Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-12
English Newspapers Dwell
Upon His Personality.
PROSPECTIVE POLICY
UNITED STATES TO HOLD HER
OWN AMONG WORLD POWERS.
Administration to Be Lesson to En-
glish-Speaking Race and Example
of Sound Government.

LONDON, November 12.-The weekly
newspapers issued today devote consider
able space to the presidential election in the
United States and all dwell lengthily upon
the personality of President Roosevelt as
the prime factor in the republican victory.
The most notable article appears In the
Spectator. which preludes a splendid trib-
ute to the President with the admission:
For ourselves we do not profess any
special liking for the republican party"
while in the same paragraph 1t says the
result of the election is "a subject for con-
graduation throughout the English-speak-
ing world"
The Spectator then asks: What will he do
with it?" and proceeds to credit Mr.. Roose-
welt with an ideal program for the next
four years, the standard of which will be
reason, justice, moderation and common
sense"
Discussing the prospective policy Of the
American government in relation to foreign
affairs the Spectator says President Roose-
welt Will not be afraid to insist that the
United States shall hold her own among
the great powers of the world but he viii
not seek foreign entanglements. The paper
continues:
The Monroe Doctrine.
IF the Monroe doctrine is not to be con-
signed to the political waste-paper basket
1t must rest. in the last resource, upon ma
val and military power; and if America
has not a fleet strong enough to say thus
far and no further to those who shall chal-
lenge the doctrine that doctrine i'm the fu-
ture will not prove worth the paper on
Whlch the presidential message of 1923 was
written
After predicting that the Panama canal
VIII be completed by President Roosevelt.
the Spectator says:
q 1Sf IN,
the future of China we may expect the
President, acting under the advice of Sec
retary OF State Hay. who is now unques-
tfonably one of the ablest if not the ablest
OF living diplomatists, to maintain the attf-
tude already adopted"
Concluding, the Spectator saws:
we believe his administration will leave
1ndelible traces upon the larger part of the
English-speaking race, and that for the
whole of that race it will be a lesson in
and sound example of sound, sane gov
ernment."
Foreign Policy.
The Speaker and Saturday Review take
a less enthusiastic view of President
Roosevelt's foreign policy The Speaker
says it is represented by determination
to get there, just the same,'' which, in
vOlving, as it does, a disregard of treaties
and the employment of armed force upon
the slightest provocation or pretext, repre-
seatS a grave danger"
The Saturday Review says:
I'VE have often expressed the conviction
that this country has little to gain in the
end from a translation into action. of Presi
dent Rooseyelts view of foreign affairs. 1t
has been the fashion among us Of late to
applaud republican victories and encourage
the idea among Americans that we look
upon the democratic party as less friendly
to us than the republican. This we believe
is a delusion only one degree more mis-
chievOus than the notion that an enterpris-
ing foreign policy upon the part of the
newly elected President will necessarily in
ure to our benefit"