The politicians of Buenos Ayres have now spoken as I predicted in my first message. They have attacked Mr. Harding for his speech on Pan-Americanism, all which goes to prove that the President is repeating for South America Mr. Wilson’s blunders in France.
Remember what Lincoln said to Judge Whitney:—
“Those fellows think I don’t see anything, but I see all around them. I see better what they want to do with me than they do themselves.”
The politicians of South America see better what the President wants to do with them than he does himself.
The administration will face a critical period in the early fall. There will be a break in the dominant phalanx. A social and political readjustment will compel mediation in quarters the most unexpected.
The new political and commercial dispensation for the English-speaking countries will begin on September twenty-second at two P.M.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Few politicians understand the difference between scene-shifting and progress. Things shift, new names are applied, but the vicious circle continues.