All the same the strange position of the United States
delegation does unquestionably complicate the position seriously. It is not merely a question of the inevitable American Constitution, which gives, foreign diplomats access to a Secretary of State (or President) who has . not the ultimate power and debars them from access to a Congress which has. 'In this case there is the further, and more delicate, complication arising from the tendency attributed to Mr. Roosevelt to carry the time-honoured doctrine of checks and balances into his personal relations, associating with his official nominees unofficial agents who , communicate with him more intimately and freely. Such are the members of the famous Brains Trust, including Professor Raymond Moley, who is now on his way to this country, Professor Moley is an Assistant Secretary of State, and as such a direct subordinate of Mr. Cordell Hull- partieularly, it may be assumed, when he reaches Claridge's Hotel. But at the same time he is in direct contact with the President ; he comes here bringing the President's instructions ; and he will shortly return to report to the President. Someone a little disturbed by Professor Moley's isolationist trend observed that it was a good thing negatively that he should not be there— at Washington—and a gOod thing positively that he should be here—under Mr. Cordell Hull. Perhaps.
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