By san 'The strength of isola Congress has probably surprised those who took' the various columnists and editorial writers who specialize in foreign affairs at their own face value. If London and Paris have learned that they do not represent. American opinion, and have further realized that even the statements of American dip-Jomatic representatives should be checked from time to time by a study of the Congressional Record, some good has been done.
the time' of writing the neutrality situa tion is confused, but even If the isolationists get their way the situation is not as bleak as it may have seemed to those who enter~ tained exaggerated hopes of American cooperation, "The Constitution, based on the theory of divided powers and checks and balances, gave authority over foreign affairs partly to the President and partly to Congress, particularly the Senate, Since foreign countries deal only with the President's re~ presentatives, namely the diplomats abroad and the Secretary of State and his subordin~ ates in Washingion, and can have no direct dealings with Congress, the fact that the views of the President' only represent half the picture is at times forgotten. Similarly when Congress shows in a spectacular man= ner that it, too, has a foreign policy which not necessarily that of the President, opi fon tends to fly to the other extreme and forget that the President has any powers at all.
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