Editorials.

The article discusses several issues related to politics from different countries of the world. What constitutes the gravity of the present Venezuelan crisis is not that the United States is issuing a commission of inquiry concerning matters of deep interest to it, but that it is issuing it as a hostile proceeding, with a threat of war behind it. What the United States is going to investigate, therefore, is not whether there is wrong on the British side, but what is the extent of the wrong. The first intimation one get of what was brewing was the announcement in U.S. President's message that Americans were opposed to "the forcible increase by any European power of its territory on this continent"; that Great Britain was actually guilty of this offence, as it was trying "to enlarge the area of British Guiana in derogation of the rights and against the will of Venezuela." This positive pronouncement on the merits of the controversy had several consequences.