[Homer_J_Simpson]

I think we are to be administrationed into a second Mexican war.

I just did a double take at that sentence that is unrelated to the rest of the entry. I checked Foreign News (p. 14 above) and saw an item for Mexico that includes this: "Carvajal is seeking American aid for Juarez."

Benito Juarez is President of Mexico, where a civil war is ongoing. I suppose George suspects President Buchanan is thinking of getting involved on the side of the Mexican government. That's not the civil war Mr. Strong should be concerned with.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Mr. Strong is intelligent, and has a good surface knowledge of foreign affairs, but it is not deep. He misses a lot of the local political culture, and makes assumptions from an American perspective, when commenting on foreign countries.

I may have asked this before, but is anybody else in these threads reading George Templeton Strong’s diary entries in George Plimpton’s voice?