Check and Checkmate

He had been elected by a popular vote of 603217954 to 130 the dissenters casting their negative by announcing that for the sake of national unity they refused to participate in any civilized activities during the Presidents term whereupon they were admitted (voluntarily) to the camp for conscientious objectors.But now two weeks after his inauguration he seemed ready to make good the first and perhaps most difficult promise of the lot: to confer by televiewphone with Ivan Ivanovitch the Ninth the Peoplesfriend and Vicar of the Asian Proletarian League.