International Education as a Remedy for War----------Ralph H. Bevan Knut Hamsun Query. Verse Elias Arnesen Eleanor Sickels Forest Resources and Problems of the Pacific Coast Hugo Winkenwerder The Convent Portress. Verse_-_. Mental Tests, Their Uses 'and Limitations __James Land Ellis --Olga L. Bridgman THE MELTING POT-A NATION IN THE MAKING: A SYMPOSIUM Race Mixture in the United States___. E. A. Hooton The Contribution of the Negro to American Life and Culture W. E. Burghardt Du Bois The Complexity of the Americanization Problem Herbert Adolphus Miller Some Phases of the Distribution of Immigrants Warren S. Thompson Book Reviews. PUBLISHED QUARTERLY: THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS $3.00 a year 75 cents a con The question of intervention in Mexico has an importance far greater than that of mere patriotism, or national honor, or revenge, for it strikes at the very heart of the great international problem of today. If we incorporate the right of intervention into the constitution of the League of Nations, to be used as an authoritative weapon, we abandon both our long-standing theory of absolute sovereignty, and our deference to the principle of nationality-concomitant principles which are as firmly fixed in our international system as the laws of the Medes and the Persians. Since the time of the Holy Alliance the rule of non-intervention has prevailed; and many sincere advocates of peace are convinced that upon the rock of intervention any international ship of state is doomed to inevitable shipwreck. This is especially true in the United States, where the cardinal principle of foreign policy was conceived in opposition to the interventions of the Metternichian system. It is this feeling, accentuated by the Monroe Doctrine, which lies at the root of all the sincere and intelligent opposition to the League of Nations; and it accounts for the anomalous position in which we now find ourselves. At the entrance of the new international structure we stand hesitant upon the threshold of intervention. Now, then, can we intervene in Mexico? Have we any legal basis for such an action? And if so, what becomes of |