CAPT. FLAGG AND SERGEANT QUIRT

Not content with the stirring up of civil tumult, Ex-Registrar Goodwin has taken to the larger field of international diplomacy. The unfortunate situation created by Secretary MacDonald's reference to squirrels and Mexican generals in his statement about Mr. Goodwin is still more entangled by the latter's course. It was bad enough for the Commonwealth to be at sword's points with one foreign power; now Mr. Goodwin would bring Sweden into the fray, and his pointed allusion to the Sacco-Vanzetti commission of last summer may annoy the irritable Signor Mussolini and cause Italy to be arrayed among the enemies of Massachusetts.

Beneath, over, and around the thunders of Mexico and the silence of Beacon Hill plays the left-motif for the rivals Goodwin and Fuller. They have battled in the State House; they are opposed in business; they may be adversaries for the Republican nomination for governor. Beyond that--not so long ago was a Fuller-for-President boom. Perhaps the canny Mr. Goodwin expects some one to exhume it, and finds this a chance to get a little lead in international experience before the still imaginary time when the battle moves, in all its violence, to a convention hall, and the old line-up is resumed before a national audience.