THE NEGATIVE WINS

The decision won yesterday evening in the triangular debate by the home team may be a tribute to the logical powers of the University's debaters, or a tribute to the logical truth of their subject. The world is turning upside down nowadays, and our most cherished foreign policies are going awry. The Monroe Doctrine, the open door, even the revered Constitution are receiving the buffets of a pugnacious age. Our "splendid isolation" may fail when, at the end of this war, governments are remade.

But until necessity forces the nation, Americans are still chary of binding themselves to distant and more turbulent nations across the seas. We will not freely give up our long history of single action.