Power of the President over Foreign Affairs

In a recent article former Assistant Attorney General James M. Beck challenges the constitutionality of the measures which President Wilson has taken in the carrying out of the foreign affairs policy of this government. While his criticism is especially directed against the action of the President in appointing such confidential agents as John Lind and Colonel House without the consent of the Senate, he makes the sweeping assertion that the President must share the general control of foreign affairs with the Senate. Mr. Beck\u27s position is clearly shown in the following quotations from his article: Those provisions of the Constitution which require the concurrence of the Senate with the President in the conduct of our foreign relations, have been observed and cherished with a general and jealous acceptance of their wisdom. * * * To the framers of the Constitution there was no provision of greater importance than those which required joint action by the Executive and the Senate in determining the Foreign Policy of the Republic. To them this concurrent authority marked the principal distinction between a monarchy and a republic

Some Aspects of Soviet Education

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[Letter from Allen W. Dulles to Meyer Bodansky - November 12, 1940]

Letter from Allen W. Dulles, the American Director of the Near East College Association Incorporated, to Dr. Meyer Bodansky from the John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Texas. The letter thanks Dr. Bodansky for being a long-time supporter of the institution, and assures him that the international schools are still continuing to prosper despite the war. Mr. Dulles includes statistics concerning several different international schools in the letter, and requests that a donation be made

Flashback: "The Present Situation in Germany"

U.S. troops on conquered territory, infrastructure in ruins, international squabbling over reconstruction: a window onto occupied Germany seven months after V-E Day, when progress was still unsteady and Europe's future hung in the balanc