his own. It was reasonably certain that it would not be diverted or
misled by the intricacies of European diplomacy. And there was
never any doubt of Harvey's Americanism.

The President's selection of Mr. Harvey for the London post is, of
course, accounted for in other ways. There are some persons who
profess to believe that Mr. Harding preferred to have the militant
editor in London and his "Weekly" in the grave rather than to have
him as a censor of Washington activities under the new regime. It
can be said definitely that a sigh of relief went up from many a
Republican bosom when the sacrilegious journal was brought to a
timely end. And this did not happen, it is to be observed, until
the nomination of George Harvey to the Court of St. James was duly
ratified and approved by the Senate of the United States.

But if the "Weekly" has passed, the Republicans are still acutely
conscious that Mr. Harvey is alive,--has he not reminded them of it
in his first ambassadorial utterances?--and the journal is not
beyond resuscitation. That is why Washington does not know whether
to be chagrined or angry, whether to disavow or to condone. The
discomfited Republicans frankly do not know what to think of it and
probably will not so long as the amazing ambassador makes his own
rules.

CHARLES EVANS HUGHES

"Mais resiste-t-on a' la vertu? Les gens qui n'eurent point de
faiblesses sont terribles," observed Sylvestre Bonnard of the
redoubtable Therese.

This fearsomeness of the good is an old story. Horace remarked it,
when, walking about near Rome, pure of heart and free from sin, he
met a wolf. The beast quailed before his virtue and ran away,--to
bark at the statue of the she wolf giving suck to Romulus, by way
of intelligent protest.

A similar prevalence of virtue and a similar romantic quality,
where it is least to be expected, was disclosed in a recent
encounter between Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State, and one
of the irreconcilables, when Mr. Hughes, integer vitae scelerisque
purus had just commissioned Colonel George Harvey to take the seat
once occupied by Woodrow Wilson in the Supreme Council.

When the news of this appointment reached the Capitol, Senator
Brandegee, of Connecticut, hurried down to that structure across
the street from the White House whose architectural style so
markedly resembles the literary style of President Harding, the
State War and Navy Building, official residence of Mr. H