THE WEEK

• “Argentine Budget Mystifies Nation,” ran a headline last week. If you ask us, it’s better to be mystified than stupefied.

• The report on “International Security—the Military Aspect” presented by the Special Studies Project of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc., is so far available only in summary. A proper analysis of its weighty conclusions must rest on a fuller acquaintance with the data that support them. We note here the curious circumstances of its sponsorship. The report is ostensibly the product of a panel of private citizens, but the names attached to it include many individuals who have been and some who still are intimately associated—in public or in private—with the inmost reaches of the government We have here what used to be called a cabal, an embryo of what might become, in Plato’s phrase, a Nocturnal Council.

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• “Argentine Budget Mystifies Nation,” ran a headline last week. If you ask us, it’s better to be mystified than stupefied.

• The report on “International Security—the Military Aspect” presented by the Special Studies Project of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc., is so far available only in summary. A proper analysis of its weighty conclusions must rest on a fuller acquaintance with the data that support them. We note here the curious circumstances of its sponsorship. The report is ostensibly the product of a panel of private citizens, but the names attached to it include many individuals who have been and some who still are intimately associated—in public or in private—with the inmost reaches of the government We have here what used to be called a cabal, an embryo of what might become, in Plato’s phrase, a Nocturnal Council.