Bok Progress

With referendum on the winning plan of the Bok Peace Award (TIME, Jan. 14) well under way, the hullabaloo which it occasioned has not yet died down.

On one hand, disappointed contestants declare that the Jury of Award was packed for the League of Nations, that the Jury did not read most of the plans but that they were read and discarded by 22 young women, that the whole scheme was propaganda by Mr. Bok for the League of Nations.

In the Senate and out, politician-irreconcilables began cutting off the new head of the League of Nations Hydra.

Mark Sullivan, able Washington correspondent, wrote of the whole affair:

"The common expectation is that the popular referendum will be overwhelmingly favorable to the plan. Nevertheless, the irreconcilables say they will fight for it, even if four-fifths of the entire population goes on record in favor of it. ... They say that if they could beat Woodrow Wilson they can beat Edward Bok. They say they will make the Bok peace award as ridiculous as the Ford peace ship. . . .

"The weakness of Mr. Bok and the friends of the plan is that, so far as has yet appeared, they have no politicians on their side who are resolute in leadership or as ruthless in political combat as the irreconcilables are."