future of party and country, do not yet know
how to take him.

As a campaign asset his value could be expressed in intelligible
terms. But as a party liability, or asset,--many a good Republican
wishes he knew which,--he remains an enigma. There is not one of
the array of elders of either political persuasion who, while
laughing at his satirical sword-play, does not watch him covertly
out of the corner of the eye, trembling at the potential ruin they
consider him capable of accomplishing.

With all his weaknesses,--principally an almost hilarious political
irregularity,--but two Republican hands were raised against him in
the Senate when he was nominated for the Court of Saint James. When
he rather unbecomingly filliped John Bull on the nose in his maiden
speech as the premier ambassad