. Review of reviews and world's work . clusively de-terminable by any body or tribunal, then it is forCongress itself to decide in good faith whetheror not the breach of the covenant upon which theobligation arises has in fact occurred, and, findingthat, it has to perform the obligation. These plain limitations upon the Federal treaty-making power are known to nations of this con-ference, and any treaty of the United States is tobe construed in the light of them. Followingthose necessary rules of construction, the pro-visions of the covenant entirely and easily con-form to the Constitution of
. Review of reviews and world's work . clusively de-terminable by any body or tribunal, then it is forCongress itself to decide in good faith whetheror not the breach of the covenant upon which theobligation arises has in fact occurred, and, findingthat, it has to perform the obligation. These plain limitations upon the Federal treaty-making power are known to nations of this con-ference, and any treaty of the United States is tobe construed in the light of them. Followingthose necessary rules of construction, the pro-visions of the covenant entirely and easily con-form to the Constitution of the United lose altogether that threatening and danger-ous character and effect which Senator Knox andother critics would attach to them. As was pointed out by the New YorkWorld in comment on Mr. Tafts address,the constitutional argument employed bySenator Knox and other opponents of theLeague of Nations applies with equal forceto every treaty which obligates the UnitedStates to do something or refrain from THE OLD GIRL WHO WASNt INVITED TO THE SHOW TURNS UP HER NOSE AT THE PROGRAM From the Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Mo.) LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH 423 THE GERMAN MISTAKE ABOUT THE UNITED STATES IN the first February number of the Revuedes Deux Mondes M. Jules Cambon,former French Ambassador to the UnitedStates and to Germany, publishes a brief butmasterly study of this subject, upon whichhe is preeminently qualified to speak. The short but complete history of theUnited States by Professor Max Farrand ofYale had just appeared in French translation,and is briefly and courteously mentioned asthe occasion for the essay. The extreme diver-sity of institutions and manners betweenFrance and the sister republic is duly em-phasized. One of the happy results of thewar just ending is to be the discovery ofAmericas true soul and spirit. Concerningit Germany was supremely self-confident andutterly in error. She supposed the peopleof the United States to be inc
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