Supreme Court Sanctions Imperialism
The “Westminster Gazette” (London) says of recent events in this nation: “Imperialism has been “sanctioned by the United States Supreme Court— “by one vote.” And that great journal believes that this step “modifies profoundly” the relation of this nation to Europe and the rest of the world. The Saturday Review (London), a paper extremely friendly toward the United States, declares that the “decision amounts to the statement that the legislative authority has the power of doing that which “the Constitution said it had not, and beyond this, of “reducing to a ridiculous fiction the sacred words of “the ‘Declaration of Independence’ itself.” And there is much more to be said. Read the articles by Alonzo T. Jones, now running in the SIGNS. The present is big with eternally vital issues.